The Duchess of Sussex started showing in early October – that was when she looked bumpy at Princess Eugenie’s wedding, just days later, Meghan and Harry confirmed the pregnancy. We assumed that Meghan was three months pregnant or more at the time, and all she said was that the baby was due in “early Spring.” Most of us assumed that meant, like, March 21st, the first day of Spring. Nope- apparently, she’s due in April??
It won’t be long until Meghan Markle and Prince Harry become a family of three! During the couple’s visit to the town of Birkenhead on Monday, the Duchess of Sussex told the crowd when she’s due to give birth to their first child.
“We asked her how her pregnancy was going and she said she was six months and she tapped her tummy,” well-wisher Carla Gandy from nearby Wallesey, who was there with her 4-year-old daughter Sofia, tells PEOPLE.
Meghan told others gathered in Hamilton Square that she’s due in late April. When Kensington Palace released a statement announcing Meghan’s pregnancy in October, they simply said Meghan “is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019.”
One young mom was cradling her son, Oliver. “She said her pregnancy had gone so quickly,” the woman, who wished to remain anonymous, says. “I asked her how she was coping on those high heels. She said, ‘One day at a time!’ “
As I’ve been visualizing and war-gaming Meghan’s 2019 schedule, I kept assuming she was due in late March. I’m going to have to go back to the calendar and do some work!! LOL. Let’s see… if she’s due in mid-April, that would mean a mid-to-late July conception? Which would mean that Meghan and Harry really did announce the pregnancy a bit early, and she started showing very early on too. I have no idea. Doing the math on this is making my head hurt.
Also: as for the confusing color scheme of Meghan’s outfit in these photos, I guess the theory going around is that Meghan dressed in the colors of one of the charities they’re visiting. Sure.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
If you google “Meghan’s stackable rings,” you’ll see the conspiracy theorists have guessed an April due date based on Meghan’s three stackable rings she started wearing after she announced her pregnancy: one ring has her birthstone, one has Harry’s, and one has the April birthstone.
Today’s outfit color scheme: ouch. Makes me nostalgic for her navy blues.
I like unusual colors schemes like this sometimes. I think the two colors look great even if it’s unusual together.
I don’t think she looks more than six months pregnant so this makes sense to me. When they announced I didn’t think she looked really pregnant so I wondered why they announced so early.
Love the coat!! And I love reds and purples (very 60s lol)! My 2nd incarnation of my living room was with a gorgeous, squishy red leather couch and amethyst pops in throw pillow and throw blanket (rug was primary colors in what looked like a Kandinsky print). God I loved that room!
I think Meghan looks gorgeous here, minus the purse. One of the few I don’t care for with her outfit.
As for her due date, perhaps it’s for security reasons? So “certain people” don’t trek across the pond to stir trouble?
Adding in here: I *knew* Meghan’s coat looked familiar… I checked and yup! Kate wore a GORGEOUS sweater/coat short version from the same label on the Canada tour (sleeves are ribbed all the way up the arm, not just on the cuff). I coveted it, so I looked it up, but it was too expensive for my peasant pocketbook lol. Here it is: https://katemiddletonstyle.org/item/sentaler-wrap-coat-ribbed-sleeves/
I still love it!
I love the color scheme, but the brown purse is throwing it off.
Although I think she looks further along because she is so petite, I am going to continue to believe she is having twins because that would be so much fun.
Hmm, I usually think a rich cognac like that purse is the perfect neutral for warm color blocking. It’s not as heavy as a black or seasonal as a white.
@Veronica
Agree about the cognac purse being perfect neutral for outfit. Not everything has to be matchy-matchy or pop out for the “complete” look. Sometimes neutrals help keep the look streamlined by keeping the attention on the main elements, the gorgeous red coat with similar rich toned purple dress as the compliment.
The vivid colors are fine on her and kind of fun. It’s the purse….
I love these bright colors together: it’s the same combination as a fuschia plant!
I LOVE the colors!! Everyone is always nattering on about how Megan should wear more colors, how boring all the blue is, whatever. I like her in blue. And I like her in these eye-popping bright colors. You go, girl!
Yes! I love it. Red is not my favorite, but whenever I have to wear it (Red day at school for instance), I always pair it with purple. And Meghan looks terrific in bright colors. I am echoing several people when I say yes to her being tiny, but I still hope it’s twins!
