Just hours after labour, no bags under Kate’s eyes; no hair out of place; barely a bump still visible beneath that Jenny Packham designer shift dress. The Duchess looking perfectly poised, coiffed and in control as she tottered down the steps in towering heels, babe-in-arms, accepting only the slightest helping hand from William as she proudly showed off her daughter to the waiting crowds.
Prince George Alexander Louis who stole the royal show on Saturday, when he turned up to say hello to his baby sister for the first time.
A fusillade of ooohhs! and aaaaaahs! from the spectators greeted his surprise appearance with his daddy at the Lindo Wing. And no wonder.
Prince George may be third in line to the throne, but he sure is the uncrowned king of cute.
Diana would have loved to have been in this position herself, giving Charles the daughter he desperately wanted. Alas, it was not to be.
Early in the pregnancy with their second child, Diana had an amniocentesis test, which checks for abnormalities in the foetus, she discovered the sex of the baby. She decided not to tell Charles — instead, she kept secret from him the fact that she was carrying another boy.
Only another mother can realise just what must have been going through her mind throughout her pregnancy — knowing that, ultimately, she was going to disappoint her husband.
‘Oh, it’s a boy,’ was Charles’s curt observation, when Harry emerged after nine hours of labour in the Lindo Wing at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, in September 1984. ‘And he’s even got rusty hair.’
This was the hair colour of most of the Spencers, including Diana’s sister, Sarah.
Princess Diana, pictured holding Prince Harry, never fulfilled her wish to have a daughter
