Yesterday’s news coverage of the announcement that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and husband Prince William had welcomed their first child into the world was over the top. It was one of those days that you are either glued to the TV or you shut it off and get a lot accomplished around the house or at work. The coverage continues today.

Shortly after the birth, someone Tweeted, “Whatever, England. Our Kate had eight children.”

Thankfully the George Zimmerman murder trial was completed or we would have had a big problem on the cable news networks.

Ironically, #GeorgeZimmerman and #RoyalBaby were trending on Twitter at the same time. Zimmerman came out of nowhere and helped four people get out of an SUV that had overturned in Florida. I guess this happened around the same time the Duchess of Cambridge was giving birth.

CNN did not disappoint; they had “CNN Breaking News” alerts about both. By the way, the more I watch CNN, the more I wonder what they will do if anything ever happens to Wolf Blitzer.

Now we are waiting for the name(s) and for the first photo. I heard the photo might be delayed as they forgot to stock up on film and flash bulbs for their Kodak.  Please hurry.

As for names, a person posted on Twitter, “San Francisco news anchor announced the Royal Baby’s names are narrowed down to Holden McGroin, Ben Dover and Phil McCrackin. #RoyalBaby.”

Another Tweet I saw regarding names said, “This is Britain’s chance to outshine the USA by not naming the royal baby after a fruit, plant, or direction.”

Amen to that.

You can check “25 of the funniest tweets reacting to the birth of the Royal Baby” HERE.

By the way, it was a boy! He was born at 4:24 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces.

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