Prince Harry As a Baby

The wait continues for Baby Sussex....The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are ensconced in their new home Frogmore Cottage with Meghan's mother Doria who has flown in from the U.S.A.

Prince Harry and Meghan have caused a bit of a stir by wanting to enjoy private time before announcing the birth. The prospect of not being included in the celebrations has irked many loyal royalists and perhaps Buckingham Palace will pick up on this sentiment before much good will is lost.

Here are some sweet photos of Harry leaving the Lindo Wing after his birth, official portraits by Lord Snowdon and photos from his christening at Windsor Castle.

Prince Louis

Prince Louis will celebrate his 1st birthday on April 23rd which also happens to be St George's Day.

The young prince has only been seen a few times publicly- outside the Lindo Wing hours after birth, and his baptism in July.

Other than that, we have had to rely on Kensington Palace to release images so we can see his progress. Hopefully this year Louis will join his siblings on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the RAF flypast after the Trooping the Colour. He may also make an appearance at a polo match in the summer to cheer in his dad, Prince William.

Here are some of the cute images we have of little Louis.

Flashback: Harry As A Baby

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to welcome their first child over the coming weeks. We thought a look back at Prince Henry ( Harry) Charles Albert David of Wales as a baby would be fun. 

Harry was born on 14th September, 1984 at the Lindo Windo of St. Mary's Hospital Paddington. 

The young prince was Baptised just before Christmas at St. George's Chapel, WIndsor. Footage from the celebrations afterwards was included in the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast. 

Harry's younger years were spent in Apartments 8 & 9, Kensington Palace and weekends at Highgrove House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Baby Sussex

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have certainly had a busy time since becoming engaged in November 2017.

Meghan moved to London from Toronto where she was an actress on the television series Suits. The couple has been living in Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace but will move to Frogmore Cottage, Windsor in March before the birth of their first baby. 

Since their wedding at St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle last May, the couple has quickly established Meghan as a "working Royal" and introduced her to royal engagements which she frequently now does solo.

The day after arriving in Australia for a tour in October, Meghan and Harry announced they were expecting a baby in the northern Spring. The tour took in Australia which was hosting Harry's Invictus Games, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. 

On a few occasions the tour program was altered for Meghan to have rest days as pregnancy fatigue and jet lag took their toll. Other than that, the couple won over fans and Meghan was able to do a crash course in royal engagements. 


The Duke and Duchess have been renting a home in the Cotswolds for the past year. The property has not been identified and is quite inaccessible, ensuring privacy away from the press and public. 

It was assumed that a larger home would be found for the Sussexes in Kensington Palace where Harry grew up in Apartments 8 & 9. Brother William and the Cambridges are in Apartment 1A. However, it was recently announced that the Queen had gifted the couple Frogmore Cottage in Windsor. 

Frogmore Cottage was split into five apartments but rapid building works are turning it into a large home for the new family. The tax payer will cover the cost of the renovation and restoration but the Duke and Duchess will pay for the furnishings themselves. 

Little is known about where Meghan plans to have her baby. Frimley Park Hospital is close to Windsor and is where Sophie, Countess of Wessex had her and Prince Edward's two children Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn.

However, it has been revealed that staff at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington have been asked not to take leave in April. The Lindo Wing is where William, Harry, Zara and Peter Phillips, and the children of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester were born. More recently, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte entered the world here.

New homes and renovations, a new country in which to live, marriage, baby on the way and a whole new career and way of doing things under the gaze of the media and public. It certainly been a whirlwind for the new Duchess of Sussex.

Baby Harry

Frogmore Cottage

Aunty Pippa Celebrates Baby Boy

Add Eugenie's wedding on Friday

The Duchess of Cambridge's sister Pippa has given birth to a baby boy! Pippa and husband James Matthews welcomed their little boy at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital where Catherine and William choose to have their children.

Only three days before the birth, Pippa and James attended Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's wedding at Windsor Castle. 

Catherine and Pippa's brother James has visited his new nephew and no doubt Carole and Michael Middleton have visited too!

Baby Matthews arrived on Monday 15th October at 1.58pm. The boy weighed 8lb 9oz.

New dad James entering the Lindo Wing

Brother James Middleton visits baby

Prince Louis Christening Countdown

Prince Louis will be christened on Monday and royal watchers are keen to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their three youngsters for the first time.

Louis has not been publicly seen since he was born at St Mary's Hospital's Lindo Wing on April 23rd. Prince George who is almost 5 and Princess Charlotte, 3 have finished school and preschool for the summer holidays and will join their little brother for his big day.

