# Kate Middleton Pregnant? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201 "2011-11-17T03:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/61 "2011-11-19T19:14:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nitpicks: She’s not in the line of succession; only her husband is (and her child or children would be). If any child of hers takes the throne, that person would be King or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not of England, as such. Nitpick nitpick: The post you were replying to said ‘future king or queen’- hence the ‘third in line’ comment is clearly referring to hypothetical future baby type people, not existing princess-by-marriage type people. Unless they were thinking Ms Cambridge is planning a sex reassignment, which would probably disqualify her from the throne as a wife of the monarch- though I’m not sure if there’s actually a specified _law_ on it.. Even if that somehow went OK with the British public, Prince/Princess Catherine would then be second, and not third in line. 😉 ---
**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:** [November 19, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/62 "2011-11-19T23:18:06Z")
What if the future king were to be found to enjoy putting on women’s clothing and hanging around in bars like a lumberjack? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/63 "2011-11-19T23:20:01Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > The latest I heard was she also turned down champagne and touched her stomach 20 times in 12 minutes or something like that. > > I wish they’d leave those poor kids alone. well, if people would stop demanding every detail of every celebrity’s life, they _would_ “leave those poor kids alone.” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/64 "2011-11-20T11:52:55Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > well, if people would stop demanding every detail of every celebrity’s life, they _would_ “leave those poor kids alone.” Hey, I was just watching the news. I don’t buy any of those magazines or watch any of those shows that center around famous people. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/65 "2011-11-20T15:27:54Z")
It’s Pippa Middleton who’s pregnant and Harry’s the father. Or is it Harry’s father who’s the father? All of this is a royal pain in the arse. Which is exactly what Pippa said before Harry got it right. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201/66 "2011-11-21T19:21:54Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > Well “child who will be the future ruler (sort of) of England” - they just changed the rules so that first born (boy or girl) gets the throne (for anyone not yet born). The rules haven’t been changed yet. Sixteen different countries all have to pass acts of Parliament, and in Canada it might take a constitutional amendment (& be approved by all 10 provinces). If she is pregnant with a girl she’d best not get pregnant again with a boy until all that’s sorted out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-middleton-pregnant/603201.md?page=3)