The Duchess of Cambridge can do no wrong in the British tabloid press these days. And we all know why that is. After two years of the Embiggening Kate Campaign, it’s been established that “Kate has never put a foot wrong” and “if Meghan succeeds at anything, it’s only thanks to Kate.” There’s a new part to this whole campaign too, as we’ve seen play out over the past year: Kate will save the monarchy because she constantly “makes peace” with those dastardly Sussexes. Yes, there’s that edge of white-saviorism, but I do wonder if… Kate might actually feel sorry for Meghan? I honestly don’t believe Kate has this huge ax to grind, like William has with Harry. I kind of believe that Kate really does try to make peace between the couples. So… that’s what Us Weekly’s cover story is about:
Duchess Kate is in their corner. The future queen “hates seeing” Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan “so miserable” amid their fight against the British press, a source reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly.
“While Kate’s concerned about Harry and Meghan’s well-being,” the source says, “she tries to stay out of the drama.”
Kate, 37, for her part, “hopes William and Harry will eventually heal the rift and let bygones be bygones,” the source tells Us.
“The way she sees it, life’s too short to make enemies – especially with loved ones,” the insider adds. “She’s very levelheaded like that. Kate’s a family girl.”
There’s this thing that Us Weekly and the Daily Mail and the Sun are talking around and I find it so interesting – like, no one is even claiming that William understands his duty to the crown and to his family. No one is addressing the fact that the second in line to the throne is acting like a petty tyrant. None of these stories are about how William will do the most to bury the hatchet. No one even acknowledges that William has a big role in pushing these smears against Harry and Meghan. So we have Kate the White Savior, trying to balance her husband’s pettiness with her genuine desire to just get along and not cause a ruckus.
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I believe it. I highly doubt she’s evil for one thing. I always thought she was truly fond of Harry for another. And lastly, I’ve seen this happen up close. No one else around these things feels good about it. You have to be a real terrible mess of a person to feel good about something like this. Usually everyone else is feeling very bad, and we are also walking on eggshells for fear of saying the wrong thing and making everything worse. The scary thing? A lot of times the two (or more) who have the problems with each other, can turn fast against a third party they perceive to have piled on some imagined injustice done them. Listen, this is messy, I hate it. I have it with my brothers. No fun! And they in my view, would love to have me to blame. So I walk on eggshells.
Except her HUSBAND is actively engaged in tearing down Meghan so that makes her somewhat complicit when she happily goes along with those photo calls and all the other shenanigans.
Oh please. Kate is no more responsible for what her husband does than Hillary is responsible for what Bill did.
Kate participated in the budget flight stunt. Up until then she might have had a plausible argument to say it is all of William’s doing and she can’t oppose it, but when that happened she solidly provided her approval.
Except she actively participates in the drama
I don’t think she actively participates in the drama. I think she actually is fond of Harry & does genuinely feel terrible about what’s happening.
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@Purplehazeforever except for that little photo op she ACTIVELY participated in with William did getting on that “budget” flight right after all the negative press H&M got for flying private, right??
I think you’re giving her way too much credit.
Here’s the thing. They had to fly budget after the hate the Sussexes got. Sure the photo seemed staged, but none of us know that it was.
They are also damned if they do and damned if they don’t and Kate has been through quite a hard time adjusting as well, so I’m sure she – as a human being – feels empathy for Meghan. You don’t need to slag off one to show support for the other. I don’t like defending royalty at all, but this rabid hate is starting to make me feel uneasy.
She’s a mother of three and there are crazy people out there…
Yes. And if she truly cared about the relationship of the brothers and the attacks hurled at Meghan, she would have had a come to Jesus meeting with her husband. It’s not hard to tell your husband to stop acting like a dick and bridge the gap. I think that down inside she is pleased that there is less scrutiny on her as there had been in the past with her lack of dedication to royal duties.
That photo was 100% staged, or at least approved.
They did not need to fly budget so openly. How do they always get to Balmoral? no one knows. (I mean, people know, but there are never ever pictures of it.)
Criticizing Kate and calling her out for her role in this is not “rabid hate.” If you think it is, I suggest you go to any article on another site about Meghan and take a gander at the comments. That will give you an idea of “rabid hate.”
Kate is a mother of three. So what? Meghan has a child as well.
@Lauren ……… what does her being a mother of 3 have to do with it? Is she the only mother in this world?
She participated in the budget flight photo op crap; she is no innocent baby; she was a willing participant! William didn’t force her to say YES; she has a mind of her own (I hope).
I wonder if you ever think that Meghan is the mother of a 6-month old and how all the attacks can put her and Archie in danger…of perhaps they don’t matter
How did the Cambridge family get to Amner Hall for half term? ……how will they get back to KP? The chopper. I actually don’t have a problem with it but it’s the double standards should the Sussexes do the same.
We just went through this with the photos of the kids at Saintsbury that were pulled from the online articles. Not only were there photos but there was also video of the kids doing something that is usually considered a private time event. The plane stunt was KP approved.
I don’t think she’s “evil” either, but I think she’s probably torn. She probably does genuinely feel sorry for Meghan to some extent because what Meghan is going through is so awful, but at the same time Kate is benefiting from it greatly and I think she enjoys that.
I think if she feels bad, it’s in the way that sorority sisters “feel bad” for the hazing that the new recruits go through. They remember that it sucked and that it was humiliating and they might even think that it’s kind of a mean tradition and stupid, but they’re mostly just glad it’s not them going through it anymore, and they’re still going to actively take part in hazing the new girls because “that’s just how it’s done.”
Amy Too that is a great analogy. It perfectly captures the passive aggressive nature of it all.
I think Kate may be jealous of Meghan, because she makes kate feel so inadequate. I feel that is the source of all the problems. The split came, perhaps, after joining the Royal Foindation, Meghan being new to it, perhaps, would bring some ideas to the foundation, and it would be shot down by William,and Kate, Harry gets upset with William, because it was becoming a regular thing from The Cambridges, Harry then had a row with William, about it.The Queen and Charles become aware of this friction, and thought The Sussexess deserve to have their own goundatuon, because they are valuabe, hence the split. No other royal has their own foundation. That is my speculation.
I do NOT think Kate is jealous of Meghan at all. I think Kate is smart to stay out of the drama of it all. I never thought it would go well when Meghan wanted to be a dutchess, and it did not. She will have to handle this on her own. She wanted all the pomp and attention, and now she’s definitely got it, but not in the way she expected. Surprise!
@Amy Too I agree with Nic919 that this is a perfect analogy. Kate’s behavior is still awful, but this is a very plausible rationale for it.
I always enjoy your comments on here — I think you’re so insightful and you’re able to articulate things that I’m thinking in ways that I cannot do as eloquently!
