Royal hospital dash

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia are now en route to New York to meet their new granddaughter.  The Swedish monarchs hopped on a plane first thing after their youngest child, Princess Madeleine, gave birth to a little girl at 22:41 local time in New York - about 4 in the morning in Stockholm.  Within hours, mum and dad were on a transatlantic hospital dash to see their own little girl and meet her little girl.

There may well be more dancing in the streets tonight as a proud king and queen meet their newest granddaughter

Proud uncle, Carl Philip, has been speaking to the press this morning telling them that he'd been in touch with his sister and her husband, Chris O' Neill, and couldn't wait to meet his new niece.  The latest royal daddy will give a press conference at noon, New York time, when we may yet find out the name of Sweden's newest princess.  And by then the country's king and queen should be in the hospital and holding her in their arms after a very royal hospital dash.