She got so skinny for the wedding, that I would expect her to show early. All the pregnancy hormones make you curvier anyway. She looks wonderful.
She’s also quite short-waisted, so I’m not surprised she showed soon (there isn’t a lot of room for a baby in there). She looks glowing and happy, which is nice. Not a huge fan of the colour scheme, but I admire those who take risks.
She’s shorter and has a short torso for her height, but long legs. The opposite of Kate who has short legs and a long torso.
Shorter woman, especially short torsoed women, show early as there isn’t much room upwards to grow so they grow out. Every body is different and shows differently. There isn’t a “6 month belly” standard.
I keep reading here that Kate has ‘short legs’. You could have fooled me; she looks very nicely proportioned to me, and I’d love a few of her leg inches!
Cal you have been fooled by her deliberate raising of the waists on her clothing. Someone like Vogue did an article about it, how she has a long torso and short legs, but has clothing tailored to fool the eye. Go look at Mathilde of Belgium to see a royal lady with long legs and a shorter torso.
I really didn’t think she was showing that much around Eugenie’s wedding but that she was dressed in a way that made her deliberately look pregnant. I said that back then and was jumped all over because you can’t say anything even slightly negative about Meghan or Kate without the supporters coming for you. I still think the whole announcement timeline was shady and Meghan could easily have kept things under wraps if she wanted
A pregnant woman deliberately looking pregnant?
@Roux I agree and felt the same. She was wearing an A-frame coat that was so obviously a maternity coat that it set tongues wagging immediately on the day of the wedding even though her stomach was still flat as a board. I don’t know why this offends the Meghan fans so much or why they interpret it as an attack on MM.
Hm…I’m still not convinced that it’s shady because of the traveling they were doing shortly after Eugenie’s wedding, the fact that some events were shifted (or for Meghan, cancelled entirely) because of things like Zika risk, and that she did look different across the span of the tour — it would have just increased speculation to see her look pregnant/avoid areas that pregnant ladies have been warned to avoid but not talk about why, which would have sucked all the air out of Eugenie’s proverbial room anyway. People would have then accused she and Harry of pulling attention by being too coy. No-win situation for the Sussexes, but hopefully really not a big deal within the family.
Harry didn’t call a toast to congratulate his beautiful, preganant wife during the speeches at the wedding, and they didn’t announce until the festivities were over, so I really can’t see the harm. The day/weekend of the wedding were Eugenie’s to bask in, and I hope she did.
I agree with you. She also seems to try to avoid wearing maternity wear as much as possible so far. So, wearing something that looked maternity to Eugenie’s wedding was definitely her hinting. Her fans get up in arms because they believe MM is too innocent and naive to play press games. It’s actually insulting to her intelligence, but whatever.
@YesImHere – her stomach wasn’t flat as a board. Just a few days after the wedding she and Harry were photographed in Australia with the Governor General and his wife. When Meghan walks into the room (sleeveless white dress), she appears to have put on weight, and when she turns to the side, it’s clear she’s pregnant.
@Osito, you might be right and I’m just speculating but the coat she wore was a very typical style for maternity wear. It really was all about the coat to be honest. There are photos of them travelling afterwards where she looks like she has a bump and others where she just looks like she’s put on some weight. My point is that if you want to keep it under wraps, then at that point in the pregnancy it is very easy to do so, just as it is easy to show of the early signs of a bump. What you wear makes a big difference and I don’t think she is unaware of that.
Ah @Roux, I see what you’re saying now: It’s mostly about the coat.
If that’s the case, I would *hope* that she would have made a private, low-key announcement (starting with the bride and those closest to the wedding planning), and so her wearing the coat wouldn’t have come as a shock, but also wouldn’t have been a big attention pulling announcement in the lead up to, or mercy forbid, *at* the ceremony or reception.
If she didn’t do that, I can see the shade because you’re absolutely right — she’s savvy enough to be aware of the visual narrative she creates with her clothes. I think she’s thriftier than people realize (she does repeat things that were hers prior to her marriage, but she’s also not afraid to be good enough for expensive, investment pieces, too. It’s a narrative game, and I can’t tell if she’s winning or losing it, yet, but she’s definitely playing.
