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Martha: so we are about nine hours in to the labor process for the duchess of cambridge right now in the hospital behind me at st. mary s. we do know when the baby is born and they re ready to announce, they ll bring a document downstairs in an envelope that will be put into a waiting car that will drive to buckingham palace. it will be opened up, framed, put be on an easel, and we re going to show you a picture after that easel when prince william was born. it s only used for a royal heir, but we know that kate and william are fairly traditional, and they would have gone back to their heir being announced as well. we re really pleased to have simon perry with us of people magazine. good morning and welcome. great to have you with us. what can you tell us about what happened in the early morning hours when she was spirited away from kensington palace and brought here? they would have liked that. ....
First few weeks in the palace. that has not been confirmed by the palace. kate has done a good job lying low for the past month. one thing for sure, the middletons will be heavily involved. this indeed a big break from tradition. it shows the royal family are doing their best to support kate and make her feel as comfortable as possible in her new role. martha: yeah. it seems like so watches learned in the age of diana who was basically cloistered away at age of 19. shut into the palace walls and spent the night before her own wedding basically alone in a room waiting to get married as a young 19, 20-year-old at that time. kate has had such a different experience. it seems like a lot of that is because of what is now seen as really some mistakes in terms of how she was handled. absolutely. i mean, you talked about the parallels between diana and kate and certainly that is very true today. kate was admitted to the hospital at the same time of day as diana, 5:30 in the morning. now dian ....
Decade with william before she walked down the aisle and a few years to adjust to royal life before she become as mother. bill: a remarkable life. martha is standing outside the hospital. she knows more about this before all of us put together. go for it, martha arthel: there, thanks, bill. eloise, i heard you talking about prince sense diana and kate. the comparisons are endless and people will continue to make them. interesting how much after role kate s family continues to play in this and how actively her mother is involved. when you think about the fact that most royal heirs are born behind closed walls at the palace. this royal heir has spent its last month with its mother kate at her mom s house. that s right. it is rumored that kate may return to bucklebury for a few weeks after the birth. that is also unprecedented for the royal heir not to spend ....
Detroit is on edge. the emergency manager threatens to cut their benefits. we ll see where that goes. the great kate wait is almost over. the duchess of cambridge finally in labor at a hospital in london where the royal baby could be born now. this could happen, this is the way nature works, right? could be born at any minute and we will have that for you live. good morning. your message to the royal couple? obviously best wishes to them. a very exciting occasion and the whole country is excited with them. so everyone is hoping for the best. i gotta go deposit a check, transfer some money. so it s your uncle s turn. what? wait, wait, wait. no, no, no, wait, wait. (baby crying) so you can deposit a check. with the touch of a finger. so you can arrange a transfer in the blink of an eye. ....
kate was in some pain, but she d have been enjoyed getting in here without being photographed at that moment, it s a very spit mate moment and a special moment, and may left kp, kensington palace, shortly before 5:30, 5:45, somewhere around there. martha: so now that they re in there, and i just described a little bit of what will happen in terms of the thowment and how it will be made, how will they avoid because everything is twitter, all of the correspondents here have been constantly following all these different feeds to find out what s going on. do you think they ll be able to pull it off of getting that letter down here and having the easel posted before anybody in that hospital lets it out whether it s a boy or a girl? are i hope so. that s part of the drama, part of the tradition which they ve been hoping to insure remains, like you said. well, it ll be interesting to see because if today do, that ll be a great moment. there s a lot of people sort of ....