Big news! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made their first-ever visit to the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday. They attended this year because the National Chrysanthemum Society (which is really a thing that exists) named a new pink and green flower the “Charlotte.” And since Kate loves to theme-dress, she wore a coatdress in a bright green. For greenery and leaves and weeds and such. Flowers, etc. Her coatdress was by Catherine Walker and I actually think the cut is really nice. Kate often gets weird tailoring done to her coatdresses, but this looks sharp and smart.
Hilariously, the British papers are making a big deal about this being Will and Kate’s first time to the Chelsea Flower Show. The Queen goes most years, the Duke of Edinburgh has made it the show many, many times. The Prince of Wales, Prince Harry and more royal family members all make it to the annual event with some regularity. But not Will and Kate, before this year. So since the British papers were pressing poor Jason, he had to explain why Will and Kate have never been before: “diary issues.”
A Kensington Palace spokesman said the couple’s previous non-attendance had largely been down to ‘diary issues’ but added: ‘This year the diary has worked out fine and especially in the Queen’s 90th year, Their Royal Highnesses were keen to join her.’
Meaning, their schedules are just so jam-packed year after year that this is the FIRST TIME they’ve ever been free for the Chelsea Flower Show. And this year, they’re SO KEEN. Because the Queen was in attendance. And Harry too. So it probably would have looked bad if they didn’t go.
Two more pieces of information – Kate “wrote” a short “message of support” for Children’s Hospice Week, which is this week. You can read her message here. I guess that’s all her patronages are going to get out of her? She won’t make a speech, nor will she record a video, nor will she… you know, visit a children’s hospice for Children’s Hospice Week. But she’ll have her people send a message. And here’s the last thing – Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast had a really interesting piece about Will, Harry and Kate’s “bloody-mindedness” when it comes to giving any kind of access to the press, and the press is starting to feel “hacked off” at the younger royals. These was this interesting note from Penny Junor: “When Kate gets out of a car she seems to deliberately turn in the opposite direction. It’s annoying the press, and that is a really dangerous situation.” Which goes a long way to explaining why there are so many crappy photos of Kate these days. She’s not even trying to give photographers good photos, and even if she did, the photographers are pissed off.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.
Ugh, I dislike this entire look. She has no style.
That’s exactly what it is. She has zero style. She needs to hire actually talented wardrobe stylists and new hair and makeup team. I’m getting so pissed that she’s always looking so crap.
I don’t want to be horrible, but this look is awful. Everything looks cheap, from the material and the gold zipper to the hideous cardboard-looking belt and that color is terrible.
The first thing I thought was that this coat was a repeat, because I swear she’s got another just the same, and looked so cheap! The close up doesn’t help: the material looks polyester-tastic; and are the stitches where the zipper is sewn in supposed to be decorative? They just look like a crappy sewing project. And the shoulder pads!! This thing needs to be destroyed for the sake of humanity. Is she doing this on purpose so we’ll tell her to stay home instead of searing our eyes with her “fashion”?
Shoulder padding alert!!
IKR and are those shoulder pads I see? Ugh.
This coat is a repeat, from the Australia trip. You’d think she could change up the belt or accessories to freshen the look, maybe add a scarf or brooch? It’s just either all the same, or straight from the designers’ pages. There’s no individuality. Ever. Sad…. So much wasted potential.
Didn’t she wear a coat dress like this before? Same color, but with a straight skirt? Was is that bicycle race?
As for her letter–I believe she wrote it, it’s so poorly done. She needs to have the words ‘amazing’ and ‘incredible’ taken away from her, as Jason needs ‘keen’ removed from him.
Big fail. Horrible color. She’s clashing with everything around her – including the flowers.
It’s a nice coat dress but that’s not her color. I want to go to the Chelsea Flower Show before I die.
Kew Gardens is bettererer.
You get all the cool stuff!
Im going on Thursday and I’m so excited 😀
Jelly!
The field of poppies is amazing, definitely try to get to the front to see that. Of the show gardens, I really liked the Husqvarna garden and the Beauty of Mathematics garden, but they only got silver-gilt medals so that shows what I know. The cut-through silhouette of the Queen is very cool too, that’s in the Pavilion.
Correct. This is not her color, because this is not anybody’s color! fug
I don’t mind the color, I just hate the shoulder pads, the raglan sleeve seams, the zipper, and the wide belt. Pretty much ever design detail sucks, imo.
Hate the front zipper; looks cheap.
The Princess Charlotte chrysanthemum, OTOH, is really pretty.
I’m not crazy about zippers for the same reason.
Agree about the dress. I’d add that it looks too heavy for the season, too. I also agree about the flower! Lovely.
I wish she’d have left it to the original design. It had a wavy front and was made to be worn over a camisole or shell of some sort. It would have been almost edgy had she done it, and I think would have looked nicer than the way she had it made.
I agree, the original design was fun!! What a pity she wasn’t so daring back then either.
where can we see the original design? Sounds interesting!
http://www.catherinewalker.com/evelyn/?boutique_start=3&rpid=new-additions%2F
Thanks for posting the original design. Yes, it is superior to this thing Kate is wearing. I hate those shoulder pads she’s got in this thing, and the raglan seams and other seams are not very becoming at all. With that zipper, the whole mess reminds me of a Star Trek costume.
Mostly though, Kate’s behavior is awful. The facial expressions are just so fake. She does not have any sort of charisma at all. William doesn’t either so the little ‘darlings’ are made for each other.
