Baby Prince's Christening At Buckingham Palace : Royal mother and father with their baby son. Princess Elizabeth (holding Princess Charles) with the Duke of Edinburgh, photographed in Buckingham Palace after the christening. Prince Charles, the name by which Prince Elizabeth's son will be known to the nation, was christened Charles Philip Arthur George in a ceremony at which Dr. Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated at Buckingham Palace, London, this afternoon (Wednesday). Prince Charles's sponsors were: the King, Queen Mary, (great-grandmother), Princess Margaret, King Haakon of Norway, Prince George of Greece, the Dowager Marchionessof Milford Haven, Lady Brabourne and the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon. December 15, 1948.