The Duchess of Sussex – formally Meghan Markle – let slip her baby’s due date as she chatted to well-wishers in Birkenhead on Monday.
The Duchess of Sussex was talking to crowds in Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, in the U.K.’s Merseyside when she told them she was six months pregnant, suggesting the baby could be born in April or early May.
Speaking after her royal encounter, a local woman Kim Thompson said: “She said she is six months pregnant and due at the end of April, beginning of May,” The Daily Mail reports.
This is the closest confirmation of her due date, as Kensington Palace had previously only said she was due in spring 2019. Duchess Meghan doesn’t know the baby’s sex as she wants it to be a surprise, The Daily Mail‘s Rebecca English tweeted.
The baby chat continued when the duchess talked to a group of schoolchildren.
Meghan asked them what she should call the baby and when they replied “Amy” she said it was a great choice.
The royal couple’s first engagement together this year was in aid of empowering groups within the community.
Their first stop was Birkenhead’s Hamilton Square to view a new sculpture that was erected in November to mark the 100th anniversary of war poet Wilfred Owen’s death.
