TV viewers watching the first public appearance of the newborn Prince of Cambridge would be forgiven for thinking there was no order to the media frenzy that greeted the royal nipper outside St Mary's hospital on Tuesday night. Kensington Palace had told broadcasters they would have to decide among themselves who got to ask the first question of the duke and duchess. So that's what they did – with the age-old score settler, the coin toss. Tim Ewart, the ITV News royal man, won the flip, beating his Sky News rival Paul Harrison. Ewart went on to ask Wills the question that prompted his headline-making reply: "He's got a good pair of lungs on him, that's for sure." Sky's Harrison, meanwhile, put his question to the duchess before tweeting: "I was delighted to get the first question to Kate." Deference is alive and well on the media frontline.
