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

78 replies

Pennyacrossthehall · 19/06/2013 23:37

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

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mrsjay · 20/06/2013 11:45

yeah you are right flob

malteserzz · 20/06/2013 11:48

I'm bored of it already, I hope they have a healthy baby but we really don't need to have it all over the news

EglantinePrice · 20/06/2013 11:51

I also hope she's given us a fake due date and she's actually due at the end of this month so we don't have to have round the clock news for the next 6 weeks not much chance with that tiny neat bump though

Sparklingbrook · 20/06/2013 11:51

I can't imagine what it will be like when the baby is born. Souvenir T Towels and crappy pull outs in the papers. Hmm

HouseinScotland · 20/06/2013 17:33

No he doesn't, McNew, at least not anymore.

www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2013042811989/prince-william-leaves-raf/

And she's never had a real job I don't think, unless you count decorating their home as a job which is what she does according to that article

fairylightsinthespring · 20/06/2013 18:05

She worked as a buyer for something like Whistles or Jigsaw I think. i really hope for all the obcvious reasons that she gets the birth she plans and hopes for, because if she doesn't and it does end up being highly interventional, there will be at least 5 dickhead articles that imply she just couldn't be bothered.

SquidgyMummy · 29/06/2013 11:46

apparently according to french news reports she has lied about her due date. Sensible thing to do. no-one knows exactly how many weeks along she is given she had to announce it early due to her hyperemesis (sp?) stint in hospital and she has such a tiny bump.

Hope she gets some privacy. William is adept at wrong footing the press. Given the way his mother was followed daily, i'm not surprised.

marriedinwhiteagain · 29/06/2013 13:11

I think it's lovely and wish them well.

LuisSuarezTeeth · 29/06/2013 13:40

What's she having delivered? Something from Argos? Grin

LastTangoInDevonshire · 29/06/2013 13:41

I wish them well with our future Monarch - and you miserable posters can all go jump (or go somewhere where there isn't the royal family that you dislike so much!!).

Ezza1 · 29/06/2013 13:56

Has she not had it yet then? Poor woman seems to have been pregnant forever.

StealthPolarBear · 29/06/2013 14:07

It is watching history in the makkng though (well not literally in the making, that would be pornographic). I'm interested

olidusUrsus · 29/06/2013 14:21

Oh fuck are we already at the birth? I'm still confused over whether she really did have hyperemesis gravidarum or not

helenthemadex · 29/06/2013 14:41

yabvu reading the daily fail

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/06/2013 14:44

No idea. Yahoo has the strangest ideas of what constitutes 'news' - even more so - 'Breaking News' for those of us who didn't click the link the time... Kardiashian baby about to be born, etc.? I mean - other than the parents to be, who cares? Confused

GwendolineMaryLacey · 29/06/2013 14:49

I love these kinds of threads. Whether you give two tosses about the royals or not, you do have to be a little bit stupid to "wonder why it's headline news', rhetorical question or not.

SilverOldie · 29/06/2013 14:49

YABU

People are interested whether you like it or not. If you're a republican, just don't read about it.

I don't want to know all the details, just that she has had a healthy baby.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/06/2013 15:04

I'm neither a republican nor a royalist but I think:

a) Royal baby has been born = news, even 'breaking news', I suppose.
b) Kate chooses hospital/midwife/nanny = not news
c) Kardasian or celeb anything = not news
d) Royal/celeb death = unavoidable news

It's not possible to avoid the 'news' completely because if you have 'Yahoo', everytime you log in to your e-mails, up pops the latest tripe. I'm really not interested in any of it.

StealthPolarBear · 29/06/2013 15:42

If "football game to take place as scheduled this afternoon" is the leading headline, as it regularly is here, then I can forgive "future heir to throne about to enter the world"

RevoltingPeasant · 29/06/2013 16:14

I'm a republican and object to being told out to feck off out of my own country. Hmm I'll stay here and continue to work democratically for change, ta very much.

However, yes, as things stand, the baby is a future head of state and for that reason it's obviously news. Plus, much as I dislike the monarchy as an institution, I think Kate & William seem to be making as decent a fist of it as anyone could in that role. I hope she's okay.

RedToothBrush · 29/06/2013 16:35

Because there are certain people and groups who have an agenda to promote X, Y or Z about giving birth.

They hope that whatever Kate does will 'influence other women' and can be used to further their own objects.

If Kate was to go for a natural birth she would be hailed for not being too posh to push and going against 'the celebrity culture of ELCS on maternal request'. (Oh the irony in that route)
Equally if she was to go for a CS, she probably would be hailed in some way by pro-CS activists.

Its highly politicised.

The irony is that what Kate does is none of mine or yours business, and I think the media should respect whatever choice she makes, without prejudice and making it a political issue by shutting the fuck up about it.

Whatever she does will be 'amazing' or a 'failure'. And will be used against the rest of us.

Worst still this idea that women will somehow 'copy' whatever Kate does is deeply patronising and reduces women to idiots incapable of making their own decisions based on their own personal circumstances and instead paints us as sheeple obediently following our leader.

Good luck to Kate, in whatever she chooses and whatever ends up being the end result.

But frankly, I could not give a shit what she does and I think its in the public interest NOT to tell us how she gives birth, because thats the only thing that means that decisions are not being influenced by celebrity power.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/06/2013 16:40

yy *RedToothBrush... all of it. None of our business. The 'amazing' or 'failure' is so very true and makes for uncomfortable realisation of what we've become as a society.

When did we lose our 'Britishness'? When we were accepting and tolerant of how people choose to live their lives and accepting of the lifestyle choices they make? Confused

Lweji · 29/06/2013 16:42

I wonder if Kate is a MNer and will post her birth announcement incognito. Grin

I don't care how the royal baby will come out, but always love a good birth story.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 29/06/2013 16:45

Well if she does, and posts here - she most likely won't be believed, and will be told that she is BU. Grin

HaveIGotPoosForYou · 29/06/2013 16:55

I have no problem with it whatsoever.

It's the heir to the throne in the future. Yes, they are no different than you or I but neither is Madonna or any celebrity. It's still interesting to know and I'd be just as interested in a friend or someone I didn't know going into labour, because it's interesting.

Plus it's just interesting to see how the other half lives. It's a bit miserable to keep blaming Will and Kate or any royal for 'the life they have'. Okay except Kate, the others were born into it and didn't have any choice to why be so mean about them? Kate chose to be a royal yes but because she was marrying the man she loves.

I don't see a problem with it. :)