This is the plague of being royal and newly married to the internet age: Twitter and the tabloids will be obsessed with your abdomen and will pronounce you over and over again until you reach the end of your life. what a day, like a broken clock, they end up succeeding.

So, Barely four months after the marriage of the former Meghan Markle with Prince Harry, SAR, the newly-created Duchess of Sussex is being treated by the tabloid.

"In very good news, a Kensington Palace insider has confirmed that the Duchess of Sussex is pregnant and has practically reopened her diary to make sure she is resting as much as possible," the Australian weekly New Idea said. last week.

Thus, the magazine said that the much anticipated Royal Couple Down Under tour in October should be canceled.

Baloney, said Kensington Palace, without using this specific term.

On Monday, the palace released more details on the Down Under tour, which will mark the first major international trip of Harry and Meghan in their new Royal Commonwealth lover role.

The couple will spend the last two weeks of October touring Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, especially at Harry's Invictus Games in Sydney.

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex speak at a "Hamilton" gala in support of Sentebale in London on August 29, 2018 in London. (Photo: Don Charity / Pool / Getty Images)

The media have always been very interested in royal pregnancies because they respond to their audiences – who are keenly interested in royal pregnancies. Remember that many of the most exuberant magazines, such as the American Life & Style, who had confidently predicted – twice – that Duchess Kate of Cambridge was going to give birth to twins.

"Kate Middleton is pregnant with twins and she already chooses names! (EXCLUSIVE)", titled L & S last year. She does not have In April, she gave birth to a baby boy, Prince Louis.

But the interest in a possible Sussex pregnancy is even higher, partly because of their status as a royal couple of the moment, and partly because of Meghan's age: she was 37 in August .

But the "evidence" cited for her so-called pregnancy is rather thin and thin. Namely: Last week, when she and Harry attended a charity gala in London, she wore a Jason Wu electric blue dress with a ruffled waist detail.

"Is there already a roll in the oven?" Hollywood Life speculated.

On Twitter, people in the know position looked at photos of Meghan in formal wear and claimed to have "feelings" that she is pregnant.

But how could Meghan "seem" pregnant in Jason Wu while a few days ago, at a "Hamilton" charity gala in London, she was wearing a Judith & Charles tuxedo mini dress. No baby bumps into view.

Then a video showing Harry and Meghan meeting children at a different charity gala showing the 33-year-old prince, rubbing his wife's back – was taken as evidence of … well, something. (In fact, both show much more PDAs than most royal couples, although generally she is the one who taps his back.)

Kensington Palace, of course, declined to comment in one way or another, but US Weekly quoted an unnamed "insider" as pooping rumors of pregnancy. It was simply "an unflattering dress and wind," the magazine reported. Harry and Meghan concentrate the first year of their marriage on their royal duties and their charities and will start a family later.

For sure, some royal blankets are uncomfortable with the Sussex Baby Watch. Harper's Bazaar points out that most people would not indulge in this kind of rude speculation about whoever they actually know.

"You do not earn any points by identifying your condition first – it just makes you look like an insensitive jerk," the magazine said on Monday.

But the jolts go on to the next unconfirmed rumor of pregnancy: Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, yoga teacher and social worker who lives in Los Angeles but would now move to London.

On Sunday, the Daily Star, a London tabloid from the same company as the tabloid Express and Sunday Express, reported that Ragland was taking "nanny classes" at a parent center, Cradle Company, in Pasadena.

She is taking courses on breastfeeding, childbirth, newborn care, CPR and first aid as she plans to move to Kensington Palace to help Meghan with the arrival of the first baby. .

"Meghan wants to avoid hiring staff if possible once her first child arrives. The idea of ​​seeing his mother move in with them and assume the role of nurse is the best possible solution. "

Alix Abbamonte, a spokeswoman for Cradle Company, declined to comment on USA TODAY.

It does not matter, the The rest of the famous media crowd took advantage of this unconfirmed report as an excuse to discuss his alleged pregnancy. On Monday, Express announced that Ragland had quit her job as a social worker in May and "should be moving to London as early as this month".

Can all this be officially confirmed? Not by the palate, which usually avoids announcing royal pregnancies until the first 12 weeks have passed. (A recent exception: Duchess Kate, whose struggles with acute morning sickness led her to cancel her commitments early in her pregnancy, forcing the palace to make early announcements.)

Ragland did not confirm anything either. In fact, unlike Meghan's father, Ragland's ex-husband, Thomas Markle Sr, Meghan's mother was decidedly unobtrusive: she has not given an interview with the media since the relationship between his daughter and Harry in 2016.

Do not expect her to change position now.

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