It was clear on the Australia tour that there was no possibility of disguising her pregnancy.
It wasn’t announced at Eugenie’s reception. The reception was the first time many family members were able to congratulate them in person about the news they had been told.
After the wedding she seemed to gain some weight, but it seems that she has lost it. Maybe stress from all the nonsense she has to put up with. I was watching some early Suits episodes and her face was much rounder then.
I have a long torso and started showing CRAZY early if I was wearing anything fitted (like jeans and a somewhat fitted t-shirt) — around 7-8 weeks of pregnancy both times. I’m not overweight, but wasn’t super-slim either, esp. with the second pregnancy (soon after miscarriage with the first). I gained a normal amount, but nearly all of it went to the baby bump, and I looked like a zeppelin if I turned sideways in the last couple of months. So she looks totally normal to me for 6 months, and I’m not surprised they announced after the first trimester. It’s super annoying trying to avoid talking about your pregnancy if people can easily guess that you are, in fact, pregnant.
Well… a little secret for first time moms or any pregnant person. Tell the world, all parents friends sisters brothers aunts uncles etc you are due a few weeks later than your due date. This eliminates all those emails texts and calls around the (real) due date of “Did you have the baby YET?” Which is so obnoxious and worth lying about to avoid!
I think this is probably closer to the truth. I think she’s a bit further along as well. Which means i was possibly correct when I predicted she was pregnant while in Irleand, even if she didn’t know it yet. My baby predicting poweriss through the roof, y’all.
For real, this makes life so much easier. Even if the question is well meaning, no one is more ready for the baby to be out than the person actually carrying the baby lol I also wouldn’t be surprised if this is what Meghan is doing. Throw people off the scent a bit and give her some peace when she does go into labor and stuff. I’m due late March and have already warned people not to ask if I’m in labor or if baby is here yet once that time rolls around. You’ll know when you know, leave me be people lol
I was a week late the calls started like 6 weeks before my due date. I was very annoyed and confused. Then as due date approached and passed very frustrated and ragey at the questions. Lol.
That was my first thought here too. She’s pushing back her due date in anticipation of not having press outside her door on the actual due date. Might even get to the hospital in privacy.
Aww, I didn’t even think this could be annoying for pregnant women. Wow, my college roomie and I spent Christmas and NYE together with her husband and I have sent her a text every other day since 1/1 to see if baby #2 has arrived. She always laughed and joked back nope, that she was doing taxes or blah, blah. Ps: he arrived Friday😄
That’s exactly my thought too. And especially since she will be even more highly scrutinized than most. If I were her, I would definitely fudge it a little. Just by a few weeks. So maybe early to mid April.
That’s what I figured too, she’s likely not telling the actual date for privacy.
I predicted she was pregnant at the Well Child event on September 4th she looked as though she had been struggling with morning sickness. Harry was rubbing her back, not in an erotically sensuous way but in the way you rub someone who is not feeling well. I guess she was well over a month pregnant then. So I am calculating that the baby or babies due late March or early April.
You are absolutely right, and I wondered if she might be doing this.
I was a week late and my mom started calling twice a day on my supposed due date. “Are you in labor yet? What are you waiting for?” She almost drove me into a loony house before I got to the labor room.
late july. these two have my wedding anniversary. we conceived in july and had our first baby in march, she was a few weeks early. my SIL hates me. they are our royal doppelgangers.
Your sister-in-law hates you for giving birth in March? Or you just don’t get along with her?
both actually! she dislikes me since the moment we met and has attempted to backhandedly take the wind out of my sails for the last decade….like when she got pregnant with the last of her many kids once she found out my husband and i were trying and i ended up giving birth with my first 3 weeks before her, in march, instead of a week after her in April. she was extremely pissed that i had my baby first – which is nonsensical but true.
but what i meant was that like meghan my SIL also hates me. haha.
I think she means in general that she is living a parallel experience of Meghan and Kate,in a fun joking way,Lol
Lizzie,the nerve of having your baby first😂
Oh wow! I’m so sorry and that’s so petty of her! As if you planned on giving birth before her! Unless you got induced or had a planned C-section which some women do for health reasons… but seriously it boggles my mind people get hung up over stuff like this.
Sorry to hear she is a difficult person. Hopefully you don’t have to see her too much!
