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World Gets A Glimpse Of The New Prince

Aired July 23, 2013 - 14:59   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: The royal baby, here we are just about at the top of the hour. You hear the music, and that means you have to see this little one. We just did, the world just did for the very first time just about an hour ago. The cameras were positioned. We were fixated on the front doors of the Lindo wing here at St. Mary's Hospital. Where you see William, he was born. We saw the photo-op 31 years ago.

And here we have it repeated with here he is as a grown man. The world has watched him grown up. His wife, they're both appropriately wearing baby blue for this new baby Cambridge. We have learned that we will not know the name of the baby tonight. That's from Max Foster's royal sources. It's fairly typical.

We knew Harry's name the day he was born, but it took several days to learn of William's name. Here they are, and they stood, they spoke, and in case you missed it, let's reroll it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The new royal heir in the United Kingdom and the Duchess of Cambridge looking to beautiful, isn't she. Prince William is looking so proud.

PRINCE WILLIAM: He has a good pair of lungs on him, that's for sure. He is quite heavy. But we're still working on a name, so we will have that as soon as we can. But it's the first time we have seen him really, so we're having a proper chance to catch up.

Very emotional.

KATE MIDDLETON, DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE: Yes, it's very emotional. It's a special time. I think any parent I think probably could have known what this feeling feels like.

PRINCE WILLIAM: It's very special.

(CROSSTALK)

PRINCE WILLIAM: It was. And I will remind him of his tardiness when he is older, because I know how long you have all have sat out here, so hopefully (INAUDIBLE) and you guys can all get back to normal now and we can look after him. So...

He has got her looks thankfully.

K. MIDDLETON: No, no, no.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

(LAUGHTER)

PRINCE WILLIAM: Wait and see. Wait and see. Oh, we have done that already. It's good.

K. MIDDLETON: I'm very, very good.

PRINCE WILLIAM: No, she's got way more than me, thank God.

Thanks a lot. Thank you.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: And off they went -- off they went back home to Kensington palace, where we now know they are entering discreetly. But this baby did have a couple visitors today, including Kate's parents, stopping by to meet their very first grandchild.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CAROLE MIDDLETON, MOTHER OF KATE MIDDLETON: He is absolutely beautiful. They're both doing really well, and we're so thrilled.

QUESTION: How are the parents doing?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Fabulously. Amazing. It's all coming back.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

C. MIDDLETON: Absolutely not.

Thank you.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: So we had heard the absolutely not earlier and we weren't quite sure what the question was. But we went back. So, apparently that was a swift response to a reporter asking for the name of the baby who will remain known really as baby Cambridge. Prince William even saying the couple hasn't even come up with a name yet. He said they are still working on it.

They were followed. The Middletons were followed soon after a visit from William's father, Prince Charles, and his wife, Camilla.

Atika Shubert was in the midst of the melee and the excitement outside of St. Mary's Hospital and she joins me now.

Atika, if you can, just talk about the message that clearly this royal couple was sending by William driving and William placing the royal car seat in the car, and the modern monarchy message. ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was very much a message that they're a young, modern family.

That warmth really came across in the way they chose to answer questions, talk to the press, the way that Prince William took the baby in his arms and it really showed he will be a hands-on father, the kind of joking relationship they had, revealed their sense of humor.

I think one reporter asked about the baby's hair, and Prince William said he has got than I have, which provoked quite a few laughs as well. In the midst of all this, there is incredibly loud clearing, everybody wants to get a shot of them. There are scores of reporters, with cameras flashing and clicking and you name it.

And they managed to come across as we're just trying to do the normal thing, get our baby into a car seat, put him in a car and get him home. And really the ability to do that while the entire world is watching, you can't underestimate that. It is remarkable.

BALDWIN: I keep hearing the word normal pop up. And I have to point out too to our viewers that I find it fascinating to think that 31 years ago, when we saw baby William, there were two videographers in the crowd and now as you say scores and scores of videographers and members of the media.

When we say the word normal, what really does normal mean for this little baby?

SHUBERT: I think the reality is there is no way that a royal baby can really have a normal life as any other kid can have here in Britain.

Having said that, they want to try to bring him up on their own. They said they both want to be hands-on parents and they want to try to give him that sense of space, and they want him to grow up as a kid. They want him to have a childhood. Of course, he will have responsibilities, royal responsibilities, just like Prince William had, and in that sense, I think he is fortunate to have a father like Prince William, because Prince William really grew up in the public eye.

