Royal style & gossip: now where's that baby??

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Sorry, I dropped the ball again!

Link to previous thread.

Just seen it, they showed Kate on the steps with her three scraping the barrel

I share a birthday with my cowbag of a MIL. It's not fun.

Nothing on twitter and I've got a gym class in 20 mins so may miss all the fun!!

So is the baby really here or has someone jumped the gun?

Where do you all get these insights? My news feed is full of Gavin Williamson

I think the latter @TracyBeakerSoYeah

Emma think of the opportunities for passive aggressive presents. You could buy her, oh I don't know, a braided hippy headband or something.

Just going back to that Mario Testino photo of Diana upthread: doesn't it look massively and badly photoshopped, now? I remember thinking, when it was first published, that she positively glowed and radiated good health, and put it down to lighting. But now, looking at her face/arm/shoulder/armpit it's so blatantly photoshopped!

Natasha's headband is very Max!

Nothing on sky news and I assume they'd have the story...

The UK press & sky will only announce when they’re given permission from Kensington Palace.

I’d say it might hit twitter or other social media first.

Well, given that we are half way through this thread already, let's hope she gets a wriggle on! Come on Meghan, we're getting impatient!

No there's a poster on this thread, mumsiedarling (I forget her full user name) who lives near Frogmore and saw some photographers going in.
Also the (Italian) paps who had been hanging around for a week were gone.
I reckon we will get an Instagram photo of Earl Dumbarton on @sussexroyal tomorrow and hordes of press set up on the Long walk reporting.

If Lord/ Earl Octonaut is here does that confirm a home birth or did they manage to give everyone the slip at the hospital?

Octonatia for a girl I presume?

The baby needs to arrive to rid queen's timeline of Gavin Williamson. None of us need that.
Reckon home birth from the mumsie sightings. More likely someone would have seen/leaked something if they'd been to hospital.

Octonatia for a girl I presume?

They may want a more musical name so I think it will be Ostinato. They only to need think of one name then.

Just de-lurking to suggest Ocarina

I was going to suggest Octavia, but annoyingly, it'll be seventh in line to the throne and not eighth.

Ostinato not a female form of Octonaut tho lol
seventh in line to the throne and not eighth unless Kate was Prince Quatro

I've fallen down a bit of a Youtube rabbit hole- today's suggestion was

The queen pony trekking with the grandchildren in 1992.

My grandmother was an eighth child so was given Octavia as one of her names!

Ostinato not a female form of Octonaut tho lol

I know but i like the musical reference and the economy if they have more children. The Royals can embrace the era of austerity with a simple name.

Bluebellation love it, god I wish I wasn't infertile and old.

yellow Love that, especially the littlie kicking off (either Bea or Eugenie?) because she wanted to go with Zara and Harry, who were presumably off for an burn-up. Imagine living a life so formal though that the groom? Instructor? Master of horse? had to put a hacking jacket on just to go around the estate though... even allowing for the fact that this is nearly thirty years ago, that's still a bit much!