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Meghan Markle is pregnant and due to give birth to a royal baby in spring 2019

By Kieran Corcoran and Bill Bostock
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Meghan Markle is pregnant and due to give birth to a royal baby in spring 2019, Kensington Palace has announced.

Kensington Palace tweeted on Monday morning that the pair were "very pleased to announce" the Duchess of Sussex is expecting.

In a follow-up tweet, the palace said: "Their Royal Highnesses have appreciated all of the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public."

The baby will be seventh in line to the British throne — jumping in above Princess Eugenie, who married Jack Brooksbank on Friday.

The Daily Mail's royal correspondent, Rebecca English, reported Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, said she is "looking forward to welcoming her first grandchild."

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s baby will probably have a different last name from the rest of the royal family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed in Australia on Monday for the start of their first official royal visit since they married in May.

The tour is taking the couple to Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand, and will end on October 31.

They have 76 engagements squeezed into 16 days. Here's what they'll be getting up to in the southern hemisphere.

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Kieran Corcoran
Kieran was an Executive Editor at Business Insider and its first Deputy Bureau Chief in the UK.He spearheaded BI’s work on the war in Ukraine and helped lead its breaking-news effort.He joined Business Insider in 2017, when it had no general-news desk in London, and built that team to more than a dozen people.He helped oversee coverage spanning politics, defense, business, science, health, entertainment, royalty, and lifestyle.In his time at BI, the UK news team won a Drum Award for its Ukraine reporting. Its work was twice shortlisted twice in the British Journalism Awards and highly commended once.He occasionally broke ranks to blog about Latin.Before Business Insider he worked for Dow Jones, MailOnline, The Sun, and The Independent.Kieran graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in English. He speaks some Russian and less French.He is on X with the handle @kj_corcoran.Notable work from his teams includes:The Unyielding City: How Ukraine lost Bakhmut and Russia won a hollow victoryIran will pay for gender-transition surgery, but it comes at a cost — your dignityA bright, talented Ukrainian journalist signed up to help Fox News cover the war. Two months later she was dead.Salt Bae's former employees describe tip theft, discrimination, and polyester uniforms‘I feel conned into keeping this baby’How an entire nation embraced toxic bleach as a COVID-19 miracle cureA Saudi princess, silencedInside London's derelict 'Billionaires Row' — a mile-long street of mystery, murder, and tax avoidance
Bill Bostock
Bill Bostock
Bill Bostock was a senior reporter at Insider who covered world affairs. Much of his work concerned Saudi Arabia. Read about the Evangelical quest to woo MBS for a church and the kidnapping of a Saudi princess, or profiles of the crown prince's US attorney and first woman DJ. His investigations included the fall of the Arabia Foundation, the squalid jails for disowned Saudi women, how the Saudi government leveraged Instagram influencers, and how the government used tech to enforce the guardianship system and hunt down women who flee. Read his profile of the UK's lockdown mastermind or interview with Magnus Carlsen, or his deep dives into London's derelict Billionaires' Row, "lift surfing," deradicalization programs, or US death certificate errors. He landed exclusives about Bank of America, the US Marine Corps, Franklin Graham, and a McDonald's CEO. Bill spoke about his work on the BBC, ABC, Canada's Global News, The Right Time with Bomani Jones, and The David Pakman Show. Awards, nominations:
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