How the royal baby news will be announced

 

The birth of the Duchess’s baby will be announced in exactly the same way as Prince William’s to retain “the theatre” of a genuine royal occasion.

Palace officials are keen to retain a sense of dignity appropriate for the birth of an heir to the throne.

As in the past, a formal notice on a piece of foolscap-sized Buckingham Palace headed paper, signed by the medical staff who have assisted the Duchess, will be brought out of the Lindo’s front entrance by a press officer.

It will then be given to a waiting driver and taken through the streets of London, escorted by police outriders, to the Privy Purse Door at the front of Buckingham Palace. There it will be placed on an easel by the main gates in the palace forecourt that was last used to announce Prince William’s birth.

When William was born it was revealed by press officers that he had blue eyes and had “cried lustily”’ as he was handed to his parents.

The palace have also said the birth will later be announced through news wire services, on the internet and even on Twitter “in due course”.

But if the royal baby is born between 10.30pm and 8am, the news will be sent out via press release with the easel being erected later that morning, at around 9am. Prince William was born in the same wing at 9.03pm on June 21, 1982, weighing 7lb 1.5oz. Brother Harry was born there two years later.

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