Did you know that the Duchess of Cambridge has some “secret work experience”? I swear to God, those are like half the headlines about this story, because it’s part of the narrative about Kate: she barely works, and she has barely worked throughout her life. And now suddenly, it’s a story that she secretly (shhh, it’s a SECRET) worked at a hospital. For two days. And basically, it sounds like she just went to the maternity ward and held babies, which in America is called “volunteering.”
Kate Middleton spent two days quietly getting some work experience on a maternity ward of a major London hospital, it has emerged. Royal mom-of-three Kate, 37, secretly shadowed midwives and other professionals at the hospital to learn more about children’s early years of development.
The work was revealed by the palace on the daily list of activities — the Court Circular — which said Thursday: “The Duchess of Cambridge, Joint Patron, the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, today completed two days with Kingston Hospital Maternity Unit in London.”
Tackling the challenges facing kids in their early years is the defining theme of Kate’s royal work. Last year, the mom of Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and 1-year-old Prince Louis set up a steering group to advise her on child welfare and the challenges faced by parents and carers.
Kingston Hospital is not where Kate gave birth to her kids – she gave birth to all three Cambridge children at St. Mary’s in Paddington. It’s still not really known what Kate was doing? Yes, her Early Years project – whatever the hell it is – is about early childhood development, but I thought that was more about toddlers and little kids, you know? Not newborn babies! And it’s not like Kate was spending that time at one of her patronages – I’m sure one or two of her patronages might have some kind of overlap with a maternity ward, but she’s not the patron of this hospital or anything. Oh, wait – in 2018, she became the patron of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Nursing Now campaign. Maybe that’s what it was? Something to do that? But… why not just say that?
Also: Kate and William have submitted plans – or someone in the Royal household submitted plans – to build a royal education center at the Orangery within the Kensington Palace ground. And yes, “royal education” is just what it sounds like. I guess kids will be invited to KP and they’ll sit in an Orangery-adjacent classroom and learn about British royal history. According to the Daily Mail: “Plans have been submitted to build the education centre at Kensington Palace, where a two-floor extension to the Orangery will allow enough space for a lunch and afternoon tea restaurant, catering facilities and an outdoor terrace. A new garden will also be created linking the Orangery… to the Cambridges’ home.” And that’s not all. A source told the DM: “Education is a very important thing and they want to be able to teach younger children about the monarchy. William and Kate are very much the idol royals and having the new centre here will be the perfect backdrop for students to learn. They are trying to give out a positive message through this project, they are widely appreciated in society.” “Very much the idol royals” the f–k? What is this?
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“Idol royals”— is that a misspelling?
Yes, I think they were going for idle. 😉 Idyll also works. 😆
excellent take haha
Enny wins! HRH the Idle Duchess of Cambridge…
British English usually adds a /u/ after an /o/, so I guess it should be “Idoul”?
(100% kidding. Couldn’t resist.)
Hey we got there first with the spelling. 😆
Lazy woman works for two days, possibly not in a row, needs an award and widespread publicity
Will and Catherine spell the end of the Monarchy. No young person gets them and no old person admires them
My quick skim had ‘idiot’ royals.
Did someone say “dull” and it was mistyped as “idol?”
Did they mean “ideal?” None of these words were a good choice.
Maybe this was an intentional adjective used by the press knowing that the public would have a field day with it.😉
@Feeshalori Good take, I think you may be on to something… Otherwise the word choice is just bizarre… 🤷🏼♀️
That Orangery description reads like W & K want to add an extension to their pad and by calling it an “educational” space, people won’t get mad when it costs 5 Mil of taxpayer money
That was my first thought too, but it says its going to have a restaurant? Or maybe that just means a professional kitchen for catering purposes?
The garden in KP already has a restaurant/tea room, which is called The Orangery Restaurant. It sounds like they are just putting in a dedicated conference center/classroom to add some education around Kensington Palace history and what/who the royals are and why they are/should be relevant (to entertain me with their gowns, jewels and weddings, right?)
