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  • Stanfordian
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 9322

    #16
    Well its a boy! The Royals kept the news private for about 4 hours. Presenter Kay Burley on Sky News, camped outside the hospital all day, has been running around the street microphone in hand like mad woman. I'm going for a lie down!

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    • amateur51

      #17
      Originally posted by Gordon View Post
      "Parturition!!!?? What a lovely Anthony Burgess word!!

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      • EdgeleyRob
        Guest
        • Nov 2010
        • 12180

        #18
        So Prince William's heir has fallen out.

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        • amateur51

          #19
          Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
          So Prince William's heir has fallen out.

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26572

            #20
            Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
            So Prince William's heir has fallen out.


            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25225

              #21
              The Belgians seem to be interested.

              I put them straight on this,and one or two other things.
              Well the ones I met,at any rate.
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • scottycelt

                #22
                Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
                Well its a boy! The Royals kept the news private for about 4 hours. Presenter Kay Burley on Sky News, camped outside the hospital all day, has been running around the street microphone in hand like mad woman. I'm going for a lie down!
                Yes, but Kay Burley has always come across as a mad woman.

                Am I the only member to be relieved that it's a boy? All this irritating feminist sexist talk in the media about how wonderful it would be if it were a girl following the recent changes to succession laws. No doubt in accordance with management political correctness they were all 'predicting' (or had 'a feeling') it would be a girl.

                As usual they were all hopelessly wrong ...

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                • Anna

                  #23
                  Originally posted by scottycelt View Post
                  Am I the only member to be relieved that it's a boy? All this irritating feminist sexist talk in the media about how wonderful it would be if it were a girl following the recent changes to succession laws. No doubt in accordance with management political correctness they were all 'predicting' (or had 'a feeling') it would be a girl.
                  No. I am very disappointed it was not a girl, it would have focussed the minds of certain countries, such as Canada, who won't recognise that changing the act of succession is a necessary thing (the law has not yet been agreed by all Commonwealth countries btw)

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12309

                    #24
                    Surely in view of the fact the new Royal baby has been born on the day that Barenboim's Ring opens at the Proms, the name to be given to our future king should be...Alberich!
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • Flosshilde
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7988

                      #25
                      Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                      The Belgians seem to be interested.
                      Ah, but their previous monarch had the sense to abdicate.

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                      • EdgeleyRob
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12180

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                        Surely in view of the fact the new Royal baby has been born on the day that Barenboim's Ring opens at the Proms, the name to be given to our future king should be...Alberich!
                        What about Spencer ? (33/1 with most firms).

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                        • Barbirollians
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 11752

                          #27
                          Wotan ?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26572

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            No. I am very disappointed it was not a girl, it would have focussed the minds of certain countries, such as Canada, who won't recognise that changing the act of succession is a necessary thing (the law has not yet been agreed by all Commonwealth countries btw)
                            Some nincompoop on the only news I saw earlier in the day was predicting a girl because dad is a helicopter pilot and has lots of testosterone.

                            It's been a TV news-free zone here this evening. (The constant noise since early on of choppers over the Bingo Wing have been notice enough today of what's going on...)
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Petrushka
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12309

                              #29
                              Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
                              What about Spencer ? (33/1 with most firms).
                              Could well be one of the names, certainly, but I'm sure tradition will prevail.

                              Can we do a Lucky 15?
                              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                              • Lancashire Lass
                                Full Member
                                • Feb 2012
                                • 118

                                #30
                                Originally posted by scottycelt View Post

                                Am I the only member to be relieved that it's a boy? All this irritating feminist sexist talk in the media about how wonderful it would be if it were a girl following the recent changes to succession laws. No doubt in accordance with management political correctness they were all 'predicting' (or had 'a feeling') it would be a girl.
                                No, I'm relieved as well (though I accept Anna's point). It removes constitutional uncertainty, given that not all realms have legally agreed the changes. Also if it had been a girl, we'd have never heard the end of it from Cameron and Clegg claiming to have made royal women equal.

                                Bet Uncle Harry's pleased. Probably working out how soon he can take the little fella clubbing ...

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