KATE MIDDLETON EXPECTATIONS? Kate makes toasts with water, not wine 
 
 Kate Middleton has sparked a renewed bout of speculation that she may be pregnant when, during toasts at a state banquet in Singapore today, the future queen TWICE made toasts to the Queen by drinking water instead of wine. At tonight's dinner, Kate pointedly ignored a glass of white wine - burgundy Faiveley Puligny Montracht ler Cru Garennes (2008) wine snobs may be interested to know - placed at her setting, but her husband William glugged down on the red Bordeaux offered during a seven course Chinese meal in the Banquet Hall at the official residence of the Singaporean president, which included smoked duck with sliced mango, chicken consommé with herbs, spices and wolfberries and steamed fillet of marble Goby with crispy bean crumbs in soya sauce. In their enagagement interview with ITN, Kate said, “I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves,” which prompted the interviewer to ask, “People are bound to ask, do you want lots of children?” 
 
 William replied, “I think we’ll take it one step at a time. "We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids," the 30-year-old told ITN. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.” 
 
 Of course, while there are many old-schoolers in the palace who think a boy would be more than nice, one silver lining is that Kate is not under the pressure that many wives of aristocratic men are to produce a male heir.
– Stop the presses, because Prince William has actually discussed the babies he will one day have with wife Kate. Specifically, he would like two of them, Wills said today while the couple was touring Singapore as part of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. "Someone asked him how many children he would like to have, and he said he was thinking about having two," a student tells the AP. William has never before specifically numbered his future children, although an heir and a spare isn't unheard of in royal circles. And the heir might already be on the way, because Kate—gasp—ignored her glass of wine at a banquet in Singapore yesterday, the Daily Beast reports. Even more suspicious, she—not once, but twice—toasted the queen with the water she drank instead. Such a thing is just not done in royal toasts, the Beast notes, adding that rumors of a royal pregnancy have been coming in recently even before the wine incident. The New York Daily News also claims the duchess "showed what may be a hint of a baby bump" in Singapore, and Star magazine recently ran a photo of one of her dresses that had been let out an inch as proof that she must be with child. Judge for yourself in our photo gallery.