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| | Duchess Kate drops a 'D?: did she accidentally hint that she's expecting a girl' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In yesterday?s Duchess Kate post, I forgot to mention something that has gone uncommented-upon for a few months (mostly because yesterday was only Kate?s second ?public appearance? in 2013). Did you notice that she?s gotten a lot better about stroking her hair? She still does it, of course, because her hair (weave?) is her security blanket and she usually refuses to pull it back out of her face. But she?s gotten a lot better about fussing with it endlessly during her public appearances. A notable improvement! There, I said something nice.
Anyway, people are still dissecting Kate?s super-special visit to the town of Grimley, which St, James Palace wants you to know was definitely NOT Waity?s punishment for taking too many vacations. The biggest news? Kate DROPPED A D. In other words, Kate might have dropped a hint that she?s expecting a baby girl! Huh.
Get ready for another Queen of England? Kate Middleton dropped a major hint that she is pregnant with a baby girl during a visit to the National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby, England on Tuesday, March 5. During the engagement, the expectant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, was given a white teddy bear by a local, Diane Burton. “Thank you, I’ll take that for my d–” Prince William’s wife replied, tellingly cutting herself off mid-sentence.
When a well-wisher asked the royal if she was about to say “daughter,” Middleton smiled and replied coyly, “We’re not telling.” Another witness, Sandra Cook, overheard the exchange and told reporters: “I said to her: ‘You were going to say daughter weren’t you?’ and she said, ‘No, we don’t know.’” Remarked Cook, 67, to the Duchess: “I said, ‘Oh, I think you do’, to which she said: ‘We’re not telling.’” Middleton, meanwhile, happily clutched the teddy bear gift.
Privately, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge recently learned the sex of their baby, a source confirmed to Us Weekly, “but they’ve only told their parents.”
If it’s indeed a girl, that’s big, big news for the royal couple, who celebrate their second wedding anniversary next month — and even bigger news for the United Kingdom. Prince William’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II recently decreed that, should William and Kate’s firstborn be a daughter, she will be called “Princess,” and referred to as Her Royal Highness. In addition, the Succession the Crown Bill, overruling centuries of royal gender discrimination, decrees that William and Kate’s firstborn will be the heir to the throne regardless of gender.
The future British ruler is staying active before its big arrival, too. “I asked [Middleton] if [the baby] has been moving or kicking,” onlooker Bobbie Brown recalled. “She said: ‘Yes, it is. Very much so.’”
[From Us Weekly]
Is this a case of Kate?s pregnancy-brain (is that term offensive? I?ve heard loads of pregnant women say it!), where she forgot in the moment that everything she said was going to parsed endlessly? Or was Kate about to drop some other d-word besides ?daughter?? What other words could she have used? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my duke. The Duke of Cambridge!? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my d-bag husband.? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my dog, Lupo. He loves to play with stuffed animals.? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my dude.? So, is Kate having a girl? Will they totally name her Diana Carole?
And if that wasn?t exciting enough, another well-wisher, an elderly woman, told Kate: ?I?m waiting for you to be Queen.? And Kate said dryly, ?You might be waiting a long time.? God help us all.
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| | Duchess Kate, nervous about childbirth: 'It would be unnatural if I wasn't.' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As we discussed yesterday, Duchess Kate made her first public appearance in months when she visited Hope House, which is part of one of patronages, Action on Addiction. Kate wore a Max Mara Studio dress which costs 298 (roughly $460). But the real ?money? piece of Kate?s ensemble was her Asprey diamond button pendant necklace, which costs 2,800 (roughly $4330). I?m not complaining? I like jewelry, I like talking about jewelry, and Kate has some lovely pieces in her collection? and she will be getting even more throughout her life. Think of this $4300 diamond pendant necklace as a ?starter piece? for the crazy jewels she?s going to have in a decade or two.
While Kate was speaking to some ladies at Hope House, she ran into an expectant mother who is due around the same time. And Kate SPOKE!
Royal baby jitters! Pregnant Kate Middleton was frank with fellow expectant moms during a visit to London’s Hope House, Action on Addiction on Tuesday, Feb. 19. In her first official event following her babymoon in Mustique, the 31-year-old royal showcased her growing baby bump in a MaxMara outfit — and talked about her pregnancy with two recovering women in an art therapy class.
One woman, 28-year-old Natalie, is currently expecting her second child, which is due this July, just like Prince William’s wife. “She was saying she had been unwell but is feeling better now and I have been about the same. We were all talking about children,” Natalie of their chat.
