It was a surprise to zero people last week when Duchess Kate stepped out in Wales looking like she’d lost almost all of her “baby weight”. Prince George is only 5 weeks old, so it wasn’t like anyone was really expecting her to be back down to her pre-pregnancy weight, but there she was, looking like she was maybe 10 pounds away from her goal weight. Well, the royal propagandists claimed that Kate wasn’t doing much to slim down – just yoga. And walking. And breastfeeding. And dieting too, I’m sure. Well, the “park warden” at the race is now claiming that Kate told him she “wants to get back into shape” and that she was eager to go out walking. Blah. It’s not really news, but I guess it’s notable that she IS working to take off the weight.
Meanwhile, Kate’s dodgy uncle is giving interviews again. I missed Gary Goldsmith. You can tell that he adores his sister’s children (Kate, Pippa and James) and you can also tell that Dodgy Uncle Gary has been well-briefed on the Middleton Talking Points.
All is very, very well with Britain’s newest royal family! Kate Middleton’s talkative uncle Gary Goldsmith — younger brother to Carole Middleton — gave an update on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their son Prince George, who turns two months old Sept. 22.
“It’s fabulous. I couldn’t be prouder of my family,” Goldsmith told Grazia UK in a new interview. “It’s been a fairy tale right from the beginning when Carole told me Kate was dating William, to seeing my little niece everywhere in the press and then to the wedding. And now there’s a baby who’s actually going to be the king.”
Prince William and Kate (who made her first official post-birth appearance at a sporting event last Friday) are settling in parenthood nicely, he boasted. “They’re doing absolutely brilliantly,” he said of the pair, both 31. “Kate has her feet so solidly on the ground, and William knows his own mind. They will be absolutely perfect and are a proper couple who are madly in love.”
Echoing other commentary on the pair, Goldsmith called the new parents “incredibly modern. They’ll be everywhere together.” Unlike previous generations of royal parents, “I don’t think they will pass the responsibility of their babies to other people,” he said.
“They will be involved in everything George does, and you’ll see them as a unit of three now rather than a unit of two.”
Goldsmith also gave an update on his other, also-famous niece Pippa Middleton — who garnered her own headlines once more amid (false) talk that she’s engaged to boyfriend Nico Jackson.
“It will be brilliant when Pippa gets married. It will happen one day,” he predicted of Pippa, 29. Pippa and Kate’s younger brother James Middleton also remains unwed.
“It’s hard for anyone entering this family because you’re going to be in the spotlight,” he pointed out. “So I imagine Pips and James will date for a while before they make the leap, simply out of courtesy for the other person to understand what it’s like.”
“Kate has her feet so solidly on the ground, and William knows his own mind. They…are a proper couple who are madly in love.” Huh. Interesting. I mean, I know that’s how they want to be seen, but is that how they really are? Kate doesn’t seem grounded at all and William seems easily swayed by the whims of his mother-in-law, the same mother-in-law who likely made these talking points. But it was nice of Gary to chime in with the new Cambridge Watch-Word: “MODERN.” Every press outlet has been using “modern”. Every description of Will and Kate includes “modern”. They are modern. They are the new, modern generation. They are a modern couple. Is they’re so modern, why does their marriage feel like such a throwback to decidedly un-modern gender roles? The docile housewife and the “manly” pilot who gets his limitless “time away” from his marriage to do whatever he wants while his wife runs home to her overbearing mother at the drop of a hat. How is that modern?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Great PR move, indeed.
The Middletons decided to take on such a public profile. Pippa especially profiteers of the publicity, so it’s not exactly like the public chose to put them in the spotlight and they’re just so interesting nobody can stop talking about them. The Middleton family put itself in the spotlight and those grins show they love every second of it.
I always feel strangely uneasy whenever I read the expression “madly in love” applied to these two. And when people add “obviously”, I am flabbergasted.
I must be blind, because being “obviously” and “madly” in love – or even “in love” – is not what I see.
Mind you, I’ll be the first one to remind everyone that one cannot possibly see what is going on in anyone’s heart.
+1!
As they say, if people are constantly talking about how great it is, its probably not happening. Usually thats used to talk about sex, but I think it applies here as well.
Mel
True enough. We can’t possibly know how they truly feel for each other, but actions speaking louder than words makes a good case they’re not madly in love.
It’s been said that the more you have to sell something (e.g. that they’re madly in love), the less likely it is to be true.
In many ways the middletons are similar to celebrities’ famewhore families eg the Kardashians or Jackson assuming and wanting us to care about all of them when Kim and Michael/Janet are the stars of the family.
No one can say they don’t want it because it’s here in Gary’s(talking points from Carole) own words. They expect newcomers to acclimatise to the spotlight!!!!!!
Without googling, does anyone know what the other royal inlaws look like or what they do? Does anyone care? Except for Charles Spencer, everyone else has kept it low key, and even Charles doesn’t expect anyone to acclimatise to his royal adjacent spotlight.
Even Earl Spencer keeps a low profile considering he’s one of the most well known aristocrats in the UK. I had to google him to recall what he looked like.
