If, like me, you're helplessly fascinated, what's your prediction on the royal baby's birth?

I say the St. Mary’s Hospital business is a smokescreen and that Duchess Kate has gone home to give birth away from the media spotlight.

Media have been interpreting her withdrawal to her family’s home in Bucklebury as a sign that she isn’t due yet. I say it’s because she is due and intends to give birth there rather than in London. Who wouldn’t want a little P&Q, however it might be gained, for a personal event like that? If she can dodge even just a little bit of the publicity that’s built up around this birth, more power to her.

How could the nation that brought us James Bond not know how to finesse a little clandestine retreat for its future first family?

I wish I knew a bookie.

What do you predict?