Sunday, July 21, 2013

Royal Baby

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You may or may not know that I am an avid follower of William and Kate.
I just think they are an adorable couple and are a real life example of a fairy tale.
(I even visited Westminster Abbey, where the two got hitched, the summer after their wedding.)
So as I'm sure you can imagine, I am just over the moon with excitement over all the Royal Baby buzz.

My predictions (more like hopeful guess) is that it is a 
Girl, named Grace. 

Here are some interesting facts about the Royal Baby:

• The baby will have the title His or Her Royal Highness Prince or Princess (the baby's name) of Cambridge, St. James's Palace said this month. However, it could be as long as 10 days before the baby's name is announced.

• Anyone born in Britain on the same day as William and Catherine's baby will receive a special coin from the Royal Mint: a silver penny, dated 2013, that will come in a blue pouch for a boy or a pink one for a girl.

• Celebratory gun salutes will be sounded by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Green Park (41 rounds) and the Honorable Artillery Company at the Tower of London (62 rounds) after the baby is born.

• William and Catherine did not want to know the sex of their baby beforehand, royal sources say. There has been speculation it is a girl, however, especially after a member of the public said in March that the duchess almost uttered "daughter" while at a public event in Grimsby. The woman said the duchess was given a teddy bear and replied, "Thank you, I will take that for my d--" but then stopped herself.

• The baby will be third in line to the throne after Prince Charles and Prince William, regardless of gender. A rule change in 2011 ended centuries of male primogeniture, which decreed that the crown passed to the eldest son and was bestowed on a daughter only when there were no sons. It means that if the next royal baby is a girl, she will eventually become queen; previously, a younger male sibling would have taken precedence.

6 comments:

  1. Awesome info! Girls rule so I hope it is a princess too!

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  2. Okay, good, I'm not the only one who is so excited for the royal baby! but man, if she does have a little girl, I would hate to be that baby's little brother, he'll get the short end of the stick! :P

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    1. Oh, no! you are not the only one! And I agree, it's kinda better for their future children that it was a boy.

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  3. Grace would have been much better than George...BTW, Grace Katherine is my princess!

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    1. I agree!! I love the name Grace, and Grace Katherine is such a gorgeous, princess-like name :)

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