You guys, I’m starting to think that there’s no secret plan to be keen? The Duchess of Cambridge promised us a few months ago that she had more keen busy work to launch in 2021 around the Early Years. Thus far, all we’ve gotten is a story about a “secret plan” to work, some quotes about how exhausted Kate is because of home-schooling her kids even with a staff, and a video about Children’s Mental Health Week which looked like it was filmed before she went on a jog. Keen Antoinette over here, I swear. Anyway, that video was super-weird and I’m enjoying how A) so many people just flatly ignored it and B) a handful of royal commentators are trying to make it sound like the video was amazing because Kate filmed it herself, the poor exhausted sausage. That’s why I looked at this Katie Nicholl story at Vanity Fair, to see if she had any new insights. Turns out, Nicholl’s sources say that poor Kate is having to make do with merely a “skeleton staff,” a full-time nanny, her own dedicated videographer and a professional lighting rig. She’s just like us!
She has become a professional at Zoom calls during the lockdown, and now the Duchess of Cambridge has taken video calling one step further—doing her own outdoor broadcast. Kate Middleton turned the camera on herself while out on a walk in the Norfolk countryside, filming a video to raise awareness for Children’s Mental Health Week.
Kate’s unscripted message was one of her most natural video appearances, and a contrast to her usual videos where she is usually dressed up and in full makeup. Sources close to the Duchess say that Kate has become more confident in front of the camera and has learned to enjoy rather than dread video calls. She has set up a DIY shoot location at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, where the Cambridges are spending the lockdown, and apparently has a special stand for her laptop and a ring light to ensure the shot is well lit.
While Kate and William have their own videographer as part of their online team, they only have a skeleton staff at Anmer, including nanny Maria Borrallo who helps with home learning and meal times.
For the most part William and Kate have become self-sufficient at working from home, filming their virtual engagements by themselves. Vanity Fair has been told that Kate chooses her own outfits and even does her own hair and make-up. But for the Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week video she was keen to be outdoors and looking as normal and natural as possible. The Duchess has made a point of supporting families during the lockdowns. Last week she spoke to parents of a local primary school and chatted with them about some of the challenges of homeschooling, revealing that William had been her greatest support during the lockdown.
Notice how Nicholl plays fast and loose with whether their videographer actually comes to Anmer Hall to help them shoot their Zoom calls – “For the most part William and Kate have become self-sufficient at working from home, filming their virtual engagements by themselves” – meaning that they have had help at times from their office staff, and one would assume the “skeleton staff” at Anmer. I feel bad for Nanny Maria, her role is always so minimized. She’s worked full-time for the Cambridge family for six or seven years now, and she’s played a huge role in the kids’ lives and development, but Team Keen just wants it to sound like Maria is just there to pitch in sometimes when Kate is Zooming her fingers to the bone.
Tomorrow is the start of Children's Mental Health Week – an opportunity to remind ourselves not just how important our own children's mental health is but also parental wellbeing too.
We look forward to sharing more about the year's theme of expressing yourself this week. pic.twitter.com/nQRmgkJWxM
— The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (@KensingtonRoyal) January 31, 2021
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
Katie Antoinette’s bar has been lowered yet again. I am amazed that she is working without her rose petal throwers and she is able to turn on a mobile phone camera ALL BY HERSELF! Wow. And to think she even spoke for a full minute WITHOUT NOTES too. And she also picks out her own clothes and does her own hair and makeup??? Unheard of!! I truly despair of the royal family at this point.
And she chooses her own outfits now! What a saint, no wonder she’s exhausted.
She picks out her own clothes! Like a 4 year old? Why do they constantly talk about her like she is either a literal child or has some kind of developmental disability? Seriously, she’s being praised for picking out her own clothes “now,” meaning she did not pick out her own clothes before. And she can “even” do her own hair and makeup! And that is presented to us as some kind of crazy hardship that she’s enduring. Even though every single woman on this planet has done her own hair and makeup at some point and 99.9% of us do our own hair, makeup, and pick out own clothes daily. Having your makeup done by a professional is a special treat. A luxury reserved for special occasions like your wedding day.
