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Bucklebury celebrates the royal baby birth





The Prince of Cambridge was born at 4.24pm yesterday (Monday) weighing 8Ibs, 6ozs and mother and baby are "both doing well," Kensington Palace says.
The village has again been at the centre of an international media storm in recent weeks as the anticipation of the royal baby's arrival reached fever pitch.
The landlord of the Cottage Inn, Gary Bush, told Newburytoday.co.uk last night: “I’m a little bit shell shocked. We have waited and waited and today we were on tenterhooks all day.
“We are over the moon. It’s the King of England – from Bucklebury. That’s what we have got to remember. From this tiny village we have got the next King.”
And the owner of L Interiors, Lynda Tillotson, who has created special mugs to mark the royal birth, said that the village would be celebrating the news.
“We won’t just have one [bottle of champagne] – we will have a few. There will be a bucket of champagne in here to toast it.
“The few of us businesses in Bucklebury, there won’t be be one in Bucklebury who won’t have a bottle in store – or 10.”
Celebrations were also underway at the Old Boot Inn at nearby Stanford Dingley.
The owner, John Haley, said: "It's just amazing. When the news broke the press were here and it just went crazy.
"We have opened at least two dozen bottles of champagne and we have had a lot of friends from Stanford Dingley.
"Everyone is just over the moon with the news."
The Prince of Cambridge will be third in line to the throne and his birth represents the first time since Queen Victoria that three generations of successive royals have been alive at the same time.



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