This Photoshopped picture of Princess Diana with Kate and Princess Charlotte has gone viral http://t.co/jOSOb65OrQ pic.twitter.com/gIw7XWuNV3
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) August 19, 2015
This utterly doctored photo has “gone viral” this week – someone thought it would be awesome to Photoshop Princess Diana into a photo of Duchess Kate carrying Princess Charlotte at Charlotte’s christening. While this is creepy, it’s brought up some of the issues I’ve already found creepy, like the way Kate shows off/wears Diana’s sapphire engagement ring, the way George is dressed in William’s old baby clothes, the way Kate does “throwback” looks to Diana’s style. Diana is the welcome ghost haunting the Cambridges’ marriage and family. Creepy or fine?
Meanwhile, we’re still following The Case of the Missing Duchess. Kate was notably set to attend a friend’s wedding last weekend, only she sent William and Pippa in her place with literally no word on why she couldn’t make it. Now the Daily Express points out that one of William’s ex-girlfriends is also planning her wedding and has included Will and Kate on the guest list. This is pretty much an excuse to bring up those long-standing rumors that Kate despises several of William’s exes, to the point of publicly snubbing them.
The Duchess of Cambridge sparked a flurry of speculation when she failed to show up for the wedding of Prince William’s friend last weekend – but now she is faced with a rather more awkward decision. For the Cambridge’s are certain to be invited to the nuptials of the William’s first university girlfriend Olivia Hunt, who recently got engaged.
A source said: “A date hasn’t been set yet, but the Cambridge’s will on the guest list. William has stayed friends with Olivia.”
Prince William dated Ms Hunt, 32, who works for hotelier Andre Balaz, at St Andrew’s University before he had even set his eyes on Kate sashaying down the catwalk in her iconic see-through black slip. But now Ms Hunt, sister-in-law of TV adventurer Ben Fogle, is set to wed one of the country’s most senior judges Nicholas Wilkinson, 33.
A university friend said in 2007: “William was seeing Olivia when he met Kate and when Kate came on the scene Olivia moved off pretty quickly. Kate was jealous of other girls at St Andrews.”
But that didn’t stop Olivia getting an invite to the Royal Wedding at Westminster Abbey four years ago. Speaking of her romance with her husband-to-be in 2013, Ms Hunt said: “We are an item and very much in love.”
And Mr Wilkinson said: ” I’m trying not to be intimidated by having a girlfriend who used to be with Prince William. Olivia and I first kissed as teenagers, but we were too young. We met again recently and released we had strong feelings for each other.”
I’ve always believed Kate was jealous of several of William’s exes and sidepieces. The most notable was probably Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Cressida Bonas’ older sister. It was said that William would have tossed aside Kate in a second (and he did) if Isabella had given him a chance. But for some of William’s exes and sidepieces, Kate has employed The Art of War – keep your enemies closer. Still, I don’t see her going to Olivia Hunt’s wedding, do you?
A few other things – Anmer Hall’s grounds are apparently quite unhealthy for children. There are certain plants on the grounds which are extremely toxic and the press is fussing about it. And Diana’s old bodyguard Ken Wharfe said some words about the Cambridges’ threatening letter to the press. Wharfe basically says that the Cambridges are overreacting, that the royal protection officers need to do a better job handling the press and there should be better communication between security and the press office – go here to read.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
The sugars-not fans- are creepy AF. Just why?
Have you seen the one where they took a photo of Diana and photoshopped Kate Middleton’s head on it? Someone was so excited about the idea that KM would wear a tiara (upcoming Chinese State Dinner), they decided another photoshop nightmare was in order.
I’ve seen tons Cambridge Lovers’ Knot ones and many transparent Diana at an event(G’s debut outside the hospital). I send prayers to the sugars. Have you seen the one w/ Diana and the Queen Mum amongst clouds?. Photoshop is a bloody bane.
I missed that cloud one. Is no one teaching these teenagers the concepts of ethics in using digital media? ha, right.
I really don’t think it’s teenagers. Diana and QM? Teenagers wouldn’t have a clue, especially about the QM. And if they did have a clue I still don’t think someone in that age group would be photoshopping the two of them together. I say much more likely to be older female with too much time on her hands.
The sugars and the bitters can be both equally creepy to be honest. Both sides have their moments.
The photo-shopped pic is not creepy to me. I rate it alongside the memes and quotes some do on royals. No biggie.
That photo is so creepy. But it reinforces that Diana is a ghost in their lives whether they welcome it or not. Better to welcome it, I guess.
It’s not just that they dropped in Diana’s image. It’s also that Waity is now where Mother Teresa would’ve been. Talk about a lop-sided comparison.
This! ^^ +1,000.
Very bad photoshop work. Proportion and colouring look askew.
So now we know why Kate skipped the wedding the other day. She was busy in the garden uprooting poisonous plants in case William is playing helicopter in the grass and accidentally eats them. Nobody should accuse her of not doing back-breaking work now!
How is the fiance “one of the country’s most senior judges” at the age of 33?
Maybe he went to the same law school as Amal?
haha
That was my take away from this whole piece too!
That’s what I was wondering too
It’s a typo. His mother is the judge
Yeah, he’s not. He’s a junior barrister.
I’m glad others noticed this!
There is a Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson who is a senior judge but he’s in his 80s. Google fail?
What an incredibly inappropriate thing to do with Diana’s image. To add, Diana would never have let the Middletons anywhere near William, so this scene could only happen in a KM fan’s photoshop dreams.
Is the dangerous plant in the way of the new tennis court? How convenient. Quick quotes on plant poisonings and laburnum trees:
Royal Horticultural Society
Serious poisoning by plants is very uncommon in the UK. Some garden plants present a hazard, but the risk of severe poisoning, skin reaction or allergy is generally low.
Poisoned Garden UK
This beautiful tree is one of the most feared of the poison plants (and produces the most searches of all of them) but it does not justify its harmful reputation. Many people who remove it from the garden leave other more dangerous plants in place.
Telegraph’s gardening specialist
Telling children what to avoid is essential, and vigilance is vital. Laburnums could have lower branches removed so that the fruit are out of reach or a temporary fence erected around the base.
I very much doubt Diana would deny grandparents access to their grandchildren. Besides, wasn’t Diana all about the ‘common people’? Admittedly I’m biased against Diana because I had a bad personal experience with her once, but Diana unquestionably did more damage to the monarchy than the Middletons have. Not that I am a fan of the monarchy. But the only real complaint about the Middletons is that they’re middle class social climbers, which is pretty much par for the course.
Why would anyone attend their husband’s ex-girlfriend’s wedding?
Diana wanted William to attend an ivy league school in the US, like other European heirs. He wouldn’t have ended up at St. Andrews in a press-free bubble. If Diana had lived, he wouldn’t have met or married Kate Middleton. And if KM managed to sidle into the social group somehow by chasing him all the way to the US, Diana would have shut it down. Not out of a dislike for someone from the middle class, but because she’d recognize grifters and limpets when she saw them.
