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The father, as i say, of the queen whose real name was albert. yeah, the bookies -- the bookies have made some money. everybody here is absolutely delighted that it didnt take a week like it did for william to be named. a month for prince charles to be named back in 1948. he wasnt officially named until his christening. within 48 hours of this little ones birth theyve got the name out of the way. theyve taken themselves off from kensington palace today to buckleberry, the home of kates parents. ...

Kates uncle harr -- we all thought harry was joking because we said harry is just a joker. harry likes to play tricks on us. he was right. >> the other interesting thing about harry is princess diana only agreed to have him called henry as long as he would be affectionately popularly known as harry, right? >> thats exactly right. she wasnt too keen on the name henry. thats the big name. what we want to know now. what is the name? we know the weight, we know the sex, the time of birth. whats the ...

Are we? >> william will not let them slip. one of the them. so william is saying were still working on it, and were thinking its george or james, but you, becky, think albert? >> im betting on albert. >> let me remind you of one of the other things and i think this is important. remind him of his tininess when he is older because i know how long you have been standing here. now you can go back to normal and we can look after him. he is trying to say its over for the time being, please give us so...

American. americans care a lot about this. for a country that says we dont want a monarchy. >> amazing, right? >> pretty amazing. >> a big story. follow the money. the ratings have been incredible. fox and msnbc doing the political stuff. theyre covering the story. cnn going all in on it. last week they did a show, 10:00 p.m., preempted anderson and put on will and kate plus one. new day, on five minutes. won last week, one day. why? cnn is going all in on the story like they did with human inte...

Queens beloved father goes back centuries, george vii. william can be stubborn. if he knows it is the favorite. long shot. arthur or albert. >> albert would be good. thank you very much to both of you. we appreciate it. >> now as you may have noticed it has been unavoidable for weeks the world has been obsessed with the news of the royal baby. it is an obsession that is not new. its actually more than a century, royal fanatics have awaited the news of the royal birth here in america. yes, here i...

Hatred of the media. he does recent them on some levels. he think they helped drive diana to their death. >> he plays the media. you play the media with big smiles and proud father. >> exactly. a few jokes as the press has been camped outside of the lindo wing for weeks. i can see william coming out jie. it would set him off on a good foot. >> absolutely. >> a new father, here we go. >> they will still beholding the front pages in the uk for as long as we can to get that shot of william. >> i wa...

Stories here in the stories where people, journalists look for something added besides guess what, weve got a baby boy. >> now were looking for whats his name, what didnt we know during the four hours they were able to be have some private time while the media circus was going on, what other details can we find out. >> when you look at the naming, it seems like there was a long pattern in the beginning of the 20th century back and forth, edward, george, edward, george. is there any compelling na...

Imagine, are now concerned about losing benefits that they rely on. albert is the president of michigan council 25 of the federation of state and county and municipal employees. i understand you represent about 3,000 detroit city workers. you are also a detroit native, i understand, mr. garrett. first of all, what have you been telling your members in the wake of what happened last thursday? >> well, essentially what we have said to our members is, number one, that we are going to fight the bank...

Damage and power outages and injuries. i meant new zealand. also belgium king albert abdicated the throne signing over power to his son felipe. those are fast four headlines. lets go to brazil where catholics are awaiting arrival of pop francis, the first international trip since he was appointed. brazil is the largest roman catholic country. good day with that beautiful backdrop. talk about the mood in anticipation of the popes visit tomorrow. >> really depends who you ask. of course theres a g...

Not until she labors and the baby is born. >> exactly. >> will there be watch parties across, it is like the super bowl of babies. >> we will will know when there is a proclamation on an easel in buckingham palace. thats when we know. >> okay. we can tweet each other on that. >> if it breaks in the next 22 minutes or so, we will bring you back. >> okay. >> thank you. >> sea of royalty, this is interesting, belgium has a new king. king phillip, or philipe in this case. the first. now the seventh ...