Meanwhile, the Goldsmith Grin seems to be in the press monthly.
Other than Camilla’s son no. But he seems to have curbed that. Or he was forced to.
Camilla’s son wasn’t famewhoring his connection for personal gain the way the middletons are doing.
When he was papped in his early 20s, he was mostly doing what all young people do ie clubbing, drinking etc. Usually the accompanying article would point out what a waster he was.
Overall Camilla’s family have kept a very low profile. The gains they are making are so skilfully done that most people do not realise it’s happening.
LAK
If Uncle Gary told me the sun would rise in the east and set in the west I would say he’s full of it. The man cannot be trusted. Even though I would like to think Kate is a more grounded woman now that she’s a mother this line from Gary makes me believe she’s nowhere near that now.
And though I do know what a few of the royal in-laws looks like I get your point. 🙂
But LAK, the Kardashians are scum of the earth! The lowest of the low! How dare you compare the classy, saintly Middletons to the famewhore Kardashians?!
The Middletons are just normal people who don’t want the spotlight and are trying to live their lives in privacy! They’re not riding Kate’s coattails and famewhoring at all!
😀
The only other royal in-laws I know of are the Donaldsons, Mary of Denmark’s family, who used to attend many events in Denmark for whatever reason. But even they seem to have toned it down and are rarely seen/heard of nowadays. They’re not as “thirsty” and upfront about enjoying the media coverage, though, and Mary’s siblings have actual full-time jobs in Australia.
His comment about seeing his “little niece everywhere in the press” as being a part of the fairytale is odd (and telling), especially because he’s talking about pre-marriage. Seeing her everywhere in the press meant the paparazzi were stalking her and she had a loss of privacy which was supposedly overwhelming for her at some point. Furthermore, a lot of the stories weren’t pro-Kate back then. There was constant mention of “Waity Katie,” the “wisteria sisters,” being “nouveau riche,” and her laziness. So it can only be a “fairytale” if you think any press is good press (how Kardashian of him). I guess every last one of the Middleton lot is fame hungry. The narrative is always spun that the aristocracy doesn’t like the Middletons because of class issues, but in reality, I don’t find the Middletons to be all that likeable in the first place.
I like Kate & Will… I believe they’re really in love & the baby is an extension of that as it is with most couples. They don’t have an exciting life, they just have a life like the rest of us, just with more money & household staff! Lol!
If they are “obviously madly in love” I’m becoming a nun!
If the uncle/ Middleton family feels the need to tell everybody how great Kate is and how madly couple Widdleton is in love and how modern and normal they are and and and…. then you know something isn´t right in fairytaleland.
Bingo. If a person is really wonderful, other people know it without being told. I seriously doubt Kate has her feet solidly on the ground. I mean what has she done that shows that she is dedicated to anything, except the race to the crown?
Look at pictures 1, 2, 3. She looks miserable, clenched fists, furrowed brow (she’ll hit that with some Botox soon). I think these two are playing house and will weasel out of the hard work and just play.
Uncle Gary’s funny. Why hasnt anyone told him to shut it? Maybe the Middletons really are on his payroll
I think they use him to say things that they can’t.
bluhare, I totally agree. I also think that they are trying to garner as much public sympathy as they can for her.
Whereas the public’s love of Diana surprised herself and the entire Royal family it stemmed from Diana’s tireless volunteering and ability to connect with average folk, Kate is using her family and the media to try to achieve the same end.
I think that Kate’s position within the house of Mountbatten Windsor is very precarious and she knows it. Yes she got her hubby to list her as “occupation: princess”, but she has still been largely frozen out of the family. So she is hoping to get clout through public support. Silly girl, the MW clan is far more shrewd than that!
M – nailed it!!
She may have learnt the Diana lesson in using media for personal gain, but sadly she didn’t pick up the lesson that:
a) media can and will turn against you
b)those Mountbatten Windsors do not respond to media pressure on private matters. If they can freeze out Diana, they can freeze out Kate.
No wonder she keeps running back to mummy.
And also, it’s amazing how quickly the freeze has happened. That’s assuming they was ever a thaw to begin with.
@Bluhare – Hi 🙂 As you keep pointing out, the spontaneous love that the public has for Harry is a repeat of how Diana came to be loved by the public. It wasn’t orchestrated and surprised everyone, Diana included. A point the Middletons (and William) seem to overlook in trying to sell Kate as Diana2.0
Oh, LAK, “spontaneous love” and “Harry” in the same sentence gets me all googly. 😀
Phaksi
It does seem odd that they don’t complain when Kate’s uncle and Carole’s brother, the man who’s been caught bragging about how he’ll have his own bp wing once his niece marries William. How he was caught on camera both doing drugs and selling. How he loves having William and Kae and his drug house. And this man is linked to sex slaves, some underage. He must be supporting or had in the past the Middleton’s lifestyle. Otherwise they would have shut him down.
These people shut down anyone or anything that isn’t on message eg #pippatips. Uncle Gary is definitely sanctioned to speak. And what loose lips he has.
