Comments on: Duchess Kate ‘only has herself to blame’ for Crumpet-gate, says Trump

By: Nancy Blue

Nancy Blue — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:55:25 +0000

@Lak. You are so right – the Queen has far too much class and breeding for that, something that WK is lacking in spades!

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By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:21:17 +0000

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By: Norsemen

Norsemen — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:24:38 +0000

Elizabeth. Most people do not have paparazzi bending over backwards to take their nude shots. I mean?

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By: arlie

arlie — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:50:28 +0000

Should, should should! I’m just sick of hearing what “should” have happened! Get real, people. Sure, she “should” have the right to privacy. But the sad fact is, as a celeb Royal in today’s paparazzi world, she does not. She gave up her privacy for a coddled life of wealth, fame, and privilege. Is keeping your clothes on and your dignity intact such a big price to pay for that? In fact, dignity is an essential trait for a Royal, and Waity’s — while it’s been waning over the past few years — is now gone forever.

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By: arlie

arlie — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:19:04 +0000

??? Thank you for this post. Yours is a voice of sanity in all the sycophantic clamouring that Waity is a good role model for young girls. To all those who claim she is a role model, I would like to ask, “Please explain precisely how.”

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:36:31 +0000

The Queen would never behave in this manner even in her youth because her father prepared her for her duty. I guess she also benefited from having good role models around like Winston Churchill and she remembers what the days were like when the news was about Hitler advancing further and further across Europe or bombing London in the Blitz. Unfortunately with many Royal families disappearing throughout Europe in WWI and II it was a throw back to the French Revolution. People don’t seem to make the connection to how this one event has affected royalty ever since. That they truly began to understand in Britain that they as royalty were expected to act a certain way and always keep the public in there good graces. Royalty went back to it’s original more honorable routes of the ruling classes that existed before the decadence of versailles. The queen would truly not be happy with such behavior because the queen herself would never get caught acting in such a way. she understood and continues to understand the importance of her symbolic position. She doesn’t act like a celebrity. Her family is damn walking history a relic of Britain’s great history. My grandfather was a Brit and he always said Monarchy was more than an institution they were the countries pride and walking history. A culture that needs to be preserved. These modern sensibilities are good but in no way is the Palace going to approve of progressiveness for progressiveness sake.

The affairs/ failed marriages of her children have damaged the family enough and now it seems the grandchildren can’t even keep it together. Britain and the commonwealth doesn’t ask much of them. Being a king in this time period is not horrible. No one is throwing anyone into a dungeon or even assassinating them by a fire squad. So they need to get it together

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By: Sigrid

Sigrid — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:52:48 +0000

Wow. How do you all not realize that this is standard “blaming the victim” behavior.
I suppose the public is just as sexist as the media.

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By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:44:56 +0000

I can’t fathom how seemingly intelligent women are actually agreeing with this misogynistic moron. Stop the ridiculous slut-shaming! Why is it even news-worthy if she sunbathes without her top on? Idiots.

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By: ???

??? — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:08:04 +0000

@Chattycat from Comment #41: “’She should conduct herself with a level of modesty and intelligence I believe comes with a position to impact others lives and be a role model that I would like young girls to look up to and emulate.’ And I think she does an excellent job of that in spite of the fact that she is trashed daily by the tabloids and the general public.”

Please elaborate. How exactly does the Duchess set a good role model for young girls? Wait, young girls in the 16th century, or …?

She hasn’t held down a real job in all three decades of her existence, she clearly cares much more about her looks and fashionability than committing to her charitable duties as a public servant, and for all of her education, she doesn’t seem to be particularly articulate.

Do being well groomed and smiling a lot constitute the building blocks for being a good role model for girls in this day and age? Does putting your life on hold to ensure a future role as Queen Consort make you worthy of being admired and emulated? Because quite frankly, it seems this is all Kate is and has been capable of doing and doing well. She may be a perfectly nice young woman, but she’s essentially a glorified geisha. What a tremendous achievement by 21st-century standards.

I’m not going to partake in the conversation about whether or not Kate and William were wronged for being papped in France — enough opinions on that topic have been offered on this post already.

I just decided to throw in my 2c because I’m baffled whenever anyone makes the claim that this woman is a good role model.

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By: skuddles

skuddles — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 05:26:16 +0000

Really Donald? Well you have no one to blame but yourself for that atrocity you call hair and your rep as a total and complete pr*ck.

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