Naming their son after his grandfather -- Prince Charles, the next in line to the British throne -- would be a very thoughtful choice. It is also name shared with the
17th-century king, Charles I, considered by some a saint, whose refusal to abandon his belief in the divine right of kings and his marriage to a Catholic ultimately led to English civil wars and his beheading. His son,
Charles II, converted to Catholicism on his death bed.