Ever since Christmas 2018, I’ve been pretty convinced that the Duchess of Sussex and Duchess of Cambridge see each other as coworkers. They get along for the cameras and put in appearances together and do everything that’s expected of them. They aren’t BFFs or sisters. And that was fine. I think if it was just that simple, Kate and Meghan could have continued seeing each other as coworkers indefinitely for years. The problem is that their husbands despise each other at the moment. The problem is that William is doing some really nasty stuff to the Sussexes behind the scenes. And so that complicates what would have been an easy, professional alliance between Meghan and Kate. Add to all of that, there’s The Embiggening Kate Project, wherein Kate and Meghan are constantly compared and Kate must always come out ahead and Meghan must always be found wanting. That also complicates sh-t, although that one was more expected. So… excuse me if I find this part of People Magazine’s cover story to be just more of the same embiggening sh-t.
Amid shifts in power, past hurts and ongoing strain, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Prince William and Kate Middleton are on “different paths now,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover. Despite “some competitiveness” between William and Harry, sources insist there is no competition between their wives.
“Meghan is very aware that Kate will be Queen; their roles are very clear,” the source says. However, there is also little common ground. “Meghan doesn’t fit the mold, while Kate was groomed for this,” says the source, who adds that Meghan was a “fully formed person” when she joined the royal family, while Kate was still in college when she met fellow student William.
“What’s challenging is when they are pitted against each other,” says the source. “That’s been challenging to both of them. Meghan has her life, Kate has hers.”
For both royal mothers, life revolves around their children. “It’s very much still about taking care of him and putting family first,” a friend says of Meghan, Harry and their 6-month-old son Archie. Meanwhile, Kate and William are busy parenting Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and 11⁄2-year-old Prince Louis. But even there the difference in styles is evident.
“William and Kate toe the line, maybe because they have to, but Harry and Meghan are saying no—no to releasing the names of Archie’s godparents, no to saying where Meghan gave birth,” says the friend. “They are trying to carve out a different sort of public life and reset the rules.”
“Meghan doesn’t fit the mold, while Kate was groomed for this.” Except… no. Kate wasn’t actually groomed for jacks–t. She had no idea how to run a household (Carole had to come and manage the staff of Anmer), she spent a “lost decade” doing nothing but wait for William to propose and it took Kate seven years of marriage to feel “comfortable” in the duchess role. And she only felt comfortable in the role when Meghan came around and gave her some (say it for the people in the back) COMPETITION. On Meghan’s side, I could see how she initially would take pains to come to Kate with the “no competition” angle. But Meghan’s a bright woman, she sees what Kate’s been doing (and not doing) this whole f–king time. Basically, though, I still believe that if everyone left Kate and Meghan in peace, they would relationship would just be “friendly work acquaintances.”
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Omg….lmao. people mag need to stop. This is embarrassing at this point 🤣
It totally is, just laughable. Kate chased William all through school purposely. Sorry to say, and I don’t dislike her but she’s really not much more than a royal brood mare. She can barely look up when she gives a speech and doesn’t appear to practise or read the pre-written speech beforehand. It’s almost embarrassing. Her mother was bound and determined to marry her into “that” family, you betcha.
Plenty of girls may have wanted the fame and perks of marrying William, but it was Kate who he chose. It astounds me that the official story here is that Kate’s mom pushed her into this, as if it were a guaranteed thing. The truth is that no one could force William to marry anyone he didn’t want to, and he chose Kate. It’s also true that when they split up once, she carried on with her own life and friends, and she discretely NEVER gave a cheesy interview about her time as William’s girlfriend.
@ Nikki, it’s been well-documented that Carole Middleton pushed for Kate to marry William. Just sayin’. I’ve also heard he wanted someone else but she turned him down. I don’t have a name but apparently Kate was not first choice.
@Nikki the reason Kate never gave any interview during their break up is because Carole paid attention to Royal family history, particulary Diana’s. It’s well known that Diana’s sister, Sarah had courtship with Charles first, but was dumped because she spoke to the media about the Royal Family too soon, after that Diana was careful not to speak to the press. Carole learned from that. She is a very scheming woman.
Kellybelle, he really wanted Isabella Calthorpe, who wanted no part of royal life. So did all the other aristos he dated. They already had titles, family jewels and money. They wanted no part of the fish bowl, regimented life of a royal. Kate is the only one who did. So by the rule of the one left standing, she “won” Wandering Wille and Big Blue.
I think Kate loves him WAY more than he loves her. While I don’t doubt William loves her (in *his* way), I don’t believe he is IN love with her (passion).
