• Mon, Jan 14 - 10:20 am ET

Mark Your Calendars: Kate Middleton Announces The Royal Baby’s Due Date

Kate MiddletonI have good and bad news this morning. The good news is that we now know the royal baby’s due date. The future prince or princess is due to be born in July, and to never celebrate their birthday by bringing cupcakes into school. (Sorry summer birthdays!) The bad news is that this means we still have a full seven months of talking about the royal baby and Kate Middleton’s uterus ahead of us. Seven months is a long time my friends.

This morning, the PR team for the royal family announced that Kate Middleton is due in July. The fact that they made this announcement on a Monday morning does not bode well for exactly how many times we’re going to read about this baby in-utero. The Palace press people obviously want each and every story about the future heir to make news and grab headlines.

Before the announcement, speculation put Middleton’s due date in May or June. Most expected that the couple would have waited to announce the pregnancy until after the 12-week mark, when women are much less likely to lose a pregnancy through miscarriage.

The newly confirmed July date means that Prince William and Duchess Catherine announced their joyous news even earlier than that, most likely due to Kate’s hospitalization with extreme morning sickness, known as hyperemesis.

The only other substantive bit of information to be had from the latest Royal Baby Update is that Middleton is definitely not carrying twins. There’s just a single, angelic, gold-plated fetus in that tummy of her’s. A single baby that will inherit a pretty awesome crown, whether it is a boy or a girl.

So let’s all mark our calendars. If the hoopla over this birth is anything like the royal wedding, we’re all going to need the day off so we can sit at home and watch a live feed from the hospital’s birthing center. Just make sure to stock up on lavender shortbread biscuits for the occasion.

(Photo: WENN)

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  • Blueathena623

    Dude, I’m excited.

  • Beth

    Good news, July is only 6, not 7 months away!

    • LindsayCross

      Thank you! Where was my coffee this morning?

  • http://www.facebook.com/billy.bunter.549 Billy Bunter

    Should start thinking of a name … http://royal-baby-name-generator.co.uk :-)

  • CrazyFor Kate

    Here in Canada, McLean’s published a special commemorative issue for the Royal Baby. A commemorative issue. For a just-conceived fetus. Let that sink in. I really don’t envy that royal kid.

  • June

    hers not “her’s”

  • Once upon a time

    If you’re sick of the media saturation surrounding this pregnancy, why did you just add to it?

  • K.

    If I were Kate , I’d do what most Hollywoodites do, which is, if you’re going to announce a due-date, then announce the wrong one so you can ignore the countdown to babygate (and have the possibility of fending off the press camping out at nearby hospitals in the week prior and after).

    That is, unless you’re some sort of masochist and want to be 20 pounds heavier with elephant feet, bad reflux, painful hemorrhoids, and bloated boobs with the entire world chorusing, “IT’s the due date! Are you in labor!…It’s one day past the due date! Are you in labor yet?…Oh my gosh, it’s 3 days past the due date! Are you in labor yet?…It’s a WHOLE WEEK! When are you going into labor? Are you going to induce? What do you think is the problem? What if it’s so big you can’t push it out? Are you going to schedule a c-section? You should have sex! You should eat xyz!” That would be her, only that when I say “the entire world” it really WOULD be “the entire world.” And unlike the rest of us pedestrians who can give in to hormonal surges and tell people to screw off, Kate has to grin and take it and be the eternal model of grace while wearing the latest in designer fashions. Yikes.

    …But then this is Kate’s first pregnancy. Maybe she doesn’t know what she’s in for.

  • carefree

    if you’re not interested/fed up/etc then don’t comment. don’t see the need to take such a sarcastic tone. btw, am i the only one who happens to remember, Princess Diana’s birthday is July 1.