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Loungefly is known for its iconic bags featuring your favorite characters and fandoms, but I don’t know if anything can top the new Loungefly x Barbie collab. You guys all thought we reached peak Barbie during Summer 2023, but oh how wrong you were. If you thought you were a Barbie Girl before, just wait — Romper can exclusively reveal the brand new Loungefly x Barbie collection and it is every bit the pink dream you’re imagining. You’re going to need your own Dreamhouse to hold it all.
And we aren’t just talking Loungefly Mini Backpacks (although those are also here and so good, you’ll weep) and we aren’t just talking about the Barbie logo slapped onto a few things. Y’all already know how Loungefly does it, and the pieces in this Loungefly x Barbie line are absolutely incredible. Lots of your favorite retro Barbies are included, that perfect ‘90s Barbie pink, and it all comes together in accessories like a journal, Barbie box-shaped bags, and even a retro bomber jacket.
So clear out some space in your wardrobe (if only we had one like Barbie does) and get ready for all of the must-have pieces of the Loungefly x Barbie collection. (Spoiler: all of them are must-have pieces.)
I have to start with the absolutely mind-blowing Loungefly Barbie Doll Box Triple Lenticular Mini Backpack. You guys. Swoon. Shaped like a Barbie box, it has everything you love about the Loungefly Mini Backpacks, but the front is a lenticular print, which means depending on which way you look at it, you’re seeing a different Barbie. It’s so cool, and the Barbies themselves are the retro, vintage Barbies of your dreams. It retails for $80 and is just such a show-stopper. Like, any Barbie fan would be delighted to carry this around.
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In addition to the Loungefly Barbie Doll Box Triple Lenticular Mini Backpack, there’s an accordion wallet version retailing for $40 with the same Barbies appearing on the front depending on how you look at it. If you want a more classic Barbie feel, the collection also includes a Loungefly Barbie 65th Anniversary Crossbody Bag ($70) featuring a car-shaped coin purse and vintage Barbie logo, as well as a Loungefly Barbie 65th Anniversary Sequin Logo Mini Backpack ($90) and Loungefly Barbie Mini Backpack Pencil Case ($25). All of these are just as gorgeous as you’re imagining in your head.
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In addition to all of these incredible bags are some super fun accessories, like a Barbie Box-inspired journal and of course that retro bomber jacket I mentioned before. The Loungefly Barbie Bomber Jacket is so perfectly vintage and bright, and would look great over a fun dress or just jeans and a tank. I’m 100% obsessed. It comes in sizes small through 3X and retails for $80.
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One of the things I love about Barbie is no matter how many new things come out for the brand, the roots are strong in the retro vibes. Barbie was innovative even back in 1959, so it makes sense that any collection featuring her will feel a deep pull to all of her original versions. As she’s evolved, she’s stayed true to being a massive icon, especially for inclusivity. I love that Loungefly really pushed on that part of Barbie’s legacy and went above and beyond pretty pink items and created the Loungefly x Barbie collection to remind us why we are all Barbie Girls forever.
When I was a kid in the ‘90s, my Polly Pocket collection was a sight to behold. And now as a grown woman in her 30s with three daughters... well. My Polly Pocket collection is still a sight to behold because I kept every single piece. And this obsession is why I can not relax about the new Loungefly x Polly Pocket collab. Romper can exclusively reveal the new line in partnership with Mattel, and every Polly Pocket girly that desperately wanted to shrink down to size to splash in that tiny pool with an even tinier float is going to fall in love.
Loungefly is known for their innovative bags featuring your favorite icons and characters, but this Polly Pocket one is just unmatched. The line will have both a mini backpack and a zip around wallet. The mini backpack will be in the shape of a retro iconic flower Polly Pocket, and the front flap will open up to reveal Polly’s house — both a first and second story connected by a staircase. It’s the exact same kind of design you remember from the ‘90s, with lots of pastel yellow and pink and, as always, a plethora of party snacks available for Polly and her friend. Polly and her BFF are attached to the inside, but can slide around so you can put them into different spots in the house.
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The Loungefly x Polly Pocket mini backpack also features a retro Polly on the back, and lots of gold hardware and gorgeous iridescent straps. I’m especially obsessed with the little enamel Polly hanging on the zipper. It’s seriously so cute and fun, and is a great piece for your own Polly Pocket collection or just to have as a sweet little ode to the ‘90s. The Loungefly x Polly Pocket Mini Backpack retails for $80.
