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Everywhere on the local news today, this was the main story.

While I appreciate that it's good news, it shouldn't be the main story on our local newscasts. It's just too much.

   

It's relevant more so because of proposed succession changes. It's also positive news and a break from murder suicides, Syria, and political corruption.

   

In several months time you're going to meet Canada's future head of state. It's a huge news story.

Actually, does male preferred succession still exist, or has that been changed?

   

It's in the process of being changed by the commonwealth countries.

   

Kate Middleton has said if she has a boy she will call him by the most popular British boy's name at the moment.

We look forward to the arrival of baby Mohammed.

   

   

I think the govt better put a question to the Canadian people. Do we still want the monarchy, I keep flip flopping on this. We should look at other options, at least a Canadian head of state stays in Canada and is not a tourist.

   

Yeah, that's an easy fix we should spend parliamentary horse power on.

   

No, it isn't. The last time I checked it was actually the future King and Queen who are expecting another future King or Queen.

   

This is really great news. This has been a really great year for Britain, with first the Diamond Jubilee and then the glorious London Olympics. And now, when we thought the good news for the country was over for this year, we find out that a future Monarch is to be born in the summer.

Great news!

   

There are people saying that it might not be one baby - it might be twins!

That's because the type of morning sickness that Kate is suffering from - hyperemesis gravidarum - is actually quite common in women who are expecting twins.

As Christopher Wilson said in yesterday's Daily Mail:

Of course, if Kate does have twins then their may be problems. Which one will become the third in line to the Throne and the future Monarch? Of course, if they are born naturally then the heir to the Throne will be the one which comes out first, but the problem will arise if Kate has to have a caesarean section.

Last year, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark – the wife of the country’s next monarch – gave birth to twins.

There was some anxiety beforehand that her babies might have to be delivered by caesarean section, leading to speculation that it would be the obstetrician who chose which child to deliver first and thus which would eventually rise to the throne.

Happily, she didn’t have to go through with a caesarean section birth, and gave birth to Prince Vincent 25 minutes ahead of his sister, Princess Josephine.

Were those circumstances to arise here and a caesarean be required, the task of picking who would be the future king or queen would fall, in theory, to Alan Farthing – the royal gynaecologist still better known as the former fiance of murdered BBC presenter Jill Dando.

But while he will be more than prepared for the challenges ahead, it’s unlikely Mr Farthing would want to shoulder the responsibility of choosing whom he brought into the world first. Which begs the question – who would?

Would it be William, who’s expected, like most modern fathers, to be present at the birth? Would the royal family have to revert to the odd practices of yesteryear, where a government minister had to be present at the accouchement to act as an observer and ensure everything was above board?

Last time that happened to a future monarch was in 1926, when the present Queen was born and home secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was required to be present, albeit in an adjoining room. Should that be the case again next year the job will fall to Theresa May, the present home secretary.

In fact bookies have now slashed the odds of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge having twins from 50/1 to 8/1, so the home secretary may well have to be present at the nirth.

If it is twins, it would be the first set of royal twins to be born in the British Isles since 1430.

In 1430, King James I of Scotland’s wife Queen Joan gave birth to two boys. The first, Alexander, was named as the heir to the throne and given the title Duke of Rothesay – a title still carried today by William’s father as Prince of Wales.

The second twin, James, would have expected an easy life – except that within a year his elder brother had died and he assumed the Rothesay title. By the time he was six, his father had been assassinated and he rose unsteadily to the Scottish throne as King James II of Scotland.

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For anybody wondering, the Duchess is fine and has left the King Edward VII hospital in Marylebone, central London today. She is now resting at the couple's new home of Kensington Palace. Here are the happy couple:

   

If Kate has twins, just let one of the kids become the Sovereign in the newly-independent Scotland.

   

Or a girl!
uhm, no. It is not "common", it is rare, and it is potentially life threatening, starts earlier and lasts longer than "common" morning sickness.
Estimates are that 0.2% to 3% of pregnant women suffer from it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperemesis_gravidarum

This is a nice little blog post from the husband of an HG sufferer. And it might not be over the moment she gives birth.
http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-12-05/tru ... middleton/

   

They seem like a nice couple, but I really don't care one way or another what they have. The only thing I hope is that Kate stays healthy and her pregnancy gets better. My wife just went through a really rough one and I wouldn't wish that on anyone...

   

Couldn't give a bloody toss for the Royal family. Certainly not MY king/queen.

   

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