So we are going to pretend he didn’t jump on a table and shout “I’m free” when they broke up? Or that Kate wasn’t constantly photographed during the break up period by the paps ?
And really it says a lot about Kate that she was ok with being “chosen” and didn’t take the time in her 20s to fully develop as an adult. She’s almost 40 and we still see the repercussions of that lack of development.
@(TheOG)@Jan90067 Yes, exactly. I just couldn’t think of her name. Kate was literally “the one left standing.”
Nikki – during the 2007 breakup (there was more than one breakup, which William even slipped and admitted to in the engagement interview) led to Kate going out in front of the paps as much as possible with Pippa, and as soon as they got back together she dropped out of the Dragon Boat race to go on holiday with William (not for safety as the tabloids put out). Furthermore she leaked to the tabloids that it was Charles’s fault.
She did not “carry on” with her life and friends. Carole told her to lose weight and flash her legs to get his attention, so she did.
The girls who wanted the perks of being with William were girls below his social orbit who had something to gain, who he would never deign to date. None of the girls William actually wanted reciprocated – Kate was the last one standing.
Kate looks nice, but I find her meaningless and dull. In the 10 years before her marriage, she has hardly built up her own career. She was always William’s back and call. And although the palace, or William or the firm, gradually let Kate get used to court life and its royal duties, Kate has shown little or no initiative of her own. She has been a royal for 8 years now and all she has to show for is a garden, a tree house and a project that has failed: Broken Britain. This only becomes painfully clear now that Meghan has appeared on the scene and do have a healthy work ethic. She has done a cookbook, a clothing line and she was guest editor-in-chief of the British Vogue in barely two years. In addition, Meghan is very eloquent when she is speeching, while Kate can barely make a speech without her face glued to her notes. Don’t tell me she is more restricted in the things she can or can’t do, because she is the future Queen Consort, that is just an excuse. I don’t see Prince Charles being so restricted in his duties.
@Nikki* I agree with you. We are all “not someone’s first choice.” I didn’t marry the first person my I dated and my husband didn’t marry the first person he dated. Am I the last one standing? Is he? Please. People date around and then yes- the one they end up with- they marry! You can disagree with the pitting against each other or putting Meghan down to “embiggen” Kate (I do), but you don’t need to attack one person to build up another. It’s a little silly
Kate was his last choice, the last one standing, the only one left who would put up with cheating as part of the deal.
I know a woman incapable to stringing two sentences together, a woman whom after x years of marriage only has a garden to show for it, a woman who can barely be understood so that her speech needs to be subtitled, a woman who barely spoke for 7 years before the arrival of the black duchess……..yes that’s the woman, people want to compare Meghan to……..This would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic!
You >> me >> same page. This is why we’re seeing People do articles like “The Woman who Would be Queen” and stuff like “William and Kate were so loved up like a couple on their first date at Royal Variety”, and worst of all, the absolute bloody worst, “Meghan says she owes credit for capsule collection to Kate Middleton.” I wanted to scream when I saw that, it was so incredibly lame and pathetic … and a complete lie. They’re panicked because Meghan is miles ahead of “the woman who would be queen (consort)” and they cannot handle it. They have to steal from Meghan to prop Kate up. They cannot even see how awful it makes them look.
Meghan marrying H has highlighted how inadequate Kate was………..how incompetent she was in her role. Meghan showed to the world that a duchess CAN ACTUALLY DO not just be keen to do.
It is not just Kate, let’s look at W. Where are his Invictus G, his Sentebale? his Travelyst? his Prince’s trust? what has he ever accomplished?
Some said yesterday he envied the type of women H married but W couldn’t marry a woman like Meghan; otherwise we would have been back to his parents all over again………having a wife completely overshadowing her husband. It is great that Harry is so comfortable in his own skin………
@ VS, right on. The British press visibly panicked at a woman who speaks three languages, gave speeches in front of the UN, had a wildly successful lifestyle blog, is a World Vision ambassador, was a successful actress, already a millionaire, had her own clothing line, and a double major from one the best universities in the world. The bastards wouldn’t even let her own her glowing skin and attributed her glow to “Kate’s skin cream secret” or some bullshit. Which was just as pathetic as them stealing the credit for her Smart Set collection. Of course they couldn’t explain why Kate does not glow and Meghan does. All of this tells me that they are painfully aware of how little Kate does. The garden was a nice initiative but it was almost like pulling teeth when she finally “did” something that the press covered.
