STOP PRESS! Live pre-wedding webchat with our very own Kate Middleton, TODAY at 1pm

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello. We're extremely honoured (and just a little bit over-excited) to announce that royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton is coming to MNHQ for a webchat today at 1pm.

A while back, we put in a formal request for Kate to take part in a Mumsnet webchat (nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that) but, truth be told, we weren't that hopeful, given her other pressing engagements this week.

But then, this morning, the Buckingham Palace Press Office rang to say Miss Middleton had some time this lunchtime between her last dress fitting and her first palace-balcony-etiquette briefing - and would be delighted to drop in and chat to Mumsnetters. Apparently, she's been lurking on Mumsnet quite a lot recently and has been finding the Bridezilla discussions a real eye opener.

So, quick, please post your (suitably deferential) questions for Miss Middleton here - and join us for our very first royal webchat at 1pm.

added it in to make everyone look stupid you mean Justine!!!!

So Kate, did they check your hymen, like they used to before people married Royals?

kategate will lose you some customers.....dont go emma!!

Oh dear.

Oh dear, oh dear.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

[shakes head]

@GeneHuntsMistress

Motherhood advice for you kate - don't use Mumsnet they openly deride their users

Eek - really was meant to be a joke/gag for us all to enjoy. Unfortunately we didn't get the execution quite right but it certainly wasn't meant to take the piss out of anyone.

How on earth do you fit it all in and keep smiling?

funniest thread ive been on in ages

Now now, please do not be cross with Justine. I wanted to answer the questions emailed to me by PM. I'm afraid I can't respond directly to them but the answers are:

(1) To P - yes we do, on Friday nights naturally and yes I'm very happy with it.
(2) To A - Thank you but I do not need double glazing. Our marital home is listed so we'll just have to have thick curtains.

I think adding the 'our very own' was not the best move tbh - i've only just spotted this thread and thought..."well, obv a wind up" because of that.

I don't think anybody looked like idiots. People were asking nice questions because it's someone getting married.

Kate, can you put Justine back on please?

So Justine, how well do you think this has gone? Was it as fun as you thought it would be?

gran1 industrial stapler to inside of cheeks It's my job really. I have lots of help and I don't have to wash up afterwards. Anyway, surely in my position you would be happy and smiley? :)

I honestly find it weird when people think it's funny when people are obviously upset

MNHQ have admitted to getting the tone all wrong.

Yeah. Kate, no offence but you are really boring. Justine back please....

'How on earth do you fit it all in and keep smiling?'

Fnaaaar! I love a royal wang joke.

Valpollicella - Wow I was warned you'd be personal, but wow! Umm no as it happens. I've been accepted into my new family without question and they have all, without exception been delightful.

How could any of you have thought this was for real when at 11.34 this morning 'misskatemiddleton' posted. "Testing, testing. Right, that's the dress sorted. Kentish Town, my good man..."

i mean, really?! this is how you think that she would post on a webchat?

fakekate - what do you think of the T-mobile thing? Have they ruined everything for you now? No-one's going to be impressed with a thriller style first dance now really.

Justine - as an earlier poster pointed out, if you had made it an obvious spoof (such as titling as is since you changed it) we could have all joined in the joke and thought it rather funny. Instead you treated it exactly as previous web chats, if I believed the PM was coming on here then why not a woman about to be married?

That aside, sorry again for the swearing at you, it was wrong of me to say that earlier. But I'm still sending Gene round for a little chat

I never saw that Aitch

I shrieked with excitement when I saw this. Not cool mumsnet, not cool.

Aitch - ah my lovely friend has arrived.

Are you still coming on Friday or do you have to do the round up again?

How did I not make a knob joke first?

@ILoveTIFFANY

added it in to make everyone look stupid you mean Justine!!!!

No, of course not! At the time people were saying do something because there are still folks not reading the thread - just the title - and posting real questions.

She's not giving up is she?