The Duchess of Cambridge finally realized that going on and on about Tatler’s Catherine the Great cover story wasn’t a good look. The last stories which – I feel – were directly “pushed” by Kensington Palace happened one week ago – the Sun talking about how Kate “remains hurt and upset” about the Tatler piece, and how she still feels like Meghan was behind it, plus Dan Wootton’s curious piece about how insulting it was to… Carole Middleton. Last weekend, Kate and William tried to “turn the page” from the Tatler debacle by revealing their secret volunteer work and such. They haven’t pushed any stories about Tatler all week. So… what is this?
The Duchess of Cambridge was hit hard by the remarks made in an article which graced Tatler’s July/August cover – because she ‘is very keen to stop the constant comparisons between herself and Meghan Markle’, according to a former royal editor. Kate, 38, is said to be considering legal action against the society bible magazine, with Kensington Palace saying the Catherine The Great article contained a ‘swathe of inaccuracies and false representations’.
Duncan Larcombe, a former royal editor, told New magazine, via OK!, that Kate was particularly upset by the article because she is ‘very keen’ to stop comparisons being drawn between herself and her sister-in-law.
He said: ‘It’s almost as though they want to draw a line in the sand where it’s gone a bit too far.’
He said that the constant comparisons between the two women makes it seem like ‘Kate is almost used by some outlets as a stick to beat Meghan with’.
‘We know William and Kate are very sensitive about comparisons with Meghan. The narrative of that falling out between William and Kate and Harry and Meghan touches a nerve.’
Larcombe used to work for The Sun and he was once arrested for bribery because he was paying people for information about royals and politicians. His post-Sun work has been to write shady royal biographies and appear on panel discussions about the royal family. My vibe – and I sincerely don’t care enough to do in-depth research on him – is that he is pro-Keen, pro-Cambridge. So with that vibe, what is this? His explanation makes zero sense – Will and Kate want to stop the “comparisons”? Kate doesn’t want to be used “as a stick to beat Meghan with”? That’s exactly what Kate and William both want – they want to be compared favorably to Harry and Meghan. Kate authorized Tatler to write that story – which blew up in her face – specifically to compare herself favorably to Meghan yet again, to set herself up as “the perfect duchess” compared to Meghan’s “evil duchess.” Even in all of the palace statements, Will and Kate never took issue with the stories contained in Tatler about Kate and Meghan’s beef. Kate was only upset about the other quotes.
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Maybe they’re starting to realize just how petty and hateful they seem, and they’re trying to turn that ship around. It would absolutely benefit Kate to stop being so horrible to her sister-in-law…it would repair some of her public image to publicly ‘support’ Meghan instead of the BS they’re doing now. It’s too little too late, of course, but hey there’s an attempt.
I also think the BLM momentum, has sent shivers down the spines of KP.
That, and the upcoming book on the Sussexes. I wonder if they are afraid that the revelations in the book will make the backlash against the RF’s racism even greater.
absolutely @Jegede they read the room as it were and realized people may actually notice all the dog whistles now
Yeah, I agree. It could be that they realize they’ll never ‘win’ a comparison with the Sussexes.
It’s like that computer in the movie War Games who says at the end “Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
I agreed. Maybe they started to read the room and realized that in middle of protests about racism, keep silent about her make them look as petty racist…as i actually think hey really are.
Imagine if she had had the foresight to wear a couple pieces from the Smart Set collection. Would have done wonders for her image towards her sister-in-law. Alas, we know how that turned out. Don’t think time is on the side of that institution, but, they may have been able to garner a few more years of good will.
If Kate had been seen carrying the John Lewis tote would have been enough to show her support but she and the entire family couldn’t be bothered to do the smallest thing to show support.
The ship has sailed and nothing the kp dwellers do will change how sane pple think of them, besides it’s not like they want to change, they are doing it cos they lost, they are now seen as bullies and useless.
Only until the Sussexes can come home together and the Cambridges lose their bad attitude. I doubt it though.
She cannot have her cake and eat it too. The nastiness is coming to light and they don’t want it to. Too bad so sad.
Yep and that media over there knows it. William and Kate made a bad judgment call getting in bed with those papers. Harry and Meghan made the right call by not playing the game and cutting them off.
Kate thinks Meghan was behind the Tatler piece? What?? Getting in bed with papers has NEVER been Meghan’s game.
Press karma is here for these 2 – they got into bed with the wrong tabloid editors. Out of all of them, past and present, Dan Wootton is the worst – he is a nasty nasty bully. That fact that one of his team clearly is the whistleblower says it all about what his own staff think of him and that they are willing to sell him out.
You reap what you sow people!!!
