Baby on the way , boy or girl?

I'm bemused that so many of you are interested or care!

maryhoffman37 and yet here you are too!

Not Arthur if you please......too many Arthur``s around that do not quite match up to this young couple`s standard!!

No problem with same family names, my son is Robert James, his cousin born 1 day before is Robert John, both same surname, no discussion beforehand and no idea until the first phone call on the day after my son was born.

He can't be David, that was the Duke of Windsors name!! I think that might be tempting providence!!

Who actually cares!! Just another Royal for the tax payers to support. (As you may gather, I am not a fan of the free-loading Royals)

Hopefully not Arthur. Wasn't our queens father originally Arthur but changed to George when he became king following the abdication of his brother the late Duke of Windsor? Why was it necessary to change ?

No, he was Albert, Frederick Arthur George; known to the family as Bertie.

I expect they have ruled out Prince Wayne, Kayden and Kyle so I shall go for Michael.

The Queen has a grandson James or I would have gone for that.

He took the name George on becoming king.

Princess Margaret named her son David, niggly ?

Reading your posts at 4.45 pm so already know the gender. Won't spoil the surprise though as you may want to hear the proper announcement.

Yes that's true annie and with the queen mother still alive! I'd forgotten that!! Do you think it was payback time over the Peter Townsend affair?!!!

Could have been so niggly ?, the palace quickly told the world one of the Queen Mother's brothers was named David

Well, who knows?!!!!!!

True niggly, I bet it was after Duke of Windsor ?

Betting odds

Arthur tops the list .

Jeremy and Boris. Both 200 - 1

Not one of us has chosen these , wonder why

I think Louis would be nice, I know there were rather a lot of them in the French royal family and that didn't end well. It's a shame that there appears to be a small pool of names the royal family seem obliged to opt for. In Denmark it's worse, going round one of the castles in Copenhagen last year, there was a list of their kings, that went, if I remember rightly, Christian, Frederic, Christian, Frederic, Christian, Frederic, with maybe a Frederic, Frederic, Christian, Christian but those were the two! Maybe David or Michael for middle names or even Stephen, we had a King Stephen back in 11 something or other, but there was never another one. Louis, David, Michael with a Danish Christian on the end.

Yes, Louis Mountbatten was a loved member of the family - on Prince Philip's side. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh won't be around to watch the little one grow up but they may choose Louis as a nod to Philip's family.

Mountbatten battled to have the royals take the name of Mountbatten , they settled for Mountbatten Windsor

He was a bit of a 'fixer' (meddler) behind the scenes by the sounds of it Annie, with ambitions for his family and Philip in particular.

They are all Saxe-Coburg Gothas anyway, that German dynasty, change of name or not. They knew better than to keep their name given we have not sided with Germany in two world wars.

It's all a bit strange, when you think how that family has evolved and still has prominence, wealth and power. Now a divorced American actress joins the Windsors, yet the power isn't diluted. I shall try to get my little GD married off to Prince George in the future. (Joking. I wouldn't wish that set up on my nearest and dearest.)

He was Day6, arranged the match between Phillip and queenie. Tried to match one of his granddaughters with Charles, when he was murdered the press here did not repeat what was claimed by some in N.I.

This family are certaintly experts at reinventing themselves

Kitty Kelly wrote a book some years ago which was banned here, think it can be bought know , the reason given for banning it - it would distress the Q.M. Perhaps it was reference to the turkey baster .

King George V1 ‘s real name was Albert.... so maybe they could use that. He was an excellent man and it would be a great tribute.

I think a very sad man

when he was murdered the press here did not repeat what was claimed by some in N.I.

Which was what?