Prince Charles and Princess Diana leave St. Mary’s Hospital in London with their newborn son Prince William in June 1982.
By Martin Fletcher, Correspondent, NBC News
LONDON – If Britain’s royal family has its way, the world will learn the gender of the future monarch the old-fashioned way: A medical bulletin announcing the birth will be rushed out of the private Lindo wing of St. Mary’s Hospital, where the Duchess of Cambridge is scheduled to give birth.
It will then be driven two-and-a-half miles away to Buckingham Palace, where a sheet of paper will be fixed to an easel by the palace gates. There the public, if they can fight through the crush of photographers, will read the baby’s sex, weight, eye color, and any details relating to the birth that are deemed newsworthy.
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