I think the Fail is deliberately misrepresenting this, like they did with the previous KP building permit a couple years ago. It is likely Historic Royal Palaces putting in a classroom, as you write, as part of their original building plan. Nothing to do with W&K or any other royal residents at KP. If it is anywhere on KP grounds, it counts as ‘adjacent to X’s home’ if they live at KP.
That makes more sense than the implication that W&K are going to teach royal history classes across the garden from their house, lol.
Total Fail fiction. The Evening Standard’s reporting correctly says the project is being undertaken by the Historic Royal Palaces and no members of he BRF are officially involved.
Here they go again with those damn gardens.
This better not be greenlit when none of their initiatives have done much of anything and these two don’t have follow through.
And before a keen jumps out with Heads Together, that was not Kate’s brainchild
The description has to be wrong. They would have to rework all the gardens and parking around KP to connect the orangery to their residence via garden. It’s in the opposite corner and there are too many buildings in the way. It would have to go all the way around the outside edge of the public museum. They could do a new garden between the orangery and their offices without too many issues. Maybe that’s what they meant? The offices makes more sense than their private residence being used for something public anyway.
Agree w/this comment, that whole description doesn’t make any sense given the layout. I was just at KP this spring.
What is this? Unless the Cambridges do something meaningful for their patronages that help others (translation: actually put points on the board and show results) this is a puff project.
soooo kids are just gonna come to their home to……learn about the monarchy? sounds….like a waste of money. and LOL at the last paragraph:
William and Kate are very much the idol royals and having the new centre here will be the perfect backdrop for students to learn. They are trying to give out a positive message through this project, they are widely appreciated in society.”
They or the press lay it on too thick every time.
It’s the royal-speak equivalent of “I am a stable genius.” The thicker they lay it on, the more disbelieving I will become.
Kate works…?
Lol. Kate needs a whole steering group to tell her what sort of problems a working mother can face. That says it all.
I guess they want to get an early start on brainwashing the next generation into thinking that it makes sense to have a monarchy in the 21st century?
I was thinking the same thing. Building support through impressionable children.
Example: second generation scientologists- those poor schmucks rarely leave the cult.
Was thinking the same.
Oooooh, so this is what Kate’s Early Years Project is about. lol
I don’t know about the brainwashing, but I know “Pictures of Kate with children = immediate praise for Kate,” which I suspect is why she chose “early childhood” as her defining “cause.” Get those photos of Kate with young kids, and she is immune to criticism.
@minx – boom! Nicely done! ( edit – not sure how this ended up here – was meant to be a response to the idol/idle comment above)
Why do they word ish so weird??
I’m not going to dump on her for working or her two days in the maternity ward project. We cant sh*t on her first not working and then sh*t on her when she does.
I’m really curious as to what this early years project is, I think it’s fine that shes still researching but they need to know the importance of timing, dont announce it until it’s close to or ready to launch. They could say shes “researching hoping to start a new project.” I feel like there is a real project they just announced too early. Which makes them look unprepared.
As for the class thing I’m not going to look too deep into that because it sounds like a mess right now, again – early announcing.
But “idol royals” was definitely shade at Andrew and crew as they try to paddle to safety away from that burning ship.
By the time they release anything substantial on the Early Years, these babies and toddlers will be full fledged teenagers.
Lol or adults!
The trouble with Kate’s project is that she is (with expert help) trying to take the latest research about early childhood development and apply it in a way that would be accessible to the underprivileged. It’s a too broad a topic and there are too many options. Kate has had more confidence lately, but I think she second guesses herself to death. I thinks that’s the hold up. She’s likely looking at the whole picture instead of looking at it in chunks that can be easily tackled. You can’t fix the whole thing all at once and it’s hard to know which is the most important piece. She needs to just pick something and do it.
Oh I think this makes sense. I do think Kate cares and wants to do something but she’s looking to broad. You are right they should take it in chunks. I’ve found when you take a big task in chunks it makes it easier to tackle
I’m sure Catherine Quinn pointed this out to her, several times. And I’m sure Kate is not interested.
