Royal Baby: Are Americans More Excited Than Brits Over Meghan And Harry's Son?

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While news of the royal baby swept the nation yesterday – much to the excitement of Brits – we weren’t the only country going gaga over the new arrival.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son is the first British royal baby to be born to an American, so you can imagine the hype. Brits’ excitement about the birth has peaked over the past few weeks – but did the US top it?

One tea room in California, where Meghan apparently once had a cuppa, celebrated by putting life size cut-outs of the royals in their garden, standing behind a pushchair. And a cafe in New York did the same.

The sign at @TeaAndSympathy says it all. Americans and Brits alike excited by the news, and say the Duke and Duchess of #Sussex are bringing the #royals into the modern era. #RoyalBaby #BabySussex #1010WINS pic.twitter.com/LgH8NSLPg7
— Samantha Liebman (@SamiLiebman) May 6, 2019

Just look how an American news channel broke the news...

Take a look at how our American colleagues broke the #royalbaby news! 😳😂
You'll want your sound on for this! pic.twitter.com/9Rs5zFOevw
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) April 24, 2018

By the looks of Twitter, others US news outlets and royal fans were just as happy about the arrival.

AMERICAN NEWS IS GOING BANANAS 🍌 #royalbaby pic.twitter.com/JjumWDGMyV
— Natalie Ferris (@ResidntPheasant) May 6, 2019

ROYAL BABY ‘EXCLUSIVE’: The Baby Boy of Sussex is born! The first biracial, half American British royal is 7th in line for the throne, and we have an ‘exclusive’ look! pic.twitter.com/4a6E9DHmJu
— ABC World News Now (@abcWNN) May 7, 2019

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On the news this morning they called the new baby an American British Royal
Pretty Cool actually https://t.co/DkHPTW8iAX
— Wendy A Williams (@Mellowone61) May 6, 2019

Pretty exciting news being that this baby boy is the first American and bi-racial to be born into the royal family! Love that. 💙 https://t.co/boYcpslkdl
— ᴋʀɪꜱᴛᴇɴ ᴍᴜɴɢᴇʀ (@kiki_munger) May 6, 2019

Americans: fuck the British! we’re making our own country! no taxation without representation! tea goes in the harbor! kettle? no thanks, just microwaved water for me!

also Americans: royal baby uwu
— Hangry Of Mayfair (@why_in_the_heck) May 6, 2019

I love how obsessed some Americans are with the royal baby it’s cute
— Vicky 🌻 (@lifeasaswiftie_) May 6, 2019

And some people weren’t into it (this is Twitter, after all).

Why do American News outlets feel it necessary to tell me an American about a foreign baby in the U.K.? Why should that even be important to me or anybody else for that matter? #royalbaby #idontcare
— realBlackPrototype (@BIackPrototype) May 6, 2019

American Woman on Sky News saying she feels 'connected' to the Royal baby as it will have an American passport.

The world is full of fucking freaks.
— Chris (@ChrisTenerife) May 6, 2019

I wish people cared as much about getting better healthcare or figuring out how to end the slaughter of Americans by guns as they do about the Royal Baby.
— Kelly Roberts (@KellyKKRoberts) May 6, 2019

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