I think that the sting for them (Wills and the Middleton Clan) that karma knows no boundaries. Which is hilarious.
Yeah, Wootten is nasty – forcing Scofield to come out on national television is so fucking gross. Imagine doing that to another person and thinking that it is just doing business.
He’s been nasty about Harry and Meghan but IMO forcing a person to out themselves is just horrendous. Especially since the man in question was married. Wootten threw a bomb into the private life of a family without any scruples. It is gross and Wootten is gross.
Something is going on 😂 I don’t know what but this sudden turn of events from the absolute onslaught abuse to now, everyone wanting to praise, apologize and back off the Sussexes is suspicious. The RF and media seem to be in damage control mode, they’re clearly afraid of the book, the lawsuits/BLM movement or the media miss their money maker stars or the monarchy wants them back because the interest left with them. Whatever it is, it’s not working or the least bit believable. Harry and Meghan will never likely return and they all know that. Too much has been said and done especially to Meghan that has been unforgivable.and disgusting. Now that family and media are losing and it will only be a matter of time before they turn on each other, which seems to be happening.
Also Duncan Larcombe is obsessed with Harry and has been for years. He said something really stupid that Harry would be boring if he got married or something to that affect. He, like all those other reporters want Harry back to be their drinking buddy again. It’s absolutely toxic.
There’s this weird undercurrent of “how dare Harry get married and not live like a bachelor” narrative among the RRs and it is creepy as fuck.
It really is creepy. I believe they wanted Harry to wind up like Princess Margaret–alcoholic spare, (eventually) stuck in an unhappy marriage, periodically acting out so as to be cast as the foil for the heir who “never puts a foot wrong.”
These same bots want him to return to those who love him: William and Kate (!!!!!!!) So ridiculous.
So now she wants to be stop being compared to Meghan? She certainly had no problems participating in that FlyBe stunt. And note how none of the articles say Kate is upset about her apparently accusing Meghan of throwing her kids under the bus.
Exactly @Sofia.
Kate was also not concerned with any comparison when they criticized Meghan for touching her pregnant belly (and praised Kate’s maternal instinct when she did it as well)
She wasn’t bothered when the tabloids accused Meghan for trying to kill Charlotte with her wedding flowers, when Kate used the same ones at her wedding.
She wasn’t bothered when the papers gave her credit for Meghan’s work with Smart Works on the Smart Collection.
She wasn’t bothered by all the rest of the times they criticized Meghan for the clothes she wore, when Kate had often worn similar things and got praised for her “Royal Style”
She wasn’t bothered about the constant comparisons in the press depicting Meghan as a rude and difficult Duchess and her a quiet “never-put-a-wrong-foot” saint.
She wasn’t bothered by the comparison when they called Meghan a middle-class (or lower), gold-digging, fame-seeking, social climber, when really Kate and her family are the biggest money/fame hungry social climbers there are.
I could go on and on about how unbothered she was by the comparison whenever she came out on top.
When are those stupid Brits going to stop with the phony articles? There is nothing they can do at this point to make the Kensington Karen and Kevin look good. There are too many articles that attacked Meghan to make Karen look better that she enjoyed. What’s changed?
@Cosmo – Karen and Kevin need to get there asses in gear because, per the Daily Fail in a story posted today, the 69 year old Princess Royal will return to “real normal Royal work” by way of an appearance with a reception to thank the COVID-19 workers currently working at the “Duke of Gloucester Barracks” on 16 June 2020. The Princess Royal has three more official appearances scheduled for the same week.
Mtec one of the best was the Sun’s article when the feud rumours first started that Meghan& Kate couldn’t get on because Meghan was more sexual& Kate is an introvert. The racist tropes jumped out!
Anyway I don’t believe Duncan is speaking for KP. Not sure why he still gets interviews. He’s knee deep in current phone hacking allegations
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Yeap. Oh, trust me, I remember. That and how some RR reporters would say Meghan knew “exactly where to wear her skirts” to show off her legs (I’m paraphrasing) but by that they meant she wears them just short enough to be “tantalizing” and how she “gives sensual looks”–& to them that means a woman who they find sexually attractive don’t deserve respect. In that same article, they described Kate in a very boring way, but it was their way of saying look, this White woman, unlike Meghan and her Biracial wiles, deserves praise and respect. It’s a common thing for racists and sexists to hypersexualize WOC and infantilize White women. They do this with little girls too, it’s called Adultification.
It’s also, unfortunately, a very common thing that many men do, when they find women sexually attractive, they are unable to see them as a person, they dehumanize them. It’s so effing messed up.
What MTEC said. All of it.
Only one princess flashed while on duty and it wasn’t Meghan. To even write that article about Meghan after numerous flashing incidents from the other one shows how racist they were.