I think this comes of having no genuine interest in working. I mean, if Kate wanted to she could have a whole slew of projects to show for her years of being in the royal family, what is it 8 or 9? I think she’s genuinely not interested and that’s why her projects are all over the place, there’s no true vision or impulse to move forward. It’s all derivative.
The problem is that they felt forced to announce it early because she does so little. So they are like “Hey! We can talk about this thing she’s going to do!” when the project is way too early to be discussed.
That black lace dress is soooooo cheap lingerie looking.
Such a dull couple with very limited imagination.
they truly are.
@BELLA DUPONT
For such a dull couple they sure elicit a lot of comments here and on different social media platforms. It’s fascinating to observe.
Because of their platform and how they choose not to use it, Linda. This is obvious to anyone with eyes.
@Maria
Sure Jan, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, it is obvious Maria, but all these brand new posters think this site has only been critical of Kate in the last three years. W&K’s laziness and unprofessionalism should continue to be called out, as well as their obvious PR games.
notasugar, that’s wild. Everyone knows Kais has always hated thin woman, it’s hardly recent.
I cant tell if @Junebug is joking or not.
Read the archives here and you’ll see how the calling out of the workshy duo goes way back pre-Sussex, long before Meghan was a twinkle in Harry’s eye. Celebitches had their number years ago.
More like idle royals…
The idea with the “secret” visits is to build up the idea that this has been happening all along. You can’t call Kate lazy! She’s always worked really hard, you just haven’t heard about it (inevitable corollary: because she’s so humble and doesn’t advertise it (second inevitable corollary: unlike Meghan who just wants attention))
It wasn’t secret. It was listed on the CC. It was private, as in there was no press or photographers there.
Is it wrong to assume that the history of the royal family is taught / part of the British curriculum? Not all of it, of course but highlights? If yes, what’s the point of this centre?
They’re going to give 6 year olds financial estimates of how much tourist revenue the royals create for the UK every year. Then they will tell the children about the royal family/crown estate’s a significant real estate portfolio, and what a shame it would be if they had to evict some of those tenants and sell the properties off to other rich folk….
A waste of taxpayers money as usual. Unless they are building it to homeschool their children I would rather they don’t bother with this. It’s already part of the school curriculum.
Still a waste of money if its just for their 3 children
“idol royals”??!!! This cambridge/KP PR is losing its mind! Why announce a 2 day(probably 30mins tops) visit??? Her supposed early years research was about toddlers and preschoolers so why visit prenatal care???!🤔
Their PR is all over the place DESPERATELY trying to make them out as “hardworking” when the other day Katie couldn’t even bother go to a 40mins event for her husband’s conservation program🙄
I mean we first heard of this research in late 2015!!!! Got the “exclusive” via their mouthpiece E.Englih that the project (due LAST YEAR) was delayed till February this year!!!!when will they learn or (copy Meghan’s style or reporting after completion like for;vogue)??
So the school will be open to the poor kids or the minority kids? Or the white rich kids?
En, work?
Even 15 yeard old “interns” stay for 2 weeks…
What is the point of sharing this information ?
She is constantly pretending to be an effective worker like the Duchess of Sussex with the minimum of effort and a lot of fanfare from the tabloid press.
The Cambridges spent more money on larger accommodations and had no consequences and they are doing it again.
She is still work shy and competitive with an avid keenness. So dull.
Seems like it was an event in the CC and the royal reporters took it and wrote a story. There are no quotes from KP it’s just a story based on a permit and an event listed in the CC
omg, the early years initiative at this point is like the garden. I’m so sick of hearing about it. Just “unveil” it already. Unless this just is what it is – her going to meetings at KP and then a few behind the scenes visits like this.
The idea of visiting a hospital for a few days is a good one, but I wish this visit was tied more into….something. was she learning about the impact that prematurity can have on a child as they grow? was she learning about how for some, nutrition issues start at birth and the impact that can have throughout childhood? I just feel like this whole thing is so vague at this point that they really should just stop talking about it until its ready.
And yes, they want people to talk about it and to know what Kate is doing or it wouldn’t be in the court circular.
