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 Rollo Rollo or Gaange Rolf (Norman: "Rou"; Old Norse: "Hrólfr"; ; 860 – 930 AD) was a Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy, a region of France. He is sometimes called the first Duke of Normandy. His son and grandson, William Longsword and Richard I, used the titles "count" (Latin "comes" or "consul") and "prince" ("princeps"). His great-grandson Richard II was the first to officially use the title of Duke of Normandy. His Scandinavian name "Rolf" was extended to "Gaange Rolf" because he became too heavy as an adult for a horse to carry, therefore he had to