It is still so funny, isn’t it? Tatler’s “Catherine the Great” cover story landed like a clusterbomb in Kensington Palace and the British aristocracy. The message was “we don’t have to embiggen the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge anymore.” The message was “it’s fair game to give Will and Kate the kind of bitchy coverage we’ve reserved for the Sussexes for the past two years.” And lord, Will and Kate were NOT ready. They thought they still controlled things. They thought that everyone would have to continue to kiss their royal bums because they were they only “young, sexy” royals in town now, having successfully exiled the Sussexes. So Tatler’s piece came as a shock, and lordy, the Keens are still BIG MAD. So is it a “shock” that there have been complaints to IPSO, the independent “regulator” of UK print media? What’s shocking to me is that there were only TWO complaints. You know the Keens have probably tried to file dozens of complaints.
Will the Queen have to cancel her subscription to Tatler? The magazine known as the “society bible” might seem the least likely title to provoke a war of words with the Palace – but now the press regulator is set to adjudicate over an explosive profile of the Duchess of Cambridge which infuriated its subject and divided the publication’s readership. Ipso said it will investigate two complaints that the July cover story, headlined “Catherine the Great” breached accuracy rules.
Kensington Palace, which has yet to lodge its own complaint with the regulator, is considering legal action against Tatler over the article, which it says contains a “swathe of inaccuracies and false representations.” For Catherine, the piece was a bombshell betrayal by an editor who once called her a friend and boasted that the monthly chronicle of high-society parties and aristocratic models was the Duchess’s favourite magazine.
Tatler is believed to have approached Kensington Palace in February to ask if Catherine would pose for their cover or provide an exclusive cover photo. When that request was declined, Ms Pasternak worked her contacts to produce a piece which, although flattering in parts, included claims which the Duke and Duchess’s aides insist are “lies.”
In a reference to the eating disorders suffered by Diana, the Princess of Wales, the Duke’s mother, the article said: “Kate has become perilously thin, just like, some point out, Princess Diana.” A “sexist and woman shaming” jibe, say royal sources who suggest that Kensington Palace was not offered the chance to comment on the specific content of Pasternak’s article.
The rest of that piece is just a repeat of previous stories, like the suggestion that Duchess Meghan is behind it because her friend’s sister-in-law used to know Anna Pasternak 20 years ago or something. It’s all pretty stupid, but I’m fascinated by the fact that ONLY TWO complaints were made. I wonder who made them and I wonder which quotes were seen as “inaccurate,” to the point that IPSO could reasonably investigate. I mean, my mind went to Carole Middleton. Did she lodge a complaint? Who else? WHAT IF IT WAS ROSE HANBURY LOL? Oh Jesus, I can’t go there – I would end up sitting here for hours, spinning conspiracies. At this point, it’s simply hilarious that Will and Kate can’t let this go. After months years of smearing Meghan and then gaslighting her about the smears and telling her she could not ever, EVER react, here are the Keens turning a bitchy Tatler story into an utter communications debacle.
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I doubt it’s any of the Turnip Toffs filing a complaint. Their mantra is, never apologize, never explain, never complain. Plus they were mostly referred to as a collective blob in the article so if one complained, it would out them.
Idk, lots of aristos have talked to the press or sued the press on various occasions. But they probably think this is too dumb and funny and too piercingly anti-Kate to complain about.
I’m curious about context here, namely were any complaints ever filed about gross stories on Meghan? Is tabloid gossip usually kind of exempt?
I personally filed complaints to ipso on behalf of Meghan for most stories and they didn’t do anything. For this ipso story to have reached the press, someone filed it possibly Carole or maybe Kate herself and told the press. Because it’s not like you can see a database of who filed complaints Or if complaints were filed on each story. They’re just blowing it out of proportion and trying to make her look like a victim.
Two complaints and neither was from KP lol. Who is complaining? Carole, for sure. But who else?
Pippa?
