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AIBU?

To be excited by the Royal Birth

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 17:32

I just love the pomp and ceremony of it, and the added extra that the commoner Middleton s have by fluke such a starring role.

Its so silly but also something lovely happening in the world when so much misery comes out of the news every single day.

I wouldn't be so excited if it was another royal but the fact Kate is a commoner...I don't know...I just love this angle! Also I feel so happy for William who had a decimated family that now he will be able to make his own family.

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JedwardScissorhands · 20/06/2013 18:20

YANBU. I am desperate for a tea towel!

RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:07

Yes I am hoping for a girl too.

I would love them to be adventurous with the name. I do love solid names Like Alexandria but it would be so lovely to have something a little more exciting...

I think there is a lot very different about this birth, for the first time in history the commoners will find out the details of the baby before the royals, it will be carol who is the dominant grand parent with most sway.....we all know that right....

The future heir will have much more to do with commoners than ever before....our royal family are very stuffy....I think its a huge break away from the cosseted world and protocol....I would be amazed if they even had a nanny or the child was sent to boarding school.

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PacificDogwood · 20/06/2013 23:11

YAabitU - another celebrity couple as far as I am concerned. But yes, a baby being born is always exciting, so enjoy.

I am quite sure the name won't be Kadence .

Re delivery: surely a MW can be present AND a consultant, non? One does not rule out the other, I'd imagine?

PacificDogwood · 20/06/2013 23:12

Oh gawd, yes, a girl, please!

Maybe I am more excited that I care to admit to myself??

And stop saying 'commoner' - the royal are just people, you know

Sallyingforth · 20/06/2013 23:18

Will they have a day where they take the baby onto the balcony at Buckingham palace so we can all wave flags?

I did hear there's a plan for a water birth in the lake at St James' Park, with a military band playing selections from Gilbert and Sullivan. Tickets available at £25 plus booking fee. Lucky number tickets and the winner gets to cut the cord. The afterbirth will be auctioned for charity.

Concreteblonde · 20/06/2013 23:18

A girl please. And I reckon Charlotte Elizabeth for the name

RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:18

I wasn't bothered when they announced the pregnancy but now there is a gap and its something happy isnt it.

After this baby I think they will a whole lot more - just people

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:19

Not Charlotte - Carol - Elizabeth?

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:20

I like the sound of the water birth in the Lake Sally, how beautiful, however....I am not sure any child should be born to the cacophony of a brass band....

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LittleNoona · 20/06/2013 23:21

Oh I'm ever so excited!

Love Kate and Wills, can't wait to hear that their baby has arrived safe and well. I think Kate is lovely and that they will be fantastic parents

sarahtigh · 20/06/2013 23:23

I think they will almost certainly have a nanny for when they are on royal duties together though I expect Kate's mum may do some not perhaps immediately

I think the child will almost certainly board from age 11/13- 18 though part of that will be for privacy/security... no photos of every single school run etc though I imagine it is more likely to be Eton than gordonstoun

Diana was not a commoner she was the daughter of an earl that had been closely connected with Royal family for past 400 years she was old money upper class aristocrat that is not being disrespectful but she was not an ordinary girl or like the average person in any sense, the palace/ stately home she grew up in was not a million miles from what Buckingham palace is like

frogwatcher42 · 20/06/2013 23:24

I still can't get it. Why would anybody be excited about the birth of a baby that has nothing to do with them and they will probably never meet.

Bah humbug me. I just do not get it at all. But then I don't know anybody that does in real life, so perhaps I am surrounded by anti royalists and therefore will never get it.

I genuinely do not know of one person in my family, work place or friends who has any interest in the Royal Family at all. Is that unusual?

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VivaLeBeaver · 20/06/2013 23:25

Well that's what I want to know, will they have a midwife as well or will they expect the consultant to hold the vomit bowls, wipe her arse when she shits herself, etc. maybe a midwife can't be trusted/isn't important enough for the job.

I do know a midwife at the lindo wing actually so will text and ask. She did tell me ages ago they were having a very important VIP in June/July time but she couldn't tell me who....obviously I guessed.

RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:25

Yes Sarah I thought it had been said that indeed the Spencers looked down on the Windsors?

That in fact Diana had perhaps married beneath her?

Anyway, she was not common in the sense of sitting round a table in Southall making party bags whilst chewing gum....

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:27

Then people will buy whatever Kate buys for her baby just because of who she is

Oh my goodness - what a wasted business opportunity!

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:29

Viva tell us tell us!! Find out!

I am sure she would have a MW....if I was her I would have the full team on stand by and a MW whom I knew very well and had a good relationship with.

Unless perhaps she is doing away with MW for her mother, and Pippa can help she seems to have a lot to say on lots of subjects does Pip, maybe she can also do stuff with babies.

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:31

I think this is why they had to up grade house....as it was known the baby would be spending time there - so had to up grade to this manor house....with the help of Williams purse....

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ChippingInWiredOnCoffee · 20/06/2013 23:31

I am excited for them - they seem to be very much in love & pretty well grounded.

I'm no more or less excited than I am when I hear an MNer is pregnant.

I will enjoy seeing the photos - I enjoy seeing the photos of any babies :)

I'd put money on Diana being in the name

ChippingInWiredOnCoffee · 20/06/2013 23:33

I wonder if Pip will 'write' another book after the birth?

BegoniaBampot · 20/06/2013 23:33

Not that interested but will be nice to have a light heartened feel good story for a change rather than all the doom and gloom.

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Doodledumdums · 20/06/2013 23:34

Massively excited over here! This baby will be King or Queen one day, it is very exciting!

Seriously hoping it is a girl, I have set my sights on her marrying my baby DS!

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RazzleDazzleEm · 20/06/2013 23:37

I wonder if Pip will 'write' another book after the birth?

Oh gawd......your right she will!

I wonder what the title will be

" How to be the perfect birthing partner"

"Bringing Baby into the world the Middle way"

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