THE fertility of the Royal Family has never been much in doubt. This has been confirmed by the announcement about a child to be born to Harry and Meghan ("Five months after their wedding, Duke and Duchess reveal baby is on way", The Herald, October 16). The background noise one can hear now is of many members of the Royal Family getting ready to move down a place in the line leading to the throne.

I am not looking forward to the media frenzy ensuing from now until after the birth. It may be a forlorn hope to look for a sense of perspective that this child, which I wish well, will be no more viewed as precious to and loved by its parents and family than the many children born to parents in more humble circumstances all over the country. I have referred already to a hope of a forlorn nature. Is it another one that Prince Harry will do a Princess Anne and not seek that his children are dubbed with titles of one kind or another?

Ian W Thomson,

38 Kirkintilloch Road, Lenzie.