I agree that Meghan is the more accomplished, hard working of the two, but you are ridiculously harsh. Kate’s been under scrutiny 24/7 for years, and people she’s met with have been unanimous in describing her as friendly and down to earth. She seems a very loving mother, and raising three bright little human beings is an accomplishment.
Raising three bright little human beings should not be her only accomplishment after nine years of living a most lavish, paid for by taxpayers, life in that family. She has the time and freedom to do so much, but behaves only like a brood mare in very expensive tack.
#Noblesseoblige
@Nikki* ———— she would be left alone when her people stop trying to compare her to Meghan. She is mediocre; people only have the audacity to compare her to Meg because Meg is biracial,……facts are facts and will remain as such!!!
By the way, a lot of women are friendly, down to earth, loving mothers, etc………I don’t see you going around the world taunting those as accomplishment. You only do so for Kate because there is nothing else to talk about as far as she is concerned.
This is a woman who willingly participated in the FlyBe Stunt……. yeah she is friendly and down to earth! what would she do if she were mean??? I cannot even imagine
You sound insane.
I can’t with this People cover story, it’s so out of time compared to what’s happening in the Royal Family this week that it sounds super dated and embarassing.
I’ve got to wonder: Did the Daily Mail strike up a deal with People Mag?
I’m pondering whether an agreement has been made where People Mag is now taking the lead on the negative reporting of the Sussexes so that the Daily Mail simply parrots this source.
Probably. Whenever the Andrew stuff comes up, you know they’re waving a banner that says “NO! Look at MEGHAN!”
I’m surprised US-based People Mag isn’t championing Meghan, an American woman who clearly is, among other things, accomplished, beautiful, smart, talented, biracial (ground-breaking for the royal family), concerned for others, hard-working, etc. She married Prince Harry—one of the world’s most eligible bachelors!—and is kicking ass in her new role. This all makes no sense to me.
That green dress is hideous.
So tight you can see her belly button! That just seems so uncomfortable to me.
The photo above of Kate and Meghan at the tennis match says it all. They say the camera adds about 15 lbs and if you take that in to account Kate appears to be bordering on a very unhealthy body weight and is wearing a dress that would make any 12 year old girl proud. I used to love her very healthy outdoorsy, casual look. Now, she looks rigid and painfully thin and seems to have lost a large sense of herself. In Hollywood terms, she is beginning to look like a lollipop — all head and a stick body. Meghan — by contrast — looks healthy, glowing, and stylish and continues to do so.
I don’t think it’s fair to imply she is suffering from some kind eating disorder (which we have no way of knowing), why not show some compassion? It is a terrible disease to suffer from, and I really can’t imagine what it’s like for any woman so in the public eye. Meghan is lovely, glowing and accomplished, but that shouldn’t be used to diminish another woman. Frankly, I think both women or any woman in the public eye has to have nerves of steel to deal with the amount of scrutiny over their appearance.
Oh they didn’t come out with that blatantly racist comment!
LOL not even Diana was groomed for her role and she was an actual aristo!
The Cambridge PR hates Kate, they’re always manage to portray her as some silly, vapid, lazy, infantile woman.
The Cambridge PR hates Kate? I thought the Cambridge PR was doing all it could to embiggen her 24-7. I am not sure I understand.
Maybe they can do both. They describe her in the past as basically a useless blob… and that blob has since been carefully groomed into a royal shaped blob that goes to places and waves.
I feel like they are trying to embiggen but given their pretty awful PR strategies (see TQ riding with mummy’s favorite rapist today too) I think they accidentally make Kate look awful and lazy and infantile
What Piptopher said. TY for explaining it much better than I did.
I thought the wording “Meghan was a fully formed person” when she joined the royal family while Kate met William while still in college is interesting. Imho, this doesn’t make Kate look good and while it might mean that Kate started down this road while young, she also didn’t do anything all those long years to improve herself, to grow as an individual. So many of these articles are loaded with double talk, with what might seem to be a compliment but really are not.
Yes, backhanded compliments. Kate wasted a decade of her life and, when she finally gets the ring, wastes an additional 7 years. And before someone screams at me that her job is to produce children and, therefore, job accomplished with flying colours, please go back to the 20th century. Royal women can and should do more than just breed and give birth. It takes two people to make a baby so if men can work and reproduce, so can women.
Why do they keep acting as if Kate and Meghan are not the same age? Big deal, K met Wm while she was in college, M was in college then too. While K was transferring to the same college as Wm, taking the same courses being at his beck and call playing at having a life. M was a double major, pledging a sorority, interning in South America, studying in Spain.