You are welcome.
Her facial expressions are more natural and less bored and blurry around Ben Ainslie:-D
Or even zipped up part way to show off an amazing necklace!!
(Thanks Anett.)
Coat dress at the end of May. She must have had a nice green dress with sleeves available somewhere. I do not get the coat dress obsession.
I think she always needs coatdresses because people with anorexia are always cold. That’s also why she wasn’t sweating in 100F India or on their 6 hour hike in Bhutan.
Could be but I still think she had botox injections to keep her from sweating.
She wears coat dresses as a uniform and it’s kind of odd, I have never seen anyone wear one until her. And nude shoes! ugh girl. If you’re going to be thematic, go all the way and wear pink shoes.
I agree that the coat dresses are dull, but it’s 15-18 degrees C in London (high 50s-low 60s F). I went to Chelsea today and wore a knit suit (and I’ve got a lot more weight on me than Kate does). Our summers are not like your summers.
This would have been the perfect dress for visiting the Irish Guards on St. Patrick’s Day–that is if she would have bothered to go.
It looks like she buys her coat dresses in bulk. One in every color. Anyway, everything to be said about their laziness has been said by now. They’re going to do as they please and justify it until the cows come home.
Also I read dairy issues instead of diary issues.
Second that!!
Me too. I was still trying to figure that out until I read your comment…..
lol! which one is more likely? i go with the dairy issues. everyone and their grandmothers know kate and william have nothing but time.
Awful! I can’t stand these lazy a**es
Chrysanthemums are a judging category in our village’s Garden Society fetes, I’ll have you know. Chrysanthemums matter. As do roses, hydrangea, geraniums, sweet peas and lord knows what else. Village flowers, eh? I’m not regarded as a successful gardener cos I don’t bother with flowers. I’m low on the Garden Society’s pecking order.
I don’t like that dress. It looks as though she’s shoved tennis balls into the shoulders. Is that because she’s getting ready to be keen on Wimbledon?
LOL
Wimbledon is really close, you are right.
This coat has shoulder pads, totally eighties.:-)
What about peonies, Sixer? Does everyone ignore the peonies???
I don’t know about peonies! I just turn up with my carrots and my rhubarb and my raspberries. I am good at raspberries!
I love those flowers bluhare!!!
I had a delicious rhubarb crisp the other day, Sixer. I thought of you.
Peonies are one of my favorites, Anett. A fabulous smelly peony gives me life.
Sixer – I LOVE RASPBERRIES. That is all.
Sixer,
Love raspberries – can eat anything with raspberries in it! Rhubarb is wonderful too – my mother taught to make a lovely dessert called Rhubarb Fool. It is basically chilled rhubarb compote mixed with whipped cream. It is delicious with shaved chocolate or a liquorice sauce. A variant is Gooseberry Fool.
I grow a lot of soft fruit but raspberries are my favourite of favourite of them all. My rhubarb plants are like triffids, so I usually have a mountain of the stuff and have to get creative with it.
Bluhare! I keep meaning to tell you! Mr Sixer Senior took charge of three ex-battery hens so now my allotment has chickens on it, too!
AH, Another variation is to substitute ice cream for the whipped cream and serve it while the compote is still warm. YUM.
Sixer, Tell Mr. Sixer Sr. that he has a special place in bluhare heaven for rescuing battery hens. We would have some now except we can’t have them where we live.
The shoulder pads are way too big and stick out.
Yes, it’s the 1980s all over again……………ugh
Interesting point about the photos of Kate. I always think she looks horrible! And makes sense, if she isn’t posing for pictures, good ones can’t be taken. I seriously think she looks like crap most of he time. She needs some help.
She looks like she’s lost five pounds.
I agree, she looks too thin. I have read so many posts about marriage troubles and issues with Will may be the trigger. I’m beginning to believe it. She looks like Karen Carpenter.
You’re being generous. She looks like she’s lost all the pounds. The side profile pics look like she could slip through floor boards.
I wonder if Normal Bill or Harry or anyone who is close to her notices her weight loss? It’s apparent she has lost her boobs and bum in the last couple of years since Charlotte.
I do think that generally Eating Disorders are a cry for help, and most want someone to help them. But I suppose no one said anything to Diana either, so it’s too much to think the royal family would try to help Kate address her mental health.
Their daughter was born a year ago, not a couple years ago.
It is doubtful that they spend much time around the rest of the BRF.
Why exactly are her in-laws supposed to be more responsible for her mental health than she, her husband, or her own family?
Notasugar, it would be nice f someone did though.
Notasugar I suppose that is the significant question – at what point should others intervene when someone is slowly shrinking, as was the case with Diana and clearly KM? if the immediate family cannot identify the weight loss (as is often the case when you see a person every day), then can others not step in and say something?
The BRF is an institution as well as a family, and I wouldn’t think it would be so horrible for them to offer counseling to one of their “employees,” if only to avoid repeating history.
Unlike you, I do not think she has an eating disorder. I think she is deliberately underweight for vanity reason. My point was, why is the BRF supposed to be more responsible for her than her, her husband, or her immediate family who has known her her entire life and are presumably ThisClose to her all the time? And why, honestly, should the BRF concern themselves with their second worst employee who just takes the paycheck but refuses to work?
I do not think she is miserable in her life, I do not think she suffers from any disorder other than selfishness. I think she loves her taxpayer-funded gilded cage and everything she can get out of it. She is only unhappy when she has to spend 20 minutes pretending to care about anyone other than herself.
