This is going to sound strange, but have you ever noticed how often the Duchess of Cambridge reboots her PR and messaging? What I mean is that several times a year, it’s like Kate is born anew in the press and her slate is wiped clean and the PR becomes “everything that came before this moment was merely the prologue, what’s coming now is the real/new/keen Kate.” It happened at the start of every new year, like she was making keen resolutions to be different, and then it would happen every fall too, soon after the Cambridges spent the summer on vacation. Sometimes, they would reboot in the spring too, for no apparent reason. My point is that after seeing the duchess in action for nine years of marriage, there really isn’t anything new but the latest narrative around her. The Early Years project is just more of the same busy work to give Kate some fluffy photo-ops and better PR. Keep that in mind with this:
Kate Middleton is “so happy” to be playing bigger role after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry quit their royal duties, a source claimed today. The Duchess of Cambridge has spent the past few weeks touring up and down the country to promote her passion project on early childhood as part of her and William’s Royal Foundation. And sources today claimed the mum-of-three was happy to take on a more prominent position in “The Firm” after her brother-in-law Harry and Meghan dramatically stepped down and moved to Canada.
They told The Sun Online: “Kate is extremely passionate about the work the Foundation does and she has ideas and plans for how she believes it can be used to help some of the causes which she is particularly passionate about. In recent weeks Kate has visited a lot of organisations and spoke to lots of experts and has soaked a lot of information. She wants to use that to go out and bring about change to many of those who need support.”
It comes after it was revealed Kate wanted to be “front and centre” in the Royal Foundation’s work. The source said: “William and Kate may have extra responsibilities in the wake of Harry and Meghan’s move to Canada but neither of them want that to be at the expense of their Foundation. They both work very closely with the team and Kate is sitting in on more and more meetings so she can have an input in the work that is going on. For years the Foundation’s work was a bit of a tug of war between what William and Harry wanted. Harry was very much focused on the military and his work with the Invictus Games. Now it is purely in the shape of how William and Kate want it to be.”
Yeah, the Cambridges can’t have it both ways on Sussexit – either they’re devastated at having to work themselves to the bone to “pick up the slack” left by the Sussexes, or they’re really quite happy about having the spotlight to themselves. For what it’s worth, I think they’re very happy. I don’t think they’re devastated or stressed out at all. They think they’ve won – they successfully exiled Meghan and Harry, their press has never been better, the spotlight is on them and they believe they’re entirely controlling the narrative and that the public has no choice but to buy what they’re selling. As for the idea that Kate is only NOW getting more involved in the Royal Foundation and only NOW happy about doing more work… as I said, it’s like she’s been born anew. A similar version of this story will come out in May and September too.
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Just the headline makes me think: Should she not have been playing a bigger roll all along? She is the future Queen consort.
Yup, this smells like total bs to me. She had years of being the only one and did very, very little. Not that I was ever a fan of the “royal family,” but these people just disgust me now. They really are horrible – Harry did well to get the hell away.
That’s exactly how I feel, Josephine. A couple of years ostensibly in Meghan’s shadow, and now finally in the Sussex’s absence, AT LAST poor undervalued Kate is free to be the activist princess she always wanted to be? Utter bullshit and poppycock. WHERE was she BEFORE Meghan came along and immediately jumped into authentically worthwhile projects? This new faux-activist princess campaign nauseates me.
lol when I read the headline, I was expecting an interview.
All true. But also, while I feel nothing but disgust at their part in Sussexit (of which we’re all almost fairly certain of), I can’t help but think that THIS particular family, with all of its jealousies and pettiness. are a nest of cold-blooded vipers. Laziness aside: if Kate had DARED to step up from the get-go…even if Will was as much of a go-getter (like Harry, (who was starting his own charities beginning at 19), I do feel Charles would’ve self-sabotaged by dragging on them (as in, HOW DARE they outshine/outwork him, the HEIR, when they are only FFHeirs). I think Will and Kate’s laziness played into “the plan” for Charles to continue to be front and center in all things (except for the births of the kids).
I don’t know… I come from a very close, supportive family, so this is so alien to me lol
That theory doesn’t explain away her complete unprofessionalism and lack of preparation for her events for nine years. If she was being held back from being the hard-working, dedicated royal her fans think she is? She’d have been spot-on, prepared, and professional for the pathetic number of engagements she’d done in nine years.
@nota – I know you will disagree with me but I still feel that Normal Bill was holding her back and wanted to keep her chained up in the nursery.
I agree Cathy is a big fat lazy bones and nobody or nothing pushed her to do anything until now but I always had the sense she was being held back from doing anything remotely constructive.
The thought of her being kept back by her husband is growing on me as the reason for her slow start out of the racing blocks. Will didn’t want her outshining him and becoming another Diana. Perhaps will was very controlling in that regard. I bet he controlled her response and how close she got to Meghan too and all Kate could do was toe the line.
IF William was holding her back, she chose to agree. Chose to sit by while he cheating on her for a decade, chose not to work before marriage, chose to marry him, chose to sit by while he cheats now. Again, at the very least she could show up prepared to the handful of events she does.
Neither William nor Kate can outshine a mop. It is okay to be boring as a royal, see Philippe and Mathilde, but it is not okay to be lazy.
