Baby joy for Meghan Markle
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are currently on their first overseas tour as a couple in Australia
a car at an airport in Sydney, yesterday. Britain’s Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, wife of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Prince Harry, is pregnant, Kensington Palace said on Monday.
“Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the spring of 2019,” the palace said in a statement.
The royal couple landed in Australia yesterday, a day before the official start of their first overseas tour as a married couple. It is the second tour of Australia by the younger generation of royals, after Prince William, Kate and their eldest son, George, visited in 2014.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to ride a ferry across Sydney Harbour past the Opera House today, as well as watch an indigenous contemporary dance troupe and see koalas at the Taronga Zoo. The couple will meet farmers affected by a severe drought tomorrow. Their trip coincides with the Invictus Games to be held in Sydney from October 20-27. The games founded by Harry are an international paralympic-style event for military personnel wounded in action.
Harry and Meghan will also visit New Zealand and the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Fiji during their tour.
Australia, a constitutional monarchy whose head of state is the British monarch, voted in 1999 against becoming a republic. Support for a republic hovered around 50 per cent in a January poll, a level largely unchanged in recent years.