A few weeks ago, the Daily Mail reported that the Duchess of Cambridge was interested in launching her own all-organic food line, much like Prince Charles’ Duchy Originals. Kate apparently wants to call her line Anmer Organics, based on her organic garden at Anmer Hall. She’s apparently obsessed with feeding her family all-organic, etc. Considering Pippa Middleton has also been doing more on the “diet/wellness” side of business, I thought the whole concept of Anmer Organics sounded like Kate and Pippa were going into business together, but only if Pippa did the work and Kate could take the credit. I also thought that the whole thing just sounded really bizarre. Now Katie Nicholl – the royal reporter closest to the Middleton family – confirms to Vanity Fair that Anmer Organics is in the works in some capacity, albeit mostly in the “pipe dream” phase.
It seems that running around after two little ones isn’t quite enough to keep the Duchess of Cambridge busy. Kate, who is juggling motherhood with official royal duties, wants to launch an organic-food range with her sister, Pippa, Royal Watch can report. The Middleton sisters, who are both great cooks, have been trying out recipes and smoothies in Kate’s country kitchen, and they’re apparently so tasty the sisters are thinking of turning their new hobby into a mini-enterprise.
Kate grows fruit and vegetables at her country home, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, and has a keen interest in organic food. Meanwhile her younger sister, Pippa, has just completed a food-nutrition course and is looking for a new business move. The pair have apparently been busy making smoothies and blending organic baby food for Princess Charlotte, who is currently being weaned, and they are talking about hatching a plan for a line of organic baby food too.
“Kate prepares all of Prince George’s meals and she has been blending fruits and vegetables grown at Anmer for Princess Charlotte,” says my source. “She and Pippa are thinking about launching their own line of organic baby food as well as a range of nourishing ready meals for adults. At the moment it’s a bit of a pipe dream, but they are both really into organic produce. Pippa has just done a qualification in food nutrition, and she’s keen to put it to use. Kate has weaned two babies, and she keeps saying there is a gap in the market for home-grown, organic baby food. It’s given Pippa the idea that they should try launching their own line of organics.”
The idea will no doubt get the thumbs up from the sisters’ entrepreneurial mother, Carole Middleton, and Prince Charles, who has his own organic farm at Highgrove and a successful line of organic groceries called Duchy Originals.
Do you guys remember that Diane Keaton movie, Baby Boom, in the 1980s? I loved that movie (it holds up too, if you’ve seen it recently). And that’s exactly what this is. Keaton’s corporate-shark-turned-mother started producing gourmet (“organic”) baby food because she saw a gap in the market for high-income moms who wanted to spend more on “gourmet baby food.” As I said, that movie came out in the ‘80s. This whole organic/home-grown/gourmet baby food is not a new concept. But it doesn’t really matter – I do believe Nicholl’s sources when they say “it’s a bit of a pipe dream.” While Pippa has follow-through, Kate does not. This is basically just two sisters hanging out in one sister’s mansion and making smoothies and talking about how they should totally go into business together. And then Carole comes in and spikes the organic smoothies with rum and suddenly it’s Club Anmer and the business plans are forgotten.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
If you are a royal and serious, hire some experts to help you and guide you and make it happen.
Otherwise shut the front door.
Didn’t think the royals were allowed to do such business.
Duchy Originals, Budgie the helicopter, RJH Public Relations (Sophie PR firm) Princess Michael’s biographies, Snowden’s photography career, Lady Elizabeth Anson’s party planning business etc and so on, all given a boost due to their royal or royal adjacent personnel.
LAK
Princess Michael also has a history with convicted felon Conrad Black.
Because she’s going to be Queen, I didn’t thin she’d be allowed to run an organic business either.
Anytime I’ve seen a royal run a business, it seems to be a lower level royal.
I know Prince Charles has written books, but that seems to be done with a socially-conscious purpose. Maybe he makes money of that but the royals seem to make sure we see him as a prince first.
IIRC, W&K have some sort of ‘brand’: he has Arthur Anglesey(sp?) and her being Something Strathearn.
