Kate Middleton is pregnant
The future king and his beautiful bride surprised Queen Elizabeth and her subjects Monday with the news that the couple is expecting an heir to the British throne.
Prince William and his wife Kate had to spill the beans that she was preggers after Kate became violently ill at her family’s home and William took her to a London hospital.
There, Kate was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that affects one in 50 women, and occurs more often when moms-to-be are expecting twins.
Prince William leaves the King Edward VII hospital in London on Monday after visiting wife Kate Middleton.
A worried-looking William later left King Edward VII Hospital and hopped into a waiting car without a word to the army of reporters camped outside.
He had only told the queen and his dad, Prince Charles, the news Monday shortly before the public announcement at 4:01 p.m. London time. Prince Harry, who is serving in Afghanistan, was told by email – British papers reported.
Kate Middleton.
Kate and William’s baby will be the first truly classless sovereign Britain has had in more than a thousand years of monarchy.
While the child will be able to count most kings and queens in the nation’s history among its forebears, delightfully lurking in the family tree there’ll also be a working-class ancestor for every blueblood.
It makes, in this new egalitarian age, William’s choice of bride all the more brilliant, for the former Kate Middleton brings a whole raft of colourful relatives to this new royal generation, including the owner of a northern chippy, a stripper. And, of course, the famously cocaine-sniffing Uncle Gary.
For example, when William’s ancestor Queen Victoria sat on the throne, Kate’s equivalent relative was hewing coal down a pit in county Durham.
While William’s granny Queen Elizabeth II took her first tentative steps in queenship, Kate’s was marrying a jobbing carpenter.
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News that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting came with a twist: she’s suffering from a nasty variant of morning sickness. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on the prognosis.
It looks like Kate Middleton is going to ruin all the fun for the 4 or 5 billion Jewish grandmothers out there who were looking forward to reading about and watching the progression of every moment of her just-announced pregnancy. Rather than giving us picture upon picture of fashion, maternity-style, she’s been sidelined – the pregnancy is making her ill. According to reports, she has hyperemesis gravidarum, the evil older sister of morning sickness.
So what, other than a five-dollar Latin term, is hyperemesis gravidarum? It’s not just a goosed-up name for morning sickness—something which at least half of woman develop but generally see fade out by the second trimester. Morning sickness is a routine – though no fun – rite of passage for newly pregnant women. Nausea and vomiting, though everyone winces sympathetically to hear of it, doesn’t really evince the looks and attitude we exhibit when hearing about heart attacks or intestinal bypasses or drilling holes into the skull. We sympathize, a little, and remember that night with too much Mexican food and too much tequila and sort of shrug it off. Ah, youth.
Morning sickness, though, resembles hyperemesis the way a twisted ankle resembles a compound fracture with two bones sticking out through the skin. This hyperemesis is a real medical condition affecting 1 or 2 percent of women early in pregnancy. In the olden days, before IV fluid was routine, women died of hyperemesis due to the severe dehydration it caused, including Charlotte Bronte, according to apocryphal legend. More commonly, afflicted women felt so bad day after day, week after week that death seemed preferable.