article_snippet.sent: We will have to see what happens,’ said a senior aide.
article_snippet.sent: The Mail on Sunday has also learned there will be a new line-up in the delivery room at St Mary’s Lindo Wing for the couple’s second child.
article_snippet.sent: Leading obstetrician Guy Thorpe-Beeston will be in charge of the birth, a spokesman for the couple confirmed, assisted by the Queen’s Surgeon-Gynaecologist Alan Farthing, who had been tipped to take the lead role.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farthing was second-in-command to the now retired Sir Marcus Setchell at the birth of the Royal couple’s first child, George.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Both names will be on the notice of birth posted outside Buckingham Palace, but it will be Guy Thorpe-Beeston who will take charge,’ a spokesman for the couple added.
article_snippet.sent: William’s an obstetrics specialist and that’s why William’s in the lead.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Thorpe-Beeston, a specialist in high-risk pregnancies, works at London’s private Portland Hospital and on Harley Street, where he has 18 years’ experience.
article_snippet.sent: he was made Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Royal Household last year following he role in the delivery of George on July 22, 2013, also at the Lindo Wing.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farthing, 51, who was engaged to TV presenter Jill Dando at the time of TV presenter Jill Dando murder, is a specialist in gynaecological cancer care.