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Queen pays a private visit to Britain's future king

William and Kate settle into their life asparents of a newborn in Kensington Palace

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Kensington Palace in central London. Photo: AP

Britain's Queen Elizabeth paid a private visit yesterday to Prince William and his wife Kate to meet their newborn son, her great-grandson who will one day inherit the throne.

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The 87-year-old spent just over half an hour at Kensington Palace in London where the still unnamed infant, the third in line to the throne, was spending his first day after leaving hospital.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge emerged from St Mary's Hospital in London with the unnamed baby boy in their arms, to huge cheers and a roar from the massed ranks of international media.

Wearing a cornflower-blue polka-dot dress, a beaming Kate said the couple were "very emotional" to have welcomed their son, who is third-in-line to the British throne.

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William, meanwhile, said they were still choosing a name for the child dubbed Baby Cambridge, and revealed that he had already changed his first nappies.

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