(AP)
Watch that first step!
A pregnant Duchess Catherine was at the The 1st Battalion Irish Guard’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Aldershot, England today when her high heel became stuck in a grate.
Kate was helped by a chuckling Prince William as she pulled her shoe from the temporary trap on her way to present traditional sprigs of shamrock to members of the regiment.
The duchess wore a green dress coat and a shamrock lapel pin. She also pinned a spring on the collar of the regiment’s mascot, an Irish wolfhound named Domhnall.
The royal St. Patrick’s Day tradition was started by Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII, in 1901.
Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cambridge said Sunday that she doesn’t know the sex of her first child — but she hopes it’s a boy.
Her husband Prince William, however, would prefer a girl.
The former Kate Middleton, who is five months pregnant, made the revelation to a soldier at a St. Patrick’s Day ceremony honoring the Irish Guards.
“I asked her ‘do you know if it’s a girl or boy?’ and she said ‘not yet,'” said Guardsman Lee Wheeler.
“She said ‘I’d like to have a boy and William would like a girl.'”
Wheeler said the duchess told him the couple had not settled on names for the baby, who will be third in line to the British throne.
With AP