Royal Baby #2 due date come and gone?

I don't believe they ever released a due date.

No date was released but Kat did say mid to late April. So sice it is now late April, she is probably around the 40 week mark.

I too hope they have a healthy girl this time. Can't wait to hear what the baby's name is.

Didn't we have someone who went to the Palace for afternoon tea?
Surely she and the Queen are BFFs now and she can get the inside scoop!

Sure, no problem 

No official due date has been released so any references are purely guesses.

The bets are that it'll be a girl named Alice - we'll see! 

I reckon a girl....Alice Diana
Or a boy...Albert Charles

Alice?? UGH No offense but.....

I'll just eat my Sunday roast and I'll pop down for you pjaye

I think it's a lovely name and it's a name with a lot of royal history. There have been many Princess Alices through the Royal family tree. 

I'll be honest, I really don't like the name Diana. I think there's too much focus on that name and the person behind it. Bluntly, I think it would be a mistake to saddle a royal child with that name. There would be no getting away from comparisons to her grandmother with that name. It would be stupid to do that to a child. 

As for the due date, nothing was announced. Everything is speculation. Everything seems to be ramping up though. So it should be interesting to see when it happens. 

I'd be surprised that if it is a girl that it wouldn't be one of her names. I see no reason for anyone not to pass the name of their mother on to their child. Prince William would be no different than anyone else in that respect.

Alice is coming back in vogue. We have three in our current cohort at preschool. I quite like it. The UK is slightly different when naming kids. I know lots of peas didn't like the name George when they had their first. But it is a pretty popular name here.

I hope, for the baby's sake, if it's a girl, they do NOT name her Diana. That is a ton of pressure on a little girl and she no doubt would be compared to Princess Di the rest of her life. I would hope William would not do that to his child. Kate's middle name is Elizabeth and a nod to the current monarch is nice, but if they do call her that, I'd love to see her be called Libby or Beth for short. (I know, never would happen)

I really love Charlotte as a nod to Charles (and Uncle Charles Spencer). It's a lovely name for a little princess.

I'm thinking they've seen and heard the betting list and maybe they've chosen something totally different from all the suggestions.

For boys, I like Arthur, but then again, so much history with that name and King Arthur. Would it be too much?

I would love to see a nod to Diana by calling a boy Spencer, but again, I know the Queen may frown upon that too.

At any rate, I just can't wait to see and hear the name too!

This was a bit ago, but if either of my boys had of been girls, they would have been an Alice. One of my most favorite people in the whole in entire world was an Alice and I wanted more than anything to be able to name one of my people after her. As it was, her last name became my youngest's middle name.

So a baby princess Alice would be more than okay with me! (in case they care about my opinion. LOL)

I am strangely and mildly obsessed with the royals.

My mother is in her 70's (disclaimer)

We were talking about the royal baby the other day and she said that there hadn't been a Richard in a long time and that Richard was a nice traditional royal name.
Noooo, I'd bet my house that they won't use a first name that can be shortened to 'Dick' by the media!

My father's name was Richard, but he went by Dick. As an adolescent, I used to cringe when I'd introduce him to my friends.