Posted May 3, 2015 9:06 pm by Comments

By Gregory Smith

In gun-hating England, they’re marking the birth of the blue blood baby with a royal gun salute.

Royal gun salutes will be fired today to mark the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby princess.

The deafening volleys will ring out across the capital this afternoon in celebration of William and Kate’s second child who was born on Saturday at 8.34am, weighing 8lbs 3oz.

In Hyde Park at 2pm, 41 volleys will be fired by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery.

At the same time the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) will fire a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London – an extra 21 for the City of London.

The soldiers, horses and guns of the King’s Troop will ride out in procession from their forward mounting base in Wellington Barracks through London and to the north of Hyde Park to fire the volleys.

They will be accompanied by music from the Royal Artillery Band and their 71 horses will pull six First World War-era Ordnance Quick Fire 13-pounder field guns.

The HAC will leave their barracks at Armoury House pulling three Ceremonial 105mm Light Guns with their liveried Pinzgauer vehicles and drive through the City with an escort to the Tower of …read more

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