It's a boy! Kate and William's first arrived safely. The Duchess of Caimbridge was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital in London early this morning. She gave birth this afternoon (Seattle Time). The new prince is third in line to the throne —after grandpa Prince Charles and dad Prince William — and that would have been the case even if the prince had been a princess, thanks to recent changes in Britain’s official Succession to the Crown Act of 2013. According to The Guardian's Caroline Davies, not all the i's and t's have been dutifully dotted and crossed. The new Succession law, writes Davies, won't "come into force until all 15 other Commonwealth countries of which the Queen is head of state have also made changes to their laws." Until then, "it would be possible for a daughter to become queen of England, but a younger brother to become, say, king of Canada." (Canada has kings?) No name yet for the infant future king.
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