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Denmark has a new favourite son, so to speak - Crownprincess Mary gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday night, and as you can imagine, this has caused much excitement in Denmark. All the buses around town are now sporting red and white Danish flags, and the newspapers seem to be printing five editions every day. The tabloids got thrown by it a bit actually, because it all happened in the middle of the night - BT's headline on Saturday morning was "Drama with Mary's baby", saying that she had been rushed to hospitel. Ekstra Bladet, sitting right next to it then had two versions, the second saying that everything is ok. And then next to that, was yet another version of BT, saying that it was all good too!

They haven't announced a name yet, but the tradition says that he will probably be either Christian or Frederik - all of the kings since the 13th Century have alternately been called Christian or Frederick, with the exception of course of the current queen, Margarete II. I think that he'll probably be called Christian, as his father is Frederick. So yes, much excitement in the state of Denmark.