Car seat royals

Princess Madeleine kept to tradition to announce the birth of her baby girl but the royal Facebook fan was back to social media for the first photo of her daughter.  As the princess and her husband, Chris O'Neill, took their baby home the posted a picture on Facebook of the proud family complete with Sweden's newest royal safely tucked up in her car seat.

Baby makes three - two princesses and a proud daddy on their way home from hospital in New York

The photo is reminiscent of the famous first photo of future queen, Estelle, who was shown to the world for the first time bundled up in her car seat on her way home from hospital in February 2012.

Royal trendsetters - Victoria and Daniel of Sweden started the wave of baby princes and princesses in car seats when they took Estelle home from hospital in February 2012

And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also showed Prince George off in his car seat when they left hospital with him in July 2013.  After posing for photographers, Kate got into the car and left the new daddy to make sure the baby carrier was safely locked in place.  William managed it first time - much to his relief.

Have baby, will travel - two future kings get ready for one of the trickiest parts of bringing baby home from hospital, getting the car seat locked in place

As safety regulations increase, it's increasingly likely that we'll see more royal babies for the first time tucked up in their car seats.  And it's always one instance where the pressure is off the royal yummy mummies - fitting that carrier in place is definitely a daddy duty, however regal that daddy might be.