Kate Middleton Baby Birth Announcement: How Royals Will Reveal the News

A simple tweet just won't do for the royal baby. When Kate Middleton and Prince William welcome their first child -- whose due date is July 11 -- the royal couple plan to first drop the big news to the world in very old fashioned style. A St. James Palace aide tells Us Weekly that, with much pomp and circumstance, a framed announcement will be placed on a wood and gold easel just behind the gates of Buckingham Palace shortly after the baby arrives. (The same wooden easel was last used for William's 1982 birth; the Prince turns 31 this Friday, June 21.) More »