ROYAL ARRIVALS

Meghan and Harry’s baby son is the newest addition to the Windsors – Marion McMullen looks back at other royal births

1 CONGRATULATIONS have flooded in from around the world following the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son. He made his appearance at 5.26am on Monday and shares his birthday with Hollywood actor George Clooney, Tony Blair, famous psychologist Sigmund Freud and silent movie star Rudoph Valentino.

2 HIS father Harry was born on September 15, 1984, and the arrival of a second son proved a surprise to Prince Charles. Princess Diana once told biographer Andrew Morton: “I knew Harry was going to be a boy. Charles always wanted a girl. I knew Harry was a boy and I didn’t tell him.” She later claimed Charles’s first comment was “Oh, God, it’s a boy”, followed by “and he’s got red hair”.

3 PRINCE William was the first future British king to be born in a hospital. He arrived at 9.03pm on June 21, 1982, at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. Charles, who was at the birth, wrote to a friend: “He really does look surprisingly appetising and has sausage fingers just like mine.”

4 QUEEN Elizabeth was born by caesarean section in her maternal grandparents’ London home at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair on April 21, 1926. Home secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks waited in the next room. The presence of the government minister was as age-old custom to ensure that no substitute baby had been smuggled in.

5 PRINCE Charles was born at Buckingham Palace and, in fact, the Queen had all four of her children at home. The Duke of Edinburgh, said to be “not indifferent but restless”, played squash while his wife was in labour. Baby Charles arrived at 9.14pm on November 14, 1948, weighing 7lbs 6oz. The fountains of Trafalgar Square were lit blue for a boy.

6 PRINCESS Anne, now the Princess Royal, was born in 1950. Queen Elizabeth wrote to a friend that she hoped Charles, who was nearly two, would take kindly to his new sibling, joking how he encountered one baby and “tried to pull her toes off and poke her eyes out”.

7 PRINCE Andrew, now the Duke of York, was born in 1960 and was a chubby, happy baby. He was the first baby born to a reigning monarch for 103 years and the Queen, who was settled in her role as sovereign, had more time to devote to her third child.

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PRINCE Edward, now the Earl Of Wessex, is the Queen’s youngest offspring and arrived in 1964. She told a friend: “Goodness what fun it is to have a baby in the house again.” Andrew was particularly fond of his younger brother describing him as “my baby”.

9 THE Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child,

Prince

George, was introduced to the world on the steps of the Lindo Wing in London in 2013. The future king weighed 8lbs 6oz and Prince William said in a statement that he and his wife “could not be happier”.

10 THE couple’s daughter, Princess Charlotte, below, made her debut outside the Lindo in 2015. The youngest Cambridge sibling, Prince Louis, arrived on patriotic St George’s Day last year. William joked he had “thrice the worry” as he took the prince home to Kensington

Palace.