Both W&K invited exes to their wedding. One of those exes, Olivia Hunt, has invited them to her wedding. Why does that seem so odd to so many people? These are not acrimonious, I hate you kind of exes. This is a social group that dates within its circle. Everybody is somebody’s ex in that group.
I think the general feeling is that she would have objected to them on the grounds that they’ve implanted themselves into William’s heart and soul and encourage his worst qualities to the detriment of the monarchy.
I don’t think she’d be impressed with Kate’s work ethic or general cheshire cat life plan even if she loved her personally.
Oooooooh! I would love to hear your Diana story!
Yes, I remember reading how much Diana admired the way Jackie O brought up John Kennedy Jr. She felt they handled the press interest well, and that John turned out ‘normal’ and was able to live in New York pretty much unbothered. If Diana had lived, would William have gone to college in the US? Maybe if she was living here too, I can’t imagine her living too far from him or Harry. I’m not sure the Queen would have allowed William to earn his entire degree in another country though.
Fluff – I find it sort of weird to invite ex’s too, it isn’t really done in my neck of the woods in the Midwest, but there is a long standing precedent in their upper crust world of doing this. We’ll never forget seeing Camilla at Charles & Diana’s wedding. Didn’t Diana mention it to Bashar in that interview, or it was definitely in the Morton book.
I think if that picture of Diana and Kate above had been real, Diana would be smacking kate upside the head and yelling at her, “Get to work, you lazy sow!!”
Diana would have recognized Kate and her family as opportunists, looking to improve their standing using William, and enabling/encouraging him to be a lazy layabout, not really doing anything to earn his bread and board.
And yet Diana hung out with Dodi Fayad and his father was definitely one of the worst social climbers. How come she didn’t suss them out? I think you are reaching. Maybe she would have liked Kate, maybe not. Who knows? I loved Diana but she had very poor judgment at times.
Diana wasn’t a royal then. She could hang out with whomever she wanted.
Tigerlily: Actually Diana was using the Fayeds for all the fun toys they laid out for her pleasure that summer. The yacht, private planes, trips to Monte Carlo and Paris.
Simultaneously she made fun of them being their backs to her friends about how gaudy and ridiculous they were.
She told friends that she was just having fun and it would all end come the end of the summer.
She wasn’t taken in by them at all.
All this came out in the years after her death AND retold in the various inquests they had into her death. Her friends gave very detailed accounts about it.
It was also said Diana to her close friends mocked the tacky lifestyle and taste of that family and their homes she stayed in. And… It was pretty tacky for my taste.
On the other sideDiana hung out with Freddie Mercury! Good taste and bad taste. Like we’ve all been guilty of.
I don’t get it–why would you invite your ex ANYTHING to your wedding? Even if it were a “part as friends” split, it still seems disrespectful of other parties involved. If they are inviting them strictly for the prestige of having a royal on the guest list it just seems thirsty.
Yeah but these people aren’t ‘normal’ as F Scott Fitzgerald put it “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” They come from a tiny, privileged, bubble of people where (as Sixer puts it) ‘swinging’ is the norm – everybody basically shags everybody else at some point and they very rarely fall out over it – that’s only for peasants. It would be much more of a social faux pas not to invite each other to their weddings and it would be ‘letting the side down’ not to go. Completely mad I know but there it is, the British aristocracy at it’s finest – they stick together regardless to repel all invaders (hence the attitude to CM) Ugh.
Thank you for that insight. My husband and I do not still talk to or are buddies with ex’s beyond what is necessary for co-parenting, so I was agog at this.
Actually, I know quite a few prep school types stateside. Yes, there are those that swing. Even among them, the “blind eye” courtesy only extends so far. Certain events and people are off limits.
But honestly–it’s been over a decade since they dated and the relationship was under a year. If he weren’t Prince William–if he were just plain old Will (or even Hiddles or Redmayne to stick with the “peerage” thing) would this woman invite him? I doubt it. This wasn’t a lasting meaningful relationship. It would be tantamount to inviting your first date to your wedding.
My first boyfriend was the best man at my wedding. 🙂 It worked because we were never really in love and didn’t really date. We held hands by the lockers when I was in 9th grade. Later he was my future husband’s college roommate. My husband and I had been dating quite a while before the guy’s name came up and we realized we both knew him!
A serious ex, though, I’d have hit the roof.
I always wondered why Diana was so upset about Charles and Camilla’s affair given that she comes from exactly this clique where that behaviour is accepted.
MooHoo – Diana was a young 19 year old virginal girl, who was heavily influenced by Barbara Cortland (a close relative), who had written many soapy romance novels that Diana believed in, with the wholeheartedness that some of us also bought into, concerning romance, as teenagers. Diana had also seen the marriage of her mom and dad fall apart, due to infidelity, and was determined that it would be different for her. The things that she felt and said concerning Charles, also shows us her deep belief in marital felicity. She was fierce in her desire that things be just so: she was deeply hurt by Charles interest in his old flame.
When an ex I’d recently reconnected with – a decade after some painful drama – got engaged, I wished him my sincerest congratulations, but I was relieved to not be invited to the wedding as it would have forced me to send awkward regrets. I can’t imagine mingling at that reception and having to explain to numerous strangers how I knew the groom. No thanks.
You nailed it; here in the states this happens with upper-middle class and the rich as well. The rudeness of not being invited to a life event like a wedding or baptism is only surpassed by not accepting said invite. That is the ultimate “i’ll show them!”.
I think it depends on the relationship. After my ex dumped me I was devestated but after some time we developed a friendship and I soon realized that’s exactly what we should always have been. He’s now one of my dearest friends and I couldn’t imagine not having him to any of my important events. He’s so important to me that it would be unlikely I would marry anyone that didn’t accept is presence in my life.
that’s cool!
W&K both invited multiple exes to their wedding. Why shouldn’t the exes invite them in return?
Because in that social group it’s normal – that’s how they do things.
That was my point. Why wouldn’t they invite them, it is what they all appear to do.
Because of travel distance my ex’s and his ex’s that we are both friends with or friendly with were invited to our post elope celebration. They sent gifts and wished us well and we see them when visiting near any of them.
This isn’t a big deal and agree to all above and fris with the FSFitz bit.
Tiny, self-selecting gene pool. Limited number of bums to put on the seats.
Simples.
(That, and the swinging, as Frisbee reminded us).
If the relationship ended without acrimony and the two people involved are on good terms/still friends, I don’t see what’s wrong with inviting an ex to a wedding. A recent ex or someone who your fiance has problems with, absolutely not. But an ex of long ago? Sounds fine.
All my friends invited their exes (broken up 3+ years ago, everyone moved on), and they are in no way W&K-level posh or rich – they just happened to be classmates and part of a large group of friends.