The Loungefly x Polly Pocket wallet is just as fun. This piece is in the heart silhouette we all remember so well from our own Polly Pockets, and on the inside it features retro character details and prints, with that same pretty, iridescent exterior and a great little wrist strap. But as cute as it is, it’s still fully functional with plenty of space for cards, your ID, and cash. The Loungefly x Polly Pocket Zip Around Wallet retails for $45.
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No matter which piece you choose, you’re sure to make the ultimate ‘90s statement. Along with butterfly clips, tall socks with white platform sneakers, and all the daisy items available, I’m ready to jump full-first into the 1996 look of my dreams. It just seems even more fun to go for it as an adult, and why not make that first step with the Loungefly x Polly Pocket collection?
Both Loungefly x Polly Pocket products are available online now.
One of the more upsetting cliches that continues to rear its ugly head on social media is the pregnancy rumor mill. How many celebrities have had to deal with strangers openly discussing their bodies and their reproductive decisions? Lady Gaga is the most recent celebrity to be caught up in this cycle, and she decided to address the rumors in a way that worked for her. By quoting Taylor Swift, and reminding people to vote. Because she is Lady Gaga and she gets to do whatever she wants.
Rumors about “The Shallows” singer began after photos of her attending her sister Natali Germanotta’s wedding last month circulated online. In the photos, the singer was seen in a black dress with her hands somewhere near her stomach and, apparently, that was enough for the social media rumor mill to go wild with speculation that she was expecting her first child.
For several weeks, Gaga, who has been in a relationship with Michael Polansky since 2020, ignored the rumors and just lived her life as she has always done. But on Tuesday, she decided to go ahead and address them.
“Not pregnant -- just down bad cryin’ at the gym register to vote at www.headcount.org,” Gaga captioned a TikTok video that has since obviously gone viral, mouthing along to an audio that said, “I don’t have to find an aesthetic; I am the aesthetic. I mean, I’m sure there’s somebody out here right now who is going into Pinterest trying to type up all these adjectives to describe me.” Taylor Swift fans will know that “down bad cryin’ at the gym” is a reference to Swift’s song “Down Bad” from her Tortured Poets Department album.
Perhaps even better, Gaga used that unsubstantiated rumor to get out the vote, which she also did on Twitter. “Not pregnant… REGISTER TO VOTE or check if you’ve already registered EASILY at http://headcount.org.”
Lady Gaga did open up in 2020 that she is “excited” to become a mom someday, telling InStyle at the time, “I will say I am very excited to have kids. I look forward to being a mom,” the 38-year-old singer told the magazine. “Isn’t incredible what we can do? We can hold a human inside and grow it. Then it comes out, and it’s our job to keep it alive. It’s so funny — everyone works out of my house every day. When they come in, I always say, ‘Welcome to the womb!’”
She’s just not saying “welcome to the womb” to a baby right now.
In late 2021, Rachel Platten was having the kind of nightmare day every parent fears. Her younger daughter, Sophie, then just a few months old, was in the hospital with a 105-degree fever, and Platten can still recall the concerned looks on doctors’ faces as she was shuffled from room to room, pleading for answers about what was happening.
It was enough to unravel any parent, and Platten was already dealing with a lot. The singer-songwriter, who is also mom to 5-year-old Violet, struggled with postpartum depression and anxiety after both her pregnancies. At times, she experienced panic attacks in which it felt like she was disconnecting from her body. To reground herself, Platten would retreat to the piano in the backyard studio of her Los Angeles home and busy herself at the piano. “It was a way of putting myself back on earth,” she says. “When you’re dissociating, you’re floating.”
When she got home from the hospital that night, Platten, now 43, ran into her studio space “needing to cry and hit pillows and punch things and lose my mind,” she says. Instead, she sat down and, within about 20 minutes, had written the bones of “Mercy,” a swirling, southern-R&B stormer about begging the universe for a break when you can’t take one more curveball. “That song came through me,” Platten says, “almost as medicine to alleviate the pain.”
