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Princess Kate (aka the Duchess of Cambridge) is Pregnant!

^ You mean our once and glorious future monarch Henry IX 'bloody Harry'?;)

I'm sure that he'll live with it somehow...:lol:
 
well I for one am happy for them. But then I can remember when they announced Diana was pregnant with William.

I hope she gets past this difficult stage quickly.
 
They are not pregnant. She is pregnant. I absolutely hate that "we are pregnant" or "they are pregnant" cutesy terminology.
Yes, I can't stand that "We are pregnant" business either. Just too, too twee.

The monarchy is an antiquated political institution that needs to go the way of the Ancien Regime.
They've already lost their Empire and decimalized their currency. Abolish the monarchy? What would you have them do next -- drive on the right side of the road?
 
Boring? Boring? This can bring us months of mirth if we approach it in the right way; which is to say, focus on the response and the attention rather than on the couple. :lol:

You know extreme morning sickness can be a sign of twins.

I bet the fevered speculation articles are already written! Heck they probably wrote them when William hit puberty, they just fill in the name.
 
It's Princess Catherine. I'm not a royalist but if you're going to give her a title, do it properly.
 
From the Official British Monarchy Facebook Page:

Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby.

The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry and members of both families are delighted with the news.

The Duchess was admitted this afternoon to King Edward VII Hospital in Central London with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. As the pregnancy is in its very early stages, Her Royal Highness is expected to stay in hospital for several days and will require a period of rest thereafter.

And here's an excerpt from the Guardian:

St James's Palace announced the news after the duchess was admitted to hospital on Monday afternoon with acute morning sickness.

It is understood that the duchess is not yet 12 weeks. But the fact she has been admitted to hospital, and is likely to stay there for several days, forced the palace into making an announcement earlier than it would have liked.

... The baby will be the third in line to the throne, bumping Prince Harry, the baby's uncle, to fourth place.

I hope that Prince William & Princess Kate have a boy!!

DILLIGAF
 
This is great news for them, assuming they wanted children. I can't imagine what the pressure must be like.
 
It's Princess Catherine. I'm not a royalist but if you're going to give her a title, do it properly.

Princess is a title usually conveyed by birth, rather than marriage. As Prince William's wife she's most formally refered to as Princess William, failing that she's the Duchess of Cambridge or Countess of Strathearn in Scotland.

dJE
 
This is great news for them, assuming they wanted children. I can't imagine what the pressure must be like.

Well especially for Kate who would have had to have undergone various examinations to make sure she could actually provide children before the wedding - it's nice that she's pretty and can smile and stuff but her main function is broodmare.

Still at least it's not like the old days where the Home Secretary
would be present at the birth, I think Prince Anna's birth was the last one a HS attended :wtf:
 
I think they did away with the pre-marriage medical checks after Diana. It's not as though he's going to say no I'm not going to marry her, is it?
 
They do now. They didn't in his dad's day. That's why the second in line to the throne married a commoner. They're allowed to marry whoever they want now. His father had to marry who he was told to marry and look how well that turned out. Ergo it stands to reason it was pointless to do any medical checks beforehand, not least because Diana's boys would have told the establishment to fuck off.
 
They do now. They didn't in his dad's day. That's why the second in line to the throne married a commoner. They're allowed to marry whoever they want now. His father had to marry who he was told to marry and look how well that turned out. Ergo it stands to reason it was pointless to do any medical checks beforehand, not least because Diana's boys would have told the establishment to fuck off.


Diana's boys are the establishment.
 
Princess is a title usually conveyed by birth, rather than marriage. As Prince William's wife she's most formally refered to as Princess William, failing that she's the Duchess of Cambridge or Countess of Strathearn in Scotland.

Always had my suspicions about him.
 
Princess is a title usually conveyed by birth, rather than marriage. As Prince William's wife she's most formally refered to as Princess William, failing that she's the Duchess of Cambridge or Countess of Strathearn in Scotland.
Always had my suspicions about him.

That's a load of bollocks. Princess Diana was never called Princess Charles.
 
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