By George! Royal baby is named

The little prince has a name! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced that he will be called George Alexander Louis.

The baby will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge

The little prince has got a name! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced that he will be called George Alexander Louis.

First pictures of the vehicles carrying the Royal baby and his parents arriving in Bucklebury.

WIlliam and Kate, along with the new arrival, leave Kensington Palace on their way to the Middleton family home in Bucklebury.

William and Kate have arrived home in Bucklebury with their new son. More shortly.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have left Kensington Palace with their newborn son. It is unclear at this stage where the royal couple and the prince are travelling to.

The Royal baby wasn't the only special delivery today, hospitals across the region were celebrating new arrivals.

At the Queen Alexandra, in Portsmouth, they gave special gifts to babies that shared their birthday with the Royal Prince. This from Mel Bloor who meets new mothers Terry Hayter and Yasmin Khan and Debbie Parkinson of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

More than 18,000 people a minute tweeted about the royal baby as he made his first public appearance this evening, Twitter said.

The figure was short of peak of 25,300 tweets per minute which mentioned the baby last night after the birth was announced.

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