--- title: Kate Middleton Leaves Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3 description: Just hours after giving birth to her third child with Prince William, Kate Middleton left St. Mary's Hospital with prince. canonical: https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-23T16:56:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:59.879Z og:title: Kate Middleton Just Left the Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3 og:description: The newest royal is officially on the way home og:url: https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb63caaba5c50675d/69892e66db298729ca25f73f/180423-kate-middleton-birth-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2800 og:image:height: 1575 og:image:alt: 180423-kate-middleton-birth og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Middleton Just Left the Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3 twitter:description: The newest royal is officially on the way home twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb63caaba5c50675d/69892e66db298729ca25f73f/180423-kate-middleton-birth-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kate Middleton Just Left the Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3 > Sponsored content. 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Neil Mockford—GC Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 23, 2018 4:56 PM UTC The [newest royal](http://time.com/5156818/kate-middleton-royal-baby-due-date/) is officially on his way home to London’s Kensington Palace. Just after [Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge,](http://time.com/5114384/kate-middleton-kids-mental-health-speech/) gave birth to her third child with [Prince William](http://time.com/5168343/prince-william-motorcycle/), Kate Middleton left St. Mary’s Hospital with the prince just before 1 p.m. EST. on April 23. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge introduced the new baby to the world outside the hospital’s private Lindo Wing just as they did with their first two children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. However, Middleton and Prince William shortened the amount of time they spent posing for photos in what seemed like an attempt to keep the departure as low-key as possible. The official Kensington Palace Twitter account first revealed that Middleton was pregnant on Sept. 4, around a month before announcing that she was due sometime in April. > [](https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/988453082420924416) > [](https://twitter.com/RE%5FDailyMail/status/988461282268467201) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/"},"headline":"Kate Middleton Just Left the Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3","datePublished":"2018-04-23T16:56:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:59.879Z","description":"The newest royal is officially on the way home","url":"https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/","keywords":["Newsfeed","kate middleton","Prince William","royals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb63caaba5c50675d/69892e66db298729ca25f73f/180423-kate-middleton-birth-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb63caaba5c50675d/69892e66db298729ca25f73f/180423-kate-middleton-birth-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"180423-kate-middleton-birth","caption":"Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge opens the new Place2Be Headquarters on March 7, 2018 in London, England.","creditText":"Neil Mockford—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5178537/kate-middleton-leaves-hospital-royal-baby-3/","name":"Kate Middleton Just Left the Hospital With Royal Baby Number 3"}}]}] ```