How none of the photographers camped outside royal hospital since July managed to get picture of Duchess of Cambridge arriving for birth
The Royal family have beaten the odds in a world of blanket 27/7 media coverage and instantaneous Twitter updates by successfully giving the world’s media the slip.
Amazingly, despite the massed ranks of veteran press hacks, telephoto lenses and omnipresent smartphones the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge kept the birth of their bundle of joy a secret for more than four hours before officially announcing the news at 20:30 last night.
The email was the one concession to technology made by the couple in an otherwise highly choreographed spectacle of high theatre; including the ferrying of a slip of paper detailing the Royal baby’s vital statistics direct from the maternity unit to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Only one freelance photographer got lucky enough to break the hermetically sealed security cordon, with Jesai Parshotam correctly guessing which entrance they would use, albeit too late to snap a pic.
Parshotam had to make do with a 5:55am tweet saying: ‘Kate Middleton has gone into hospital’, the only source to break the news but one which was greeted with wide scepticism until officially confirmed by the Palace half an hour later.
So, how were the waiting press pack left so completely on the hop despite camping out through July? According to The Telegraph courtesy of some Bond style subterfuge aided by a secluded manor house home that is less than five minutes drive from the hospital.
Opting to use a dark blue Ford Galaxy people carrier rather than the normal fleet of Range Rovers, Land Rover Discoveries and Jaguars, the couple successfully out-foxed waiting prying eyes with an ageing Saab acting as a police back-up car sowing further confusion as the pair were whisked into a rear entrance.