It’s a boy: Kate, wife of UK’s Prince William, gives birth to third child

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Two supporters of the Royal Family, holding dolls wearing crowns, celebrate outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital after Britain’s Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a son in London, April 23 - REUTERS

London (Reuters): Kate, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a boy at a hospital in London yesterday, the third child for the British royal couple and now fifth-in-line to the throne.

Kensington Palace said the baby was born at 1001 GMT and weighs 8 lbs 7oz (3.8 kg). William was present for the birth at St. Mary’s Hospital in west London where their other two children, George and Charlotte, were also born, it added.

“The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Harry, and members of both families have been informed and are delighted with the news,” Kensington Palace said.

“Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.”

The new prince is Queen Elizabeth’s sixth great-grandchild and will follow siblings, George, four, two-year-old sister Charlotte, their father William, and grandfather and heir Prince Charles in line to the British throne.

A 2013 change to the law means the boy will not supplant his older sister Charlotte in the order of succession. Previously, younger males would take precedence over older female siblings.