So, if I remember correctly, didn’t Keens mother have her switch universities to be with Wil? I think that is how she became at St. Andrews. I just checked, and she was heading for Edinburgh but she dropped them, took a gap year, and applied to St. Andrews when it was confirmed that Wil was headed there as well. I also read that Carole had a “talk” with Wil in regards to where their relationship was going and he assured her it was strong, but she apparently pressured Wil that an engagement had better be in their future, which he agreed upon. So Wil was strong armed into marrying her! How horrified I would be to find that my own mother came between our relationship to pressure my boyfriend! She has got some balls on her!! No wonder she is seen as evil as she is, because only an evil woman would do that!!
Oh, last I heard was she does feel hurt and like Meghan is behind the Tatler article.
She loved being the stick that beat Meghan when the outcome was she was the ‘perfect demure English rose’. But when she is just the mean girl it’s not a good look.
They need to stop trying to fix this.
Especially when she didn’t have a problem with Meghan being torn to shreds by the press. She was okay with the racism Meghan was receiving, just as long as her ‘perfect English Rose image’ was left intact. I’m here for the Windsor’s pressing the self-destruct button on themselves. Let me get the popcorn!
That is rich…that really takes the cake. Mean Girl Kate, who cannot even remain civil to Harry and Meghan during a church function, the one place you are really not allowed to treat others like shit…Keen Kate who is happy to jump on each and every photo op to uptstage her in laws like the infamous flight stunt…Work Shy Kate who takes 8 years to come up with five questions…this tone deaf, superficial, self centered, Victorian woman with a buttons fetish now is trying to jump on the “woke” train?
First is Carole the victim of classism…now Kate is do angry at being used as a prop to beat other woman wants to sue?
What is next? Is she going to order some black lives matter marshmallows?
This seems like classic gaslighting. Attack ‘unstable’ ‘homesick’ Harry and ‘rude’ Meghan, while saying they are the real victims of the these anti-Meghan leaks…
Was that why she participated in the nice little Von Trapp family Flybe stunt? If that was not meant to be a stick to beat Meghan with, then I don’t know what is.
On the most recently Royally Obsessed podcast, the hosts called out the UK press treatment of Meghan as RACIST. It is so amusing to see that despite all the panel discussions and shouting matches on ITV and other outlets, after all the gas lighting post Sussexit opinion pieces, the world outside of Britain sees the treatment of Meghan for what it was. Also a wheel graphic showing the different elements of domestic abuse was posted on Twitter as a response to the Sun’s awful domestic abuse apologist front page article. Almost every wheel spoke could also be applied to the relentless abuse endured by Meghan. The sane and reasonable world saw and still sees the abuse and knows who the abusers are. It is way too late for Kate to remove herself as a stick to beat Meghan with. Way too late!
Hopefully her new private secretary can help KP stick to a narrative. You got Richard Kay saying one thing, Dan Wootton saying another, now this. I see why Harry didn’t bother with all the “sources say” and just gave interviews or released statements outright. Who knows what W&K actually think at this point, they change their stance on H&M depending on how their last stance was received. I know H&M must be relieved to get away from all the waffling and dissembling.
That’s one of the most frustrating things for me, an outsider, to see. The story changes by day and by past reception.
This is soooo #teamboth. Whenever the kitchen gets too hot for Kate and people rightly start pointing out her bullshit, her stans start crying uncle and want to play that “can’t we stop trashing the duchesses, leave both of them alone! !”. This is so on brand. Lol
This is a non story from Daily Mail. It must be comforting for The Cambridges, that they have so many mouthpiece, and cleaners with their mop buckets, from the media/RR, who come and deligently clean up all the bullshit for them. What was one of Meghan’s sayings, ‘Allow Your Enemies, The Space To Hate, and in the Process, They Will Destroy Themselves”. The Tatler, has exposed Kate, as nothing more than a scheming Commoner, A Sheep in Wolves clothing. She ain’t seen nothing yet. The Meghan’s stories have dried up. Perform Kate for your Court.
The bots are still posting the Perfect Kate messages on social media. And trashing Meghan at the same time. So sick of the endless Meghan “came between the brothers” who were “so close” (LOL). ANd William and Kate get off scot free.
LMAO. Now that she got what she wanted and Meghan is gone, NOW she doesn’t want to be the “stick they beat Meghan with” LOL. You’re 3 years too late girlie. Should’ve nipped it in the bud when you had the chance, but then again why would you, when you gained THE MOST from Meghan’s abuse and probably facilitated a lot it.
