Meghan to shun Lindo Wing where Kate and Di gave birth

THE Duchess of Sussex is to break with tradition by choosing not give birth in the same hospital wing as other royal mothers.

Sources indicated last night that the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, is not one of the options being considered for the birth next month.

Her baby with Prince Harry will not be a direct heir to the throne and the couple are said to believe they should not have to pose for the world’s media outside the wing like the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Diana before her.

‘They want the birth to be as private as possible,’ a source told The Sun on Sunday.

‘Meghan doesn’t want the pressure of having to look immaculate on the hospital steps just hours later.’ The couple could discreetly slip in and out of a different location and release a formal picture later.

One possibility is Frimley Park in Surrey, an NHS hospital with private maternity suites which is much closer to Frogmore Cottage, the new home at Windsor where the couple will be living.

The hospital says it offers ‘hotel quality services and access to some of the region’s finest specialist consultants’.

It could also be another private London hospital or even a home birth. At 37, Meghan is a ‘geriatric’ new mother but she is healthy and her passion for yoga could make home a plausible option, said a source.

The decision ends four decades of tradition which began when Princess Anne’s first child Peter Phillips was born at the Lindo Wing in 1977, followed by Princes William and Harry and William’s three children with the Duchess of Cambridge.

‘They want to be as private as possible’