And here’s the royal birth certificate.
I love Will and Kate’s occupations in that.
Perhaps not, but it does have a certain gravitas due to its classical Greek and Roman antecedents. It’s hard to argue with the name of a Goddess.
I have to admit that whole “her royal highness” phrasing brings out my essential inner blue collar background go fuck themselves with their titled bullshit. Thank god I don’t live in the UK where a baby gets called a highness. All we Americans have to contend with are Clintons, Bushes and the Koch brothers. And at least we don’t have to curtsy to them.
Then again my blue collar dad was laughing when he called me as he finally has something in common with Prince Charles: a granddaughter named Charlotte.
She’d best hold onto that if she ever wants to be [del]President[/del] Prime Minister! 
I love the fact that Kate had no need to change her surname. I guess that’s one of the perqs of being royal. 
Does anybody know why Wills’ title is before his given names and Kate’s is after them?
Probably because Kate would lose her titles if she got a divorce, but Wills will always have his.
It’s because Kate is only a princess by marriage, not one in her own right; this is also why she’s not “Princess Catherine”. Her full long form title his Her Royal Highness Princess William, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn and Lady Carrickfergus.
We’re not that far removed from the time when the norm was all married women being known formally by their husbands’ names. There are any number of old forms listing a woman as, say, “Jane Mary, Mrs. Smith” or “Jane Mary, Mrs. Robert Smith” and for social purposes she would have just been listed as Mrs. Robert Smith. Mrs. Jane Mary Smith would have been a divorcée.
As an American, I’d rather contend with royals.
Hmm. Which is worse? Duggars and Kardashians or Kate and Will?