That is almost…pathological. I’m sorry.
While I appreciate her bold colours, she reminds me of an Easter egg. #sorry
I wonder if she’s having twins? Has anyone heard anything?
I don’t think she is. My daughter had twins and and she was much bigger at this same time. Also with my first I was due the end of Sept and at the beginning of August my mom thought I would give birth any day (as I carried low and all out front). You can’t tell by size of bump. I lost 20 lbs of the 30 immediately because of water weight.
Saw a headline at CVS saying twin girls.
Can you imagine if it was real? I would want them to name them Diana and Doria 🙂
a headline at CVS? the pharmacy?
Olive,
Yeah at the checkout. Don’t recall which magazine but seems legit.
I couldn’t close my pants at 9wks with my twins. I think she’d be bigger, especially being somewhat short-waisted ( as I am ).
I love the bold color scheme of this outfit. She looks great!
I agree! Fantastic!
I just don’t know how she does it in those shoes. If I were a princess or a first lady, I’ work to make 2 inch heels and flats cool – shoes for feet that have had plantar fasciitis.
I know! I only wore heels occasionally while I was pregnant.
@Himmiefan
I love her colors too!
I prefer bright over muted tones all day any day; I strongly support unlikely color match ups too.
Some of us have it a bit easier in pregnancy and are okay in heels. I wore them throughout both pregnancies–I was lucky not to have swollen feet and such. I think it also depends on whether or not you’re used to wearing them and how you adjust to your changing center of gravity.
i also love the bold color scheme! I agree with @Himmiefan, it would be great if one of these ladies would wear amazing flats to show everyone that you don’t have to wear heels to be fashionable!
I wore heels up until my baby shower (in February). Then my feet would swell and I just couldn’t do it past that point. My hubby bought me a pair of Loubs (pre-mortgage gifts were so lovely…now it’s like, let’s fix the carpet for Christmas haha). I was determined to wear those one last time, just in case my feet grew a size after the pregnancy. My feet looked like sausages crammed into beautiful shoes. I knew it would be a long time before we could afford another pair of those shoes!! Luckily they still fit.
I have always had a small waist (booty is another story lol) and I started showing so early!! It’s funny to watch her pregnancy because it mirrors my timeline. In December and January I was really showing, by March I was enormous!! I laugh at all these comments saying she announced early or should be farther along. I felt like I had to say something because it was pretty obvious, even at only 10 to 12 weeks. My son was due in late April, but he hung in there until May 1st.
I wore heels up to delivery with both my kids, it’s the no heel or tennis shoe that kills my feet, probably because I have extremely high arches.
I love those colors too! Nice bright colors for the winter, which is different but really works. I love the coat too!
omg LOVE LOVE LOVE. I audibly sighed “ooooooohh” when I saw these photos.
I too agree she looks fricking amazing. I wouldn’t wear them, but she looks so cheerful in this bleak winter. I know beige and black are more stylish, but I sure love suxh a pop of color!
My Gran would wear these colors when she did anything with the Red Hat Society.
yeah, I associate this color combo with elderly women because of that. don’t think it looks great on a young pregnant woman. bring back the black and camel.
Black,camel,charcoal,navy,heather gray-sums up my wardrobe.Cannot go wrong with these colors,sometimes boring but always classic.
She looks beautiful as always, I’m not really crazy about the outfit, not even sure why.
I think the colors *go together *,but would look lovely in a paisley print or something…
She didn’t get it wrong per say,she just didn’t get it right either.As long as she’s happy and healthy!
I really like her coat!
I love this color combination – so fresh yet with something of a “back to 80’s” vibe. Absolutely love these colors on her!
Totally 80s – also, giving me Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego vibes. Not a bad thing, just keeps me singing the theme song lol
she did not really show back at the wedding. I would even have guessed late April, early May based on the size of her bump, for a March baby it would be very small, but some woman just carry small.
She conceived in August or late July.
I’m surprised too! I’m pregnant myself and due in April and her bump is much much bigger than mine. I think if it really is April, it has to be the first couple days.
BTW for all those wondering, conception occurs about 2 weeks AFTER the egg drops so by the time you can find out you’re pregnant, you’re already 4-5 weeks along. Your pregnancy starts from the first day of that egg, and not later when it actually get’s fertilized.