Then why is she allowed to step up now? Is she no longer shiny enough to outshine Charles? Why was everyone else, who are all below Charles in rank and “importance” to the family allowed to work so much? How come everyone who is below Will and Kate in rank and importance are allowed to work more than them if there’s this rule that you can’t draw attention away from the heirs? If your theory were true, Charles would consistently be the hardest working royal with the most engagements (he’s not always), then will and Kate who would need to work less then him but more then everyone else (they’re not), then everyone else in order of who’s next in the line of succession (but that’s not how it works either).
I feel like the RRs are already starting to turn on her and this is low key trolling on their part. They basically are acknowledging that she hasn’t done anything for almost 9 years but NOW it will be different! No one has ever stopped Kate from taking on more work or having a bigger role except for Kate.
All true, but this is mainly coming from Omid Scobie who is so deft at telling the truth. That the rags are seizing on his quotes … now that’s fun and, yes, shady.
Exactly, even the Daily Fail is setting her up to fall flat on her face, with these incessant ‘dazzling duchess’ articles. They need click bait now the Sussexes have gone. So they will now have to start giving Cambridge stories a slant, the focus on Kate will be so intense, and she has just this and only this to look forward to for the next forty years.
Meh – I don’t believe 9/10th’s of what comes from any British tabloid, such as The Sun. They throw “quotes” from “sources” over everything without specifying who the source is.
Yup, this sudden, big, all-hail-Kate BS is pissing me off!! What has she been doing the last nine frickin’ years? Ohh that’s great right, sitting on her big fat thumbs doing nothing!! But all of a sudden, she can now work? So, Harry was holding her back, as he has been the only constant? I am sick of them shoving her down our throats!
Sorry, that ass ain’t fat.
Kate hasn’t been sitting on her big, fat (??) thumbs for nine years!! She did a great deal…. hummm…. let me think…. Just one moment…. I can’t be pushed like that, I need time…. If you wait just a bit more….. Ahhh! How could we forget! She gave birth to three kids and worked with a group to launch a quizz to enlight how important are the first years of a child. And she had loads of nice outfits. And she was with her husband at some events.
Hello? She is being set up for a fall.
Exactly Swack. Also, doesn’t Kate have patronage’s and a large staff to schedule work appearances for her. Why is it then that she is just now being ALLOWED to work more. How old is this woman? I totally agree with Kaiser’s summation of all this. For now, though, I think the Cambridge’s can and do have it both ways with the British press. I want to see how their story changes once the Sussexes begin to really work their Foundation goals. There will be definite ‘sharing’ of the press story then! And why is it — that with all the Cambridge’s happiness and success in no longer having to compete — every article or press release about them has to involve Meghan’s name and shade the Sussexes. I think any good PR person would tell them they need to focus on themselves and try and leave the Sussex shading behind them (if they can). Every time they do something, they themselves compare it to what the Sussexes did or can no longer do because they have been shit-canned by Harry’s devoted family. Not a good look in my opinion.
Yeah that doesn’t make a lot of sense. They gave her all of these patronages, let her and William have their own office instead of working under the Buckingham Palace staff like minor royals, pay for her to have a full office staff to organize her work, pay for her to have foundation staff, lend or transfer over some of their own staff specifically because they’re hard working, recommend/hire people specifically to help her get organized because…. they DON’T want her to work?
Oh come on! As another mother of three children, that takes up a sh*t load of time. And yes, I work full time too. And I’m not raising a future king.
But can we PLEASE not forget Harry in his wild child days? Ahem, dressing up in a Nazi uniform for Crissakes? Calling his Sikh army comrade their “little raggie?”
I’m not a fan of Kate. I find her (and her husband) quite insipid. But can we please not elevate those without also calling out their bullshit?
1. You don’t have a staff of cooks and a nanny to wrangle your children for you. Kate does.
2. You work full time. Kate does not. All her kids but 1 go to school. Again, she has help. You do not (or maybe you do who knows)
3. You didn’t marry a man knowing you’d have to work in such a public capacity. Kate did.
4. You probably didn’t have 8 years to ease into working AFTER getting hired for a job. Kate has.
Do you see how your situations are MUCH different?
You think Harry didn’t get shit when that stuff happened?? I guarantee he did. But guess what? He grew tf up like an adult is supposed to do.
But what kept her from playing a bigger role in the seven years prior to Meghan joining the royal family?!?!
William said a couple times that his Dad and the Queen were doing too much for him to be able to do more. So, he’s delusional and that held Kate back or something. She couldn’t out work him for obvious reasons.
TQ and Chuck bent over backwards for him and Katie Keen to do more – they even bribed them with houses and helicopters. They are both just bone idle and that will never change.
I doubt if William asked for more work he’d have been turned down. The man could write a book of excuses for every occasion.
They all set their own schedules, and there’s plenty of charity work to be done in the UK. William will use anything and anyone as an excuse for his laziness.
The only thing I can think of is bearing 3 heirs-in-a-row to secure the line of succession (& simultaneously diminishing Harry’s once-important “spare” status, making it easier for him to step away and save the British people gobs of money on his upkeep.)