I am not as negative about her as you, nas, but I don’t think she has an eating disorder either. I do think that stress of some sort — whether it be from performing publicly or because of personal issues — plays a big part. But, yes, I do think that women in the public eye — especially younger women — become very conscious of their weight and how they look in photos.
What’s interesting to me is that Kate is now “Hollywood thin.” She has always been in the public eye, but mostly just in the UK. And she always looked to be a healthy weight throughout out their dating years. It was only upon the engagement, that Kate seemed to get a US celebrity makeover. Not simply a royal makeover. From what I’ve noticed, it seems like foreign celebs have a more realistic/natural look to them. But Kate’s updates to her face, teeth, and weight suggest a very American/Hollywood influence. Perhaps that was due to the global attention.
To clarify – Of course, you need to be a psychiatrist to diagnose someone with anorexia. But anorexia is when someone maintains a weight that is clearly too low for them. It used to be that women were way too skinny, and when asked why, they explained it was for religious reasons. At the time, religion taught that fasting and an empty body were the preferred vessel for God (anorexia mirabilis). Some people could barely fast, and yet others took the fasts to an extreme and began living on only water (until they died). Why? DIfferent genetic predispositions for anorexia.
The reasons that people give for starving themselves have changed, but the illness has always been around. It’s just that today we call women vain or under too much pressure, instead of praising them for their religious devotion.
So how do we identify that the weight is too low? Because she has not always been this thin, as evidenced by her college picture, or even post-college in that disco derby outfit, or even engagement picture. I am not thin shaming her, by any means, just stating the facts – anorexia is an illness caused by genetic brain anomalies, that her natural weight is clearly higher, and that maintaining a lower weight than what is normal for a skinny person is anorexia.
Just because someone is rich and has everything in life and a good childhood or whatever, doesn’t mean that they can’t have mental illness and suffer too.
I don’t think we owe it to anyone to tell them we’re concerned about them, but the BRF has seen this with Diana. All the riches in the world couldn’t compare to what it’s like to live with depression, schizophrenia, anorexia, or any other brain illness.
And at the very least, it’s bad PR for the BRF and they’ve seen this with Diana before. It just makes me sad, that’s all.
What an incredibly broad, sweeping generalization. That is no where near the definition of anorexia. There are many reasons why someone might choose to be underweight for their natural frame, including simple vanity. That does not mean they are suffering from anorexia nervosa.
She has gone through several periods of changing her appearance, including losing weight, even before she was in the public eye. This was generally for vanity reasons, ie. her teenage style makeover to become more popular. Doesn’t equate to anorexia.
What are the indications of anorexia, as opposed to a choice to be underweight?
There’s a picture in the DM article on the garden party (William’s first ever, really?) where you can see her shoulder blades through her dress, and her thinness looks pretty severe. Her poor posture doesn’t help.
I read some comments on the Fug Girls site, and people were saying that her wonderful carriage makes the York princesses look worse, and I wondered which Duchess they were looking at. She’s taller and thinner, and that makes clothes look better, because that’s the body type they’re designed for.
No, no, no. Anorexia Nervosa is not a “physical” illness per say. It is mental. It is a fear of weight gain and an obsession with control coupled with bad body image. All if this leads back to whatever triggered the ED. It may be an imbalance in the brain or it could be external factors.
It’s incorrect to say “she/he is very skinny. They MUST have Anorexia!” No. Wrong. You need to look at the mental side of it. Anorexia has no size. It’s hard to tell from a picture, but I don’t see it with her. I may be wrong but I have a 6th sense when it comes to ED’s. I know who has them by a sense I get.
Eating Disorders are super weird, annoying, and complicated. Even sufferers don’t fully understand them. It can be easy to act informed based on stereotypes so I would say don’t act like you know exactly what they are, unless you are trained in them or suffered from them.
I think I know my stuff as I’ve struggled with Anorexia for the past 12 years; it started when I was 8. It’s a POS disorder and there is WAY WAY WAY more to it than the stereotypes and whatnot.
Didn’t William and Harry have an engagement together one year right before Harry went to open one of his gardens for sentebale? And yet he couldn’t go for a bit to support his own brother! IIRC Harry even had to unveil a plaque commentating the Doolittles wedding as well
Yeah, I thought it was really really off that Wills & Kate didn’t go to see Harry’s Sentabale creation when the Queen, Philip and Charles went. Now they have busy schedules.
I did too, Sharon Lea. The least William could do is support his brother. Everyone else in the family went!
William had no other engagements listed that day. He had time to go to Harry’s garden and chose not to.
William is such a dick.
I hope Harry has some boundaries up.
If I remember correctly, Harry’s Sentebale garden was in honor of his mother and William still didn’t show up. Probably jealous of the attention Harry was getting. Still is.
Didn’t the tabloids 20 years ago claim Prince C was jealous of the attention that Diana received? Does history and behavior patterns repeat themselves in this family?
I have often wondered if Will is jealous of the positive media attention/recognition that his brother Harry has lately been receiving. Harry appears to put in time and effort to his favorite charities: Sentebale, Invictus games, etc.
Doing photo assumption from the Daily Fail pics: Harry looks very tired and bored in the pics with WK. But in the background of the pic of Kate in front of the poppies, he’s talking to other people and looks animated and happy.
I’m sure he loves them, but there are times I wonder if he likes them.
