# Kate Middleton is pregnant **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 3, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859 "2012-12-03T16:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/341 "2013-06-28T13:46:18Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > … I bet she’ll give birth before July 4th. Are the Brits aware of the significance of the American holiday at all?.. Yeah, I \*\*\*think \*\*\*I have heard of the 4th of July. 🙂 Look, for a sort of belated independence present, would you like to have all the royal family shipped over to the U.S.A? We really would not miss them, and it does amuse me a bit how so many of you on this Dope, despite being American and far away from all this nonsense, show quite a bit of interest in them. Please, please do take them. No charge. Free to good home, or bad home, even. 🙂 As for the date of this baby, I just hope they don’t have a future king William on the 12th of July. That might cause some bother. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/342 "2013-06-28T15:59:25Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > As for the date of this baby, I just hope they don’t have a future king William on the 12th of July. That might cause some bother. Asking as an ignorant American, why? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/343 "2013-06-28T16:04:57Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Asking as an ignorant American, why? The [Battle of the Boyne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne), when the protestant King William of Orange, newly installed on the throne from The Netherlands, defeated the Catholic, deposed, King James, an event still ‘celebrated’ by Protestant Orangemen in Northern Ireland. Not a date for national unity. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/344 "2013-06-28T16:09:22Z")
Ah, **San Vito** beat me to it. Yes, it’s because some people in Northern Ireland get a bit excited about it and it can involve a bit of disruption and some police. > **[The Twelfth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth)** > > The Twelfth (also called Orangemen's Day) is an Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It began in the late 18th century in Ulster. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution (1688) and victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne (1690), which ensured a Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. On and around the Twelfth, large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands, streets are bedecked with British flags and b... ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/345 "2013-06-28T17:11:51Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Yeah, I \*\*\*think \*\*\*I have heard of the 4th of July. 🙂 > > Look, for a sort of belated independence present, would you like to have all the royal family shipped over to the U.S.A? We really would not miss them, and it does amuse me a bit how so many of you on this Dope, despite being American and far away from all this nonsense, show quite a bit of interest in them. > > Please, please do take them. No charge. Free to good home, or bad home, even. 🙂 > > As for the date of this baby, I just hope they don’t have a future king William on the 12th of July. That might cause some bother. Hell no. I only take an interest in them because I don’t have to feed them. You put the inbred Germans on your tax rolls you keep them there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/346 "2013-06-28T17:34:19Z")
Rats! It never works. How will we ever get rid of them? ☹ We keep being told the royal family and hangers-on are good for tourism, but I have this sneaking suspicion that unheard-of little places like the U.S.A. and France and and so on do really rather well in terms of tourism despite having wisely got rid of their royals. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/347 "2013-06-28T18:28:34Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Ah, **San Vito** beat me to it. > > Yes, it’s because some people in Northern Ireland get a bit excited about it and it can involve a bit of disruption and some police. > > [The Twelfth - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth) When the kid is born will matter little to that shower of shit stirring pricks. ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/348 "2013-06-28T19:14:49Z")
How horribly embarrassing - it is of course Charlotte _Alexandrina_. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/349 "2013-06-29T20:50:29Z")
> [@LavenderBlue](#): > > I am going to predict that her due date is earlier than she’s told us. I can’t say I blame her. Diana did that to help throw reporters off the scent. I bet she’ll give birth before July 4th. Are the Brits aware of the significance of the American holiday at all? > > Charlotte or Caroline would also make sense. And then Diana, Elizabeth and Alexandra for middle names.\*\* It makes me almost want to be royal just to get two more baby name picks.\*\* I could have used Ida in the third spot and gotten my mom to stop bitching. Then again who wants be around Charles voluntarily? He comes across as such a bore. Bolding mine. My father and his siblings all have/had two middle names besides the surnames. It can be okay if you pick names that go together well. But one of my aunts was Amanda Hilda Pauline. To me that just doesn’t scan well. My uncles had names that, while very German sounding, did well together, but my _father_? Harold Harry Herbert Surname. And at that the name was revised, he’d originally had the first and third names switched, but people kept thinking he was named Herbert for the President. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/350 "2013-06-29T21:44:00Z")
Hasn’t she had that baby yet? I mean, she’s been pregnant since before the wedding and what was that, five years ago? Queen Victoria would’ve had a kid to marry into every last royal house in Europe by now. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/351 "2013-06-30T01:32:44Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Hasn’t she had that baby yet? I mean, she’s been pregnant since before the wedding and what was that, five years ago? Queen Victoria would’ve had a kid to marry into every last royal house in Europe by now. Bartender, I’ll have whatever he’s having. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/352 "2013-06-30T02:09:06Z")
I’m quite glad we cut our ties to the British monarchy in 1776, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be interested in them now. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/353 "2013-06-30T05:35:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Hasn’t she had that baby yet? I mean, she’s been pregnant since before the wedding and what was that, five years ago? Queen Victoria would’ve had a kid to marry into every last royal house in Europe by now. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Sue Townsend** > Bert Baxter: Ain’t you dropped that sprog yet? > Pauline Mole: Shut your mouth, you clapped-out geriatric. P.S. Kate wasn’t pregnant before the wedding. Where’ja get that? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/354 "2013-06-30T05:39:04Z")
It was on the covers of all the best supermarket tabloids. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/355 "2013-06-30T12:31:38Z")
Pardon me, no posts here yet. Is the whole “Baby Pool” thing in bad taste? No idea…but I’m betting on today, June 30th. Give or take 6 hours. A girl… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/356 "2013-06-30T12:39:32Z")
I thought it was due in July. I’ll pick July 15, my grandmother’s birthday (she’d turn 108 this year if she were still alive). And also in honor of my grandmother, I’ll call it a girl. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/357 "2013-06-30T17:03:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > (she’d turn 108 this year if she were still alive) My mother would have been 100 last week. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/358 "2013-06-30T19:30:56Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I thought it was due in July. I’ll pick July 15, my grandmother’s birthday (she’d turn 108 this year if she were still alive). And also in honor of my grandmother, I’ll call it a girl. Your grandmother and mine must have been very close in age. My grandmother died last November, less than a month before her 108th birthday. I’ll say a girl too, but I doubt they’ll name her Esther. But it’s not outside the realm of possibility that one of the middle names would be Sophia, which was my maternal grandmother’s name. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/359 "2013-06-30T19:59:08Z")
I’ll put my money down on “Camilla.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859/360 "2013-07-01T03:45:28Z")
She’ll be queen, so it’s likely to be a family name, and a regal one. I’m going with Mary, though I’m placing side bets on Margaret, Anne, and Alexandra. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-is-pregnant/642859.md?page=19)