He told Corey Johnson, 36, he hopes for the arrival of a little princess – and laughed when Mr Johnson told him: “That’s a bit biased!” Charles said: “We are very happy. It’s splendid, very exciting.”

Kate Middleton and Prince William depart The Lindo Wing with their newborn son at St Mary's Hospital

He had reportedly expressed the same hope for a girl when Princess Diana was pregnant with second son Harry.

In his 1992 book Diana: Her True Story, author Andrew Morton claimed Diana said: “Charles always wanted a girl... I knew Harry was a boy and I didn’t tell him.”

During her first pregnancy Kate also let slip that William wanted a daughter, telling Guardsman Lee Wheeler, 29: “I’d like to have a boy and William would like a girl. That’s always the way.”

The Duchess of Cambridge cancelled a public engagement on Monday due to her condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, which she also suffered while pregnant with 13-month-old son George.

William attended the engagement alone then said: “I’m going to go and look after her now.”

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