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As her due date quickly approaches, rumors of Kate Middleton's birthing plan are swirling, and new reports suggesting that she plans to have a hypno-birth.
According to a report, the Duchess of Cambridge is exploring hypnotherapy as a way to have a natural birth, focusing on the idea that anxiety and fear are what make labor last longer and be more painful.
As for the venue, the 31-year-old royal may take advantage of the birthing pool at St. Mary Hospital in Paddington, London, where her husband, Prince William, was born.
When asked about Will and Kate's plans, a spokeswoman for the royal family said, "We appreciate it's a happy occasion, but there are some matters which should remain private to the duchess."
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| | Kate Middleton's Baby: Getting a Lullaby | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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When you?re the first born of Prince William and Kate Middleton, you?re bound to have a charmed life, and the soon-to-be-born baby already has a lullaby waiting.
Composer Paul Mealor wrote ?Sleep On? for the Royal infant after having penned the wedding music for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?s nuptials.
Mealor explained, "After writing music for the Royal Wedding it seemed natural to provide the musical accompaniment for the next stage of the royal couple's journey together."
And classical singer Hayley Westenra recorded the track on her new album- "Paul and I got together to work on a song called Sleep On in honor of William and Kate's new arrival as it's such a joyous occasion which we can all celebrate."
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| | Kate Middleton Supports Children's Hospices in New Video: Watch Here! | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Keeping her charity work going during her pregnancy, Kate Middleton filmed a message for East Anglia's Children's Hospices.
The Duchess of Cambridge appeared seated in a short-sleeved black top with a white collar and rosy cheeks as she urged viewers to give to the important cause.
Speaking to the camera, the 31-year-old mommy-to-be implored, "Children's Hospice Week is a time to recognize, celebrate, and support the inspirational work of those hospices."
Later, she added, "Children's hospices provide lifelines to families at a time of unimaginable pain... It does not bear thinking about what these families would do without this." Check out Kate's full message in the video below.
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| | Kate Middleton's Pretty Art Room Arrival & Photo Scandal Updates | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Tending to her royal duties, Kate Middleton arrived at the Art Room?s National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday afternoon (April 24).
Showing off her growing baby bump, the gorgeous Duchess of Cambridge donned a powder blue dress with simple grey flats and greeted her admirers before heading inside the London venue.
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| | Kate Middleton's Gorgeous Willows Primary School Appearance | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Taking care of her princess duties, Kate Middleton headed over to the Willows Primary School in Manchester, UK earlier this afternoon (April 23).
The expecting Duchess of Cambridge looked absolutely stunning in a blue and red patterned dress with matching pumps as she greeted her admirers with a smile and a wave.
During her public appearance over the weekend, the 31-year-old beauty showed the first noticeable signs of her growing baby bump in a darling spring Mulberry coat.
According to reports, Kate is expecting her first child with Prince William in July.
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| | Duchess Kate in maternity Mulberry at Windsor Castle: super-cute & glowing? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yay, new Duchess Kate photos! Believe it or not, I really do get excited when we have new photos of Kate, especially when she?s wearing a never-before-seen outfit! I always imagine that her closet is full of outfits that we?ve never seen, but she saves them for her vacations. These are photos of Kate yesterday at Windsor Castle, where she took over an event which the Queen was supposed to host ? the Queen pulled out of the event, I guess because it was her birthday and she wanted to celebrate quietly (and without Kate!). Kate hosted a ?national celebration for scouts who have achieved the Queen’s Scout Award“. Kate also got to mingle with a celebrity too, in the form of Chief Scout Bear Grylls, who is absolutely adorable in his scout?s uniform.
Kate wore this Mulberry maternity dress. From the front, it looks like it?s a two-piece suit, but it?s not. It?s all one-piece, and the ?jacket? is just a weird styling design. Shall we discuss the buttons? Or should we just let Kate?s Button Problem exist? I kind of give her a pass on the buttons for this outfit because I think it?s probably difficult for her to find maternity suits and dresses that aren?t too cutesy and buttony, you know? I do like the bright color on her, and we?ve seen the hat before (several times before).
Behold, the royal baby bump! Six months into her first pregnancy, Kate Middleton is finally really showing — and it suits her well. On Sunday, April 21, the expectant Duchess of Cambridge attended the annual National Review of Queen’s Scouts at Windsor Castle, where she offered one of the best glimpses yet of her growing belly.
Stylish as usual in a mint-green Mulberry cotton-tweed coat, a Whiteley Cappuccino pill box hat, and her favorite LK Bennett “Sledge” heels, the 31-year-old first-time mom-to-be looked radiant and healthy. She smiled widely as she mingled with some of the nearly 3,000 guests who had gathered to watch the parade, which honors young Scouts for their outstanding personal achievements.