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Kate doesn’t like being compared to Meghan and coming out like the lazy mediocre person that she has proven to be for years. She is perfectly fine with being portrayed as the perfect English Rose and mother while Meghan is trashed. Her silence is complicity and she showed her ass bitching about the Tatler article while remaining silent when Meghan was non stop trashed by the tabloids, many of the stories that she could have easily shut down herself with a statement. She can refute botox and hair extensions but not cry gate or tights gate or whatever the story is now, as it was still out there unrefuted last week.
Catherine may be an English rose.
But she is not THE English Rose. (Rose Who?)
What’s up with Rose Who? Is she quarantined at her estate? Doing naughty zooms with Wandering William? (shudder)
Let me just fix the ellipsis “duchess kate doesn’t want to be used as a stick to beat Meghan with as her sole purpose of driving the Black duchess out of UK has finally come to fruition. Also, if some royal reporter could please somehow distort kweenie’s above mentioned decision into DUCHESS KATE SUPPORTS #BLM for she finally saved/set Meghan free from the “inferior duchess” narrative, the Middletons would send them roses.”
Flowers, but maybe not roses.
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Spot on.
Maybe she’s coming to terms with the fact that her smear campaign against Meghan didn’t work at all. It flopped miserably, just like everything Kate has done in her life. The smear campaign only excelled Meghan’s fame, highlighted the diabolical racism that occurs in the UK and shone a light on all the amazing achievements Meghan has done throughout her career. It left Kate looking like the ‘doors-to-manual’ doormat she always has been.
Maybe Kate feels guilty now, or maybe she’s just as stupid as we all knew she was. Scoring PR points to save her own skin makes her look dumb.
She only wants it to stop because now she’s not smelling like roses in comparison anymore. Once Archwell launches, the duchesses be in 2 completely different lanes (both global but Meghan is in another stratosphere) and with the Cambridges having nothing to feed the tabs, things are about to get ugly for W&K, Kate especially.
They are building Kate up to knock her right back down. They know she isn’t cut out for the job because the public can see through her incompetence, vindictive and lazy behaviour. The ball has dropped for Kate because she can no longer hide behind the ‘being a young new royal mother’ act and she certainly can’t hide behind Meghan. The public can see her for exactly who she is now and that is what scares her more than anything.
K is not global that’s why she jealous of meghan. Meghan is global. Harry is global. Together their popularity is out of this world.
People in us and internationally don’t talk about k nor w
Meghan inherited the Diana mantle in a way in that she is known globally and by people who don’t normally follow the royals. She also has a philanthropic approach that resembles what Diana did and she takes on issues that are not viewed as safe. Certain people are jealous that the spouse of the heir to the heir will never have that reach.
Even someone with the worst case of glaucoma can see Kate Middleton is the biggest beneficiary of the abuse of Meghan. They cannot praise her alone without reminding us how bad meghan is. She’s a terrible person tbh. Meghan came and her image got refurbished she’s now a perfect mother and perfect wife and can never put it foot wrong. I honestly hope karma gets them.
Meghan came and they remembered they were white and must use their white priviledge to the max.
I mean, I wouldn’t want Kate to compare herself to Meghan, either, because it really highlights her inadequacies, but if you don’t want to be a “stick to beat her with” than don’t – be a friend and ally.
So, it seems that after the narrative that mean Meghan was behind all of Kate’s bad press, NOW they are turning it around so they can sue on behalf of Meghan? To protect her? That’s a quick turnaround and also destined to backfire.
Unbelievable this story has dragged out for WEEKS. Amateur hour.
Looks like “someone” is ducking for cover. That “someone” is either the Fail itself or a resident of Anmer Hall, or even Bucklebury Manor…take your pick.
Gawd this woman is exhausting.
They are scared of the backlash against their racism that is coming for them.
This is going to get messy af if they are already using descriptions like…the stick to beat Meghan with?!?!
A lot of people worldwide are not familiar with Meghans treatment and right now everyone’s racist past closet is getting cleaned out. If this is the level of pr that they are executing now, they might not actually make it through this.
FU Kate, the reason you’re suing has nothing to do with Meghan and everything to do with protecting YOURSELF just like protecting your naked pictures that you took on purpose than regretted and sued over. Not wanting to be a stick to beat Meghan it’s a little late for that. Stop dragging Meghan into everything, she chose a quiet private life unlike the REAL famewhore you! These pictures Kate looks so into herself. Does she look at Meghan once?
BTW how does DM comments on Kate get 29000 likes??? Don’t those Brits have anything better to do? You would think wih BLM matters and all, Brits would be more quiet on their hatred for Meghan but no, still there. If the RF dont want to be the stick they should stop talking about Meghan or issue a word with tabloids to stop mentioning her– but still crickets.
