Dido (singer) was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an "official birthday" on 25 June, following the example of Paddington Bear. Her mother, Clare (née Collins), is a poet of French ancestry, and her father, William O'Malley Armstrong (1938–2006), was an Irish publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson. Her elder brother, Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, is better known as record producer Rollo, part of the British electronica trio Faithless. Despite their birth names, the pair were known from childhood by the names Dido and Rollo and Dido considers this as her real name, and not simply a stage
Rollo was so physically imposing that he could not be carried by a horse and was obliged to travel on foot. Norman and other French sources do not use the name "Hrólfr", and the identification of Rollo with "Göngu-Hrólfr" is based upon similarities between circumstances and actions ascribed to both figures. The 10th-century Norman historian Dudo records that Rollo took the baptismal name Robert. A variant spelling, "Rou", is used in the 12th-century Norman French verse chronicle "Roman de Rou", which was compiled by Wace and commissioned by King Henry II of England, a descendant of Rollo. Rollo was born in