Queen jokes that royal baby should hurry up as she is going on holiday Britain's Queen Elizabeth II tells children that be it a boy or girl, she just wants the baby of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to arrive before her holiday. The Queen has a holiday planned so she'd be pleased if William and Catherine's baby was born soon. IF there was any doubt the Queen was not in touch with her people she dispelled it by saying what everyone in the UK has been thinking  she wished her grand-daughter Kate would hurry up and have THAT baby. The Queen was on a visit to the Lakes District when 10-year-old school girl Fay Batey, through her teacher, asked if it was okay if she asked her Majesty something. Her Majesty and her minders warily agreed and then the school girl asked the question the world press hasn't managed to ask, whether she wanted it to be a baby boy or girl. "I don't think I mind but I very much like it to arrive, I'm going on holidays soon so I would like the baby to hurry up and arrive," the 87-year-old monarch mused to the delight of the crowd that had gathered. The Queen, who was accompanied on the official tour of the Cumbria district by her daughter Princess Anne, expects to start her official summer break in Balmoral in Scotland in nine days time. The duchess of Cambridge is believed to be between three and five days late although the palace has never given the official due date. That has not stopped hundreds of press corp gathering since July 1 outside the entrance to the private Lindo Wing of the public St Mary's Hospital in Paddington in central London where Kate is expected to arrive anytime now. Kensington Palace is expected to make an announcement only once Kate goes into labour and then again only when the baby is born. The would-be young scoop journalist Fay said she was nervous, but had talked on the journey down with her family and school the sort of question she could ask the Queen and she said she chose the one everyone wanted to know. "When I saw the Queen approaching I felt excited, but a bit nervous," she said. She was really pretty. I thought the Queen's reply was a good one after all she wouldn't want to have a baby while she was on holiday. Meanwhile, Kate's uncle Gary Goldsmith has predicted the royal couple will have a baby girl. He cites the number of women on his side of the family for his prediction. The younger brother of Kate's mother Carole Middleton said he had already chosen the present for the baby but refused to divulge what it was but clearly it is generic with no one knowing the sex of the baby including its parents. "I do think it's going to be a girl, but that may be wishful thinking but nobody knows for definite," he said today. It's a gut feeling. On my side of the family there are a lot of girls. William's step-mother Camilla, the second wife of his father Prince Charles, said on Monday that she hoped the baby would be born by the end of this week. "We are all just waiting by the telephone," she told an audience in Cornwall, southwest England. An impending change in the law would mean that for the first time in history, if the baby is a girl she could not be overtaken in the line of succession by any younger brothers. with wires