I don’t know. Why does it have to be a business, in order that Pippa has something to give her self worth? Why don’t they create the whole line and then donate profits and stock to low income mothers trying to make ends meet that can’t afford top quality organic food? Then we could partially forgive Kate for spending all her time on vacations. At least we’d know she was participating in something real behind the scenes.
@ zimmer
That’s a great idea. It would bring much needed media attention to the needs of low income mothers and their children. And a Royal’s influence could really do the trick.
But the Middletons don’t seem to have a history of mixing business with charity. Money that comes to them is for them to use on themselves. Charity is about showing off oneself to the public. This seems to be their actual pattern.
Zimmer, that’s what I was picturing. In the States we have Newman’s Own, which was started by Paul Newman. They have salad dressings, salsa, sauces, etc., and it’s made a TON of money for charities over the years. I think if Kate did something similar and donated the proceeds, it could do really well.
There is no land at Anmer for her to use for this. If any of these ambitions were true, she should talk to Charles and have them do a subset of Duchy Originals. They will inherit the Duchy in a handful of years, why not contribute to it now? Oh, because they want to do things “their way, be normal” and bring the Middletons into the family business.
Just speculating: Maybe they tried to involve the Middletons with the Duchy and Charles said no, so William rejected taking on duties related to it and the Cambridges are now trying to create their own thing?
There are tenant farmers at Sandringham, and they did do a land grab with their neighbor. Maybe they’re yet again trying to clear people out so they can take over things, like with Apt 1A and Anmer Hall.
Nota
Exactly.
Here’s a gem I read a few weeks back:”…and she will be Her Majesty Queen Catherine VI…”. No, you’re not seeing things, it’s Catherine THE SIXTH.
I don’t think Catherine will get a number in her title. She will be queen consort, but not the actual monarch.
Yes she won’t have a roman numeral. That’s what makes the quote so hilarious.
I thought Camilla would likely be queen consort due to the whole divorce thing, but Catherine would actually be queen…
Kate will be the spouse of the monarch and the female spouse of a male monarch has the title of Queen (Consort) – as opposed to a Queen Regnant who is a female monarch – Elizabeth II is a Queen Regnant (ruling queen). Only a monarch get a numeral.
There have been talk of Camilla being titled Princess Consort instead of a Queen Consort.
The “VI”…Ha! Someone must have skipped the research part of writing an article before publishing that.
Both Camilla and Kate have their royal positions though their husbands – not on their own right. They were not born of royal blood and would therefore both be Queen Consorts as were Alexandra, wife of Edward VII, Mary, wife of George V and the current Queen’s mother, Elizabeth, wife of George VI.
Elizabeth II and Victoria were Elizabeth Regina (Latin for Queen) and Victoria Regina. That’s why on the Queen’s head on British stamps she is called ER. Kings have Rex (Latin for King) after their name. Charles would be Charles R(ex) and George VI was George Rex. The Queen signs her name as “Elizabeth R”. I am not 100 per cent sure if Queen Consorts are allowed to sign themselves in this way.
When Charles married Camilla it was said that, out of deference to Diana, Camilla would never hold the title Queen and would be “Princess Consort”. I think she will be crowned “Queen”. Camilla, as Charles’s wife, is as much Princess of Wales as Diana was but again out of deference to Diana she chooses to use the title Duchess of Cornwall, Charles’s second title being Duke of Cornwall.
There was a King and Queen of Britain about 300 years ago, William and Mary who were married to each other but Mary just wasn’t Queen because she was William’s wife she was Queen in her own right. They reigned (I think) as William III and Mary 11.
William of Organe only got to be king because his wife Mary was in the line of succession, and it was she who was offered the throne when her uncle James II was deposed. She and her husband invaded – and William threw a hissy fit because he wanted to be a ruling king. He also wanted to be able to rule as a king even if she died before him, which actually happened. He threatened to withdraw his troops and she caved and that is why he became king. The only reason the Brits accepted this was probably because he was a protestant. After his death, Mary’s sister Anne became Queen and her Danish-born husband, Prince George (Jørgen) was NOT crowned king and he seemingly had no interested whatsoever in politics.
