Prince William and Kate Middleton gave birth to a baby boy named George, also known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. In an article for The Atlantic Owen Strachen notes that the unborn "royal baby" was never called the "royal fetus." Major media outlets usually prefer the not-quite-human state of being a fetus.

Strachen writes, "No, over and over again, one after another, from the top of the media food chain to the bottom, Kate's 'fetus' was called, simply and pre-committedly, a baby. Why was this? Because, as I see it, the royal baby was a baby before birth. The media was right; gloriously, happily right. Like all babies-in-womb, in the months before Kate gave birth, the royal heir was spinning around …. getting hungry, becoming sad and even agitated when voices were raised in marital conflict, sleeping, sucking its thumb, enjoying certain kinds of music, waking mom up in the night in order to do more spinning around/kicking, and eating hungrily what mom ate."