Crowd Welcomes New Royal Baby Outside Lindo Wing
WEST LONDON -- At just after 1 p.m. London time, the town crier stepped outside of the Lindo Wing at Saint Mary's Hospital. Dressed in head-to-toe red, he rang his bell and then read from his long red scroll that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had welcomed their third baby - a little boy.
The crowd that had been gathered outside since that morning fell silent for a few beats.
Then, it was chaos. People cheered and some waved flags as cameras popped and video crews and reporters swooped in.
“I predicted it! I really hope they name him Philip. I’m delighted, really excited,” says Amy Hall, a mother of two from Suffolk. She arrived at the hospital at 10 a.m. - as soon as she saw the tweet from Kensington Palace announcing the Duchess was in labor. “I had a bag packed for two weeks in preparation for this, and I had it in the car ready!”
Next up, Hall is heading to Windsor in a few weeks for the May 19 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Swathya, a 20-year-old from Boston, has been in London for four months studying finance at university of London. She says: “This doesn’t happen every day, and ever since I’ve been in London I’ve been waiting for Kate to give birth.”
Another student in the crowd, 20-year-old Denise from the Netherlands, is in London studying communications. Though she's used to having a royal family - she says the relationship is different back home.
"Our royal family are popular but the press coverage on the British royal family is not as big as it is here,” she says.
Now, the crowd waits for the first peek at the fifth in line of succession to the throne.
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