It's Day 16 of Royal Baby Watch and the "Great Kate Wait" (a phrase coined by one of our favorite royal correspondents, Sky's Paul Harrison) continues outside St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.
Photographers, journalists and tv crews have been camped outside the Lindo Wing (quickly becoming known as the Limbo Wing) with some even sleeping outside at night.
Those of us who are anxiously waiting were delighted to hear the Duchess of Cornwall speak on the due date during her and Prince Charles's visit to Little Harbour Children's Hospice in Cornwall.
Charles and Camilla are in the West Country for their annual Cornwall Week, meeting locals and visiting charitable organisations. A well wisher and her young daughter spoke with Charles and said, "You've got one of these coming shortly", to which he replied, "hopefully". Thankfully chatty Camilla was much more forthcoming during an impromptu speech: "We are all just waiting by the telephone. We are hopeful that by the end of the week he or she will be here."TODAY has an excellent short video with Camilla's speech and a brief interview with royal photographer Arthur Edwards, who reveals he heard the baby is due July 23rd!!
As the Duchess awaits the arrival of her first child, she has made an impassioned plea on behalf of one of her newest patronages Place2Be. The organisation works in schools helping over 75,000 children aged between 4 and 14 with mental issues. In her letter, Kate said: "While I am new to the field, and have much to learn, I strongly believe that the issue of mental health problems for young people has to be tackled."
Below is Catherine's letter in full;
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