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It didn’t occur to me until just now that the Duchess of Sussex probably won’t get to fly anywhere or travel any big distance for the next nine months or so. She’s well into her pregnancy, and she’s likely being advised against air travel for the remainder of her pregnancy. Then after she gives birth – probably in early spring, my guess is late March – she’ll just want to nest and be at home with the Polo Baby. Meghan has already let it be known that she plans to work well into her pregnancy, and she’s apparently already telling people that she plans to take less than six months maternity leave too. So it makes sense that Meghan and Harry are already booking another overseas tour for next fall:

As 2018 draws to a close, Meghan Markle can step back and reflect on a monumental year—and she’s already preparing to make 2019 even bigger. While she and Prince Harry prepare to welcome their first baby in the spring, the Duchess of Sussex has asked aides to fill her diary “right up to her due date” because she feels “fit and well and wants to continue working as long as possible,” according to one source.

The former actress, whose admirable work ethic has not gone unnoticed by the Queen, is planning to take a short maternity leave by royal standards—less than six months—and returning in time for an autumn tour of the U.S. and Canada, which courtiers are said to be in the early stages of planning. The precise timing depends on her actual due date, which remains a closely guarded secret. Meghan and Harry had planned to visit her homeland and the country where she filmed Suits in early 2019, but the trip was postponed because of the pregnancy. Sources close to Meghan say she and Harry are now keen to visit the U.S. and Canada as a family.

[From Vanity Fair]

Oh, that will go over so well in Canada and the US, if their first overseas trip with the Polo Baby is here in North America. We’ll love it! I’m imaging a cute little Polo Baby in a maple-leaf t-shirt and then Meghan taking Harry and the baby to see her old stomping grounds in LA. Good times.

Also: I wonder if Meghan and Harry will slip away somewhere for a “babymoon” early next year. I bet they do, but I bet they go somewhere close-by.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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