They’re bots and daily mail also employs Astro turfing
Kate desperately wants to become queen but she not real realizes that she is absolutely not ready to accomplish the duties of a queen consort. As a monarch she will have a diplomatic mission, that is to say host dinners, ceremonies, officials banks and state meeting, or it is will necessary to make a conservations to many heads of state
religious representatives, military dignitaries, scientists, economists …
She will also have to perform ceremonial tasks, both religious and traditional, such as opening parliament or Trooping color. Participate in international or national commemoration ceremonies services.
All this add to the visits of her charity patronages and of royal towers which will no longer look like tourist visits paid by taxpayers but like real diplomatic visits. Kate would absolutely not be able to do it.
She will not even be able to throw Meghan or her baby sisters (Charlotte and Louis) under the bus to have a good image because the duties of a consort must be done by the queen consort. Then if Carole imagines that once William king, she will be able to exercise her power within the royal family and on all the aristocracy establishement she will must need to go speak to Prince Philip and read the biographies of the Boleyns, Woodville and Thomas Crownell .
William will be the Monarch, Kate the Consort. Two very different things. The Monarch is the Head of State with a constitutional role, the Consort is the Monarch’s spouse.
If we look at what Phillip has done as consort even if his role isn’t constitutional, can we imagine at this point that Kate is even remotely capable of taking on what he has? By age 38 Phillip was doing a lot.
Camilla certainly has the requisite skills expected of a consort and no one seems concerned about her ability to take on the mantle. Kate has been so infantilized by the British media that anything she does is praised but if we look at European consorts to be, male or female, she really seems empty and childish in comparison.
Even if she will only became a queen consort, she will have the same obligations and duties as William (except the interviews with the Prime Minister and reading of the red boxes) because she will is the spouse of the king. As the king’s husband, his duty will be to accompany William in these tasks. Your statement “The monarch is the head of state with a constitutional role, the consort is the spouse of the monarch.” What does that mean that the fact Kate was not the monarch, she will have to continue to be even more lazy, because she not the queen regnant ? It’s you who that going to prepare Kate’s next apologies for justify her laziness into the future? Prince Philip accompanies the Queen on each royal tour into Ccommonwealth countries and in other countries of the world. He have participated in each royal ceremony, each religious service despite being just a prince consort. Same thing for the Queen Mother Elizabeth, Mary of Teck, Alexandra of Denmark and Prince Albert. Why is will be this will be different for Kate? She winning a laziness license?
Kate will be Consort, never Monarch and she won’t have the same duties as William. He’s going to meet regularly with he PM and read government papers. Kate won’t because that won’t be her duties.
Please educate yourself regarding the constitutional aspects of the British monarchy. It is clear that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
These things has nothing to do with her laziness, it has to do with the fact that the Consort’s role is not the same as the Monarch’s! I’m simply pointing out that you’re presenting things incorrectly.
Thus true but the way the media promotes Kate , you would believe she is going to be monarch. William is off Somewhere incandescent with rage, obsessing about his mummy in law and channeling ghosts… 😂
If we get really technical about it, Kate could in theory just stay ensconced at Amner and do nothing. She has performed the one duty that belongs to the Consort and that is providing the offspring. Of course that won’t do in this day and age because then the public would become be angry and then the RF could get their allowance cut or be abolished. The BRF only started doing charity because they got scared about the possibility of revolution in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
The only member there are any formal, legislated requirements for is the Monarch as Head of State. There aren’t even any formal requirements for the Prince of Wales. In theory Charles could just do nothing. However, he has chosen to do something with his life and his role, just like many Consorts have chosen to shape their own roles, create their own responsibilities.
First, the definition of a consort according to your precious constitution is a word that applies to the husband or wife of a reigning sovereign. This was created under the reign of Elizabeth I, to designate the uncrowned husband of the British sovereign in order to remove the ambiguity between a queen wife of the king, and a queen in title who actually exercises the function of sovereign. Decision which was taken because the legitimitate on the British throne Elisabeth Ire was strongly disputed and she frightened that if she marries somebody, the crown will be removed to him in favor of her husband and their sons. So the consort is considered the subject of his spouse; and occupied no other rank at the court than that which was left to him out of courtesy.
If Kate following the laws of the constitution, her only dutie is to have to gived birth to a heirs . But this title was very limited and during the reign of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II this title had create tensions with their spouses who wanted perform a real duties for the crown.
Since this period the role of consort was be to accompany and support the sovereign in the exercise of royal duties with the exception of government functions and the meeting with the Prime Minister. So when you say that Kate must stick to her constitutional role, that is basically saying that she should do absolutely nothing.
Camilla does not have the stamina Philip had, since of course Philip took on the role while still young. I don’t think considering her health and age a lot will be expected of Camilla. No excuses for Kate slacking off and being workshy though.
