# so how long before we see a picture of the royal baby? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244 "2013-07-22T20:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/1 "2013-07-22T20:13:35Z")
And how much will they pay for it? ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/2 "2013-07-22T22:43:28Z")
A day or two. Royals leaving hospitals with new babies do the equivalent of a perp walk from the door to the car. Really sporting royals hold the baby in a way that allows the photographers to get a clear shot of the little one’s face. Really sporting babies will look as cute as possible (piece of cake!), or at least not cry (how would you feel facing that mob?). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/3 "2013-07-23T02:21:35Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![RickG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickg/32/5174_2.png) [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/4 "2013-07-23T04:04:06Z")
It’s bad luck to photograph a baby boy before the _bris_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/5 "2013-07-23T06:24:30Z")
They’ve posted some photos of the boy who will be King over on the Onion. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/6 "2013-07-23T10:18:33Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > And how much will they pay for it? You mean the press? Have you [seen the banks of photographers outside the hospital](http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/reporters-and-photographers-gather-outside-st-marys-news-photo/174227523)? No one’s getting an exclusive on that one. Also, the Royals don’t sell photographs, that’s for c-listers. ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/7 "2013-07-23T18:28:57Z")
Here ya go: [The Telegraph US - Breaking news, opinion & analysis](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02625/duchess_royal_baby_2625565b.jpg) (close-up) [http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/23/article-2374931-1AF5726F000005DC-957\_964x451.jpg](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/23/article-2374931-1AF5726F000005DC-957_964x451.jpg) (wider shot) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/8 "2013-07-23T18:33:53Z")
[The Onion](http://www.theonion.com/articles/royal-baby-born,33171/), of course, got the scoop on this one. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-long-before-we-see-a-picture-of-the-royal-baby/664244/9 "2013-07-23T18:34:48Z")
I presume the OP means how much a news org “pays” the pap becasue the Royals aren’t going start charging any time soon.