Recovering alcoholic Lisa is a mother of three, and asked Middleton the obvious. “I asked her if she was nervous about having a child and she said ‘it would be unnatural if I wasn’t. It’s just human, isn’t it?’” Lisa told reporters of her chat with Middleton.
“I said congratulations and good luck and I hope it all goes okay. She smiled. It was that nice she just chatted to us.”
One topic not discussed during Middleton’s Action on Addiction visits? The insults leveled upon her by author Hilary Mantel, who called the royal a “shop window mannequin” with a “plastic smile” in a recent speech.
Countered Nick Barton, chief executive of Action on Addiction: “I can only speak of what I know, and having met the Duchess several times I find her to be engaging, natural and genuinely interested in the subject. You can tell a lot about someone from the questions they ask and she asks really good questions, the questions of someone who wants to learn. She is also an intelligent woman.”
Added Barton of the Duchess’ efforts: “She is doing an enormous amount to reduce the stigma of addiction and increase understanding of it.”
[From Us Weekly]
?It would be unnatural if I wasn’t. It’s just human, isn’t it?? That seems? oddly worded. Stilted. Like, ?One would feel nervous if one displayed human emotions, of course.? Maybe she just IS nervous. I?m nervous for her. But my fears of pregnancy and childbirth are well-documented on this blog ? do not even talk to me about childbirth because I will gag.
As for whether Kate is really doing much (or enough) to help Action on Addiction, or whether she really gives a crap about anything other than shopping and getting her hair done? actions speak louder than words. And what we keep seeing is very little action and very stilted words.
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| | Duchess Kate took a grueling 8-hour flight for her Mustique vacation, how brave! | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some photos from 2006, from a trip to Ibiza Prince William took with then Kate Middleton (his girlfriend of some-odd 3 or 4 years) and some friends. These are some of the rare photos we have of William and Kate?s many, many vacations of their on-and-off 11 years together. When they were just ?dating,? they averaged about six to eight major vacations a year (not including weekend getaways), often with Kate?s parents and sometimes with William?s father. Since getting married in 2011, Kate and William have managed to keep up with their pre-engagement vacation schedule, even lying about their commitments or pushing aside royal duties so they could maintain their lay-about lifestyle.
Why bring this up? Because Prince William and Duchess Kate are on vacation right now. SHOCKING. They are in Mustique with Kate?s parents ? this is one of the Middletons? annual traditions, going to Mustique in January or February when, like, no one else has time off. I don?t really get it.
MUM-to-be the Duchess of Cambridge has jetted to the Caribbean for a holiday with Prince William after recovering from her morning sickness, The Sun can reveal.
Kate, 31 ? who was hospitalised in December ? is staying at a 19,000-a-week villa on the island of Mustique.
The luxury pad boasts an infinity pool, games room and stunning views of the Caribbean Sea. And the royal couple also have Kate?s parents Michael and Carole staying nearby.
Last night a source revealed: ?The Duke and Duchess have joined the Middletons for a winter break. Both William and Kate were hoping her condition would not stop her from making the eight-hour flight to Barbados and the connection to Mustique. A month ago such a journey would have been unthinkable for her, so this is a clear sign she has made a virtual recovery.?
Kate and Wills, 30, have enjoyed more than six holidays on Mustique since they started dating. It was a favourite hideaway for his great aunt Princess Margaret.
[From The Sun]
At first I was like, ?Oh, it?s The Sun, it?s probably BS.? But Us Weekly & People Mag confirmed it. It?s happening. They are staying at a $30,000-a-week villa, and Poor Brave Kate needs to be applauded for being so BRAVE as to undertake a grueling 8-hour flight? so that she could take a vacation. Again. The poor thing!
Hilariously, St. James Palace had to do some quick counter-programming because they knew the vacation story was going to break, so they released information yesterday that Kate (the poor, delicate, brave little sausage) was going to undertake her second public appearance on February 19th. That will be her second official public appearance in three months, I believe.
Kate Middleton isn’t scaling back her royal responsibilities. The pregnant Duchess of Cambridge will visit Hope House, Action on Addiction, in London on Tuesday, Feb. 19, St. James’ Palace announced on Tuesday, Feb. 5. This will be the 31-year-old’s second official appearance since announcing her pregnancy in December 2012.
Middleton will meet clients and staff at the 23-bed residential treatment center. Action on Addiction offers a safe place for women to recover from substance abuse; they are also given additional support for other compulsive disorders. Prince William’s pregnant wife became a patron of Action on Addiction in January 2012.
