Bookmakers Ladbrokes, which had Charlotte as 3/1 favourite, said: "Charlotte was the hot tip over the weekend and royal watchers up and down the land are quids in.
But for market watchers it's not what the Watch can do for Apple but what Apple can do for everyone else.
In their introduction to the memoirs, the economists Graham Hacche and Christopher Taylor, who worked for Dow, note that "the main worries for UK watchers when Dow entered the Bank were slower trend productivity growth than in other major economies, persistent balance of payment problems, and an upward trend in inflation".
She advertises Weight Watchers and an investment firm - she is actually rather good in that commercial - and when she appears on a chat show, usually to promote a charity she is involved in, she is treated with much greater civility and friendliness than she would be in Britain.
Scottish Premier League first-day watchers would have learned nothing they did not already know.
While Allen, 79, seemed more than a little bemused, stating laconically "I don't know how I got into this – I have no ideas and I'm not sure where to begin", industry watchers hailed it as another coup for a company that started commissioning original television programming only in 2013.
It is the first patent challenge faced by the company, which has been criticised for its mimicry of rival products, and is described as "China's Apple" by industry watchers.
But some watchers might question the wisdom of that 2C guardrail, given the kind of extreme weather events being delivered now after only 1C of global warming.
A more assertive presence in the East China Sea? Previews of the answers Clinton might give on the campaign trail suggest a leader who is more hawkish than Obama – possibly much more hawkish, foreign-policy watchers say – but who may be guided by a preference for alliance-based negotiations of the kind that informed her husband's presidency.
At one time or another she has been the voice of Anglian Water, Sunny Delight, Lunn Poly, Whiskas, Sylvanian Families, Weight Watchers and Pampers.
Who watches the watchers?
