Give them a break - but will we?

Poor Princess Catherine. Being forced into going public with what is still very private news. The same thing happened to me. I was catapulted into going public with the news of my first baby - well before I was ready. I too had 'complications' meaning that I had to be rushed into a clinic in Harley Street for an emergency scan - just to make sure I was, in fact, still pregnant. For several days, we were scared the pregnancy might not last, so I clearly didn't want to tell everyone I was expecting. Particularly as I hadn't even yet told my Mum. But somehow, someone had noticed me going into the clinic, and rang the News Of The World, who broke the news the next morning.

I wish for Kate and William they could be afforded a few more weeks of privacy. It must be horrid enough feeling so dreadfully ill with this condition hyperemesis gravidarum, and having to be lying in hospital on a drip. But to have the world's media tweeting, congratulating and even taking bets on the name, it must all add to the stress.

Leave 'em alone, I say. Yet I too have been broadcasting all about it this morning. And we just KNOW they listen to their local radio station!