Surprisingly absolutely zero people, it seems like the Duchess of Cambridge is feeling especially broody these days. It’s a combination of things – her sister-in-law’s pregnancy, the rumors of William’s wandering scepter and the need to distract from that storyline, and just a general sense that Kate simple likes to have babies. It’s well known that Kate’s pregnancies are pretty hard on her, especially in the first four to five months. But she seems to enjoy the later stages of pregnancy, and she seems to be one of those women who just love to always have a baby in the house. So obvious story is obvious.
The imminent birth of the Duchess of Sussex’s first baby seems to have made her sister-in-law broody. I hear the Duchess of Cambridge is keen to have a fourth child.
‘Catherine would like another baby,’ a friend tells me. ‘She loves children and is prepared to put herself through another pregnancy even though they have been complicated by severe morning sickness in the past.’
It had been widely thought that she wanted to have three children, the same as her mother, Carole Middleton, so a fourth birth would surprise some royal watchers. But Kate, 37, is five months younger than Meghan and there is plenty of time to add another sibling. The Duchess would, of course, be following the example of the Queen, who gave birth to her fourth child, Prince Edward, when she was 37.
Kate gave a hint of possible intentions when with Prince William in Northern Ireland in February. As she met an adorable five-month-old baby, James Barr, she told his father, Alan: ‘He’s gorgeous. It makes me feel broody.’ It’s not clear if William shares his wife’s desire for another baby but friends say he is just as keen on children as Kate. She has been concentrating much effort in her official duties on causes to help support children in their earliest years of life.
The whole “the Queen had four children” thing is the reason why I think Kate will go for it. Plus all of the other reasons I listed – she loves babies and being a mom, she doesn’t want Meghan to be the only one having babies, and because nothing “fixes” a marriage’s rough patch like a baby, right? Plus, it’s not like she was actually going to launch her big Broken Britain initiative at any point. That was all one big keen-bait.
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DIdn’t realize she was 5 months younger than Meghan!
I bet she follows the Queen’s footsteps with a fourth. Would not surprise me at all.
Me neither, but they really had the nerve to say she’s concentrating much effort on her duties…
I don’t know where this effort is, maybe a search party should be organized.
I feel like this was discussed already but yea she very well may have a fourth very soon.
Oh FFS. This might not get through the moderation process, but as a subject of their realm, I’m mad. For the rest of us, in order to get any government support for more than two kids, the third child has to satisfy the rape clause under this government, and this woman is on her fourth.
*sighs in anti-monarchy*
I’m with you, that’s some crazy double standards, especially because all of them receive gov’t support as their lives are bankrolled by the taxpayers…
hello! I’m from the states–can you expand and explain on what you said? What kind of government support and what is the rape clause?
eta–someone explained it below
What a ridiculous double standard. I’m reminded of when William warned Africa of the dangers of overpopulation. These royals should be much more sensitive to any hypocrisy/double standards in their lives, considering they live luxurious lifestyles paid for by everyone else…
@Jenna, that immediately came to mind!! Prince William, lecturing brown and black people from the safety of his ivory tower, about population control! The rules apply only to the subjects, you see? These Royals and their ability to compartmentalize — unbelievable.
Does this dingus know the impact of his words? If people take this seriously, we’ll probably see a rise in female infanticide and sex-selective abortion.
@Duchess of Hazard:
That is truly appalling!
Since the birth rates are falling everywhere in Western world that’s a stupid move by the government. Nobody wants to end up like Japan where soon the population is in inverse age pyramid and it’s very hard to suppprt the old generations.
Oh, the government doesn’t mind if rich people have lots of kids. It’s just poor people who aren’t allowed to do so.
I don’t think Meghan’s pregnancies have anything to do with it unless Kate is willing to have 5-6 kids. Assume she gets pregnant again this summer, that means she’ll deliver her fourth kid next spring.
Meghan and Harry have been open about wanting to have at least 2. So Meghan will get pregnant again after Kate’s fourth baby is born. And who knows, they might even have a third. Unless Kate keeps going, her kids are not going to be the youngest in that family.
I can definitely see Kate and William having 4 total but not more than that. Does the UK really want to pay for a royal family of 7-8?