Seconding Pippa. Crying in the shadows of her sister and husband apparently, looooool
They should have ignored that issue and all these nonsense would have been over 2 weeks ago . Now they are just fanning the flames and making fools of themselves. I actually think kp is doing that to scare other pple from writing unflattering things about them in the future. They have enjoyed being sainted so they dont want to go back to how they were treated before scapegoat Meghan married in, so they are doing a preemptive attack
May I file a complaint about that black lace dress and the white lining? Bleh.
LOL Dee!
Can anyone just randomly make an IPSO complaint? I would have to think that the formal complaints are linked to people in the article, one of them being Carole.
I think members of the public can make a complaint to IPSO.
Members of the public can. I have no behalf of Meghan numerous times and they didn’t do anything about it.
Well that actually makes the two complaints look even worse if anyone can make a complaint.
If the complaints aren’t from KP, then my guesses for the complaints are Ma Middleton and Pippa.
The classism in that article was pretty appalling. I had to check what year it was several times reading it. Tatler has not changed with the times clearly since they are still living out their 18th century glory days.
I just don’t get it. Turning your nose up at someone because of some aspect about them they can’t control, like race, or age, or the social class you’re born into. I’m more impressed by people who work hard and move up the social ladder than I am by people who did nothing to earn their extraordinary position in life except being born.
If this year has shown anything so far it should be how far the gap between the titled uber-wealthy and the middle class has become. I hope things change and that we start treating our fellow human beings equally and not adding asterisks/qualifiers to our treatment of others.
These people make fun of you for having a tarmac driveway!
Apparently St Andrews, the Uni Kate and William attended used to have an African themed party called the ‘Bongo Ball’!
They are so, so. so pathetic, and no one actually rates them but themselves.
The really sad part is that in the UK, these are same people who get the majority of jobs in government, the legal system and in the media.
These ghouls run the country!
My driveway is asphalt so I’m clearly an unwashed peasant 😀
I took a ‘History of the British Empire’ class back in undergrad. We were learning about colonialism and I remember the teacher calling Kenya “the aristocrat’s playground” because all the English nobility would just go party down in Kenya shooting things, making the people whose country they destroyed wait on them, and LARPing their “Out of Africa” colonialist dream.
That’s all I can ever think about when William and Harry go on about Africa and their love for Africa.
These ghouls (love that!) have their system in place by keeping the plebs out. It’s scary that they control literally everything that controls everybody.
William’s 21st birthday had an Out of Africa theme. So I think that tells you where that family stands on racial issues.
Yes it is. Also a foreigner literally stands no chance to be accepted as a well.. human being who is not below them.
Only 2? Jesus! From going by what the Kate stans were reacting, I’m surprised that it wasn’t 1000s.
I accidentally dropped into a twitter conversation among the Cambridge fans discussing Christian Jones leaking stories about the Sussexes to Dan Wootton and they were shook! Usually they can twist any old accusation into a conspiracy about Meghan, but even they were calling for Christian to be sacked and for Kate and William to distance themselves from him.
I’m really interested on how they will take it if more tea is spilled showing that their faves were complicit in the bullying by the media.
uuuuu I want to read it, do spill more tea
The longer Jones remains employed by them the more it looks like they condoned the behaviour. What was leaked to Wootton wasn’t minor. While tiara gate was a silly story, the fact that Wootton got wind of Sussexit indicates that they had a huge hole in the system.
For comparison. 3000+ complaints were filed by everyday people when the Sun published the Las Vegas photos of Harry.
It’s got to be Ma Midds and Pippa filing those two complaints.
And from what I understand of the IPSO, even though it’s an “independent” regulatory board, it doesn’t wield a lot of actual media power? The impression I have is that one can complain to the IPSO, but the tabloids and papers aren’t bound to its rulings? (Would love someone with a day-to-day grasp of what it does to elaborate more- and thank you!)
All I can really remember about it is that it’s a regulatory body that was created by and is currently manned by major figures in the industry it is trying to regulate, and that it hasn’t issued a fine for misconduct even ONCE since it was created over a decade ago.
