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to be disappointed that royal baby is a boy

267 replies

Madmum24 · 22/07/2013 22:48

I know IABU, baby is healthy etc, but for some reason I really thought it would be a girl.

I don't know what has got into me, I am certainly not a royalist but I have been so interested in the birth.

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ImNotBloody14 · 22/07/2013 23:02

What zyn said

ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll · 22/07/2013 23:02

ThrCat I like to move it, move it! That's the reason I wanted it to be a lemur. Who wouldn't want a royal like that Grin

Hope you know what I'm talking about!

LRDYaDumayuIThink · 22/07/2013 23:02

I'm not disappointed it's a boy.

It would be pretty poor if we could only achieve equality if the third in line to the throne - a baby who may well only be king after most of us are dead, if the longevity of the current queen is anything to go by - were a girl.

I don't see how it's relevant and I do feel it's a bit bad to be 'disappointed' about a stranger's baby who is doubtless much welcomed just for himself.

Zynzong · 22/07/2013 23:02

yeh imnotbloody14 I have a boy. But his birth didn't mean kings for the next 100 years.

I'll be dead by the time this child gets a sniff of the throne. Dead, and Irish, so, not that invested either way really, but still, a Queen after two Kings would have been a change, if nothing else, it would have been a change.

DomesticCEO · 22/07/2013 23:03

Laurie, "good and successful" by what measurement? How difficult is it to wander around looking permanently miserable and shaking hands with people? Jeez, I think even I'd manage that - although I'd probably struggle to look as miserable as her tbh!

QuintessentialOldDear · 22/07/2013 23:03

Must be MumstoBothnet. Wink

Is not succession law discussions fairly redundant in this day and age?

Dont you think if the baby was a girl it would have happened anyway, like in most modern European countries? Do "we" need a firstborn girl baby just to prove a point? England has a long history of strong and proud Queens.

ImNotBloody14 · 22/07/2013 23:03

Whoops! That wasnt op explaining- was someone else- apologies

5madthings · 22/07/2013 23:03

I am glad all went well but i also thought a girl would be nice purely because of the rules regarding females in line to the thrown. But its no big deal.

Oh and i have four boys btw.

LadyMilfordHaven · 22/07/2013 23:03

three king in a row - ace lets have a bloodied revoltion - french style

they dont have an issue with a lack of tourists?

LRDYaDumayuIThink · 22/07/2013 23:03

(Though, natch, I do agree a lemur would have been far preferable.)

DomesticCEO · 22/07/2013 23:04

MsJupiter, I want my boys to grow up in a world where people don't get fawned over because they happen to get lucky in the birth stakes rather than because they've earned the respect of people because of what they've achieved.

I think it's desperately sad that little girls look up to Kate - what an awful role model.

ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll · 22/07/2013 23:05

I actually dont care wether its a queen, king or bloody ostrich that is in charge.

A baby was born but not the only baby. He doesn't have magic powers or anything. If he did then maybe I would be interested

Prince Harry for King!!

Alisvolatpropiis · 22/07/2013 23:05

Yabu obviously.

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Madmum24 · 22/07/2013 23:05

OP here donning flameproof suit

One second after I posted that dd3 announced that she had pooed herself so cleaning it up kind of brought me back into reality and I felt really crap that I posted that.

I have boys and girls so not an insult to either; but I was really thinking it was a girl, hoping changes would be made in the royal family and I wanted Diana's name to be passed on like I say I generally have no interest in them

Congrats to Kate and Wills!

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YouTheCat · 22/07/2013 23:06

Or what about a meerkat? They could have called him Aleksander.

NotGoingSwimmingly · 22/07/2013 23:07

I doubt William and Kate could care less either way right now, and that's all that really matters.

Tbh, there's been a Queen as Head for the vast majority of the last 200 years. We've hardly been slacking in that area.

ImNotBloody14 · 22/07/2013 23:08

Grin @ aleksander!

BiscuitDunker · 22/07/2013 23:08

You never know OP,they may decide to call the baby Spencer,so in a way he would be named after Diana so don't lose hope just yet!

QuintessentialOldDear · 22/07/2013 23:09

I think most of the "society" girls are really poor role-models.

MsJupiterJones · 22/07/2013 23:09

Domestic CEO, I quite agree.

YouTheCat · 22/07/2013 23:09

In all seriousness though, can you imagine how much worse the whole media circus would be (and in the child's future) had it been a girl? All the press speculation and comparisons with Diana? The constant pressure on any girl they might have?

Until the press get an almighty boot up the arse from our legal system (which I don't think they will, ever) I hope they only have boys.

WetAugust · 22/07/2013 23:09

Grin at Aleksander. Perfect!

ThatVikRinA22 · 22/07/2013 23:10

what an odd thread! im sure Kate will take it all on board and ensure a girl just for you OP next time around....because it obviously works like that Hmm

DomesticCEO · 22/07/2013 23:10

Madmum, the queen hated Diana, I can't for one minute think she would have allowed her name to be used.

curlew · 22/07/2013 23:10

I was disappointed because I loved the idea of a girl bumping all those boys off the ladder of secession............

TO THE BARRICADES!!!!!!!