Don’t think the Diana-related criticism is fair at all (and I am no Kate fan either). How is she FLAUNTING the ring? By, um, wearing her own engagement ring? Like literally every other princess out there? And Kate’s style is nothing like Diana’s either, I can’t think of a single look that screams ‘copy-cat’ (I think even the polka-dot maternity dress similarity was huuugely exaggerated).
I just posted the same ring rant lol
Um… DK landing for their “punishing” Oz/NZ tour in a red coat dress. Or wearing similar outfits at the same place Diana visited(Canada tour and the aforementioned tour). Take Brisbane in a gorgeous white with blue flowers: Look back and MIL wore something similar.
Agree, Anna. Not getting it at all.
That photshop is ubercreepy.
So creepy, and disrespectful and gross. What is wrong with people? Yuk.
It is really awful. I am not a fan of the BRF but I flinched when I saw that photo, how must that have made William feel, or Harry for that matter? I hope they haven’t seen it but given Williams interest (and determination it seems) to control every aspect of his families image I don’t see how they could be missing these.
Yeah, I don’t know what else she’s supposed to do with the ring. William chose to give it to her. As everyone else does with their rings, she’s wearing it. The ring criticism I don’t get.
Everything else on the list I can see why there would be a raised eyebrow, but the sapphire ring business (and possibly anything to do with ex-es) needs to be taken off the list. What else are you supposed to do if your fiancé chose to give you that particular ring?
Re: the ring. This is just my opinion of course, but when Kate does public events, she often “extends the ring” for people to see and for the ring to be photographed. In event after event, she’s specifically holding up her hand to best show off the ring.
I think she might be doing this because she recognizes people’s interest in it.
I’m not much of a jewelry buff but if I saw her I think that’s the first place I’d look.
After awhile she might be just accommodating what she thinks people want to see….no harm in that!!
I wholeheartedly agree. I love my ring for for the life of me I can’t find any picture where you can clearly see it. Kate has to be showing it off.
I agree with you, Kaiser, she does show it off. So obvious, really. I love my ring too, but like Seraphina I don’t go flaunting it.
I agree with that statement. I love my ring but for the life of me I never get any good shots of the ring. She must be purposely showing off Diana’s ring.
Never thought much about the ring until you mentioned it, and now I will be more aware.
You are reminding me that we never see, and never will see, William wearing a wedding band! 😉 I know their press office let us know that prior to their wedding, but it still doesn’t make any sense to me.
The ring is so big, it’s hard not to flaunt it because it is so noticeable. I have always thought it was a very weird size and shape for an engagement ring. Not at all practical for daily living.
I would’ve wanted my own ring, because that ring comes with some very heavy baggage, esp. coming from a marriage that didn’t work out. But if it was my ring, I wouldn’t wear it while making dough with the scouts. On another note, do you think it’s really “the ring” or a duplicate? It’s value lies in who wore it more than the stones, so I would’ve had some copies made to make sure that Diana’s ring didn’t end up lost somewhere. Kate’s wearing it on boats, on ziplines in the jungle, on numerous appearances where people could reach out and grab it off her finger.
Yeah I agree as well, she seems to do everything she can to show off the ring in pictures, to the point of her hand looking pretty odd. And I don’t think it’s due to interest, I’d personally be happy not to see a picture of that ring every again – its due to her and her smugness at getting the ring.
A ring of that is size is not practical nor comfortable to wear. I have worn rings even larger and having a big rock on your finger does affect body language. It is hard to explain adequately but it does affect how you hold your hand, etc. It is really quite unsuitable for an engagement ring since this type of rings ought to be comfortable enough to be worn every day. The Big Blue is actually closer to a cocktail ring, which is supposed to be big, gaudy and attention-grabbing.
Seraphina
Go back a few Kate posts and every other one seems to have a new photo of the times and Kate holding out the ring in a manner to showcase it. On this issue I give a “meh”.
Deedee
I would bet money it’s a duplicate. Rings of certain value are insured. To lose even a stone would make it less “Diana”. I think of it like the old ship paradox. 1 board gets removed and replaced over years and years. Is it still the same boat or a new boat?
My engagement ring gets a visit in the safety deposit box and written approval from our insurance to wear it out. And it’s not well known at all. So, my money is Kate has the duplicate.
The ring. Story was that Diana chose it because it was the largest one of those she was offered to select from. She stated later she wishes she had chosen one that was of a more day to day manageable size.
The story of how Catherine was given it is v v sweet. The ring was given to Harry on his mother’s death. William has asked for her watch which he received. When he told Harry of his decision to propose it was Harry who offered their mother’s ring & stated that the ring belonged on the finger of the future Queen of England. It’s a sweet story of 2 young men honoring their mother. I’m not a fan of the ring but I don’t think it flaunted. It is simply noticed for both its sIze & history.
Snappyfish, it has been discussed many places many times. There is little to indicate that Harry gave up that ring willingly. He was caught off guard by both the engagement and the use of the ring. Eyewitness accounts of him swearing in surprise at the television as it was announced. Not so sweet when one brother possibly stole the ring from his little brother.
Wait a minute. We are missing the real story here. FLORC has an engagement ring so big she has to get permission to take it out of the safety deposit box! I WANT TO SEE IT.
FLORC, no disrespect intended so please don’t take my comments that way, but what on earth is the point of having something so expensive locked away in a safety deposit box? Surely it would make more sense to have something you could wear always and enjoy?
@Nota – thats been the rumour for years, that Willy swiped the ring from under Harry with some even suggesting Kate asked for it. Diana wanted Harry to have the ring, wasn’t it in her will or something? The tradition in England is the wedding band goes to the eldest (usually daughter but son if there are none) with engagement to the 2nd (son or daughter). In Scotland (where i’m from) its different; engagement to first born daughter (or son if no daughters), wedding to 2nd and then so forth with other pieces. I maybe wrong, if so am sure others will point it out.
Agree! She’s incredibly pose-hard about that ring. I can understand for the first couple of months after the engagement, but YEARS later? Coupled with the attitude, the clothes throw-backs, and the constant Diana-invoking, I find it all to be extremely poor taste.
Yes, Anna, I also raised my eyebrows at “flaunting” Diana’s ring! I’m sure William meant it as a loving gesture, and if Kate didn’t wear it, Kaiser would be savaging her for disrespecting Diana, or preferring Carol’s ste over Diana’s! ! And I think she dresses her son in traditional clothes for formal events because the monarchy plays up history and tradition. I’ve never seen any evidence at all of any undue copying of Diana; all these examples are really a stretch! Lastly, I sure not attend the weddings of any of my husband’s former flames. And if Kate has the strength of will to resist this expectation, good for her. I thought this site only portrays her as a spineless, obedient non-thinker after all; shouldn’t y’all be happy if she says “Don’t want to attend!”
I don’t fault her for wearing the ring, either. Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do with an engagement ring?
