How can they say whole country will celebrate?.

Morning Frank. Innocent baby with larger than life rellies. MSN is American so you have to make excuses. I doubt that Outer Mongolia knew anything either. Nor Chechneya. Personally. It all went pear shaped after Wills was born, don't you think.

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May I remind everybody that msn said the whole country will celebrate.
They should have checked their facts as I did not celebrate so by definition the whole country did not celebrate.

Frank

I checked out the shawl but it was the usual "Kate Effect" to buy from British businesses. Unfortunately, when I checked the internet information on the shawl, it appears that it was machine made. Apparently the yarn used was not from a British-sourced fleece. Hence the £45 affordable-to-all cost. In fact, given what British yarn suppliers/knitters/crocheters can offer, I was surprised that no-one has sent them such a unique gift. I think I will make a shawl for the baby of Mike and Zara using the best of British yarns. It also makes you wonder about the integrity of the people who sell commercially. It is very easy to say that an item was bought from them but that they have run out of stock and now have a waiting list. You see this phrase in all sorts of retail from facial creams to footwear. Who still falls for that old chestnut! Apart from me, that is.

Yes, Fred and Gladys!

I wasn't there.

No...

Fred is his Grandad's nickname. Remember the cuff links on Diana's wedding night.

"not the latest"

in baby car seats

O.M.G!!!!!!!!

Do people really know stuff like that?

Read all about it on Twitter!

Did you bags the last one bluebell? I knew you were a closet Royalist

No - shawl not a hand down and already sold out online I believe

I loved the shawl. Do hope it was a handmedown. I think the car seat was too as it's not the latest. Will be so delighted if she starts a trend of using stuff that friends have passed on. My DDs did but you see so much spent in John Lewis baby dept that it beggars belief.

Are you one of these old miseries, Frank, who does not want anyone to celebrate anything? Cheer up!
"Always look on the bright side of life" tra la la....

I hope they make the press wait for a month to hear the name or see the baby again, and just get on with being new parents. How to f**k up a family in one easy lesson. Do they have nothing better to do?

The Sun (Son) was brilliant.

I think it was probably the Sun newspaper who put pressure on the palace to get the news put out electronically rather than wait for the easel. They really wanted to get that one out.

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.

So she's had a monkey?

Prince Michael of Kent's son is called Frederick.

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

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!

Delightful News !

Delighted for the young couple .

Cancellations were at 9pm last night phoenix

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)

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?"