As choppers circle overhead and reporters and photographers surrounded the hospital tweet from their phones, it's clear that this was thoroughly modern royal baby birth. It was announced on Monday via press release that the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a boy who weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces.
Still, traditional elements remained: That easel where the announcement was placed was the same one used for Prince William's birth in 1982, for example. Royal experts Camilla Tominey and Robert Jobson shared more ways this baby is ushering in a "new era" for the British monarchy:
Princess Diana, the original modern royal mom, wanted her kids' lives to be as normal as possible, opting to give birth at at St. Mary's Hospital instead of at Kensington Palace and sending him to a regular school. Watch below for more ways the people's princess set the scene:
