Kate and William’s baby will be the first truly classless sovereign Britain has had in more than a thousand years of monarchy.

While the child will be able to count most kings and queens in the nation’s history among its forebears, delightfully lurking in the family tree there’ll also be a working-class ancestor for every blueblood.

It makes, in this new egalitarian age, William’s choice of bride all the more brilliant, for the former Kate Middleton brings a whole raft of colourful relatives to this new royal generation, including the owner of a northern chippy, a stripper — and, of course, the famously cocaine-sniffing Uncle Gary.