Queen Elizabeth II, it seems, is just as impatient as her subjects for the royal baby to arrive this week—because she is going on holiday. “I would very much like it to arrive. I’m going on holiday soon. No sign yet,” the 87-year-old said in a light-hearted exchange with children, during a visit to the Lake District national park in northwest
England. Asked by a youngster if she wanted the first child of her grandson Prince William and his wife Catherine to be a boy or a girl, she replied: “I don’t think I mind!”