Kate achieved her aim (title) the same time as Meghan got her big break (Suits). Kate ended her twenties basically at the top, while Meghan had to work her way to the top which she did BEFORE meeting Harry.
What has K done in the 8 years since she landed her “prize”? Have 3 kids and make excuses for not doing her royal duties, until last year she finally had a garden, tho the tabloids acted like she invented slice bread, she was a co-designer. CO-designed means the others did the work, she took the credit and did the photos
In the same 8 years, Meghan while gaining fame on her show, parlayed that into a lifestyle blog, signed other commercial deals, dove in humanitarian work spoke at the UN and in two years, planned a wedding, while putting in the work leading to the successful launch of a cookbook, completed two successful tours, spearheaded the launch of fashion collection and guested edited the fashion bible’s most important issue of the year. AND the difference is, Meghan was there for show, she was hands at every step of her projects
The tabloids are so desperate to show W&K that cooperating with them was the best decision; but all we see is, that Harry and Meghan were smart to have nothing to do with the tabloid magazines or newspapers.
@CrbnFtprnt Very well said! Meghan also supported US troops with USO in Afghanistan, went there twice as well. These women’s lives are so different and don’t know why the press acts as though they are both running for class president on competing tickets. If anything, Meghan and maybe Harry thought they could have a lot more leeway since they are far removed from the throne, especially once Kate had that last baby. Instead, they act like they are in contention for the throne. No wonder she’s shell- shocked by the amount of tabloid piling on and vitriol, especially since she has never shirked her Royal work. It’s non-stop. At least the tabloids have had to focus on Andrew, and the few stories they’ve had trying to link the Sussexes to his disastrous interview have either been pulled or didn’t get traction. I suspect there will be another frenzy leading up to Christmas. No idea if they are in U.K. or not, and hope it stays that way until a January.
Are “groomed” and “prepared” the same thing, though? I think of grooming as emotional manipulation, like nasty old men who groom the young teenage daughters of their friends for a couple of years before starting a sexual relationship with them.
I would say that Kate was groomed to be the lazy, infantile, quiet, self-loathing, appearance-obsessed, fade-into-the-background, ask no questions wife that she’s turned into. She was groomed to be a pawn in the royal family, to be so void of any identity that she would never outshine anyone and so that everyone could project their own ideals of what a duchess should be onto her. She was groomed to accept the aristocratic world-view that her husband and his blood family are much, much more important than herself, her wants, her needs, or any dreams/ideals she had. She was groomed to accept cheating and lying and a marriage that is for convenience and appearance only. People keep mentioning that college age Kate seemed to have some personality and looked fun. She would break up with Will when he cheated on her and would have to be convinced by her mother to take him back.
I do agree that she was absolutely not prepared to be a working duchess. She sucks at it. Still. And she always will, probably BECAUSE of the emotional grooming.
The source said Meghan was already a fully-formed person. That is certainly not an insult.
Agree That specific quote makes it seem like an insult, but in context of the whole article it doesn’t read like an insult at all
People magazine 🙄. So, Meghan doesn’t fit the mould. So what? That’s exactly why she’s so refreshing. She doesn’t need to fit their mould. Her husband was never going to be king, so she does need to be all queenly like Kate supposedly does. . She does her job as Harry’s wife and duchess admirably – professional, well-dressed, well-groomed, speaks beautifully… and her penmanship is to die for. I know who I’d rather hang out with.
If you look around at other royal consorts, it is Kate who doesn’t fit the mold but Meghan does. Maxima, Letizia, Daniel, Mary, Mabel, Marie, Mathilde. Fully-formed adult humans when they married. None of them hid out in Lazy Land for years needing to be eased into royal work like overgrown adolescents.
Meghan is more like Sophie and the others than Kate ever was. They just got married and started doing the work. It’s only Kate who has had to come up with years of excuse as to why she can barely scrape 100 engagements in a year and she still can’t. Give a speech worth a damn nine years later. Sophie raised young kids and did not have to make an announcement of a “maternity leave” as Kate did. It’s so tiresome because in terms of skills to do the Royal work, if we are going to compare Kate and Meghan, Kate loses every time.
nota, You forgot Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.
Who is Mabel?
I also forgot Sophie! And Mathilde was only 26 when she married Philippe. She already had her own speech therapy practice, and earned her Psychology masters three years after they married.