The Duchess — who volunteers with the Scout Association and recently took part in a training day at a Scout camp outside London — assisted in handing out the Queen’s Scouts Awards, the highest possible honors for young Scouts. She also met with Chief Scout Bear Grylls, of the show Man vs. Wild, who became one of the U.K.’s youngest Chief Scouts in 2009 at the age of 34. Grylls said Middleton had been “an incredible role model” within the organization and credited her with showing people that “Scouting’s not just for boys.”
“She’s also such a generous volunteer and everyone is so excited to have her in the Scouting family,” he raved. “Many people have followed her lead and are getting involved and enjoying the adventure.”
Prior to the event, Prince William’s wife visited Queen Elizabeth, who turned 87 on Sunday. A Buckingham Palace rep tells Us Weekly that Her Majesty is “celebrating privately at Windsor Castle.”
[From Us Weekly]
Kate probably does enjoy the Scouting stuff, even though she?s yet to attend a red-carpet gala for the organization! Still, work with the Scouts provides for some very good photo-ops when one has been caught shopping every day in a given week. You know we?ve only got a month more of this stuff before she goes on ?maternity leave? right?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Prince William & Kate Middleton's Marvelous New Manor! | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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With their family expansion plans well underway, Prince William and Kate Middleton are looking to score some snazzy digs.
And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have received approval for renovations to be done on their new country home, a Georgian mansion named Anmer Hall.
Additionally, Will and Kate?s London apartment at Kensington Place is also getting a makeover to create a more modern feel prior to the arrival of their Royal bun in the oven.
Meanwhile, Prince William has indicated that he?ll soon make an announcement regarding his future as part of the Royal Air Force?s Search and Rescue squadron.
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| | Duchess Kate 'critic' Hilary Mantel claims she didn't slam or shade Kate at all | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Back in February, English author Hilary Mantel gave a speech about Duchess Kate which was widely covered and excerpted. Mantel seemed to be slamming Kate as ?a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung? with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore? painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character? She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.? Mantel compared Kate unfavorably to Anne Boleyn, saying that Boleyn had been ?a power player, a clever and determined woman? but at the end of the day, a royal wife is ?valued for her body parts, not her intellect or her soul; it was her womb that was central to her story? a royal lady is a royal vagina? at the most basic, they are breeding stock, collections of organs.?
Mantel?s comments were a big deal ? Mantel is a respected and award-winning historical novelist (specializing in royal historical fiction) and most media outlets reported Mantel?s speech as ?author slams poor Duchess Kate?. Even David Cameron chimed in. It was a big deal. But Hilary Mantel defended her comments last week, and now she?s claiming that she was merely shading the media and not Kate:
Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has defended her comments on the Duchess of Cambridge after saying she was becoming “a shop-window mannequin” who was “designed to breed”. The author insisted she had nothing to apologise for. The double Booker Prize winner hit the headlines last month when she referred to the duchess during a lecture at the British Museum as having no personality and appearing to have been “glossed-varnished” with a perfect smile.
In an interview on BBC Radio 3?s Night Waves programme on Thursday night, she said her words had been taken out of context and had no regrets about her comments.
“My lecture and the subsequent essay was actually supportive of the royal family and when I used those words about the Duchess of Cambridge, I was describing the perception of her which has been set up in the tabloid press,” she told presenter Anne McElvoy. “My speech ended with a plea to the press and to the media in general. I said ‘back off and don’t be brutes. Don’t do to this young woman what you did to Diana’. My whole theme was the way we maltreat royal persons, making them one superhuman and yet less than human.”
Mantel, whose latest novels are set in the Tudor court, said she believed she had been set up. She told the radio programme: “I don’t believe for one moment that there was any lack of clarity, after all, I have been practising my trade for a number of years now. It was a matter of taking the words completely out of context ? twisting the context ? and setting me up as a hate figure. I have absolutely no regrets. What I said was crystal clear.”
During the controversial lecture, organised by London Review of Books a month after her latest novel Bring up the Bodies won the Costa prize, Mantel suggested that “painfully thin” Kate was selected for her role of princess because she posed no risk of showing any character.
But she said on Radio 3: “I do think that the Duchess of Cambridge is an intelligent young woman who, if she cares to read my essay, will see that I meant nothing but good to her.”
[From The Guardian]
While I don?t doubt that Mantel?s full speech was nuanced and media-bashing, I think she?s playing it too coy by half by claiming that her speech was completely supportive of Kate and the royal family. You know why? Because Kate and the royal family have a lot of control over their PR images, especially in the UK media. They are not mere celebrities angling for favorable coverage. They have a huge press machine promoting certain images, and Mantel was dead-on about Kate?s image: In the image they push of her, Kate is only a royal body, a clothes hanger lacking in personality. And that is how the royals want her to be seen. And that?s how they promote her ? like a second coming of Diana, only without the humanity, heart, work ethic, audacity, modernity or mess. Basically, Kate?s ?like Diana? because they both liked clothes.