I have seen people draw comparisons between Kate’s outfits and Diana’s, and I think it just might be a coincidence. Kate wears a red suit to a particular event – so did Diana! The monarchy isn’t known for wearing trendy clothes, so it’s going to happen that Kate will wear a conservative outfit to an event, just like Diana did. I will only be interested in this theory if Kate wears something extremely similar to Diana’s post-divorce wardrobe. She had such a distinct style at that point.
I believe that Ma Middleton is behind the Diana comparisons. She compares the most to Diana in the way she invokes her presence – I think that she loves her. Kate is looking only for William’s applause; she would love for him to feel proud of her, but it is obvious she is her mother’s daughter, who manages them both with her mummy-ness, and sympathies with Diana. This, I believe, is what attracted William to her family: they all try to appear as though Diana would approve of them. It would be great to see Catherine find herself, apart from Diana, but why would she change with so much help and coddling, due to her position of entitlement. It’s easier to be spoiled and depressed, than to become a respected person.
If anyone should be castigated for it, it would be William, because he’s the one who decided to give her that ring in the first place. Can you imagine how much Katherine would be attacked if she had the audacity to reject the ring William wanted her to wear?
Fluff, it’s not that she’s wearing the ring, it’s that she always poses to show it off. Whenever she’s performing an official appearance, she ALWAYS holds her hands in a manner in which to show that that thing off.
@Anna
Kate has calmed down a bit about flashing the Diana ring in the last year but like Kaiser I too noticed before that Kate would go out of her way to make sure that ring was on full display in any picture she took and at every social event. Even at the hospital when she came out to show George, she positioned the baby and the ring to be squarely next to each other for photo-ops.
It used to drive me up the wall because most women only flash their rings that much in pics when newly engaged and want to show friends and family. Kate just kept going, up to the wedding, years after the wedding, etc. I always saw it as a way for her to either be connected to Diana or to gain sympathy from the press and general public by connecting herself to Diana and her tragic life. A protective shield of sorts to block any potential criticism.
Go and look at Kate’s past pictures leading up to and immediately post George’s birth. Once you notice her not so subtle ring display in every pose, it’s easier to spot it in others.
I have long fingers and maybe expressive hands. And my little bauble features prominently in several pictures. Add to that photons probably select those shots due to public interest in Diana, and suddenly, voila; an annoying woman who is repeatedly flaunting her engaging ring!
+1 – except I’m not sure she’s really calmed down with the ring show in the last year.
I don’t think I have ever seen a photo of Kate where she was not wearing the engagement ring. I think it is too big a ring to wear the whole time and could easily scratch a young baby. The funny thing was that even in her very newly married days Diana often did not wear the ring. One of her friends once said she wore it when feeling particularly affectionate towards Charles but it was decided this was not true as she was not wearing the ring when she and Charles appeared at a photoshoot at Balmoral during their honeymoon and were very lovey dovey (loved up). Diana recommended married life.
So, I’m not a big fan of Kate, but I am on her side with this one. Who in their right mind would want to go to the wedding of my husband’s ex? Especially the ex, that I stole him from? Or he was with before I set my plan in motion? Kate is an ass. The fact that William has no problem with throwing his exes in her face says a lot. Is she friends with any of hers? Does Will hang around Kate’s exes. I highly doubt it.
W&K both invited multiple exes to their wedding.
Kate has ex’s? I thought Willy was the only BF she ever had.
At least three, two were at the wedding I think.
Apparently I’m not in my right mind, because I would if she was friendly with us.
What is this,high school?
“While this is creepy, it’s brought up some of the issues I’ve already found creepy, like the way Kate shows off/wears Diana’s sapphire engagement ring,”
I think thats a bit of an overreaction. The sapphire ring is Kate’s engagement ring now. It would be one thing if it wasnt her ring and she just randomly wore it out and about, but its her engagement ring. Of course she wears it every day. I dont think its her showing it off. Besides, William wanted to give her his mother’s ring and that’s a completely normal thing to do. Loads of people wear their dead mother, grandmother, great grandmother’s etc. engagement ring.
People look for anything to criticize. It’s Kate’s ring now. Why shouldn’t she wear it? I’m sure if she didn’t regularly wear it people would criticize that too.
@renee28 – Agreed
The deal is though, she doesn’t wear it everyday. There are numerous photos taken of her during shopping trips where that ring is not on her finger.
Loads of women don’t wear their engagement ring daily. Kate’s is a giant honking sapphire and would likely get in her way on a regular day.
This is a stupid thing to hone in on. People are just desperate to criticise her
what “deal” are you talking about? She wears a special ring for a special occasion.
The ‘deal’ is just a figure of speech.
I understand that people think this is a non-story. I just think it’s a habit that Kate has and I don’t see anything wrong with mentioning it.
Vava
She does still wear it. The stone is turned inward to her palm or it slips that way. The band isn’t too thick so it’s tough to spot at times.
So, Kate does wear her ring almost always, but I like the defense already pulled out for her without fact checking.
Edit: This showed up in the wrong place. It as a response to something that has disappeared.
I think it is strange that she flaunts the Ring of Doom instead of wearing it. She carried PGtips in her left arm out of hospital, but in the right in the formal photos. In the hospital and christening photos, where she’s failing to support the new baby’s head properly both places, she’s carrying the baby in her right arm.
She’s right handed. Most right-handed people I know carry a baby cradled in their left arm. The opposite feels awkward and unsafe, and leaves your dominant hand useless in an emergency. But if she carries the baby in her left arm, the ring is hidden in the photos. Wearing it to play in the muck of a farm park didn’t make sense either, unless she wants people to recognize her and see the ring on her. To me it appears to be flaunting not wearing.
Or when she’s pulling back the Wiglet in the wind the ringhand is used. Tie yo’ hair!
There’s also a video of Kate exiting a car, and as she straightens up, she folds her hands with the ring hand underneath, and then very quickly refolds them to have the ring hand on the top.
My description doesn’t do it justice. When I saw the way she changed her hand position, I got a very strong sense that the first position is the natural way she would have her hands, and she had to remind herself to fold them the other way.
Things that you would naturally do right handed she changes. Like hold the baby in your left arm. Crossing right hand over left.
absolutely. I’ve noticed this as well.
It’s like a “little crown” that she carries on her person to convince herself that she has the right to her position.
Reaching!!
It does seem like some kind of badge, showing it to try to prove something.
I would love to see that video!
Ski Bunny
Just stating facts delivered in video of several occasions where Kate readjusts her hands to keep the ring on top and visible. How is that (reaching!)? Stating opinion based on video supported facts?
We’ll see about the wedding. That group is so incestuous I don’t know that exes attending one another’s wedding is as big a deal as it would be for most people.
That last photo of WillKat made me sputter. They are already looking alike!
Some people stay friends with their ex’s and it’s genuine. I don’t know if that’s the case here or if Bill is simply keeping his stable of women going. But I don’t blame Kate for skipping this one. Between two infants and the ex factor? No thank you.
