According to the official Prince of Wales website, Camilla will be known as HRH The Princess Consort when Charles becomes king.
They got together when they were undergraduates at St. Andrews. There was some sort of agreement with the hounds of the British press that Prince William would be left alone while he was there. As far as I can tell, they’ve pretty much lived together since then*, with a few months of split-up in their mid-twenties. That strikes me as a pretty normal relationship, particularly by British royalty standards.
- for whatever value of “living together” you care to assign to the arrangements made by people at that level of wealth and privilege
I would consider it a reason not to do that. It’s hard enough being the father of a young child without worrying that you’re a heartbeat away from the throne at all times.
How about Austerity for a girl…?
It sounds very pretty in French or in Spanish… su majestad, Estrella de Suecia (Star of Sweden).
You’ve got that backwards -as a father of C-section twins. The C-Section traditionally is done very low on the belly, so whichever twin is closer to the bottom is going to come out first. So for ours, girl was on the bottom, girl was out first.
Huh. I did not know that. Still a long way from being a Regent, of course.
Bollocks. We beat your sorry arses in 1745 so you do as you’re told. Or else become independent and have sod-all say in the nomenclature of foreign monarchs. 
Will Camilla be the first ever princess consort? IIRC, others have been queen consorts.
Canada might be problematic. It could be as simple as passing an act of Parliament, or it could require a constitutional amendment (which means unanimous consent by the provinces). Quebec could hold things up for the entire Commonwealth. My WAG is that Harper will send a reference to the Supreme Court.
She can herself whatever she wants (with her husband’s permission), but barring an act of Parliament to the contrary she’ll legally & automatically become the queen. The king can’t use the royal prerogative to prevent that. George IV found that out much to his displeasure. He couldn’t stop his enstranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick, from becoming Queen. All he could do was deny her an allowance & bar for from the coronation; he needed to start divorce proceeding in the House of Lords to strip her of her title.
Well, all it would have to do is to make smiley faces and wave a hand around. Probably most infants could do that.
Or Sharon or Tracy or Kylie.
Right on, pal! 
But the QE2 was quite a good big boat, I suppose. And I had a sneaky unofficial day off to see it launched, so that was good.
How about because female fertility starts to fall after the mid-20’s (yes, really it does) and any women for whom bearing children is a high priority would do well to get serious about it by 30 at the latest. Kate is 30, correct? Waiting “a few years” would put her darn close to 35, which is an age where the risks for childbearing go up and fertility really starts to go down.
Since we are in tasteless speculation already, what happens if the little bundle of joy has, say, Downs? Has any thought been given to that sort of thing?
Let’s cut the crap - do we get an extra bank holiday out of this or not?
We had one this year, I think we had one last year, and if we get one next year I am hoping that it will cement the notion of a “royal something-or-other” bank holiday to be held every year for reasons that no one can quite remember.
Regarding the question of whether a future brother would outrank her if this child turns out to be a girl, BBC TV keeps reporting that it is, in fact, already a done deal that the law has been changed and this little one will be the future monarch regardless of gender and regardless of any future siblings. You’d think they’d know.
Well, you would think they should know, but now they’re backtracking a bit. Maybe I misunderstood before – and I don’t think I did – but suddenly they’re saying the expectant couple are now being assured the law will be pushed through very, very soon. Either way, it’s certain the child will be a future monarch.
I’ve been following the BBC and didn’t see any reports about the law having already passed - in the UK, we all know it hasn’t, just that it’s in the pipeline.
I probably just misunderstood. But they made it clear this last time that it’s about to be passed pronto.