@violet, it’s pretty unfair, tbh. If we have more than two kids over here, in order to claim tax benefits for the third (which you do get for the first two), the child has to be classified as being born from rape (hence the ‘rape clause’ ) and it has to be marked down. Unsurprisingingly, a lot of women have forgone that. So it’s a bitter pill when Kate can have three (and now thinking of four) children on the tax payer’s coin and not being shamed for it, like we are.
Yeah, and what I find surprising is that Will and Kate are willing to have spare after spare after spare, especially when you look at how the spares and their children of the spares are treated in the family and by the media. It’s like you are dooming your future grandchildren to kind of getting treated like dirt (I mean, dirt that gets to grow up in a fancy castle, to be sure, but still like dirt in comparison to the “heirs”).
I suspect they’ll be treated a bit better than the Will/Harry comparisons though, based on their being more of them. The hate will get spread out a bit more, as sad as it is.
I think Anne, Andrew and Edward are treated basically the same. They have nicer lives than Charles IMO, yes they work, but they don’t get nearly as much criticism in general as he does (other than the entirely justified criticism that Andrew gets, due entirely to his own actions).
Nothing says ‘we have a strong marriage and my husband does not cheat’ than talking about having another child.
There WILL be a Cambridge no. 4 baby announcement before the end of the year. We’ll know once she stops botoxing her face and starts to put on weight. Its a pattern that happened with the other 3.
Love how you keep it real DU. 🙂
I think if there is to be a Baby Cambridge #4 that it has noting to do with the Sussex baby.
My guess is that they would be trying for another girl to give Charlotte a sister. Kate and Pippa seem close, so I can imagine her wanting Charlotte to have a sister to grow up with with like she did.
Exactly. If she has another one, it’s because she wants a fourth, not because she “Doesn’t want Meghan to have all the babies”. This has nothing to do with Meghan, not everything does.
And what if she has another boy? Then will there be 5?
But she’ll never re-capture the attention she got for her first. She’ll never approach the mania that is on now as the world awaits Meghan’s baby. Princessy competitiveness. She could burnish her legacy in other ways, like working, but not for her.
Kate can have five or six more babies, it will never ever diminish the interest in the Sussex children. The more kids Kate has the less interested people will be in each of the children. The people talking up this are the ones hoping to push the Sussexes further and further down the line lol! But the popularity of the Sussexes will continue to soar no matter how many kids Kate has.
I think this is true
Of course she does-it’s what she does best. I don’t think it has anything to do with Megan’s pregnancy either. Kate has always wanted lots of kids and if she can do one more she’ll go for it.
Yeah I don’t see this being some rivalry with the Sussexes, as much as people love to pit them against each other. She just does genuinely seem to love kids. Each kid gets easier to raise. Louis looks like a very easy-going baby and she seems besotted with him. And maybe she wants another girl.
And yes, being pregnant and recently having given birth relieves her of any outside “work.”
I’d love to have babies all the time too if I had their money, it bought me time off from my obligations and had endless help.
I take my hat off to her. I had hyperemesis gravidarum and it was hell on earth, many many times worse than actually giving birth. I couldn’t keep anything down for weeks, not even water. I was so dehydrated I was hospitalised for 3 weeks, and I ended up losing 12 kg during those first 17 weeks.
I love my daughter more than anything but I wasn’t willing to go through it the second time, never mind 4 times. I’m not a Kate fan but I do give her credit for this.
Mira, some of us sadly believe that her HG was exaggerated for that very reason. I haven’t heard of any woman who had it go through multiple births. I think she had bad morning sickness in her first trimester but it eased up beyond that.
Yea, she went on a luxury vacation to Mustique within two months of being discharged from the hospital for HG after a few days. I’m with Mego.
She was hospitalized with her first pregnancy for it. My best friend had it her whole pregnancy. It sucked for her, but she still had to go on with her life and still ended up having another child (in which she had it for that whole pregnancy too). I just don’t buy that she faked it. By all accounts, it only affects her for the first few months so a vacation 2 months later doesn’t mean it was faked.
I believe she FOR SURE had some brutal morning sickness, but not HG. Hers seems to clear up after the first tri.
Saying she was hospitalized isn’t a good reason though – rich people can be hospitalized for anything. Hell, some anti-nauseants and an IV drip would work wonders for lots of pregnant women.
And if I recall, she was in Bucklebury and William was elsewhere, and by her parents rushing her to the hospital, William came to her side.
