The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first son sets off this film, made before the world knew he would be called George. Journalist Sophie Raworth talks with historians and family friends to place the birth inside centuries of royal tradition, tracing how the arrival of an heir has always doubled as a public event and a preview of a reign decades away. Interviewees walk through the protocols surrounding a royal birth, from the announcements outside Buckingham Palace to the expectations attached to a child who is, from his first hours, second in line to the throne. Raworth also looks at the press pack camped outside the hospital and asks what the media frenzy does to public opinion of the monarchy, weighing genuine national interest against manufactured spectacle. No name is revealed in the film, since none existed yet, so the focus stays on the institution rather than the individual: what the country expects of the person this child will become.