Royal Baby: 'Breaking - Kate Middleton MAY be in birth' for the umpteenth time as convoy watch reaches media peak

No escorted car or traffic cone will be left un-tweeted about

Royal supporters stand outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's hospital in central London where the Duchess of Cambridge will give birth. The world's media started counting down to the arrival of Britain's royal baby when a press pen was erected outside the h

First, there was the police escorted convoy outside the Middleton family home.

Then another random fleet of cars travelling through London, also with a potential tell-tale police escort.

A couple of bears on a truck outside the Lindo Wing. And then there were the traffic cones. YES, THE SPECULATIVE TRAFFIC CONES.

It’s fair to say we in the media have reached ‘peak royal baby’. And can confirm that, according to Kensington Palace, there is still “nothing to report” by way of the spare heir’s arrival. When there is news, they said, they’ll let us know.

But that information hasn’t prevented parody from prevailing. Here are some of our favourite tweets thus far on the exciting news that the royal baby isn’t being born yet:

Of course, all this was spurred by eager gamblers, who forced bookies to suspend betting following an influx of guesses that the baby would be born on 1 May.

That’s May Day, also known as Labour Day, which is traditionally marked by anti-capitalist and anti-war protests against public sector cuts.