Remember Michael Cole, the BBC TV court correspondent who was later Mohamed Fayed’s spokesman in 1997 when Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed died? He correctly predicted Prince George’s name in the East Anglian Daily Times.
“He will have four names [in fact there are three] but I predict the first of them will be George, a favourite, propitious name in the royal family,” Cole wrote from Suffolk where he lives.
Cole recently wrote in The Times that the baby would be Jewish. “Carole Middleton is the daughter of Ronald Goldsmith and Dorothy Harrison, both Jews. The parents of Dorothy were Robert Harrison and Elizabeth Temple, both Jews. Elizabeth was descended from the Myers, a distinguished 19th-century Jewish family.”
Sadly, Doreen Berger, chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society, has refuted Cole’s claim.
“The Goldsmith surname is shared by many who are not of Jewish descent,” she writes. “The same applies to the surname Myers.”
