Beavering away

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Happy Birthday to Megan aka Rhiannon333. 

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> 
wrote:

<< Reminds me of the tendency for given names to start out as male and 
then become almost exclusively female after too many girls had been 
given them (e.g. Meredith).  >>

Beverly (thus staying on the thread's subject), Shirly, Clare ... 

<< Many a gender politics message to be gleaned, no doubt.  Curious.  
I occasionally wonder if Cameron (Diaz) and Michael (Princess, of 
Kent) might eventually go the same way... >>

Is there a Princess with the given name Michael? Not Michal (the 
latter is a Bibical name, the wife of David who laughed at him when 
he danced before the Ark, and I've never met anyone who knows how to 
pronounce it)? Not knowing anything about these people, I would have 
assumed that "Princess Michael of Kent" was the wife of Prince 
Michael of Kent, the same way Harriet Vane's married name was Lady 
Peter Wimsey, called Lady Peter.