Supposedly Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on May 6, 2019.
Maybe someone was born on that day, but it's not this kid that Meghan is toting around today at a polo match, just 8 weeks later.
This kid is least 4 months old, and possibly as old as 6 months.
More photos here in The Sun, including some awkward-looking ones where Meghan tries to kiss the baby.
She looks like a newly-hired babysitter or a single, happily child-free aunt meeting the kid for the first time. Zero parental connection.
That would suggest, of course, a massive lie by the British Royal Family. The birth announcement! On the easel! And the Christening! And the photos!
But more sadly, it suggests that after 6 months his 'mom' has not bonded with him. That's really concerning.
It's just gossip for us, but for this kid, it's one of the most important times of his life. I hope he has some kind of adult figure caring for him and making him a priority. Every child deserves that.
EDIT:
Looks like the Daily Mail has noticed the age discrepancy too. They're just begging their commenters to point it out.
Maybe someone was born on that day, but it's not this kid that Meghan is toting around today at a polo match, just 8 weeks later.
This kid is least 4 months old, and possibly as old as 6 months.
More photos here in The Sun, including some awkward-looking ones where Meghan tries to kiss the baby.
She looks like a newly-hired babysitter or a single, happily child-free aunt meeting the kid for the first time. Zero parental connection.
Born in January?
Anyway, it all lends more credence to the theory that not only was Archie born via surrogate, but that he was born in January, not May.That would suggest, of course, a massive lie by the British Royal Family. The birth announcement! On the easel! And the Christening! And the photos!
But more sadly, it suggests that after 6 months his 'mom' has not bonded with him. That's really concerning.
It's just gossip for us, but for this kid, it's one of the most important times of his life. I hope he has some kind of adult figure caring for him and making him a priority. Every child deserves that.
EDIT:
Looks like the Daily Mail has noticed the age discrepancy too. They're just begging their commenters to point it out.
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This is so wrong. I'm actually angry. Which is my issue, yes, but as I commented on the last post when I saw these photos my best friend/cousin just shared with me last night her success of a pregnancy with a little GIRL (hooray! I'm dying with joy!!!) after FIVE FAILED cycles of IVF. This is insulting to all women with fertility issues.
Great blog! Followed you from CDAN. So much for biweekly posts. You're spoiling us w daily posts now due to this shite show ;-) I swear each time you post a new thread and one thinks it can't be topped, Meg's is somewhere saying, "Hold my line of coke!"
Baby does not look 2months old due to appearance of features and less about weight.
The more glaring tell is Meg's lack of maternal hold/instinct over Archie and utter look of distaste in some of those pics.
If she were truly raising this child, she'd have gotten over the 1st time mom w no previous experience w kids handling of a baby.
As others note, why is this allowed to continue?
Is that why Kate is laughing?
If not maybe some other adult can help care for him. Did the surrogate officially give him up?
Whatever the case, Meg has not learned how to hold a baby yet, which confirms that the hands-on parent is not her.
When I read that she was "with" Kate, I expected photos of them faking it. They didn't even bother from what I saw. Kate interacted with her children and was sitting on the ground (unless running after the OMG-OTT-Adorable Louis) and MM stood with her living prop. So, no damage control working on that one.
But still, I'm glad to see that my immediate instinct was spot on regarding how to hold a baby. And that dress, WTH???
Sure, when they're older and just want 'up' you tend to 'hip' them as you're trying to clean the flipping house whilst being wonder mum - but, this is her 'new born'. LMAO!
And that dress like you said ... especially after squeezing herself into jeans (how appropriate that outfit was *rolls eyes so far back in head can see my own hair growing*. ARG! Just let the truth OUT already. It was fun to speculate at first, now it's truly just uncomfortable!
Honestly though, why isn't she looking AT him? She's looking for the paps, is what she's doing. Kate is on the ground, kneeling or sitting with her kids, yet Megamoomoo has to stand in her hideous dress so EVERYONE and their brother can see her awkwardly hold "her" son.
I think Meghan is holding Archie rather awkwardly, especially for a mother who has supposedly been holding him for months. Wouldn’t his arm be hurting? And no burp cloth in case he spits up on her 500+ Pound dress? I don’t get it.
