Birth of a future King

I had planned to right on something entirely different in this post, but given what happened this week, there is only one topic that I really find appropriate to discuss this week and that of course refers to what is now the world's most famous newborn, His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge the eldest son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. First and foremost let me begin be sending my heartiest congratulations to the Duke and Duchess on the birth of their child, words cannot express how glad it is to see that she had a safe delivery, both mother and child are doing well and most happily of all it's a Boy which is exactly as I had predicted in an earlier post (see http://jamaicatory.blogspot.com/2012/12/royal-baby-and-succession-rules_4.html) .

                                  

While the world seems to celebrating the royal birth I'm sure there are still many whom are fuming that they did not get their wish after all they were praying that she would have a girl just so they could prove a point, hoping to toss out the old rules of succession in order to facilitate their notion of equal primogeniture but now fate has decided to give them a slap in the face they must feel like idiots to know that all their meddling and politicking was for nothing, serves them right, for my part I couldn't be more pleased  and feel no qualms about gloating, well done to the new Cambridge family.

                         
Of course one would have thought that by now politicians would have learnt their lesson about meddling in the monarchy but unfortunately this is not so, just two days after the birth of Prince George, some MPs in our local parliament while congratulating the royal family on their new addition also used the same occasion to reiterate their pro-republican stance by saying that Jamaica should become a republic at least by the time George becomes king, something that might very well not happen until the late 21st century,  while all this going on, Scottish separatist did not even bother with the courtesy of congratulating the Duke and Duchess but rather made clear in no uncertain terms that if their plans to have Scotland leave the United Kingdom should succeed (which I doubt) then they will see to it that young Prince George never becomes King of Scots, even now the birth of the royal prince is still used as a front by politicians to put forward their agenda, it's disgusting that the birth of a newborn is once again used as a political football to for advance one's own mantra, it's like the equal primogeniture debate all over again even while he was still in  the womb, the arrival of the royal baby was used as a tool by politicians in a sorry attempt to make a name for himself, first equal primogeniture and now this, when will these people get it through their heads, lay off the royal family I'm sure that national leaders in Commonwealth realms have more pressing matters at this time.
                                                
With the exception of the UK, no other Parliament in the Commonwealth have passed the succession to the Crown bill in their own parliament although they all promised to do so in time for the arrival of the newborn royal when they met in Perth in 2011, although some have started to the debate, the birth of a son rather than a daughter has surely meant that these plans are now stalled, as are plans to remove the ban on Catholics (or persons married to a Catholic) from ever ascending the throne, a real victory in my opinion, only late last week some pundits were even question whether or not the line of succession would be split between the realms if all of them could not get their act together in time, but with all that speculating and everything else that has been going on, turns out there is no longer any need for it.

                                   
The birth of Prince George now means that the male line of succession is well secure for at least three generations, a feat that had not been accomplished since the time of Queen Victoria, well done to Duke and Duchess, I'm truly glad for the new addition to their family, seeing that newborn being presented to the whole world for the first time nestled  in the loving arms of his parents was a truly beautiful sight to behold, it only goes to show that my instincts were correct all along and I'm glad that things turned out the way it did.