Royal baby news: Who will deliver Kate’s baby? Delivery team REVEALED
THE royal baby will be born at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, where Princess Charlotte and Prince George were born. But who will be part of the medical team to deliver the royal baby into the world?
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It is more than likely the medical team delivering Kate’s third child will comprise of experienced consultant obstetrician Guy Thorpe-Beeston and Alan Farthing - the Queen’s surgeon-gynaecologist.
Although Kensington Palace has not confirmed who will be part of the senior medical team to deliver the royal baby.
Both the doctors helped to deliver Prince George on July 22, 2013 and Princess Charlotte on May 2, 2015.
Mr Thorpe-Beeston specialises in high-risk pregnancies and was appointed by the Queen as surgeon-gynaecologist to the royal household.
He is the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in central London and is a member of the maternity’s high risk pregnancy team.
The Cambridge graduate has a Harley Street practice and initially worked at King’s College Hospital in London before becoming a consultant in foetal medicine at Chelsea and Westminster in 1996.
Mr Farthing is the Queen’s surgeon-gynaecologist and has been part of the monarch’s medical household since 2008.
The 54-year old was engaged to the murdered television presenter Jill Dando at the time of her death in April 1999.
He qualified as a doctor in 1986 and has been a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists since 2003.
Mr Farthing is one of the regular consultants at St Mary’s in Paddington and works as a part-time consultant at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in west London.
He has a private Harley Street practice and married his second wife, Dr Janet Stowell, after meeting her in 2003 when she was a house doctor at St Mary’s.
During the birth of Prince George he assisted Sir Marcus Setchell - the former royal surgeon-gynaecologist - who delayed his retirement to lead the team delivering the duchess’s son.
Sir Marcus described the midwifery team as “perfectly wonderful” during his only interview about the birth of Prince George.
This year, Kate was reunited with the midwife who helped to deliver baby Charlotte when she visited the London’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
The duchess warmly embraced Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent who was part of the team which delivered Princess Charlotte at the Lindo wing in 2015.
“It’s so great to see Jacqui as well,” the duchess said at the end of her visit to the charity.