--- title: Random Couple Leaves Lindo Hospital Wing to Find Press description: A random couple left the hospital to find international press waiting for the arrival of Kate Middleton's royal baby number three. canonical: https://time.com/5250168/couple-lindo/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-23T11:01:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T20:24:00.000Z og:title: Totally Random Non-Royal Couple Exits Hospital to Great Fanfare og:description: It's not Kate Middleton and royal baby number three but it's still exciting og:url: https://time.com/5250168/couple-lindo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8310a439c3747d7/6988ce032dce0198979ed8f1/princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Totally Random Non-Royal Couple Exits Hospital to Great Fanfare twitter:description: It's not Kate Middleton and royal baby number three but it's still exciting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8310a439c3747d7/6988ce032dce0198979ed8f1/princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Totally Random Non-Royal Couple Exits Hospital to Great Fanfare > Sponsored content. 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Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 8:24 PM UTCPublished: Apr 23, 2018 11:01 AM UTC Having zero percent royal blood, a random husband and wife left the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital — where Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, [was in labor](http://time.com/5178353/royal-baby-born-kate-middleton/) with her third royal baby — to find [international press waiting](http://time.com/5196339/kate-middleton-lindo-wing-live-stream/). ABC News’s James Longman shared a photo of a [couple on their way out of the Lindo Wing](http://time.com/5226322/royal-baby-name-odds/) at [St. Mary’s Hospital in London](http://time.com/5156818/kate-middleton-royal-baby-due-date/), which would be a pretty naturally occurring phenomenon. Except it’s game time for the growing royal family. [Royal baby three is on the way](http://time.com/5183893/kate-middleton-royal-baby/). Kate Middleton was just admitted to the hospital in the “early stages” of labor to [give birth](http://time.com/4770506/syrian-refugees-name-child-justin-trudeau/) to the third royal child with her husband Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge. So the press — [and the world](http://time.com/5196405/royal-baby-born-reactions-memes/) — is eagerly awaiting any sign of the child. When the baby arrives, the family will step outside the very same doors in front of hundreds of reporters, quick-shooting photographers, and fans. This was not that kid, and not that couple. But it looks like the royal treatment was awaiting a random child anyway. “Unsuspecting couple have new baby – and find the world’s press waiting outside,” Longman wrote. It’ll be a story for the family forever. > [](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/988317286145646592) > [](https://twitter.com/JamesAALongman/status/988350686587998213) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5250168/couple-lindo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5250168/couple-lindo/"},"headline":"Totally Random Non-Royal Couple Exits Hospital to Great Fanfare","datePublished":"2018-04-23T11:01:31.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T20:24:00.000Z","description":"A random couple left the hospital to find international press waiting for the arrival of Kate Middleton's royal baby number three.","url":"https://time.com/5250168/couple-lindo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","royal baby","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8310a439c3747d7/6988ce032dce0198979ed8f1/princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8310a439c3747d7/6988ce032dce0198979ed8f1/princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"princess-charlotte-life-in-pictures-3","caption":"Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, depart the Lindo Wing with their newborn baby daughter at St. Mary's Hospital in London on May 2, 2015.","creditText":"Samir Hussein—WireImage/Getty 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/5250168/couple-lindo/","name":"Totally Random Non-Royal Couple Exits Hospital to Great Fanfare"}}]}] ```