To wonder why Kate's delivery arrangements are headline news?

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No-one else's are. And I don't care in the slightest about hers.

Might be something to do with the guy she's married to

You know...whatsisname and family?

And the Daily Mail don't have anything else to fill their front pages with for the next month.

Are they headline news in any paper other than the Daily Mail?

Yeh, fill the gap media...

My favourite is the incredible news that William will be taking two weeks paternity leave!

The fact they are famous doesn't really justify quotidian details of their life being given such prominence on news programmes.

I'd rather read about her birth plans than Kim kardashian's.

Yanbu. It isn't interesting.

Wait...

Perhaps the OP's talking about Katie Price?

The choice of maternity hospital and length of paternity leave were in BBC radio news (5 & 6) bulletins all day.

Mintyy Are they headline news in any paper other than the Daily Mail?

Radio 4 news (twice in one bulletin)!!!

Well, we want to see where our "state handouts" are heading

Why we needed to know the queen don't want her sleep disturbed if Kate goes into labour in the night, I don't know.

Kate is having a baby, many women through out history have done it. I wish her all the best with the birth but I don't really know about her birth plan. Can't wait for the announcement I really hope it's a girl.

Come off it, this is as old as the hills. I'm old enough to remember when Diana was pregnant with William and there was more fuss then. I bet Queen Victoria's pregnancies were endlessly gossiped about.

I think because the baby is going to be the heir to the throne? Because of the whole royal connection? That would be my guess.

quesadilla I didn't care when Diana was pregnant either. I may be missing the point, but at least I'm consistent.

who cares?

Royalists. That's who, mostly.

From another point Kate and William, if its such a private matter, make it so.

I think so far the Leveson enquiry has done a fairly good job, another thread on its own I know.

Its news here in NZ as well. I think we all could of guessed which hospital.

Massive news in the US. My male colleagues haven't been asked their opinion. I have a million times. Grhh.

I suspect by putting out the details now they are preempting the press. If she goes into labour early there would be a feeding frenzy on the press, so by putting out the basic details now they are setting the ground rules and preventing speculation.

Kate and William, if its such a private matter, make it so

Yeah and while you're at it, get a real job and make yourselves useful!

It's obviously about press management. When I read this yesterday my main thought was 'why does she apparently get to choose whether to have a CS or not?'

Clearly money talks, but I thought the general rule was that it was medically preferred to avoid major surgery wherever possible and that there would be quite a bit of pressure to ensure a safe delivery above all else....

Obviously if there was a bloody good reason for a planned section that would be different, and none of our business what it was. Although the she'd probably have to release some info about it if she didn't want to be accused of being too posh to push forever after.

William has got a proper job, unless you think being in the RAF isn't a proper job.

I agree with Frankelly, I think it's to stop speculation on when/how/what we will hear about the birth, they have been very clear about the arrangements for the announcement and is a bit of a 'stop bloody pestering us, you'll find out when we're ready' message to the world. Which is fair enough, TBH, I felt the same when I went two weeks over
I quite like that the official announcement will be a notice on the palace gates

YABU. It's so nice to have some cheerful 'news' occassionally rather than the normal doom and gloom.