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Here Are Some Bets You Can Place On the Unborn Royal Baby

Here at Bustle, we recently came up with the brilliant idea of placing bets in the office on when the Royal Baby will be born. According to HuffPo, this is literally the least original betting scheme we could have come up with. People around the world are capitalizing on this baby in truly imaginative ways, and frankly, we're embarrassed at our own banality. Here are the best betting categories we're too boring to have come up with.

by Rachel Reid

Other Than the Obvious Gender, Name, and Birthday Bets

Here at Bustle, we recently came up with the brilliant idea of placing bets in the office on when the Royal Baby will be born. According to HuffPo, this is literally the least original betting scheme we could have come up with. People around the world are capitalizing on this baby in truly imaginative ways, and frankly, we're embarrassed at our own banality. Here are the best betting categories we're too boring to have come up with.

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Which Magazine Will Get the Rights To The First Pictures Of the Baby?

If you aren't already aware, magazines are willing to pay more money than you've probably ever seen for the rights to celebrity baby photos. We cannot even begin to imagine how many millions it will cost to get the rights for the first Royal Baby photos, but if we had to bet, they probably have it over at Vogue.

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Who Will Be Holding The Baby When He/She Exits the Hospital?

Will it be Kate? Will it be William? Will it be a crazed kidnapper? A good gambler always bets on the unexpected — or something like that.

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What TV show or film will the Royal Baby first appear in?

It looks like the frontrunner here is currently Downton Abbey, but we're personally hoping on some sort of fancy Harry Potter reincarnation starring the Royal Baby.

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How Old Will the Baby Be When He/She Is Publicly Intoxicated?

This is a fun one. How old do you think the Royal Baby will be when the paparazzi first catch him or her being drunk in public? More importantly, how do you think this baby is going to feel when he/she realizes that every night he goes out could potentially mean thousands of dollars to some commoner somewhere?

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