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,Beautiful A-line Wedding Dresses 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.Wholesale 2013 wedding dress Online 2011 Free Shipping. 

"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. 

The duchess wore a green dress coat and a shamrock lapel pin as she presented sprigs of shamrock to soldiers in the annual ceremony at a barracks in Aldershot, southern England. She also pinned a spring on the collar of the regiment's mascot, an Irish wolfhound named Domhnall. 

Kate suffered a minor mishap when one of her high heels became briefly stuck in a drainage grille. The duchess leaned on her husband as she wrenched it loose. 

The royal St. Patrick's Day tradition was started by Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII, in 1901. 

The National Australia Bank online retail sales index found Australians spent $13 billion over the web in the past year, an equivalent of 5.8 per cent of the retail market, excluding groceries. 

More than 70 per cent of the sales were from Australian-based retailers, an increase over previous reports. 

Mr Titley said over the past five years it was important to have an "integrated approach". 

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It's not just in the country that retailers are moving online to bolster their suburban stores. Brisbane-based high-end clothing outlet Ultra Suite is also making its online mark, selling and spruiking its formal, cocktail and wedding dresses to a wider market than its two inner-city shopfronts would otherwise allow. 

Owner Michael Notman said online sales were about 10 per cent of turnover but about 60 per cent of buyers in the shops had researched online before they went in. "Most people don't leave their house without looking at what they're going to buy online,Embrace modern glamour in this evening gown from dessy bridesmaid dresses." he said.Beautiful Fit&Flare Wedding Dresses "The web is a retail tool to sell but also to allow people to research our products."