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In recent weeks, there’s been a lot of news about Prince William and Kate Middleton. Most of it was about William taking on more of his “royal duties” as a patron to several charities, as well as a statement he wrote for The Daily Mail about his grief over his mother. There was also word from a French tabloid that William and Kate were preparing a summer wedding, but that quickly got shot down.
Sunday, The Mail ran a few articles about Middleton. One was painting her as kind of a sad sack who is waiting quietly for William to propose to her, watching all of her friends (or rather, their friends) run off and get married. I actually think she is waiting around for Will, but I don’t believe she’s a sad sack about the whole thing. She seems to know what she’s doing, and she’s made the choice to wait. Here’s The Mail’s version:
Having bonded as Royal girlfriends over the past four years, the friendship between Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy appears to have turned a little sour.
Chelsy, 23, who broke up with Prince Harry in January, has distanced herself from Prince William’s girlfriend, who remains very much in the Royal fold. Ironically, it was 27-year-old Kate to whom Chelsy turned to when she split from Harry for the first time two years ago, but I’m told Chelsy is not impressed with Kate’s latest advice.
‘When they last saw each other Kate told Chelsy not to make such a fuss about Harry being away,’ says a friend. ‘She also told Chelsy to ignore rumours he was playing around. Kate’s thoughts were that it comes with the territory.’
I’m told it hasn’t helped that Kate’s close chum, society girl Astrid Harbord, 24, was recently snapped going back to Clarence House with Harry after a night out clubbing.
While Kate must wait patiently for William to pop the question, their close friend Oli Baker has announced his engagement.
Oli, 25, is a fellow graduate of St Andrews University – where Kate and Wills met. ‘He is marrying girlfriend Mel who was Kate’s flatmate in London,’ says a friend. ‘They are the last set of close friends of Wills and Kate at St Andrews to announce a wedding. It must be tough for Kate.’
[From The Daily Mail]
“It comes with the territory”? I wonder if “it” means the rumors of womanizing princes, or the actual womanizing. William has made no secret of his ambivalence to early marriage, so I suspect Kate is just going to wait him out. She has the patience of a saint, which might serve her well if she ever becomes the Princess of Wales… or the Queen.
The Mail has Middleton coming and going – they also ran a second story, a lengthy “investigation” of her family’s wealth and connections. They mention that some people will have a problem if “the daughter of an air stewardess” becomes Queen. Apparently, Kate’s family is quite rich, and quite secretive about their wealth. The guy who wrote the article has a biography on Kate coming out called Princess in Waiting, and I think he’s attempting to both give the Middleton family credit for being savvy and smart with money, while also insinuating that they are a family of desperate social climbers.
Here’s Kate attending the wedding of Lady Rose Windsor to Mr. George Gilman at the Queen’s Chapel in London in July. Images thanks to WENN .
Written by Kaiser
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I think Kate Middleton would make a great Queen. She’s beautiful, pleasant, sociable and most important of all, is incredibly well-behaved. She’s from a close and loving family and is very loyal to William, so I think she’d be a great asset as a royal wife.
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Desperate being the operative word. Kate likes the freebies at the tax payer’s expense just as much as William (cough *bullshit military career* cough) does. Would love to see the monarchy end when the Queen dies.
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So when the Queen dies, who would actually become king then, William or Charles?
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Charles.
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Charles will be king when Elizabeth dies. Even when all the fuss was going on in the press about how she should “bypass him” and “give” the monarchy to William, that was just silliness perpetuated by a press that cared more for sensationalistic headlines than actual royal protocol. It wouldn’t happen, pretty much couldn’t happen, and Elizabeth certainly isn’t the one who has anything remotely approaching the power to make it happen, even if she wanted it to. Which she absolutely never did. So the only way William will be next on the throne is if Elizabeth outlives Charles, which, while *possible*, is pretty improbable.
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Excuse me for being curt but, wouldn’t you wait around for him too? Personally I think she’s a lovely girl, she’s much more well liked here in the UK than Harry’s girlfriend was, that Chelsy girl.
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I don’t know if those two will actually get married. I could see them staying together for a long time, however I could see him marrying another woman suddenly rather than Kate.
If Will was “madly, in love” with Kate he would have married her a LONG time ago. Or at least got engage. The old saying, “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” is true. Some young socialite/heiress will catch is eye during one of their breakups and Kate will be devastated.
Hopefully she won’t go the Camilla Park-Bowles route and wait the marriage out. I seriously doubt Will marriage will last for the ages. Perhaps a kid or two — tops.
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I dunno. I think its plausible that William will be King next. I don’t see how Queen Elizabeth would allow of Camilla to be Queen. Even after their talk of reducing Camilla’s title — I’m not sure if she’ll allow Charles to succeed her. It could be written into their marriage agreement that Charles’ abdicates the thrown. This agreement could be kept under wraps to save face publicly.
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Well-said Geronimo. The Royal Family are no longer relevant or worth the expense they cost the Taxpayer.
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Yeah, she is more of a Camilla-Parker-Bowls in training (mistress wise). William is not going to marry her though. He’ll marry the next one after her or the second one after her. It won’t be this Kate girl, regardless of how correctly she’s playing her royal role.
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HA HA HA HA !!! Charles being King oh oh what a joke. William will be King even if it isnt offical. He’ll be steering his father.