It should also be noted that William of Orange was not king of Holland but rather an elected Stadtholder of the Dutch provinces. In the 17th century Holland was a republic and not a monarchy. So he went from being an elected official (though a powerful one) to an anointed king – and he only achieved his goal because he used his military strength as political leverage.
I hope that if Bill becomes the Monarch he will abolish the Monarchy and be done with it.
We know Chuck will keep it afloat for his “reign.”
The domestic superwoman/goddess is alive and well, it seems. This reminds me of all those articles about women who have it all and can do it all, which makes everyone else on earth feel inadequate. I guess she wants to be the next Martha Stewart. Meanwhile, I don’t for one moment believe that she prepares any of George’s meal or touches any raw fruits and veggies that haven’t been prepared for her to pick at.
Nowadays it seems it’s one solid pack of lies after another. We’re being bombarded with bushwa.
Out of all the information that comes out about Anmer, real or gossip, I find it very odd that they keep an ice house in the grounds.
FYI: ice houses are huts in the grounds packed with ice so that you can store your vegetables during the winter months.
They are a throw back to a time when modern refrigeration hadn’t been invented and only rich people (or Eskimos LOL) kept ice houses to house their summer vegetables/fruit for the winter.
I read somewhere that at school, whilst all other students had various outside the home ambitions as well as children (or not), Kate’s only ambition for her life was to be a housewife.
Setting aside her marriage to William, I think that’s why she’s so old fashioned and a throw back about the enterprise. She’s essentially recreating that long ago expressed desire.
…except the Inuit don’t have veggies! They do like to keep their food in the ground, fx stuffing sealskins with seabirds, bury it and then let is ferment. Apparently, it is considered a delicacy and party food – though best eaten outdoors in the summer. 😉
Arthistorian: first of all eeewwwww!!!! I’m a vegetarian vegan – still have milk in my tea – so i’m completely revolted at the edible. LOL
Secondly, I was joking about the Eskimos, but now I’m going to have to go wash the visual of that delicacy from my brain.
I just couldn’t help myself sharing a little factoid I gleaned from a BBC nature program.
However, I do find it fascinating that the Inuit traditionally has survived (very healthily) on a diet that contains very few, if any, vegetables. Traditionally, they get a lot of vitamin C from the skin of narwhales and I suspect that the fermeted meat is another source of vital nutrients that they otherwise can’t get in an environment that is very hostile to most vegetation.
Nature is amazing!
Am I the only one who sees absolutely nothing wrong with Kate’s desire to be “only” a housewife? Some people (myself included!) are not particularly ambitious when it comes to their careers, and I don’t see that as a negative thing: it takes all kinds. I did get married until I was well into my 30’s, and prior to having my first child, I did work full-time at a job I enjoyed (most of the time…!) and fully supported myself for over a decade after finishing graduate school, but I had no regrets whatsoever about handing in my resignation letter as soon as I could.
I had always dreamed of being “only” a housewife as well, and it is a lot of work, just a different kind of work. I’m perfectly content with my main role being at home with my young children and supporting my husband in his career and do not miss the daily grind at the office. I realize I’m very fortunate to have this choice, but I don’t think it is a choice worthy of being mocked.
As William’s wife, Kate has an important public role to promote charities and the UK at home and abroad. The public pay taxes and she draws income from the Duchy of Cornwall to support her in these duties to the tune of millions of pounds a year. A housewife of a commoner has no such public duty and doubtful takes millions from the public purse to buy clothing, fix up houses and go on luxury vacations.
A lot of people, myself included, think if Kate’s ambition was to be a housewife, she needed to marry someone else like one of William’s wealthy friends. She could’ve done as much or as little work outside of the home without public comment that way but no, Kate wanted a crown.
So criticism of Kate isn’t criticism of housewives in general. Those women aren’t married to a future monarch and they don’t take buckets of public money to support their lifestyle because their husbands support them through working.
It is a very common mistake for commoner housewives to think slights on a woman in Kate’s position are slights on them too. They forget that Kate has an additional role that they do not and that role requires time outside of the home. If she isn’t up for it why was she pursuing William so hard for ten years? He had plenty of wealthy friends who could keep her in style and she would’ve been freed from the public looking over her shoulder judging her job performance as a Duchess.