@ Libby … no … conception occurs when the sperm meets the egg, at the time of ovulation. The pregnancy is dated from the first day of your last period. So, at the time of ovulation and conception, you are (on average) two weeks “pregnant”. Most women become aware of the pregnancy when they miss their next period, on average four weeks into the pregnancy timeline.
I’m a nurse and I worked 12 hour shifts right up to my baby’s birth. It hurt me when people told me how big I was and was I sure it wasn’t twins. No, people, I’m just huge, even though I was not giving in to every craving. So basically it’s no one’s business how far along anyone is. When the baby is born, you’ll know people! I say this as someone who loves gossip and this site. But it’s just between her and her family.
When I worked at my old company, I was pregnant which ended in miscarriage. I put on a lot of weight and a colleague came up to me and said, ‘gawd blimey, you’re a huge and your baby will be huge as well.” I walked away from her comment and just ended up quitting the next day. Didn’t want to work we such toxic people.
So sorry Anna
That’s so terrible, and I hope you now work with much kinder, supportive people.
Sorry Anna. I’m glad you were able to make a change
My oldest did the same thing with her last one. She was at work and walked herself down to labor and delivery (same hospital) in the middle of a shift.
Totally agree. It is their business. She looks great and doesn’t look “big for 6 months.” Everyone carries differently. Unless you’re crowning in front of me, I will not discuss your pregnancy until you engage me (and even then, no body comments).
she looks absoluly normal (whatever that means) for 6 months – definitly not big at all!
I feel awful for the Duchess. The tabloids her crappy family, and when people started guessing “twins!” When she’d barely started showing… how exhausting.
People were astoundingly rude with my pregnancy too. Had a waitress tell me a few days before I was due that I was “the largest pregnant lady she’d ever seen” and I lost track of the number of times people asked if I was due yet (starting at six months!) or if I was having twins. Then when I’d say no I’d get the LOOK. My baby was larger, I carried high, retained water, and was very fit before my pregnancy so I understand why coworkers commented but it sure does get exhausting and very hurtful when you’re already feeling large! I hope she gets the same luck I did, I lost all my baby weight/water retention in a few weeks and returned to work, all the judgmental people had to shove it, lol.
With Meghan and celebrities I think twins are predicted since people would think two babies would be a cute idea and fun gossip, not because of size.
It’s crappy the other way too- people kept commenting how small I was my first Pregnancy like I wasn’t eating enough and the baby was going to be too small. Super annoying. He was a perfectly average 7lb 5oz. Mind your own business people!
I also find the speculation about conception dates weird and invasive.
Been there twice. I am very short (I’m 5’1″), so both of my pregnancies made me look extra large. I also had excess fluid in my belly (I forget the medical term for it), so I was extra huge in my belly each time and heard on an every single day basis at work, “Oh my God, you’re huge!” or “Are you SURE there isn’t a twin in there?” This went on for months. It grated on my last nerve every single day that people felt the need to comment on my appearance. People seem to have this idea that because you are pregnant, they’re suddenly allowed to tell you how big you look, when it wouldn’t be considered appropriate any other time. It’s infuriating. To this day I never, ever, ever comment on anything physical whatsoever to anyone around me who is pregnant. It’s just not necessary and it’s rude as hell.
I had one guy comment: oh so now we know for sure you ‘do it’. I was hurt, grossed out and disgusted all at the same time. My body never did go back to being a size 10. My ribs were pushed out and stayed out, same as my hips. My boy was ass-backwards pretty much the whole time, delivery didn’t go well and an emerg Cesarean ordered when he went into distress. We didn’t latch well (took 4 months before we were a team …..) and after about 4 days of successes….I had to go back to work and that was that. I was deeply sad….no one noticed. I started to ‘like’ my baby at about 6 months (of course I adored him, but this wasn’t that). My body just wasn’t my own thought until about 2 years after birth, what with all the trauma (hemorrhaged, so back into hospital for 2nd operation) and by then the boy’s dad had left because he felt like he wanted to have an affair. I was so hurt (I had been trying) I said, just go….and he did. Everyone’s story is different, everyone’s story has similarities. I think it behooves us to listen to hers and support her throughout. I pray Harry is a better man than my ex!