The baptism will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London at 4pm.  Prince Charles and the Middleton family are due to attend along with the godparents who have yet to be named. 

Prince Harry missed the christening of Charlotte but will attend with new wife the Duchess of Sussex. 

Having visited the Chapel exterior myself last July, I can share photos of the large window that fronts the street and the narrow passage where the family will walk from St James's Palace itself to the Chapel. 

The Lily Font will be brought from the Tower of London and water from the River Jordan are traditionally used. Prince Louis will wear a replica of the Honiton lace gown. The original was first used by Queen Victoria's daughter and then worn by royal babies since, including Prince William himself. Prince Edward's son James, Viscount Severn was the first royal baby to use the replica gown. 

Prince George 2013

Princess Charlotte 2015

Exterior of Chapel Royal, St James's Palace

Covered Walkway To The Chapel

Here Is The New Prince!

Less than seven hours old, the new baby Prince of Cambridge was shown to the world by his delighted parents Catherine and William. 

The Duke and Duchess showed off their baby son before returning inside the Lindo Wing briefly to thank staff. The baby was placed in his carrier for the car short drive home to Kensington Place.

Catherine was dressed in a red Jenny Packham dress with white lace trim around the collar. Similar to the colour Diana had worn when she left the same hospital with Prince Harry in 1984. A very appropriate choice for St George's Day as well.

Catherine Back In London

George at 24 hours

The Duchess of Cambridge has returned to London to await the birth of baby number three. 

Prince George attends Thomas's Battersea and Princess Charlotte goes to nursery school in Kensington. Prince William, Duke of Cambridge is busy along with the other senior members of the Royal Family supporting The Queen at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting events.

Charlotte only a few hours old

Catherine, William and the young family spent Easter with her parents in Bucklebury, Berkshire. The Cambridges then went to their country home Anmer Hall on the Sandringham Estate. Catherine was photographed by fellow shoppers at Waitrose in Norfolk.

So now the entire Cambridge family is settled in Apartment 1A, Kensington Palace no doubt finishing preparations for the arrival of the new prince or princess in the next week or two. 

Third Kate Baby Wait Continues...

The Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth to her baby "sometime" this month. 

As no due date has been given by Kensington Palace we all have to rely on supposition and hope! 

Catherine and William's first two children were overdue by several days. Charlotte was due in April 2015 but arrived on May 2nd. Royal commentators are hoping the baby makes an appearance on any of the following:

21st April: Her Majesty's birthday
23rd April: St George's Day- patron saint of England
29th April: William and Catherine's 7th wedding anniversary

Parking barricades have already been erected outside the hospital. 

To avoid inconvenience to St Mary's Hospital patients and staff, media will not be allowed to take up their places outside the Lindo Wing until an official message is sent to media organisations once the Duchess is well in labour. 

Cambridge Baby Essentials # 1

The Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth to baby number 3 next month. Catherine has been very busy since the start of the year but is planned to finish up work after her next engagement on St Patrick's Day, 17th March.

Baby George 2013

With that in mind we begin a series of feature articles about the arrival of new Cambridge prince or princess. We start with the Lindo Wing. 
As with Prince George and Princess Charlotte's births, the Duchess will give birth in the Lindo Wing- a private maternity unit of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. 

Charlotte 2015

As well as the first two Cambridge babies, the Lindo Wing has been the birthplace of Princes William and Harry of Wales, Princess Anne's children Peter and Zara Phillips, Lord Frederick and Lady Gabriella Windsor, and the Gloucestor children- the Earl of Ulster, Lady Rose and Lady Davina Windsor. 

This author visited the Lindo Wing several months ago and it was a thrill to see the famous front doors which open to reveal the world's first glimpse of each new baby.

The front steps actually lead from the Lindo onto a very narrow street- you may remember toddler William in 1984 and little George in 2015 walking along the same street to meet their new siblings. 

Opposite the hospital is a cafe and behind that is the railway tracks leading to Paddington Station ( as in THAT BEAR!). There is also a canal next to the station and car parks. Not very glamorous!

The hospital itself offers parents the benefits of a world class teaching hospital but with the care of their own specialist obstetrician. 

Catherine is cared for by doctors Alan Farthing and Guy Thorpe- Beeston. They have seen her through her three pregnancies and managed her hyperemesis gravidarum each time. 

William 1982

Harry 1984

 

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Obstetrician Alan Farthing