The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby son is the heaviest future king to be born in recent history.The as-yet-unnamed boy weighed a hefty 8lb 6oz when he was safely delivered. His father William weighed 7lb 1.5oz when he arrived in 1982, while his grandfather the Prince of Wales weighed 7lb 6oz when he was born in 1948.The Queen was born by Caesarean section in her maternal grandparents’ London home in April 1926. At the time, she was third in line to the throne, but her weight was not announced.The average weight of a baby born close to its due date is around 8lb 2.5oz (3.7 kilograms), but Kate was overdue. Judith Rowbotham, a social historian at Nottingham Trent University, said that in the past, birth weights of monarchs were not revealed. The newest member of the Royal Family, however, will have the details of his arrival pored over by a worldwide audience.
