Three Cheers for Miss Savannah Phillips! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

All this talk about Prince William of Wales, brother of Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales, both of them sons of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, son of HRM Queen Elizabeth Second.

If the Queen doesn't die, Charles doesn't get to be King. As long as Charles stays alive, William doesn't get to be King. If William and Kate have sons, poor old Prince Harry gets shoved down the ladder even further.

But that's nothing. How would you like to be The Duke of York, Charles's brother, William's Uncle? Or The Earl of Wessex, Charles's other brother? Or Anne, The Princess Royal, whose mom is Queen but she is currently no better than tenth on the list?

Hah! Tenth! CNN doesn't send Anderson Cooper and Pears Melba to cover tenth place. Even Dr. Sanjay Gupta wouldn't sink that far down the pecking order.

But that's not all. How about

11. Mr. Peter Phillips (b. 1977), son of The Princess Royal
12. Miss Savannah Phillips [2](b. 2010), daughter of Peter Phillips

(And what is that [2] about?)

No matter. The Great Plotnik, realizing that press coverage is hard to come by, is at this moment offering Three Hearty Cheers for Miss Savannah Phillips, age 1, currently twelfth on the list for succession of the British Throne, until William and Kate get at it and knock her down even more. No news agency will pay attention to poor Savannah, who is, after all, named after a city in Georgia.

But we will! (Everyone together now!)

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!