The fact is, she never is “only a housewife” anyway. Whenever you see her in public, it’s because she’s fulfilling her duty as Duchess of Cambridge. She’s photographed constantly, and she comes under intense criticism when she doesn’t attend events the British public considers important. On top of that, the paparazzi won’t leave her alone, and people are always speculating about her private life. Under those circumstances, I’d want to be at home as much as possible, too, especially with two small children.
Maybe they can go into business with Gwyneth, haha! Anmer Organics sold exclusively at GOOP.
I actually do believe she prepares George and Charlotte’s meals. I think servants grow and take care of the fruits and veggies, clean and prep them for her, and then she throws them in the blender.
“The Middleton sisters, who are great cooks…”
Wha? I could have sworn she had to take classes on how to boil an egg when they first married? Does my memory serve me properly?
One time while on an engagement she said that she can’t make proper tea, only James can do it properly*eyeroll*. IIRC, last year she took a 2-week(?) +£1000 cooking class with Rachel Khoo but she didn’t even finish it.
But I swear I read that when she “lived in Wales” she did all of her own grocery shopping and cooking at home, and that she was a great cook. Of course, that was back in the days when the story was “young engaged/newly married’s living a normal life in a private cottage, far away from the family”. With all the changes depending on the situation, the story about them does more work than they do!
She was papped a total of twice at the grocery store in Wales. At the same time she was said to be living in Wales being a housewife (complete with cook and housekeeper on the sly), she was papped in London three times a week.
I recall reading for their first Christmas as a married couple, Kate gifted everyone a jar of her homemade jam from the fruits of Angelsey. She is a master canner and jam maker apparently.
As time goes we found Kate assisted her personal cooks in jam canning. Story was spun as if she was doing it herself or what leading the activity.
To be fair Canning is difficult. You have to be very lucky or very skilled with luck involved to avoid faulty seals or bacteria. Same goes for those Kate makes her own sausage rumors. Just stories floated around to explain why she avoids her charities.
Wow. Y’all really pick the absolute worst photos of her, huh?
And it makes me cackle every time.
It’s Kate’s usual gritted-teeth smile and her love of the wind blowing through her hair and up her skirts.
Someone should tell her that if she can’t smile naturally, stop smiling with her teeth bared like that. It looks like what animals do before they’re about to eat their prey.
Finally someone called it. The beared teeth grin is awful!! She looks like forever alone meme. It’s so bad
She has an underbite. Combined with how animated she can be and her veneers it’s not easily missed.
Ugh, Middletons, stop talking about doing something and just DO IT.
It’s like the girlfriend years: she’s starting a line of baby clothes, she’s going to be a photographer, she’s going to have a show at an art gallery…
They’ve given up on the secret charity visits stories and now Kate’s going to be an entrepreneur.
The Middletons are always boasting about their so called prowess at sports cooking, photography, sketching, now Pippa is doing nutrition she has done dancing circus training running trying to write a cookery book which is simply dreadful .. whatever it is they want people to think they do . Ah I forgot knitting as well . Its a about time Pippa got a real job all she does is display herself in another outfit designer wear and we have never seen her in the same outfit twice.. where does all the clothes go
plus the organic idea we bet they will not be doing it for charity reasons but to make money out of the British Royals yet again ….
@ daisy
Exactly. Allegedly Kate is into photography – all we got to see were some mediocre shots from stunning landscapes in South East Asia. Seriously it is difficult to get a bad shot there.
Allegedly Kate can sketch – never seen any sketches.
Allegedly Kate is interested in … – never seen any real honest intrinsic interest of hers in anything she did.
Allegedly Kate is into gardening – never seen any pics of her gardening.
Allegedly Kate is … – no evidence.
Why would anyone buy from her when there are several organic companies out there? I’m thinking specifically of the Honest Company.
