I am about as interested in this as I am in having my toes amputated.

Will they instantly check the head and make sure there is a bald patch (like daddy and grand-daddy?) We don't want another Harry, do we?

The sooner she gets back to her normal duties - wearing frocks and smiling at poor people - the better.

I'm only a bit interested in babies but would be very interested in you having your toes amputated and would be happy to volunteer to do it.

The Royalty do not make good news they just make it more boring and they know how to change TV schedules.

andrew wrote:
The Royalty do not make good news they just make it more boring and they know how to change TV schedules.

They bring pleasure to a lot of people and attract tourists and I am always happy to hear of a birth (maybe less so if that one-bedroom-flat lady has a seventh) but an announcement on the day it happens would suffice. We don't need to be told every time nothing happens.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
They bring pleasure to a lot of people and attract tourists

This is the great myth that they have a vested interest in promoting.

Other countries also have Royal families too !

The history / culture of Britain would continue to attract the exact same number of visitors if "our" Roal family disappeared tomorrow !

People would still flock to York, Stratford, the Tower of London, Canterbury, Windsor etc (and even Derbyshire - judging by the number of Japanese I saw at Chatsworth today).

In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
They bring pleasure to a lot of people and attract tourists

This is the great myth that they have a vested interest in promoting.

Other countries also have Royal families too !

The history / culture of Britain would continue to attract the exact same number of visitors if "our" Roal family disappeared tomorrow !

People would still flock to York, Stratford, the Tower of London, Canterbury, Windsor etc (and even Derbyshire - judging by the number of Japanese I saw at Chatsworth today).

I must admit, I have never bothered to go and see other countries royal anything, so it wouldn't surprise me if it made no difference at all.
We have lots of Japanese tourists in the (fake) Beatles area and the ferry and surprisingly on our local beach since some fool put hundreds of statues on it.

The only time I go to Canterbury is to watch Kent play County Cricket.

ON TV anyway I like those statues Honey!

JK2006 wrote:
ON TV anyway I like those statues Honey!

It is actually very dramatic and haunting,and well worth a visit. I would probably miss them if they were taken away now and it gives the dogs something to wee on.

I drove past Nicholas Witchell yesterday morning in Hyde Park Square.

Kate is actually very close to me at this moment; should I pop in to say hello? Might it inspire her to give birth faster?

JK2006 wrote:
Kate is actually very close to me at this moment; should I pop in to say hello? Might it inspire her to give birth faster?

Maybe you could sing "let it all hang out" outside her window?

A one hour TV special ???? FFS !

How long does it take to say -

Its a boy / weighs 8lbs / born at 4.30pm ????????????

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
We have lots of Japanese tourists in the (fake) Beatles area and the ferry

Yes, the Beatles on our stamps would sell more than any issue ever released.

He'll be called James .... after the King that united the UK (and also Harry's father !!!!)

In The Know wrote:
He'll be called James .... after the King that united the UK (and also Harry's father !!!!)

My guess is Albert Francis Charles. I dont think it is possible to tell about Harry because Hewitt looks so much like Diana's family.

The beeb have been horribly gushing over this. And what is it about Nicholas Witchell I find extremely unsettling? That gingery mandarin look.

Apparently (according to Charles) its about to make an appearance.

Let's hope it does not look like Cowmilla (which of course, he can't as she is no blood relative)!

I wonder if Charles will keep to his pledge that Cowmilla will never be Queen, or has the publicity machine now made her acceptable.

The Fat Controller wrote:
The beeb have been horribly gushing over this. And what is it about Nicholas Witchell I find extremely unsettling? That gingery mandarin look.

You have to be gushing and simpering, FC, to get the job !

Not watched anything on Beeb TV - but Sky website is falling all over itself to wimper.

Glad I watch Sky 1 they keep telling us to change to Sky News, why bother where was the coverage when my nephew was born ?