“William said a couple times that his Dad and the Queen were doing too much for him to be able to do more.”
@Anisley7 – Was William implying that because Chuck & QEII were doing so much work that there was no work for him to do?
@BayTampaBay – It’s either that or he’s saying he’ll pull focus off them. Either way, it’s ridiculous. The last time he said it, he also went into his dad working too much and how he should slow down and spend more time with his grandchildren. We all know that isn’t the real reason that Charles hasn’t spent that much time with them. So, it’s all just nonsense, but it does make me wonder if he’s one of those people who genuinely believes his lies. It would explain all the cognitive dissonance he’s got going on.
I think Charles is more a pushover dad, that’s why WIlliam is so spoiled and lazy. If WIlliam appeared and said he was serious and wanted work, Charles would have mentored him, but William wasn’t interested and lazy. A lot of uber wealthy people have this problem with their kids.
Before MM Kate was alone on the turf. Sophie Wessex is too far on the line, older than her, and since she had that “problem” of profiting on royal conexions, too much low profile to be a threat.
I don’t want to make fuss about sickness, but the first two pregnancies she vanished from the world, claiming she had hyperemesis gravidarum.
Let’s make one thing clear: one thing is to be sick when a woman is pregnant; the other is to have this particular illness.
Many women get really sick the first three or four months of pregnancy, no big deal; but to have hyperemesis is quite different. You get sick from the moment you are impregnated until the hour you’re going in labor. It’s horrible and dangerous: it’s like if the woman wanted to expel the baby by the mouth. No cure, no treatment, only a light relief of the symptoms. And it happens EVERY SINGLE time you are pregnant.
Kate locked herself away for nine months, saying she couldn’t attend any event because she had hyperemesis. By miracle, she got cured on Louis pregnancy when MM got engaged to Harry.
I’m sorry. But if she really had hyperemesis, she would have had it again. And, as everyone could see, she was hoping here and there, no more thin than usually.
I hate people that claims sickness when it fits their agenda. I don’t think anyone, royal or not, should claim to have a disease just to get their goals.
It’s interesting she never did any specific charity work or awareness for HG. She tends to always work on things that directly apply to herself.
@Lucy De Blois
I had severe HG both pregnancy’s, I puked my guts out all day every day from beginning til the day I gave birth.
And yet, because I didn’t have a choice I had to work full time. I’d have to go in to L and D every couple of days to get IV fluids.
I had to take suppositories to stop me barfing while at work, because I couldn’t keep down oral anti nausea and vomiting drugs.
I lost 40 pounds the first time and 30 the second, that I couldn’t afford to lose.
And I was at work every day because I’m poor and could not afford to miss work. I did get sent home the few times I passed out at work. And when I’d vomit so much at my desk in my trash bag because I couldn’t make it to the bathroom.
So boo hoo to poor katie keen
I don’t think she had anything other than normal morning sickness
@LucyDeBlois @Nic919 @Kkhat I’m with you guys she didn’t have it.
Sure, Jan.
Lmao. Ok. She wants the spotlight let her have it. She better hope though the media doesnt get bored and desperate because the saint kate press can only generate the royal reporters so much.
All will be well and good until the Sussex Foundation starts rolling out actual, impactful initiatives.
Then the smear campaign will start up again.
The Cambridges a petty bunch.
Exactly. The Sussex Foundation will be announced this spring so of course W&K need to get their’s front and center. So petty indeed.
Yeah…they will be able to write so many messages on bananas to workers and tell them how special they are. I can’t believe you give Kate so much crap and don’t call Meghan out on hers. But she is part of your “cause” so we can’t say anything bad about how lazy Meghan and Harry were. They didn’t exactly “wow” me with their work ethic. They are just as lazy.
Meghan is lazy? Now, that’s a new one. Sounds like trolling rather than fact, and it’s awfully petty to take out one’s disappointment in Duchess Keen’s lack of drive, notable accomplishments, and the absurdity of an 8 years-in-secret, 5 question survey on the Sussexes who have viable charities and projects to show for their work.
It really burns you that your girl is so obviously lazy that you have to resort to lies doesn’t it?
Even royalists admit Kate has never been a hard worker. The lack of work since 2011 is there for everyone to see.
Just brings into clear focus how the Royal Foundation suddenly stunted after Harry quit it. What exactly happened to Heads Together, what exactly has this foundation done since January 2019 when the Sussexes divorced them? I guess that’s all I have.
Right. She’s just now STARTING to sit in on more, but not all, of her own foundations meetings? No wonder nothing was happening with that foundation and there were no projects. The person who was meant to be making the decisions, the person who was meant to actually be doing the work in public, wasn’t even there to tell them what she wanted to focus on and what kind of work she wanted to do. If the other foundation people came up with an idea for a project, what did they do? Just wait until the next time Kate deigned to attend a meeting and then ask we if she was interested in that? And then if she said yes, and they started planning it but needed more of her input, did they have to wait another 8 months until she showed up at a meeting again? No wonder the survey took 8 years to complete, if that’s the case.
Her name is in the damn foundation so she should be there for every meeting. It is utter laziness that she is not. The meetings happen at her home FFS. She doesn’t even need to leave KP.
