With news breaking in the early hours of this morning that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth to boy, speculation about the baby’s name began in earnest. Bookmakers have been inundated with bets on what William and Kate will call His Royal Highness, the Prince of Cambridge, with UK betting company Coral saying the […]

Pouring rain, thunder and lightning over Buckingham Palace isn’t deterring crowds who have come out to celebrate the arrival of the royal baby. As soon as news arrived the Duchess had gone into labour on Monday morning enthusiastic royalists and well wishers began to make their way to the palace gates where an easel — […]

Jubilant scenes erupted outside the Lindo Wing as news broke the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had welcomed a son. The news came to royal correspondents on the scene first by press release, who informed the crowd as the couple’s private press secretary emerged from the private wing where the Prince of Cambridge was born. […]

The Commonwealth is alive and well – and even a few avowed republican countries appear to have gotten caught up in the royal baby excitement, according to figures released this morning by Facebook. More than 1 million mentions of the royal baby were made on the social networking site around the world within an hour […]

With the Prince of Cambridge now safely delivered, all attention has focused on what name the new parents, William and Kate, plan to bestow on the future King. If the money passing hands at British bookmakers is any guide, we could soon have a King James to reign over us. James has emerged overnight in […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have welcomed their first child, a boy. Kate gave birth to a baby boy weighing 8lb 6oz in London’s St Mary’s hospital on Monday at 4.24pm, Kensington Palace has confirmed. “Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well and will remain in hospital overnight,” a statement from […]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby is the first royal baby for 300 years to have a commoner for a mother and if William and Kate get their way, it won’t have a typical royal upbringing at all. It will begin the moment the new family leaves the hospital. Where other babes have headed […]

We’ve not yet seen a glimpse of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first-born, but a forensic expert in the US has already predicted what the newest member of the royal family might look like. Washington-based forensic scientist Joe Mullins used sophisticated computer-generated imagery to merge photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to […]

Mere hours after the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child, the world is already asking: How long do we have to wait for a second royal baby? The new royal parents have expressed desire for ‘an heir and a spare’ in the past, with Prince William reportedly letting slip without hesitation […]

As news of the royal birth hit the world’s media yesterday afternoon, social networking site Twitter promptly erupted. According to the UK’s Daily Mail website, 487 million took to Twitter to share in the baby frenzy, with more than 500,000 tweets mentioning the royal baby within just the first few hours of the official public […]