I’ve never lost a parent. I am not close to either of them, however, so I cannot speak to how others may feel they need to remain close after their parent(s) have died.
I do think that people seek to create what they lost, or never had, in their lives, both good and bad. Which is why cycles continue, for the most part. So I think William seeks to create what he never had, and what he lost, with the way he seems to flaunt his disobedience to the royal decree, and his way of seemingly embracing the Middletons who, for all their faults, are still a nuclear family unit.
So, I think photoshopping his mother into a photo is terrible. He already knows she isn’t there, already feels the loss, more than likely every day, that his mom isn’t there, will not know his children. Let her rest, let him heal, let him have his family.
Well, I lost one as a child (early teens actually), so I can relate to William very much and to you as well because I never had a relationship with the other parent, therefore losing this one, I lost my whole sense of family and support. I never ever after that tried to recreate what I had then, in my mind it’s sealed and put in a drawer to remind me of the good times. I’ve accepted that this will never be again, it helped me to move on somehow. Had I kept trying to have it again, I would have opened the wound again and again, and I cannot do that to myself.
They do for certain try to recreat what they lost. IMO mostly because they’ve never grown emotionally from that traumatic event.
Like Mary-Alive I lost a parent though I was nearly 13 and months after Diana passed. Your family structure indeed collapses. Not because the family is falling apart. Rather because a huge support beam that held so much just vanished. It’s tough to process at that age especially. You’re not an adult and have little sense how to survive on your own. Adding in an increased awareness of your own and those around you mortality rates. For years and still at times you might become hyperaware someone you love could be gone in a moment.
Regarding William possibly recreating what he lost? I doubt it. I think it’s just a set upp where he gets praised and allowed to do as he wishes without blowback.
If Kate is still nursing, which seems likely since Charlotte isn’t yet four months old, it would be uncomfortable and inconvenient for her to travel without the baby. She would need to pump and that would require a location away from any chance of being photographed.
I don’t know anything about it, but how long did she stay at Wimbledon?
I wondered that too!!
She was at Wimbledon for 6+ hrs and she was wearing a dress that fastened at the back.
No sign of Rebecca carrying any pumping equipment. No mention of KM leaving her seat for an extended period either. If she had, someone would have noticed and commented.
Before folks start, this is not a criticism of breast feeding or not breast feeding. It is listing facts that would indicate she isn’t breast feeding now.
Then why RSVP that she would attend? She knew when she was due, she knew when the wedding was. It appears she was expected to attend and didn’t at the last minute, no reason given.
The placard with her name on it was on the table, so she was expected and didn’t show at the last minute.
Given the public profile of the Wales’ inviting them to your wedding, after you used to date William seems kind of fame thirsty to me.
She’ll just have to settle for one of the most senior judges in England, LOL.
Since the ‘senior judge’ called Nicholas Wilkinson was born in 1930, unless he’s a relative, he won’t be there.
i wouldn’t walk across the hall to go to a wedding of my husband’s ex girlfriend, but that’s me. He’s a sweet guy, and has remained friendly with several of them, but I’m happy to say none of them ever invited us to their wedding. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it if you are really close friends, but I don’t think it’s necessary, either.
I’m still friends with the majority of my exes and they weren’t invited to our wedding out of respect. However, W and K DID invite their exes to their wedding. It would be rude if those exes did not respond in kind. Especially since the invitation to the royal wedding is considered so socially important. And they did attend that wedding so I can see how it would be rude for them to not extend an invitation and for W and K to not accept. It’s not like they have a legitimate excuse like ohhh work conflicts.😉
Very good point. It might look like they were slighting them if they weren’t invited since they received and accepted an invitation to W and K’s wedding. Hadn’t thought of that.
We’ve had five immediate family weddings in under two years so I’m only too well versed in the etiquette at the moment. 😊 I’ll hopefully replace it with other, more interesting, knowledge soon!
Good grief! That’s a lot of gifts! Lol
Although, William invited Isabella, but not her Significant other who may have been her husband at the time. Remember that?
My side of the family didn’t invite anyone without their SO or allowing a plus one. That was not true of any of the in laws hosting weddings and related events and frankly I found it rude, especially when someone had a long term partner. And while I recognize there are people who are looking to cut costs places, I don’t think it should be at the expense of a guest’s comfort. I also don’t think that’s where W and K should have cut or snubbed.
Well if this is the girl that Willy cheated on with Kate then of course she shouldn’t go. Waity is no the Snow White the press paint her to be. She was Willy’s side piece.
Carly was the woman he was seeing when he cheated with Kate. Not Olivia.
It’s funny that they keep skipping Carly so that it looks like a smooth transition from Olivia to Kate.
Ah, thanks for clearing it up. There was quite a few so i can’t keep track. You should start you’re on W&K blog with all the knowledge you have 😉
Super creepy. I want to be the exact opposite of my mother in law, not the second coming
I do not get people who invite their exes to their weddings! It’s not the ultimate f*** you. It’s the ultimate in I’m sad that we aren’t getting married to each other today but I’m trying to make myself feel better.
It must be rough always to be compared to Diana, who has become this incorruptible angel because she is gone, and she is often romanticized rather than viewed as the genuine, flawed, good-hearted, troubled, lovely and complicated woman she was. No one can compete with a ghost. Maybe Kate encourages the comparison though to keep Will happy. The loss of his mother at such a young age, I’m sure, has powerfully affected him.
I believe that she does all things for William, desperate to hold onto him in a normal middle-class way. Kate needs to understand that we know that she is a different person than Diana, and that we are all okay with her just being herself. Few of us are as captivating as Diana, and that is acceptable. Kate is really shooting herself in the foot by refusing to participate in royal activities – she seems as willful and persnickety as William. Passive aggressiveness is not pretty – she is not cutting it in the dignity and decorum department. Someone should take Willy aside and let him know that his actions will accumulate, because this is is real life – and he needs the support of the people a great deal more than satisfying his entitlement issues.
Goodness, Diana looks fantastic; she hasn’t aged a bit (Can you eyeroll sadly?). There have been a couple of Diana photoshops and weird references. I remember the time they aged her on some magazine, and she appears kind of like a ghostly angel in some comic book type thing about the Cambridges’ wedding. I don’t know how Will feels about it; I’m sure he wishes his mom could have seen these milestones in his life. Maybe these images hurt, or maybe he likes them. Don’t know how Harry would feel either. It’s so sad.
It is so sad and so creepy that someone would think it’s ok to put this out there. I don’t know about people anymore. I mean, the woman is dead. And your photoshopping her into…ugh, I just really, really don’t get it.
I think William doesn’t mind having the ghost of Diana around since he invokes it or allows Kate to do the same.
The man started out with wanting his mother to be part of his wedding and boy was she ever.
Ring: check!!
Engagement commemoration booklet: Check!!! (had more pictures of Diana than Kate)
Music at the church: check!!
bridesmaids’ dresses: Check!! (compare the design and styling of Bridesmaids at the two weddings)
I think Harry is happy to celebrate her spirit rather than have her ghost hanging around.