Princess Mabel, widow of Prince Friso of The Netherlands, one of Maxima’s sisters-in-law. Some major controversy around her personal life before they married. She works with The Elders and #GirlsNotBrides. Meghan would be smart to reach out to Mabel, for moral support and because they share work interests in common. She and her daughters live in London.
Nota, Thanks!
I was running over the list of sovereigns and heir apparents and could not place Mabel. Her husband died in a skiing accident correct?
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau is the the widow of Dutch Prince Friso (correct @BayTampaBay, he died in a skiing accident) and sister-in-law of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. She is also a prominent human rights activist, studied economics and political science graduating summa cum laude, and speaks four languages fluently.
Sadly Friso died as a result of a skiing accident, but he lingered in a UK comma facility for 18 months first. In one of those life prepares you for life coincidences? Mabel’s own father died in a skating accident when she was 9.
“And Mathilde was only 26 when she married Philippe. She already had her own speech therapy practice, and earned her Psychology masters three years after they married.”
OMG I just found the only reason I’d go for a prince. Can you imagine how different we’d see Kate if she’d even pretended to be getting her master’s degree during their dating years?
‘just be “friendly work acquaintances.”’
Yes. She has a group of active, accomplished friends. Kate doesn’t fit that mold, not someone with whom Meghan has anything in common. Co-workers in the family firm, that’s it.
Work wise? She quickly took stock of W&K’s laziness, the shadiness of money Harry and she raised being used to shore up the failing Foundation, etc. She and Harry will go run their division of the company, play nice in public, and accomplish what they want in spite of it all.
Dear palace chatter boxes that act as “sources” for various media,
Now is now a great time to be using the word Groomed in relation to the Royal family, it is reminding people of that thing you are trying to get them to forget.
Kind regards,
Zapp “currently banging their head against the desk” Brannigan
Ha! At this rate, they’ll be spinning themselves out of a monarchy (and wouldn’t that be the cherry on top?)
I don’t have emojis on this computer but, if I did, I would be posting a string of the crying laughing ones.
I think they could be very happy leaving each other alone apart from the mandatory events and maybe a few tennis outings if the press would allow that. They both like tennis so lean into that. There are so many patronages and groups that there doesn’t need to be cross over or competition.
Meghan really is a natural beauty to me.
someone is clearly trying to push these stories to deflect from Andrew and the Queen being a mess. Issue is I dunno at this point if it is Charles, the Yorks, or Buckingham palace. They all gain something pushing this story over and over. Bunch of snakes in the grass. Kate and Meghan should continue avoiding them at all costs. Will sadly seems cut from the same cloth as his father and Harry more his mother.
I actually think this piece makes Meghan look better than Kate. She doesn’t fit the mold of meek, quiet royal wife, her main focus is protecting and raising her son, she wants to tackle projects on her own terms, and she knows who she is as a person because she’s worked hard and developed her own sense of self.
I agree. I think this part of it is more complimentary to Meghan – she knows herself, she HASNT been molded into this Stepford royal wife like Kate, she’s independent, hard working, etc. It reinforces the idea that Kate met William in university and then did nothing while waiting for him to propose.
I was thinking the exact same thing. This isn’t about Kate being better, this is about Meghan being her own woman.
The “fully formed person” thing definitely made me feel the same way, though I don’t think that was the article’s intention.
Yeah that was my reading too. The piece is acknowledging that Meghan had a life other than “waiting” for years and years. And Kate didn’t have to choose between “waiting” and doing something. Her only “job” was working a few days a week at her parents’ friends’ clothing chain, and that happened only after the Queen started asking what she did for a living. She could have easily dated William for years while having a full-time, useful job. But she was too lazy.
And I also think you can read the piece as saying, Kate had YEARS to learn how “the Firm” operates, and Meghan was thrown into it without that benefit.
I’m not sure that she actually could have had a full-time job AND William. Not because it isn’t possible but because that William wouldn’t tolerate her not being available at a moment’s notice. She did have a part-time job at Jigsaw and the owner, which her family knows, gave an interview and explained that Kate’s very limited work hours were because Kate’s relationship with a high-profile man meant that she had a life where she was dictated to (this is weird because other royal girlfriends/boyfriends have been able to work and date a prince or princess elsewhere in Europe). If I remember correctly, it was during her time at Jigsaw that they had one of their break-ups. Sounds like William expected Kate to always available when he wanted to see her and that he wouldn’t appreciate her saying “I can’t today/tonight because I have to work today/tomorrow”.