And this:
“…a contrast to her usual videos where she is usually dressed up and in full makeup.” She WAS in full makeup, though.
And: “Sources close to the Duchess say that Kate has become more confident in front of the camera and has learned to enjoy rather than dread video calls.” Oh how nice. She no longer dreads talking the people she is supposed to be so interested in and keen to help. How good do you feel if you’re one of the unlucky people who was zooming with her earlier in the pandemic and now you hear that the Princess you were so excited and honored to talk with “dreaded” the conversation you had.
This. Is. Not. Making. Her. Look. Good.
She is infantilized to such a crazy degree that it’s demeaning to her and I don’t think they see it.
Kate has learned her words today! Clap clap clap!
Amy, someone once said that Carole still comes over to help Kate pick her outfits for the day LOL
Also, I’m just pointing that while she may not get her hair done every day, she’s definitely getting it professional blown out maybe 1/3 zoom calls? its easy to tell the difference.
And she’s been outfitted with a laptop stand and a ring light! She must be a REALLY hard worker, because most home-working peasants have never heard of such things! Praise Be!
So, Kate is confident again even though she looks like she is about to cry in some of these video calls? If the British say she is confident I am going to believe the opposite.
Her hair is beginning to look like straw. That’s all I’ve got.
This kate the great piece is so stupid, ot’s probably made to throw shade at her. They cannot be serious… ?!?!?
It really makes me LOL to read how Kate does what we all do naturally and without any fanfare or acknowledgment.
Was there a point when you EVER found the RF likable? B/c I certainly have never seen any reason to admire or look up to these entitled, spoiled, racist remains of an ugly, brutal colonial era and its equally racist monarchy. They are not to revered for anything, so far as I can tell, nothing that they do or say is worthy of being honored; they are irrelevant, at best. Why keep being fascinated–especially on this site–with a bunch of stuck up, regressive, spoiled rotten, bigoted people?
Why allow W&K to get away with their foolishness by not commenting?
Poor Sausage. If she keeps this up she will zoom herself to an early grave.
Oh noooooooo. The poor thing! How ever will she survive with a nanny, videographer, personal assistant, chef, housekeeper and whoever else?
Worth noting the Cambridge’s have always claimed a small staff, but that’s only under their expenses. They can have countless other staff members paid for by any other Royal like Charles or the queen and it never gets counted as their staff. This was noted early in their marriage years to explain why so many people worked in their multiple households, but they only ever claimed to have a few staff members.
“skeleton staff” lol – they really are trying to make it sound like its just William, Kate, their videographer, and nanny Maria.
Maybe they are working with a smaller staff than usual, but my guess is there are still two nannies, housekeeper, a handful of cleaning staff, cook, groundskeeper (and one or two people under that person, including someone to maintain the pool) – so really not that skeleton. No one believes that Kate is doing any cleaning or cooking on her own.
Emily Andrews pointed out that they still had staff with them at Anmer when the whole exhausted thing first came out. Of course she tried to couch it in still being relatable, but the truth is if you have that much staff, you aren’t relatable.
The skeleton staff bit doesn’t make them relatable. If you can afford staff, why not hire them. I know I would.
The only reason the staff is “skeleton” is because of covid restrictions preventing them from travelling with the full entourage. If it wasn’t for that they wouldn’t even have reduced it.
They are masters at hiding their large staff. The Christmas photo that got disappeared once people realized that they have probably close to 30 staff with them, especially in tours was glaringly obvious.
There were two assistants in the photograph of Kate getting off a helicopter for the Baby Basics appearance last August. They (and the pilot) may not live at Anmer, but that’s still a lot of support for the little work she actually does.
They’ve always lied about the number of nannies and other staff. They even lied about having a night nurse and nanny with PG Tips, until both were outed in photographs.
Wow, they try to survive with “skeleton staff”…. And I consider the lady who cleans my house once a week a luxury! (working full time and taking care of my 3yo with no nanny…)
Exactly right, Becks.
“…they only have a skeleton staff at Anmer, including nanny Maria Borrello…” – ‘including’ is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence, and should be read to mean “including but not limited to.”