@kosmos “Wanted” to be a duchess?? More like she and Harry found each other, fell in love and she became a duchess when they married. Nice try making it sound cold and calculated though. 🙄
Meghan is exceeding all expectations when it comes to the duchess requirements. She brings attention to her causes and they are thriving. Ed Sheeran didn’t have to be hired to help with fundraising at Smartworks or Luminary. The only people with issues are the UK tabloid media who are creating click bait to sell papers.
I believe it too. And actually the biggest bit of evidence for me is that during this saga both Harry and Meghan have spent time with Kate and have looked to be on perfectly friendly terms with her. Their apparent warmth towards her is enough to persuade me that they do not see her as an instigator of their persecution. Not to mention the fact that Harry specifically said he and Wills have their good days and bad days, but neither he nor Meghan have made cited any tension between themselves and Kate.
I dont see any warmth coming from either side. Them going to events that both couples HAVE to be at tells the tale. Meghan and Kate are professional with one another and are good at looking friendly. Buy I don’t think for a second that it goes beyond that.
Ha except Kate chose to wear a white dress on Meghan’s wedding, Kate has continuously been complicit in pushing false stories of mean Meghan made Kate cry etc. Kate was a willing active participant in the budget flight photo op, no Kate is NOT William’s victim, nor does she blindly follow Williams directions. Kate is an equal and willing, active participant in this smear campaign again Harry and his wife, Kate together with her husband. And I think that’s what Hurst Harry the most, that he was very supportive of Kate when she married into that family but look how he got paid.
I think the best example of this was the polo match over the summer. While they were technically seen together, there really weren’t any shots of them actually right next to each other chatting, looking especially engaged, etc. There was the shot of George and I think Charlotte near Meghan maaaaybe showing a little interest in Archie, and people made it seem like they were all buddy-buddy. I think they hung out to the extent they felt it would look “right” for the cameras, but it wasn’t a fun girls’ day out with the kiddos by any means. Whether that’s because they don’t necessarily have that much in common or they’re keeping their distance because of their husbands’ beef, we’ll never actually know.
@swirlmamad…..Don’t read too much into pictures. The Royals know camera’s are always on them trying to glean information from body movements and proximities which is why the Queen always adopts a poker face. Someone said that when they were inside the tent at the polo match William was either holding or playing with Archie. William has said that he hates doing things just for the camera, although we know to keep up the popularity he does wheel the kids out but l do believe it is done reluctantly and he really wishes he could be a private person.
When Harry said nobody wants the top job we know what he meant.
Kate won’t move without William’s approval let alone get in between whatever is going on between him and the Sussexes. She also very much benefits from the Sussex’s being sacrificed. Never has she been able to skate by doing the bare minimum as she has now. No way is she gonna give that up.
THIS…
Absolutely this!!
You got it.
Bingo! If Kate protects Meg, the press will add her to the pot. She has to be the white savior in the narrative or the BRP will skin her like they did before Harry started dating Meg.
True. She is actively being praised for doing the bare minimum and lets face it Katie Keen is getting some of the best press she’s EVER had right now. No way is GF going to give that up.
Even IF she cared, she would never do anything until William tells her to. But I don’t believe she cares. She might care superficially because Harry was probably “nicer” to her than William ever was, but when push comes to shove, she obeys William. Her way of “dealing” with the rift and attacks on Megan is to ignore them.
Kate probably feels for Meghan since Kate herself was ridiculed for years. “Waity Katy”, etc. I think William is an a$$ and Kate is harmless. And she is probably trying to help Meghan get through all the attacks. Other than the Queen, the women in the English Royalty generally get treated like crap at one time or another. Diana, Fergie…
Kat’es goal for years was William’s wife. People with laser focus on the prize are not harmless. They will brook absolutely no interference from anyone when it comes to achieving their goals. She took care of every problem and obstacle in the way of wearing Big Blue. Ruthless would be a better description.
Kate was not “ridiculed for years”. It wasn’t until years after they graduated from college, and Kate was still unemployed and going on 10 vacations a year with William, that the press started questioning what exactly she was doing with her time. None of that was ever at the level of what Meghan has experienced from the moment she and Harry were known to be dating.
I honestly think the two have faced two very different levels and types of intrusion – she had Waity Katey smeared on a bus, the whole uncle Gary thing and all the stories about how William’s friends would openly mock and talk about her parents’ jobs : “doors to manual” anyone remember that? So although it was no where near as toxic there was also this narrative that she wasn’t good enough, her family was too common and she didn’t belong in this hallowed circle. She also had near Diana levels of physical paparazzi intrusion, which Meghan hasn’t, following her on the street, lying in the gutter to photograph her getting out of taxis, waiting outside her flat. They definitely wanted to ridicule her. TO BE CLEAR I am not diminishing what M has had to deal with, it’s beyond vile and even with the slight turn in coverage happening at the moment, the comments are still there and they’re crazy. I just think – as it has been said before – it actually doesn’t benefit anyone to pit them against each other. It feels here like you have to like one or the other, it can’t be both. I believe Kate feels sorry for Meghan, I also believe it’s probably too little too late and there’s not much she could do about it if she wanted to. But I think the hatred here towards Kate – which many people seem adamant doesn’t exist – is so unnecessary just like it is towards Meghan on other sites.
@ suzy webster I get what you’re saying and I agree with some points, but I don’t agree that Kate had more Diana-level paparazzi harassment — it may look a little different, but I still stand that Meghan’s treatment is worse, mainly because never did it seem like Kate’s life might actually be endangered by their actions, albeit it was probably made pretty unpleasant for her at times. Also, I don’t think it’s that people have to like one or the other here. I used to enjoy following K&W and Harry as well, but the disparity in treatment and K&W actions didn’t become clear to me until Meghan came on the scene and the abhorrent way she’s been treated made the double standards crystal clear. I also will admit I probably wasn’t paying attention as much as I am now and didn’t know as much about the Cambridges’ laziness, Will’s pettiness, etc.
I remember when Kate just married Will – she couldn’t do anything right. I wonder if it’s just a matter of time and the tabloids have something/someone to pick on? Maybe Camilla and Charles can have a child together really quickly to marry him or her off in 18 years, and relief the pressure.
I didn’t see it myself, but I saw on Twitter yesterday that there was an article in the Fail claiming that was claiming George is “shaping up to be a great leader” which is obviously a ridiculous thing to say about a small child, and Charlotte is “feisty” or something. And that there were a lot of negative comments about Charlotte. So they’re ALREADY starting that crap with the next generation.
Yes and they will continue to go after Charlotte because the press is always tougher on girls and women. William and Kate have done no favours for Charlotte and Louis by enabling this attack the spare game that the media always plays. Their children will pay the price once they are teens.
You want two 70 year olds to have a child?
Kate never got the amount of abuse Meghan is getting. I live in England so I know what I am talking about, Kate enjoyed years of being William’s boyfriend in Uni and after, in oeace. The waity kaity came up when they got engaged, but it was all rosy after the wedding, and a great deal of support and empathy for her during all her morning si ckness and pregnancies. Meghan has not got any relief, right ftom being a girlfriend, and even the dispicable way the press and media conspired with her dad to sabotage her wedding. Daily Mail chose to publish the expose not after the wedding, but a few days before the wedding, how cruel can they get, when they are complicit, hoping to tarnish the day for H&M.