Actually, I WAS carrying twins, and I looked like a walking circus tent, but a car full of young men drove past, and a guy leaned out and shouted, “God, lady!! You gotta be having TRIPLETS!!!” I burst into tears and then avoided going out unless I had to. It is awful the way people think they can say anything to a pregnant woman about her appearance. ps: My in-laws were fitness freaks who basically abhorred fat people, so their eyeballs were practically popping out in horror every time they looked at me. My mother-in-law offered me “diet margarine” instead of butter at dinner: UGH!
The ownership of female bodies, especially pregnant ones is terrible. A-holes! But, I do love this @Zoid: “all the judgmental people had to shove it,” I think I’ll remember that for many situations. Thanks.
p.s. I also love this color combination and I think everyone carries differently and, if she has subsequent pregnancies, that will be a change too.
Yeah I don’t think people understand how rude twin speculation can be. I’m short torsoed like Meghan and carried large both times and people asked about twins. It definitely hurt my feelings. I also don’t think people realize just how BIG you get at 9 months. They think women 6 months along are due any day.
Yeees!no matter how you carry,40 weeks is when you are very very big,as you should be considering there is a tiny person inside
I wasn’t that big carrying my daughter,but I have ALWAYS been a fluid retainer,and it physically hurts and physically shows.Most of my pregnancy with my daughter people were like *oh you are hardly showing *(nurse wore scrubs).One day in or near my 7 month time frame I was bloated face,hands,belly,ankles,feet,my maternity jeans were tight,ugh.We saw a man my husband worked with,he introduced us,and the jerk just gave me the up/down look and said *twins huh*I said no,he gave me that look again,shook his head and said *wow*under his breath but still looking at me.After resting and peeing for about 24 hours I was back to my normal size for me at the time,but I’ll never forget some stranger basically calling me fat when pregnant, I try to never guess or judge,just compliment the woman on how SHE is doing.
Here a thought, could be a bluff with the due date to throw people off her scent? Maybe to protect them somehow.
Hollywood celebrities bluff about their due dates. Royals don’t play those games. They don’t necessarily disclose every last detail, but lying to the public is a no-no.
Bit of a non story. She looks great though. Polo baby just in time for polo season lol.
That color combination is totally chic and sophisticated. I adore it and she looks beautiful.
She announced the pregnancy in October and at the time People said she’d had her 12 week scan aka she was 3 months pregnant. If you count backwards, it means she conceived in July. If you count forward from July, nine months from July is April. This made sense to me as soon as I read the headline. Maybe I’m the only person who remembered that from People’s pregnancy announcement article… but I read back and checked it and it’s there.
Same. My son was conceived around the third week of July. I delivered him at the end of April, fwiw. We announced on Halloween, IIRC.
In Australia she had mentioned to someone she was past 12 weeks which only makes sense because she wouldn’t have had the scan the day before leaving the trip. She was already past 3 months in Australia. And they announced because of the event changes in the areas with a higher Zika risk.
No the person said she was 4 months pregnant, that’s when the rumors started that the baby was coming before Spring.
Conceived July 20 with my first; he was born a week early on April 4. (8.5 pounds, though).
I was lucky and didn’t show at all until 20 weeks – we didn’t tell anyone until December 10! Gained 20 pounds by the end. Everyone is different and that’s to be expected.
Late April? That would have been a crazy early announcement. Only ten or so weeks and already announcing and showing? Hmm, I don’t think so. I think she’s due late March or very early April.
I guess she got tired of the due date speculation that she could be having a baby as early as February? I’m happy to see her in bright colors but wowza those are bright! She owns the same coat and bag in different colors.
I think being somewhat short (I still don’t think she’s quite 5’6”-5’7”) and short-waisted she did start showing early and her bump will be quite big/wide by the time April rolls around.
she isn’t 5’6, my buddy lives in Toronto and works in the industry and she has always said Meghan is closer to her height (5’3) than 5’6.
I think those kinds of numbers (height, measurements etc) that actors put out there are rarely the truth because they seem to always say 5’6 and 36-25-36 lol
Agree. I believe she’s shorter than me 5’4. She probably seems 5’6 because she’s ALWAYS wearing 3″+ heals.
Yeah those height and weights are not true at all lol.