Imagine having to do Zoom calls all by yourself, even picking out your own clothes! And with only a few staff to help around the house and raising your children, too!
I feel so silly now. I joked when Kate said it was all so exhausting. If I’d known she had to press the Join Call button herself, I never would have dreamed of it.
@Belli, that’s not all – she’s even learned how to hold a phone while being outside! Could any of us do that AND read an “unscripted” 30 second message? I thought not. Well, I hope you’ll think twice next time you think about criticizing our multitasking CEO in the future.
Nanny Maria is there to help with “Home learning and meal times.” So like, the most stressful parts of pandemic living. Other than that Kate’s got it all under control
Yeah, the nanny handles all the stressful parts.
Im convinced they keep using the word “keen” in relation to kate just to mock her.
“Keen Antoinette” 🤣🤣
But no, seriously. I genuinely do not understand what PR genius thinks that this is the kind of topic to push relatability on. Things like, political/policy issues, concern about the pandemic, worries about the effect of this time on children…THIS is where they need to push the ‘just like us’ narrative, because I would buy it and would actually appreciate and believe that Keen Kate and I may both be concerned about the same thing.
But trying to say that she understands the common man’s STRUGGLE with raising kids in this crazy time, is straight up stupid. And condescending.
Is the point about having skeleton staff & hyping up Kate picking out her own clothes, doing her own makeup etc meant to clean up the exhausted comments? Because this isn’t it. The carnival of so called experts do the royals no favours.
That was my first thought. This was an excuse to counter the “so exhausted” fiasco.
Maybe she watched the Mable and Olive Zoom call (mrandrewcotter) and got her courage up to do it herself.
These have been such a ray of sunshine over the last year! But yes, If Andrew, Mabel and Olive can nail this, I think Katie Keen can. I bet Mabel and Olive pick their own clothes out too.
I adore Mabel and Olive, they are Zoom superstars!
Umm that video was definitely not unscripted…
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Came here to say the same thing! I teach online and have grown very sensitive to the difference between lectures that are scripted/read and those that aren’t, and I do everything I can to find a balance that allows me to be organized and thorough without sounding like I’m reading. You can hear the difference! She was definitely reading or reciting. Nothing spontaneous or natural about that video at all.
Exactly! The way she pauses between each sentence – obviously scripted and rehearsed. Which is fine! I wouldn’t expect her to just wing it. So then why lie about it?! This is the problem with Kate – she wants credit for things she doesn’t do.
Considering that the other duchess is dealing with the dehumanizing action of having her name removed from things, this article looking to praise Kate for doing a few adult things on her own is even more offensive.
More like doing a few kindergarten aged things. Picking out her own clothes. Able to hold a phone without help. Can speak words independently.
How dare you all mock keen to be queen Catherine the great kings maker. You all have absolutely no idea how incredibly hard it is to survive in a 10 bedroom mansion with 25 staff instead of 30. Force to cut children hair,save the broken Britain, keep her eyes peeled all day for where her wandering Willy is off to and when will he return. Botox wearing off damm lockdown probably means she has to pay the clinic extra to make housecalls under the disguise of giving a royal health check. So just stop it you all. Catherine suffers too.( massive eye roll)
Her PR team insists on treating this 40-year old mother of three like a toddler.
“Yay. What a pretty outfit you picked. Good girl.”
“You turned on the computer all by yourself. What a big girl you are!”
“Now film outside by yourself and say something nice to the peasants.”
How mortifying.
It’s not the press and PR team, she is infantilising herself and always has. She even said herself at an engagement years ago that William looks after her. This is the life she has always wanted for herself – to be taken care of by a wealthy man.
Great point. She gladly participates in this effort, and I can’t fathom it. I would be mortified if I were celebrated and praised in print for picking out my own clothes, doing necessary things for my job, and ordering a laptop stand. My god!
Didn’t Kate get into freakin’ Cambridge? Why is she so emotionally immature? WTF?