Yes, I completely agree 100%. There really isn’t any comparison between Kate and Meghan’s treatment. Meghan has had it way worse right out of the gate, and it’s been unrelenting. No matter what was said during the “Waity” years, Kate was handled with kid gloves while she was pregnant — Meghan was ruthlessly disparaged. Sickening and heartless.
This needs to be said over and over again. Meghan was harassed by the media when she was pregnant and it did not stop even when she was away on maternity leave. The non stop criticism did affect her as she now admits and it’s the kind of thing that could have caused a miscarriage. It’s not remotely on the same level of being called waity katy. And Kate didn’t ever have a piers Morgan type criticizing her on television every day.
I hate the excuse “I want to stay out of the drama”. When you witness someone being abused you do not ethically have that luxury. Staying out of the drama only benefits the abuser, never the victim.
+1000 it’s not enough to stay “neutral” in conflict like this especially where a new mother is being harassed and downright abused the way meghan has been. Kate gets no points from me.
Let’s correct this … “ Kate wants to stay out of the racism.”
You are so right!
Yep it’s a really terrible look that reflects very badly on her.
This! Also I can’t help but think it looks bad on two royals who have started a mental health organization to not recognize the opportunity to publicly at least seem to understand how important it is to be there for your loved ones when they are being harrassed and suffering.
It’s ridiculous how this makes Will and Kate look. They look completely hypocritical to turn a blind eye to his brother and sister in law’s suffering when they supposedly support mental health issues.
This could be a turning point in the royal family for all of them if they’d only see that. Show solidarity when people are suffering from mental health issues – no matter how big or small – and use it to further their agenda and bring awareness to the issue. Unless their foundation was all for show ……
I mean even Melania Trump focused on bullying as her ‘issue’ …. 😛
Right now the Cambridges appear as effective on mental health issues as Melania is with cyber bullying.
I can believe that Kate feels sorry for Meghan and wishes everyone got along (to the extent they may not at this point, ahem William and Harry), but I also don’t think she is doing anything actively to “heal the rift” or whatever. She’s probably very nice to Meghan and I imagine they get along with each other, but I imagine that’s probably it – both in terms of their relationship and in terms of Kate’s “efforts” to heal the family or whatever nonsense language they’re using at this point.
And I appreciate your last point too Kaiser – it seems to now be acknowledged there is a rift, its between the brothers, and Kate understands “her duty” but that is also a swipe at William IMO, because it seems to be implying that he doesn’t.
I enjoy and and all swipes at Normal Bill Cambridge.
Classic shade. Classic! Good job, Team Kate.
Dueling duchesses? Are they still on with that BS? Again, it’s not the duchesses that are feuding….it’s the heir and the spare….the two blood princes. These tabloids and their fan fiction.
Indeed those are the ones ! correction: Harry is not the spare, he is sixth in line as te heir has a descendance for himself
inside The Dueling Duchess feud!!! I see we are back to making it about the women.
Karen in the cubicle on the right has no imagination.
Maybe Kate can lend her ace PR team, I mean it saved her and turned her life around, but knowing Kate she’d never.
A reporter asked England Rugby Captain (??) if the Royal Family called, he replied not him personally, but Prince Harry called the team a couple of times and showed Archie in the English shirt.
Meghan told the reporter at the bakery, Harry left for Japan and she and Archie are going to watch the match.
I believe it too. I also think there’s no feud between them. Why? Meghan is too smart to make an enemy of Kate. Kate doesn’t strike me as a fighter, she seems very family focused and probably doesn’t have the time nor mental energy to feud with anyone.
I maintain – this is all Carole, knowing full well how bad this is reflecting on the whole RF, trying to put some gloss over her daughter.
THIS. Carole wants her daughter to become queen, and anything that jeopardizes that goal must be dealt with promptly.
Yup. The whole family is looking real funny in the light and someone is trying to cover Kate’s ass. There’s a Daily Beast article claiming that Kate “called” Meghan to offer support. Sure.
Very true – William sure won’t lift a finger to defend her or her family. He never once came out to publicly support them when they were being trashed by the press.
After H&M got married and M was wildly popular there was a story about Kate not letting M into her social circle. I do believe that story. Kate was a social climber, her family is not aristocratic. She was too insecure to accept M, despite being her sil and M being in a new country, into her social circle.
Does Kate even have a social circle separate and apart from William? The women who attended their wedding and the kids’ christenings all seem to be wives of William’s friends. Even in the brief periods when she was single, she really only seemed to hang out with Pippa (oh and she did join that rowing team during one of the breakups but then gave it up when William came back to her. What a gal.)
As for Carole being behind this, it seems like a stretch. Unless the monarchy gets abolished, her girl is gonna be queen. Meghan has nothing to do with that.
dolittle kate will always follow lazy bill’s prompts. She’s been a participant in the smears as well and she benefited from it, look at how they are trying to embiggen her no matter how silly it seems.
WK you run anti-bullying campaigns, it’s time to show us what you’re made of. The number one reason bullying continues is that others are too scared to stand up lest the bullies come after them. But oh right you can’t, the taxpayers have you by the balls…This is why I have no respect for the RF.
I really don’t think Kate cares how Meghan feels. I think she would hate anyone Harry married.
This. She doesn’t care about anything outside of her immediate desires and circle, getting and keeping what she wants. That does not include befriending Meghan or caring about her being abused. Plus she is benefiting from all the attacks on Meghan, and it isn’t like Kate has ever been a pro-women kind of person.
This right here. I still think everyone wanted Harry to be a bachelor well into his 40s so there could be constant speculation and fun about the “one”, with Kate staying the one and only royal wife getting the spotlight. Even if Harry has married an aristocrat or another European royal, or a big A list actress, doubt Kate would have liked that either. They weren’t expecting this little tv actress to command so much attention and that totally brought out the long knives. Total overreaction and now this is where things are.
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There have been more of them lately. Wonder which site has been directing them here.
RD is still pretending they’ve shut down all Harry and Meghan discussion, so many are from there. Along with the usual tumblr ones.
She benefited the most from the tab abuse of Meghan so of course she wasn’t ever going to support Meghan.
Yep
There was a story of how Kate had to warn Meghan not to ‘talk like that’ to her (Kate’s) staff, and that Prince Charles forced W&K to have Christmas with H&M, and that Kate felt that she had no choice in this request but to go ahead and invite them. Kate felt really put upon. Not once did KP come out to deny this fabrication. Meanwhile, Harry was on radio saying they had a great Christmas with W&K, and that it was the ‘family she never had’. I will take Harry’s version, because Harry is blunt, tells it like it is.
All that Meghan does is engagements for organizations she works with, so how is she out for fame?
