One of the Duchess of Cambridge’s few patronages is EACH, or East Anglian Children’s Hospice. Kate maybe does one or two appearances on the organization’s behalf, and you guys told me that there were widespread rumors that EACH is unhappy with the half-hearted support they get from Kate. Like, the whole point of a charity having a royal patron is so that the royal patron will help them raise money through increased exposure. But Kate doesn’t like to exert herself, and when she does make an appearance, it’s hyper-controlled to the point where the media rarely has much access. Back in December of last year, EACH had a huge gala event in London to raise money for their latest projects and… their royal patron didn’t even bother coming. She sent a note. And EACH’s celebrity patron, Ed Sheeran, had to do the heavy lifting.
So it’s interesting that about 24 hours after Pippa Middleton’s wedding, magically EACH released a new promotional video from Kate in support of Children’s Hospice Week. Kate recorded this back in JANUARY!! That’s when she visited an EACH hospice. I know that she filmed it in January because I recognized the (astroturf-looking) Hobbs suit and the twee little baby collar. Basically, EACH filmed this in January and they’ve been sitting on it for months!
I mean, it has “hostage video” vibes, like Poor Jason was off-camera, holding a gun to a pair of beige pumps and/or threatening to take a pair of scissors to a beloved pair of jeggings. But overall, this is sort of an improvement. She actually bothered to memorize some sentences! I think all of the cutaways are because she didn’t memorize the whole speech and she had to be coached every few sentences. But even then, that’s an improvement. You can also tell that she tried to tone down her fake-posh accent so she could be understood.
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I think her accent still sounds totally fake-she’s just speaking more slowly.
She was also reading off a TelePrompTer, no memorization required. However, his did sound less stilted than her previous effort, so good for that. If she would,vet left off that horribly collared shirt, and just wore the suit, she would’ve looked much more professional IMO.
She seems to be out and about at events more, so good for that. It could’ve been cute to bring the kids to see the flowers for a bit. As she says they garden together, that would’ve been a nice touch. Nanny Maria could’ve taken them after a brief photo op.
I don’t think she’s been out and about more with work. We’ve seen her more because of the wedding. I’m not sure when her last event before the wedding was but I feel like I haven’t seen her or bill in awhile.
It’s funny and sad she has made the bar so low and expectations so meager that a garden party Harry did the heavy lifting for, going to a flower show and eating a grape tomato, attending her sister’s wedding, and the release of a video shot months ago earns her praise and a “look at her she is working so hard.” New outfits and often new jewelry each time though, natch. If Trump’s battery theory is true she may wind up living forever.
So the hospice visit in January wasn’t actually to help out, it was to film a video. God forbid she actually do something for Hospice Week.
She’s failed them twice. January she stayed for 60 minutes only – the video must have taken most of that. This week she does nothing at all for them.
I am so glad they have Ed Sheeran and his mother. Those two really do a lot for EACH. Including hand making tons of bracelets to raise money and awareness. Kate could have done it and maintain her all important privacy, been at home with the kids, even have her staff do it but no she came up with a trite design for a teapot or something.
How is filming a PSA not helping out?
Aww man, that video got me. Sad. I hope that she really does support it and do things for and with the children. I feel like I hear that the reality is is that she does not really do any real work. If that is true, then I wish she would choose something different. Like, for example, the environment–it doesn’t care if someone doesn’t show up or is cold or unfriendly. But kids and families are more likely to be hurt by inattentiveness, you know?
I totally agree. Plus, the elephants don’t get a thrill when they see Willnot. However, if Cannot would bother to show up these kids would be excited to meet a “princess” and know she made time for them. Why not make their week and turn up and do fun activities for a few hours. It’s insulting when so much behind the scene work goes into these visits (time and resources that should go to the kids being comfortable not Kate’s comfort) and she spends the majority of the time holed up a lone to shoot a video, then get a few nice interaction shots, and race for the door. It had to be nerve wracking to raise the courage to ask for a new royal patron. They had to have really want her gone.
I’m pretty sure her eyes darting back and forth would indicate cue cards. Overall better, but her lack of warmth and empathy really impairs her message.
And I wish she called for donations instead of asking everyone “to shine a light” on the situation, because what EACH needs is donations.
It’s children’s hospice week. They didn’t just sit on it for months for no reason-it was planned around this week specifically.
This! It makes sense to me for them to air it now for the first time.
Yes, the clear answer.
Is that all she’s doing this week? Releasing an okay video, by her standards, filmed a few months ago. For goodness sake woman go visit! Don’t wear black or white, no short floaty skirt. Just show up!