Awe, she’s a big girl now. She can dress herself and click a link to join a meeting all on her own. All while only having a skeleton staff. They are just like us. So exhausting. This is just getting so ridiculous. Every article just makes them sound so incompetent and childlike. Look Ma, I did it all by myself! Though we know this is not the case because of course they have to have someone document the zoom so they can post the 15-20 minute call online and distribute it to the press. Also, the hard part of the zoom meeting is scheduling everyone. I highly doubt she is doing any of this. Her skeleton staff is.
My heart bleeds for her.
Try being one of my friends – a teacher and single mum of 4 girls. Dad, a police officer, died of a very aggressive kidney cancer. Imagine sorting e erroneous out in the morning, dropping them at 2 different schools, then coming to her own school to teach. It’s all in reverse i the afternoon, helped by the fact that the two younger girls catch a bus to mum’s school first. Then she takes them to their sporting activities, gets dinner supervises homework, does her own school prep while the washing machine is going… I don’t need to say more. You all know the drill.
I’m tired of hearing about how the pandemic has affected her life. She’s a lazy mare and I’d tell her to go jump, but I’m not sure she could do that without help.
AnnaKist, your friend sounds like an amazing person! I generally think I am strong and competent but, compared to your friend, I am lazy. WOW! I wish lovely things for her.
What rot. Keenie, please sit down and just shut up. Your efforts at surviving the pandemic alongside the “common folk” paints you as a desperate, pathetic creature. Enough already.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
The mistake that Keen Kate keeps making is thinking that she’s so “relatable” because she’s a commoner who married royalty. Except she’s not. She has staff to wait on her hand and foot. She is so removed from reality that she has no idea how difficult the pandemic has been for regular people: sickness, job loss, the loss of a small business, and death. She needs to take a page or two out of Diana’s book and learn some compassion.
I think that’s exactly it. Kate (and maybe her staff) think that Kate just existing as someone who was a “commoner” makes her relatable but that’s not true. Especially as Kate has been a royal for nearly 10 years anyways. Can she still be considered a “commoner” now?
And even “Commoner Kate” still lived a pretty good life. She went to a private school, never really worked, lived in a flat in London paid for by her parents, went to uni with a Prince and dated (later married) said Prince, hung out with his friends etc etc. She obviously wasn’t living to the level she is now but it’s not like she was super relatable back then if you really think about it.
She may be married for ten years but the aristos still consider her a commoner.
But she’s not considered a commoner to the people she’s meeting who ARE NOT aristos and are just “regular” people like myself.
The point of these stories is to make Kate relatable to the UK which isn’t made up entirely of aristos. It’s made up of people who think and consider Kate to be a royal now no matter what class she was born in.
Kate has tried very hard to erase any obvious trace of her commonness. She’s sort of disqualified herself from both classes, the one she was born with by choice, and the one she has spent her life aspiring to and will never achieve, simply because of her class of birth.
I think she really does want people to look at her and say, “Wow, I wish I were Katie Keen!” But that’s the extent of her interest in other people, how they reflect her.
@Merricat: I agree. She’s not one of the aristos in their eyes because she was born middle class and Kate and her family have spent all their time to try and rise above their class and she’s too “royal” for the actual middle class people now. The only place she fits in is with the new money people but she doesn’t want to be friends with them.
I think she definitely wanted to be Queen Bee of the aristos and thought she had “made it” once Meghan became the one they all turned their nose up at. But as evidenced by that Tatler article, they still don’t like her and never will.
Yeah but she will never learn compassion because she is not interested in others in a meaningful way. That part cannot be faked and without it, it is difficult to show compassion.
She probably was never taught as a child to think about others, you can see it in what a selfish adult she has turned out to be.
What I can never get over is how bad their team is at this work. This is absolutely the wrong angle to take. It is so embarrassing.
@sunny, you hit the nail on the head, I think. If she had compassion, we would see or hear of her regularly doing charitable work, probably with specific causes close to her heart, like Diana’s campaign against land mines or her work with HIV/AIDS advocacy. Instead, Kate just has these vague platforms of “children” and “mental health” and has to be coaxed to do bland and meaningless performances of showing off “publicizing early years survey written by others” and “making suggestions for flower show garden designed and planted by others.”