I’ve always liked the red and purple color combo. It’s very bold and a little reminiscent of the 80s. Meghan looks amazing as usual
Red and purple don’t usually mix well, but I like this look and I’m thrilled to see her in something so bright! Both colors look lovely on her, and those shoes are gorgeous.
Yes indeed….the colours light her up!
Not trying to be super picky, but just from a fashion angle….I’d love to see this exhausted stiletto style mothballed in favour of some other shape; even a blockier heel would help.
And the pièce de résistance: that handbag (hmm) in mid/dark blue with this rigout: wow!
many uncustomary color combinations can work just fine if they are similar tones or density.
She looks amazing. I want to wear a purple dress and a red coat! She is glowing.
I can’t do the math on my babies let alone on someone else’s
Ha! I’m the same.
Seraphina one of my (now) friends was introducing me to her baby and I was like aw how old? And she muttered “two or something”. She admitted she only in the moment knew between 19-23 months. Lol. No judgment!
WHO CARES??????
You cared enough to come on here and post that, so…
People can come to this site to see other posts. There has been a lot of Royal posts lately, even I have gotten a bit tired. So it’s not odd someone wants to come and comment that. Just because you spend a couple of seconds on a short comments doesn’t mean the poster actually cares.
Eh, I’m personally of the mindset that any comment on any post is valid, as that’s the nature of enjoying celebrity culture as a guilty pleasure or fun pastime.
People care because (a) this is a real life romance novel come to life (“ordinary American girl marries Prince!”); (b) there is a lot of power in old school myths like this still; and (c) you don’t have to pay for them.
The colors look amazing!
She wasnt showing or was barely showing at eugenies wedding. She deliberately wore an outfit that made it obvious she was pregnant. This can be seen how later in Australia she wore several outfits which hid the bump very well (and others that showed it off)
She’ll have it when she had it! I only care about the name! LOL I’m like this with everyone. Ha! Also, I’m calling boy for some reason.
I enjoy her outfit!
I feel like she’s been pregnant forever!!
I don’t think she showed early, per se, but perhaps is a regular shorter human who was bloated-as many, many women are at precisely the point in pregnancy in which she attended the wedding and then went to A/NZ.
I don’t know why I came here to read this. I get so sick of people nitpicking and judging pregnant ladies bumps. I remember with my last I had my mother in law making fun of me for how huge I was and every single time I saw my father in law he would tell me there had to be twins in there, even though I only gained 30 pounds which is perfectly acceptable. Then I bumped into a random lady when I was 35 weeks and she told me I was too small to be that far along and there was something wrong with my baby or the doctors had the due date wrong.
Meghan is small, thin, has a short torso. She is going to show early and carry differently than someone like Kate. I think she looks exactly how she should for someone as far along as she is. Perhaps she did start to show early, I know I did. I am built like Meghan and by about 6 weeks I was starting to look pregnant.
I think she looks beautiful and I wish her a happy, healthy pregnancy and a beautiful healthy baby (whenever it is born).
I agree so much. I have people almost daily commenting on the size of my bump – for some it is too big, for some it is too small blabla.
I am now 34 weeks and my bump is already quite low so now I have constantly telling me people that my baby will arrive too early – which freaks me out of course – baby is not ready yet and needs to bake a little bit more.
I am so glad when those body observation comments are over but I guess after that I will be fair game on comments regarding after baby weight loss – so it never stops…
@Steff – congratulations! I know it’s hard to ignore the endless onslaught of comments, but focus on what really matters. The condition of your bump is between you and your doctor. The busy bodies can bugger off as far as I’m concerned.
Steff,congratulations on your baby.Just be healthy and enjoy this time,it really does go so fast!
Steef: a weird woman I’d never met before came up to me in a grocery store, put both her hands on my stomach before I could stop her, and intoned “You are going to have a boy! I’m psychic!” I had twin girls. People tell you all kinds of crap about what the shape means, etc. etc. etc. Don’t worry about ANY of it! Best wishes!
Yes, I really wish people wouldn’t comment on size. In laws comment on how small I am (I’m 26 weeks, I have three more months to go!). Thankfully no one has touched me. Several “physic” family and friends have told me I’m having a boy even though my ultrasound said girl.
Your in-laws sound like a pill. Are they still so awful?
