Who could the royal baby share their birthday with?
The newest addition to the Windsors is looking set to be a Bank Holiday royal baby and share their birthday with Hollywood actor George Clooney.
Buckingham Palace said an announcement will made be soon, after the Duchess of Sussex went into labour on Monday morning.
Celebrity birthdays on May 6 – the early May bank holiday this year – include the Sussexes’s friend Clooney, now 58, who has holidayed with them and attended their wedding last year.
Other famous May 6 birthdays include former prime minister Tony Blair, rock singer Bob Seger, author Jeffery Deaver, former footballer and manager Graeme Souness, actress Leslie Hope, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett, and American actress Gabourey Sidibe.
Royal anniversaries the baby has already missed include Prince Louis’ first birthday on April 23, the Queen’s 93rd birthday on April 21 and Princess Charlotte’s fourth birthday on May 2.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share three new photographsof Princess Charlotte ahead of her fourth birthday tomorrow.
The photographs were taken in April by The Duchess at Kensington Palace and attheir home in Norfolk. pic.twitter.com/skf95Z44EZ
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) May 1, 2019
The baby, who will be seventh in line to the throne, was always expected to arrive before Harry and Meghan’s first wedding anniversary on May 19, with the duchess saying her due date was end of April or early May.
Meghan is thought to be several days overdue, amid speculation she might have been induced.
Harry’s trip to Amsterdam on Wednesday May 8 has already been cancelled.
But Buckingham Palace said on Friday his planned trip to the Hague for the launch of the Invictus Games 2020 on Thursday May 9 would still go ahead.
If the duke does carry on with the trip, it would mean leaving behind new mother Meghan and their baby, who would only be two or three days old.
The baby’s grandfather the Prince of Wales is beginning a four-day official visit to Germany with the Duchess of Cornwall on Tuesday May 7.
The youngster’s star sign will be a Taurus, and the birth stone for May is an Emerald.
May 6 anniversaries include the wedding anniversary of the Queen’s late sister Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, who became the Earl of Snowdon, who wed in Westminster Abbey in 1960.
The pair divorced in 1978.
In 1840, the first postage stamp – the Penny Black – was issued by the Post Office for use and in 1851 American inventor Linus Yale patented the lock which bears his name.
On May 6 1937, the German airship Hindenburg exploded at its moorings in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people aboard.
In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, in three minutes 59.4 seconds.
In 1966, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors murderers, were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 1994, the Queen and France’s then President Francois Mitterrand opened the Channel Tunnel, and Nelson Mandela and the ANC were confirmed as the winners in South Africa’s first post-apartheid election.
In 1997, the Bank of England was given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank’s 300-year history.
It is also the anniversary of the birth of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud in 1856, and of Italian silent screen heartthrob Rudolph Valentino in 1895.