The aristos not liking Meghan doesn’t matter because she doesn’t care. You cannot have power over someone who ignores you.
While the media like to pretend the Middletons are a better influence than the Windsors, all three adult Middleton kids have led materialistic and selfish lives with no compassion for others.
Sunny you nailed the main issue because Kate just does not care about anything except how it relates to her. She’s done nothing in her almost 40 years of life that is selfless or does not have some kind of benefit to her.
ugh, what is the point of keeping these people around???
An excellent question.
There is no point. Kind of them to be making that argument on behalf of all of us who are sick of paying for them.
Stories like this do NOT make Katie Keen relatable to the plebs but are aimed at making her relatable to the aristo’s – those whom she and her family are desperate to be accepted by.
Kate and her siblings have pretty much lived their whole lives in a bubble, a bubble created by Carole and as such they are unable to look beyond that little bubble of white, middle class privilege.
The irony is that the real aristos are often strapped for cash with their family estates like a cash-sucking millstone round their necks. They are mooching about with no staff at all, living in the same moth-eaten clothes (chosen and put on without help) and keeping the heating on in only one room. Kate and her shiny Anmer home aren’t relatable to them either. The only thing they have is their breeding – the one thing Kate will never have. If anything this kind of story sets her even further apart from them.
I don’t know why the RR/BM thinks stories like this make Kate look good. They make her out to be the 4th stooge. Mumbling and stumbling around as if she has no idea what’s going on around her.
Mentioning Kate has a skeleton crew is…I don’t understand why Nichol mention this at all. Is she bragging? This makes Kate look so helpless and out of touch with the reality of the world around her. Does she know that there are working mothers in the UK getting things done everyday? With Zero help?
Wow!?
Be Best. British version.
This is just the most ridiculous story and it appears that Katie doesn’t know that William and Kate are doing their Zoom calls out of Sandringham not Amner.
A few years back, I think it was either Vulture or the Cut who wrote an article about how Ivanka Trump, when she was promoting her book “Women Who Work” should give more credit to the women who work to make her life easier ie. nannies, maids, etc.
If the Duchess of Keeness wants to appear humble, she should actually acknowledge her priviledge and talk about how grateful she is to have the help she’s had. Then once she did that, she can point to resources that can help working/middle class women who don’t have her access and can use the help.
Unfortunately, she and the family she married into are a bunch of out of touch, spoiled dicks, this simple PR win will not be done.
Someone on one of the recent posts about this mentioned how Kate should mention Nanny Maria more -she’s usually erased, we NEVER hear Kate or William mention her, etc – but its clear that she is doing the heavy lifting with the kids. William should know the kind of relationship that can develop with a nanny like that, and they shouldnt push her to the side like a dirty secret. no one judged Diana for having a nanny (at least not that I’m aware of ) – no one would judge Will and Kate either EXCEPT that they have leaned so hard into “we’re hands on parents” image as an excuse for their lack of work that they CANT acknowledge her at this point.
But the people I know who have long-term nannies in their family are close to them, talk about them, the nannies keep in touch with the kids even when they grow up, etc. Usually its a sense of “thank goodness for the nanny!! We couldnt do it without her/him!” and with the Cambridges its like “oh well she’s kind of here in the background sometimes…..”
You said it all Becks1. The Cambridges relationship with Maria reminds me of the book The Nanny Diaries in which while the parents considered the nanny to be The Help, the nanny and the kid in that book had a bond that was heartwarming as well as heartbreaking.
I’m sure they still have groundskeepers and maintenance people, maybe shared with Sandringham. Those workers wouldn’t even have to be part of the household. I’d bet they still have someone who cleans and cooks. Either just one person underpaid to do both jobs or maybe actually two? Since they are zooming from Sandringham maybe the other staff meet them there so they aren’t directly exposed to the children. They actually have access to staff from two different residences so how is that skeleton? Either these writers are trying to stir up controversy, realize that their readers are mostly royalists who think the RF are entitled, or don’t think through what they write in any way.
