From Kate spotted buying pink baby clothes to her cravings for sweets, the bets are placed and the world is expecting the next heir to the royal throne to be a girl. Adding fire: Oxford interior design company Annie Sloan delivered three girly paint samples to the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the duke and expectant duchess live.

"The colours ferried to the household are understood to be Henrietta, a 'beautiful rich complex pink with a hint of lilac'; Antoinette, a 'soft pale pink with a hint of brown' that is redolent of 'old-fashioned roses and the colour of old plaster'; and Emile, a 'warm soft aubergine colour with pink red undertones,'" the Daily Mail reported.

According to the International Business Times, the paint reportedly costs a king's ransom - one liter for £18.95 ($28).