I hadn’t thought of that, LAK! I think including one or two touches to remember the deceased in the festivities is fine, but any more than that and it becomes a funeral service.
Interesting LAK – would love to see the Engagement commemoration booklet, anyone have a link?
Well, the late Queen Ingrid of Denmark started a specific wedding tradition in the Danish RF that also invokes her mother whom she lost when she was 10. All of Ingrid’s female descendants have worn items that once belonged to CP Margareta at their weddings: The Khedive Tiara, the lace veil and an antique piece of lace fastened to the dress. I’ve always though it a very lovely tribute – and I think that Ingrid was just as damaged by losing her heavily pregnant mother at 10 as William was by losing his mother in a horrific traffic accident at 15.
The investement of objects with memorial value isn’t an unhealthy thing in itself – it is actually quite commonplace.
The photoshop does make a great comparison between the two women.
Why is the Daily Mail suddenly so obsessed about how many weddings Kate attends?
It feels like there is something more serious – cracks in the Cambridge marriage, William spending too much time away from his family – that they want to report on but can’t, so they cover it up with a superficial concern about Kate being absent from society events.
That’s exactly what they are doing.
yes. It’s their way of making a point.
The case of the Missing Duchess by Agatha Christie.
Now all we need is for Liberty to weigh in with the Dialogue!
Off topic, but anyone have any thoughts on the article in the Daily Fail on Charles wanting the Crown Estates back? Especially considering that Elizabeth, Charles and William’s finances are now exempt from FOI? That’s billions of dollars worth of property and Charles is trying to sell it as streamlining and reducing costs.
The people of the UK managed the Crown Estates back from financial disaster and Charles acts as if he’s doing taxpayers a favor by ending the Civil List and taking over security in return for billions of dollars of property holdings with only voluntary tax paid and exemption from inheritance tax. The Windsor have access to serious power and money; they’re not just benign mascots cutting ribbons at village fetes.
I saw that and was immediately outraged.
Those estates have never belonged to the royals, they were set up to fund governent which happens to have royals in it.
The first consequence of handing them to him as if they are personal property would be a HUGE cut in funding to all public services. I’m talking Police, Army, NHS, Judiciary, social services, Parliament etc.
Though, i’d probably be OK with cutting funds from Parliament since they abuse the privilege, BUT Parliament represents us.
Charles already has a Duchy (Cornwall) that belongs to the people. He will inherit another Duchy (Lancaster) when he is Monarch. All of that is bad enough.
We shouldn’t let him take the Crown Estates too.
Holy Hell… But they just want to be normal and have no real power argument just took a serious blow to anyone who starts paying attention.
I think that what Charles is trying to do is contemptuous and overwrought with privileged entitlement. I am so disappointed by the demands of the 1%. Heck, the royal family is the very foundation and backbone of the 1%.
That is outrageous and Lak is right they’ve never belonged to the Monarch. He’s just after the additional revenue, the estates are worth £8.1billion and are some of THE prime locations in the country and include Regent Street, the Windsor Estate and several very large and profitable retail parks in the UK.
I read that story and it looks as if he’s presenting it as doing us a favour by saving us the costs of running the monarchy. They always mention ‘slimming down’ in these pieces to give the impression of modernisation, but, as LAK points out, those estates never belonged to the monarchy, they have never ‘meekly’ handed anything over to the country they only give the impression of doing so because it’s in their own interests.
Yes Frisbee, that’s how I read it too ‘it’d be so much easier if Charles had these estates because he gives taxes here and here and then he just gives it ALL back and then some.’ No, no, I highly doubt it all is an even Steven exchange. Sounds like a huge money/land grab.
So glad you brought this up Natalie, I thought this was a big story too and wondered what people thought of it.
Wouldn’t he have to fund the government if he took the crown estate back? Seems like that could be one of those things that you should be careful asking for because you might get it.
Why would she attend any weddings at this point?
As for the photoshop job: I would like to believe Diana’s spirit was there for the Christening and any other time esp during times of struggle.
As I stated earlier; no marriage is perfect, and if you believe Kate has perfection in her life; you’d be dead wrong esp given all the hints William chose her because he loves her but he’s not in love with her and they have times of intense disagreement. No amount of money can address that kind of situation.
Why attend these weddings? Because these people are supposed to be their friends. The bride and groom attended W&K’s wedding, so why not attend their wedding in return?
Yes, I agree on that point re- returning the favour, however, it would seem Kate and William are devoting their time elsewhere.
I would appreciate William and Kate, esp now as we see WW2 Vet population is rapidly declining due to old age, devote much of their time to them now and show some appreciation in person before it’s too late.
A wedding is personal time, like Wimbledon was. Friends invite to you a wedding. You RSVP but cancel with no excuse? Rude. Different friends invite you to a wedding, and you don’t plan to go? Kind of rude since they came to yours, but it is hey personal time and personal choice. Odd and rude choice, but a personal one that raises eyebrows.
Yes, they should be devoting WORK time to the people of the country. She didn’t show at even one of the recent commemoration events. There’s no excuse for that lack of respect.
Did you click over to Express to see the guy Prince William’s ex is marrying? Hot. I’m not sure its accurate to describe him as a “senior judge” as he’s just 33 years old. But the ex did nicely for herself.
He is handsome!
The picture is soooooo tacky and creepy. Waity is such a talented photographer she probably has a million photoshopped images of Diana at various events with herself and Bill and this one leaked out.
Don’t get me started on that ring. Yes it’s hers and she can do whatever she wants blah blah blah but I still laugh at the flaunting.
That’s how I feel about it too. She definitely flaunts it. At first I thought she was doing what newly engaged/married women do. 4yrs later, she’s still doing it.
I think she flaunts it for the perceived status it gives her.
I’ve been shot down before for saying it, but I think she not only flaunts the ring as a status symbol but as a trophy, too.
Olenna, it IS a trophy.
Yes, the ring. When I first heard the story of William giving Kate Diana’s sapphire engagement ring, I thought it was very icky. I mean, we all know how that turned out (the marriage of Diana and Charles) but then I thought it may have been seen primarily as a cost saving measure by the Royals in addition to wanting to keep Diana in the picture (as was stated by William during the engagement interview).
And speaking of engagement interview… I recall the longer interview where Diana and Charles were seated in the summer house and how when Diana stated “well, we might quarrel…” when referring to why she wasn’t showing up with Charles to the fireworks display, and how it was completely ignored. Did the interviewers intentionally ignore or just didn’t hear her? In USA, I can imagine someone wanting a major scoop and responding “what????” “you quarrel????” “before you even get married????”
The photoshop picture was creepy to ne. I realize that pictures are photoshopped daily, but this is over the top for me.
The ring, meh!
I think the ring and what is symbolizes is more popular than Kate. Will cold have selected another ring, but he chose the ring that spawned a hundred clones. If she doesn’t wear it or allow it to be seen, then she “doesn’t like/honor Diana”.
