Tips for royal baby

[prendrelemick]

1. Hang around with uncle Harry, He's loads of fun.

2. The royal wee is your prerogative

[qimissung]

3. Don't worry, be happy. Babies are so much fun (wait til their teenagers, that's when the real work begins) (and watch out for the Red Queen).

[Ecurb]

4. You rule!

[Delta40]

5. Game of Thrones

[Buh4Bee]

6. Don't turn into a "little prince".

[kasie]

4. You rule!

Should that be 'One will rule'? :smile5:

[cacian]

7. don't forget to salute your queen

[prendrelemick]

8. Great Grannies' hat is NOT a sparkly potty!

9. Just because Great Grampa does something, doesn't mean you have to do it too!

[The Atheist]

10 Granddad is a pompous, self-absorbed, homeopathy-promoting, politics-meddling, hypocritical git.

[JuniperWoolf]

I feel embarrassed that I cared because it's so stereotypically Canadian of me, but I was hoping that it would be a girl.

[Lokasenna]

I feel embarrassed that I cared because it's so stereotypically Canadian of me, but I was hoping that it would be a girl.

I was hoping for Prince Kalashnikov Dropkick III, or possibly 'the baby formerly known as Prince'. Prince George is just a little too Blackadder-ish for comfort.

Also, please can I have my national media back? Yes, it's a very sweet baby (insofar as all babies look much the same), but for the last few days my newspapers have been full of the most mind-bendingly detailed drivel about names, baby-seats, and baby fashion. BBC News 24 broadcast nearly an hour of footage of a door the other day. The whole thing is rather lunatic. Hence...

11. Don't hog the media.

[prendrelemick]

^ They should've had Kate Humble doing the voice over, it was like waiting for those badgers to emerge on Springwatch.


I'd secretly hoped for a Wayne or Trevor.


12. Be nice to the baby sitter or they'll get Great Aunt Anne to do it - and you don't want that!

[Helga]

Also, please can I have my national media back? Yes, it's a very sweet baby (insofar as all babies look much the same), but for the last few days my newspapers have been full of the most mind-bendingly detailed drivel about names, baby-seats, and baby fashion. BBC News 24 broadcast nearly an hour of footage of a door the other day. The whole thing is rather lunatic. Hence...

11. Don't hog the media.

Not living in the UK it wasn't that bad here, but I did like the choice the Guardian gave 'Royalist' or 'Republican' I am no Royalist. That being said I would have liked to see a girl as Juniper said and a rebel in the couple, naming her Diana.

[kiki1982]

I was hoping for a girl too, but he must have been too early (girl sperm is stronger and survive longer, apparently).

Anyway, the footage of the door, yes, it got even up the nose of a journalist posted there. When they tuned in he said, 'to be frank, we don't know anything and there is no news'. :lol: Great, we know it's going to take at least about 12 hours before anything happens (unless she's very quick, and let's face it, most first children are not very quick) so why are we posting someone there from 5.30 in the morning again?

You do have to say that the press knows how to build up the suspense, though... First you get 2 pizzas, then it's a briefcase, then the briefcase goes into the car, then it's handed to another person from the car, who then walks across the forecourt of Buck Palace and hands it to another etc.

Then the next day, it's the hairdresser and aid who turn up. Then it's the grandparents. And then... the cherry on the cake, it's the prince himself who makes a totally uneventful, undiscernable and oblivious appearance.
And yes, omg, he looks like a baby! What were you expecting?

What gets me is that the press expects someone who has had a potentially difficult birth to stand there the very next day. I mean, get real.

Our cat has requested the royal couple opt for another name as he is called his Highness Prince George (George for short). He is afraid people will confuse him with this other screaming insignificant person. :D

[Melanie]

13. Be wary if Uncle Harry gives you a baby present of a stuffed water buffalo for your stuffed animal collection. The media may take a photo of you with it and then the animal rights activists will be all over you.

[kiki1982]

14 Don't go and play strip billiards, whatever you do.

[Ecurb]

15) The Paparazzi are not your friends. Never let them take you alive.

[Paulclem]

16. Don't dissolve Parliament against their wishes.

[prendrelemick]

17. Try and be more punctual in future.

[kiki1982]

18 By all means, start wearing weird clothing, it willl catch on like wildfire.

[Ecurb]

Call yourself "We".