Southern Charm alum Eliza Limehouse has revealed the meaningful name behind her second child’s moniker, who will be nicknamed “Croft.”
Southern Charm alum Eliza Limehouse is ready to welcome her second child with husband, Mark “Struthers” McBride.
The Season 6 Charm-er shared the exciting news with PEOPLE, almost five years after the Christmas Eve birth of the couple’s son, Patton. This time around, Eliza and Mark are expecting a girl, who is also due around the holiday season. Said Eliza, “Struthers and I are over the moon to share that we’re expecting a baby girl, set to join us on December 20, 2025.”
Eliza, herself, will turn 30 on Christmas Day, giving the family even more to celebrate. “It’s so funny how all of these Christmas birthdays happened completely unplanned,” she stated to the outlet. “I don’t know if she’ll arrive on the 20th — she might come sooner or later — but it’s heartwarming that our birthdays are so close together during the holidays. We love Christmastime so much. We’re so excited to meet our fellow Capricorn.”
What’s more, Eliza and her husband already have a name picked out for their newest addition: Bancroft Limehouse McBride, explaining that the baby’s middle name would be her surname (because she never took her husband’s last name). Her nickname would be “Croft.”
Eliza Limehouse in her Southern Charm Season 6 press portrait.
The expectant mom continued, ”I originally thought I’d be having another boy, which is how I decided to use the name Bancroft.”
However, once she discovered she was a girl this time around, the mom said, “I couldn’t let go of the name and decided to keep it.”
Eliza admitted to People that her pregnancy has “definitely been a lot harder” than when expecting Patton. The parents announced their pregnancy with Patton in October 2020, one week after Eliza and Struthers revealed they’d tied the knot in a private ceremony.
“I also am looking forward to cuddling her by the Christmas tree and the fire, with my horses peering in our windows of our little cozy farmhouse,” she stated, in part. “What I’m looking forward to, though, the most will be Patton getting to hold his little sister for the first time … I thank the Lord every day that I get to be their mom. It’s my greatest blessing and joy.”
Eliza announced her pregnancy back in August in an interview with Us Weekly. At the time, she also mentioned how excited she was for everyone to have birthdays around the same time, “I’m due around Christmas, which is funny because Patton and my birthdays are Christmas and Christmas Eve.”
Eliza began dating Struthers in April 2019, although they’d known one another for decades. They got engaged nine months later.
“This is the happiest I’ve ever been,” Eliza told PEOPLE at the time. “It’s so crazy, from the moment Struthers and I [started] dating, I knew he was the man I was going to marry. I’m not kidding you when I tell you, there were fireworks going off! And every moment since then, I’ve just fallen more and more in love with him.”
Don’t miss all the updates on Southern Charm’s growing family, including why Madison McCroy’s baby girl is “growing stronger” every day.
Earlier this year,
Todd and Patricia are the reality feud I never saw coming. Their tiny tit for tat started after Todd’s release from prison. “During the [post-prison] press conference, I had stated that we are doing a hotel and it’s going to be near Charleston, South Carolina,” Todd explained. In response, Patricia said, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
Well, Todd did not like that. So, he made several jests about Patricia, which mainly focused on her older age and her finances. Overall, it was gross.
So, recently clapping back via Decider, Pat quipped, “He’s very irrelevant. I said four words—there goes the neighborhood — and he went on, and he did a whole program about me. It was just a comment in passing.” Nevertheless, Patricia stands by her original stance, saying, “We just don’t need any more felons in Charleston.”
Todd and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were indicted on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States back in 2019. They swore they were innocent. Yet, they were still found guilty. In all, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality stars received a combined 19 years in federal prison, but thanks to their pardons, they walked out of their prison cells for good in May of this year.
And now, Ms. Pat wants them to heed her words and not walk toward her in Charleston.
Southern Charm Season 11 premieres on November 19, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock, or Hayu in Canada, the UK, and Ireland.