It’s interesting that Harry is “sensitive” about being linked with Pippa. He is showing no fondness by trying to get that straightened out with The Star.
Yes, good point Wolfpup. Perhaps Harry is trying to distance himself from the
media obsession of trying to match him up with every eligible young woman he speaks with or the Middletoon obsession of marrying Pips off to a well-to-do eligible young man 🙂 I think the media took notice of Pippa at the wedding and it has been a relentless effort to link her with Harry and every suitor possible since then.
So, flowers are more important to them than dying kids as a patronage. Got it. Useless waste of skin, this lot.
So many opportunities, just wasted.
Having the chance to bring a moment of cheer to those genuinely struggling, and it’s apparently just too much to do.
I agree with you. A paltry, poorly written letter for her patronage and no visit doesn’t look like she’s keen about that organization.
A poster on KateMiddletonReview named Lilibet summed it up beautifully in her revised version of KM’s letter. If I could link to it I would, but my links never get through.
@NOTA. Those commenters take no jive from Willnot and Cannot. HA!
I don’t care if she theme dresses a bit, but after all the talk of matching outfits with locations for photography reasons on the recent India trip, why would you wear green when there’s so much grass in the background of all of the pictures?
For someone who has quite literally worked their tail off at the gym, she looooves a full skirt.
There are so many floral dresses she could wear if she felt like theme dressing! Or she could have matched the pink to her daughter’s chrysanthemum!
I love a good springy floral dress, and it breaks my heart that she’s got the money and access to all of them and goes for the world’s most hideous 80s-throwback coat-dress instead.
Yet, the namesake was not there. That cutie, is what, 1. She could have come for a few minutes and photos and Maria could have taken her home and the visit could have continued on.
Jason, think. Come on buddy.
It’s probably different for royalty (!) but the RHS has a strict “No babes in Arms” policy and do their very best to discourage small children from Chelsea – with good reason, it gets monumentally busy.
I love Chelsea (have been 9 times), it is amazing chatting to all the talented horticuluralists, but truly Kate should be bloody well working.
They could have come before opening hours and taken a picture of Will and Kate with Charlotte and her flower. It would have been a lovely thing to do for the flower’s creator and the flower show (not that it needs advertisement, apparently). Or done it quickly and had Nanny take the baby out directly afterwards in compliance with the rules.
If royalty wants to stick around, they’ve got to be beloved, and to be loved, they’ve got to be seen and interact with the plebs. Letting people have a glimpse of the precious princess would do a lot. But that would be the gracious thing to do, so W&K are sure to do the opposite.
In 2014, a daffodil breed named after Prince George was shown at the Chelsea Flower Show, same preconditions as this visit… what diary issue stopped them from going to view that flower?
I’m guessing they showed up because of the tribute to the Queen’s 90th b-day and they really had no choice. It’s a one off, so don’t start getting expectations for the future.
There were no diary issues in 2012, 2013, 2014. In 2015, Kate had just given birth, so fair enough for not attending then. The diary issues is just a lie, As usual.
I read it as DAIRY issues. I thought what difference does lactose intolerance make at a flower show?
There is a very precise mathematical equation for this, Sixer. It measures the level of intolerance and the distance to the closest loo.
Sorry, Size!! I saw Si . . . and immediately thought it was Sixer.
@size does matter, me too! i’m so sorryy! i think i have just lost the ability to read properly and shall now do my lines. terribly sorry!
Because it didn’t involve their favorite child and favorite PR tool, Diana 2.0.
When you look through the facts, this spare seems to be valued more highly by the parents than the heir.
@nota, that’s…. sort of made sense now you think about it… i mean we have yet to hear good qualities about George from his two parents (even the Obamas have praised George more for being adorable, inquisitive and welbehaved— well ok Obama can’t really say anything bad just in case some international incident happened.. who knows. but i digress)
yet we hear Charlotte always in glowing terms. the angel made flesh.
is there no happy middleton.. i mean middleground to be had?
perhaps the Cambridge family emulates that girl/boy poem: the girl all sugar and spice, the boy all slugs and mice.
@Megan, i have indeed resigned myself to not expecting anything. but miraculously even that non existent bar is apparently not low enough.
@Adie, i wonder if in those non-issue years, they actually had difficulty locating the key to the heart-shaped diary lock. methinks #PoorJason needs to appoint a Middleton as Mistress (or Master) of the Diary Key.
now i have to wonder, is the diary full of strawberry scented pages with discreet doodles of hearts around the next sailing appointment with Dear Sir Ben Ains.
@Sixer, Dairy Issues? surely NOT the cowbells?? they moo very gently if at all…
Poor George! He seems to be a spirited child and not appreciated by his parents! I hope Nanny Maria gives him the firm discipline and love he probably needs, because he doesn’t seem to be getting it from his parents.
And I love daffodils and had no idea one was named after him. Wish these two idiots would get their heads out of their a**es and realize they need to be out their hustling with their kids. Smile for the cameras, shake the hands, and hold the babies up to be seen.
There’s photos of George on a police motorcycle with the police and Kate watching/helping him. Looks like it was taken at KP.
I do think Kate’s a loving mother. It’s her work life that I find deserving of criticism.
Waiting for William to start screaming about those.
I wasn’t talking about her being a loving mother or not. I was writing about the obvious difference in how W&K treat these two children publicly.