Meanwhile, ?bashing Kate? is the new thing in England. A comedian named Sandi Toksvig recently did a bit in which she said Kate is so basic and meek, she?s like a character out of Jane Austen. She said: ?Kate Middleton is not enough for me. We used to admire women who got their place in life through marriage and having children, but I like to think we’ve grown up a bit. I can’t think of a single opinion she holds ? it’s very Jane Austen.? That?s an insult to Austen and her characters! Elizabeth Bennett is one of the great heroines of English literature, and Lizzie had more guts than Kate. Same for Marianne Dashwood and Emma Woodhouse and especially Anne Elliott. Austen wrote complicated, beautiful and flawed women. This woman doesn?t know what she?s talking about.
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| | Duchess Kate feels well enough to work: 'she wants to stay busy. She's feeling great' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I guess we can start saying that Duchess Kate is officially out of the woods with her hyperemesis gravidarum (side-eye). She seems to have been feeling better for months now ? well enough for a Mystique vacation, well enough for a Switzerland vacation, well enough for a back-breaking TWO public appearances in two and a half months. Kate is putting on weight and she?s forgoing the sausage curls and everything is coming up rosy! So Us Weekly?s sources claim that Kate is ?absolutely fine? with the changes to her pregnant body because? of course. Women have to state that kind of thing nowadays. It can?t just be implicit.
Kate Middleton’s pregnancy may not have gotten off to the smoothest start, but the only bump in the road now is the one she’s been sporting under coats and dresses of late. With her morning sickness under control, the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, is looking and feeling lovely as she prepares for the July birth of her first child with Prince William.
The royal mom-to-be has been happily embracing her new curves in recent weeks and showing off her growing belly at engagements in England and Switzerland.
“She’s absolutely fine with the changes in her body,” a family friend revealed in the March 11 issue of Us Weekly.
Fortunately for the Duchess, those changes no longer include severe morning sickness, for which she was hospitalized in December. “She was saying she had been unwell but was feeling better now,” a patient at the Action on Addiction’s Hope House treatment facility in London told Us of Middleton, who visited the recovery program in February.
Added a source close to the pregnant royal: “She wants to stay busy. She’s feeling great.”
Middleton has indeed been busy. On Tuesday, March 5, she traveled to Grimbsy, England, to visit the National Fishing Heritage Centre, where she seemed to drop an unintentional hint about the sex of her baby-to-be. (Accepting a teddy bear from Grimbsy local Diane Burton, the Duchess said, “Thank you, I’ll take that for my d–” before tellingly cutting herself mid-sentence.)
Two days prior to that outing, Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry headed to Switzerland for Olympian Laura Bechtolsheimer’s wedding to Mark Tomlinson. And last week, the Duchess hit up a London Topshop to pick up some maternity clothes. One thing not on her shopping list? Outfits for her unborn child. “She’s not even bought any baby clothes yet!” a source told Us of how the first-time mother is trying to keep the little one’s gender under wraps.
[From Us Weekly]
This was my favorite quote: “She wants to stay busy. She’s feeling great.” That will play brilliantly into the theory that it?s Buckingham Palace who wants Kate to take a backseat lest she overshadow the Queen or Prince Charles. I think that theory is mostly crap, by the way. Maybe Charles is wary of Kate overshadowing him, but I believe the Queen is starting to get annoyed by William and Kate?s work-shy, vacation-happy ways. And I think the press officers at St. James Palace are tired of waging these ?Kate is so amazing, she works all the time? PR campaigns only to get taken off-message by Kate and William?s endless vacation schedule.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Kate Middleton Slips She's Having a Girl | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Kate Middleton visited Grimsby yesterday (stay with me here) and was greeting the crowd when one lady handed her a teddy bear. A person standing next to her heard Kate almost say she was having a daughter when she thanked her.
According to the person, “The lady next to me gave her a teddy bear and I distinctly heard her say ‘Thank you, I will take that for my d….’”
Then she stopped herself. I leant over and said to her: “You were going to say daughter, weren?t you?” She said: “No, we don?t know!” I said: “Oh, I think you do” to which she replied: “We?re not telling!”
Two possibilities. One, she was really going to say “daughter,” as in, “My daughter is going to love this.” Or, two, she was really going to say “dog” as in, “My dog is going to love tearing this thing up.”
Whatever the case, it was a good idea to stop before she finished her sentence because she would have either given it away or sounded like a mean b*tch.
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