Photo: Getty "This is a girl! Today, the Duchess of Cambridge safely gave birth to her first daughter. If you want to greet a new member of our family, do it! Post a picture and use our hashtag #WelcomeToTheFamily, then we can include this post in our blog on social networks! ”- the representatives of the royal network in“ Instagram ”shared a joyful event. After 10 minutes, the official royal family wrote that the weight of the child amounted to 3.71 kg and Prince William was present at birth. The name Kensington Palace will be announced only after the baby's parents share the good news with their family and friends.A photo: GettyThe little princess appeared in the Windsor dynasty! Today Kate Middleton became a mother for the second time. On the Duchess's pregnancy, it became officially known on September 8 last year, but the sex of the child was kept secret until birth. It was a surprise even for Kate and William, because they had already agreed at the very beginning of the pregnancy not to find out the sex of the baby from doctors, which gave rise to a lot of rumors and hypotheses. Bookmakers even bets on a boy, girl and twins. Most votes were for the second option. During the pregnancy, Kate leaned on the sweet and strongly recovered, which, according to national signs, said that the daughter would be born. The baby appeared in the same St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, where Princess Diana gave birth to 32 years ago, and on July 22, 2013 Kate Middleton gave birth to a prince of the firstborn - a son. Then the birth cost the royal family 10 thousand pounds sterling. The second baby was born with a 10% discount, which was provided to parents for re-treatment at the St. Mary's clinic. As a result, childbirth cost 6.6 thousand pounds (about 500 thousand rubles).Photo: InstagramBoy, girl or twins?The first rumors that Kate and Prince William would become parents for the second time appeared in May of last year, long before the current pregnancy. Then the Duchess simply missed an important social event - a charity dinner for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, where designer Ralph Lauren, actress Cate Blanchett and other famous guests were waiting for her. And journalists immediately suspected that the reason was her "interesting situation". Their imagination ran wild so much that they claimed that Kate was pregnant with twins! But a week later the information was refuted. The official statement was made only on September 8, 2014. The official page of the British monarchy community on Facebook posted the following: "The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting her second child. The Queen and all members of the family are very happy about this news. As during her first pregnancy, the Duchess of Cambridge will not accompany Prince William to business events. She is currently under the supervision of Kensington Palace." A little later, on October 20, 2014, it was announced that Catherine and William's second child would be born in April 2015. The palace did not specify whether it would be a boy or a girl. But the whole world began to guess. Many bet that the sex of the second child would match the first for genetic reasons: two girls were born in the Middleton family, and two boys were born in the royal family. Windsor family biographer Robert Lacey claimed that Kate and William were predisposed to having twins, since they had twins in their family: "William's uncle Charles Spencer has twin daughters, and his grandfather, Lord Fermoy, was one of a pair of twins. As for Kate, her paternal grandmother had a twin sister," the historian said. And the royal family, as they said, hoped for a girl, since they had already chosen a name for her. Even during the first pregnancy, when Kate and William did not know who would be born, they came up with a name for the girl just in case in honor of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana - Elizabeth Diana Windsor. The condition of the pregnant Middleton spoke in favor of the daughter. Reporters noticed that Prince William often visited the pastry shop for cakes. And if you believe the folk signs, then it is the mothers of girls who have a big sweet tooth...Read More