Kate must raise future monarch in full media spotlight

She transformed herself effortlessly from ordinary Kate Middleton into a future queen — but for Britain’s most famous new mother, the work has just begun.

Exhausted after giving birth, 31-year-old Kate will have little time to recover after she and Prince William presented their newborn son, third in line to the throne, to the world’s media camped outside the hospital yesterday.

It was a public start to a very public motherhood.