Enjoy today, young prince. It's all downhill from here | Simon Jenkins

The third in line to the throne cannot expect to enjoy the slightest privacy. The media drones are already overhead

In the Charles Addams cartoon, the ghoulish father outside the maternity ward looks up as the door opens. "Congratulations," says the nurse, "it's a baby." The world's media went beyond parody this week as they waited at the Lindo wing of St Mary's hospital in London. The globalised suspense seemed synthetic. What did they expect the woman to produce, a gorilla?

"The news is that...