Most of Platten’s new album, which will be released on Aug. 30, spilled out like this, often before she could fully grasp what the songs contained. Platten thought she wrote “Bad Thoughts” — a raw reflection on anxiety that incorporates breathing exercises — for other moms after her first pregnancy, then found herself desperately reaching for it after her second. “These songs came to me so easily, more easily than they ever did after becoming a mom, and I think that’s because I needed them so badly,” says Platten. “I asked very intentionally before the record: May I finally write what I need this time. Not what I think the world needs from me. Not what the ‘Fight Song’ girl should do next. What do I need?”
“It was scary to hear that my friends and family were noticing I was struggling. I was like, ‘Don’t also tell me I’m f*cked up. I think that. I need you to think I’m OK.’”
Platten tells me this over an early lunch in Tribeca, not far from where she used to live before “Fight Song” — the undeniably catchy, sometimes polarizing anthem that turns 10 this month — took her from New York City dive bars to unexpected pop stardom at age 33. The song introduced her to millions and became a lifeline for listeners of all ages enduring hard times; today, in her Instagram comments, it is still common to see followers confessing how it helped them through cancer or depression or loss. But the song’s ubiquity — and its association with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign (more on that later) — also tied it, perhaps unfairly, to an era whose mood of relentless optimism would come to feel cringe in later years.
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Platten, though, never got jaded, according to country star Kelsea Ballerini, who met the singer backstage at a Taylor Swift concert during the height of “Fight Song.” “I immediately was drawn to how open she was to friendship, comradery, and community,” Ballerini says. “I love excitable people who keep the stars in their eyes even when things are working in a big way. Over the last eight years of knowing her, through her having babies and so much happening, she is still so open and kind and has an eagerness to do good and be a good person. I just don’t think there are a lot of people like that.”
When I meet Platten at the restaurant, she moves us over to a cozier corner table nearby and asks the waiter for a candle. “I know that’s ridiculous,” she says — it wasn’t even noon yet — “but I like to beautify everything.” She’s in town for a small showcase to preview the new album, which she recorded in Nashville and will release through her own independent label, Violet Records; her husband, Kevin Lazan, who used to work in consulting, is its general manager. The stakes are more personal now, and as we get settled, Platten admits to battling some insecurity. “I feel like I need to prove people wrong about what they assume about me, because I don’t feel like this album is similar to what I’ve done,” she explains. “I almost want to shout from the rooftops: Don’t write it off!”
Platten has a mantra of sorts ready for moments like this: “When I ask for more, that is my ego asking. It’s asking for ego snacks when I already got the soul food.” Still, she accepts that part of her will always want the industry’s approval. The album’s first single, “Girls,” has all the makings of a “Let It Go”-esque anthem, and Platten laughs about how she’s been setting the song to scenes from Frozen on her TikTok to try to get on the House of Mouse’s radar. (“I would love to voice a Disney princess,” she says.) “Girls,” in a way, takes the opposite approach of “Fight Song”: It’s a sweet but honest what-I’ve-learned letter to her daughters that doesn’t sugarcoat the hard stuff. “I think this album feels so good because you feel like you had the whole meal,” Platten says. “You didn’t just have the dessert that feels good.”
It’s a pop album profoundly shaped by parenthood and all the ways it expands your heart in directions both joyous and painful. At one point, I ask Platten about what her family life looks like outside of music, expecting her to share a sweetly bland detail, like her family’s Sunday night pizza dinners, but I get a different answer instead. “It’s hard and I’m tired and it’s a lot and it’s overwhelming and it’s also fun and beautiful and chaotic,” she says without any hesitation. “It’s all the things.”
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By her late 20s, Platten thought she had figured out a life in music. She was gigging all over New York, doing small tours, and singing commercials to supplement her income. Maybe it wasn’t always glamorous, she thought, but it was enough. Until 2011, when she met her former manager, Ben Singer, who gave her some career advice that resonated: “‘You’ve been trying to warm yourself on everybody else’s fire. Go build your own fire, and people will come.’”
Platten moved to Los Angeles and spent the next few years dutifully grinding it out in the studio. Hundreds of songs later, though, she started to wonder why she didn’t have more to show for it. “My publisher called me and told me, ‘Rachel, you’re writing all these songs, but you’re not telling your story,’” she says. “I was frustrated because I felt like I had told my story so many ways.” She channeled all those feelings into another song. “It was like a little rebellion: ‘I’m not going to give up on myself — I don’t care if anyone else believes in me.’”
“I did not want to be the torchbearer of empowerment or vulnerability or truth or earnestness.”
