Kate Middleton Royal Baby Countdown: Media vs. Security Near the Lindo Wing of Saint Mary's Hospital [PHOTOS]
Kate Middleton is expected to deliver her first child this July at the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London. As the reported due date of July 11 approaches, security has already been carried out to protect the Duchess of Cambridge and the Royal baby with an enforced parking ban that began July 1 until July 31 at four parking bays in front of the hospital.
As the media members set up their equipment outside of the Saint Mary's Hospital Lindo Wing, RAJ Venkat's sales on the step ladders suddenly increased. The shopkeeper of the Edgeware Road Select & Save outlet started to think that there is a huge do-it-yourself renovation project coming up.
"I didn't know what was going on, everybody all arrived and were buying ladders and they were carrying big cameras and these things," the shopkeeper stated. It is obvious that the media wants to capture images of Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby with the help of the step ladders elevating their view on the Lindo Wing doors.
Kate Middleton decided to follow the footsteps of the late Princess Diana who gave natural birth to Prince William at the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in 1982. The announcement on the Royal baby's arrival will be the same as well with the Royal Prince which is a formal notice displayed on an easel at the Buckingham Palace courtyard.
Royal doctor Marcus Setchell will reportedly deliver the Kate's baby after delaying his planned retirement. The Royal doctor is all set to retire from his career when he received a phone call from the Royal household in 2012 requesting him to deliver for the 31-year-old Duchess of Cambridge.
Setchell, who will turn 70 in October, has served as a gynaecologist of the Queen for 18 years until 2008. "Marcus says he will retire after the baby is born but because he knows they are planning more children, he will probably have to take time out of his retirement to deliver those too," an unnamed source revealed to Sunday People.
The delivery of a future heir to the Royal throne is undeniably worldwide news broadcast given that approximately two billion people watched Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage in 2011. On June 15, the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was last seen in public when she joined the other members of the Royal family at the Trooping of the Colour event which is a military parade that marks the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.