And yes I note the complete silence about Heads Together. The RRs went on and on about how she came up with the idea but we have heard not anything about it for years.
Well for one, the Cambridge’s have to start bringing in their own funding instead of leaching funds from Harry or Meghan’s initiatives. So, no wonder they both have to pick up the pace a bit. I mean how embarrassing would it be if their Foundation had to declare bankruptcy. I still want to know what that super, hush-hush legal thing is that is being dealt with. Several articles referenced it and “A” mentioned it on here. Last I read it was something to do with mismanagement of the Cambridges Foundation funds.
Okay Ms. 5 Question Survey 8 Years Later. Why did it take 2 royals who are below your rank leaving for you to “play a bigger role”?
To think I was happy for this empty shell of a woman when she married William. Ugh, a night up from studying that I’ll never get back. These people are fraudsters, and man have they shown their true colors over the past year. I cannot wait for it all to come crashing down on them.
Kate doesn’t have the ooompphhh. She is bland and banal. She’s got no X factor. But whatever…. she is the Future Future Queen.
If you mean charisma, no she doesn’t have it. Diana had it in spades as does Meghan. You either have it or you don’t. Work ethic however, is something you can work at and improve on. Again, something D & M demonstrated time and time again but sadly, lacking in Kate.
Diana didn’t have it in the early years, either. She was intensely shy and was viewed as standoff-ish and sullen for a long time. Of course, she came into her own in spades.
Yes, Diana did have it in the early years, yet she was shy and overwhelmed by the sudden constant intrusion by the press. But Diana has it as does Meghan. They both have that inner drive and striving for more or to create projects around you, to help others. Having worked most of my life, you are in that mind frame of always coming up with ideas and following through with them, as Meghan has always worked as well. You have that ingrained into your subconscious. Where as Kate, I don’t think she worked much at all her entire adult life except that short job she had after Will dumped her, besides working for her mother. Kate’s mother must be dreadful! I only say that as an outside observer, but as soon as she found out Wil’s college, didn’t she have Kate switch to his school?
I agree @Lady2Lazy and @Tessa’s comment below me. Diana & Meghan have always had it. They were girls’ girls right from the start. Had charisma, knew what to wear and how to behave, and most importantly had a strong sense of self. They may have refined their skills as they grew but they always had it. Diana was shy at first but only because she respected her position and took it seriously, and made a daily effort to get better and more confident, after a year she was well on her way. Thats why woman were such fans of Diana, her beauty was natural, smooth, graceful. Us women have good eye for the authenitic and respect it. Diana was admired by men and women all over (I mean how many woman of her time cut their short after her!!), Kate is appreciiated mainly by men.
Heather, Diana did have it in the early years. She was not “intensely” shy and people took to her right away. And she was never sullen. She was scared on her first walkabout after the wedding–this in Wales 1981 and yes she did not want to get out of the car. But the instant she did she was transformed, she knew the right things to say and the people took to her. This is remember when Charles first got jealous of her. Look at the footage and film of her first appearances. She was a natural. Even in the first walkabout post engagement she was a “hit” and Charles was the one who got sullen and even said I guess I’ll have to get used to the backs of photographers when she’s around. If she were “sullen” maybe Charles would have liked it better. But Diana did have that extra something and more than that the public took to her.
“It comes after it was revealed Kate wanted to be “front and centre” in the Royal Foundation’s work”
The Foundation the Sussexes had to detach themselves from because of major financial mismanagement? My bullshitometer is in the red zone
And apparently fighting over where the money from the cookbook went – story is that Meghan wanted all the money it raised to go direct to the Hub kitchen but others in the foundation wanted to use it elsewhere to make up for a lack of money to support the other patronages – I’ll leave you to think about who is patron of those other organisations.
Harry and then Meghan were the ones who were raising the most money that went into that Foundation, yet that money was then spent on initiatives for the other 2 who couldn’t be bothered to get out and raise money themselves for their own causes.
Maybe that’s part of why Kate’s patronage, the art room, closed. She was planning on using money raised by Meghan and Harry to prop it up, and then they made it so she couldn’t do that. Rather than actually figure something else out, she just let her patronage die. I guess if she was barely attending any foundation meetings though, they wouldn’t have been able to come up with any kind of other solution. She wasn’t there to direct them to do it and she wasn’t there to approve any ideas they came up with.
Do you think that the Hub kitchen money was what really set Willy off – that Meghan wouldn’t cowtow to his desire to use the money to fund the entire foundation? It seems like that’s when publicly he went full douchebag.
Guest who, it could be. Or at least that was probably part of it. And it might explain the whole “Meghan is working behind the scenes to shake things up” or “Meghan isn’t taking advice from anyone” and “Meghan wants to do things her way all the time” stories we got. If the royal foundation was used to always using Harry’s money to prop up will and Kate’s patronages and suddenly Meghan was like “that’s not right,” I can see how they would twist it all into “she doesn’t know her place, her job is to support the more senior royals, she’s just not listening to how we do things around here” articles. Especially since the cookbook was so obviously meant to help the Grenfell ladies. Money raised by Harry with one of his broader charities or with a mental health type of thing might make sense to put in with the broader “heads together” funds and be dispersed for other mental health things, but it really would not make sense to take the cookbook money, which had a very specific charitable goal in mind, and spend it on something like The Art Room.
