
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their first baby in a matter of weeks.
And while fans still don't know the baby's gender, the couple will not be raising their baby as "gender fluid," despite recent rumors.
Last week, Vanity Fair reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were planning to raise their baby without any strict gender roles.
"Her exact word was fluid," a source told the outlet. "She said they plan to raise their child with a fluid approach to gender and they won’t be imposing any stereotypes."
In a rare move, Kensington Palace quickly issued a statement to shut that story down.
"This story is totally false," a palace spokesman said on Saturday, according to Hello! magazine.
This is the first time in months that the palace has elected to speak out directly about any royal rumors. The most recent time was in December, when Kensington Palace denied an incident between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their first pregnancy in October. Ever since then, people have been dying to find out the gender of the baby.

But the couple has elected to keep it a secret, as most royal couples do.
Last week, a story began to circulate that Meghan and Harry were planning to raise their baby in a gender-fluid way.

"Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby," a source told Vanity Fair. "Her exact word was fluid. She said they plan to raise their child with a fluid approach to gender and they won't be imposing any stereotypes."

The outlet acknowledged that the word "fluid" is pretty, well, fluid. Raising a baby with a flexible approach to gender roles could look a lot of different ways.
Nonetheless, people took the idea of gender fluidity and ran with it.
Kensington Palace shut down the rumors with a statement, according to Hello! magazine.
The palace's statement was simple: "This story is totally false."
So there you have it, folks. Baby Sussex will not be a "gender fluid" baby, though it's easy to imagine that Meghan and Harry will take a progressive approach to raising their baby no matter the gender.

This is only the second time in recent memory that Kensington Palace has issued a statement to correct a false story about Meghan. Its general approach is to stay out of the mess entirely.

Last year, the palace released a comment to debunk the myths that Meghan and Kate Middleton were embroiled in a serious feud. Sources claimed that Kate had "slapped down" Meghan after she berated members of Kate's staff.
"This never happened," the palace said at the time, according to the Mirror.

Since then, multiple other sources have come forward to deny the feud rumors.
"The stories of the two duchesses having a major ongoing feud are just overblown," a source told Elle. "They have enormous respect for each other and are both devoted to representing Her Majesty in the humanitarian and charitable work they do."
Meanwhile, close friends of Meghan have spoken out in her defense, claiming that the press unfairly targets her.
With a baby on the way, the stress of the spotlight must be a lot to handle.
Meghan and Harry are expecting their first baby at the end of April or in early May.
The duchess recently celebrated her first baby shower with a crew of close pals and celebrities in New York.
The couple also recently took an official trip to Morocco. Back in the UK, they're expected to have a second baby shower with their relatives on the other side of the pond.

As people scramble to find out the gender (and name, and any other possible detail) of Baby Sussex, some have speculated that even Meghan and Harry have elected to wait until the birth to find out.
However, Elle reports that Meghan and Harry have indeed found out their baby's sex.

The rest of us, though, will have to wait till Baby Sussex arrives to know for sure.