How can they say whole country will celebrate?.

Congratulations. Well done. Glad you're both OK.

I don't know them personally so no reason to celebrate or be over excited.

Now can the media get over it and actually bring us the news.

Congratulations an' all that to the royal couple on the birth of their baby boy. That's that out of the way, now for the really exciting bit - - a new emoticon!

I hope that if the Antiroyalists wanted a protest march outside the hospital it would have been allowed.

Frank

I'm so surprised that the baby was so big!

Sel I agree that the media need to calm down a bit - the BBC 10 o'clock news started with ....... 'the news the whole world has been waiting for' !!

They should name the baby Fred.

I'm sure a protest march outside the hospital would have been allowed Frank. Free speech and all that. After all, it wouldn't do for world to see some happy news for a change would it? Much better all round if we remain downbeat.
Better for the climate too. The reflected glare from the teeth of many thousands of smiling faces would probably increase global warming.

well put!

Well I'm with Frank here - the use of the word 'celebrating' is ludicrous. There is a world of difference between hearing mother and baby doing well and being pleased (when you even only vaguely know of the parents), then if congratulating someone you have some sort of relationship with , even a cyber one like with Frank and then celebrating a birth. The OTT media coverage is bread and circuses. Grumping off to work now in the rain

Frank, I think I heard one of the 'no news' reporters saying that two pizzas had been delivered to the Lindo wing! Putting two and two together as it were...

What would be the good of a protest march? They can't make the baby go back!

Not so very big, Riverwalk. My first son was 8lb 6oz (and born on expected date) and all my grandsons have been considerably bigger, though all kept their mums waiting.

My son was 10lb 1oz.............born a week early, thankfully.

I said to my DH last night 'it's a boy'. His reply was 'I couldn't give a monkeys'. Oh dear.

Let's get back to normal now, if it's only so I don't have to see Nicholas Witchell's waspish face each time I turn the TV on!

Could do worse than Fred, Frank. Grandfather, Father and Grandson all named Frederick!

Congratulations to them all. Glad both are well. It's not going to change my life and I'm no more interested in this baby than I am in any other baby born yesterday. Every other person I've spoken to feels the same.

I'm the same, great news that mum and baby are safe and well.

But why the need to cancel scheduled programmes ??? I said to DH "It's a boy born at 4.24pm weighing 8lb 6oz (I think) why does it take an hour to tell us that?"

Thank heavens for Radio 4, no change to scheduled programmes. (I never put the TV on during the day anyway, most of it is banal in the extreme)

Cancellations were at 9pm last night phoenix

Delightful News !

Delighted for the young couple .

We were watching Rick Stein in India (I think that was at 9pm) and I didn't even know the baby had been born until this morning!

I agree with Frank and Gally, Prince Fred sounds alright to me.
My lovely dad was called Fred

Prince Michael of Kent's son is called Frederick.

So she's had a monkey?

The whole OTT tone of much of the coverage in the press strikes me as distinctly messianic. For example, referring to the baby's arrival as 'the birth the world has been waiting for' - oh, really? And the Sun renaming itself 'Son' - 'unto us a Son....' I wonder if anyone is making a scrapbook for the child to have a laugh at when he's old enough.