{"id":271073,"date":"2019-04-11T06:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1031665"},"modified":"2019-04-11T06:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:44:57","slug":"why-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-keeping-their-royal-baby-birth-plans-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-keeping-their-royal-baby-birth-plans-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Keeping Their Royal Baby Birth Plans Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.971488912355\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201925\/rs_634x1024-190305050659-634-Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-Investiture-Wales-LT-030519-20418425-1.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Investiture of the Prince of Wales\" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Investiture of the Prince of Wales\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Dominic Lipinski\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16.760303687636\">\n<p>As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;due date approaches, royal admirers are becoming increasingly excited to meet the royal baby. However, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that the future parents are keeping the plans around the baby&#8217;s birth private.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for the reasoning behind the decision, the Palace stated it was a &#8220;personal&#8221; choice for the couple and that they want to &#8220;celebrate privately as a new family&#8221; before sharing the news with the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very grateful for the goodwill they have received from people throughout the United Kingdom and around the world as they prepare to welcome their baby,&#8221; the Palace stated. &#8220;Their Royal Highnesses have taken a personal decision to keep the plans around the arrival of their baby private. The Duke and Duchess look forward to sharing the exciting news with everyone once they have had an opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.273648648649\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.783783783784\">\n<p>The decision appears to be a slight break from tradition. As royal admirers will recall, the public was well aware of <strong>Kate<\/strong> <strong>Middleton<\/strong>&#8216;s plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/435116\/kate-middleton-gives-birth-to-the-royal-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcome all three of her children<\/a>\u2014<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_george\">Prince George<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Princess<\/strong> <strong>Charlotte<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_louis\">Prince Louis<\/a><\/strong>\u2014in the Lindo Wing at St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital in London\u2014the same place <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/princess_diana\">Princess Diana<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince\">Prince<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Charles<\/strong> welcomed Harry and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>. The royals then gave the public their first glimpses of the new family members on the hospital steps.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the exact location of where Meghan will give birth has yet to be revealed, many have speculated that it will be in Windsor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029682\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-move-into-frogmore-cottage-ahead-of-royal-baby-s-birth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">where the couple recently moved<\/a>. While there are several hospitals in the area\u2014including The Princess Margaret Hospital, the King Edward VII Hospital and the not-too-far Frimley Park Hospital where <strong>Sophie<\/strong>, <strong>Countess<\/strong> <strong>of Wessex<\/strong> gave birth\u2014there&#8217;s also the option of a home birth.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"48.210970464135\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.9873417721519\">\n<p>Either way, it won&#8217;t be long until the world gets to meet the little one. Back in January, the duchess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1004750\/meghan-markle-reveals-her-due-date-on-walkabout-with-prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed she&#8217;s due<\/a> in April or early May. The Palace also confirmed she&#8217;s due in the spring at the time of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/971040\/meghan-markle-is-pregnant-expecting-first-child-with-prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pregnancy announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1031665\/why-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-keeping-their-royal-baby-birth-plans-private?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Lipinski\/PA Wire As Meghan Markle&#8216;s&nbsp;due date approaches, royal admirers are becoming increasingly excited to meet the royal baby. However, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that the future parents are keeping the plans around the baby&#8217;s birth private.&nbsp; As for the reasoning behind the decision, the Palace stated it was a &#8220;personal&#8221; choice for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 16:53:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}