When Platten finally released “Fight Song” in June of 2014, it was… crickets. She laughs about it now, but it stung at the time. She remembers “throwing a little tantrum” one evening, shouting and crying about how nothing was moving the needle. But when she woke up the next morning, Platten felt strangely calm. She knew the song could touch the lives of people who heard it — why did she need numbers or chart positions to prove it? “What I think really ignited [the song] was my final surrender of the dream,” she says, “because 10 days after that, it exploded.”
It went like this: In January of 2015, a radio programmer in Baltimore discovered “Fight Song” and played it over and over as part of the station’s breast cancer fundraising marathon, creating a grassroots buzz. In February, after years of failing to get labels’ attention, Platten signed with Columbia Records as the song was creeping up the charts. In June, she was on stage with Taylor Swift at the 1989 World Tour, singing “Fight Song” as one of the tour’s surprise guests. (As if Swift’s endorsement wasn’t loud enough, Swift was photographed having lunch with Selena Gomez wearing a shirt that said “This Is My Fight Song.”)
And then there was the Hillary of it all. “Fight Song” already felt to Platten “like a ride I couldn’t hold on to” by the time the Clinton campaign began playing it at events, including the 2016 Democratic National Convention, which featured the song in a star-studded, Pitch Perfect-themed video. “It became attached to a political party sorta against my will,” Platten says. “I gave approval, but only after months and months of saying no.”
She had said yes because of the historic importance of the Clinton campaign: This could be our first woman president! Think of the inauguration! But Platten’s life felt so out of control, she didn’t feel equipped or informed enough to be a kind of spokesperson. (“I’m still scared to say too much and be criticized,” she says. “It’s so funny because I’m 43 — at this point in my life, shouldn’t I feel freedom?”) And she felt in her gut that the context didn’t suit the song. “It has to have a realness to the depths of what you are fighting for. It has to not be some bullsh*t statement of trying to win people over,” she says. “When it becomes this mass statement, it’s cheesy.”
“It wasn’t birth [that caused problems]. Birth just triggered something that needed to come out.”
Under such a glaring spotlight, the song became a punching bag on both ends of the political spectrum. “I did feel misunderstood, and I did feel sad for the song in a way,” she says. “I almost felt like: How dare you? There’s a little girl in a hospital saying this song is giving her hope, and you’re making fun of it?” Platten looks back at her last album, 2017’s Waves, and thinks its moody palette was an attempt to run away from the song. “I did not want to be the torchbearer of empowerment or vulnerability or truth or earnestness anymore,” she says.
But these days, what keeps the song in her life, what helps her hear it like new, is children — kids love “Fight Song.” Her friends’ children will sing it at talent shows or recitals, and Violet’s classmates are starting to figure out who she is. The song also had a huge moment in the FX show Fleishman Is in Trouble in 2022 because the child actors started singing it impromptu.
Platten has some ideas about why it connects with kids. “Everyone’s always telling you as a kid to be quiet, stop fighting, stop asserting yourself or being aggressive — all our gentle-parenting BS. It must feel really fun to just scream at the top of your lungs. I know it is for me onstage.” Plus, she says, “I don’t want to discount that maybe there’s something in the song that gives [kids] that reignition of belief and courage they need in that moment, even if those problems don’t seem as big.”
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When “Fight Song” was blowing up, Platten thought age would inoculate her from all the ways sudden success can upend your life. “I kept saying, ‘This would have been f*cked up if I was younger, thank God I know who I am already,” Platten remembers. “But it really took me for a ride. By the time I had my first daughter, there was some latent stuff I hadn’t looked at.”
Platten gave birth to Violet in 2019 and was back on the road three months later. “It was this little battle: ‘I will not lose my former self!’” Platten says. “‘I will throw her on my back, breastfeed after a show to 15,000 people, and I’m gonna be just fine.’” She had a hard time acknowledging her struggles, “which is ironic,” Platten says now, because she grew up with a therapist mother and psychologist father; his idea of a bedtime story was teaching her about Freud. “I was so steeped in that language [of mental health], I felt like: ‘I would know if I was depressed,’” Platten explains. Living in Los Angeles didn’t help either. “A lot of the danger of the LA spiritual scene is this tendency to bypass the dark and push it away and not look at it,” she says. “I did a fair bit of that.”
“Real strength is acknowledging that I’m human, these waves are going to come, and I cannot fight them.”