Also, her outfit looks like a giant tent. I’m aghast - how can she find this appropriate for the polo match? How can vogue actually want her to edit/curate/whatever when she has proven recently that she cannot dress herself properly?
I don't know the answers to your very good questions.
If I were the BRF, I'd just find a trusted journalist - someone from the Times or Telegraph or something - and "leak" the whole thing from top to bottom.
They're making themselves into an international laughing stock.
(accidentally posted this on yesterday's post - moved it here.)
This is not a woman who has ever held a child for more than a few seconds, and when it's happened in the past it's the child thrust into her arms by a harried mother running after another child before they break something.
He's a cute baby. He doesn't deserve this scrutiny that his mother is bringing on him. She IS his mother, she will be raising him, that is not the question - whether it's her DNA or of her body is the question.
But Elle, yes, babies and puppies/kittens - we stare with wonder at the innocent love they give. It's natures way of bonding. I saw your previous post. We stare. My kids are 4 & 9 and I still stare. My niece is 13 and I still stare. My Dad is 62 and I still stare. Its our brains connecting emotion.
But damn, Rachel, lay out a blanket and let the baby stretch! My kids loved a good stretch after being bundled up in a car seat or after waking up.
You're right Nutty, someone needs to leak. This train has gone off the rails!
And Kat, yup, that's EXACTLY the right description!
I'm not a regular polo match attendee (I would love to be, however!), but there is a certain dress expected (day dress, cute shoes, no stained jeans or tents).
I hope someone does a zoom on her lenses to see if she's looking at Archie or the camera during the photo.
But I guess MM cant clutch PH & the baby at the same time haha
Guessing the dress might be a maternity time merching leftover?
Sorry-first time commenter, and I'm not very good at this. Love your blog, Nutty-it's very well written and spot on.
I do hope Harry is more hands-on, but at the very least, he has an aunt and uncle who will provide, if needed. I do keep wishing MM out of the picture entirely - she can pack up and go, take the tent with her. She could live in that damned thing - what possessed her?!
I had postpartum depression with my oldest and I still couldn't let her go. I didn't like her but I loved her I couldn't not have her ON me. My ex would feed her, bathe her, do a lot of the heavy lifting but she was with me and I was trying my hardest to bond because I know what I was feeling wasn't right. (With professional help, and medication, we got me right back on track.) But MM doesn't even look at even Louis being adorable with glasses & a silly face! IF she can't look at her kid or laugh at a silly toddler then she's, as we all speculate, not right in the head.
Maybe she just took her Spanx off.
It sounds like and your oldest came through and GO YOU! for recognizing the signs and dealing proactively. I'm glad to hear it ended so well.
I propose "The Louis Test" as the baseline marker for all humans. If you cannot look at that little guy and the bubbly life within and break into real smile, then see your doctor immediately because there is an issue.
Louis Test is the new Happy Standard! :)
MM looks fat to me. She actually looks like she originally was when a child and teenager. Seems to me that this is the real MM, so I wonder if she is on a drug-control program and she simply put on weight.
I wonder why she looks so uncomfortable. It's YOUR baby, find some shade, put a rug down, a hat on his head and let him get some air the weather was lovely today. Don't be afraid of crying its going to happen. Not everything needs to look 'perfect'.
For the very last time where has this bump come from?! she didn't have this at Wimbledon. Her hair looks nice though.
About baby age, I don't know, kid looks just overly bigger than standard maybe, but it happens, girl I babysat, was slightly bigger than normal. I just googled, 2-month boy should be somewhere around 5,5-5,7 kg, my girl was actually 5,7 kg, while girls are smaller (5,2 kg at 2 month). I'm just saying maybe Archie is just bigger than normal. But I don't know, I can't understand his size looking at these photos.
Another doll?
One day she's as slim as Jim & the next day she looks as though she is 6 months pregnant. How does she do that...maybe she has a bad case of flatulence!
Or is she missing the baby bump, getting sentimental & pulling it out for some more controversy which she knows, equals attention...look at Meagain
I agree the baby seems older than 2 months but i think 6 months is a stretch
I would say Archie is around the 4 month mark which would be about the same time
she went on her maternity leave.
Everyone is spot on, MM doesn't seem comfortable with Archie, she holds him but doesn't embrace him.
