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[1] Britain has met the heir who will certainly

change the face of monarchy for ever. Kate

and William’s son enters this world as a Royal

Highness, destined to be king of his country.

[5] Though his mother is a Duchess, the title

........ disguise the fact that there has never

been a royal child quite like Kate’s. For while

William descends from a line of monarchs,

this baby boy’s maternal grandparents once

[10] worked for British Airways and now run their

own company.

This new prince will become the first

British monarch with working-class blood

running through his veins. Monarchy these

[15] days is a precarious business, and increasingly

hard to justify – not only in terms of the funds

taxpayers donate to the Crown, but in a wider

world in which royal families seem ever more

anachronistic. This baby has arrived at a time

[20] of profound social change and evolution –

........ is why I believe a royal child with

middle-class antecedents can provide the

social alchemy that will secure the future of

the House of Windsor.

[25] William and Kate, a modern couple, lived

together quite openly for several years before

their marriage, a sensible decision condoned

by the Queen, which ........ been seen as

unthinkable less than a decade earlier. This

[30] was after prince Charles had moved in with

his divorced former mistress, Camila Parker

Bowles, a situation that would have been

equally unacceptable a few years ago.

All this evidences a rapidly evolving

[35] monarchy. Who would have suspected that

the Queen would have been seen pretending

to parachute into the Olympic stadium with

James Bond? And who ........ predict how far

this process of evolution will have travelled by

[40] the time the new prince reaches the throne?

From the pit to the Palace in three

generations? Surely it is the perfect fairytale

for a nation that grows more middle-class by

the year.

Adaptado de: THORTON, Michael. A very middle class baby who will secure the future of the royal family. Daily Mail. 22 jul 2013. Disponível em: < http://www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374279/Kate-Middletongives-  birth-middle-class-Royal-baby-boy-securemonarchys-future.html>. Acesso em: 06 set. 2013.