MissyMalia Corner: October 2014

Duchess of Cambridge forced to call off another engagement due to morning sickness

The Duchess of Cambridge has reportedly pulled out of another official engagement because she is still suffering from severe morning sickness.

Kate, 32, who is around 11 weeks pregnant with her second child with husband, Prince William, is said to have pulled out of a trip to Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Monday.

She had been planning to visit Olympic sailor Sir Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team at its new £12million headquarters at Camber Docks in Old Portsmouth.

However, it was reported today that she has been forced to cancel the official visit next week because she continues to suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum - a severe vomiting condition which saw her hospitalised in the early weeks of her pregnancy with her first baby, Prince George, now one.

The Express reported that a royal source had confirmed Kate's trip to Portsmouth had been cancelled and said she had no plans to undertake any other official engagements before next week.

Kensington Palace said: 'Her engagements are being reviewed on a case by case basis. Any future engagements will be announced in due course.'

It is the latest in a string of official engagements to be cancelled by the Duchess as she continues to battle the vomiting condition.

Last week, she had to cancel an appearance at a new project in London, organised by The Art Room - one of the charities of which is she patron.

At the time, Kensington Palace said the Duchess was 'hugely disappointed' at having to pull out.

The Duchess did, however, send a personally-penned message to be read out to the disappointed children.

In it she apologised for not being there, saying she was 'truly sorry' at having to cancel, but promised to see the venue for herself soon.

Her cancelled engagements have set tongues wagging that she may be pregnant with twins, with one leading doctor explaining that a multiple pregnancy can make morning sickness worse.

Consultant Gynaecologist Dr Andrew Paterson said: 'HCG is a pregnancy hormone secreted by the placenta and in twins, far more of this hormone is released.

'As HCG is associated with nausea women carrying twins can experience worse morning sickness.

'In fact one of the first things we do if a woman comes to me experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum is scan them, not only to check the baby but also to check for twins.

Kate, who is around 11 weeks pregnant, suffered the same illness in her first pregnancy with Prince George

The Duchess’s last official engagement was on August 5 when she opened a poppy installation at the Tower of London with her husband William (together above) and Prince Harry

Source: the dailymail

The Sunninghill Park in Berkshire

Sad decline of Fergie and Andy's lovenest: How the Queen's wedding gift to Prince Andrew dubbed SouthYork lies derelict and decaying seven years after it sold for £15m

12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years old, is now under Heathrow flight path

Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, it was sold for £15m in 2007

The Queen gave the mansion as a gift to the Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson after marriage in 1986

Duchess of York lived there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006

Since then it has fallen into disrepair and the council gave permission for it to be demolished nine months ago

This dilapidated mansion is the last symbol of Prince Andrew’s failed marriage to Sarah Ferguson and has been left to decay seven years after the prince sold it for £15million.

To make matters worse the grand country house gifted by the Queen to her second son as a wedding gift is now under the Heathrow flight path where planes pass over it every few minutes.

12-bedroom Sunninghill Park in Berkshire, which is only around 30 years oFld, is a shadow of its former splendour and now has broken windows and boarded-up entrances.

Dubbed SouthYork because it resembles Southfork, the ranch-house in TV’s Dallas, the Duke of York sold it to Kazakh businessman Timur Kulibayev in 2007.

Designed by Sir James Dunbar-Nasmith, who also created a development on the Balmoral estate, ‘SouthYork’ was given to Andrew after his marriage in 1986.

The Duchess of York lived on there with daughters Beatrice and Eugenie following the divorce in 1996, but moved out in 2006 and joined Andrew at his home Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park.

It was sold a year later but has become an expensive ruin and worse it is now being bombarded by noisy Jumbo jets coming in to land at Heathrow.

Bosses at the airport recently switched the flight-path for incoming aircraft