I find this incredibly sad and evidence of an unhealthy relationship dynamic where everything were on William’s terms. The fact that Kate immediately dropped a project that she had been doing for herself when she got William back says it all. It is very sad to me. It looks like she made a choice between her relationship with a prince and the opportunity to expand her horizons and doing things just for herself – and that will always be a sad thing in my eyes.
So Wm was always an a*hole, treated Kate like a convenience, with his actions playing out in public so she knew she was not his first choice …and yet..she married him.
Hearing that Kate is the perfect royal wife makes me wonder if this ‘perfection’ was created just for her. Neither Camilla or Sophia and not even Fergie seem like her. Diana may have been “perfect royal bride” in the beginning but that didn’t last and when she married Charles, Diana more closer to being a child bride (at 19) then Kate (at 29)
If we’re to believe the Middletons have money? They had plenty of money for Kate to start any of the businesses she was rumoured to be starting. She could have run/worked there and still had a flexible schedule to drop everything and chase William whenever. She didn’t need the cover of the pretend 2-day a week job at Jigsaw, it was just the easiest and laziest option. The laziest option is always what she chooses.
I really don’t take this article as a dig against Meghan at all. And I think that the writer is trying to be as fair as possible to Kate, as well.
“Rift-gate” is getting rather exhausting, at this point.
I truly don’t see why they have to get along at all, really. Nor do I get why it’s such a big deal if they don’t.
LOL the desperation to turn the negative attention back to Harry and Meghan is painfully transparent. The good thing is that more people are seeing through it.
Hear me out, this piece feels like it’s coming from the Sussex camp. It’s flattering to Kate in a slightly backhanded way. Meghan came to the firm as an “adult”, but Kate was still a college kid who had years to adjust to the idea this was going to be her life. More so, Meghan knows their very different paths, and because of that she and Harry are leaning into their different paths.
Kate was 29 when she got married. She was years away from being a college kid. Kate literally had years to figure out the royal way of life while she was on and off dating William. There is no excuse for her not to hit the ground running when she did get married because she has more time to learn what they do than any other royal bride.
Diana was 19 and she managed to figure out the work part pretty quickly. Why couldn’t Kate do that at 29 with almost 10 years of dating William ?
I completely agree with your summation of Kate, but I’m looking at this piece in particular, and I’m saying it’s not about Kate. It’s about playing a game of words.
It’s basically saying: Of course you all love Kate now. She’s been at this for years and spent the years she was growing into a woman being “prepared” for this. Meghan was off growing into herself as her own woman. She had a life before this, and was just dropped into this. She has a very different way of doing things, and she doesn’t want to be pitted against Kate. Also, she knows she has a different path, which she is more than ok with.
It’s essentially a “bless her heart” toward Kate.
I agree with you patron. I read the article as Meghan (or her “sources”) saying that she is a GAW (Grown @ss Woman) with her own mind who came into this marriage with her own accomplishments and self-awareness. Not some Barbie who is dressed up for the part. I’m sure the courtiers would prefer Barbie, silent and always smiling, but that ain’t Meghan for sure.
They can’t even have a break In peace.
this^
This is a really stupid article. Why don’t they do a deep dive into why the brothers are fighting?
That would be one great article.
You hit the nail on the head!
I’m white. I say that because I frequently don’t see racism in that way that people who don’t have to aren’t able to.
But this is so obviously about Kate being white that even clueless me can see it.
Yep, People magazine sprouting a bunch of crocodile sh*t, simply because Meghan is biracial.
+1000 to Betsy
“Groomed” probably isn’t the best word for them to be using with Andrew’s dirty business out for the world to see.
Lmao my exact thought. They are SOOOO bad at this
Blorch. I had this thought subconsciously but you brought it to the top of the heap. Yikes.
Even without Andrew’s dirty business, I agree “groomed” is not the best word. It reminds me of Hilary Mantel and what she wrote about Kate and uproar it caused. It appears that she was/is correct.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/19/kate-duchess-cambridge-hilary-mantel
If you read her original speech, Royal Bodies, you’d get it in context. She was very sympathetic to royal women and to Kate. The uproar was because her comments were taken out of context, and a bunch of people fell for the tabloid bait.
Years later? Mantel and others didn’t understanding that Kate essentially is (or is content to be seen as) a mindless Barbie created on a machine.
Tabs hit out a Mantel because she was spot on with her assessment. Their righteous indignation was not about Kate, it was about their meal ticket-the Firm-being described as exactly what it was. That ‘much ado about nothing’ was the tabloids doing what they do best, divert.
And by doesn’t fit the mold they mean she’s BLACK. They aren’t as clever with their coded language as they think they are.