They have separate ground staff overseen by their own head groundsman. That was outed when their first Anmer housekeeper and her husband (the head groundsman) quit after only five months on the job.
The interesting thing about this is that all these stories do are to emphasize how much she is “not like us”. Diana definitely had a staff as well and yet there wasn’t article after article trying to sell the public a story of how she is just like us. She was able to connect and relate to people. She didn’t make it all about her! She made others feel important. Everything Kate does ultimately is about how it makes her feel. Not whatever charity, cause, or initiative is supposed to be highlighted! Even during the pandemic we hear about the poor exhausted CEO and how she is making do by picking out her own clothes! Baldy is just as bad with his comment about being “bored” with racism. They are really insufferable.
There is a reason why Kate will never be beloved like Diana was and still is.
Diana understood the meaning of noblesse oblige – that nobility extends beyond mere entitlements and requires the person who holds such a status to fulfill social responsibilities.
@ The Hench, I fully understand what you mean. Diana knew she was blessed with such status that she used it to spread awareness to those who are often overlooked and are in need. Its why I have such respect for her Humanitarian work. Inspiring. Its why I feel no princess in this day and age can compare.
Exactly. Diana had true, honest compassion in her heart and had the gift of allowing that sense of compassion and empathy to radiate from her entire being. She was able to send her love out to people, either one-on-one, in a small group, or to thousands of ppl in a crowd, in such a way that they really felt it. A once-in-a-generation gift. And in the current generation, it is Harry and Meghan who have the same gift. No one currently in the Royal Family does.
Exactly. If she were actually relatable, they wouldn’t have to keep telling us how relatable she is.
Anyone old enough to remember if Diana had such Keen and Exhausted stories?
I really think she thinks she is a hard worker. She hasn’t had any work experience before. So this is what she knows. Good luck UK. As for William, he’s been coddled even worse. So I’m sure he also thinks he’s a hard worker.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
Yep I’m old enough and, no is the answer. Quite the reverse, in fact. When Diana got engaged she was working as a nursery assistant and her older sister’s cleaner. As a royal for engagements she always turned up expertly coiffed and made-up because she understood her role as a symbol and that a Princess was required to turn up for engagements having made an effort for her public. She understood both her privilege and how that privilege should be used to help those less fortunate.
Kate’s self-aggrandisement in the form of humble bragging only reveals how little she understands about what she is supposed to be doing and alienates her both from us plebs and from genuine aristos alike. She’s crass with a capital “K”.
I remember that soon after her marriage, Diana hired someone to help her with her public speaking, as she knew it would be vital for her public role. She had the insight and honestly wanted to make a difference. It’s sad that, after 10 years of marriage, Kate still hasn’t realized the same. It just shows that she only ever meant to chase that ring and lifestyle and never embraced that Royal job attached to it. This statement just shows what a shallow try-hard she is and always was. Carole must be so proud. Too bad everyone else is wisening up the do-nothing fraud she is.
Puff shoulder jackets are horrendous, I want to burn them all. I used to wear those 10years after I graduated thinking this is what working women wear until I developed my own style. I can’t stand them now.
is it possible that this is actually an undercover hatchet job? the shade here is undeniable.
the phrasing is terrible as many commenters have pointed out above- Kate comes off as being literally incapable of the smallest acts that are necessary in order to be considered an adult. (ooh look she dressed herself and even did her hair and makeup!)
how is this a good look?
I’m pretty sure her people (hey ma Middleton) read celebitchy so I hope they see the comments here…it doesn’t take a genius to consider that maybe VF is finally going to give it to her. this seems like a start.
if it IS indeed a plant from her ppl as an attempt at positive PR yikes! they are wayyyyy more stupid than I thought.
and I am HERE FOR IT! bring on the idiocy. my husband (a brit) asks why I’m interested in the royal family and I’m like, “This is Wolf hall for the modern era!!!!!” how can we not be interested in the fall of the house of Windsor by their own hand????
” She has set up a DIY shoot location at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, where the Cambridges are spending the lockdown, and apparently has a special stand for her laptop and a ring light to ensure the shot is well lit.”