There are a lot of organic companies and ranges in supermarkets, she’s just eager to jump onto her FIL bandwagon and already in place business chain into Waitrose. Not soo sure its a pipedream, more like the story is a float for public reaction and its most def a Middleton family idea. Another cashing in on Royalty idea from the Mids. They need another source of income as there is no way Party Pieces is keeping her family in the lifestyle that they pretend to have. She starts it up and her family take it over when she becomes ‘too busy with royal duties’ #whateverworkmeans.
More importantly there’s already another BRF organic company. And it’s likely she would need the same area of land to use since it’s already established. It makes no sense to do this since when William becomes POW he will have this.
This all feels like it serves as a money source for the Midds funneled from royal controlled parts… Far from honest and exploitation of royal connections. On par with others who exploited their royal connections for profit..
It is what it is.
There are, but I think she could differentiate her line if she wanted.
Prince of Wales is not an automatic title for the heir to the throne. If/when Charles becomes King, William will not become Prince of Wales unless Charles chooses to make him so. Prince Charles became heir to the throne when his mother became Queen in 1952. However, she did not “name” him as Prince of Wales until about 5 or 6 years later. He was formally made Prince of Wales at a ceremony in Wales around 1969 when he was 21 – 17 years after he became heir to the throne.
her hair and smile make her look deranged
I actually hope this goes through.
I want to see Kate and Pippa shelling their products, especially in a 30-minute infomercial or on HSN or QVC. While Pippa does the talking, Kate can just gurn and bare her teeth at the cameras and do her head-jerking tics to get the hair out of her face. And the thing to hear will be the contrast between Kate’s and Pippa’s differing accents.
Just like the Gerber baby model, maybe they can use George or Charlotte as their model for the Middleton Organics baby food. I’m sure the Queen will be quite proud.
Oh Anne, I love your snark! The Midds are such hustlers, aren’t they? Why does the BRF not see this? Kate can’t even do the job she’s supposed to do in lieu of her super-luxurious lifestyle she enjoys.I hope someone buts their foot down if this story is true.. Pippa should make her own way in life, using her education for some good. Just like other 30-somethings all over the world do. Stop leeching off the Cambridges. Desperation doesn’t look good on her.
The BRF undoubtedly knows exactly what the Middletons are. Charles was said only to put up with them for the sake of William.
Regardless of who she is, eating organic should be the norm. Better food for your body = better body & soul.
Hopefully she’s eating some of it herself.
And it can be prohibitively expensive for the average household.
Impossible, not going to happen. There is not enough production yield using organic methods to feed the world.
Baby Boom was the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. Loved that movie, especially the part where Diane sings the itsy bitsy spider into the phone during an important meeting.
Yes 🙂 Wonderful movie
She/they will do it. If not now, then eventually. And that’s just not because Charles and other royals have done so. It’s hard to explain why I think that but here it is in a nutshell hopefully: Times have changed. Expectations are changing. The public really isn’t watching or caring in large numbers.
QEII is from a bygone era. Charles is a gentleman prince having one foot in that bygone era too. But more importantly, and I hate to say it, QEII’s time on the throne has really overshadowed / over-powered a smooth generational transfer from her, to Charles, to William. The way the Duchy operates is the invisible bridge or royal reflective face that mirrors the ways in which society has changed. Hmm. Let’s see . . .
During QEII’s reign, society has moved from a mix of industry and small to mid-size framing to agri-businesses and de-industrialization and now to hyper-entrepreneurism and micro-businesses with everyone else scrambling in-between. Although I am a supporter of Prince Charles, thinks he’s very talented and has done a lot as a person and within his position, due to the way society, gov’t and business are so intertwined people won’t see that he has ushered in a model for integrating entrepreneurial / capitalistic zeal with supporting people and the environment. They will see the man and gentleman prince from a bygone era. And old fuddy-duddy. Instead, they will see Kate & Co. as somehow more reflective of the times and will champion it, excuse it, and not really examine it closely (basically dismissing it) and not really demand the outreach or scope or depth of purpose . . . want to say humanity & humanitarian endgame . . . of the Duchy.
Just my 2 cents.
I would say it’s a case of PR& media propaganda. Charles isn’t that bad but saying there’s a link betw climate change and Daesh(ISIS) is mind-boggling.