I think she delivered her lines well but what the hell is going on with her left eyebrow? It’s up near her hairline! Bad Botox or is that normal for her?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who was wondering why her left eyebrow was trying to run away from her face. WHAT DOES IT KNOW?
lol I wondered that too.
I have literally no idea what she said – I could not tear my eyes away from THE EYEBROW. Overall, she comes across like a super villain in a movie, not like a caring mother. It would have made a big difference if she would just have cuddled one of those kids. Sulking Bill and Great Britain would be so much better off with Pippa…
In other News: According to the SPIEGEL website, a speech by Prince Harry was used for some important English examination in Germany – and now thousands of students are mounting the barricades because it was allegedly unintelligible! Seriously.
Her head is tilted the entire video and her torso keeps fidgeting like she’s sitting on one of those exercise balls
Plus noticeable Botox and fillers
The wriggling is very noticeable. Like she has to pee? Princess Sparkle will do a much better job. That eyebrow is running away as fast as it can!
Final verdict: Very good. She did some work. Yay!
A definite improvement but you can still see her visible nerves. Her voice is better but you can see her doing a nervous shake/tilt when the camera is on her. I might would try having her do a voiceover over shots of her interacting and speaking with people and show parts of her conversations with the children.
She spent less than an hour at this engagement in January. I wonder how much of that time was spent recording this?
I can’t say anything negative this is such a good cause. These poor babies and their families. Any attention is good attention.
Co-signed
Agree.
“I’ve seen the incredible difference childrence hospice and qualitative care can make.” She barely does any engagements for them and out of the small amount she actually does half of them are galas and fancy events…
It’s really sad because EACH looks like a truly wonderful place for these familes going through horrible experiences. Sometimes I wish I could take over her job because I’d be visiting these patronages everyday. I feel awful for the sweet children who were probably so excited to get to have fun with a “princess.
She and Bill have a unique opportunity to do SO MUCH good that many people could only dream of (myself being one of those people) and yet they are content to sit around and live in their luxury without giving back. I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again – they are Tom and Daisy Buchanan from “The Great Gatsby.” If anyone wants a perfect description of the shamebridges I’d go to “The Great Gatsby” and read the quote about the carelessness of the Buchanans; the similarities will amaze you. Let me know if you all agree!
On another note, her posture I see really distracting. She juts her neck out and hunches her back. She looks like me when I’m doing stomach isolations.
Uh, what memorization? She was definitely reading her lines, but either way she did a good job. It’s certainly an improvement from her previous speeches.
Someone pointed out that she’s dressed like Elf and now I can’t unsee it.
This woman can do no right. Doesnt matter what she does she gets trashed.
Definitely an improvement, great cause.
She seems more comfortable with herself generally speaking.
I agree, her speaking has improved, she is speaking more slowly. It is a good start. I really hope she can work with a coach on public speaking because that will come up a lot going forward. I had to have speech classes in high school and college, I wonder if they are required in the UK.
I think that rehearsals are over, it is time to get down to the main act.
It’s an improvement and she’s clearly been working on normalising that uber fake accent, tho my ears twitch whenever she said children (chi-chun). And yes the ‘tox or fillers were fresh as her cheeks and face around her mouth did not move.
Agreed
My Lord she sounds so damn robotic. And yes, I can’t unsee the elf. Elf on a table. Ugh.
And the eyeliner. It deserves a mention as it jumps into the picture when you look at Kate. The eyeliner and Kate are the two protagonists of this video.
It is good she made that video. When she is a patron she should really chuck in the work.
But her whole little speechs sounds so fake. She doesn’t get the emphasis right. She sounds as if she didn’t believe in it. She sounds as if she is afraid so perhaps Poor Jason did have a gun while monitoring her performance!
Come on. It’s god-awful!
She has absolutely no connection to the words, she might as well be talking about the weather. She clearly has zero idea what she’s saying, because the emphasis is everywhere except where it should be. She’s reading cue cards in the most obvious way possible, and she’s not even doing that well, she kept slowing down to double check simple words, which again shows she has absolutely no idea what the speech is about and can’t even hazard a guess as to how the words she’s saying fit together.
That was a really short, basic little statement, and she didn’t even have to do it live! There’s no excuse for not memorising it and delivering it like a normal human being capable of mild empathy.
Well, she’s no Cate Blanchett behind the camera, but come on, she doesn’t have to be.
It was much, much better than what I have seen previously. Even a lot better than the rather stilted Heads Together bit that she did with William and Harry. This is a serious cause, and I give credit for her involvement.
Whoever thought up the idea of her giving taped appeals versus live speeches was a genius. She can get some practice that way.
A long black velvet dress and that raised eyebrow she could get a part as Morticha in the Adams family