DHAKA: Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.

It was both a traditional and very 21st-century moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from the Lindo Wing doors at St Mary’s Hospital in London.

Several hundred cheering well-wishers crammed behind barricades on the streets around the private hospital wing, screaming with delight as the beaming couple emerged.

Wearing a lemon and white floral summery dress, a smiling Kate cradled her daughter in her right arm, the baby wrapped in a white blanket and wearing a white bonnet.

BDST: 1352 HRS, MAY 03, 2015
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