The headline reporting of Charles’s comments is really misleading. He didn’t say Climate change was the ONLY reason for the conflict, he said it was a contributing factor. He then goes on to explain about the drought and the economic effect that had on Syria.
Personally, I don’t have enough knowledge on climate change to argue that it was the cause of the drought, BUT it is a fact that Syria suffered a drought from 2006-2011 that drove many farmers off the land and into the cities.
Outside of his usual ‘don’t give a F about his people’ attitude, Assad didn’t care or didn’t handle the drought situation which deteriorated and left many people with nothing to lose except revolt.
ISIS and many other extreme groups went on to fill a gap in the ensuing chaos.
The drought isn’t the only reason for the chaos. There are several other identified reasons as well. Some chaotic and others deliberate.
The headline reporting of Charles’s comments is misleading.
I think sometimes Charles can’t get his ideas across properly and ends up sounding a bit looney, even if what he is saying is right. You need to join his staff and help Chuck out, LAK.
LAK
To accurately speak to what influenced that specific drought issue is more than climate issues. Too many factors and combinations.
Takes more than climate in many cases of drought.
I lived with a family of my exchange program that were huge into climate issues and sustainability. They imported beavers to fix their issue. I digress. Point being its rarely a lack of rain.
LAK – thanks for your comments. Happy people in times of plenty – not real likely to become suicide bombers. It’s important to look at many issues surrounding areas of turmoil. True, drought was not Syria’s only issue, but it was an important factor.
Historically speaking, many violent conflicts have taken place in the aftermath of severe climate changes, natural catastrophes, etc. The phenomena are linked – it can be seen from ancient world to now. However, it is not a question of simple causality. There are always multiple factors – but when you look at wars and violent conflicts in a macro-historical perspective, climate changes are very important factors.
Repeating my post from last time.
Work? Run a company? I cannot see this happening.
“No no no,” Billy screams, “I won’t take on work for The Duchy.” But the wife who has never really worked is going to launch a company to compete with the Duchy? Pre-marriage, every time it was rumored she was going to do something it never materialized (be a photographer, work in a gallery, organize art exhibits, run a childrens clothing company). NOW she’s going to do something OTHER than the royal engagements she should be doing? And something that slaps Charles in the face?
They don’t own Anmer Hall. HM owns Anmer Hall, presumably she has the trademark on the name. From what I remember, Anmer Hall only has 1-1.5 acres of land. They don’t get more of the Sandringham Estate, just the part that is attached to Anmer. From the pictures, much of the area is taken up with house, security outbuildings, driveway, covered swimming pool, and the tennis court(s). There is a garden area but nothing that would support more than their family if that.
KM loves growing her own organic veggies? Work on the house still wasn’t done when they announced the second pregnancy. They weren’t living there yet. This summer was the first time they would have access to a garden (I don’t think there is one at KP). That garden is under construction/changing with the whole tennis court thing. Remember, they just HAD to move the tennis court and build a $100,000 new one because it blocked the view. THEN they going to build a vegetable garden (rumored with Charles’s design help).
By some accounts, she was off getting her scuba cert 6 weeks after the baby arrived, not toiling in the garden. Tending her own garden? Let’s forget about the gardener/groundskeeper who was paid to tend the property before he and his wife quit after 5 months. IF they have a household garden eventually, they’ll pay someone else to tend it and the rest of the grounds.
@ notasugarhere
They also had to move the pool for whatever reason.
Maybe she’s growing organic radishes and green onions? That only takes a few weeks or less.
Btw, I read in the UK’s Sun that the India trip is for one week only.
Anne_000: why go to India for one week only? India isn’t one homogenous place!!! Given the build in vacation days and the fact they do only one appt a day on their tours, we are talking 4-5 work hours in entire tour? (one appt per day for 5 days, having taken arrival day off, and a mid-tour day too)
@ LAK
I dunno why either, but that’s what the Sun reports, but then I don’t know how much of what the Sun posts can be believed.
I agree with you that it’s a ridiculously short period of time to experience that country.
