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The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting her third child, Kensington Palace has announced. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting a third child, Kensington Palace has announced.
The child will be a brother or sister for Prince George and Princess Charlotte, the first two children of Kate and Prince William. The announcement was made as the duchess was forced to cancel an engagement on Monday because of extreme morning sickness, or hyperemesis gravidarum.
In a statement, the palace said the Queen and members of both families were delighted with the news. In a statement, Kensington Palace said: “Their royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their third child.
Kate cancelled a planned engagement at Hornsey Road children’s centre in London on Monday morning because she has hyperemesis gravidarum – serious morning sickness – as with her two previous pregnancies. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news.
More details soon … “As with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum. Her royal highness will no longer carry out her planned engagement at the Hornsey Road children’s centre in London today. The duchess is being cared for at Kensington Palace.”
The announcement comes in the same week as four-year-old Prince George is due to start school at Thomas’s Battersea, south London. Princess Charlotte is two.
Hyperemesis gravidarum can be so acute that it requires supplementary hydration, medication and nutrients.
Kate, 35, was admitted to hospital because of morning sickness during her first pregnancy.
The new baby will be fifth in line to the throne – bumping Prince Harry down to sixth place.
It is likely Kate will chose to have her baby at the Lindo Wing in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, where she has already experienced two straightforward deliveries. The couple have a full-time live in nanny.
Having chosen traditional royal names for their first two children, bookies odds are likely to be short on Alice or Alexandra for a girl, and James or Philip for a boy.
Royal observers had indicated it was likely that the couple would have three children.
Kate is one of three, with a sister, Pippa Matthews, and brother, James Middleton. On a royal tour of Poland in July 2017, Kate joked abut having a third after being given a present designed for newborns, turning to William and saying: “We will just have to have more babies”.
William, 35, who is one of two siblings, may not initially have been convinced. On an overseas tour of Singapore in 2012, when asked by a group of teenagers how many children he would like to have, he said he was “thinking about having two”.
He recently gave up his part-time job as an air ambulance helicopter pilot for East Anglian air ambulance to take up full-time royal duties as the Duke of Edinburgh stepped down from his royal work.
William and Kate, who have a property on the Queen’s Sandringham estate, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, will be based in Kensington Palace during the week.