Well, here’s something nice: her eyeliner situation has definitely been scaled down. In fact, her make up in general looks pretty fresh. Nice job, Kate!
Ugh, her posture is just horrible. I thought they taught proper posture in UK schools. I wish they would teach it here in America.
I went to a British state school until I was 10, and then a private girls’ school, and not once were we taught correct posture. It was only when I took up pilates aged 17 that I consciously started improving mine.
I think part of Kate’s problem are the stiletto heels she wears combined with her above average height, so she always seems to be stooping down to try and hear whoever she’s talking to. My back hurts looking at hers.
She’s 5’5″ or 5’6″. That is taller than average in the UK, but she isn’t the fictional 5’10” the fans throw around.
I am remembering a friend from high school whose mother was raised in the UK and at that time they taught posture, and so she taught her daughter. I was inspired by my friend to stand up straight so really I have the UK public schools from way back to thank for knowing how to stand up straight. A pity they didn’t keep it up. Improper posture (like that exhibited by Kate) can lead to all kinds of health troubles later in life.
The heels are absolutely not an excuse to not stand up straight, even when speaking to someone shorter than you.
Rachel – I just read this and realized it sounded harsh – I don’t intend for it to be. I guess posture is just my hill to die on today. 😉
Are you sure she’s only 5’6″? Wills is about 6’3″ I think and with heels, she’s pretty close to him. I’m 5’8″ and hubs is 6’4″ and the same applies when I’m wearing 4″ heels.
She’s got to be taller than 5’6″, because she’s so close to William’s height with her heels on. I’m 5’6″, and if I could even stand in 4 inch heels, I’d still only be 5’10”, which would be noticeably shorter than William. And I absolutely believe that he’s over 6 feet, because he towers over most people. I’m guessing Kate’s about 5’8″.
I just looked at the DM pictures, and she looks a lot shorter in them than I remember. I don’t know if her posture’s gotten worse or if I previously made her taller in my head!
William is 6ft 3in. Kate ALWAYS wears 4in heels. The best way to estimate her height is to compare her height to Charles who is 5ft 10in. Look at pictures of Kate standing next to him, subtract 4inches for her heels.
She’s 5ft 6in at shortest estimate and 5ft 7in at tallest estimate.
William is 6’1″ or 6’2″, not 6’3″. When you find photos of her wearing flats beside him, you can see the true height difference. Look for photos of them canoeing in Canada. She mostly wears 4-5 inch heels with a 1 inch platform that add 5-6 inches in height.
Another height comparison. Michelle Obama is 5’11” or 6’0″. When she wears kitten heels, and Middleton wears shoes that give her an added 5-6 inches, Obama is still several inches taller.
And being tall would be no excuse for bad posture. See 5’10” Diana and her lovely ballet posture.
I was just about to say @Nota that Will’s height is false and exaggerated too. I think 6’3″ was his height with hair. 😀 He’s always listed at 6’3″, while Harry is always listed at 6 ft 1″ or 2″. Side by side and when Harry’s not putting his chin down, there’s hardly a difference in their heights. William also stands practically nose to nose with 6’1″ President Obama who is only a few inches taller than 5’11” Michelle. Will still towers over Kate even when she’s in heels. He has a few inches on her http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3290524/Daring-Duchess-Cambridge-goes-braless-pale-blue-floor-length-Jenny-Packham-gown-diamond-accessories-world-premiere-Spectre.html even in these shoes http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/26/21/2DD02ED500000578-3290524-image-a-35_1445894702190.jpg (Harry also seems taller than Daniel Craig. But Kate in those shoes looks closer to the same height as Craig and Sam Mendes, and both are about 5’10”.) She can’t even be 5’8″ let alone the reported 9″ or 10″.
Height is never an excuse for bad posture. But wearing extremely high heels does mean she hunches over to speak to people she is now taller than to avoid “looking down her nose at them.” So I think the heels exacerbate her slumping shoulders.
Amber: at the BOND premiere, she’s wearing Jimmy Choo *stripper heels. That particular pair has a 1in platform at the front, and approx 5.5in heel at the back.
*not judging. I have the same pair.
On a different note, the state of her feet!!!! All the effort to turn out so immaculately groomed and she has dirty feet!!!
FYI: the average height for British women is 5ft 3in whilst men is 5ft 9in. taking the national average into consideration, she is tall, but not as tall as people’s imaginations.
They used to teach proper posture in the US. I’m probably aging myself here, but I remember in grade school being taught why it’s important to stand straight and the teacher making us practice it.
I also remember being instructed on the proper way to answer a telephone and to politely ask for the person for whom you wish to speak. Do they do that anymore?
She’s not very literate is she? Everything she writes and says is just a jumbled up mess of grammatical errors and “oh look, I can use big words so I’m going to insert them here, and here, and here. Teehee.”
Ugh, why is she wearing a heavy coat zipped up to her neck? Despite the color, not a spring fabric. A nice colorful scarf would have looked nice. Hate her hair but at least it’s pulled back. She is so skinny; maybe why she wears coats to cover up her skeletal frame.
