The royal baby isn’t even born yet but it already has a fancy title it won’t be able to pronounce for several years.
Buckingham Palace has announced the newest member of the royal family will be officially known as His or Her Royal Highness Prince or Princess (insert name) of Cambridge.
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Any subsequent children the couple have will bear the same title.
The baby will be the first prince or princess to bear the name Cambridge in more than 160 years.
The Dukedom of Cambridge was bestowed upon Prince William by the Queen on his wedding day in 2011.
The baby is due on Saturday, July 13, and the world’s media are already camped out outside Paddington’s St Mary’s Hospital, where Kate will give birth.
Once Kate arrives and is seen by a doctor, the Palace will tweet that she is in labour. The waiting game will then begin in earnest.
As soon as the baby has been safely delivered, William will use a special encrypted telephone to call the Queen.
At the same time, the royal couple’s private secretary Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton will inform the British Prime Minister David Cameron and other important public figures including the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Back at Buckingham Palace, officials will notify the head of each of the 54 Commonwealth countries and the First Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Meanwhile, the attending doctors will sign an official birth announcement, which will be rushed through London by police escort to the Palace, where it will be displayed on an easel by the front gates, as happened when William was born in 1982.
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