It's a girl.

[cee-dee]

Now you know.

[Anonymous]

What is?

[cee-dee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32562117

[wilsonhepple]

Ex pat 'Geordie' here...just heard the wonderful news on the television...

Mother and daughter doing well...

The news announcer says they will be choosing a traditional name ...?

I've always liked the name Victoria....

[cee-dee]

You don't think they'll pick "Chardonay" or "Chantelle"? 

[ravendays]

It's a bore.  No doubt any real news items will be relegated to the bottom of the pile whilst soap opera level cobblers continues...

[Anonymous]

Oh how nice.

[dark_castle1]

oh ravendays you should be excited !

After all it is not like any other women ever have baby girls.

Like you I am totally UNDERwhelmed.

[tommy.irene]

Who,s the father?

[jd.linklater]

Couldn't agree more, it's not a day old yet and I'm already sick to death of hearing about it. Just heard a BBC reporter waffling on about how demanding life can be for a young family with two small children, what a joke.

It's just another name to add to an endless list of parasites that live their lives at the taxpayers' expense. Another one that will never do a day's work in its life, will never have to worry about where the next meal is coming from or whether they'll be able to pay their electric bill, another one that will never have to wait at a bus stop on a rainy Monday morning on the way to the daily grind. It will have the same pampered life as the rest of them and we will have to watch its progress every step of the way.

On the bright side I suppose we should be thankful that it will nudge the election waffle off the front pages for a few days.

[wskneil]

[vamo48]

It's lovely, you miserable lot!

[mustard-tree]

Since the rules were changed, she will now take her rightful place in the line of succession, and not be usurped by males below her.

[mustard-tree]

Incidentally, the civil list costs each adult person in the country less than 10p a year.

Hardly breaks the bank.

Expenses fiddling MPs cost more.

[jd.linklater]

I have no objection to keeping the Queen, I just don't see why we have to maintain her huge extended family too. 

According to the Telegraph this morning the new princess will be worth £10bn by the time she's 10 years old, so she hardly needs assistance from the British taxpayer does she?

[bankhaunter]

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@mustard-tree wrote:

Since the rules were changed, she will now take her rightful place in the line of succession, and not be usurped by males below her.

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But is still referred to as the 'spare'.

First we had the heir and now we have the spare.

[mustard-tree]

Actually, I have just discovered that the civil list was abolished in 2012, so the taxpayer no longer maintains the extended family.

Only the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh get anything, but a lot of that goes back, due to income tax the Queen pays on income from personal investments.

The Prince of Wales and his family get their income from the Duchy of Cornwall, which is run as a commercial business.

The rest of the family earn their own keep.

The taxpayer pays more in MPs ligitimate expenses than for the Monarchy.

[tommy.irene]

The girl is called CD or CED

[jd.linklater]

The Duchy of Cornwall covers over 50,000 hectares spread over 23 counties and is worth more than £700m, it is a huge business which generated £18m profit in the last financial year. All this wealth was more or less gifted to the Prince on his mother's accession to the throne in 1952, the property has been propping up past Princes of Wales and their families since the mid 14thC.