Baby Cambridge says hello to the world
BRITAIN: The Duke of Cambridge was bursting with pride, the duchess clearly besotted. And the third Cambridge baby? Fast asleep, but seemingly secure about his new place in the world.
The newborn prince signalled his arrival with three tiny fingers as he made his public debut, fast asleep in the arms of his mother.
And while his newborn son was oblivious to the excitement he had caused, Prince William embarked on his new life with three children with no illusions, holding up three fingers and joking that his enlarged brood would give him ‘‘thrice worry now’’.
The baby prince, a younger brother to Prince George and Princess Charlotte, was born weighing 3.8 kilograms (8 pounds 7 ounces). The newborn, whose name had last night not yet been announced, was lulled to sleep in his mother’s arms as she cooed ‘‘hello’’ and wrapped him up closely against the cold wind.
The duke and duchess appeared to be old hands at parenting, walking down the steps of the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London a mere seven hours after their son was born to greet wellwishers.
George and Charlotte, the stars of the show as they marched up to the hospital for a visit, were ‘‘very happy’’ to meet their little brother, William said, proclaiming the young family ‘‘delighted’’. As a nervous George held his father’s hand, Charlotte marched proudly along the street outside the hospital, waving to the cameras.
The duchess, wearing a red Jenny Packham dress much like the one worn by Diana, Princess of Wales as she left hospital with a baby Prince Harry, carried history in her arms: the first royal baby boy not to leapfrog his elder sister in the line of succession.
Not that the new prince was aware of any of it, emitting the smallest of snuffles as he was paraded before the watching world before being strapped gently into a car seat and taken home.
The public would learn the baby’s name soon, the duke told the waiting media, joking: ‘‘We didn’t keep you waiting too long this time.’’– Telegraph Group