@Guestwho and @Amytoo – I think the cookbook was extremely problematic for Will and Kate for several reasons. First, it was something concrete – Meghan wasn’t putting out ambiguous statements about how important it is to help people etc. She visited the women, decided to do a cookbook, and bam, did it. It happened relatively fast, and was completely under the radar – that’s not really how Will and Kate roll, as we can see from all the meetings with Jason on the CC. If they are working, they want people to know about it. It was popular and successful and raised a lot of money that Meghan wanted to maintain control of (to make sure the money went to the kitchen.)
I think in general it sent a message that Meghan was going to be a force in the royal family in more ways than one, and after the hugely successful pacific tour – that was a problem for some people.
Meghan was accused of not being a team player and wanting to take credit for things…
I went back and re-watched that early ‘Fab Four’ interview. Knowing what we know now it is so obvious that William was very unhappy and, I think angry, even at that stage. Look at his body language, his jaw clinching, and how the tenseness builds as Meghan speaks at various times. This was not a happy group. I think Harry just wanted to work on his initiatives and trusted William (who likes to be in control and be the boss) to oversee the staff and financial issues of the Foundation. When Meghan came on board, she was like ‘ woah — this is not a good working model we need to get this right’. I think she became the fly in the ointment for William. I also wonder if her paying attention to the accounts and how the money moved around revealed whatever it is that is the “legal, hush-hush major issue going on that absolutely nobody wants out in the press.
I can totally believe that.
Well, William was alarmed because Meghan has real intelligence and was not going to allow Harry to be bullied by William. Have we ever heard William say a single nice thing about his sister in law or his nephew for that matter?
“This is going to sound strange, but have you ever noticed how often the Duchess of Cambridge reboots her PR and messaging?”
Of course she has! Unfortunately, Kate (and Will) is such a bland slate, nothing they’ve been using to try and re-innovate her has ever worked, because it comes off as unbelievable and she has no personality or work ethic to back it up!
That word “reboot”, ha! Seeing it in a sentence with Duchess Keen makes me think of an android. Like they park her on a charging station between her little royals gigs. Then, they redress her, flip her switch back to “on”, upload a little “work” intel, and off she goes to the next one, grinning and making chit chat. RRs know they are embiggening a woman who has no interest or enthusiasm to work outside the home, but she’s cooperating, like releasing that recent of pic of her daughter, so they’ll play nice with her until it doesn’t “pay” any more.
Kate is so happy that you THINK she’s happy to play a bigger role after Sussexit. Fixed it for them.
She has never been interested in charity/humanitarian work, ever. Lets not pretend otherwise – she sees it as nothing more than a photo op for press attention which she loves.
All stories like this do is further prove that she was an active participant in the attacks against H&M. She’s like William and that she did not like the competition.
It’s the quarterly keen Kate update.
No matter how often they try to polish Kate, she will never shine.
It bugs me that it seems to work, though. After all these Keen Kate, new year, new Kate, this is/was Kate’s year stories, we start to get comments about how “at least she’s stepping up now!” “At least she’s working!” “It sounds like she actually has some big things lined up!” “Let’s just wait to see what she does with this before we pillory her.”
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you can’t polish a turd
Bren You can’t polish a lukewarm bowl of oatmeal.
Bottom line: The goal of the Monarch is to ensure that it continues to exist. Harry/Meghan are just like Diana before them and Charlotte/Louis after them….casualties of war. Trust me the BRF will not STOP until they feel they have put out anything and anyone that is a threat to its future. The best thing for Harry/Meghan is to make their home(s) in North America and not to compete with the Cambridge’s. Stay as far away as possible from that toxic institution and the country that allows it to thrive
The problem is, it does not matter where Harry and Meghan are living, everything coming from them will be considered by William as a threat and he won’t have it. Look at the instagram account of the Sussexes, the war is still in full force. They want them gone. They will chase them wherever they are until they are well dead. I know, it’s a horrible thing to write but yes, William wants them dead. I’m sure about this. This is my impression. The BM will support him as they already said.
When Harry and Meghan left the UK one of the head US-American trolls wrote: “Yay, we did it!” Now they saw that they can scare them off and they will continue to apply this successful method.
To be fair, I think William just wants Meghan dead. Then he can welcome his bereaved brother back into the fold. If that’s not actually the desire of the RF, it is most certainly the desire of the RRs.
Woe betide them! Gnade denen Gott!
It that happens the monarchy is over. They did it once and they cannot do it again. Harry will go on a rampage and not just him. The only thing they learned from Dianas death is that they should avoid woman with such a charisma. That is all. Where is the yearly remembrance day for Diana? They can throw a party for Andrew but no memory day for Diana. The Royal Family is a bunch of grifters.
The ONLY thing protecting Meghan is her American citizenship
I truly believe KP $$$ are behind the constant bot-bombing of the Sussexes IG account. Some have speculated it’s the Russians or RRs or the tabloids. But, the way the Cambridges have allowed nasty, hateful comments about Meghan to remain on their IG and Twitter accounts (but deleted negative comments about themselves) and never once publicly discouraged the hate against her makes me think it is part of KP’s PR strategy to destroy the Sussexes’ reputation, potential livelihood and well-being.
