Are you ready for a next-in-line future Queen or King to be born?

[WannabeNewton]

Jack Sparrow eh? I wants me a lil baby Jack Sparrow.

 

[Integral]

LOL

I feel much the same way as you

but a hearty congrats on your relatively new grand-daughter :)

Dave

Thanks! She is 1 month today.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I don't know why there are still royal families in Europe honestly... Don't people realize they got rich mostly by taxing the people? I'm not even communist, but in the case of royal families it's true that they exploited the peoples of their countries. Sure they led the countries also, but that's not an excuse to live in luxury while people struggled to live by. Monarchies times are over, why even give importance to those people...

Don't tar all Europeans with the same brush, ever heard of the French Revolution? Of course the monarchies got rich on the basis of past crimes and even though much of this wealth has been claimed back there are still republican movements. The thing is they hold so little practical power and have such a celebrity status (good for tourism) that there's rarely any impetus to launch a lengthy and cosy reform.

 

[Ken Natton]

Oh dear, I do feel a compulsion to point out the obvious. Believe me, I offer no criticism at all to those who have expressed their dis-interest here – they are, of course, perfectly entitled to it. But the Cambridges did not ask the world’s media to camp outside the hospital. The world’s media camped outside the hospital because a significant majority of the world’s public are interested. And the same point applies to why the American media have covered the story to the extent they have. It is an old point – the media do no lead public opinion, they reflect it – often in far more unedifying ways than this.

 

[jackmell]

Thanks! She is 1 month today.

A precious little princess indeed! The good Duke of Cambridge should be so relieved of having been spared the enormous (and painful) job of seeing a daughter through adolescence relatively unharmed.

 

[collector]

Another question on titles. If the boy were to marry a man, when he grows up, would he also be known as a King?
Surely if a Queen marries a woman then there will be two queens, even by todays laws.

 

[FredericGos]

The world’s media camped outside the hospital because a significant majority of the world’s public are interested.

Yeah, that's because a significant majority of the world's public are complete morons. :)