While I understand why the visit wasn’t publicized prior to it taking place, it really looks disorganized that they didn’t have a brief press release outlining what this was for and what took place. Since they put it in the CC they knew it would be picked up by the media because it is unusual for Kate to do things like this.
Agreed, Becks. I’m glad she’s getting hands-on training, but what’s it all for? It just sounds like she showed up and followed some nurses around, which, fine, but there needs to be a purpose behind this. For example: If she had used it as a way to highlight the importance of nurses in the NHS (isn’t there a shortage of nurses?) and the crucial role they play for new moms, that would have been more insightful than the lack of information from her team at the moment.
“They are widely appreciated in society”….uhhhhhhh?????? I’d side eye that phrase coming from ANY royal anywhere on the planet.
‘And basically, it sounds like she just went to the maternity ward and held babies, which in America is called “volunteering.”’
Cue more talk of Kate feeling broody, counting down to Baby #4 in 3, 2, 1
I think it’s great she’s done this work experience. It’s good to get on the ground insight for her project& think it’s something they should all do for their project based work. Or even when choosing charities to patron. Also recruitment for midwives is said to be down& that part of the NHS is really stretched so more spotlight they get from someone with Kate’s profile the better.
This does follow what I was saying yesterday though about white royals getting praise after adopting same approach Meghan is criticised for. I remember Ingrid Seward saying last winter that Meghan had upset courtiers by doing secret visits to charities& it’s not how royals work- I presume this stemmed from when she was privately working with the Hubb Kitchen ladies& volunteering at SmartWorks to understand the charity more. Yet somehow it’s not a problem when Kate does the same.
Good point
Shadowing midwives and other professionals to learn about early childhood. That makes literally no sense. Most of the women in the maternity ward are birthing babies. If there are difficulties, these women aren’t going to be exposed to the Duchess. They will be in surgery and their babies in the neonatal ICU. These visits seem more in line with her patronage of the Ob/Gyn Society and less to do with her Early Britain initiative.
The Orangery extension seems like another scam by the Cambridges to get an addition added to their home.
Idol royals….too easy. Bone idle is more like it.
If I was a patient I would find that just a tiny bit intrusive and an invasion of privacy.
I thought it was Broken Britain? When did the name change and more important, who’s idea was the name change? I vote Catherine Quinn.
It’s always been called the Early Years Initiative or “a focus on Early Years.” The Daily Mail just connected it with the “Broken Britain” concept the conservative papers latches onto: (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Britain)
In the real working world, “shadowing” is observing how the person does their job so you learn it as it’s being done and is part of typical job training.
There’s nothing except the constant grudge against Kate that says all she did was spend two weeks just holding babies.
Kate is not a nursing student doing a practicum. She’s getting in the way of hard-working professionals for a vague vanity project.
days. she spent 2 days doing this. Not weeks.
More like she spent a fraction of a day, less than an hour, twice.
So Broken Britain is still broken, the Early Years are a thing of the past – was this the big End of the Year announcement everybody was told to expect?
Oh, and teaching kids about the monarchy is a great idea, especially if the monarchy is gone by the time the project is completed…
How about spending that money instead on any kind of project that has real life applications and a lasting impact, or use it to improve the overall quality of teaching in the UK.
Because we would have seen something tangible come out of it perhaps?
Ding ding ding. All we have here is Kate wandering around, getting in the way on a maternity ward, and pretending it is related to the vague ‘initiative’ Quinn cooked up for her.
Well, its hard to imagine, because Meghan doesn’t do these kinds of things. We hear about Meghan’s projects when they’re complete and ready, and then we hear about her various BTS meetings and visits and such. We didn’t spend months hearing about Smart Set or the cookbook or Vogue before those things actually “happened.” With Kate, we’ve heard rumors of this vague early years initiative for well over a year now, and there doesn’t seem to be anything to show for it. KP would have been much better off either being completely open about it or just not saying anything.
Clearly the writer (loose term) of the Orangery revelation doesn’t have access to a map.
