The wait for the most anticipated arrival of the year continues to lengthen and even the Queen’s patience is wearing thin in the wait for the royal baby.
On a visit to Cumbria, the Queen revealed today that, like the rest of the world, she hopes her great-grandchild will arrive soon, because she is “going on holiday”.
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Speaking to a little girl in the crowd, the monarch revealed her reasons for a prompt arrival of the first child of her grandson Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge.
“I would very much like it to arrive because I’m going on holiday soon!” she said.
The Queen is scheduled to take her annual summer break in Balmoral at the end of next week, giving the Duchess a deadline to give birth within the next eight days.
Her Majesty didn’t reveal any inside details about Kate’s imminent delivery, saying there was “no sign yet” that the baby was about to arrive, but expressed she had no preference to welcome a new great-grandson or daughter.
“I don’t think I mind,” she said when asked if she was hoping for a boy or girl.
The Duchess of Cornwall expressed similar hopes for the royal baby’s arrival earlier in the week, telling wellwishers at a celebration for her 66th birthday the royal family were “waiting at the end of a telephone”.
Camilla said she hoped the newest addition for the royal family would arrive “by the end of the week”.
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Media packed outside St Mary’s hospital in Paddington have been waiting for signs Kate was going into labour for almost three weeks now, setting up camp outside the Lindo Wing, where the baby is to be born, since the beginning of the month.
The rumoured due date of July 13 passed without any signs of the new baby, but the only confirmed details from the royal officials have revealed the baby is due “in July”.
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