The pandemic, for all the terrifying uncertainties it brought parents, offered a reset. “It was healing for me and Violet to make our world very small after our world got so big too soon,” she says. But within days of giving birth to Sophie in 2021, Platten’s loved ones could tell something was wrong. She wasn’t sleeping and barely left her room. “It was scary for me to hear that my friends and family were noticing I was struggling,” she says. “I was like, ‘Don’t also tell me I’m f*cked up. I think that. I need you to think I’m OK.’”
When Platten’s therapist suggested she consider an antidepressant, Platten bristled. Her entire sense of self was built around the idea that there wasn’t a problem on earth she couldn’t solve by trying harder. “It was so shocking to feel lost and not be able to wish it away or pray it away or reiki it away or meditate it away,” she says. So many things can feel like medicine; sometimes you need medicine medicine. “I’m just so grateful that it exists,” she adds.
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Antidepressants didn't solve everything, of course. At the show a few days after our lunch, Platten was in the middle of performing a new song from the album when she folded over at her side, wincing in pain. “It’s another thing I've been facing this year — some chronic pain — but I’m OK,” she tells the audience between anguished breaths. She apologizes repeatedly, though the crowd was already giving her a standing ovation.
When I follow up with Platten a few months later in May, she happily reports that she is pain-free. She theorizes that the physical pain — just like her anxiety and panic attacks and other symptoms — were all manifestations of being stuck in fight-or-flight mode for so long. “I have since done so much work and learned how to allow all of that buried emotion to come up and show my body that it is safe,” she says. “It wasn’t birth [that caused problems], birth just triggered something that needed to come out.”
“Even when I look back at the ‘Fight Song’ girl,” Platten continues, “I was so afraid to be perceived as anything other than lovely and sweet and kind and happy and grateful, when the truth is, there was so much more beneath the surface. There was terror and jealousy and fear and hunger and competition and grief — just what a human experience is. The most beautiful part about where I am now is I've integrated it all.”
Real strength, she knows now, isn’t about barreling through. “It’s acknowledging that I’m human, these waves are going to come, and I cannot fight them,” she says. When I saw Platten perform “Mercy” at that same show earlier this year, she transformed one of the worst days of her life into something electric for the audience. She smiled and pumped her fist in the air to lead us in a singalong. Later, she threw her head back, eyes shut, and rocked her body to the rhythm she was pounding out on the piano. There was grief in her lyrics, but a real feeling of joy in the room. To borrow her words: It was overwhelming and it was fun, it was beautiful and it was chaotic — it was all the things.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have had a busy month. Between heading off to Nigeria together for an official visit and Prince Harry popping back to England on Invictus business, the parents have also celebrated the birthdays of both of their children. First their son Archie turned 5 years old in May, and now their daughter Lilibet celebrated her third birthday. While the parents are famously private about their kids’ lives, they reportedly hosted a big party for their little girl at their home in Montecito, California.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made a nice little haven for themselves in Montecito with their two children and their dogs, and People reported that they spent their weekend at home celebrating their baby girl turning a year older along with family, friends, and even some of Lilibet’s friends. Presumably these guests included Lilibet’s grandmother Doria Ragland and perhaps even a Kardashian or two, since Prince Harry appears to be getting closer to the famous family in recent months.
Lilibet was born in 2021, more than a year after her parents stepped away from their senior royal roles in early 2020, and because of this she has never really had to deal with living in the spotlight. As Prince Harry described life with his family to Oprah Winfrey, “We've got our family. We've got the four of us and our two dogs, and it's great.” The couple did share a photo of their little girl via their photographer friend Misan Harriman when she celebrated her first birthday at Frogmore Cottage in London, where the couple were on hand to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.
While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle don’t release photos of their children for their birthdays, as is the royal custom, they have shared tidbits about their personalities. Markle recently opened up about how much Lilibet loves her dance class because of all the “jumping around,” and also shared during an interview that she feels “so fortunate that we have two beautiful, healthy, very chatty, sweet children.”
Lilibet “Lili” Diana, who was named after both her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth and late grandmother Princess Diana, hopefully enjoyed a homemade birthday cake from her talented baker of a mom for her big day. Maybe she even got well wishes or gifts from her grandfather King Charles, who reportedly gifted her with a custom-made playhouse for her birthday last year.
Her parents undoubtedly made sure she had a great day.