I think William wants Harry to “come to his senses,” take the baby with him and leave Meghan and then he once again can be “close” to his brother and sister in law and do those appearances with them. He can find a Kate clone eventually but until then he can once again be the Third Wheel.
SHE HAS HAD YEARS AND YEARS.
This behind the scenes spin is one big smoke screen.IMO.
So what’s her excuse for the other 7 years?
And I don’t believe the whole “HM and Charles stop those two from working”. Anne does the same amount of engagements as Charles year after year. So she hasn’t been asked to step back. She might not be as well known as Charles but on paper, she does the same amount of “work” as him. So why hasn’t he stopped them?
And didn’t Charles apparently hire Catherine Quinn for Kate? So she could refine her focus a bit more? Didn’t they also get a grace period to adjust and get used to it but they were supposed to actually get on with work afterwards?
So yeah I don’t think anyone higher up is stopping them.
I cant help thinking part of her arrangement with William is that he makes all their PR/image decisions and she is just stuck with whatever press comes her way. He let her be trashed over the years but maybe now understands that he needs a Meghan* of his own because nobody likes him, so he has committed to wasting all this ink embiggening Kate and her “work.” Kate seems content just to go along for the ride, look pretty, and raise her own kids. I dont know, I just think if Kate were the hideously insecure person behind such fluffy PR, it would be less obvious and embarrassing, maybe? Is that giving her too much credit?
* A Meghan, pre-media takedown. Which he apparently sponsored, prince that he is.
I think as William has grown more distracted by his… extracurricular activities… Kate, and especially her mother, have taken over more of the PR/leaking to the press, managing their image, and that’s why we now get so many Kate is Great pieces.
Because she is a white princess no one is going to poopoo on her parade.
Balls.
Imagine if she had been this keen all these years! *sigh* Maybe Harry should have gotten married years earlier so Wills & Kate could have been actually working hard this entire time, seeing as it took some “competition” for them to act like they give a damn.
So, tell me, how are they going to deal with it, if the Royal Foundation goes bankrupt? In the past they tried or did shift money from the cookbook sales to their causes, since they spent far too much for PR. How is this going to work out? They really do not know what work is and believe that what they are doing is work. This also applies to the Queen. They also consider the people to be of lower intellect. They also know nothing about finances.
Will the taxpayer keep this foundation going?
Probably William will ask for an increase in his “allowance” now that Harry is gone and funnel money into the foundation. There is no way they would let it fail and have egg on their faces. Somebody will bail Little Prince Willy and Future Kweenie out.
And that someone will be Daddy who would right off the cost of the bail out as tax deductible so therefor the UK taxpayer would end up paying for it,
Charles bailed them out from the beginning when they added Kate to the Foundation. W&K asked for donations instead of gifts, but couldn’t get over 700,000 in a nation of 60+ million. Charles (illegally?) took funds from The Prince’s Trust and gave it to their Foundation, to get them over the 1 million mark in donations.
The Queen and Charles are both masters at moving, hiding, and gaming their money — both private and public They are both known to have off shore accounts that they don’t report details. Forbes did a piece on this about a decade ago, and I’m sure Queen and Charles have only become more astute. They want us to see them as a loveable, stable family representing core values of Britain. What they are is a multi billion dollar conglomerate that functions just like any other group of that nature. Someone above said that the royal family does what it has to to survive. I totally agree with this statement.
I’m thinking about all of the active work we’re hearing about that Harry and Meghan are putting into their foundation. Fundraising, meeting people are very wealthy and want t spend money charitably, meeting with Stanford university presumably about best practices for their foundation, and it’s not even up and running yet. What do will and Kate do for their foundation? Where does it get its money? Because we rarely hear anything about it or anything about them fundraising for it. The types of projects they do don’t raise money like the cookbook did. How does a survey, that they’ve spent a ton of money promoting, raise money for the foundation? It’s not even PR for the foundation. If you took the survey and that it led you to a website where you could donate to the foundation to support early childhood causes, then it could at least be considered a marketing tool. But they’re spending a lot of money on the survey with those banners and posters that we see at her engagements, and having to pay whoever is web hosting the survey, and analyzing the data (and apparently they’ll be doing a lot of sorting through it on the back end to get rid of all the non-UK responses and deal multiple survey responses from the same people since you can take it over and over again) and it’s not going to contribute any money to the foundation.
This was never an independent Foundation, but had staff paid by taxpayers. Two volunteer directors quit in four months, so we know financials are sketchy. We haven’t heard how much, if any, money was raised by their yachting play day last year either.
Harry and Meghan are making an independent Foundation that has to raise enough to support all paid staff.
What is the point of their foundation then? Just to be another layer of busy work bureaucracy? To give them people to meet with so it can look like they’re doing something? But Kate doesn’t even meet with them? It seems like they use it as a big conglomerate with letter head that all their patronages and charities go through (but why?) and it just adds layers of distance between them and the work they’re doing. Since they rarely do things with their foundation, and most of Kate’s engagements are walkabouts and visits, why do they even need a foundation? I don’t get what this foundation does at all.
