.... but who announces their pregnancy at their cousins wedding!

[flumpybear]

Let's hope it was secretly and not to upstage poor Eugenie!

I agree with @LyingWitchInTheWardrobe and @thisneverendingsummer

The bitter vitriol on this thread is spiteful and nasty

You've got to remember this an anonymous forum. You wouldn't hang out or chat to every joe blogged you pass on the street and as far as i can tell, there are some really dim, miserable and jealous folk about town...Much like on here. Maybe some people would hate a pregnancy to be announced at a wedding, and they would be entitled, misery guts and selfish. You should be happy for family/friends on ANY day. And we are talking about the RF here. EVERYTHING will be considered and planned...they won't have just shouted "fyi I'm pregnant" ffs.

Wonder how far along she is.As the coat didnt button up.

The queen would have known ages because of the planned trips.
Im delighted for her and Harry,they come across so lovely together.

Wonder how far along she is.As the coat didnt button up

It's being reported by people in Aus with them that she's 12 weeks

The bitter vitriol on this thread is spiteful and nasty

I’ve just looked back over the last 6 pages and I saw one poster share an anecdote about being upset when someone announcing a pregnancy at her own wedding and another comment about it being some sort of miscarriage day. Both of which were quite restrained comments.

I’m at a loss to see where these supposed threads full of bitter vitriol are, am I reading a different forum?

@gingerrogered

Unbelievable!

Denying the hate and vitriol on this forum towards Meghan?

WTF ?

And yes you MUST be reading a different forum if you are not seeing the hate towards Meghan on mumsnet!

But we all know you ARE seeing it.

It's all very nasty and bitchy and some of it is horrible to read, the claws are certainly out today and some should be bloody ashamed of their spite

Like someone who has eaten garlic, or had a few glasses of alcohol, or a ciggie, cannot smell it on themselves, the haters and beraters cannot see the hate themselves. well they can, and they know it's there, but they act all wide eyed and innocent!

Well said Portia!

Q

I'd bet my life that they didn't tell the Queen the news over canapés at the wedding!
They might have told some other members of the royal family ones they're not especially close to.

It's really difficult to hide a pregnancy at wedding. I had to announce my pregnancy at my own wedding because it was so damned obvious. I find it hard to believe that they announced to family just two days before a public announcement though, surely there is a lot of planning and interference in a royal pregnancy. She will have booked in with a midwife before leaving for Australia, possibly had a scan, I don't think she'd have done either of those without The Palace knowing.

DH's cousin chose her own wedding day to announce her pregnancy.
The first we and extended family knew about the pregnancy was when she walked down the aisle proudly displaying her bump.
Was incredibly amusing, as was intended.
Shame her Vera Wang wedding dress didn't get to see the light of day (was a very unexpected pregnancy)

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe Mon 15-Oct-18 11:13:35
Well said, Summer. I really hope MNHQ starts hitting the ban hammer HARD.

Do you advocate censorship then? You can't ban people because they have a different opinion to you.

I doubt they grabbed the mic and did a little speech with reveal. Some would already know. Some might have asked. They might have told a few people. Most people at the wedding were probably no more the wiser by the end of the day than at the beginning. At this particular wedding there would have been speculation either way.

Thing with weddings is lots of people who are likely to be vaguely interested in if you're pregnant are gathered together eating and drinking. It's quite likely to come out.

Not sure how it matters as long as you're not jumping up shouting, no look at me, look at me!

Eliza, Do I think some people should just STFU sometimes? Sure. I apply that to myself quite often.

The first thing I read this morning simply said that the senior royals were able to congratulate them in person at the wedding, nothing about first finding out there. I strongly suspect that the Queen etc will have known due to any effect on the tour, such as her possibly missing out on Fiji and Tonga if medical advice went the other day or was ill like Kate. Likewise, they had to announce it now both because of speculation and in case of illness on tour. In addition his stepmother could NOT have been told at the wedding as the Duchess of Rothesay was at an engagement in Aberdeenshire, though she could have been told (if she didn't already know) at a later point in the weekend.

It's only the BBC correspondent saying that people were told at the wedding, not an official announcement. Senior royals would have been told before but not seen the couple in person, and others told quietly over the weekend before the official announcement. Eugenie may well have been told in advance.

Pretty sure the queen probably knew the minute the first pink line appeared on that FRER at 10 dpo

Perfectly normal to find out this kind of news at a big family occasion in many families. Not all brides and grooms are so overly obsessed with 'their BIG special day' that they can't cope with other people speaking about their own news on the day. Most families get on fairly well and like one another.

Surely most grown adults don't really have the whole 'spoiling my limelight' type tantrums do they?!?!

I can't imagine it was Harry grabbing the mic at the speeches and declaring it - more likely they told some close people discreetly about it.

Lets face it if it had been a proper big announcement it would have leaked way before now - there were enough phones at that wedding, and we've seen and heard lots already.

In light of this, there really is no reason why Me-Me-Me-Meghan couldn't have announced tomorrow instead.

As far as anyone is aware it could have been Harry who chose when to announce it. Or the Palace. Or the media. Why just blame mum, if you really have to blame anyone

It's a national event, and those who don't know about it are lucky.

I have had a miscarriage, so not lucky in that I have't avoided that horrible misfortune entirely. However, I didn't know it was Baby Loss Awareness day today. No one has mentioned it on my social media at all today, or this week at all - just been back and looked. Whilst it may be a National Awareness day, and actually an International one I think, many people are not aware of it - even those who have been through miscarriages and baby loss. It is very easy not to know.

I have lost two babies and had never heard of it until Teacake put it on here.

I'm convinced the Baby Loss Remembrance Day was invented by someone so they could post their picture with some frame to gather Likes.

We have not been lucky regarding babies either and it doesn't bother us in the slightest that people get pregnant. You can't let people's happiness get in the way of your lives!

Seriously, do people go to weddings and only talk about the b&g? Surely if you meet with friends and family you use it as a catch up, whatever the occasion? And seeing as after the wedding everyone on MN was saying Meghan looks pregnant, it must have been obvious to the guests, even before she refused a drink, so may as well admit it at the time.

And as another poster said, I doubt Harry and Meghan stole the mic during the first dance and announced it.

They've made no secret that they wanted kids, and given Meghan's age, it was likely it would happen sooner rather than later.

It's very poor taste - particularly as Eugenie and Jack were forced to postpone their wedding for months so that Harry and Meghan could go first and there weren't two royal weddings close together. I can just imagine the MN indignation if this had happened to a regular! I feel for Eugenie though - not only was the press full of comparisons, but H&M then had to go and partially upstage her on her bloody wedding day.

I wasn't at the wedding neither were most on here and like me they just don't bloody know what happened so speculation is rife