I personally have never gotten the maternal vibe from MM and i would speculate that if she didn't marry Prince Harry she would have been content to have never had kids
I mean as a 41 year old wit allegedly 2 previous husbands & plenty of boyfriends before PH and i should think she had ample opportunity to have had a child
But of course they won't bring the attention and seemingly limitless bounty like
Archie will
Judging from what the the DM is pitching they are looking to have another child early next year...so she could be 3 months pregnant with her own child
It's almost as though she was told by her PR team to get out there on the ho stroll with Archie to try to deflect & minimize the negative press from Wimbledon (too late for that)
The press has finally turned, it is like watching a dam about to burst
There is so much speculation & deception surrounding PH & MM because from the start they have lacked the honesty, decency & transparency which is actually feeding the conspiracy theories
I think that is how they roll, they love it like that
Looks like she has started from the change of clothing from Wimbledon.
I do agree the circumstances are strange and the baby is oddly large though.
The bb is clearly 4 months old- they must believe everyone on the planet is a complete idiot. Notwithstanding, she’s carrying the child like she’s an Aunt helping out when she’d rather be holding a glass of wine. The entire charade is so bizarre. . How does one explain the time stamp on the metadata of the christening photo? The Fedora worn by Di’s sister is what first struck me as completely Out of place. Is it customary for HRH Katherine to arrive in one outfit then have a wardrobe change before a photo? Everything is like an episode of the twilight zone.
Meghan is holding him I. A very awkward way, like she has never held a baby, let along this one. When they’re little like that you need to cup their legs so they don’t feel unsafe. They are still needing that cocoon feeling of the uterus. Another way to carry is over the shoulder as it’s soothing to their tummies, while you firmly hold their body and legs.
Anyway, I just had to comment on how weird she looks holding him.
If you look at the pics of Kate holding Louis, it just natural and comfortable with her arms crossed over him to keep him secure.
One last thing, the dress is very LA pregnancy type of thing. I see new moms and pregnant moms in stuff like this a lot here. Not flattering, but when you’re out and about with a babe, you’re more concerned with comfort. You can take the girl out of LA, but you can’t take the LA out of the girl.
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This is more entertaining than Big Little Lies! 😍😂
*this blog seriously impacts my work productivity, lol!
This charade has gone on way too long and makes the BRF look bad bc at this point, one is left w 2 options: 1) this lowrent yachting actress has them behind the 8 ball or 2) the BRF is complicit in the fraud.
One means they're weak and ineffective, so why do British subjects tolerate them. The other means that they are openly gaslighting their subjects for some unknown reason.
The British people have every right to be seething w anger over this trainwreck.
Holding the huge "2 month old" like a sack of potatoes, Meghan's big tummy but slim(ish) face, wig that is 2-4 inches longer than her hair at the baseball game one week ago, "private" baby now on display for the paps.....
Curiouser and curiouser. I really feel as though I have fallen through the rabbit hole.
I went back and looked at Megan's Wimbledon pictures; her legs still look thin, but if you look at her shirt and the jacket over it, they are roomy and suggest a bit more weight than you might expect. She spent a lot of time with that hat in her lap, blocking her stomach.....makes you wonder a little, or at least it makes me wonder a little!
as for her looking pregnant - well she is arching her back forward just like in Australia (when she wanted her belly to look more pregnant) and I think she is just trying to create more gossip around herself, she just can't stop herself, and I think she realized at some point that a negative attention will keep her in press for longer and her massive ego and attention addiction is preventing her from realizing that all this will be her downfall
1) Where is Doria? If I had a newborn, I would certainly want my mother to hang around for a week at least. (an ideally, longer)
Did Doria fly all the way from L.A. for just one day?
2) As noted in the Megxit2 Twitter account, one of the photos shows $mirkle with a bottle of Nivea sunscreen for kids. It is contra-indicated to apply sunscreen to children of less than six months....
I'm profoundly disturbed for Archie. He needs to be removed from her care before she does him lasting irreparable damage, psychological or physical. Because she really held him like he was a repulsive bag of garbage she wanted to drop on the ground. His head does seem abnormally large and smooth for the baby we saw 'the other day'. And what's with some dozen photos and not one of his face? We've seen his face now . . .
. . .or HAVE we?
The only saving grace possible is that he is being cared for normally by some other loving person, and she only holds him/or is permitted to hold him for these occasional photo ops. Poor little guy.