I’d bet my meagre assets that it’s a middle-aged person stuck in the 90s. A lot of these loonies seem to view anything Cambridge with their memories of how Diana would be proud of how hard(?!) they work etc…
Someone responded in the DM article comments that she was behind the picture. Even admits she did a poor job in leaving off Diana’s heels.
I get the impression that she feels she has her husband tied down now so she longer has to make any effort. She won’t go, she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t feel like, she only likes shopping, holidaying and lazing around while servants fuss over her.
Tennis court was approved. Anyone surprised?
Nope.
Was it? Thanks for the info, I remember there was a link to the request that “suddenly” was pulled down the day it was posted here!
Now we know the important thing that kept her from the last wedding, she was busy showing the contractors were to start pouring the cement……..;)
Nope.
I doubt she’ll go to that wedding.
I went to my ex bf’s wedding and it was awful! LOL looking back at it. His bride was blatantly rude to me that day and for years later. She criticized what I was wearing to her damned wedding! Her new husband told me about it later on, that she seemed obsessed with what I wore. (It was a nice dress, nothing flashy or inappropriate). As a bride, she looked like a mess – a lacey monstrosity that was just fugly – I actually felt sorry for her that day. It just pointed out to me that she was very insecure about my past relationship with HER man. As a result, I haven’t seen or spoken to either of them for years. Sometimes it’s best to just walk away and leave the past in the past.
It is an insecurity issue. If al is fine and you can be friendly why not?
Photoshop nightmare! So creepy. So very creepy.
She loves showing off that ring. That’s why we get all the awkward hand holding and clapping and waving. She’s bound and determined to let everyone know she’s got Big Blue.
What people forget or ignore, is that the baby outfit of Will’s that George wore, originally belonged to Charles. But apparently Di dressing her baby in his father’s christening outfit is totally fine and dandy, it’s only when Katherine does the exact same thing that it becomes creepy. Really, it’s obviously a family tradition to wear that baby outfit.
I saw an article recently of old, recently released candids from the Charles and Di wedding, and in two of them Diana is wearing an outfit identical to one the Queen was wearing in an earlier photo. But again, it’s only creepy when Katherine does it. Guess she’d better look at every known photograph even taken of Diana, to ensure she never, ever wears a colour Diana has ever worn. Because if she, say, wears blue once, the fact that Diana has ever worn a blue in her life means that Katherine is copying her. Because wearing blue is that rare. Smh.
I believe George’s outfit is new and is not an exact replica of his father’s.
The one from Trooping of the Color was old. The one from the christening was new, where she deliberately sought out an outfit to dress him just like his father.
I doubt Diana would ever have fit an outfit of HM’s. They had completely different shapes and Diana was much taller. If she wore something that resembled an old outfit of HM’s it was probably because the Queen Mum had a lot of influence over Diana’s clothes in the early years. The florals, peter pan collars, and bows – yikes!
You’re right, nota. I was only thinking of the Christening outfit. And, agree, some of Diana’s earlier choices were OTT old-fashioned. The florals I can almost understand; those were the Laura Ashley days. But, the collars and bows make still make me cringe!
I wonder if that just happened to be a coincidence of Diana and Her Majesty as well. I had read at the time that the senior ladies households would inform each other to be sure not to wear the same colors to special events. Who knows, but there was a lot of worry that certain people wanted to upstage each other, so I feel this info was true.
I give a pass on the christening outfits. There are only so many variations to be found. Hate the shoulder pads no matter the decade though.
Just reminds me how awesome Diana was and how lacking Kate is, in every way
Indeed!
That engagement ring is massive, it’s not exactly an every day piece of jewelry and would indeed affect how you’d hold your hand over it. But “flaunting her engagement ring”? Really?
And who says that they’re an “item” when they’re in a relationship with someone?
It’s quite common in Britain to say ‘item’ to mean relationship. It’s slang.
It’s common in the states too. Or atleast the NE region I’ve lived in. Saying “you’re an item” Is saying you’re in a relationship. Or they’re an item works often too.
I’ve heard it once in my life, like 20 years ago.
Now in new easy-to-understand Amerigroylish.
imaginary PW: Good morning, my love. I hope you are feeling better today.
imaginary DK: Yes, thank you, darling. I see in the news, next to this photograph of a woman who resembles your late mother, but is seen here in inexpensive-seeming “Hawaiian Suntan” stockings the late princess would never wear while she apparently beseeches me for a household position, that your brother is still busy organizing the upcoming Paraolympic-style Invictus Games to be held in the state of Florida in America. As it is a country where our national language is not spoken, the press say he shall travel to Washington DC in the Autumn, which occurs in five weeks, to set up a translation-network for his cause so that old and young may absorb the stirring message of his Games.
iPW: Ah, indeed. Well, he has no steady work as a part-time co-pilot, of course.
iDK: Yes. And speaking of the young, I can assure you that our own children are well yet again this morning in the nursery as are their nannies and my mother. May I add, I wish most whole-heartedly that I myself had not been suddenly struck down by a strange wretched burning in my mouth and need to vomit over the week-end. Missing the wedding of your friends broke my heart. I will write a note of remorse, perhaps even two notes, while wearing my engagement ring, which I shall roll across the wax seal as a token of my personal esteem.
iPW: Yes. Mentioning your sudden inexplicable illness, my dear, I believe we have found both explanation and solution. I can report that our Office are today wholly focused on the removal of a vomit-inducing 23ft laburnum that was just discovered by the British explorers who are spending their August in our family garden. Should one eat of this 23ft tree, or bushels of its pods and seed, he or she would be feeling suddenly sickly, as did you. We must act.
iDK: This explains much. As you know, I was endeavouring to be both healthy and economical, and to arrange our domestic meals so that we might eat naturally from whatever grows in our own garden, and live as normal young families do, on your part-time co-pilot salary. I see now it was not helpful to eat of this particular tree, and shall advise our cook and her staff to no longer include its bark and seeds in my luncheon salads and broths. Tell me, what will be done?
iPW: We must remove the 23ft tree instantly, and then, we must pave over the resulting large and dangerous excavation-hole with something very big. For example, expanded top quality tennis courts would be just the job. For this reason, I hope we will finally receive a response from the area council on the matter of the relocation of our smaller old existing tennis court to, most fortuitously, the exact garden spot upon which this newly discovered deadly 23ft laburnum now stands. It has been growing there since the original measures of our small family garden were taken some dozen weeks ago by select royal planning professionals, who mis-identified it as a small flowering lavender bush, and wrote as much in the application, something which will not, I hope, confuse the public.
iDK: Now that I think of it, has it not been seven weeks since the filing of our original application for the move of the tennis court?