Why is she on a maternity ward again? Observing women breastfeeding? Studying natural childbirth vs C-sections? Considering whether babies should sleep next to the mother or in the nursery? Cloth vs plastic nappies? Looking at the pediatrician administer vitamin k or whatever they are doing these days?
I am beginning to long for the days when she would just cut the ribbon and leave.
Seems like the media created a story with conjecture and a list in the CC and some permits.
The Fail pitched this as ‘work experience’ which made me LOL so hard. Work experience at her age.
Someone is def feeling the Meghan heat and are really making the most of the time the Sussex’s are taking off. But then again these last min flurry of events are usual for the DoLittles as they need to get those numbers up.
Re: this education centre. Who will be paying for it and where will the money it makes go? Wanna bet it gets funnelled into their pocket via their Foundation?
Didn’t William do some lameass work experience thing too? Seems to be their mo and it’s so juvenile. What exactly are they accomplishing? Zip. The dumb and lazy duke and duchess.
That lace boob-swoop on that dress is soooooo very unfortunate.
With the work experience we don’t know what it relates to- may not be strictly tied to early years project so was giving benefit of doubt. Guess we’ll see
I’d be more inclined to see this as something good and worthwhile if like, home girl had actually done anything else substantial on the early development front. But she hasn’t. What has she actually done on the subject so far that’s significant? Can someone please give me a run down, honestly, because I’m genuinely blanking here, and I don’t want to undermine any important initiatives that she’s actually undertaken for which this type of work experience/volunteering would be relevant and necessary.
Also, unless I’m mistaken, two days isn’t enough for this type of thing? Couldn’t she have just engaged a few experts from the maternity ward and then done a more public engagement to highlight the types of things they’re doing at this hospital that’s related to her larger initiative? All of this is just so weird to me.
Pretty sure a handful of meetings is all she’s done for Broken Britain or Early Years or whatever it’s called. I don’t recall hearing anything else except stories that kick its ETA further down the road.
You know, when they speak of her “secretly” doing things I get an image in my head of her tiptoeing around London dressed like the Mad Magazine Spy vs Spy characters. 🙂
You know she has a hat and coat for that somewhere!
It actually makes sense to me. The way women are treated during pregnancy affects their mothering. Women with the most excellent, nurturing and respectful care pre and post partum, and during birth, have been shown in studies to be more confident and happier mothers.
Women with poor pregnancy care, no post partum care, traumatic births, insensitive care providers etc., no access to help as new moms, tend to have more postpartum depression and have a harder time mothering, etc. So to me it fits. I was a doula and it’s a big mindset/philosophy in the birthing world. That the way we treat pregnant/new moms is the foundation for healthy families and society. So to me it fits the “early years” idea.
I don’t know if anyone bothered to listen to you so I wanted to say thank you for your experience filled insight.
Makes total sense to me. Being a doula sounds pretty challenging!
Women being treated as a PR op for a lazy royal wife do not benefit from these PR games. Nor do they benefit from W&K’s insistence that working parents are bad parents.
These women aren’t being used as a PR prop. Do you see any pictures and videos of Kate and the women on the maternity ward? Are you going to see any pictures & videos of Kate shadowing with the midwives during their home visits? The answer is No. I don’t think you understand what PR props actually means. Look to the sick children in NYC earlier this year for that. Taking pics of seriously ill kids holding leftover flowers to splash them across the media not for a patronage but for PR was uncalled for. If Kate & her team ever think it is fine to publicise her home/personal visits with sick children and their carers, new mothers & their babies, it would be highly inappropriate as well.
They are absolutely being used as PR props. This whole “kate does work experience” which was actually Kate showing up for an hour or so, intruding on an important, high-security ward, and getting in the way.
Kate could have spent 30 minutes meeting with the head of maternity, no wandering around intruding and making people’s lives more difficult.
@Becks to be fair the DoS often uses their IG account to tease info about their projects
Not in the same way, at least not that I’ve ever seen. We didn’t hear whispers about the cookbook or smart set for months (at this point, its been over a year) without the final project. When the cookbook was announced, it was launched days later? Maybe a week? It took me about 3 weeks or a month to get my copy in the US. Smart Set was announced through Vogue – Vogue was rumored for a while but not officially announced until right before it went on sale.