I think she, like Kate go for the latest window. They expect the baby to be late and don’t want a huge window (I still think Louis was late and was an induction) because waiting for a baby is stressful enough without having the whole world bothering you. So if you give the last possible date, it gives a little more wiggle room.
I love the red and purple together. She looks wonderful. I don’t care for the coat when it’s tied because of how it bunches, but I also don’t like oversized coats like MM seems to.
Part of me wants to think this is smart PR because it’ll give the press something else to talk about, but at the same time now they don’t have to guess……..sooo….can the distraction last until April when push for baby comes?
If it’s any help timeline wise: i got married 18th May 2017 (almost exactly a year before them) and we had a baby april 6th, conception was late July for us so I’ve been joking all along that they’re on the same schedule as us so I’m putting my money on first week of April!
eta does that mean we can’t call is Baby Polo?
I remember how huge I was during pregnancy, and then afterward how the bump took forever to deflate – I had to return to work (in retail) 10 weeks postpartum, and I literally LOST COUNT of how many people asked me when I was due. And I had to be polite to all of them.
My parents conceived in July and I showed up April 17. Come on Meghan, gimme a birthday twinsie!
Love the look. Love the coat especially.
Meghan is 5’6”… if she were much shorter, imagine her next to WKH. Harry also looks great today. I never was a “hot for Harry” gal but today – swoon.
She’s 5’6 in heels. I believe she’s closer to 5’3 w/o.
These colours work! Lovely together. And perfect with her skin tone.
I don’t really have any interest in Meghan Markle or the BRF, but I feel compelled to say it’s nice to see her in colors. I personally like the contrast of the bold red and bold purple. It looks great and very out of character for her. Perhaps pregnancy is making her feel inclined to try new things.
She looks beautiful. These are two of my favourite colours too.
It’s polo baby twins y’all!
I think her announcement would have been right on time, you count from the first day of your last period not when sperm met egg… so the first two weeks of the 40 are almost always before you were actually pregnant.
Unsurprising. A lot of slim women tend to “pop” around six months and then just get progressively more off balance. My one coworker was having twins, and it was fun house mirror level disturbing to see her from behind where she looked same as always, only to turn and exhibit a massive belly.
Personally I don’t understand the purses. What does she carry in them that people around her don’t have for her? I have never noticed does Kate carry them? I know the queen does. So if you are shaking hands all the time, carrying flowers etc that people give you and cupping your belly how do you deal with a purse as well?
Simple, she likes carrying a purse, and if it’s not bothering her, why should it bother anyone.
Meghan is Meghan and Kate is Kate, two different people.
Today proves she can multitask, cupping baby polo, shaking hands, carry flowers, walking in stillettos and tie her coat belt.
Kate often carries clutch purses, which she uses as a way to avoid shaking hands.
In one of the pics she’s seems to be holding /”supporting” her baby bump again. It might be that this baby is going to be big. Harry and Will are both very tall, solid guys. Maybe the baby is going to take after Harry in regards to physique . With her small, petite frame, might this also explain why she might be showing early and why she might me having some discomfort caring the baby.
I’m pretty sure that Meghan only said she was 6 months along. It was the reporter who overheard (or interviewed the person at the ropeline) who added the speculation of the due being late-April/early-May. So, Meghan could be at the start of the 6th month or at the end but I don’t think her original quote mentions any date or date range…that was the reporter.
So, if I’m counting right, the “6th month” would be weeks 26-30 (is that correct?). So her due date could be anytime from week of March 18 to week of April 15. Did I do that math right? I still think she’s due in late March.
I predict Pisces or Aries baby Not Taurus.
She looks great
Honestly these are not her best colours, she doesn’t look as pretty as she could but at least the outfit gives off happy, carefree vibes so I like it. It makes you smile. In a not so happy world it’s like a ray of sunshine.
As for the date. She’s smart! She purposefully wanted to announce the baby after lots of speculation so she chose the maternity outfit that made her look visibly pregnant at the wedding. Then the baby bump was either there or not, she knew how to expose/hide it. She chose this outfit to fuel the speculations and confirm them. There’s nothing wrong in that.
What outfit are you talking about? She wore a coat at Eugenie’s wedding, as many other guests did. There was no possibility of disguising the pregnancy once they landed down under a few days later. Any sideways shots of her made it clear.