In recent history the women connected to royal men have been treated badly in the press and sure Camilla&Kate do sympathise whilst understandably glad they aren’t in the firing line anymore.
Someone should have put out months ago that Camilla, Kate, Meghan had a WhatsApp group commiserating on ridiculous stories about them. Now idea of family support comes across as spin& there are continuing conflicting narratives.
It wouldn’t matter if Kate thought Meghan was great and really really wanted to be great girlfriends because…..William doesn’t like her. And she will toe William’s line until the day she dies.
This. Honestly, this all stems from William. He needs to grow up and accept that Meghan isn’t going anywhere. Life is too short!
Exactly. And lest we forget she’s also handling whatever affair is going on the the Marchioness (who’s breeding and background means that everyone in that society set is siding with her over Kate).
I think the “embiggening” of Kate on the general Royal side has nothing to do with Megan, and is simply back up after the Turnip Toff situation shed light on what a pathetic marriage, social life, etc Kate has. Thus Kate received that Service to the Queen award for seemingly no reason a few months ago. The Cambridge marriage is in and of itself a mess of toxic power dynamics etc. To some extend you have to applaud Carol “Jenner” Middleton for at least being willing to make press plays on Kates behalf, since we all know the BRF considers the women who marry into the family disposable.
ADDED to that, you get the press constant, racist rhetoric for clicks against Megan AND William and Harry fighting (supposedly about William’s prolonged love affair with Rose and the hypocrisy of giving any marital advice to Harry while he’s literally pulling a Charles), I think it’s very possible that there is simply too much going on at once for Kate go above and beyond. Without William, she’s basically putting herself on the line up to get fired at as well by the courtiers/press who had no problem shredding her to pieces before they got fresh meat in Megan.
It’s all a cage of her own making. but it’s hard for me to imagine Kate as anything other than kind of dim and goal oriented, and at the moment probably drowning in a lot of her own misery, and while sympathetic, probably not capable of much either way.
I think the RF giving that award to Kate was a way of validating her position from their end. As if to say, “We see you and we support you in this difficult time, and we want you to stay.” I think the RF desperately wants the Cambridge marriage to work out. They want to avoid all of the comparisons to Charles and Diana. They want the future king to have a long term, successful marriage that they can point to. Mark my words, when they write their biographies in twenty, thirty years, they will absolutely use the fact that William strung Kate along for a decade as something entirely romantic, two young people so in love and committed to each other that they were together for ten years and it was just meant to be. They’ll paper over the cracks of this relationship just like they papered over the cracks of the Queen and Prince Philip’s relationship. They can’t have another unstable marriage at the center of the RF any more and they’ll do whatever it takes to prevent it. And Kate, all said and done, does in fact want that royal seal of approval.
@kkc & @A interesting insights & well put…
Codependent white woman with controlling cheating husband allows WOC collegaue to be used as human shield so that she can have a calm and contented step-ford wife life…
Ummm where have we seen that before…
This exactly, Mignionette! Kate isn’t going to rock that boat.
Exactly.
Yup. Nothing about this is original. I’m sure Kate is very fond of Harry but this is a woman who seems only to be about her own interests and is participating in some shenanigans(budget flights), so I doubt she is all that torn. Plus these stories are only leaking now that Meghan is rallying support so the timing is suss…
Their PR sucks. Kate is a family girl…could they rub it in anymore? It’s two sided, Meghan doesn’t get along with her family or the royals.
Exactly and that is why it annoys me when people say Kate is not complicit. The PR has clear undertones in her favour.
Mmmmmm….wanting to make peace would mean bucking up to her husband. Ain’t gon happen. Being nice and neutral? Why not…that way she gets to stay on her pedestal on the fence. It’s a shame though because the press were ruthless with her in the early days. She could be an excellent empathetic ear if nothing else.
It was so fun to watch Diana & Fergie together in the 80s….wish we had some of that harmless fun drama instead of this BS.
This is such a great summary of the situation. She gets to stay on her pedestal on the fence. Perfect.
I think Kate doesn’t care. She’s benefiting and hasn’t denied any of the smears that have to do with her concerning Meghan.
KP was quick to deny botox and hair extensions but not those stories.
of course she’s going to stay out of it. her man made her wait for a decade before he settled for her – and she took it. until she had the children, the entire country tried to shame her for being non-royal – and she took it. her husband has cheated on her their entire relationship – in public – and she takes it. now her husband is making her look like a brat who feuds with her sister in law – and she takes it. the biggest part of her job is turning a blind eye and it is what she’s best at. she’s never going to say a word about anything.
I sincerely doubt she gives a damn about Meghan because she’s right there with her husband encouraging the media’s smears.
Why Kate would ever be considered innocent in all this is beyond me. We know she’s competitive and we know she has a history of getting an attitude with women who aren’t her relatives. Just because she’s adopted a bland smiling facade and pushes the image of doting mother doesn’t mean her negative traits have magically disappeared.
Image is clearly extremely important to her as well as William. They both want the image of being the golden couple, of being the monarchy’s shining stars. If that weren’t true, we wouldn’t have seen her suddenly ramping up her rewears when Meghan was criticized for her wardrobe last fall or giving more speeches after Meghan got attention for doing so. We also wouldn’t have seen an increase in ‘candid’ photo ops with the kids since Rose Hanbury became a thorn in their sides.
+1,000,000!
My view of this situation is **EXACTLY** this.
I don’t give a damn about Kate’s laziness or her sometimes questionable taste in clothes or even the fact that she appears to be a doormat for William. I just couldn’t care less.
HOWEVER….
This incredibly sneaky, competitive, shady behaviour that we’ve seen from her towards Meghan? Nope. Not cool at all and it needs to be called out. 💩👎👎
Bella I’d go as far as to call her cunning but I fear she would take it as a compliment. So yea, I’ll stick with complicit.
The perfect family image is all they have going for them and they will defend it regardless of who gets thrown under the bus.
From what I’ve seen, it’s Meghan that should be given credit for any civilized relationship they have. Everytime I’ve seen them together it’s Meghan attempting conversation, or giving Kate a friendly smile, while Kate gives the cold shoulder. Even in Africa, Meghan wearing wedges (something that Kate does continuously and gets ridiculed for) to me it was a show of comradery.
Please tell me the wedges comment is tongue in cheek.
Chunky & Vinny: when Kate wears a thing it’s “diplomatic dressing.” (Because she can’t really speak. She’s a glorified clotheshorse. Which is fine; it’s her job and she does it pretty well.)
When Meghan does it, it’s not “diplomatic dressing” but instead it gets eyerolls.
W’evs, ladies. W’evs.
@Beach Dreams and Bella Dupont
+1000 ALL OF THIS!
William is 3rd in line to the throne. The Queen is the current sovereign, then Charles, then William.
The grass is green and the sky is blue.
If the Queen is already the monarch, isn’t Charles the first in line and William the second in line? It makes no sense to say the Queen is in line for the throne when she’s already on it.
