There was a poignant bit of the Telegraph’s coverage of today’s happy event: “Everything we know so far after Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to boy”, it promised. Except that’s it. There is very little more to be said except perhaps the weight, 8lb 7oz – it’s at times like this we all revert to imperial measures – and the speed with which the Duchess left hospital, eight hours after the birth. That’s it. That’s all there is to say, except to remark that Kate’s going home dress with its lace collar was interestingly reminiscent of a dress that Princess Diana wore after one of her births, only hers is red, not blue. And the name.
Rarely are so many words expended on an event that requires so few. Once upon a time, when births, including royal births, were a dangerous business, we might need reassurance that mother and baby are well; these days, not only do we take that much, miraculously, as read, the mother is out of the door of the hospital before the nation has got its head around the sex of the baby.
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