IT’S official, Kate is having a d!

Not content with being the new Queen of Hearts (note, I write this with tongue firmly in cheek) our pretty princess has also set tabloid tongues wagging with almost letting out the sex of the baby who’ll be third in line to the throne.

But maybe she didn’t.

Kate’s near gaffe happened on a trip to Grimsby when upon being handed a teddy bear by someone willing to stand in Grimbsy for a number of hours said: “Thank you, I will take that for my d...”

But the red tops are all presuming d is for daughter.

Maybe, despite her ‘People’s Princess’ image Kate would have pronounced: “Thank you, I will take that for my dog to rip to shreds.”

It could have been: “Thank you I will take that for my dad, he likes to see what the great unwashed hoi-polloi keep as trinkets.”

However, with her sunny smile and flawless manners I’m sure Kate’s not like that.

Was she about to say: “Thank you, I will keep that for my delightful sister Pippa whose talent far outstrips her reputation for having a nice bum. Which she ruined my wedding day with, the selfish so and so.”

Maybe there’s a simple explanation.

Could Kate have been about to say: “Thank you, I will take that for my daughter...gotcha! I’m not telling. Ner ner ner ner ner!”

I’d rather like it if it was.