Royal baby false alarm

Mid April is now becoming late April. This Saturday will be the 25th. And as the Duchess of Cambridge said her second child was due 'mid to late April' and the reported date of great expectations is the 25th then royal baby mania is getting, well, manic. And every Great Kate Wait needs at least one false alarm which is what happened on April 21st 2015.

The wait goes on for the duchess

Perhaps it was because the Queen was marking her 89th birthday that everyone got just slightly over excited. With the whole world, and quite possibly several other universes, convinced baby Cambridge is a girl (despite ma and pa not asking to find out the gender at pregnancy scans) the idea of this little princess being born on great granny's birthday and maybe even being named after her was irresistible. Suddenly, there were reports appearing that Kate was in labour.

Baby number two is due any day for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

It all started when Chris Evans suggested on his BBC Radio Two Breakfast Show that baby number two was on its way. The rumours spread through social media until more mainstream sources were reporting that the arrival of the new fourth in line to the throne was imminent. It wasn't. Kate stayed at home at Kensington Palace resting ahead of the big event while everyone else got back to speculating on possible princess names and checking the odds for the arrival on other dates in April.

The fourth member of their family isn't quite ready for their debut yet

So Prince George's brother or sister won't share a birthday with their great granny and the Lindo Wing remains royal-less for another day. We'll know soon enough all about William and Kate's second child. In the meantime, this little prince or princess can add another chapter to its story before it's even born - the tale of the royal baby false alarm.