We are always being reminded that Harry is 6th in line to the throne. So that means: Louis is 5th, Charlotte is 4th, George is 3rd, William is 2nd & Charles is 1st. The Queen is already on the throne; she’s not “waiting in line”.
This was a productive conversation.
LOL and yeah, wasn’t it?
Math is hard. Barbie was right.
This is the same woman who in her engagement interview all but said she does not care about anything but William and her family. So, no, I do not believe a word of this.
Kate has shown time and time and time and time and time and time…..and time again that she does not care.
Yeah and in the same interview she was going ‘to hit the ground running’ with regards to her royal duties. Then a few weeks after the wedding decided she wanted to be a stay at home air force wife in Wales.
The comments on this site about Kate are also bad. Not as bad as what is being levelled at Meghan but still bad and poor to read, particularly on a site that claims to be so pro women. Every article includes digs at Kate and the writer early cant stand her. Practice what you preach much?
I used to feel like you, actually until recently. I still wouldn’t even call myself a Kate hater, (because it’s just not that serious), but still I have to say that the last few years have revealed a side of her I find extremely unattractive. I find her soooooo sneaky. That’s the best word as I think “sly” might be just a hair too mean.
I’m happy to go back to being indifferent to her, as soon as I stop seeing evidence of this side of her.
As for her husband, I think he’s an out and out dick and I’ve never liked him, so not many changes there. 🙃
@Bella agreed – even for the most ardent of fence sitting feminists. How anyone can not see Kate’s complicity is beyond me.
Being in support of a principle does not make you blind to all other principles. Women are not two dimensional tarts or Madonnas, they have complexity and Kate has shown hers in spades of recent. There are also well documented histories of her bullying the York girls and kissing arse of women that the queen favours (Sophie, Zara etc) .
I went to school with a few Kate’s and they’re great at playing dumb and defenseless especially if they want to ‘marry well’…
@ Mignionette
Same here re going to school with girls like Kate. It’s all so cliche.
I think she was used to being the beautiful, skinny Future Queen that everyone else in the family (York sisters, especially) was jealous of.
Meghan bringing *more* to the table than a skinny body and a beautiful face (which she has in spades), really seems to threaten her (and her mother, apparently).
The fact that they felt they had to hide her at Pippa’s wedding was very revealing to me. They are worried about being overshadowed by her and I guess they’re right.
The bottom line is that succession is not a popularity contest. This tells me that this contest is actually for popularity for its own sake. To remain the golden couple.
All those years when they (William especially), acted as though the “golden couple” status and all the attention lavished on them was a massive imposition and they were completely over it…..lol…..it turns out, they will fight like wounded lions when that status is threatened.
@Bella isn’t that always the way. As the Joni Mitchell song goes “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone…”
It’s hilarious the way Billy who didn’t want to be King now wants all and sundry to know that he IS the heir apparent so much so that he would unnecessarily depose his own father and smear his own brother / SIL.
If Kate felt threatened at all, it’s ridiculous that she would. She has it made, pretty much. She’s the wife of the future king, the mother of a future monarch. Meghan can’t swoop in and take that position from her in any capacity, unless she somehow manages to get William to divorce her, and then marry Meghan instead. The only thing Meghan can do at all is be more popular than her, which, if you ask me, is a ridiculous thing to be jealous of.
@Mignionette, and I agree with you. We got so many stories about how William didn’t want to be King, didn’t want to be heir, etc. There was more than one news report about how he was apparently really close to quitting everything but Kate (!!) talked him out of it. Now he’s all about the position and the titles and the future heir stuff. Funny how that works.
But there’s cause to make negative comments about Kate.
And I think it’s disingenuous and weird when people say “I thought you were a feminist. How do you support women when you say bad things about this one woman?” Is that one woman actively helping to uphold the patriarchy? Is that one woman harming other women? Is that one woman refusing to denounce misogyny and racism because she’s benefitting from them?
I also have a lot of nasty things to say about Ghislaine Maxwell and she’s a woman. Guess I can’t call myself a feminist. Feminists want all women to have the same rights and chances and benefits as men in all things. Feminist does not equal blind support of every woman and every thing any one woman does simply because she is a woman.
Kate has done nothing to warrant support from feminists since she crafted her entire life around catching a prince and then has chosen to remain quiet and basically be a mannequin. What women born in the last 75 years would find that something to aspire to?
If she had taken her privilege in the last 8 almost 9 years and actually helped other women then perhaps some of that could be overlooked, but she has done nothing. She couldn’t even wear black to support metoo. She barely supports her patronages. Pointing out that she has lived a privileged and selfish life is not “not being a feminist”. It’s pointing out the truth.
I don’t actually hate Kate. I think she’s just average. However, her actions in this article do NOT make her look good. They make her look like someone who’s going out of her way to cover her own ass first. “She feels bad for Meghan but won’t do anything substantive to help Meghan out,” makes her seem less like a person who actually cares and more like a person who knows that all of this makes her look bad, so she’s going to do the bottom line to make it seem better while still protecting herself first. Pointing that out doesn’t make anyone less of a feminist. There are a lot of hypocritical comments that get lobbed around when it comes to Kate, a lot of projections regarding what her personality might be and her relationship with William, a lot of comments about her looks and w/e. But talking about how her actions are actually a bad thing isn’t misogynist.
Kate has worked too hard to maintain her status quo to allow anyone to come into her circle and mess up her good thing. That means standing by and allowing her husband, her mother, her friends in the press to go full throttle on demeaning, demonizing, and othering Meghan. She may feel sorry for her, and that’s debatable, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to publicly support her beyond standing next to her at a family event.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if the tables were turned and Bill’s affairs leaked to the point where the UK press had to cover it as given he is 3rd in line that makes it in the public interest…?
I wonder how Katie would feel then if Meghan stood back. One thing is for sure Harry will not go out of his way to ever support her again.
Harry’s court case will be interesting as if it succeeds in making the press back off – who will they turn on next in that family?
Will it be Andrew or William? My money’s on William as the press legally have to be very careful when reporting on Andrew and Epstein given that there are several very big law suits/investigations going on that go beyond Mummy.
Me thinks William’s indiscretions will get outed, esp if a distraction from Andrew is needed and the Sussex’s sue the sh!t out the UK tabloids. The press have hinted at where they’ve been getting their leaks from – at some point they will out the leakers esp if it means saving their ass in court.
Even if William’s indiscretions get outed, I doubt it’d be covered with anywhere near the type of fervour that Meghan has gotten for these last two years. I think they’ll probably go all in on the salacious nature of the gossip, but they’d hold back for two reasons. One, William is the future heir, and all heirs have to be protected, and two, William has a great deal more power within the RF as the future heir and as someone born into royalty. They’d never be able to come for him w/ the same level of disrespect because they don’t have the same level of disrespect for him like they do for Meghan. I don’t know who they’d go for in the absence of Meghan, but it certainly wouldn’t be the same type of coverage that she got.