The mom-to-be has been seen in public only a handful of times since revealing her baby news late last year. She attended the unveiling of her first official portrait at the National Portrait Gallery on Jan. 11. “I thought it was brilliant,” Middleton told curators of the painting, created by Glasgow-born, South African-raised artist Paul Emsley.
In the following weeks, Middleton was spotted purchasing maternity clothes at JoJo Maman Bebe and browsing the racks at Reiss. Due in July, the duchess also emerged from Kensington Palace to order a drink from Starbucks and take her dog Lupo for a walk.
While royal parents have historically hired full-time teams to assist with newborns, Middleton and her 30-year-old husband want to handle the bulk of the childrearing, a source recently told Us Weekly: “They want to be as hands-on as possible.”
[From Us Weekly]
So Kate is so brave, so resilient, so tough, so amazing, so admirable to be shopping until she drops all over London, then jetting off for a tropical vacation, and then we have to be super-grateful that she deigns to make one public appearance every eight weeks or so? Seriously ? what in the world is up with William and Kate?s publicity team? They are really crappy at their jobs. They wouldn?t have to work this hard if just one of them would sit down with William and Kate and tell them directly: ?Stop taking so many vacations. Do some actual work. People will like you more if you stop looking so damn lazy.?
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| | This Is the Kate Middleton Portrait | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Kate Middleton posed for her first portrait which was unveiled today. It looked like that thing above. Apparently, Kate is really 45-years-old with two kids and a minivan if the painting is to be believed. [via Guardian]
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| | Prince William & Kate Middleton: Royal Portrait Pals | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Kicking off their day with a swanky event, Prince William and Kate Middleton showed up at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England this morning (January 11).
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were in the house for the official unveiling of a new portrait of Kate that was painted by artist Paul Emsley.
And while there has been widespread criticism of the painting, Middleton is said to be a big fan of how things turned out. She told press, 'I thought it was brilliant. It's just amazing. Absolutely brilliant.?
Of his creative process, Emsley explained, ?The Duchess explained to me that she would like to be portrayed naturally ? her natural self as opposed to her official self. She struck me as enormously open and generous and a very warm person. After initially feeling it was going to be an unsmiling portrait, I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling ? that is really who she is.?
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| | Duchess Kate donated a baby hamper for one of her charity's annual auctions | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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If she?s not careful, Duchess Kate will just work her little fingers to the bone! Haha. No, just kidding. Kate did something nice for one of her (few) charities, and Kate?s press office dutifully pushed a press release about it. What was the ?nice? thing? Kate ?managed to donate a baby hamper? for a charity auction for EACH (East Anglia?s Children?s Hospices). It?s nice. It?s not, like, the most groundbreaking and amazing charitable gift anyone has ever offered, but that?s fine. My problem is not that Kate donated something nice for a charity. My problem is with how the press and the band of royal sycophants treats her nice deed.
Kate Middleton hasn’t had an easy pregnancy, but she knows other parents have it far worse. And as a mother-to-be herself, she wants to help.
After announcing on Dec. 3 that she and husband Prince William, both 30, were expecting their first child, the Duchess quietly reached out to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), a charity that offers assistance for the loved ones of young people with serious, life-threatening diseases. (Her Royal Highness became a patron of the organization in January 2011.)
Despite being hospitalized at the time with hyperemesis gravidarum — a rare condition that can cause severe morning sickness, weight loss, dehydration, and fainting — Middleton managed to donate a baby hamper for EACH’s annual charity auction. According to the foundation’s website, EACH needs to raise more than 5.75 million pounds in public donations to deliver its services.
“EACH is invaluable to hundreds of families. In the past year there has been an unprecedented amount of care and support delivered to children and young people with life-threatening illnesses, and their families,” the mom-to-be says in a statement on the auction’s page online.
“I have been fortunate enough to meet some of those who have been supported by EACH, and seen firsthand the positive impact this organization has on their lives,” she continues. “For both families accessing care, and those who have been bereaved, EACH is a lifeline at an unimaginably difficult time.”
The pregnant Duchess has her own lifelines in her husband and in the couple’s families, who supported her through her recent illness and hospitalization.
Since returning home in early December, the first-time mom-to-be has been taking it relatively easy. On Christmas day, she and William skipped Queen Elizabeth’s annual gathering at Sandringham in favor of a more low-key celebration with Middleton’s parents and siblings in Bucklebury. They later joined the royal family for the traditional Boxing Day festivities on Dec. 26.