@elena Meghan hasn’t teased a project on IG yet. Together Cookbook was done& dusted and social media was used to launch it. Same with Vogue. Rumours about her doing a Vogue photoshoot was in the press but nobody knew she was guest editing until it officially launched& there was nothing about it on their IG until launch. SmartSet was announced in Vogue article and then their IG was used to preview the photoshoot for it.
Maybe she wants baby #4, Willie won’t provide, and she’s just scratching her itch to hold newborns.
Her time is so secret that no one can find her.
Keen Katie gives her fans so little to work with that they’re forced to inflate two days of swanning around a maternity ward (probably only for a couple of hours per day) as WORKING. To what end? Or was it because it was easier than actually sitting down with early childhood development professionals and taxing her wee brain?
What is it about Kate and all these ‘secret’ gatherings that just give me an extreme case of the giggles. Everytime.
Ha! I get a case of the side-eyes. This has been an entertaining thread with some really funny comments; some intentional, some not (the “volunteering” got me, LOL!).
Where is the need for this? What did she accomplish? Was she checking on the mental health of the women having babies? What living conditions were like after the new mums went home? Did they have adequate follow-up care? Are some single parents? Are there siblings at home to deal with? How can Kate work this into her so-called mental health initiatives after 2 brief visits?
I find it utter baffling that she would do this. It’s like I suddenly decide to go sit down with a tenured professor to discuss the development of the English language or the history of philosophy.
My guess is that it’s related to observing the kinds of mental/emotional/physical postnatal support new mothers are given after their babies are born. Kate has visited a few charities and organizations with an eye toward that in the past, and I can see it tying into the idea of the importance of a mother’s well-being in the earliest years of a child’s life. Supposedly she even did a home visit with one of the midwives?
I think this hospital stuff could work for both- her OB/GYN patronage or her early years. Where I live in the US, early years are 0-5. I have kids in that bracket so I’m on the nonstop emails/ads/classes etc to hear about it. Also, the education center likely looks good on paper- and dovetails with her initiatives- and yes, it also has the self-preservation angle of teaching about royalty by Royal (selected) teachers- so, they control the narrative, which of course will be with a positive slant!
“William and Kate are very much the IDLE royals…”
There, I fixed that for ya.
Guys, at the risk of sounding massively unpopular, why are all banding up against Kate? Why throw this much shade? What do you expect of her? She isn’t an intellectual exactly, she is prim and proper and very British and she does exactly what is expected of her. Megan and Kate are both mothers. I would say please do not judge mothers and women and pit them against each other, this is toxic, negative and very damaging.
I expect her to work and not participate in PR stunts that dogpile on her sister-in-law.
That is the fundamental part of it. She is a mother but her job is equally important, and she is not fulfilling it. If she doesn’t wish to do so, she can live on her own dime.
She dresses inappropriately (little girl skirts), she behaves inappropriately (flashing hyena grins and thumbs up outside a children’s hospice full of dying kids) – even these would be excusable if she were out doing more, but she isn’t.
Ohhh, Maria, I take it you have written to our Queen about Kate not fulfilling her role, then? Have you told her in your letter that you think Kate isn’t doing her duty and is wearing “inappropriate skirts” at the same time? Clutches pearls!!! Kate wears flared skirts instead of pencil skirts, soooo inappropriate!!!! Oh, wait, she isn’t your Queen cause you aren’t British or from the Commonwealth countries. You can still write to her and your politicians to tell them you think Kate is behaving very badly in her position and should do what you think she should do. Please come back to give us all the reply you receive.
I expect her to do the work that the Duchess of Wessex (also a mother) has been doing for years. Showing up to the things that she’s patron of, making small talk and cutting ribbons. She could spend 20 hours a week doing this and have plenty of time for her own family.
She does not do exactly as she’s supposed to.
Please brush up on the work done by other members, many of them mothers, at similar points in their lives.
