Kate Middleton Due Date Revealed, Kinda

Kate Middleton’s due date was the topic of discussion as she continued her royal tour of Scotland with a stop Thursday at a homeless shelter in Glasgow with hubby Prince William. Apparently, it’s mandatory to wear a costume when touring Scotland, so the Duchess turned up in a blue tartan with big silver buttons that did a decent job of concealing her baby bump.

If that isn’t cutesy-wootsy enough for you, then we’re told that Kate Middleton has now taken up knitting to while away the time until she delivers the baby. Not that I think a Duchess would fib, but since she pretends not to know whether it’s going to be a boy or a girl, I have a question: What color are the booties that she’s presumably knitting…or not knitting, as the case may be?

She also treated the shelter crowd to the no doubt awesomely ridiculous sight of herself in high-heeled black boots playing ping pong with the prince.

When asked about her due date, Kate Middleton was pretty cagey, saying that she expected to have the baby in mid-July “but apparently babies have their own agenda.”

Now you or I might interpret that to mean “no comment,” but several reporters around the world have read it to mean July 15. In fact, Vanity Fair is now running a Kate Middleton pregnancy countdown which ends on that date. As I write, there are 100 days and 10 hours left until the baby pops out of the oven, ready or not.