[From Us Weekly]
I?m sure there will be a lot of bids and the hamper will probably bring in a lot of money, and more people will become aware of the charity auction, which is a great thing. This made me wonder though? I wonder how much baby stuff is being sent to Will & Kate these days? Kate has always made it a priority that she doesn?t accept freebies or discounts, but I do wonder if they aren?t making an exception for all of the free baby stuff they?re getting from companies who want the newborn prince or princess to be seen wearing their products. It would be interesting if Kate and Will decide to donate all of that stuff too.
Two more stories for you? one, The Mail says that the Queen is making it clear that Will and Kate will have their own little (?little?) cottage on her Sandringham estate ? you can see photos of ?the cottage? here. It looks very much like an eight-bedroom mansion to me, but sure, a ?cottage?. The cottage is called Anmer Hall, and it?s part of the Queen?s extensive Sandringham estate, which means that Will and Kate will have absolutely no excuse to NOT come to Sandringham for future Christmases. So this will probably be one of Kate and Will?s many ?country estates? outside of London. Word is that the Queen and/or Charles will be getting them a Scottish estate too.
And the other story ? Kate?s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, are being criticized yet again for seeming to ?profit? from their royal connection. The Middleton company, Party Pieces, is currently selling ?Little Princess? and ?Little Prince? birthday party supplies and kits. Eh. It doesn?t offend me because? Party Pieces has always sold tacky knickknacks which often have some kind of royal flair. The Middletons profit from their daughter?s marriage in many, many ways, and in this particular case, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill.
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| | Kate Middleton's Nurse Suicide: Update | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Earlier this month she fell for a radio prank and ended up giving out information on Kate Middleton's condition, and hospital nurse Jacintha Saldanha indeed committed suicide following the incident.
According to a new report from the coroner?s office, the 46-year-old married mother-of-two ended her own life by hanging herself with a scarf from a wardrobe in her home, located near the King Edward VII hospital in which she worked.
Furthermore, Saldanha had injuries to both wrists and had left a total of three suicide notes for her children and husband.
Fiona Wilcox of the coroner?s office announced that the case would be adjourned until March 26th, 2013, noting, ?I extend my sympathies to her family and everybody who has been touched by this tragic death.?
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| | Kate Middleton: Home from the Hospital! | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s been receiving medical treatment for acute morning sickness for the past few days, and this morning (December 6) Kate Middleton was finally released from the hospital.
The Duchess of Cambridge stepped out of London?s King Edward VII hospital carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers and accompanied by her husband Prince William, much to the relief of Royal watchers the world over.
Of the situation, assistant press secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Nick Loughran, released a statement reading: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII Hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest. Their Royal Highnesses would like to thank the staff at the hospital for the care and treatment The Duchess has received."
his past Monday (December 3) a spokesperson for the Royal Family shared that Catherine and Will are expecting their first child, though the announcement seemed to be forced by Middleton?s need for medical attention.
Said to be about 12 weeks along, Ms. Middleton experienced horrible bouts of nausea in the days leading up to her hospitalization. For now she?ll spend some time resting at Kensington Palace in London.
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| | Kate Middleton Has Been Confirmed Pregnant | | Added 11 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Experts in their field have examined Kate Middleton’s uterus and have determined that a living organism is growing inside her. She’s pregnant, if that wasn’t clear. No word on how far along she is but it definitely hasn’t been 12 weeks.Currently, the Duchess of Cambridge is in a London hospital with a severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum. She can’t keep any food or liquid down. Tara Reid knows what I’m talking about. Amirite? *Makes glug glug noises*Prince William and Kate’s first child will be the third in line for the throne behind William and his father Prince Charles thusleapfrogging past his brother Prince Harry. Unless of course they all die in a horrible baking accident. I’m not saying Prince Harry would do something like that but its safe to keep that kid away from all pastry classes until he’s 18.
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| | Prince William & Duchess Kate Middleton: Baby on the Way! | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It turns out all the rumors have finally come true? Kate Middleton is ?in the very early stages? of pregnancy with Prince William's baby and everyone is super excited.
A statement from Buckingham Palace and Clarence House confirmed that the Duchess of Cambridge is with child, the first grandchild for either side of their families.
Earlier today (December 3) Kate was taken to King Edward VII Hospital in London, England with a severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum and is expected to stay there for a few days.
Will and Kate got married in April 2011 in a massive ceremony, and ever since they said ?I Do? it seems they?ve been plagued with pregnancy reports.
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