Sophie, Anne, Elizabeth, Diana, etc.
I’d hazard to guess the average British society wife does at least as much work, likely more with various fundraisers and charity work than Kate is managing.
Kate is simply not suitable for her position as future Queen Consort. She should be pedal to the metal with her charity work, instead of simply showing up from time to time at social events. By comparison, her extended family members, as mentioned above, work ALL.THE.TIME. Their work doesn’t get the attention it should because they are “less than” Kate on the royal scale and Kate gets all the press attention for merely showing up at the opening of an envelope. Simply put, if you’re in a position where you’ve married into the BRF and your lifestyle is so luxurious that it’s beyond imagination, YOU GIVE BACK. You work for the people you represent and you work hard.
And it’s beyond giving back. She’s supposed to be working in a bid to understand the people and nation she is meant to be consort of one day.
Her husband is meant to be king and she’s meant to be consort and that means taking steps towards the assumption of that role, including the assumption in the not to near future of the role of Princess of Wales. She’s done so little to prepare for at least the latter that it’s laughable.
It’s always interesting to see comments that claim Kate is “doing what she’s supposed to do” or “doing what is expected of her” (and they’ve been increasing here as of late). It’s very telling about what YOU expect her to do: be a clotheshorse and put forth the image of loving, devoted mother…and nothing more.
Meanwhile the ones lower in succession are just supposed to do all the bread and butter work I guess.
Another creepy attempt to copy Diana?? She made lots of secret visits to hospitals. She was even pictured watching an operation on one occasion.
That said, the “work experience” would be a good thing if it actually led to something concrete from Kate regarding her royal duties. But somehow, I doubt it …….
Yeah, lets definitely use this space to call a woman lazy for the 98th million time. Because apparently possessing a v*gina and volunteering at a hospital makes you EVERY BIT AS BAD as Prince Andrew, yes? There is so much else going on with the royal family, I am so confused why we are still getting the daily (or more often) “Kate is lazy!” regurgitation.
Because one person being lazy and an entirely different person being a pedophile are things that are true at the same time?
I mean if coworker A is arrested for murder, am I no longer permitted to mention that coworker B is a slacker in an entirely different conversation?
You do understand that posts are separate conversations, yes?
She’s not “volunteering” at a hospital. That would involve showing up on a regular basis with a consistent role to play, not just dropping in a couple of times to shake hands and coo over babies. Furthermore, there are two things at play here: an extremely lazy and privileged child-woman who can’t seem to get on message that she, in her position, is expected to WORK for her luxe lifestyle; and a Prince who consorted with a well-known and convicted pedophile/ human trafficker and who is now facing expulsion from the royal family as a result.
I haven’t seen anyone say it’s “EVERY BIT AS BAD”
@Loubie – the problem is that Kate & William and their team e.g., Jason Knauff (sp) messed up so badly in the early years. Back then, it was also claimed that Kate was having secret meetings to do this and to do that but nothing tangible was ever realized. And back then they were throwing the word keen around like free candy to express Kate’s enthusiasm and so forth until it was ridiculous. Hence, the phrase keen-baiting. Sure, this new set of secret meetings are on the court circular but I don’t believe them or that she was there for anything meaningful or for a meaningful amount of time. I’m not just that keen to believe it. So, for me, it’s not that Meghan walks on water and is therefore without criticism. I think she’s done quite a few things wrong. So, it’s not that. It’s just that Kate can’t swim and haven’t tried very hard to learn.
Kate is just the same old Kate but William definitely upping his game as he should be doing. He now has engagements most days and is away on a short tour at the moment.
I love how the light is hitting her hair to make it looks like she has purple highlights in it. It actually looks good on her. Too bad royals can’t switch it up hair wise.
Oh please, lol. How secret is it? They’re trying to make her out to be like Meghan, working under the radar and then announcing a successful launch of something or other. Will never happen.
Yeah try waking up at 6 and done at 2 5 days a week, taking kids to extra cirriculars, foster parenting, volunteering on weekends, NOT for outward praise, but because that is your responsiblity. You can’t keep that a secret.