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

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

I found it very uncomfortable to have coats done up over my bump, especially very structured ones like that. The buttons dig in an it rides up at the back.

Anyone else wondering if Thomas Markle was told or just left to find out from the media?

Samantha Markle was in the press this weekend saying some very, very cryptic things about her father speaking to Prince Harry and ‘Not being at liberty to discuss the reasons’, so I suspect perhaps not. I also suspect SM might have some sort of restraining order about discussing them on her...

I also suspect SM might have some sort of restraining order about discussing them on her

Good luck for anyone trying that, if previous form's anything to go by

I have lost two babies myself and they are always in my thoughts, I don't need to be "geared up to remember that tonight". I am delighted for Meghan and Harry and to be honest, with my own experience of my first loss at 22 weeks when I was 37, I am just a bit worried they may be tempting fate by announcing their pregnancy too early.
Quite. When you have had losses like this, you don't wait for a random day to come around to think of it. You don't get away from it enough the rest of the time. Also, when you have been through loss, you have your own days, perhaps for some it's the day they heard the news, or the day they said goodbye, or the day they went through a procedure or their expected due date. I have a couple of significant dates and 15th October is not, and never will be, one of them. It's spectacularly inconsiderate to try to minimalise and rationlise loss by saying that you should be thinking or doing anything on a day that has no personal significance for the person who has suffered the loss.

What’s wrong with telling people you are pregnant at someone’s wedding? I can’t see how that is going to upstage the bride at all.

I hope for meghans own sake she stays clear of the internet. There's not a thing she can do right in some people's eyes.

It's lovely news, they've handled it beautifully, I hope she has a happy and healthy pregnancy.

No doubt, but I'm not convinced the description applies here if Andrew's remarks about the number of guests are anything to go by ... not to mention Camilla being conspicuous by her absence and much more

That’s issues between Charles and Andrew though, not between their children who have always got on. Andrew is a pure dickhead and Charles is right about the York’s getting proper jobs and not being hangers on.

When Andrew was trade ambassador the official U.K. ambassadors to other countries were writing to William Hague begging them to remove him and said he was damaging relations abroad. There was also a lot of other stuff in Wilileaks about him being incredibly rude about British allies like the US and France in front of their staff and interefering with the operations of British companies abroad. The man is a liability.

I don’t believe they announced it at the wedding. I do believe that the news may have been held back as damage limitation re the expense of Eugenie’s wedding and anything else they might have done to embarrass.

There was a lot of rumbling over the weekend about why the taxpayer was funding a bit of a b list celeb jolly which might have translated into more solidified criticism this week.

I don’t think that’s a bad reflection on either H&M or E&J though. I think it’s a bad reflection on Andrew that they knew anything involving him might well need a big gun of damage limitation to come straight after.

Bad form to announce it at "Princess Unusual's" wedding (that was what the subtitles called Eugenie this morning!)

I laughed way longer than necessary at that, took me by surprise. Poor Eugenie

I am just a bit worried they may be tempting fate by announcing their pregnancy too early.

Judging from what happened with Kate they leave it as late as possible but when they know it’s not going to be realistic to keep a lid on it any more they announce. With Kate it was when she went into hospital the first time because they couldn’t keep it quiet. The second and third time people would have twigged as soon as she cancelled an engagement so they announced as soon as she had to miss one.

I think it’s probably similar here, as soon as they announced she was skipping the Zika hit areas people would have guessed and it’s preferable just to announce it than have weeks of ‘is she isn’t she’ speculation and hysteria.

It was announced today, Monday. Eugenie's wedding was last Friday!!!
Anyway, I doubt that Meghan would have even contemplated upstaging a bride. It probably would have been convenient to chat to ppl on the day about it.
Happy for them.

One of my best friend's happily announced her pregnancy at my wedding. Like most (normal) people, I was delighted!

However, my uncle suspected I was pregnant before his son's wedding and decided to try an find out if I was as they didn't want me 'ruining' the wedding by announcing it. When I did tell family (three weeks before the wedding), my cousin (who was getting married) was delighted, but put loads of pressure on my to tell his parents myself (I'd asked him to pass on the news as I was annoyed with them). When I did text my uncle, he didn't reply, very unusual for him!

I think it’s probably similar here, as soon as they announced she was skipping the Zika hit areas people would have guessed and it’s preferable just to announce it than have weeks of ‘is she isn’t she’ speculation and hysteria.

It has now been confirmed that she is still going to Fiji and Tonga

Slightly off the point but why wasn't Camilla there?

She had a long standing engagement elsewhere and didn't want to let them down.

@Wauden she had a prior engagement that she didn't want to let down. Apparently a couple of others were missing for similar reasons.

Slightly off the point but why wasn't Camilla there?*

Diary clash - she was at a school in Scotland I believe.

Maybe Harry let the 'senior royals' know the news?

They appear to look really happy and I wish them the very best together. I have no idea if I'd like Meghan or Harry, I've never met them.

It's so hard to get my family together, I genuinely wouldn't mind anyone else sharing their happy news. More reason to celebrate, and I would always associate the anniversary with the sharing of more happy news. I would think a lot less of people who made a fuss about it, tbh.

@Wauden she had a prior engagement that she didn't want to let down. Apparently a couple of others were missing for similar reasons.

No, she was the only one. That was the official reason. A lot of people think it’s because Charles and Camilla don’t get on with Andrew (they don’t, at all) and also that with Fergie in attendance it may have been uncomfortable for Camilla.

Don’t forget Camilla spent the 80s and 90s fucking Fergie’s best mate’s husband behind her back and Fergie went through all that anguish with Diana.

As others have said, completely depends how it was done. Big announcement- no. Deliberate plan to make it general family knowledge on someone else's big day, no. In response to Beatrice having had a few and saying you're not drinking, you were heaving over the meal and you've got a belly and pregnant tits, come on love you're not fooling anyone, then having the truth admitted to her and it spreads round a bit, no. Telling Harry's grandparents because it's his last opportunity before going to the other side of the world, also no, but pick your moment. Don't do it in the middle of the speeches.

Or maybe they asked Euginie and Jack If they could tell family at the wedding Or maybe they didn't really break the news to family at the wedding..... maybe they had told people beforehand but the press are saying it was at the wedding as that was the last big affair?

I can't imagine they would want to upstage on such an important day although it does sell as a good story.. doesn't it?

It's unlikely we'll ever know why Camilla wasn't at the wedding, but "an engagement at Craithie school" really doesn't wash - especially when it's so close to Balmoral that she could pop in to see its nine pupils any time

There was speculation on here that she was pregnant. I'm sure when she took off her coat it would have been obvipus and also prob couldn't trust the guests to say Meghan wasn't drinking and did have a belly. So i think they HAD to announce it.

I did wonder if her missing the wedding was to do with the close friendship of princess Diana and Fergie... I can't imagine Camilla's presence would bode well with the situation of her and Charles when they were younger whilst he was married to princess Diana.

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Well said, Summer. I really hope MNHQ starts hitting the ban hammer HARD.

I feel like hiding these godawful threads now because it makes me think so crossly that I'm posting alongside such inadequate, pathetic women. It seems that they can't stop themselves from pulling this woman apart. Pitiful, absolutely pitiful.

Well said witch...

I despair, I really do. It's actually horrible to read all these comments. The woman has literally done NOTHING wrong. She is a beautiful, smart, hard-working, successful woman, who fell in love with a prince, (who fell in love with her.)

There really are some women on here who are clearly very full of hate, and who have very low self esteem. It's obvious that's true because they would not be spouting such vitriol about Meghan.

As has been said, the poor lass can't do a thing right!