iPW: Yes, and yet, there has been no reply. Perhaps this shocking sudden news, that a giant tree that sickened a princess has been found growing on the very same applied-for tennis-playing spot, will be an inducement to the council for a rapid, positive decision about the moving of our existing tennis court to that precise spot. And then, upgrading said court into expanded stump-hole-covering tennis courts, for the safety of day hikers, children and dogs. Perhaps we may now have a council reply in as little as one week, during which I will work two, even three, days.
iDK: Yes. And, the council allowing our new expanded tennis courts to exist on the spot of the poison 23ft laburnum hole is a sensible solution that could take effect in just two to three weeks before tennis season is gone. It might also be seen as symbolic of council concern for the well-being of the infant future king who has captured the heart of the world. At the very least, if they act quickly, I will no longer at risk of eating this tree, and thanks to their kind interference on our behalf, I will be able to remain well enough to attend the future weddings of all your former loves, as many and as often as these events may occur.
iPW: Yes. Whatever the council response about the killer tree that nearly claimed your life and our son, as relates to our family tennis courts, I am certain it will be fair and just response, from thoughtful men and women who have now taken seven to eight weeks to render their judgment prior to this sudden news of a deadly tree’s unwholesome effect upon the life of a young mother. One assumes they have been on affordable family caravan holidays, and will now rush back to render an opinion upon hearing this frightening laburnum news. In their honor, then, I propose that we play daily doubles together as man and wife with your sister and mother, when we are on holiday in Mustique in November. That is now, per my diary, approximately twelve weeks away.
iDK: Yes. Now I shall return to reading this next story about Harry,, who is said to be heading off from the rhino camp, in less than a week, to work with his Sentebale charity for vulnerable children in Lesotho for perhaps two weeks, that ongoing cause he has with Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso. A pity he cannot find a co-pilot’s job or estate projects like you, as he seems quite lost.
The poison trees might not kill any of us, but you will. If it’s actually possible to die of laughter, that is.
LOL…………….. 🙂
Hehehe!
“As it is a country where our national language is not spoken….” I knew you wouldn’t let us down but pray, oh dearest one – when did you turn into Jane Austin? For my own part I do declare Miss Liberty that were I of the Persuasion of those good women of the Islands of Lesbos, whom, I understand, have some rather surprising, indeed unexpected habits I would in a mere breath of an instance throw myself on my knees (in a pair of fetching breeches caring not if my gaiters unexpectedly detached and skittered around the room like a demented thing wot skitters er…dementedly) and ask, no beg for your lovely hand in marriage so I could listen to your merry taking the pissings something chronic all the live long day – er long (this is hard keeping this up!)
I demand a return to the original pig chav (like pig latin only different), dialog!
Oi!!!!
I’m remarried and my ex husband is still single. He comes to our house for Christmas dinner and other occasions. I don’t see a problem. We’re all adults and friends.
As for Wiiliam giving Kate Diana’s ring that just shows me how much he is committed to her and loves her. I don’t think he would have otherwise. We won’t see a divorce with these two. They took their time to make sure it would stand the test of time. The stories we read about saying their marriage is in trouble is made up gossip to sell papers or magazines.
Ski Bunny
It’s been tossed around that William also doesn’t bother with jewelry. And he sort of doesn’t. While stories have come out that William gifted Kate jewelry or a “push present” those were found to be false. Kate buys her own jewelry with her father in laws money and it’s all confirmed by the store owners and detailed accounts.
I’m stating this because it is one of the fact based theories out there that William put less thought into the engagement ring than some might think.
Personally, If a ring had that much baggage and “bad mojo” representing not only tacky 80’s styling, but 1 of the most volitile relationships and divorces in immediate history I might ask for a simple Diamond. To add, we know Kate loves Diamonds. She buys no jewelry that isn’t Diamond based. If wrong i’ll gladly accept correction on that.
Last bit their relationship had it’s suffering points. Reportedly the Queen even saying after they reunited to be engaged later “this will end in tears”. With the break ups the cheating and the public declarations. It’s a lot to ignore. The argument it is made up to sell papers sounds like so many arguments before in defense of couples that later divorced from years of scandalous behavior.
I do not wish them to divorce and hope they are a very healthy and happy family if only for the kids.
I hope you read this as engaging and not attacking or provoking.
This is what Kate wanted: marry the prince (a hansome pilot) , have kids and stay home, living in wealth & luxery forever. She obviously knows & loves her husband & maybe is a little nostalgic – hence the throw back outfits.
Not my tax money she is living on. I am in the Netherlands, I’ve got my own King Willem and Queen Maxima to pay for. Who genetically (King) is mostly German and (Queen) Argentinian. They aren’t too bad, as royals go. But I prefer my tax money goes to the police, elderly, etc.
If Kate sent a personal apology to this woman directly or through her husband it is not our business. Actually none of this is any of our business. Kate owes this woman nothing beyond a polite apology.
And that would be fine if it hadn’t been noted there was no reason and the guests with the wedding party were all talking about the no notice and last minute not showing up.
If it wasn’t for that I would assume the same and agree.
Olivia was always the most beautiful of Williams exes. If o were her I’d be jealous. I think Olivia actually dumped him if I’m remembering right…
I’ve always thought she was the most gorgeous too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-448603/The-girl-make-Kate-jealous.html
Ignore the tacky photo and tie in story of how William cheated on Kate. That connection is imo the only reason this link still works compared to others.
And long time lurking fan of yours Pinkellefants!
EDIT
Ive posted the wrong link.
These two have broken up – the announcement about the poisonous tree was to pave the way for her to move back in with her parents; and he’ll be based ‘elsewhere’ so he’s within close range to his job.
I’ve always thought the ring was creepy … especially since his parents didn’t exactly have a happy marriage! No amount of sage smudging could get rid of the bad juju those gems are holding onto.
If Kate does attend this wedding then it’ll be to spite all the rumours that are bouncing around about them at the moment; but I predict she won’t attend … Olivia Hunt is a successful, confident and beautiful woman and I daresay all her friends are the same. On the other hand, Kate seems extremely immature, lacking in confidence and churlish.
A while ago someone posted a photo of Kate walking across a carpark at dusk, on her own (not a protection officer in sight), wearing her jeggings, striped top and wedges. She’d apparently been looking into village shop windows (all the shops were closed). It seemed VERY strange. Who knows, it could’ve been photoshopped, but the impression I get is that she’s trapped in a lifestyle which is nothing like she thought it would be and is mightily miserable.
I wouldn’t wish her life for anyone – the Royal Family seem like the mafia all dressed up.
Fluff, do tell your Diana story, I am just Di ing to know! 10 ti 1 odds waity had a knock down drag out fight with willy, I would almost put money on it a last minute she won’t be here. Either that or her eyeliner was giving her grief hard to put eyeliner on when your sobbing, trust me it’s hard as hell. Anyway Fluff do tell!
I join msthand in asking Fluff if you’d share your story? Don’t tease us!
She won’t attend the wedding because she is too busy dealing with the surrogate making sure the 3rd surrogacy occurs to secure her place in the monarchy.