Princess Eugenie, the daughter of Prince Andrew and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, is getting ready to wed longtime partner Jack Brooksbank on Friday at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
And, it turns out we’ve been pronouncing her name wrong the whole time!
Let’s break it down
MarieClaire.com breaks the royals name into three examples.
Exhibit A: “You-Jenny”
Exhibit B: “You-Jay-Knee”
Exhibit C: “You-Genie” (like “Genie in a Bottle”)
However, it turns out that none of these are actually correct.
According to a 2008 Telegraph interview with the princess herself, it’s actually pronounced “You-Juh-Knee” with a stress on the “you.”
“Whenever we used to meet foreign people who were struggling with it, my mum and I would help them by saying, ‘It’s like Use Your Knees,'” she says.
“But whatever. I am now used to every pronunciation.”
