Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge
On December 14, 2014, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge released new photos of Prince George in honor of Christmas. The photos were taken in the courtyard of Kensington Palace.
The December 22, 2014 issue of HELLO! magazine is going on sale a day early (today!) and includes a souvenir poster of Prince George.
A new photo of Prince George appears on Sunday’s front page of The Telegraph.
The first child of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is due to be born on 13 July 2013.The Washington Post described it as “the world’s most famous baby.
On 3 December 2012, St James’s Palace announced that the Duchess was pregnant with her first child. The announcement was made earlier in the pregnancy than is traditional as she had been admitted to King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum. On 14 January 2013, St James’s Palace announced that the child is due to be born in April 2015 and that the Duchess’s condition is improving.
According to Palace officials, the Duke and Duchess have chosen not to find out the sex of their child prior to the birth. The birth is expected to take place in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, London – the same hospital in which Prince William and his brother, Prince Harry, were born to Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1982 and 1984 respectively. The Queen’s former gynaecologist, Marcus Setchell, is expected to deliver the child assisted by the Queen’s current gynaecologist, Alan Farthing. The Duchess intends to give birth naturally.
Following the birth, an official notice signed by medical staff containing the baby’s sex, weight and time of birth will be delivered to Buckingham Palace, probably under police escort.The public announcement of the birth will be made by placing the official notice on an easel on the Palace forecourt at the central gates, after the Queen, senior members of the royal family and the family of the Duchess have been informed.
The event is expected to generate £260 million worldwide, mostly from tourism, souvenirs, and birth-related festivities.
The Duke is expected to take two weeks’ paternity leave allowed by the Ministry of Defence. The Duke and Duchess are expected to move into their Kensington Palace apartment with their child later in 2015, following its £1m refurbishment as a family home.
On 31 December 2012, Queen Elizabeth II, the grandmother of the Duke, issued letters patent enabling all children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales to enjoy the princely title and style of Royal Highness, as opposed to only the eldest son.The child will therefore be a prince or princess with the style Royal Highness. Following the custom of royal babies born to princes who hold a royal dukedom, the child will likely be styled Prince/Princess (Name) of Cambridge. The child, regardless of sex, will be third in the line of succession to the thrones of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. He or she will be preceded only by the Duke’s father, Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Duke himself.
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