afternoon. there will be cannons fired over tower bridge. another gun salute here. just in front of me at green park which is just beside the ballast. that will happen tomorrow afternoon. 41 gun salute. that will be quite something. also the bells at buckle berry church will be ringing, the little village in the countryside about an hour or so outside of london where kate was brought up. as yet, there s no sign of the middletons. we don t know where they are. we assume they were in lon dop. we don t think they were in the hospital with kate and william. obviously we ll be waiting to hear from them. we do know that will print williams was present during the birth as was his father charles was present when william was born. prince william was there for the birth which is a great moment for him and dads. and for those of you just joining us, quite a moment to us day across the pond. the royal baby has been born, a
well, what you had there was actually one of the sort of secret stars is of it, janet mcteer. she plays the mother of the white queen. the white queen is the wife of edward iv. in a sense, the unity of the house of york that s just won the throne absolutely unwraps because nobody can stand her and nobody can stand her mother. the young woman you saw there, that s margaret bofart. she s going to give birth to the boy who will be henry tutor, who will ultimately invade england. you have this big, powerful piece of english history told very much through the eyes of the women who were not just passive observers of it but were making the histories a it went along. all right. congrats on the book and the show. thank you very much for being here. don t forget to watch the white queen starting next month august 10th on starz. one of our producers got a sneak
i was on my phone, martin. basically kensington palace sent us uk press journalists, the nooup lot, the royal rat pack as we like to be called a miss sieve saying they changed the arrangement slightly. they were going to announce the birth before it went onto the easel. we thought it would go onto the easel and that came out and said an announcement was imminent. usually kensington palace don t try to send out miss sibs is unless they give a hint something is about to happen. it was five-minute warning and it was all systems go. get on twitter, i think sometimes journalism can be a bit too quick fire but in this case, i happened to be right. you happened to be right. the she s eight months pregnant. so pretty impressive job. i was going to raise that and ask her whether she felt nepal
i was in the town. i was not at their family home to be precise. thank you for that journalistic. about an hour and a half away from here. thank you for your integrity. we were waiting to see the i this i we have a slight delay, martin. we were waiting to see if the birth happened here, whether william and catherine would head to buckleberry has, it, hasn t been a rumor, it s been more speculation because they re place right now at kennington palace is a two-bedroom college, it s been reported that cottage doesn t have air conditioning and that s why the kate has been spending so much time at her parents house they just bought recently. lots of space up there. lots of privacy. right now we know the birth has happened, happily remains to be seen where exactly this royal couple will go. in about a day s time. we keep hearing, michelle, the ringing of a bell. is that the london town
patations as a consequence of the excitement today. do you know what, martin? i was half hoping at one stage that my waters would break. i d be invited into the wing for a buy one, get one free. i could give birth alongside the duchess of cambridge. that was be a great story, wouldn t it. it would certainly have been a lot cheaper since it s 5,000 pounds a night at the wing. so you would have saved yourself a lot of morning. what s your experience been in following developments from where you are? just the excitement here. when we first began to get those indications that camilla was talking about, they put up that easel behind the gates of buckingham palace behind me here. the crowd just currentlied forward to the gates to take a look. they re still there now though. you can still see people coming forward to try and see because you can imagine, you ve seen the pictures. it is quite difficult to get a