Due dates are notoriously tricky — you look forward to them as the day you might potentially meet your baby (and be free of your pesky pregnancy side effects). But research shows that only around 5% of people give birth on their actual due date. So, when you’re trying to prepare for this momentous occasion, having a firmer idea of when your birth might actually occur is, you know, pretty helpful. One fitness tracker brand, WHOOP, says they may have found a key data point that signals when your labor may actually begin.
Like you’d expect from a health tracker, WHOOP assesses your quality of sleep, physical exertion, and recovery. In an interview with the Working Hard, Hardly Working podcast, WHOOP founder Will Ahmed spoke about the company’s latest discovery, which may be of particular interest to pregnant people. Ahmed explains that, in a small study, his company observed that pregnant women’s heart rate variability (HRV) steadily declines throughout their pregnancy. Then, at some point (usually around the 33rd week of gestation), they would have “a sharp inflection” where their HRV would rise again.
So, researchers at WHOOP gathered 1,200 pregnant customers for a larger study, according to a news release on their website. The goal: to determine whether this sudden uptick in HRV was specific to the 33rd week of pregnancy, or a predictor that happened seven weeks prior to delivery. Roughly 10% of participants had pre-term births, Ahmed says, and it became clear that this shift in HRV happened seven weeks before the women delivered. In short, it could help predict when your baby may actually arrive.
Comments on the clip of Ahmed’s interview are varied, from women wishing they’d had this data point to dreading the idea of knowing precisely when they’d go into labor. “As someone that had one at 40+1 and another at 34+3, I would’ve LOVED to had a heads up!!” says one commenter. “Could you imagine suddenly having a 7 week birth countdown pop up on your health app? my heart rate would definitely become more varied,” says another. Most of the discussion is positive though, with women acknowledging the potential this information has to impact the outcomes of preterm babies.
WHOOP’s discovery is part of a major moment in health tracker technology, in which brands are investing in features specific to women’s health. Oura recently announced a partnership with Clue, the period and pregnancy tracking app, and UC Berkeley to conduct research on how perimenopause affects women’s health, and has some of the more detailed menstrual cycle insights of health trackers on the market today. Apple Watches are capable of tracking cycles and ovulation as well.
Of course, always talk to your doctor about any concerning info you see on your health tracker’s insights. Whatever device you have, it’s nice to know there may be a little hint, hiding among all that other biometric data, of when your baby will actually be born.
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It seems like Prince William almost never gets called by his actual name. The royal family has always loved a nickname, and the future King of England might be in the running for most nicknames in the family. His mother Princess Diana called him “Wombat,” his wife Kate Middleton has a whole host of nicknames for him (including “Big Willy” which we are trying not to think about), and his low tolerance for alcohol has earned him the moniker “One-Pint Willie” from his cousin-in-law Mike Tindall. Not even Prince William’s own children can resist coming up with nicknames for their dad, but at least theirs are pretty cute. Here a few we’ve learned over the years.
He’s “Pops” to Prince George.
Prince William has always had a super close relationship to his 10-year-old son Prince George, perhaps especially since father and son are first and second in line to the throne. Roles that might otherwise make them feel a bit formal with each other, if not for Prince George’s sweetly wholesome sounding nickname for his dad. Prince George calls Prince William “Pops,” which sounds like a line from an old-timey American television series. Prince George was overheard at a royal function back in 2018 saying to Prince William, “Are you playing football tomorrow, Pops?” And we can only assume Prince William ruffled his son’s hair and said, “Gee whiz son, I hope so” in response.
Prince William is “Papa” to his little “Mignonette.”
Prince William is also close to 9-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte, but their nicknames for each other have a decidedly more posh flair. Almost as though they’re putting on a fun little play together or something. While Prince William has been heard calling his daughter “Mignonette,” she called him “Papa” when the family was at a charity event called the Big Help Out last May. We hope that Papa and Mignonette stay adorable friends forever.
“Poachy” has entered the mix.
While Papa and Pops are both mainstays for Prince William, his three children all have one fairly unusual nickname for him. Apparently Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and their 6-year-old brother Prince Louis have taken to calling him “Poachy.” The nickname came about after an interview their dad did where he talked about his struggles to poach a fish. Which his kids apparently found “hysterical” enough to come up with a new nickname for him.
Poachy, Pops, or Papa. The royal kids are really jumping on the royal nickname train together.