Tatler must be loving all of this publicity.
Sure why not? Its tax payer money they’re suing with anyway.
REALLY? Can someone please tell me what ‘personal’ money do they use of their own? Have the Princes ever even touched their inheritance? Even when they go to mustique, want to go to the movies? Do they even touch their own money ???
Both William & Harry got access to their inheritances from Diana at 30. The Princes’ households are funded by Charles. They use their money when they want to, but William is notorious for being a cheapskate. They both use their friends’ jets and homes when necessary.
They do not. That’s how all of them stay so rich. For instance, the Cambridges, Sussexes, and Charles use friends’ private jets and homes to avoid spending money. Kate and Meghan both started buying more expensive, designer, and/or bespoke clothes once they got on Charles’s dime (I think that is indirectly taxpayer money). I doubt any of them pay taxes; I know the queen has offshore accts. They also do not donate their own money, they all ask people who aren’t as privileged to shell out for charity. Not a single one of them could afford the lifestyles they have if they lived off their own money.
It’s literally a group of wealthy, grown adults – with families – living off of people less fortunate than them and mooching off other richer people to preserve their money. If you’re a regular person and lived like that you’d get called a basement dweller or trust-fund baby. It’s truly pathetic and parasitic.
For inheritances? William and Harry have their inheritance from Diana. Beatrice, Eugenie, Zara, Peter, William, and Harry have funds they inherited from the Queen Mum. Louise and James missed out on that. There is talk Diana’s inheritance from her father was put in trust for Harry, but I’ve never seen proof of that.
It speaks volumes that KP has yet to file anything directly. If KP thought they had a leg to stand on, they’d initiate proceedings immediately. The fact that they haven’t means that they have nothing, the article was accurate, and they know they have no case. I do however think they are behind the complaints that were filed, whether they came from Carole and Pippa or some further removed KP lackey.
I agree with you, Sunday. They know they don’t have a leg to stand on, so why take a chance and make thinks worse? Also notice that Michael Middleton was smart enough not to be implicated in the social climbing of his wife and daughters? It must have been agony living with try-hard and scheming Carole all those years knowing that he was just a second best pleb in her eyes.
Don’t get me wrong I cant stand this family, but maybe they’re not as bothered as all these follow ups have made out, hence the lack if complaints? I don’t know…
As for the point re Michael Midd, I would love to have been a fly on the wall when those kids were growing up. It mustve been crazy watching Carole push them and probably brainwash them into accepting her plans and schemes to nab Kate a Prince. I wonder if any of them ever thought it would actually come off and also what the reality would entail for the rest of Kate’s life (my guess is no, the goal was just to marry William and worry about the rest later).
Even the human rights letter went out quicker than this. Speaking of which, it will be hard to try to make threats based on EU law with Brexit happening. Look for the Tories to pass new privacy laws to match what existed in the EU law so that people like William can hide their actions.
TWO COMPLAINTS MMMMMM OLE MA KAREN (carole) MIDDLETON AND KAREN(pippa)middleton
They’re quite the thin-skinned, hypocritical pair aren’t they? That doesn’t bode well for a future king and queen…how embarassing.
The only reason these little gossip got leaked is because the Cambridges want to look like they’re doing something about the Tatler article, which they aren’t. They embarrassed because Dennen called their bluff, LOL. Such a pathetic pair of pukesters these two are!! 🤢 🤢🤢🤢
Did this article correct the original claim from KP about “false MISrepresentations”? Maybe they have a better copyeditor!
I notice this story confirms what many of the posters here have previously pointed out, that KP has not actually sued, hoping that huffing and puffing would get the result they wanted. I assume the EOC of Tatler knows this play already.
I hope the two complaints are from “Shmate Shmiddleton” and her husband Bill.
Real news took over this story and no one is that interested in her faux outrage. Side note, but no way Kate has her original nose.
Pathetic😂