Know what the top comment is at the DM–Where you can see about 7,000 pictures of Kate? “This dress would’ve been a perfect choice to meet the Irish Guards on St. Patrick’s day… Oh wait.” They’re not letting that go. So Jason and Co. can shove each “work flurry” down people’s throats all they want. The heir of the heir and The Hair are just not cute anymore. People have their number. And it’s all I’m going to say as well. I don’t give a f*ck about what she wears. (And putting so much emphasis on it is probably what they want. A deflecting shiny object–that’s actually frumpy, dull, unimaginative, and dated–that let’s The DoLittle’s off the hook, while making them seem interesting, like you’re actually having a discussion about something. I ain’t falling for it no mo’.) So I’ll just point out that Ben Ainslie got five hours, including three costume changes, a guided tour of the facilities, and an hour of just sailing, for a government subsidized charity on it’s way to raising 100 million dollars. Children Hospices get a letter… And pretty much every charity and engagement has received about 30-45 minutes of Kate’s time this year, with a few only getting around 20 mins. And that’s down from her previously glooooowWING average of 45 mins per engagement. The Irish Guard was also less important than getting her hair done. They got nothing. You also don’t want to make something a habit or create expectations. Meanwhile, Mr. Anslie has now been graced with Princess Catherine’s presence for the seventh time. Perhaps her other patronages should name something after Charlotte? Or get a cardboard cutout of Benny the Sailor Man for her to stare at? She might show up and be distracted into staying a whole hour.
Clearly all the other charities just need to make Ainslie their co-patron. Kate will come running.
If only Kate could have gentlemen in waiting rather than ladies in waiting.
Go, Amber!
Well, Amber, I think next time you should tell us what you really think. 🙂
And I totally agree with you.
I’m surprised the press isn’t insinuating anything with Kate and sailor Ben. You’d think they’d at least point out how much more time she spends with engagements involving him.
Well said, Amber!
maybe they don’t like any children but their own.
kate seems always so uncomfortable and william, is he even expected to interact with kids, or is that a women’s job only?
Harry interacts with kids, so it’s not just a “women’s job” in the BRF.
I think we can criticize both her clothes and her work ethic at the same time. She does almost no work, so you’d think she’d have plenty of time to get her look right. But she buys ugly coat dresses that look exactly like ones she already has and then flashes her panties (or not) and plays with her hair. So she’s not even using her down time to prepare for her few, short events. She’s twice the amount of useless.
Oh @ClaireB, we absolutely can. I love reading everyone’s comments. I’ve left my own before http://www.celebitchy.com/480995/prince_william_kept_demanding_privacy_in_the_middle_of_the_india-bhutan_tour/#comment-15009892 and I even got in a dig in my original post today. I didn’t intend to put down other commenters at all. I just had something else on my mind today. But in general I do hate that whenever Kate “recycles” or doesn’t look too bad it’s then treated as some kind of victory, if you know what I’m talking about. “Look her hair is pulled back! Huzzah!” Constantly keeping the focus skin-deep is setting the bar as low as it can go with Kate. (And yes, she still fails far more often than she succeeds even then.) While her sartorial transgressions are always the lesser of two offenses. This outing being no exception. Visiting The Magic Garden/Anna Freud/The NPG, The Heads Together drive-by and 12 seconds soundbite speech, attending QEII’s dog and pony B-Day celebration, Anslie, and the flower show, are all that she’s done all month. What can we consider work among them? So the two letters to EACH, (that her messy assistant probably wrote), flanking that sailing and swooning party are really not sitting well with me.
@Amber, I totally agree that her work ethic or lack thereof is her absolute worst quality. It’s shameful how little time and effort she puts into her events and how few of them she does! She’s so fortunate to be in a position to be able to help people (and to be fabulously wealthy!) and she does absolutely nothing with it. Some days while reading the posts on her, I try to think about what causes I would support if I were in her shoes, and I can think of so many worthy causes, and fun causes, and her uselessness enrages me!
I think partially the focus on her clothing and appearance is strangely more objective than her lack of work, because we can all see pictures of her, but we’d have to dig to find reports of how short her stays are and she can always hide behind her “busy mom” excuse.
Amber, if rhere’s a like button here i’d press it a thousand times!
while waiting for Surben to join the patron roster, to ensure Kate’s attendance they might want to consider the stop-gap solution of changing the name CFS to DFS, the National Portrait Gallery to Galleria at the National, etc.
and maybe Will will work more if there are more elephants encountering skiing accidents in the East Anglia region needing an air lift.
Best. Comment. All. Day.
Love your comment Amber!!! Wow, I had no idea she spent 5 hours on that sailing day, and like you said 3 outfit changes?! You state the facts well.
Kensington Palace’s incompetence knows no bounds. On twitter and instagram they said its Harry’s first time at chelsea flower shower, when even a casual royal watcher knows he’s been there before and even presented his own garden. Its high time he goes solo, KP isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the Dolittles are their first priority now
Double honks for Harry in agreement. Is this the work of the “new” social media director they were advertising for last month?
Interesting! Maybe he’s the brainchild behind the new Marvin the Hamster account! @theroyalhamster. It’s adorable.
That was for BP not KP.
After people called them out on it, they deleted the tweet and put up a new one to reflect the facts. Pathetic. Like you said, even the most casual royal watcher knows about the Sentable garden and Harry’s attendance.
I hope Harry had some words for whoever was responsible, and that he sees what we all see that KP is taking him for granted.
Did they?! Gahhhh.
Yes, Harry needs to go rogue, he will do it right and much much better.
No excitement from her whatsoever.
Are the press really upset with Harry, or is it convenient to lump him with the other two?
I was wondering the same thing. Harry has been a lot more visible, especially when compared to the Doolittles.
So the children’s hospice that Mrs. Bucket is “patron” of will receive 50% of profits from the sale of the Charlotte, which works out to 50p. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Cambridges matched it?
