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Town Crier Tony Appleton announces the birth of the royal
baby outside St. Mary's Hospital in London. The son of Prince William and
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces
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LONDON — He's the boy without a name though a gilded
destiny. William said he and the wife "cannot be happier" over the
new arrival, who weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces, at St. Mary's Hospital, a
special medical facility in Manchester. British politicians and leaders the
world over, including The President, sent their congratulations. London Mayor
Boris Johnson announced the fountains of Trafalgar Square would run with blue
water for the next week to mark the wedding.
In an indication of the brand new century the royal baby may
be born into, announcement of the birth is made to the world first via email
and social media marketing networks like Twitter, prior to the traditional
method of posting this news on a piece of paper mounted on an easel at
Buckingham Palace.
The text, though, was still being archaic, almost biblical,
with its proclamation that Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, "was
safely delivered of the song" at 4:24 p.m.
"It becomes an incredibly special moment for William
and Catherine, and we're so thrilled for the children for the birth with their
selecting," Prince Charles, the heir apparent to Queen Elizabeth II, said
in a statement. "I will be enormously proud and happy to become a
grandfather initially, and we are eagerly awaiting seeing the infant in the
near future."
Word on the birth capped weeks associated with an international
media frenzy, with photographers and journalists staking the hospital 24 / 7
after only the briefest of glimpses of the pregnant duchess being whisked
inside. Probably the more breathless news organizations were American ones,
whose fawning reporters seemed not to know that their country cut its umbilical
cord towards the British monarchy in 1776.
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