WOMEN’S Institute members wet the royal baby’s head with a good old fashioned cup of tea yesterday.
Royalist Anita Atkinson and Redworth WI also enjoyed a traditional afternoon tea while speculating what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would call their third child, a little boy born on Monday.
“Arthur is definitely the most popular choice but one lady really wants him to be called Philip,” said Mrs Atkinson, who has one of the largest collections of royal memorabilia in the world.
“I think it might be Albert but we will have to wait and see.”
The event took place in Mrs Atkinson’s royal museum, located in a converted barn in her farm in Fir Tree, near Crook.
It was originally planned as a screening of a film by Mrs Atkinson’s daughter, Ruth, about German prisoners of war at Windlestone Hall, near Rushyford.
However, with the birth taking place the day before, the newspaper editor thought it would be the perfect opportunity to celebrate that too.
Cardboard cut outs of William and Kate were set up next to a pram outside the museum, and guests tucked into a selection of sandwiches and homemade cakes, baked by Mrs Atkinson with help from her two-year-old granddaughter, Imogen.
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