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| No...That's not really the Queen! |
If you’ve ever been to our SUPER BOWL
PARTY, you know that we here at the DUNER BLOG love to wager. We bet on everything. We wager on the coin toss, the first TV
commercial…heck, we even bet on which songs Beyoncé will sing at halftime. (Bootylicious paid at 20-1!). So it comes as no surprise we are all caught
up in the frenzy engulfing Britain these days: Bets about the new royal
baby have totaled over a million pounds so far. Although we failed miserably
predicting the name of the new Kanye / Kardashian tot, (North West? Really?!?), here we are...at it again!
GENDER: OUR PREDICTION: GIRL. Apparently no one knows the gender of the
Royal Baby. However, all of England
seems convinced it will be a girl. Why? See…at an event in March…a fan in the crowd
gave Kate a white teddy bear. To which
she replied: “Thanks, I’ll give it to my daught…” before cutting herself
off. While this may seem like
speculative evidence to the rest of the world, to gamblers this is
interpreted as fact. We here at the
DUNER BLOG agree: The Royal Baby will be a female.
NAME: OUR PREDICTION: VICTORIA (7-1). Ladbroke’s fifth favorite name, following
Alexandra (3/1), Elizabeth (5/1), Diana
& Charlotte (6/1). The
favored choice is Queen Elizabeth II’s middle name. Otherwise, only Scottish King Alexanders have
graced the throne, so we’ll remove this one.
Next up: Elizabeth & Diana. We will toss these two out, simply because they are too
obvious. Charlotte is intriguing: It’s
Pippa’s middle name and King George III’s wife’s name…but we feel it’s too pompous for
today’s monarch. We like Victoria. As mentioned in an early blog (JUNE 7. LIST OF
LONGEST REIGNING MONARCHS) every continent has something named after Queen
Victoria. Cities, waterfalls, straits,
mounts, peaks…everywhere she goes, she’ll see her name.
HAIR COLOR: OUR PREDICTION: BROWN (3-1). This wager comes down to simple genetics:
Both parents have brown hair. However,
if you dream of a blond-haired, blue-eyed prince that will charm the world,
the odds are 5-1.
BIRTHDATE: OUR PREDICTION: JULY 17
(9-1). We recommend avoiding this bet. The announced due date is Saturday, but for
some reason, that date has fallen to 20-1.
Will Kate be late?
SUCKER BETS: The British have a national penchant
for gambling, surpassed only by the Chinese.
Hence, there are a plethora of silly, sucker bets that we here at the
DUNER BLOG suggest you avoid. For
example, Harry Potter fans who want the baby named Hermione get 100-1 odds. If you
want to guess which tabloid will get the rights to the baby’s first photos,
take the favorite, OK! Magazine, at 3-1.
It’s 50-1 that the baby will appear on Downton Abbey, and 100-1 it will be
on X-Factor with Simon Cowell.
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| Computer generated Royal babies. |
SAFE BET: We can’t wait for a healthy, happy baby! We love you, Kate!
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