The 10 best fictional royal babies

Viv Groskop is a writer, broadcaster and stand-up comedian.

With the latest spawn of the British royals lurking just over the horizon, Groskop came up with the ten best fictional royal babies for the Guardian, including:

Perdita
The Winter’s Tale

There are not many babies in Shakespeare. But the mainstay of the plot of The Winter’s Tale is the pleading of a pregnant woman for one king to stay a while longer… King Leontes of Sicilia begs his childhood friend King Polixenes of Bohemia to extend his stay in Sicilia. When Leontes’s pregnant wife, Hermione, also starts lobbying for her husband’s best friend to stick around, Leontes starts to believe that Polixenes and Hermione are having an affair – and his wife may even be carrying his best friend’s child. Polixenes flees and Hermione gives birth to a girl, Perdita, in prison.

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