Dramatic details surrounding the premature birth of Lady Louise Windsor have been revealed for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II’s former press secretary, Ailsa Anderson.
Speaking to Hello Magazine’s A Right Royal Podcast, Mrs Anderson recalled the events of November 2003, which the Countess of Wessex once described as a “shock.”
Mrs Anderson said: “I remember I was sitting at home having a dinner party. Actually, I got a call from Marcus Setchell, who was the Queen’s gynaecologist who was overseeing the birth.
“He said, ‘I’m in a police car on my way to Frimley Park hospital. You better come’. So I thought, crikey.”
She continued: “I ordered a taxi and got myself down to Frimley Park, but the Earl of Wessex was abroad on an official visit. They couldn’t get a hold of her parents. So basically, it was just me and Marcus and the courtiers in the hospital. It was so dramatic,”
The Countess of Wessex went into labour prematurely at 36 weeks and delivered Lady Louise by emergency Caesarean section.
She was rushed to hospital by ambulance from their home at Bagshot Park in Surrey.
As the events occurred so suddenly, Prince Edward was out of the country at the time in Mauritius.
Alisia Anderson was The Queen’s press secretary from 2001 to 2013, when she left her position to work for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
