The world’s digital and scribbling hordes have been camped outside St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington for weeks but the Duchess of Cambridge could yet give them the slip by giving birth in Reading, according to the Telegraph newspaper. The Duchess, who is thought to have passed her due date, has been staying with her parents in Bucklebury, Berkshire the paper says. The plan is for the Duchess to give birth at St. Mary’s Lindo Wing but there is also a contingency plan for a birth at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. This is where the expectant royal wife was born in 1982. The Royal Berkshire hospital is in Reading and if the Duchess goes into labour while she is staying with her parents and her labour progresses more quickly than expected, the Telegraph says, her doctors could send her to the Royal Berkshire, which is less than half an hour’s drive from Bucklebury. The trip to London is 53-miles although we may assume the ambulance would have a high-powered escort.
