Re: Princess Michael of Kent (AKA Princess Pushy) - her given name is Marie-Ann, her title (which she assumed on marriage) is Princess Michael. It remains masculine. Lady Diana Spencer would have become Princess Charles not Princess Diana, but instead became Diana, Princess of Wales.

There are instances of Michael as a feminine first name; the lady who played Olivia (Ma) Walton was Miss Michael Learned, but it's not common.

There have been many cases of names changing gender over the centuries - Shirley and Jocelyn both started out as male names and have changed over the years. Lesley is one of the few that actually acquired a different spelling (Lesley is feminine, Leslie is masculine), and many more were surnames that became first names.

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