A New Prince!

It is the evening of 21 June 1982 - the first day of summer. Newspaper and television reporters near the doors of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, talk quickly into their telephones.

'It's a boy ... Yes! ... Princess Diana has a little boy ... at 9.03 this evening ... England has a new
prince! ... Yes, and mother and child are well ... We're waiting to see Prince Charles ... '

At eleven o'clock that night, Prince Charles - the Prince of Wales - comes out of the hospital. He answers questions from the reporters about his new son.

'He has blue eyes,' Prince Charles says. 'He and his mother are very well. They're coming home tomorrow.'

'What 's his name ?' the reporters want to know.

Prince C harles smiles. 'We don't know,' he says. 'We're thinking about it .'

Charles likes the name Arthur, but Diana does not. She wants William. A week later, the reporters have their answer: William Arthur Philip Louis. His mother 's name for him is 'Wills'.