How hypocritical that would be when HM’s “special little boy” Airmiles Andy is close friends with a pedophile, who even went so far to send his pal Andy a “present (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8360254/Fresh-questions-for-Prince-Andrew-over-friendship-with-paedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein.html, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/13/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein, and especially this one: http://www.news.com.au/newstest2/archive-old-assets/aussie-mum-revealed-as-financier-jeffrey-epsteins-masseuse-in-rape-case/story-e6frfkz0-1226013233010
I don’t care about Uncle Gary one way or another, but it does seem like he loves his family and has a good relationship with both Kate and William.
bluhare, considering what florc said about his reputation he isnt the best person to push Duchess Kate pr. Her Majesty seriously needs to step in now, or else they will start to build the Middleton wing in BP as soon as she kicks the bucket
If PC has his way, Buckingham Palace will become a conference center and Gary will have to go back to his Casa Bang Bang.
Chances of cute George (he is VERY cute) becoming King are pretty slim. His mum and dad will destroy it for sure. But honestly, a lot of countries want to be republics and probably when the throne goes to Charles, there won’t be much left of the kingdom.
Agreed, phaksi, and it won’t do them much good if it’s the RF they’re trying to impress. My guess is that they want to get Kate in a position where it would be difficult if not impossible to throw her out. All they have to do is look at Diana and Sarah Ferguson to see what happens to people the queen actually likes. Sarah especially.
Seems to me the Middletons would want to get Philip on their side, as the Queen appears to listen to him and go with what he says, and WK haven’t taken the baby to see him yet have they?
bluhare, duke of edinburgh doesnt strike me as the kind of person who would stand for the middleton shenanigans. Maybe they are getting a pass cos he is ill
+1
I think the grey men are giving the Midds just enough rope…
I’m surprised Uncle Gary and Prince Andy haven’t secretly gone into business together.if Carol and Gary’s mother were alive today she would be ashamed of her son.
Can’t shut uncle gazzo out because he has always bank rolled the Middleton’s and he knows it. That family are the mountaineers of social climbing. They reached everest.
Karole and gazzo’s mother was sarcasically known on the council estate (the projects for american’s) where they dwelled, as “The Duchess” because this coal miners daughter lorded it over her peers. Took on such airs and graces that came from NOWHERE. Doubt Waity is grounded at all.
That is one way to look at it if you believe people who are down should always stay down and behave that way. I have read of people who equally respected her for working from sun up to sun down, supporting her husband’s efforts to contract out his labor instead of constantly slaving for others and for vowing that she and her husband would be the last generation to be swallowed up by the coal miner hardships. So yes, how dare she try to be as well spoken, well dressed and courteous as her purse would allow. How dare she teach her children that it is harder to change your lot than to accept it but well worth it in the end. She would be proud of Carol, would probably have lit a fire under Kate’s bum and would have shaken some sense/morals into Gary.
I think you missed the part where she lorded it over everyone else. That’s what got her the reputation, not wanting to make something out of her life.
Christ! The grandma council house nearly killed her husband by demanding he take money from relatives and then demanded they never speak to those relatives again . She made him redo walls at the house after he had just completed them because she didn’t like the end product . The list goes on but that grandma wasn’t trying for a better life . She wanted to screw over everyone on her way to the little jewlery store she worked at . Gross gross vile vile woman . Carole and Gary learnt everything from her . Including their grossly unethical practises and vile behaviours .
Sounds like classicsm to me. Ten stories will give you ten different pictures of the same person but I tend to agree with those who see improving your station through rigid perseverance and labor as a good thing. Sometimes the neighbors you pass on the way up will have unkind things to say about that. And I suppose those same people will find some fault with the Middletons starting their own successful business and giving their children every advantage they didnt have as well. Comparing Gary and Carol is useless. One is a hardworking entrepreneur and dedicated parent and the other is a druggie with a serious lack of ethics.
Reports from family members used and abused.
If you choose to ignore them you obviously have no heart like them.
Sounds like they couldn’t stand a pretentious bitch to me.
Borrowing money and then refusing to speak to the lenders? And you’re excusing it as just wanting to get ahead?
People base their opinions on sources they choose to give credibility to. You have your views and I happily stick to mine. And I choose to chalk it up to coincidence that the ones who consistently criticize Kate also eagerly want to bash her dead grandmother. Classy. Either way the fake duchess eventually produced a real one lol. Okay, I’m done here.
When I see Kate I see trash . Gary just helps to keep up that image in my mind .
Anyone see the crater lines on her face ?
Wow she looks council house !
What does council house look like? It is snobby to judge people by where they live, how they look or their bank account. Like or dislike Kate or the Middletons if you choose but disgrace shouldnt come from the fact that you can not afford better housing.
I see trash too vulgar.
Lying on a bed for 8 years to get where she is and having no shame.
she’s lucky the press are fawning, for now.
i noticed her face lines on her forehead too looks old for her years.
Living in council housing is hard living and vulgar you summed that up !
+ 100 The skinny jeans are soooo trailer T. looking on her.
I agree she wears them so badly !
Pippa is marginally better but only marginally