That statement annoys the hell out of me. I hope she doesn’t actually feel that way because it’s an incredibly cruel and selfish thought process.
“I want to help and/or provide moral support but not if there’s any risk to me.”
That’s how bullying flourishes, because people are satisfied merely not to be bullied.
In my country it is said “forbidden to forget”. The beginning of the party was, the press making mischievous publications about Meghan to lift Kate, this with the consent of House Cambridge. That said, Kate is aware and has directly benefited from Meghan’s abuse for more than a year. Therefore, “that Kate feels sorry for Meghan is false”.
What I see is a new game that tries to get Kate out of the concept of the evil Cambridge and leave total responsibility to the media and William.
I think the problem is not the image of William, (he will be king), it is the image of the future queen consort who is diminished and converted into nothing, by his brother’s wife, who in the best case will remain the Duchess of Sussex.
Kate is trying to neutralize her own position. She doesn’t want to be associated with her husband’s schemes, and I doubt she’s an active participant in them. But she also benefits from them immensely, but she doesn’t want to be portrayed in a poor light for having said nothing. So she’s trying to make things seem better by possibly making it seem like she cares so much. But if you read it carefully, it’s not like she’s actually doing anything with that concern.
When did US weekly have credible royal sources? Believing US Weekly on royal stories is like believing Radar Online, Toronto Sun, Herald Publicist, Ottawa Daily, Perez Hilton and all other tabloids in the US and Canada that reports that the queen has banished the Sussexes to the US. I take US weekly royal stories with a grain of salt
You have a point 😀. This is another bs story for sure.
It’s not just the US Weekly that’s covering this story. There’s another story that was out yesterday that also talked about this. And you’re right. Both of these could simply be fabrications. It could very well be that Kate actually doesn’t care about Meghan, doesn’t care that she’s in a bad situation, hasn’t actually reached out in sympathy, and doesn’t want to help her at all! Good catch there @Lummy dee and @chunkyla, for pointing out that the truth might very well be that Kate doesn’t give an eff.
If most people here don’t actually believe that Kate is acting as peacemaker or getting involved then how can they be accused of believing the US weekly story. Most are in fact saying the opposite.
The Kate Hates to see Meghan miserable spiel is more passive aggressive BS that they are throwing out. Similar to William’s fragile comments. Because of their lack of any empathy and respect they are looking more and more like sociopaths.
Kate is on the same level as her husband.
So 🤷♀️
Kate’s competitive and hates the attention that Meghan gets..PERIOD. How many times has Kate shown up at an event after Meghan to undermine her based on the racist British media reporting on some type of fake protocol breech. Additionally, Kate meets routinely with the racist British media and she has never told them to stop.
I do think that the smear campaign against Meghan worries Kate, but not because she cares at all about meghans well being. I think kate knows that those behind it (William and Kensington Palace) will one day do the same to her. Kate sees the lengths William has gone to, and it scares her, especially as the campaign has worked. She’s not innocent by all means and has played her part, (budget flights, stealing credit for smart works, firing their assistant and blaming the Sussex’s,) and I think she’s clinging on for dear life. She is pushing her own PR, like the mail on Sunday supplement, a 30 page pull out dedicated to her ‘new found confidence’ (rolls eyes) and the constant reminders that she ‘future queen’. But I also think she’s setting up her own campaign for life after William, if that make sense. I think she was the one who leaked the Rose rumours, to stop William seeing rose and as an insurance policy for if her does leave her, he will look like the bad guy first because the rumour is unofficially out of the bag. I also think William will throw her under the bus when it comes to people pointing the fingers at who has been behind the Sussex’s hate campaign. He’ll pin it on her jealousy of Meghan. I think we need to remember that William and Kate are not really on the same team, unlike Harry and Meghan.
Leaking the Rose story to put a dent in William’s image if he chooses to leave. Maybe.
But if the other royals found out, that would finish Kate. She might stay in the family but everyone, including William, would be done with her. I don’t know if she would do something that risky.
It’s a risk, but one which paid off. Firstly the story broke in the Sun, who the middletons are in bed with. The fact it unofficially leaked meant that William had to play the attentive husband more that ever. His reaction probably made him realise how he’s no way near ready to call it quits with Kate for fear of a public backlash, meaning she is safe for now. Also there’s no way he’ll be able to be seen with rose, as eyes are on him now more than ever. The dent in williams reputation is a win for future kate, in case he does leave her out in the cold, she can play the poor betrayed wife. Because If he leaves her, not only will she lose everything, she will also be savaged in the press the same way Meghan is, because Kensington Palace and William will make sure of it.
I don’t think that Kate actually has any plans to leave. She knows full well how the game is played, and her intention is to play for keeps. I think if she leaked the Rose story, it wasn’t to set up an insurance policy for after William, but more so to keep William in line. “If you’re going to be indiscreet about your affairs and embarrass me in front of all of the other posh toffs, the same people who looked down at me for the first two decades of our relationship, then I will make sure that your personal affairs are front page news.” I think Kate cares a great deal about her own respectability, and she might have come out with the Rose story first in order to prevent someone else from doing it and spinning it in a way that looked bad for her. “Oh, William strayed from his marriage to average, middle class Kate to have an affair with glamorous, posh, Rose.” Their circle is such that the people in them would absolutely side with Rose over Kate purely on account of class. So if she leaked the story, it was probably to prevent that from happening.
I do agree with you that William is quite scary with his own press dealings. I think it would depend on the situation when it comes to a divorce, because I think he cares a lot about making sure his children are protected from all of that ugliness (his own children that is, he couldn’t care less about Archie) due to his own experiences with his parents’ divorce. But I for sure think he’d go out of his way to get more than a few digs in at Kate’s reputation, if they ever chose to divorce. The RF always has to come first. And the heirs in the RF are always first priority.
I don’t think kate will ever leave on her own terms. She knows that he will be the one to pull the plug. She’s in a sink or swim situation, once she’s gone William and those courtiers will ruin her, like what they are doing to Meghan. I doubt William is descreet about his affairs in front of Kate, and his relationship with rose may have gotten so serious that she felt she had to take some sort of action. It’s seems unlike her because leaking the affair leaves a dent in Kate’s own ego and need to been seen as having the perfect marriage, but she may have has no choice. All harry and Meghan did to William was threaten to upstage him, so god knows what he will do to Kate’s reputation if they split up especially if he has another woman lined up to take her place. I also think William is trying to make meghans life difficult so she leaves, and Harry’s marriage looks like a disaster from start to finish. If harry gets divorced first it opens the door to William to do the same thing, but harry will still look worse than him.