We saw him be brought out of the very steps he brought out his son today, and we know we followed him through every step of his life, through the highs and lows. And as a result, Prince William has really learned from that and he has learned to live in the public eye while still keeping his own life private.

And that's probably something he plans to continue with his own son. So we will be seeing pictures, of course, of the royal family as they grow up, but we also hope -- I think many people have said today to me they hope they have a happy, normal life.

BALDWIN: And we know perhaps they're seeking some of that normalcy as they have arrived home at Kensington Palace. Atika, thank you. Just a bit down the road from Atika is Kensington Palace, which is where the new royal mom and dad will be living in a newly refurbished apartment 1-A. Here is the car. Actually, this is the entire motorcade. Amidst the motorcade is the car, and this is the arrival, this is the first time we're seeing this, through the gates at Kensington Palace, going around the back entrance.

And as Matthew Chance, our correspondent there, aptly pointed out, this is a discreet retreat. This is perhaps the final time we have seen the little baby for perhaps days, perhaps weeks. We do not yet know.

Becky Anderson is standing by for me at Buckingham Palace with more just reaction.

We know the queen is home, Becky. Do we have any idea when grandmother will be meeting her little baby boy?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is great granny, remember?

(CROSSTALK)

ANDERSON: The queen is in residence behind me here. That's right. Absolutely.

Not sure she will need to be reminded of that, Brooke. But, no, listen, you can rely on the fact that she will be seeing this little baby very, very soon.

I have got Kate Williams is here with me.

And, Kate, we have talked about the fact that there is a possibility that Pippa and James possibly, Kate's brother and sister, will be at Kensington Palace tonight, and also a big possibility that if Prince Harry is in the U.K., and isn't working that he would also be at Kensington Palace. We wouldn't expect granny to be popping over there, would we? They will bring the baby to her.

KATE WILLIAMS, CNN ROYAL HISTORIAN: Yes. We won't expect to see the queen popping over to Nottingham Cottage. It is rather small. It will be a bit of a cozy evening if we do see James, Pippa and Harry popping over.

Harry was with his regiment yesterday, business as usual, but he could come up this evening. He is delighted to be an uncle for the first time. Uncle Harry, I think he will be a naughty cheeky uncle with lots of jokes. The queen is going on holiday on Friday. That's what we know, to Balmoral.

The baby is not going to Balmoral. So that's what William and Kate will actually concentrate on doing on the next few days bringing the baby to see the queen. The queen will meet the next king. She already is a great-grandmother to Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne, her children, but this one will be a king.

ANDERSON: This one is going to be a king some day. And it's her first great-grandson, of course, so special to her.

And he said earlier on, and let's remind our viewers, he has a good pair of lungs. That is for sure. This is William alluding to his son outside of the hospital earlier. He is a big boy, he is quite heavy, but we're still working on a name. So we have to have time to catch up, he said, at this stage. It is the first time we have seen him, really, so we're having a proper chance to catch up.

You and I have talked about this. We think they have probably got a name or four in mind at present, these royal name,s but certainly we're not going to be finding out tonight, are we?

WILLIAMS: Yes. William will not let the matter slip.

One of the journalists asked Carole Middleton earlier what the name was and she said absolutely not. I'm not telling you even if she knew. So, William is saying we're still working on it, and we're still thinking about it. And the book is we're all still saying it's George or James, but you, Becky, you think it's Albert?

ANDERSON: I'm betting on Albert, King Albert.

WILLIAMS: Let me remind you of one of the other things he said and I think this is important.

He said remind him of his tardiness when he is a little bit older because I know how long you have all been standing here. Hopefully all the hospital and you guys can go back to normal and we can look after him. He is trying to say effectively it's over for the time being, please give us some time. The hospital needs to get back to normal business, and we're not going to be seeing I don't think either them or the little one for the time being -- Brooke, back to you.

BALDWIN: Kate and Becky, thank you so much for me outside of Buckingham Palace. What incredible excitement today, now that we have seen this little baby boy.

There was quite a difference between seeing Kate, being released from the hospital, 24 hours after she gave birth and perhaps what many you moms have experienced here in the United States. We will talk to senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, who is joining me here in the studio on the other side of the break just about some of the differences in how moms are treated and some of the help that those in Britain get. That's next.

