Meghan Markle reveals she's due in April, says she and Prince Harry want to keep first baby's gender "a surprise"
It is going to be an April baby! According to a new report, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, let slip the due date of her baby as she met locals in Birkenhead with Prince Harry during the couple's first joint engagement this year.
While Kensington Palace is yet to publicly announce the due date, the duchess revealed she is six months pregnant and the royal couple is expecting their first child sometime in April this year, Daily Mail reported.
Royal fans had earlier speculated that Meghan could be delivering the baby as soon as March, given the size of her burgeoning baby bump that she's been seen cradling everywhere she goes.
Meghan while chatting to well-wishers in the Merseyside town also revealed that the royal couple still has no clue to the gender of their baby, as they want it to be a 'surprise'.
Meghan's brief exchange with the locals took place when the royal, who clearly carried the pregnant glow in a red wrap coat worn over a figure-hugging purple dress from Babaton by Aritizia, stopped to speak to fans in the town with her husband on Monday morning. The duchess also could be seen returning to her signature hairstyle, the relaxed 'messy' bun she usually sports, as she charmed the locals alongside husband Harry.
Speaking after her royal encounter, local woman Kim Thompson said: "She said she is six months pregnant and due at the end of April, beginning of May. Another woman in the crowd joked that she was a trained midwife."
She went on to add, "Meghan said that one of her friends had [given birth] five weeks early and [the midwife] said the baby comes when they are ready. I said, as long as they are healthy, and Meghan agreed. Then she said, pointing to Harry, 'He's going to make a fantastic father.'"
Meghan also took time to speak to a hypnobirthing teacher, Sonia Richards, who was in the crowd with her mother Marion Mazumder. Sonia said, "I told her I teach hypnobirthing and she said, 'It's such a special thing that you are doing'. She looked radiant, she looked really well and I just wished her a wonderful birth."
Her mother Marion added, "I said I am looking forward to the baby coming and she said, 'so are we'."
During their time with the local population that had gathered to catch a glimpse of the royals, Meghan and Harry also managed to receive a babygro bearing the words 'Born in 2019' by eight-year-old Harry Edwards and Megan O'Carroll, of St Werburgh's. The two schoolchildren were among the 16 kids who had been selected to attend the walkabout in Birkenhead's Hamilton Square.