Especially since Kate remains the least prepared royal out there to this day. Her whiteness provides cover for a lot of incompetence and laziness.
This is absolutely racist.
Is fitting the royal mold just popping out kids and not working? Letting your husband cheat without uttering a word. Is it not making any kind of contribution to society much less your patronage’s? That’s frankly a terrible legacy to live up to. Thank God that’s not Meghan because I cannot imagine a sadder existence! They try so hard to compliment Kate at the expense of Meghan and fail so spectacularly. It really bothers them so much that she’s half black too. It’s really something to behold!
I remember the narrative around W&K’s engagement. How Kate had broken the mold because she was an older, educated bride. She broke the mold because Diana had been hardworking and dedicated to her role. Kate likes the privilege and wealth of being married to William. She does not like the work that is required to be the future POW. Meghan is more in line with the mold Diana created as POW. The royal wife that works hard for her charities and who supports the Crown while also raising a family.
Kate spent far too long waiting to be William’s wife and never developed herself. She has no work ethic. Her empathy is still a work in progress. She has no backbone when it comes to her mother and husband. Kate just goes along to get along. She’s not rocking any boats. Meghan is the complete opposite. She’s a fully formed individual, who elevates her husband, who has her own mind and purpose. She & Kate are just coworkers and sisters in law and not much else.
They can’t be much else……..they’re way too different. What would they talk about if they ever get to discuss?
1) their kids; YES
2) then what? world affairs? do you see Kate being interested in those?
3) charity? LOL
People is such garbage. So far up the BRF’s and the Duggars’ posterior.
The new editor in chief is British (he just got the job a few months ago) so all this propping up of Kate at Meghan’s expense isn’t surprising.
Ah, that makes sense.
In the last few years I’ve found it fascinating that people tend to forget that Kate and William are really the outliers not Harry and Meghan. If you look at all the other royal ladies, only Kate did nothing prior to marriage, held no job and was not known for her charitable endeavors. Only Kate was coddled and cosseted and protected because “we can’t have another Diana”! And William, the Future King, is just now starting to take an interest in the workings of the Duchy of Cornwall, has only been attending engagements on somewhat of a regular basis in the last year or so and uses his children as an excuse. But now the RR’s are holding them up as the penecale of royalty and royal behavior, so bizarre.
I wasn’t going to bother commenting cause this article is a joke but as other commentators have noted, Megan is better suited for royal life, even Kate’s position than Kate. She’s well educated, well traveled, a great public speaker, bilingual (Spanish), has an extensive history of charity work before marrying into the BRF and had a successful career. The only thing Kate has over her is her whiteness and sadly it’s enough to always be seen as “better” no matter how horribly mediocre she is in comparison to Megan.
YUP to ALL of this.
Yeah we know Carole groomed kate for this for years.
Diana made the mold and broke it so we know both daughters in law cannot fill those shoes. They have to make their own way . Kate did nothing with all the “princess lessons” she had prior to marriage and Megan came on board and worked her ass off so, Katie Keen who will be Kween needs to put some more effort in.
Andrew’s scandal has opened the royal pandora box. We can now clearly see that the socalled royal mold is nothing more than a corrupt ceremonial delusion, orchestrated by the viper courtiers and RF members. All smoke and mirrors!
The Queen’s reputation and authority have been seriously damaged by recent events: Boris Johnson throwing her under the political Brexit bus and getting away with it; her willingness to rubberstamp his lies (suspending parliament and queen’s speech); condoning and protecting Andrew’s misconduct for years until his disastrous interview; silently allowing Meghan to be bullied by a racist press for three years; allowing the constant leaks to the press from anonimous palace sources aiming to create division within the RF etc… are all signs that the 93 year old monarch is not in tight control of the firm anymore. Time for Charles to fully step in as the Queen’s regent.
Actually, not fitting in this toxic imploding royal mold is a compliment to Meghan, who has kept her integrity throughout the ordeal. As the royal bubble is bursting beyond repair Harry and Meghan’s fresh and modern approach represent a sane alternative to modernize the outdated institution. Very wise of them to stay out of this current mess the coming weeks, despite pressure and temptations from the press and some royal sources.
Kate is perfect blah blah blah (sarcasm). Andrew will bring the entire monarchy down. Can anyone really say this family was chosen by God after this!! If William stood up against fighting Andrew the pedo than fighting his own brother for trivial things, maybe they ‘d have stood a chance, I guess it shows his likeness for Andrew. Over indulged and over bearing and millions and millions of pounds spent on these useless undeserving. I think in her head Meghan is so over this Royal organization.