All of that. It gives them the ability to accept donations, and have staff direct the use of those donations for maximum PR. Without W or K doing much of anything.
So, it’s Harry and Meghan’s fault this woman has been sitting on her ass all this time? She was called ‘Duchess Do-Little’ before Harry ever met Meghan.
I have no doubt that Normal Bill and Keen Katie are ecstatic over their successful campaign to drive their much more popular bi-racial sister-in-law out of the family and the country. And they probably love being the face of Brexit Britain. But the majority of their fanbase is old and getting older all the time. IF and when the two of them become King and Queen Consort, they’re going to get a big shock when they realize they’re completely out of step with an England that’s more diverse than it is today. How are they going to explain their embrace of racism and sexual assault THEN?
Ugh. She’s so KEEN.
Let’s see how long they can prop up this facade before the chord snaps. There is no relaxation in her smiles. There is this look of almost panic behind them that she has to be out there and people have to like her. Maybe if she put in five pounds the stress wouldn’t be so obvious in her face? She always looked better and happier with her pregnancy weight.
Well from what I’ve seen she doesn’t look too ecstatic. She looks stressed, exhausted and thin. I think Sussexit has taken more out of her than she ever anticipated, along with Wm’s alleged philandering. He must be a total prick to be married to and she just flounders around trying to pacify him. The whitewashing of these two is beyond ridiculous and their continuing efforts to diminish Meghan and Harry’s work is hateful.
Absolutely right on.
Kate might end up with a full-blown breakdown (look at the women who married into the Japan imperial family, and how it broke them). But if that happens, it will be blamed on the stress Meghan caused her, and the exhausting work schedule Kate was forced to do (the work of TWO princesses!), rather than the real cause (hint: her husband).
Yes, there is a lot of stress on Kate right now, look at the way the media keep saying that she has now gained confidence, she has now found her voice, she is now growing into her role. This is piling the pressure on her to step up. I can imagine the rows behind the scenes between her and William over how they now have to change their lifestyles.
I wonder …are they still going on that skiing trip?
I really miss the Sussexes and their energy. It’s back to headline skimming for the royals, if even that, because what they do is just not that interesting and their newspapers are so toxic. I guess they’re earning that taxpayer coin being a distraction from whatever is happening in their politics because that seems to be a lead-footed mess, with incels and eugenicists at Downing Street, serious talk of Irish unification, and a non-presence at the most recent NATO summit. Just here for Harry and Meghan. That’s it.
There’s a reason why you’ve BARELY seen any useful work out of W&K over the last several years…It’s because they didn’t want to work….didn’t want to establish a relevant footprint…so personally, I am going to enjoy the HELL outta seeing them doing stuff they NEVA wanted to do….
Uh-huh. Sure.
If they aren’t working, what do they do all day, every day with their time?
What’s her excuse pre-Meghan, though? Lol! I have no particular beef with Kate, but I feel like it’s well known at this point that she and William are not the hardest workers.
Ok, sure she is. If she was as Keen as they say she is, nothing was stopping her before from making a meaningful contribution to her chartable causes.
All the other royals had children and worked 10x more than she has. Her engagements keep her away from the house for what 1-2 hours? Especially if they are close to home? She could leave after she drops the kids off at school, and be home before they return. Since she doesn’t cook or clean or shop or do errands, so I don’t understand the hardship. never have.
and let’s not forget she has a helicopter at her disposal when the engagements aren’t close to home!
Exactly!
Uh-oh, y’all. Kathy’s got “plans and ideas.” I simply cannot WAIT until 2028 to find out what they are.
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
2028 is a bit optimistic don’t you think?
I went to the royal foundation page and it says that her ultimate goals are…chachaaan:
“The Duchess’s longer-term aim is to create a partnership between experts and organisations in order to build strong collaboration, and to raise awareness of issues like perinatal, maternal and infant mental health, and the need for parenting support and advice, as well as resources for schools and educators.”
I think her goal is too vague, and awareness? Really? 8 years for that?
Resources for schools and educators… please those well versed, do you see any links created by her keeness that provide actual resources for educators and schools? You know an actual online repository of materials and tools created by experts, ready to be dowloaded. Maybe we’ve missed the congresses and conventions to share info about this topic that she has been working on for almost a decade.
I wonder what does “long term” mean… in her terms 🤔
LOL! Ha ha haaaa! ROFL
Thanks for sharing what you found on the website. Just a bunch of words. Anyone with common sense can see that there’s nothing of real substance or specificity being said.
This whole ‘childhood development’ blather smacks of desperation. It reminds me of the Environmental project Wm unveiled at the end of December, which is set up around bringing experts together to create some environmental solutions that Wm can then come in and hand out awards for! Like everything else the Lamebridges have been trying to do in the past couple of years, this Kate Keen survey project smacks of something rushed together, forced and not well thought through.
Meanwhile, M&H came together and began impressing everyone with real, hands-on genuineness and worthwhile projects created after advance research and preparation. The projects that M&H have undertaken are substantive, beneficial, and have measurable impact.
Okay but what is SHE going to do? Because this sounds like she just wants to give charities the contact information of some experts so THEY can work together to raise awareness about stuff. Without her.
