The world is watching St Mary’s Lindo Wing where the highly anticipated birth of the royal baby is now underway waiting on the next bit of news about the arrival of the heir to the throne.
Royal watchers are glued to televisions and tweets and the world’s media remain focused on the hospital’s entrance trying to guess what might happen next with the royal birth, but even the third-in-line’s grandfather to be says he knows “absolutely nothing” about what is going on behind the walls of the wing where the Duchess of Cambridge and her husband Prince William arrived in the early hours of the morning.
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Prince Charles was questioned about news of the baby as he arrived at the National Railway Museum in York via royal carriage, and told Sky News he knew “absolutely nothing at the moment”.
A wellwisher suggested the royal baby might arrive in the next few hours.
“Yet, it may well be,” Prince Charles said.
The Palace announced the couple had made their way to the hospital in an announcement at around 7:30 on Monday morning when the Duchess was “in the early stages of labour”, but naturally, they were scooped by a tweet from a royal photographer stationed at the Lindo who spotted Kate entering the wing by a side entrance.
Members of the press, wellwishers from the public, and a great number of security personnel flocked to the Paddington hospital where the crowd is growing awaiting news and hoping to catch a glimpse of a royal aide who will pass on a paper notice of the birth from the Lindo’s front steps to be transported to Buckingham Palace where details of the royal birth will be made public on a bulletin visible from the palace gates.
Prime Minister David Cameron and the Archbishop of Canterbury have been among those sending their best wishes to the couple since news of royal baby’s imminent arrival broke.
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“It is an exciting occasion and the whole country is excited with them, so everyone’s hoping for the best,” David Cameron said.
The Archbishop tweeted his blessings.
“My thoughts and prayers are with Kate and the whole family on this enormously special day.”
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