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BALDWIN: Katie Nicholl, let me bring you in. You're live in London.

You're always in the know. You have the scoop on all things royal. There you are in front of beautiful Buckingham Palace. Nice so see you.

What a moment for not just those who are royal watchers, and those that live in the U.K., but really for people around the world to finally see this little boy, this healthy eight-pound, six-ounce baby boy. What did you make of the whole moment?

KATIE NICHOLL, AUTHOR: You know, it was just the most amazing moment.

The crowds here outside, the crowds outside of the hospital, I tell you what, there were some tears in that press tent at the Lindo wing, I think really a very emotional, emotional moment for people. They have been waiting for a long time, as William said.

BALDWIN: As we watch the picture, we're all reminded -- I remember being a very small teeny-tiny little girl sitting with my mother, and we saw little baby William. And we saw in polka dots, just as we saw Kate today, perhaps mere coincidence, perhaps not, you see Diana and Charles.

And so many people -- and perhaps this is just what Kate has to face for the rest of her life, the comparisons to who would have been her mother-in-law. Are the comparisons fair?

NICHOLL: The comparisons were always going to be there, weren't they?

Walking down those steps, who was going to be holding the baby? So touching they decided to pass the baby from Kate to William. And you're quite right, she was wearing polka dots, although I don't want to get into trouble for this, but I think Kate's dress was a lot more fashionable than Diana's was, although big tent-like maternity dresses were all the rage at the time, weren't they, Brooke?

BALDWIN: I was just talking about that with Elizabeth Cohen here in studio. Katie, let me come back to you in just a moment.

Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent, we were both chatting in the commercial break about the muumuu right from 1982 vs. Kate's more fitted dress. She looks great, 24 hours just about after giving birth. Is this fairly normal in the U.K.?

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know what? It is. It is. When you look at women that just go into spontaneous labor, about a third of them leave the hospital that day.

BALDWIN: That day?

COHEN: The same day, within 24 hours. That's amazing.

In the United States most women, it's 48 hours. It's part of -- Atika Shubert was saying how they're modern, the modern parents. She used the word normal. They want to be like everybody else. And many, many women -- some women leave within six hours. Like a sizable, small, but sizable chunk of women leave within six hours, part because postpartum care, if not a duchess, you're in this huge room with like dozens of other women. Maybe you just want to go home.

But that's sort of the norm there. I think she wants to be part of the norm. BALDWIN: I just -- there are so many things to say about being part of the norm and who knows what the norm will be for this little baby boy. But in the U.K., even though perhaps they leave the hospital early, are there nurses or members of the medical staff who check in on the mom for days?

COHEN: I know. As an American, this is like a bizarre thought. Right? If a nurse knocked on my door, I would have been like who are you?

(CROSSTALK)

COHEN: But, yes, the National Health Service sends a nurse to come visit with you within 10 days of having your baby.

Sometimes, they come several days, one after the other. So it is just a very different way of doing things than the way we do things here. But you and I were talking about something interesting also which is will Kate breast-feed? I'm really anxious to see what happens with that? Because most women in Britain do breast-feed in the beginning, and the National Health Service encourages that.

It will be interesting. Maybe they will issue a photo of her sort of tastefully breast-feeding, but all covered up. But it will be interesting to see if she does that to encourage other women to do breast-feed.

BALDWIN: The photo-ops to come. We will wait. The world will wait.

Elizabeth Cohen, thank you.

Coming up, we will check back in with Matthew Chance, who is standing by at Kensington Palace, the royal couple, the little baby. They are home. That's next.

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BALDWIN: Welcome back to live royal baby coverage.

We have seen the video. And now the wait is over as far as a still photograph of this teeny-tiny face. Here we have it, two little hands in the blanket. You see Kate's polka dots. We have three pictures as we continue to go through the photographs.

We saw the baby breathe his first bit of fresh air in London just about an hour ago, his new parents stepping out to the throngs of media and lucky passersby and members of the medical staff there at St. Mary's Hospital, the same hospital where we saw Prince Harry was born just over 31 years ago.

So to Kensington Palace we go, to Matthew Chance, which where is where we now know the new mom and dad and baby Cambridge. We say baby Cambridge because baby Cambridge doesn't have a name yet, at least not that we know of.