I love the caption insisting that MM and Kate are 'enjoying the polo together with their children." Reality: "MM lurks uncomfortably by a parked car while Kate plays on the ground with her children a comfortable distance away." Kate is ignoring her like a bad smell. George is looking up at the strange, mad-eyed lady standing against the car and thinking his own little thoughts, like, "Who is the weird lady? Mummy does not like her."
I hope this painful charade with her holding Archie lasted no more than 10 minutes and then someone took him away from her. She is demented and needs to be put away for the good of small children. I have zero doubt in my mind that she thinks she's gunning up for another Moonbump Mountbatten Show, seeing
So hopefully the MooMoo is simply bc of her alcoholic weight gain?
If not, and it's one of her merching ideas, consider this one an epic fail, and imo the worst example of her fahion selections.
Kate looked fresh and feminine. She appears to be a great mom.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7233105/Cheeky-Prince-George-keeps-sister-Charlotte-entertained-Louis-goes-walk.html
I would have had a pram around with a cover to avoid the sun shine, especially if I wanted ~privacy not lugging him around with no sunhat on.
So, I maintain that Archie is a doll, his skin is exceptionally shiny. The kid doesn't move. She hasn't bonded because that would be impossible with an inanimate object. I personally think she is preggers right now. Due date probably late September, early October. Can't wait to see how this plays out!
Is it possible that Megs wore that creepy ugly puce muumuu to deliberately defy and distract? Nothing else makes much sense to me.
Adore all the Cambridge kids. Louis is so cute. And, he's a sucky thumb, too. So very adorable.
What's really sad is What Kind of a Mother would use a public appearance with her baby for damage control, deflection and attention after the Wimbledon mess? What kind of a mother uses her baby is such a way? Akin to Munchhausen's or similar disorder? Next up she'll use the public backlash of her obvious lack of maternal instincts to justify insisting upon far more "privacy" because "See... I take the baby in public and they are too mean, haters and negative and I don't want him exposed to such toxic people..."
Narcissists are usually incapable of letting anything go if it doesn't go their way. There's always, always a reckoning from them. She's so predictable.
Even with a pram, she could've gotten lots of attention without screaming to the world, "I hate this kid I barely know!" and maybe with a pram, she wouldn't have had to wear the tent.
There was another photo of her on a red carpet (from her pre-Harry days), where she's wearing a very tight dress and her stomach is quite rounded.
Maybe she's pigging out while getting up during the night to care for little Archie 😜
I have 2 sons and my arms and back got such a good workout from lifting and holding them. At first my arms and back ached from lifting & holding, but after the first couple of weeks it was much easier. It looks like she hasn't been lifting a baby or standing while holding a baby. She looks like he's too heavy for her to hold. If she had been holding him, she would have developed the muscles to easily hold him by now.
Every mother learns the stand and sway to sooth a cranky baby. After the first few weeks we do it automatically. Anyone catch any swaying?
Some great pics on this site is have not seen before
But I like Thomas and I will never forget. :)
I have no children and I am the least maternal person out there, yet even I know the way she is holding the "baby" looks wrong.
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My baby was a whopper, 2 weeks over, I was the proverbial milkshake, on the hour (nurses scolded me and told me every 3 hours was all that was necessary)....she was constantly starving. Shock horror, added formula at 3 months and introduced solids shortly after...how her monster baby didn't need a feed or change even in the short time she was there beats me!
I am a mom of two. A near 40 year old mom should damn well know enough. That's an awfully strange way of clutching your baby. She is clutching that baby, not holding. Most babies until after 3 to 4 months need to have their necks supported! Otherwise they can suffer serious whiplash if their heads roll back!!!!!!
Also I took off all my wedding rings for about a year after delivery. Why? Because babies require so much of touching with our hands, that it's impossible not to scratch them. This monster moms rings are huge, absolute danger to the baby. Oh my word!
A reporter should point this out. Also those sunglasses ! Freaks me out. She is protecting her eyes. The baby's soft fontanelle on the skull needs protection until the skull hardens in the next months. Otherwise being exposed to sunlight can dehydrate the insides.
If I see a mom like that in public, you bet I am going to say something.
