27 DECEMBER 1902, Page 3

On Saturday last the Princess of Wales gave birth to

a son, and we are glad to say that all the bulletins have been favour- able as regards both mother and child. The children of the Prince of Wales are always specially interesting to the nation, since they alone of Royal Princes in modern times can claim that both parents are "native born," and that their nursery language on both sides is English. The British people will not like them the less for that, though many Princesses of foreign birth have been, like the present Queen, as much loved and respected as if they were of British parentage, and though the King's father became thoroughly British in feeling, and was in his later years never regarded as a foreigner.