So it’s a boy!
Born hours before this is written, the heir to the throne
of the British Empire – third in line – was identified as a male upon his
birth.
How old fashioned.
How appropriate in
these days when early identification of a fetus as boy or girl can be the
reason for abortion.
The Brits may be as secular as society can now be, with
attendance at Church of England services pretty small, smaller than the
dwindling Catholic congregations. But with sonic tests that reveal the sex of a
child within the womb it is common in the United States to learn of the sex of
an unborn child and even name it; that, or – horribly – deciding to take its
life because it does not move the parents’ happiness meter.
Of course, British
laws covering succession had been changed to allow either prince or princess to
ascend to the throne. So regardless of the royal baby’s sex, it would be
welcomed as the successor to the queen, or the current Prince of Wales in any
case.
Yet,
it seems, William and Kate were willing, as were parents of old, to await the
birth to learn whether the child would be the Royal Prince or the Royal
Princess.
Pip,
pip for them.
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