I thought they were working at Sandringham? Those Anmer renovations must be finished now. New year, new kitchen!
How will she survive! Poor thing has ran her self ragged! How is she so tired, I would ha e thought that she would have the stamina of an Olympian after chasing William for a decade, but now she’s tired? I bet the neighbor isn’t tired.
Can’t stop laughing
Nothing to add except these comments are fire this morning. I keep cracking up. You ladies are so clever
Agreed, I’ve just read the whole thread to here (currently the end) and enjoyed them as much as the original article. I love this site and the community on it.
Adding to this chorus. Just reading the brilliance from the other Celebitches has made me feel so much better on this cold, grey day. Thank you!
I don’t see how KP thinks a future queen knocking on 40 will have a good image with a story like this going around. She, like the Royal Cov-idiot she married, are ill-prepared for the future jobs.
Uuggghhh! Children’s Mental Health is an important topic to me personally and I hate that it is all about her and how she is ‘surviving’ on limited staff.
Especially this past year, mental health support is so important! What is she actually doing to support the mental health of children, parents, families and communities? Zoom meetings are a good start but we are almost a year into this.
It’s not all about you, Katie Keen!
Right? She could be doing nursery school window pop ins, wherein she literally comes and reads outside a window to a classroom or something. She could be meeting privately with beleaguered staff. She could be working to secure donations to food shelves. All sorts of stuff, and she…. she’s exhausted in her two houses. With “skeleton” staff.
Heh. During this time, I am “making do” with a roomba, a vacuum cleaner, a washer/dryer and various kitchen appliances! Husband, kids and I operate said appliances at various times! Dog gets to hangout on the couch and go for walks.
Since it is no secret that they have and spend plenty of money, why would it look so awful to say that they employ a lot of people. They could spin it as helping to decrease unemployment by giving people stable jobs with good benefits.
Probably because they’re poorly paid with no benefits. The Royals think that serving them is payment enough.
The ”exhausted” backlash clearly bothered her. Kate did this last year with Tatler. She had other pro Kate articles by her tabloid friends praising her. The birth certificate story was clearly from KP and now a typical Katie Nicholl story to make her appear relatable
This article has the most hilarious unintentional (I think) shade:
“For the most part William and Kate have become self-sufficient…”
1. This sentence could have been written at any time throughout the past decade. 2. These grown parents of three are still just now learning self-sufficiency, they are nearly there!
As others have pointed out above, the author states that Nanny Maria takes care of the meals and home learning. Kate supposedly is “starting” to get better at zoom calls after merely a year. She chooses her own clothes and often does her own hair like a big girl, but…where does the rest of the time go?
I’ve said it many times, but I would crawl into a hole if my professional accomplishments were ever reported this way in public. She is 40!
Sigh I think that Kensington / Buckingham Palace needs to stop trying to attract attention from the US. They need to focus on their UK subjects . They hate Hollywood but they are courting the NA market . I really think less is more leave us alone and stop dragging Meg out to make Kate look better. They are trying to force the world to care about them and it’s not working .
She may pick out her own clothes but she certainly isn’t doing the laundry. Or the cleaning. Or the shopping. We will hear ALL about it if she ever does those regularly.
She has no time for those things because she has to look after her own mental health with plenty of pampering me-time sessions – so she can be the best possible mummy she can be, you see. (It’s for the sake of the children, dear, that she must indulge herself away from them as often as possible, e.g. ‘working’ in her zoom room at Sandringham)
Oh c’mon you guys, don’t be so harsh on her! It takes time, effort and dedication to pick up your clothes, make that sausage hair and mess up your makeup and eyebrows on a daily basis! After all the woman is a style icon. It must be exhausting!
Okay I just watched the video. What the hell point was she making? Yes, we know we need to take care of ourselves. The problem is most parents can’t. There aren’t enough hours in the day.
Remote learning for our children is fraught with glitches, access problems and difficulties with communication. And I say that as someone with access to high speed internet and has my kid in a well equipped private school. It’s still a flipping nightmare and my kid is struggling mightily to keep her grades level. So are her friends.