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I’m not saying that Kate must do nothing. Don’t put words in my mouth. I’m saying that there are no formal and mandatory requirements for her role. It is not the same as me saying that she should just do nothing.
The only real royal duties are the constitutional ones performed by the Monarch. The rest what people call royal “duties” are basically just make-work to make them look busy, necessary, relevant and to get the people to swallow the enormous costs. The BRF are all about securing their own cushy existence – and throughout the centuries that has increasingly required them doing charity work and playing royal tourists when they tour their ever shrinking empire.
Lastly, there’s no need to be snide. I was simply correcting you when you wrote something that was wrong.
BTW, The issue of a female Monarch’s husband was actually put into a complicated legal framework under Mary I Tudor at her marriage to Philip II of Spain, exactly to avoid her husband styling himself as an uncrowned king. Thus, they created a legal fiction of her as male in the role as sovereign but female in her private relationship as a wife. It is rather complicated and very interesting – a piece of sophistry to counter a merging of two nations because two monarchs married each other. The need to make all these provisions was exactly because it had to do with a reigning queen in a patriarchal order. It has, however, nothing to do with the fact that there are no formal constitutional requirements for a consort . Hell, there are no formal constitutional requirements for the Prince of Wales.
@art historian, your royal historical knowledge is always appreciated. I was wondering how far back we have to go to find a consort that does not do much of anything. Prince Albert certainly got involved and probably more than he should have in some cases. Did Alexandra do a lot of charitable work? I am trying to find who Kate will model herself after because Phillip certainly got involved and even the queen mother did engagements, even if she might have been a bit pickled doing them. Kate’s workload is generally embarrassing for someone approaching 40 so I really do wonder how they are going to try to sell the laziness once she cannot use children as an excuse.
Kate was once overheard saying she wanted to be like the Queen Mum. Beloved, not often seen, never heard.
W&K’s elder son will go to boarding school in a year, their daughter two years later. Once Louis goes to boarding school, what will Kate’s next excuse be? That’s why I don’t rule out Baby #4.
Phillip has written over a dozen books, done 20,000+ engagements, given thousands of speeches. If we were to make Camilla or Kate take on Philip’s private roles, they’d also be in charge of running the private estates of Sandringham and Balmoral. Charles learned most of what he knows about sustainable estate management from Phillip.
ArtHistorian, thanks for your insight about Joachim, Ingrid, and Alexandra in the other thread. I always felt sorry for him that he was forced into farming, but then he pulled those illegal moves (illegal fertilizer?) and I had less sympathy. If military work is what he wants, then they should move to France and get off the taxpayer dime. Follow Madeleine’s example.
The Queen Mum took a lesser role once her daughter was Queen. She certainly didn’t hide away during the Blitz. We’ve already seen what a Kate does in a traumatic situation…. she hides from the public and ensures she has time to tan and keep up with her injectable regimen.
Charles and Camilla are heading back to London next week and Anne has an in person appearance scheduled next week. What the eff are non risk age Cambridges doing?
But really huge events have to be managed and organized by staff, I think you raise a great pint how it’s much higher profile.
Am I reading this wrong, but isn’t saying a stick to beat Meghan with the same thing as Kate saying, Yes, I am perfect, but stop using that perfection as a weapon against Meghan?
And that lawsuit against Tatler? When is that going to be filed? The article is still on line, so technically, Will lost. Where is the headline: Will loses in legal bluff against Tatler–damaging article still online for anyone to see.
Yes, I thought that, too! It absolves Kate of any personal responsibility (it’s not MY fault everyone thinks I’m so great…) and also sort of makes her Meghan’s White Knight (how dare Tatler print those things I or my close friends said, that is so hurtful to Meghan). The convoluted thinking is kind of impressive?
I see she’s very keen to stop this, which means we’ll have to endure a survey about racism in about 8 years time.
Has anybody ever done a roundup of all the things Kate has ever been “keen” on over the years? Ever since I started reading this site, I hone in on the word in every KP release!
Yeah, I’m getting “Why yes, I am perfect and I would love for you to write about that. And yes, Meghan is a bit of a social climbing, American disappointment, and I would like you to continue writing about that. But could you maybe not mention my name in those mean Meghan articles, because it makes me look like a racist, or like someone who at least enjoys the benefits of racism, and that appears to be a bit of a faux pas in the current cultural climate.”
