21 Excellent Reactions To The Royal Baby News

21 Excellent Reactions To The Royal Baby News
This photo taken Wednesday, July 2, 2014, and released Monday, July 21, 2014, to mark Prince George's first birthday, shows Britain's Prince William and Kate Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)
This photo taken Wednesday, July 2, 2014, and released Monday, July 21, 2014, to mark Prince George's first birthday, shows Britain's Prince William and Kate Duchess of Cambridge and the Prince during a visit to the Sensational Butterflies exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)

Following the news that the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William are expecting their second child, royal super-fans, ordinary plebeians, and even public figures are sharing their thoughts and questions about the announcement on Twitter.

The reactions to the #royalbaby news include a "Frozen" reference, and of course, confusion about which royal we're really talking about -- Kate or Beyonce?

i should be at home celebrating the #royalbaby and #firework can we get @barackobama to declare today a national holiday

— diane alston (@dianelyssa) September 8, 2014

Royal Baby on the way pic.twitter.com/T2Mk1JdkKk

— Star Wars Reactions (@StarWarsReact) September 8, 2014

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1
It will be fourth in line to the throne
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The baby will be behind its grandad, Prince Charles, its dad, Prince William and its brother Prince George. Its uncle Prince Harry will fall to fifth place.
2
It will be a Prince or Princess
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Yes, yes, this may sound like a dumb thing to say, but it's only the intervention of the Queen that ensured the children of the Cambridges could use these titles. The Queen issued a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm in December 2012 when Kate was just a few months' pregnant, declaring "all the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales should have and enjoy the style, title and attribute of royal highness with the titular dignity of prince or princess prefixed to their Christian names or with such other titles of honour". This nullifed a Letters Patent in 1917, issued by George V, which limited titles within the royal family, meaning a daughter born to William or Kate would not have been an HRH but Lady (forename) Mountbatten-Windsor instead and a second-born son would also have lacked the HRH title and become Lord (forename) Mountbatten-Windsor rather than a prince. William's cousin Princess Eugenie (pictured), who was born in 1990, was the last royal baby to be given the title Princess.
3
It will be great-great-great-great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria
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William and Kate's new baby will be a great-grandchild to the Queen and a great-great-great-great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
4
It will be 'spare to the heir'
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Unlike Prince George, this Prince or Princess will be free from the responsibility of one day having to become monarch and second-born Royals often have less restricted lives. Prince Harry (pictured) has traditionally been dubbed a party prince in contrast to his older brother William.
5
The bookies are already betting on the name
Twitter
never one to miss a cash-in opportunity - Paddy Power is taking bets on the name. We don't know the sex, but the bookies are saying Elizabeth is the favourite

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