I can’t even begin to imagine what families with lesser means are going through. From what I’ve been reading, some kids have lost their education entirely and are trying to look after siblings while their parents or guardians work.
There are people out here in the real world zooming ourselves to exhaustion but it isn’t this woman.
She’s just getting there outdoors to state the freaking obvious without giving one hint of how people are supposed to accomplish this task of self care without the time or resources. Unless she is about to introduce something tangible to help people, maybe she needs to just take a seat and learn how to facilitate a platform for people who actually can help.
Stupse.
What is going on with the royal reporters? The way they talk about the royals you would think they’re 10 years old! They’re becoming able to do things on their own? The standard are so low for the royals, if these stories or actions were from the average person they would be dragged around the world.
Kate had on full face makeup to make her look “natural”. It takes more makeup to get that natural look.
This video was obviously scripted but someone has finally started giving both her and William speech lessons. It’s too bad they haven’t gotten the hang of looking sincere and natural yet, maybe in 10 more years. It’s a shame that it took Meghan showing up to make them do what they should have been doing all along.
This. All of this. ^^^
Well, we know she’s still not the one cleaning the toilets so I don’t feel sorry for the silly cow.
What’s she doing – now – in ordinary life that is so terrible? Like, she is not inciting her supporters to storm buildings and cause deaths.
As for the British and telling the truth. No-one tells the truth the whole time but I bet there is not a single person on here more honest than British me!
That’s the bar now? You take millions of dollars from taxpayers who should reasonably expect some return for their money in the form of good works, which – nil, zip, nada.
AND they should feel grateful that Kate is not inciting her stans to storm buildings and cause deaths. OOOOOkay. Gotcha.
Agreed, Carrie. Kate and her attempts to appear as ‘normal’ only make her look more ridiculous. They have a dozen staff at Anmer, even during lockdown, with Kate never lifting a finger. This is the same woman who said 100 HOURS of ‘work’ during the Jubilee year was stressful and too much.
Kate = Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons:
“I Dress Myself!”
YES!!!
Is Kate choosing her own clothes without the benefit of boundaries or plenty of holidays?
It’s darkly funny that she twisted Children’s Mental Health week as really being about parents as in *Kate’s* mental health and exhaustion. Kate genuinely has a talent in making everything about herself and then lowering the bar so it’s about picking out clothes, not dreading her engagements, speaking on camera and then asking for praise. How in the world did she think she would be Queen Bee of the Toffs?
I wonder if Kate’s Cuties type pr will be enough to fill the vacuum in royal coverage over the next few years.
I want to praise Kate for carving her own little niche within the toxic BRF but it’s almost entirely because she serves whatever William wants no matter how dysfunctional or wrong. I can’t praise her or her family for being among the few people who can slightly control and manipulate William.
Is shr secretly taking notes from Tiktokers how to look good in Zoom calls? HAHAHA
Whats next look what tiktok makes me buy ? Ring light, special laptop stand,how to decorate my room for Zoom…
She is Zoom Pro now is she?
Wow, it never ceases to amaze how they are lauded and praised for the most basic of adult life skills and activities. So you are now doing your royal work remotely and you’ve learned to push a few buttons to do it, ( you know she didn’t schedule it, set it up, and put it out,), she can do her own hair and make-up, when most people don’t have regular blow-outs with a professional hairdresser on call, (this must be killing her), that house Anmer Hall is huge and I know she doesn’t clean it. I scrubbed my own bathroom this morning, ( where is my confetti). They put out the work she is focused on with her safe causes of children, arts and gardening as if groundbreaking. But unlike a certain other duchess who spoke out about women’s issues at the U.N., spoke out about how a girl’s period can end her education in rural villages, and campaigned for clean water in Rwanda, Miss Kate did nothing near that in her phase of civilian life. Oh wait she did work at a fashion store for a while with management’s help in making that work flexible so that she could drop what she was doing to be at her boyfriends beck and call. She is the perfect wife for The Firm ,nothing wrong with that, be it, own it. But be honest. So entitled, privliged, clueless, out of touch, archaic, I can’t say more, its too exhausting.