Anyone involved in the industry knows that Kate cooperated with the article to give access to friends and then Pasternak went a bit further than expected and got some people to comment on the Middletons in a snarky way. Perhaps Kate doesn’t have as many friends as she thinks she does. And the blaming Meghan for the school run being canceled was never the part Kate took issue with. She was fine trashing Meghan except that the public saw how lazy she was and how stupid it was to blame Meghan for a school run cancellation with a pandemic closing all schools.
another story fraught with white fragility. Catty, we saw how you behave in church with the cameras on. what does that leave when you are not under the spotlight. i would love to be a fly on the wall at Amber. you are not hurting, you are the one who is leading the charge of inflicting pain.
what was disgusting is that Kate sugars were giving Kate and WIll a free pass for their scowls at that event but trashing Meghan for Smiling.
Kate isn’t qualified for anything. She’s had ample time to learn public speaking, has zero business acumen. She’s the Duchess who chased the crown. Meghan has work ethic, work experience a natural at human relations. It will only worsen for Kate, she does not know wth she’s doing.
She just was a hanger on of William during the dating years. She had no full time work.
I don’t understand why she was hurt by the comments made by the aristos in the Tatler piece. She married a prince who will be King. Her children are HRHs and Princes/ess. People literally bow to her every time she farts. How freaking insecure do you have to be to care about what people with faces resembling horses have to say? People who have to rent out their ESTATES because they can no longer afford the upkeep? Instead of minding her business and focusing on her job and her family she instead gives these people too much importance. Yes, she’s middle class and she will be Queen Consort. I suppose that would be *revenge* enough.
Kate’s only “passion” in life, if you can call it that, is social climbing. So for her to get to the very tippy top as FFQC, yet still not be accepted and admired because she comes from an “inferior” bloodline, must be devastating. She knows that they believe she’s beneath them. And they know that she knows how they feel about her, which is even worse. And all the bowing and diamond crowns won’t change that for her.
I don’t believe it’s because of her inferior bloodLine that the toffs don’t accept her. It’s probably for the same reasons that most of the public don’t like her. The stalking, manipulating, and violin-playing of William, Were irritating, and the lazy lifestyle whilst being given millions by taxpayers is maddening. The aristos probably find it as irritating as everyone else does.
To me the interesting thing is that the aristocracy does not care for Meghan but they admit a “grudging” respect for her because she really does not give an American damn. This is a “grudging” respect Kate will never receive from them.
I think on some level the aristos acknowledge that Meghan has done something with her life and hasn’t just pathetically dedicated herself to catching a prince and doing nothing else of value for over a decade. Noblesse oblige would require helping the less fortunate and Kate can’t be arsed to do that even though she so desperately wants to be part of the social strata that views it as a part of their lifestyle. Kate and the Middletons have lived a selfish social climbing lifestyle with no real charitable endeavours, which is quite new money and crass and even nine years into marriage, she still doesn’t get it.
The Tatler reader has family history going back centuries and power is in the DNA. The Middletons are only three generations from the coal mines and status is from a royal marriage. That can change with a divorce. Classism is strong in the UK. Although Kate will be queen bows and curtsies are for the office and not the person.
Kate has no one. There use to be a time people foolishly believed the RF were appointed by God, lauded them to God like status and didn’t mind slaving away hours f the day to support them to watch them bask in their glory. Now nobody cares, not even for the Queen. She and that family is seen as a burden to taxpayers, and Kate can’t cry to her aristo friends because she has none, they hate her and roll their eyes at her. Her status can’t help her, her only friends are her pathetic followers, and really they’re small most have better things to do and the tabloids use her to sell papers because she is white and skinny. Shallow world she’s living in.
Kate can cut the crap…..her wearing that one shoulder white dress after Meghan wore her black one but getting pummeled for it told me everything.It was planned and she already knew that she would get the”she’s so angelic,regal, and beautiful write ups and comments.Nothing else needed to be done or said for me because I already had my suspicions about the beginning stages of the smear campaign from the Unroyal family but that sealed the deal for me.She enjoyed every attack on Meghan.What the establishment that is Britain did to this woman has no words.Not one person stopped and asked themselves or each other,what are we doing to this woman and why are we doing this.”How they all went to bed at night and/or told their kids, husband, wife….etc that I love you knowing what they did and were doing on a daily basis to Meghan one will never know.How Meghan’s white relatives live with themselves also one has to wonder.You have to be some kind of evil and demonlike to do what they all did with no regards for this woman’s livelihood.Britain emotionally abused Meghan and may God not have mercy on their souls
Yes, that one shoulder white dress stunt was the moment I realized that Kate was an eager and active participant in the racist smearing of Meghan. Before that, I was ticked off that she was silent and thought her merely a coward. But when she stepped out in that white dress, I knew she was a racist and out to ruin Meghan. She knew exactly what kinds of headlines she’d get in comparison to MM. As you said, “angelic”, “regal”, “pure class”, etc. And all that other predictable coded racist crap they say when it’s time to lift a white woman up on the back of a black woman.