I don’t think William is quite so Machiavellian as all of this. But I think he prioritizes himself and his own image first and foremost, and that’s something that’s been taught to him by the RF. I don’t think that he will ever pull the plug on the marriage, personally. He benefits a great deal from being married to Kate. People overestimate the propensity of men to give up their stable home lives for the sake of a mistress who likely doesn’t do the laundry and has meals ready on the table and wrangles the kids so that the husband doesn’t have to. He has a wife at home who sets up a comfortable home for him, and looks after all of the child rearing, and I doubt he’d be willing to give all of that up for anything, especially something as enormously messy as getting with a married woman (who I also doubt wants to give up the stability and prestige of her own position to get with him) he’s having an affair with.
His discreetness is about Kate’s own image in front of their posh circle. Apparently, from the reports, it seems that EVERYONE in their Turnip Toff circle knew about the news of his affair, long before it leaked in the press. I think Kate cares about her ego only when it comes to their posh group, because these are the same aristocrats who looked down at her during the entire time she was dating William. If he were stepping out on her with a Marchioness, and flagrantly in front of all of these people no less, they’d say it was only right that he did so, because she’s common and the Marchioness is not. I don’t think she cares as much about the opinion of the larger public as much as William does. If she leaked the info (and that’s still an if for me), then she did so in the way she knew William would care about the most, and that is by making him seem like a philanderer in the public eye. I think William is uptight about his image in this regard, because he doesn’t want to be compared to his parents, whose divorce was really bitter and awkward for him growing up.
What happened to Diana would happen to Kate. Diana was princess of Wales when they divorced and she was not the victor in any way but in the popularity contest with the public. Kate doesn’t have the same goodwill that Diana did. If she doesn’t know this then Carole sure does.
It’s okay William doesn’t approve of Meghan. Lately I’ve noticed Kate’s tries especially hard to be Harry’s fancy, but Harry looks seething at the sight of her. Haha.
Of course they ‘re not saying anything about will, hes the one feeding them all the other stories. If they do that he’ll cut off the Meg stories. And probably complain that they’re threatengin his human rights.
A LOT of the comments on thread are giving Kate waaay to much credit and a huge benefit of the doubt when all evidence points to the contrary. I dont think Kate cares at all about what Meghan is going through. The press have been embiggening Kate with every smear article about Meghan. She is actively benefiting from the racist, xenophobic press Meghan receives.
She also has actively participated in some things that prove to me how little she truly does care. Case in point? That photo op she and William did getting on that budget flight. What was the purpose of that other than a passive aggressive swipe at Meghan – and Harry – regarding the bad press they had received for flying private.
But let’s say all that was wrong. Let’s say Kate really just wants to “stay out of the drama”. That “drama” is the racist bullying if her own sister in law in the press. Silence = complicity. So…either she is an active participant or she is complicit. Take your pick. Either one makes her looks awful.
If Kate had to go through any kind of harrasement, then why should Meghan be so special. That’s the point of view of a lot of her supporters and probably Kate’s view as well.
But in her own self-interest, doing nothing means that now the press can make up anything as the reason the Cambridges are distant and make them sound cold and obnoxious. The contemptous Toff.
Doing nothing that would actually help the Sussexs in their situation (standing up for them, supporting them against the press, anything) actually benefits Kate. She’s been getting some of the best press of her life in these last two years, and it’s come at the direct expense of the Sussexs. Something tells me that her neutrality means she’s not going to be looking the gift horse in the mouth any time soon either. Which, if all of this is in fact true, makes her a coward.
I think the key here is the “miserable Sussexes” message, with Kate enbiggenjng herself in contrast. And I don’t believe it’s true. Megan and Harry love each other, love their baby, love the work they do. They are struggling with the toxicity, and fighting their battles, as they should. They are under stress for sure. But “miserable” ?? No, that message is the courtiers wanting to enbiggen Kate/ tear down the Sussexes.
I don’t think Kate cares a whit about the Sussexes. She does what Willy says and doesn’t ask questions. I wonder if she really knows much about the history of the BRF/sees how family dysfunction has played out over the generations. Some of the commenters here could give her a good class on that. Perhaps she doesn’t want to know, might be harder to be Billy’s yes person if she knew the background. Carole probably knows though.
“ staying out of the drama” makes me believe she knows there are a lot of negative things going on with the Sussexes , but she would rather not make a nice gesture like have lunch with them , or, do a play date for photo opps ( which in this petty world, that would probably shut a lot of people up) so she will continue to stay silent and watch them suffer.
She’s so sweet!!!!
I don’t understand why they would put this story out. It doesn’t make her seem like a peacemaker or anything. It makes her seem like a dimwit who’s too scared to have an opinion on anything and make an actual stand because it might be controversial. Like, way to confirm the perceptions that people have of this woman that she’s a spineless doormat to the whims of the people around her, lmao. What the f-ck. It makes her look so bad that I actually feel angry on her behalf because come the fck on.
Others have already said this but…Kate and William have no business pretending to care about mental health issues. Their own close family members have said they’re struggling, and why, and that they are not being supported.
Think of it this way. Meghan would not have passed muster with any rich, influential American family, let alone the BRF.
Divorced, catholic, actress, older, let alone biracial.
It’s not bigoted or racist it’s reality .
She can’t compare
to the perfect stepford wife Kate.
Let’s be honest, if he wasn’t a prince she wouldn’t have given prince dim a second look.
Meghan isn’t Catholic, for one. And two, how many of those rich, influential American families also happen to have people who are divorced three or four times in them. Glass houses can’t throw stones.
Since when has any of those things disqualified one from a rich American family?
Did we go back in time?
Have you not seen what the Kennedys have been up over the last few decades?
No, your comment is bigoted and racist. And that is reality. As well as very insulting.
Sharonk knows this but is seriously trolling. You can’t even shame or insult this kind of bigot. She probably sat back after typing this not-even-slick trash, smirking and enjoying a good Birdman hand rub.
“Think of it this way. Meghan would not have passed muster with any rich, influential American family, let alone the BRF.” — you obviously don’t know what you are talking about………..
Meghan does not need to compete with Kate. Comparing Meghan to Kate is doing a disservice to Meghan; the 2 women are not from the same planet!!! Meghan should be compared to her peers career wise and Kate isn’t one. I think more of women like Amal, Serena, Venus, Michelle, Chelsea Clinton, etc….
LOL.
Meghan had her own career for sure… but absolutely nothing anywhere near the women your cited, Michelle Obama ? Serena Williams ? Common!! there is no comparison
@Sharonk Are you kidding? Do you remember what people said about Kate when she and William got engaged? They said, if he had to marry a commoner, did she have to be SO common?’
On the other hand, Meghan is definitely a prize. She’s well educated and was a successful actress. She’s got a Rolodex (yes I’m old) of influential friends. She has poise, grace and knows how to speak in public.
A family like the TRUMPS might not have welcomed Meghan with open arms but Meghan wouldn’t give trash like that a first look, much less a second. It’s a sad day for Great Britain when the royal family are becoming more and more like the Trumps every day.
Unlike Kate, Meghan didn’t need a man to complete her. Or her mother.
