--- title: Kate Middleton Pregnant: See William's 1982 Birth Announcment description: The new baby will also be a descendent of Count Dracula's canonical: https://time.com/3303295/royal-baby-1982/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T15:19:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:43.706Z article:section: History og:title: The new royal baby will be descended from Count Dracula. (Really!) og:description: The new baby will also be a descendent of Count Dracula's og:url: https://time.com/3303295/royal-baby-1982/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c5a31f956a6a2f8/6986a252169ab0b55b27b0c9/princewilliam.png?branch=production&width=338&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 338 og:image:height: 190 og:image:alt: TIME, July 5, 1982 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The new royal baby will be descended from Count Dracula. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Prince William & Kate Expecting Baby Number 2! [Watch (HLS stream): Prince William & Kate Expecting Baby Number 2!](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lM45ONs1.m3u8) (1:16)  _Published 2014-09-08. Prince George is going to be a big brother. Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their second child._  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 8, 2014 3:19 PM UTC  From the July 5, 1982, issue of TIME From the July 5, 1982, issue of TIME TIME  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 8, 2014 3:19 PM UTC With Monday’s news that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are[ expecting their second child](http://time.com/3300800/royal-baby-kate-middleton-duke-duchess-cambridge/), it was Royal Baby Fever all over again. But, though big brother Prince George is recent history’s most famous recipient of such fervor, he’s far from the first. When father-to-be Prince William arrived on June 21, 1982, TIME commented that even the most anti-royal publications — like the French Communist paper _L’Humanité_ — were glad to celebrate the news. And TIME was no exception to that rule, as seen in the birth announcement above. The magazine, in its longer story about the news, commented on the as-yet-unnamed baby’s likely nomenclature — “George,” his future heir’s name, was the odds-on favorite; “William” had 5-to-1 odds and “Elvis” was a longshot at 1,000-to-1 — and well-documented lineage. Some history buffs had hoped the baby might be named “Arthur,” after that most famous British king, but pulling a sword from a stone would be unnecessary: --- > “” --- Which means that the new baby will _also_ be a descendant of Count Dracula’s and a relation of Shakespeare’s and George Washington’s. And, with few details about the new baby available yet, it’s also possible that the new baby will be something different, too: a girl. Though royal-baby-watchers in the ’80s got their fill of the lineage of Ulf Sprakalegg, that’s been an element missing from the royal baby mix for six decades, and one that observers even then were eager to see. “The birth of a healthy, wanted baby anywhere in the world is always cause for rejoicing,” wrote a TIME reader in a response to the magazine’s coverage of Prince William’s birth — but something was still missing. “The maudlin delight that the new royal baby in England was male is sickening,” she continued. “England’s greatest decades have always been in the reigns of its Queens.” **_Read the full report on Prince William’s June 21, 1982, birth here, in TIME’s archives:_** [Rejoice! 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