Yes, yes it would. But that would require thinking of others and taking precious money away from the cheese toast and coat dress funds. Besides, Catherine probably wore herself out writing a (barely) three-paragraph “message of support” for Children’s Hospice Week. Poor thing’s exhausted from ramping up her charity appearances and not feeling very keen right now.
There’s some serious photoshopping going on here. I saw these same pictures and she had jowls and bags under her eyes.
I hate that coat dress. She has 2 coat dresses/1wrap dress in the exact.same.color. Good Lord, mix it up woman! She could have worn the blue poppy dress if she was so keen to theme dress, but no she buys another Kermit the Frog coat. Ugh.
LOL Kermit the Frog coat!
Where did you see the suspected un-photoshopped pics? Just curious?
One of the photos on the DM article is not photoshopped, or at least is done less. A medium distance shot where you can clearly see eye-bags and jowls. I can’t link to it directly, but it’s the one captioned “Kate’s emerald-hued dress was contrasted by yellow daffodils as her and William were shown the impressive displays.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3604998/Duke-Duchess-Cambridge-visit-Chelsea-Flower-time.html#ixzz49cNc6rba
And the ones from Rebecca English’s Twitter are fuzzy but pretty telling, too.
Thanks for that link. The coat dress is even worse close up, the stitching & fabric look really cheap. Eugenie, Beatrice & Sophie all look much more elegant & better dressed. Particularly like Sophie’s outfit, very whimsical which is perfect for a flower show, Kate is so boring.
@ ClaireB
Thanks for the link and the description.
And: oh my god. Imagine her without makeup. I think the Royal Family has another problem in the making.
After looking at the photos, I disagree about the photoshopping. It honestly just looks like the harsh light of the sun and the tilt of her head at that particular moment make her look harsher in some pics compared to others. It happens to lots of people in the sunlight, including myself and every other human I know. She really doesn’t look that noticeably different in the pictures you linked and the ones posted here. I think the royals are useless, but people have a kinda funny hate boner for Middleton that causes them to make shit up just to justify it.
4 things:
1. Kate has this dress in her closet. http://www.suzannah.com/ready-to-wear/tea-dresses/green-heart-designer-tea-dress-silk.aspx?curr=USD
I have no idea why she didn’t choose it. Much more appropriate for a flower show in May.
2. Is PoorJason trying to get fired? “Diary issues” are the last thing he should be mentioning.
3. They’ll combat the negative press by dragging the kids out for trooping the color.
4. Harry needs his own place. And his own PR. For sure. Or the Cambridges will ruin him.
Diary issues is a code phrase for the struggle Jason has begging them to put something in theirs. 😉
LOL Bluhare, OMG, I think you’re right! Seriously.
I love that dress. I want that dress. I know she’ll never wear it again because it’s quite pretty and she has no taste, so may I please have it?
And I keep wanting Harry to go back to the Clarence House PR team that he was with before Will and Kate got married. But I guess that would look pretty bad, wouldn’t it? There’s absolutely no reason to separate one of “The Trio” and stick him back with his father’s generation, especially when he’s part of a foundation with his brother and sister-in-law. Poor Harry.
I misread it as “diarrhea issues”.
A bit of Immodium and now they are keen to carry on with their important work.
‘Do they grow well outside?’
Add that to the list of Middletonisms.
Nota, Wills also joked he couldn’t spell or pronounce Chrysanthemums. Not funny.
He makes stupid cracks like that so often that I’ve started to wonder if he thinks he’s being amusing somewhat like his paternal grandfather, who’s well known for not having much of a filter. Thing is, the Duke has done a lot of work over the years and is known for being a colorful character (not necessarily liked or respected for many things he’s said, though). Workshy Wills is as bland as can be, so his efforts to be colorful come off as just idiotic.
I would pay good money to see the look on the face of the person she was talking to when she asked that question. Maybe he/she replied “Gosh, how interesting” 😉
How about “I love the fluffy ones”?
That DM article and the picture captions were so full of shade.
ClaireB – hilarious, did you catch the designer’s response (it says she has worked on it for 3 years) Lynn told her: ‘They’re made of felt.’ LOL.
@Sharon Lea, yeah, I could just hear the woman saying that! Or at least, how I would be saying it! Thinking, “you can’t possibly be that stupid.”
Good God, did she really ask that?
Faking interest.
Wearing green for a flower show.
How original.
Firstly it crossed my mind she has made a big effort in ‘lawn green’shame that effort could not have been for the Irish Guards so if it crossed my mind then I see it has also crossed others minds. Secondly she looks good the dress fits well but she has that perfect figure for this dress, but I think something a bit more flowery and imaginative and softer like Sophie s outfit would have been better. Green you would think would have been her last choice, don’t mention Green just now.
I am surprised she layered on the foundation, where is the English rose.
(Unpopular?) opinion: I love Kate’s theme dressing.
There’s a myth that giving birth to a girl “steals” their mothers good looks…in this case it’s true! She just looks so dry and brittle. That hair, oh my! I see better put together women at Kindergarten pick up.