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Admittedly, I’m not British, and I don’t understand the whole monarchy thing, but aren’t we of a day and age where it doesn’t matter if the King’s wife is the daughter of an “air stewardess”? Good Lord. If she can prove she’s an educated, classy, smart young woman, than who really cares.
I’d like to hear some input from some Brits – is this really an issue?
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@Polkasox, – the Europeans monarchies are far more relaxed and 21st century than the UK one. Apart from the Queen, the Windsors – the males mainly – are a fine example of dysfunction, arrogance and greedy entitlement at its best.
Those closest in line to the throne essentially want pliable, naive, grateful, scandal-free women (ideally ones who’ve led a relatively sheltered life so that narrows the field quite considerably) who’ll toe the monarchy line and be prepared to put up with all shades of shit. No sane woman would touch any of them with a 50ft barge pole.
PS. I’m not keen on the royals, just in case that wasn’t already apparent.
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Thanks for your insight, Geronimo! As an American, I thought there was still some romanticism for the royals, but apparently not.
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I can’t believe I’m more of a royalist than Geronimo. *shudder*
Probably because I’m far enough away for it all to be incredibly romantic.
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@Because I say so – oh there are still lots of die-hard Royalists around who love them! The queen is still widely respected, mainly because, unlike the rest of her family (apart from Anne), she’s a worker and although living off the tax payer, actually earns her keep.
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Sorry, K, don’t let me spoil the fairytale…
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Royalty or not, how does one just learn to accept the womanizing from their signtificate other? Isn’t that what Princess Diana initially did? And look at her now. So tragic!
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up marrying her. Camilla didn’t wait for Charles and got involved with someone else. Kate may be wanting to make sure that doesn’t happen. As someone says, she’s educated with good manners and comes from a family with money who knows how to be discreet about it.
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he better hurry up and close the deal…dude gets fuglier every day.
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**“It comes with the territory”? I wonder if “it” means the rumors of womanizing princes, or the actual womanizing.**
I would say actual womanizing. I live in Denmark, where we have two princes married to lovely ladies who look a lot like Kate Middleton. Both princes have continued their extracurricular activities.
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The word “desperate” is bandied about in the Britiah press way too much. For Americans, “desperate” implies desperation, which I don’t see in Kate. Also suggests making a fool of yourself, which I don’t think she’s doing either. So, what the hell, team Queen Kate.
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“and most important of all, is incredibly well-behaved.”
IS she a candidate to become a pet?
Why is she not doing something with herself? Work, have a life, get a master’s degree, act as if you are a woman living in the 21 century as opposed to one stuck the 17 century.
All I have heard about her revolves around shopping for expensive clothes and going to clubs and partying.
She also loves the media attention.
I can’t really understand the Brits who would have another fame seeker live off their hard earned money.
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“… the Windsors – the males mainly – are a fine example of dysfunction, arrogance and greedy entitlement at its best.”
I couldn’t agree more.
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Sorry for Kaiser’s romantic illusions, but CandyKay has it right, the actual womanizing comes with the territory.
It has never been expected of European princes to be faithful. Except when they are consorts.
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i said this before and i’ll say it again. william is not gonna marry kate. if he’s hanging out with other women than kate (like his ex-girlfriend in africa where he skipped peter’s wedding), that’s not a good thing. he also doesn’t have any reason to marry her as he can wait until he’s 40 to marry and by then kate’s ability to “breed an heir” will be pretty much shot. i think william is just keeping her around and looking across to greener pastures for when he does marry.
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@gg – desperation, in Kate’s case, has this connotation: Kate likes the attention, the status, the perks and is probably under no illusions (as per her above comments) about the personal sacrifices she would have to make as William’s wife. That, to me, is pure desperation. If you knew all the various shady ways the royal households manipulate/avoid public accountability, you’d understand how little respect most of them, bar the queen, command.
@Ned – UK taxpayers don’t have a choice re who their taxes support. It’s not as if we can ring up and opt out!
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@ sissoucat. i think it depends on the royal family. Im from the Netherlands, we have numerous princes here. They are all married, have kids and no stories about affairs or whatever.
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What’s with the (wedding) outfits in these pics? They look straight out of the JC Penny Spring Catalog….
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Sorry, Waldemar, I was stupidly only thinking of princes that I know most about – French and English princes and kings were notorious for their mistresses. And I won’t even start on the Monaco family…
Thinking of it, I’ve never heard anything bad of royal families of the Netherlands, or of Belgium, Sweden and Norway ; they seem to be decent folks, not arrogant.
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Oops. The king of Belgium is rumored to have an illegitimate daughter.
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a match made in heaven.
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I do not believe he will marry her .Infact it kind of looks like she is being faded out by the royals
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I agree,Qball. Who wants a girl that has a brother who is a cross-dresser that uses the fence of a resturant as his tiolet and a sister who wears dresses made of tiolet paper? The Middleton family would be the end of the BRF if Kate is allowed to marry Prince William. In case you haven’t noticed, she has only been seen w/PW once in the last 4-5 months. I think the wait is over for Katy-Waity!
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wait i have herd all this before with a sad ending none of them are doing much except the queen prince charles is a poor excuse for the next king when the queen is dead it would be great if the british public could vote the lot of them out so they could live in the real world like the rest of us
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