Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcomed a baby boy on Monday.
Baby Sussex is seventh in line of the throne and Queen Elizabeth II’s eighth great-grandchild.
An announcement from Buckingham Palace said the baby was delivered at 5:26 a.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces.
A name will be announced soon.
Super fans and well-wishers have been camped out in Windsor for days, some dressed in head-to-toe Union Jack paraphernalia.
It wasn’t just them. British newspapers launched “live blogs” prior to any whiff of actual news that the baby had been born. Over the weekend, international broadcast crews set up cameras outside of the Windsor Castle, the site of the couple’s 20018 nuptials.
Interpreting what all this meant for the due date was not easy.
Meghan and Harry are departing from recent royal tradition with the birth of their first child.
Kate literally gave birth while the press slurped tea and munched buns and did live stand-ups about the comings and goings of the duchess’ hair and makeup team.
Then, after just a few hours, Kate with baby appeared — “camera-ready in heels” — to pose for the hundreds of camera crews, who had paid for their spots.
Buckingham Palace has said: “The Duke and Duchess look forward to sharing the exciting news with everyone once they have had an opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family.”
Meghan might be thankful she wasn’t giving birth in a previous era, when the birthing room for a royal baby was a decidedly more crowded place.
But the tradition of courtiers and people like the Home Secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury attending the births of royal babies, has since been scrapped.
Harry and Meghan met in 2016, when she was an actress on the legal drama “Suits,” filmed in Toronto, where Markle had been living.
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