Also at about 6 to 8 weeks, babies all over the world require vaccines. After being vaccinated , they should be kept indoors, as most vaccines are live. Interesting to find out if this baby had this done, and if so, why didn't that nursing sister advise . So much to comment on here.
First, my youngest was a pretty big baby, ten pounds plus. She was still not this large at two months.
Second, I was unaware Dior did camping gear.
Third, I was also a short mom, like Smegs (if she's taller than five foot three I'll eat a stiletto). Carrying a large baby does tend to make you look like an overwhelmed troll doll, which is why I used a carrier or dare I say, a stroller. The only reason I can figure why she didn't is attention from paps and that she would be handing him off to an employee at some point.
I feel so badly for this poor little guy. Harry might be an enthusiastic father, but I don't know if he's going to be a good one. In his way, I think he's just as selfish and self-absorbed as his wife. I can only hope that somehow they luck upon a nanny like Tiggy Legge-Burke who can be the love and positive influence Archie is going to so desperately need.
And just how cute is Kate and the kids?
We saw a real baby in the christening photos, but we lack sufficient corroboration that Meg was holding the same baby yesterday, or potentially, a baby at all. It struck me how the little legs dangled lifelessly though all the pictures. A real baby would draw his legs up and wiggle around, especially when being held so awkwardly for so long. No real child could 'nap' for three hours unmoving in that position. Unless he's sedated. Or plastic.
I rather hope the baby we saw yesterday was a prop baby, because she looked like she was hurting him, and at at least one point, smothering him. A doll wouldn't feel that or be traumatized like a real child.
In all seriousness - every newborn experience is different. I had postpartum depression with my daughter & multiple surgeries and recoveries for my newborn son. Where were you when I needed you to tell me how EASY it was and I should just get on with it? They're 9 & 4 now and it still hasn't gotten EASY yet - what do I do????
What I suggest is that you accept that I'm still questioning this whole situation from all angles (best to do that - avoids becoming entrenched in one belief too soon), and that I have every right to do that. Please feel free to slip right on past my comments if you find them annoying because I will continue to question this absurdity from a variety of angles.
Kate and the kids just made my day yesterday. So normal. She even served in a tin plate. That's as normal as it gets. Also, I want her handbag.
It would be better for Archie if he were not a real baby. Or if he is real, that he is not going to grow up with her as his mother. Right now, he is a precious clean slate, but maternal rejection messes up an individual for life. I mean, look at how messed up Charles is, and he did not have a narcissistic mother, just one who has always put her job ahead of her children. She was more absent than unloving.
MM is a whole other kettle of fish. I have known the adult children of narcissists, and they spend years in therapy trying to learn how to be OK with themselves, or else, they become criminals/narcissists themselves. The outlook for Archie is not rosy, mentally speaking, if Farkle is allowed to taint him with her malignant self-absorption. Let's not forget that this woman laughed at a rider who fell from his horse last year; ridicule is her default setting. Ridicule, competition, envy, control . . . If Harry pays too much attention to the baby, she will likely retaliate by hurting Archie in some manner out of jealousy. She is a classic blueprint for a Munchausen's by proxy mother. I am not a clinical psychologist; I just read a lot of psychological crime, true and other. Plus I have known some of these individuals personally. MM should never be permitted to raise a child. The situation for Archie is dire if she is his primary caregiver, or really, if he's genetically tied to her. He may have inherited her sickness.
It's OK to dislike Meghan less than a great many of us do here; personally I think she may be the Anti-Christ, at least as far as the Royal family is concerned. Other people may just see a new mother who is very unsuited/unskilled in her unfamiliar roles as mother and royal struggling to cope and not doing well at it. I wanted to think this of her, but it's been nearly a year since I could be that nice about her. She has the reputation with me which she has earned.
Mostly, I'd just love to hang out with her and dish. She could tell me all of the secrets and I'd never need to share, and while we talked, we could draw mustaches and funny balloon comments on MM's tabloid pictures. Also, there would be no photographers and far too many Contemptinis. I really want to know if William has the wicked sense of humor I suspect he has. He was onto the markle ploy from the beginning, so he can't be totally daft (is that the word?). And if HMTQ was throwing shade with Sussex and FC. My guess is yes, but I'd like to be sure. Also, I'd like to meet the corgis and the other dogs because why not.