Referring back to #17 ValiantlyVarnished. CB has asked the first person to comment “troll” to obvious trolls post, then everyone else ignore them. Once a conversation thread has been started under the post, it is more difficult to delete the troll comments.
I do agree that Kate probably feels sorry for Meghan and wants everything to blow over and get back to normal. But I also want to point out that everything that’s been outlined in this article is like, the absolute BARE minimum that a person would do in her situation. She feels bad for Meghan. She’s probably reached out and asked her how she’s feeling. She wants everyone to bury the hatchet and move on already. But she’s not actually going to make the effort that it takes to improve the situation. I don’t think she needs to play the peacemaker to her husband and her brother. But I do think that if she had a spine at all, she’d stand up for them and tell her stupid husband that hey, this isn’t okay what you’re doing. Actually doing something in this situation would be to hold the people who were responsible for doing something wrong accountable. Not sighing about how everyone should just get along already. If these stories are true, that says a great deal about what she actually cares about, which isn’t the well-being of Meghan and Harry, but just her being able to stay out of the crosshairs and not “get involved in the drama.”
The true part of the is story is “She doesn’t want to get involved”. I believe that whole-heartily. I think she has very little pull with William since he sees fit to cheat on her. She’s probably walking a tightrope in her household and will not rock the boat. But her and Ma Middleton probably realized she doesn’t look good saying nothing so this drivel gets out. But dang, when Julie Andrews, who I don’t even know if she has met Meghan, speaks out but your own in-laws are silent? Bad look indeed.
I don’t believe a word of this. Keen Katie is LOVING this ‘English rose’, ‘future Queen’ bullshit. Two days before Meghan married Harry, Kate was that dull, common girl who married Prince William. Now, she’s the saviour of the royal family. All of this crap will make it harder for William to move on and that makes Carole happy.
I think that Carole is seeing the tide turning. The punters who read the tabloids are ALWAYS going to like Kate. But those folks are mostly old (or American) and will be dead by the time William gets the crown. The people who are coming out in defense of Meghan are influential people that the ‘future Queen’ of Great Britain needs to have on her side. So, Kate (I mean Carole), is pulling the ‘blessed are the peacemakers’ routine.
“I think that Carole is seeing the tide turning,” Yup, I’ll be she does. That letter from the British MPs can’t be dismissed as Meghan’s celebrity/Hollywood connections, it’s pretty significant.
The “fragile” etc line referring to H&M isn’t going to hold up as they continue out and about working. They made their point in the documentary and are unlikely to refer to it again. It’ll be interesting to see where the “compassionate W&K” narrative will head next.
The letter of support from the MPs was huge. They aren’t media people who can be accused of being friends with Meghan. They are elected representatives who don’t even know her but believe that the media is treating her poorly. It is much harder to discredit their comments, especially as the MPs come from all parties.
It also makes the BRF look foolish because random strangers have provided more public support for Meghan than they have. And stories about helping behind the scenes are meaningless at this point.
I think Kate is jealous of Meghan because of the support Meghan gets. Seventy two female MPs and big names outside the UK support Meghan, three politicians ( 2 ex PM’s) stood up for Kate. The MPs have to sting , these ladies said they understood where Meghan came from. An artist did a painting of Meghan and Kate – Kate surrounded by her kids and butterflies, Meghan looking at Archie dressed as Wonder Woman.
Behind the scenes I can’t see Kate getting any support, her husband looks like he’s treats her like crap and the rest of then RF are stone cold. She has Ma Middleton, but even she doesn’t care Kate’s mental wellbeing, only the fact she hangs on in there to become future queen. She has the press on her side, but for how long. Not to mention most of the press is bought and paid for so it’s not genuine appreciation. You can see visible signs or struggle in her from her tried looking complexion to her weight. I think she struggles with an eating disorder and she want the public to pick up on how under weight she is, almost like a cry for help. But it’s her hardcore fans that are the most dismissive and say ‘she’s just naturally thin’ or ‘she looks great’. So no one is really coming to her rescue.
Translation: “Yeah, I’m not gonna help her. What’s the up side for me?”
This is late so few will see it but what is really sketchy is that everyone is talking about William and Harry’s falling out but no one is actually going into detail about what the falling out was over. If the reason for the falling out (and correct me if I’m wrong but I believe William threw Meghan under a bus to deflect media attention away from his affair with Rose Hanbury?) was more widely known, not only would William would not be looking good right now, his succession to the throne would be in question.
If the reason for the rift is true, then a) Harry is right to be furious and b) Kate is the very model of an old-fashioned aristocratic wife ie. mistresses are fine as long as it is discreet and she isn’t publicly humiliated.
I find the royal family very entertaining but the at the same time the more I know, the more bolshie I get about inherited position and privilege. At best they seem fairly average people. For a woman like Meghan, some of the shenanigans must seem absolutely bizarre.
Kate’s too busy? Doing what? Keeping track of William’s whereabouts I guess? How ever will she cope with being Kween if she is too busy to manage a word of support for her own sister in law in what, two years? I guess people won’t see her at all then.
I honestly don’t see the point of putting Kate’s name in these stories about Meghan after the fact. Is it just to make her seem relevant or helpful, because it doesn’t. The press was just saying everyone has dropped Meghan and a Harry, Williams furious, now concerned about their fragility. Now Kate feels “sorry”. It’s really insulting. During the whole pregnancy brouhaha and birth privacy, someone wrote that Meghan felt sorry for Kate having to display her babies so soon after giving birth. It was written to stir up anger, “a how dare this American “ angle. This seems to be along the same lines, just a way to show that Meghan is, once again, a problem. They really can’t stop writing about this couple and just let them do their job and live their lives. Whatever Kate actually feels or doesn’t, the press didn’t care when they were printing nasty stories and smears daily about Meghan, and showing Kate as the golden shiny ideal royal wife. Whatever, this whole thing is so stupid and sexist. They’re just pissed those MPs wrote their letter of support for Meghan.
I don’t think Kate is evil. Yes the press ridiculously paints her as the perfect future queen and Meghan as the mess, which is not true on either end. I also don’t believe that she is responsible for anything that her husband does or says, no more than any of us are of our significant others. One thing that stands out in my mind: Kate is born and bred British. She was raised to adore England and the crown. She has been prepped for this role for YEARS. She waited for doofus William for YEARS. I don’t see her having the balls to stand up to any of William’s bullshi* simply because she is, most likely, programmed not to. I’m sure there’s a journal FULL of crap that William has pulled that she despises; however, she has been trained to stay in her lane, and does so. Meghan, on the other hand, is American. She was raised by a well educated single mom on the West coast and graduated from the elite yet liberal Northwestern, which is far from a royal prep school. She has been programmed to simply think and act on her own accord, and, by all means, speak up for herself. Girl is going to say as she chooses, whether her husband or the royal family agree with her or not. I believe they are both good women, but come from completely different cultures and molds.