Soon after Britney Spears announced that she was expecting her first child with dancer husband Kevin Federline, bookies started taking bets on what her child would be called.

According to Fox News, bookies have suggested that the pop singer will possibly go for a name with a royal connection due to her reported infatuation with male members of the British Royal Family.

Hills make William and Harry the joint 20/1 favourites for a boy and offer 20/1 on Zara or Grace for a baby girl.

“Punters have been calling with all kinds of suggestions but there is no doubt that the public think that Britney will buck the celebrity trend of choosing wacky names and they are falling over themselves to back traditional British names,” the report quoted Hill’s spokesman Rupert Adams as saying.