This is just silly. People Magazine is not an authority on the royals and should stick to celebrity gossip.
The press did the same thing a generation before. The wife of “the spare” was constantly held up as being inadequate next to the wife of the heir. Only then it was Diana and Fergie. The press was vicious with Fergie. Does anyone else remember headlines calling her “The Duchess of Pork” because she wasn’t a size 2?
The problem is it looks like Diana was the hard working one…..Look how Fergie turned out to be, another enabler of Pedo Andrew
In this situation, the wife of the heir is the mediocre one; It is so obvious that the press cannot compare them on their work alone; there is a reason why we keep being reminded of future future queen consort; because what else is there that you can say Kate has done?
KP now copies, with no shame at all, SR IG; what has Kate brought to that family as any type of innovation that could be attributed to her? please don’t talk about her womb; thx
Why don’t they compare Meghan to Sophie or to women like Amal Clooney or Michelle Obama or Serena Williams, or other royal wives in the world? Those comparisons would at least be based on accomplishment instead of skin color……
You’re missing my point. Diana could have been the laziest person on the face of the planet and the UK press still would have done the same thing. Pitting the wives against each other, comparing them (unfavourably for the wife of the spare) because it sells the gossip rags. It’s a pattern that has nothing to do with the actual people involved.
And Fergie was, at the beginning, held up in a positive light. Maybe because she wasn’t an American porn actress, which is who Andrew had been dating for a few years beforehand.
I think that Wm is super-pissed about everyone liking Harry more than him. And then Harry had the audacity to fall in love with, and marry, a woman he actually adores.
I assume M&H will try for another baby in a year and their baby, if KM is actually pregnant or trying to get pregnant, will be more adored than W&K’s, simply because H&M have the “wow” factor (although less) that Diana had.
Kate is just BORING. Everything about her is BORING. She has very little personality and appears to be a dumb-ass who waited 7-8 yrs for Wm, who BTW, tried to find someone other than KM in the 7-8 yrs but they wouldn’t have him. Hell, KM even bores the hell out of Wm. She’s probably one of those women that thinks having a baby will love-bond you and your partner and you’ll live happily-ever-after. KM will probably spend the rest of her life in public trying to prove how bonded they are together and then go home and cry, while H&M will actually be very much in love, and be really, really happy, and their kids will love them.
So glad Meghan doesn’t fit the mold and is truly an admirable and inspiring person. Far too good for the BRF.
In their attempts to build kate(on Meghan ‘s expense) they ended up making her out as barbie; someone with no opinion or identity who’s ONLY accomplishment was marrying into RF and (possibly) being Queenconsort one day! This was either a subtle shade at Kate or another cambridge pr fail
Kate was groomed for this? Kate? The girl who William spent ten years keeping at an arm’s length away from his royal duties precisely because he didn’t want her to be prepared for it?
Every single one of these stories is making me beyond angry, I have to say. I’ve been thoroughly disgusted with the KP PR machine for a while now. They need to stop with this.
All of this shit just makes me laugh. Does anyone really think that Meghan is sweating Kate?
The key sentence is that Meghan was a fully formed person when she joined the royal family. What does that say about Queen Kate? And exactly how much ‘growth’ has happened since William put a ring on it? Has she learned how to speak in public? Has she created any project? Has she shown the slightest bit of interest in the job that she spent almost ten years chasing?
I know all these articles are designed to make us drool with envy at how lucky Keen Katie, but one look at her husband takes care of that. I wouldn’t take that lot if they tied every jewel the royal family EVER owned around his neck.
This article by People Magazine demonstrates that it is desperate for contacts withinin the Royal Family. Remember Princess Dianapn its cover has been its highest selling mag ever. But that was then social media is a critical factor so rehashing some of the earliest comments about the Duchess on comparison with Catherine is simply passe.
I’m tired of this Kate vs Meghan narrative. Let them make their own molds.
Does anyone recall what William was doing immediately post-university? Did he take on royal duties, engagements or was he doing something else? Just curious after reading about Kate’s quasi job at Jigsaw during this time.
I think he was in the military?
He trained among several military branches. Then around the time of the engagement/wedding he took the ambulance helicopter pilot job based in Anglesey Wales
Thanks – I guess it’s somewhat comforting to know he wasn’t twiddling his thumbs the whole time..
What mold?
Megan married into a family that but for the titles are a bunch of ignorant, self indulged idiots. From Elizabeth all the way down.
Next!