Yes, sure Karen Kate
Honestly, I’m really confused by this whole news cycle coming from that Tatler article. I don’t understand why it’s still being dragged out, why it’s still a Kate pity party. Even this headline is to make one feel sorry for Kate. Why do they want people to feel sorry for her? Why keep positioning her as this pitiful, put upon person, whether it’s too much work, Meghan making her cry, never putting a foot wrong, etc. I don’t get it. She is a public figure, in a country with a nasty tabloid press. Did she expect a free ride or think al the praise for her the past two years was actually sincere? As they constantly say to Meghan, she knew exactly what she is getting into.
Well, they can’t talk about Andrew, none of the fam is doing much…what else they gonna write about?
I think the RR are just as bored in lockdown as we all are & have had time to crunch the numbers & realize they’re losing engagement on the Meghan=Devil/Cambridges=Perfect narrative.
So, they start throwing different flavors of shit out there to see what’s most popular, & are likely chatting amongst themselves to see which kinds of stories are getting the best numbers.
Result? This weird, meandering & inconsistent narrative that is so obviously changing based on public reaction to the previous version, & oh, it’s been dragged out for WEEKS longer than it should have & been fodder for many response articles & responses to the response articles & put many a penny in someone’s pocket.
It’s only business, after all.
Palace PR to make the Cambridge’s the victims.
I honestly believe this is kate new Pr woman who she recently just hired Kate nor William don’t give damn about Meghan Kate was all too happy when the press was dragging Meghan on her Behalf. She love every minute of it now that the world is having a social Awakening the Cambridge’s are looking bad now . So here comes the sources speaking on behalf on kate that she really didn’t want to be involved in the bullying of her sister in law and her hands are cleans it was the press that did all of the bullying kate Middleton the great would never ever want to be use to tear down a another woman . Where was kate suddenly Compassions for Meghan when she was being bullied during her pregnancy or when she last saw Meghan in the church services she treated her horribly for the world to see .
Pull up your big girl panties now Kate. Once you shoot a bullet you cannot pull it back so there’s no trying to change the narrative now that you don’t want to seen as beating up on Meghan. What’s done is done and there’s no turning back. The world has seen how you participated and profited in the character assassination of a woman trying to settle in a new country, in a new family, in a new marriage and a new career. And surely you didn’t believe that the gutter press in your country actually liked you? Just like the Tatler aristos never accepted you and your middle-class family, so too you will be hung out to dry by the vile RRs in due course when they remember that they didn’t like you pre-Meghan now that she’s gone. More fool you.
That’s what aggravates, she’s a bitch (we’ve seen it all the times Meghans around) own it!!! She’s two faced.
Good grief, are we (the royal we) still on this Tatler story?
Kate, the victim didn’t work, so now we’re trying Kate, the Benevolent?
“Please don’t use my perfection to beat up the imperfect Meghan, it’s simply not nice”
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Ha ha @A Guest, exactly. There is a presumption there that if Kate could be wielded as a “stick” it is because Kate is superior to Meghan; and, any comparison between the two would have Meghan fall miserably short. Back-handed objection.
I kind of hope it keeps on going
Kate wants to stop the comparisons because her little racist staff is exposed each day in the press.
Which mean that she was smearing Meghan and had no problem when the comparisons propped her up.
What she means is that she wants no part of the negativity against herself, now that she’s been exposed to be behind it. It wasn’t a problem for years. Now they are seeing the backlash and she “wants no part of it.” She’s spineless and she’s looking like hell.
Gosh, wouldn’t it have been a lovely, sisterly gesture if she’d said anything like this, ohhhh I don’t know….like any time in the last three years??? Hmmmmmmm.
Do they take us for fools?? This is from the Karen who couldn’t be decent & respectful in CHURCH!!! This from the women who happily participated in a failed commercial flight stunt aimed at further fuelling the hate for her brother in law who defended her alot in the past. Shut up karen. Nobody cares what you think! They are all panicking about their fate now that there is massive protests. It finally daunted to them that not supporting & bullying their only biracial member until they fled to America is not a good look.
I hope karma gets to them soon. Seeing how little coverage lizzy’s silly ceremony had is clue to how insignificant this institution has become
we must keep repeating the stunts she pulls because they are hoping we forget all the bum flashing, top less photos, church shunning, flybe staged photos, leaking silly stories about how meghan made her cry etc. they are not going to rewrite history for us.
the other thing they are worried about with BLM momentum is if the people can pull down churchill’s statues surely the royals with their history of atrocities can’t be far behind. chickens are coming home to roost.