She doesn’t suffer from HG. They put that out there once, and then immediately backed right off it when people started talking about how dangerous it is, how it can cause things like heart attacks, how some women have to abort to save their lives, how your teeth can totally rot out of your mouth etc.
She has bad morning sickness, and during that first pregnancy a doctor probably mentioned it as a possibility when she first cane in to hospital. They then used it in a statement, mistakenly thinking it’s just he medical term for ‘pretty bad morning sickness’. They quickly walked it back as much as they could without actually saying they messed up, but it stuck.
I thought I’d commented already. Another vote for ‘big surprise, that’s all she does’.
Meh, since the birth of Charlotte I had the impression they would end up having 4 if not 5 kids. Kate gives me the feeling that is a woman that loves motherhood and little ones.
Of course she’s going to have a fourth. We’ll get an announcement in the early fall. Everything else aside – every time we hear that Kate is getting ready to be a full time royal, or is ready to “focus on being queen,” she announces a pregnancy that takes her out of the game for two years. Remember how they moved full time to KP and many of us on here said, “and now she’ll announce a pregnancy” and BAM, pregnancy?
That’s a little harsh, sorry, my coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, but its pretty much the truth.
It’s the truth.
I can’t disagree with you – it’s become a pretty definite trend.
But I also can see how it becomes more tempting to have another baby when a relative like a SIL is having one – especially for people who have had overall good experiences with pregnancy and childbirth.
I got that kind of feeling when my SIL had her first – and even more so when the second was born – and I haven’t had a child before. So I can get how watching someone go through a pregnancy and then have a beautiful baby can make the pull of wanting another stronger.
I would be more surprised if she didn’t want another baby. A few months off with morning sickness and a nice long maternity leave will mean having to put full-time royal duties on hold a bit longer.
That said, I think she genuinely enjoys being a mum and would probably be a lot happier if she could stay at home with them all the time.
I think having a baby to correct a marriage is horrible. If William wants to cheat and can cheat, another child isn’t going to change things. And every time Kate would look at the child, it would be a reminder of why it was conceived in the first place. The reason to have a child is because it’s wanted.
Also, I wonder about Kate. I think she just loves having babies to snuggle and hold. But as soon as the baby isn’t an infant any longer, she wants another one. All babies grow up.
As with Meghan stories, I dont believe everything written about Kate.
However, I really hope William and Kate dont have additional children not that my opinion matters.
William also did a speech talking about overpopulation but I guess that doesn’t apply to him.
I concur.
Broody? SHE HAS A BABY RIGHT NOW.
Came here to say exactly this. Louis is only a year old, for Pete’s sake!
I have, like, four cream colour sweaters because I keep forgetting about the ones I have at home when I’m in the store.
Maybe it’s like that.
Nearly spit out my drink laughing at this.
I’d honestly be surprised if they have another. I was surprised they had a third, just because she’s so sick during her pregnancies.
This is a tough one – I’m usually on the side of “let people do what makes them happy”, but they also have to realize that they can do this because of all the help they have…which comes from the tax payer. Comparing to the Queen isn’t really good anymore – the Queen didn’t really have birth control options like we do now – family planning wasn’t exactly easy up until the late 60s/early 70s. And there is SO much poverty, and people struggling, nevermind the environment.
So yeah, it’s your family, so your choice – but also pretty tone deaf (surprising nobody, from these two).
I always thought “broody” meant moody or in serious thought and have been confused every time Kate’s comment about feeling “broody” come up. Looked it up in the dictionary and see it also means “inclined to sit on eggs” – so I guess is that a colloquialism in Britain for when you are thinking about having a baby?
It’s “brooding” that means moody or in serious thought, like men in Brontë novels!
Yea it’s not a term I’ve heard used that way in the US. We just say I/she has baby fever.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has another. It’s very easy good press for them, which they could use at the moment. Not that it’s worth having a child for that reason, but if she is inclined to anyway, it could help sell it to Will.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict no more children for the Cambridges. Why? Because William doesn’t want another child. He didn’t want a third child really so he’ll not go along with a fourth.
I thought when Louis came along that they’d have a fourth, so this wouldn’t surprise me at all.
I won’t hold my breath for comments about Kate being just sooo old to be pregnant in the tabloids etc (I’m noting with interest that mentioning the Queen giving birth at 37 is only being mentioned now). What is also interesting is that the source says “severe morning sickness” and not “hyperemesis gravidarum”.