What will SHE do? How will SHE be instrumental? She wants to basically create a Rolodex of all the people who know about early childhood development and give it to all the people who work in early childhood development? That’s not a meaningful project. That’s not even a needed project. It’s not a real concrete thing she can do that will show demonstrable and measurable results for the children of the U.K.. It just sounds a way to make experts and charities talk to each other using her foundation as a middle man so she can get credit for the work they both do.
Or maybe she’s the person who wants to raise awareness of the things that are important and that people need? The long sentence isn’t very clear. But again, that’s not a project that provides results for anyone. That’s just her continuing to tell us that childhood development is important and parents and teachers need “resources.” Is she going to help them get the resources or just remind us that some vague “resources” are needed?
It would be interesting to do a comparison of the financial reports for last four years – an idea I got from reading some of the older comments. It will explain whether it is ‘have’ to or ‘need’ to. Would she be able to fill the big shoes of the Sussexes?
Wow that’s a fantastic photo of William with Kate. He’s never looked better!
Oh wait, it’s a snake. Sorry, it’s a natural mistake.
I’m a bit salty. On my news I saw the headline run by the Daily Mail that The Queen has forbid Meghan and Harry to use Sussex Royal and all their trademarks will have to be abandoned. I guess they will have to rename their foundation and re brand. I actually did read the article and I can’t tell if this is a surprise now to the Sussexes or if they already knew and anticipated this and it’s only just now becoming public knowledge. I can’t even tell if this is something the Queen decided or the creepy gray men interpreting the laws a certain way.
I hope Meghan and Harry rebrand and then ignore the royal family as much as they possibly can. Post only the most perfunctory birthday wishes in IG and leave that dysfunctional family in their rear view mirror.
For some reason I’m seeing a lot of negative stories on them and a virtual love fest of headlines on my news aggregators for Kate, so I guess this is the BRF’s and the UK’s media’s way of welcoming the Sussexes back “home” for the Commonwealth festivities.
I hope Archie stays in Canada out of sight. His so called family doesn’t give a crap if they see him anyway. They have the direct heir and current spares to fuss over.
Guest with Cat. That snarky humor about William & Kate photo. —- oh, it’s Kate with a snake — was very well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I still say the Sussexes should blow the Firm out of the water and relabel as SussexGlobal. 💃🏻
Yes, SussexGlobal would be even better.
+1, I’m a fan of SussexGlobal. PH is and always will be Royal and he brings that cache.
Honestly I was hoping they’d ditch Sussex Royal and create as much distance between them and the Royal Family as much as possible as spring approaches. The Sussex Royal name gives the press another reason to keep tabs on them (which they’ll do anyway but still) it may be harder to get the public all riled about H&M with them as independent as possible from the royal family. I say good riddance. THEY are their brand. They don’t need the name.
Boo to the Queen and the disgusting Lamebridges. I hope that M&H already anticipated this would happen and are ahead of the curve in making the necessary changes. I think I read here or somewhere online a suggestion for the Sussexes to simply use: ‘The Sussex Global Foundation,’* and be done with it. Harry will always be royal because he was born into it. But I read that he doesn’t care about the HRH title and he never wanted to be called a prince anyway. Still, he will always be royal and he will always be a prince because he was born a royal prince.
I figure that Harry may not be pleased about the nastiness that telling them they can’t use ‘HRH’ and “royal’ indicates, but otherwise I don’t think he or Meghan care about the titles, because they have each other, and they have Archie. Harry didn’t want his son to be given a title for a reason. M&H do not have to change the name of their Instagram, because that’s not a requirement for an Instagram tag. Any name or set of words can be used.
ETA:
*Ah, I see that it was you @JA LowCountryLady, who suggested ‘SussexGlobal.’ I hope that M&H got that suggestion and will be using it. Thanks!
It’s segregation at its finest, history won’t forget how they were treated.the RF can pose with as many ethnic people as they like, it’s not gonna change how people see them. Only racist right wingers love them.
I wish Kate would go full out party animal, like Margaret. It won’t happen, but it would be funny to see Billy’s face.
Tee hee! You are too funny. LOL!
Well, let’s settle in because this is going to be the refrain for quite a while. Until she becomes POW: “oh gee Katie is keen to roll up her sleeves and really start working now. Buuuuuut, TQ and Charles don’t want her to do more. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, the kids need her. Buuuut, she is supporting William through this difficult time.”
When she becomes POW: “oh gee, Katie is keen to roll up her sleeves and really start working now. Buuuuut, the kids still need her. Buuuut, Charles and William depend on her to be the ‘rock’ of the family now that TQ is gone. Buuuut, she’s preparing a new Duchy Originals chutney line.”
When she becomes QC: “oh gee, Katie is keen to be a hands-on queen consort. Buuuuut, she has to make sure George is prepared to be king and, of course, Charlotte and Louis, now in their 30s, still need her. Buuut, the royal chutney isn’t going to make itself. Buuuut, she has to support her dear sweet pigeon-love William as he becomes king.”
How interesting that Kate is now so keen. Where was she when her charity Art Room was closing? Why wasn’t she keen to do anything to help them stay open?