I am always baffled by the fact that Kate seems to always be laughing and grinning excessively in pictures where people around her look straight faced or less amused. I always wonder what could be amusing her that others don’t find funny or maybe she just understood the memo to always be cheerful as grinning over the top. i really don’t know. i just wish she would take a cue from other people around to get an appropriate facial expressions. I am still rooting for her
Kate grins like that when she sees the cameras. Its her way of looking fun and engaging. A fav of hers is too laugh hysterically when next to willie. Nobody else is, not even him. Kate wants to look like she and willie are sharing an amazatron joke and she has such a great relationship with him. They really get each other you know. Its all for the cameras.
It’s a good colour on her but I’m baffled by the stiletto heels. How can the woman possibly walk around on those things without falling over?
imagine someone walking behind her pushing flower/herb seeds into the holes left by her stilettoes. a year-long performance art garden for next year’s CFS!
Ha lower-case deb!
Think of chronic low blood sugar (Kate doesn’t eat) plus chronic stilettos (dangerous!)… but then the limo and pink fluffy slippers are always nearby, I suppose.
Stilettos for a flower show? Kate sometimes reminds me of a very chav-y tacky woman.
You are expected to walk over grass and such … And when I write “walk over grass” I don’t mean that stuff that you smoke …
Even the DM photo caption writer had something to say about her footwear: “Kate wore her signature nude court shoes to elongate her legs….”
I know the DM is awful, but they are seriously throwing the best shade in the photo captions. The article is well worth looking at for the photos and captions alone. There’s a couple that make fun of her grinning and exaggerated laughter, and one that claims she’s leaning in to smell a flower when it’s really just her face being blocked by one. And they reiterate that it’s the first time either W or K has been to this very important event.
Sorry all I must be missing something did Waity write a letter where is that published ??
Her grammar has never been good .. Her writing even worse thought dress was cheap and tacky not a good look …
Chelsea was amazingly put together the flowers were simply stunning we have never been so would like to go and look around
It is amazing that after all that expensive and highly academic education Kate’s writing is sooo poor.
Putting aside my huge eyeroll that neither one of them had ever encountered a chrysanthemum (such an exotic flower in the UK, not) before, they nevertheless knew in advance that one had been named after their daughter. But instead of doing a quick google to familiarise themselves with the flower – as any normal person would do – so that they, when encountering the ‘Princess Charlotte Chrysanthemum’ could at least pronounce and spell it properly and know that YES! it ‘grows well outside’ (FFS!!), the graceless Duke and Duchess of Duncery yet again wore their grim cluelessness like a badge of honour.
And insult to gross injury, the fact that sales of this Chrysanth are to benefit EACH, a charity she’s supposed to be passionate about, but not passionate enough to look it up and know whether it was an outdoor or indoor plant?
Just…. Unbelievable.
Agree wholeheartedly. It beggars belief that this duo is just so awful. Yet articles in the mainstream press continue to praise them in all sorts of ridiculous, sycophantish ways. Sometimes the articles are laced with sideways criticisms but not enough and not nearly direct enough. So, no wonder Kate and William don’t prepare for any engagements because they think they have everyone fooled with the manic toothy grins etc. They are really beyond awful.
I love this colour but as usual there is just something about her whole look that doesn’t gel. Comments made on the Daily Mail website mentioned how bored they both looked. most of the comments were quite unflattering about the two of them. The tide is well and truly turning against the Dolittles. Poor Jason has a mountain to climb turning their image around. As for her sending a letter to publicise children’s hospices, how pathetic. Would it really be too difficult to recycle another frock and visit some of them?
If she cared about the charity, she’d have made it her business to know that a Chrysanthemum – named after her daughter and being sold to benefit that same charity – was an outdoor flower. If she cared, she’d use this flower for good and would make a big deal about it and would arrange to have it planted in the gardens at all EACH facilities, and would invite the press to record it and would bring Charlotte along for the ride and would, you know, do something graceful and good with the opportunity she’s been given (handed on a plate!) to do good.
But she won’t because, well, she doesn’t know whether it’s an outdoor or indoor plant….
That’s a fan idea, so clearly they’d never think of it.
Yes, great ideas Guesto!
Sensitive and intelligent thinking Guesto. Adding to your suggestion, W+K should purchase the ‘mums’ for EACH themselves (I know, something for others, chances are they’d faint and twitch at the very thought) or at worse from Charles’s allowance. It would also be a nice gesture for selected public gardens – isn’t there a Diana garden in London? – to do the same? The 50p profits might actually amount to something. Even 6,500 pounds would buy close to a 1000 plants; that’s the cost of one or two of Kate’s dresses.
But no, they probably won’t do anything remotely helpful to anyone. Not in their DNA.
Well, wasn’t there an article which said that Kate loved gardening and growing vegetables?
Apparently not entirely true…
How can you look bored at a flower show?
point at some pots and flowers and ask a few questions. Should be simple?
How comes that they don’t like flowers although they have some magnificient gardens?
Hi there!!
Long time reader and first time commenter on this site! I was just thinking for this event Kate could have worn the pink coat from the 9/11 memorial visit. Obviously it was not appropriate for the event back then, but I think it could have worked for this event. Also she would be recycling a coat to show how ‘thrifty’ she is.
The color of that coat dress would have probably worked well for this event, but from what I remember that coat dress was pretty heavy. Also, she probably doesn’t want to remind people that she wore a bright pink outfit to visit the 9/11 memorial. People are still criticizing her for that.
Welcome, ColeGirl.
I live this kelly green color. ..
Wearing green for a flower show. How original.
Oh, never mind. Kate seems to be doing some work. That’s fine.
Oh, never mind. Kate seems to be doing some work. That’s fine.