The source, btw, is from an article written by Emily Andrews, Royal Correspondent, from about three days ago. It’s an article about ‘how Kate plans to bring Wills and the kids into the middle classes.’
It says the Sun understands that the India trip will be for one week only, ‘limiting the time she is away’ from all her dedicated middle class activities. *cough*
It’s quite sad that people fall for that BS. Re: tour.Rest assured, they’ll make every step they take will count at the end of the year.
Nota: Let’s assume for a minute that this is true, William is the heir to the duchy. The duchy rans many organic food/farming programmes. Why not learn the ropes at the duchy now, before they are in charge of it, and from there create a complimentary Anmer Organics brand that will sell along the inherited Duchy brand. Why start a competeing brand against yourself, your FIL and son?!! And why start from the bottom when the duchy is crammed with experts? And you are the 3rd senior couple in the land which means every expert in the organics field will take your call!!!
Numpties!!!
Anne_000: interesting that Murdoch is siding with Kate.
Further, let’s assume this to be true for reasons given ie make William more middleclass….i don’t buy that for a second. The Middletons are completely insular. Pulling William further into their orbit is simply drawing him into their insular world and less outside it. No wonder he has completely lost perspective.
Exactly. As I said above, they want to do things “their way, the normal way”, stick it to Charles, and bring the Middletons into the business.
It would be refreshing to read more about any of the other royals in the world, all of whom are far more interesting than Kate. Spain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia were hosting the Jordan’s King Abdullah and Queen Rania. Queen Maxima just concluded a tour of Bangladesh to improve financial services for the underprivileged. Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia are in New York. There’s no shortage of stories.
+10000000
True! While WK have fluff stories of what they might be planning in early stages other royals are taking action over having stories of what might happen.
Carl and Sophia are in NY?!? Celebitches, comments and pictures, please and thank you!
They were in NY last week for “private” reasons. Here’s a pap shot of some reporter trying to get comments from them.
http://www.newmyroyals.com/2015/11/prince-carl-philip-and-princess-sofia.html
NMR site also has a new photo Princess Estelle; she’s is just too photogenic! Like others have said, regularly releasing current photos of the Cambridge kids might help quite some of the criticism their work-shy parents rightfully deserve.
correction: help “quiet” criticism
The Middletons are always boasting about their so called prowess at sports cooking, photography, sketching, now Pippa is doing nutrition she has done dancing circus training running trying to write a cookery book which is simply dreadful .. whatever it is they want people to think they do . Ah I forgot knitting as well . Its a about time Pippa got a real job all she does is display herself in another outfit designer wear and we have never seen her in the same outfit twice.. where does all the clothes go
plus the organic idea we bet they will not be doing it for charity reasons but to make money out of the British Royals yet again ….
Well at least Pippa is more credible as a nutrition guru than Kate. If Kate is in fact an expert, based on her skeletal appearance, she clearly she doesn’t follow her own advice!
My husband eats very healthily and does not snack between meals but his BMI is still below the minimum recommended level. If Kate is running after George and Charlotte and is quite a nervy person she could just be using up all that calories even is she is eating well. Nothing she can do. I know because I used to be like this!
Caroline – Kate’s present state is not her natural state. You obviously have not seen any photos of her before the wedding — before the strict dieting and severe weightloss journey began.
Instead of her focusing on trying to start a company and be a business woman, why not just try doing her main job first which is being a royal and helping worthy causes. I forget she can’t do that because she’s to busy trying to be a fergie 2.0. This peter pan child is a waste of the public’s hard earned money. I do hope at some point everything will come crashing down in their faces middletons/normal wilbur and the rf.
This story reminds me of Kate wanting to do a children’s clothing line before she realized there was real work that would interefere with courting William involved.
This whole story just highlights how disingenuous Kate’s interest is in her job as duchess. If Kate has time away from her kids to start a business, she has time to do more royal duties.
ITA.
I think that is kind of the bottom line for me, as well. She has time to do an organic food line? Then she has time to get out there and work as a royal WAG.
Completely cute photos of Princess Leonore were released today. Why can’t Celebitchy report on them? There are plenty of other royals doing things.