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New intimate details into Prince George’s birth nearly a decade ago have been released

It was a long labour!
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Prince George is the first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales and third in line to the British throne was born on July 22, 2013, and new intimate details regarding his birth have been revealed.

Admitted to St Mary’s Hospital at 5am in the morning, Kate Middleton gave birth 12 hours late in what is believed to be a natural birth.

Prince George was born in mid-2013.

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Kate and Prince William delayed the public announcement for almost four hours before releasing an official statement from Kensington Palace at 8pm.

But nearly ten years later, Kate’s gynaceologist Sir Marcus Setchell – who delayed his retirement for the special event – has confessed new details about Prince George’s birth.

Marcus snuck into the hospital unnoticed “through the tradesman’s entrance” in the early hours of the morning. During the birth, he was joined by two other gynaceologist’s Alan Farthing and Guy Thorpe-Beest.

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“I think what I tried to do at Prince George’s birth was to keep reminding myself that actually this is just another baby with parents who are likely to be having all the same emotions and pains and discomforts as all the people I look after,” he told The Telegraph.

Prince William then called his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II with a specially encrypted phone to reveal the exciting news.

Early in the pregnancy, Kate was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum and required hospital treatment but following the birth of her first child, she was “relieved.”

“Amazing, amazing. It is extraordinary as I’ve said. How can the human body do that? It is utterly extraordinary, actually. And he was very sweet. And also sort of relieved that he was a happy, healthy boy,” she told Giovanna Fletcher.

On July 23, 2013, the iconic photos of the-then Duchess of Cambridge cradling her newborn son with Prince William by her side.

Royal watchers were sentimental after seeing Kate sport a blue polka dot dress, similar to one that Princess Diana wore when her first son, William was born.

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