Tell me who may be home with them and meeting this little one. MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it is definitely going to be family time inside Kensington Palace or at least in the cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace, where the royal couple and baby Cambridge are now safely installed.

We saw the images of them, perhaps the last video we will see of the royal cavalcade, as it were, the car going into the very discrete entrance on a distance side of Kensington Palace a short time ago.

And inside members of the family possibly -- we don't know for sure, but possibly Prince Harry, Prince William's brother, uncle Harry, as he will be to the young child, of course, eventually, possibly members of the duchess' family as well, Pippa Middleton perhaps will be there, possibly Kate's brother as well.

Yes, we're not going to be seeing much of them, I expect, from here on in, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Do we know -- we know that William has about a week-and-a- half left of his paternity leave, which we hear he will take the rest of. Do we know if they will have a nanny?

CHANCE: Yes. I wouldn't want to speculate on that. Certainly what I have heard is that they are not going to be initially. Whether that changes in the future or not remains to be seen, but initially I understand they're not going to.

It's part of this effort that this royal couple are making to be normal or at least to appear normal to the rest of the country and to people around the world who are so fascinated by their particular sort of fairy tale story. It's very important for them, it seems, to not be aloof. It's not just for public relation reasons, but it is genuinely important it seems to Prince William to at least be able to attain the semblance of normality for his very abnormal family and for what will be a very abnormal existence for his young child.

At first, I understand they will not be having a nanny. Obviously, that might change.

BALDWIN: Matthew Chance, thank you so much standing in front of Kensington Palace where the young mom and dad and baby are I'm sure soaking up that private time with family at that discrete retreat that is Kensington Palace.

Victoria Arbiter is also standing by with me. She actually lived for some time at Kensington Palace.

I keep going back to this date, because it blows my mind, 1894, that is the last time we had three living heirs to the throne, in addition to the remaining monarch. As we now known, it's Queen Elizabeth. And then you have Charles, William, and now the baby.

VICTORIA ARBITER, ROYAL WATCHER: Yes. It really goes to show what impressive genes the Windsors really do have.

The queen is still very robust and healthy. It's been sad seeing her out on engagements without Prince Philip, but she seems very happy and very jolly, it's business as usual. We don't expect her to be going anywhere any time soon. She won't be abdicating. We could have the queen -- she's 87 -- for another five or 10 years. It's possible. Prince Charles will be 65 in November, and now William is only 31.

So it could be 65 or 70 years before this baby becomes the sovereign. So really it's lovely to think that we are witnessing the arrival of a baby that has the potential to be the first monarch of the 22nd century. I was kind of hoping, just because it was Queen Victoria that ushered in the 20th century, Elizabeth II that ushered in the 21st century. It would have been the hat trick had we had a girl, but either way, it's wonderful for the queen to see the future of the monarchy certain in safe hands given the optimism and the popularity the family is experiencing right now.

BALDWIN: Victoria, help Americans understand. I know many Americans are fascinated. Many of them are Anglophiles and are just fascinated by this whole storyline and lineage. Others could care less.

When you're in the U.K., the royal family it is an integral part of everyday life.

ARBITER: It really is and it is a very unifying presence.

Day to day, the Brits don't tend to get awfully excited about lots of things. They do when there is an engagement, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations or if England is doing particularly well at a sporting event, the country really comes together.

But just looking at the last two years we have had, the country has really had the global stage starting with the royal wedding, the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the Olympics, then the coronation celebrations this year. And now we have a baby that is just really a button on what has been a wonderful two years.

I think many British people, not everybody certainly, are feeling patriotic and a sense of pride that the world is looking at the U.K. on these positive stories, because so often the focus on a country is usually because something terrible, horrendous is going on, and yet we have had two years of these big events that the world has paid attention to, and we have had a serious feel-good factor. It's been an exciting time.

BALDWIN: Victoria Arbiter, thank you for sharing in the excitement. We appreciate you walking us through this incredible day for so many around the world who are Anglophiles and are following every bit of this.

Coming up, we will play, in case you missed it, in case you just tuned in, the world was introduced to baby Cambridge just over an hour ago. That's when we saw William and Kate descend the steps, just as Diana and Charles had 31 years ago, and gave some comments to the media.

We will replay that in its entirety.

Also, pivoting entirely off the royal baby story, we're getting word here, Anthony Weiner now commenting on some pictures of some sexually charged exchanges here. What's that about? That's next.

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