One week ago exactly, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge did their first joint public event since the disastrous Covid Choo Choo Tour last December, and coincidentally their first joint public event since the Sussexes’ Oprah interview. They stepped out, wearing masks, to some “mental health in schools” event which was supposed to be Kate’s solo event. During the event, William took a question from a reporter, asking if William’s family is racist. William’s response: “We’re very much not a racist family.” That went over like a lead balloon. But I should say this: minus William’s dumb statement, the idea behind being visible and being seen at an actual event was probably the right course from a PR perspective. If only Kensington Palace wasn’t Britain’s main employer of clowns and morons, William and Kate wouldn’t have continuously stepped on their own crisis management.
Now, one week later, William and Kate are trying to get a mulligan on their own chaotic mishandling of the crisis. They stepped out together for a subdued visit to the Newham Ambulance Station in London. They were there to talk to ambulance service personnel about the stress and trauma of the past pandemic year, and the mental health of first responders in general. Apparently, the London Ambulance Service has introduced initiatives (which I’m sure Will and Kate will take credit for, because they show up to places and say “mental health, yah”) to help first responders, like Wellbeing Tea Trucks, etc.
Fashion notes: from the looks of it, Kate repeated her camel-colored Massimo Dutti coat and she coordinated it with a camel-colored turtleneck sweater and a brown suede Métier London Roma purse. I’m glad they’re wearing masks, even though Kate is still obsessed with wearing kids’ masks. Hers is yet another Amaia Kids mask. Sidenote: I assume they actually have gotten the vaccine, although they have not publicized it.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
I would like to know the royal protocol around mask wearing.
I believe it reads: Wear a mask only when wanting to shield your face from showing expression. This is especially useful when negative PR is circulated about you or the BRF (excluding Harry and his family).
They have to spell it out for Kate and Wills, that I am quite sure about.
Indeed. Clearly she found her tiny mask again….🤷🏼♀️
The PR set up for Clapham Common was both insensitive and obvious
keep it on while around the poors, except in cases of famewhoring at some other woman’s tragic death.
Wear one when people are expecting you at a scheduled event. Don’t wear one when you’re walking through a crowd of mourners and hoping to be recognized by someone other than your RPO. If these “superstars” had just walked into the station unannounced, I doubt that anyone would have looked up from their work.
OMG the teeny tiny mask again – how is it even comfortable (or properly protective).
My fault for clicking on this though as I knew the mask would bother me 😜
There’s no way in heck that mask stays where it’s supposed to when she talks or moves her face even a quarter of an inch. There’s nothing worse or annoying than an ill-fitting mask that shifts out of place if you even wrinkle your nose.
Then again, all that Botox may keep that mask from moving even 1 millimeter.
Shades of Meghan’s brown Canada House ensemble?
Yep..
It’s interesting because I had a friend in college who did this exact thing. I had a group of girlfriends and one in particular was very stylish–nothing crazy, but she always looked very put together and could carry off interesting pieces, and was a lot of fun. Another friend in our group was a nice, normal girl, but she had major self esteem issues and was constantly searching for an identity. She began dressing just like stylish friend, like would literally run out and buy the same tops, dresses, and shoes as soon as she saw stylish friend wear them and had ZERO shame in wearing them loud and proud in front of all of us. It’s like it never occurred to her to hide her single-white female’ing. We all noticed it and were always baffled by how blatant she was in her copying. I think she was trying to make us believe “No, I wear stuff like this too. I didn’t buy that because she did. I totally would’ve picked this out on my own.”
I believe Kate is that same person. Lacking self esteem, lacking a real identity, and lacking her own unique personality. And I really do believe she is being so blatant in her cosplaying because she’s trying to make us all believe she’s the same as Meg–she Zooms from her couch too! She wears extra long slacks too! She wears brown turtlenecks too! I have natural charisma tooooooo!
What I learned is that people who have lost their connection to self (mostly because of early childhood abuse, trauma, etc) don’t actually consciously realize that they copy. It’s so normal to them to not have a “self” that they don’t question it that copying others is their survival mechanism. Just as an explanation of why your college friend (and probably Kate) did the copying so blatantly
@A, honestly, I’m unaware of any trauma she suffered in her childhood, but who knows. I’ve never been clear on where that stemmed from with her. I am still in contact with her, although she lives in another state from me now. One of our friends from that old circle went on to become an astounding in-demand photographer, which my copying friend thought was amazing. She is now doing photography for a living too…
I agree with this assessment of Kate. I’m not a defender (esp as of late!) but I have always been a little…disturbed by how soulless she is. Like, she seemed to have a little fire in her belly during the engagement years and even the first year or two of marriage. But somewhere in the last few years…she’s just gone so empty. The smiles are fake, the awkwardness, etc. I can’t put a finger on it but I feel like she’s a really damaged person.
@Susan, I agree. It’s visibly obvious. I recently saw a picture of W&K at what I think was the London Olympics? She was standing up cheering with her arms in the air and he had his arms around her waist. It was obvious that their relationship was good at the time. And I definitely think it was, even the first few years of marriage. There were lots of moments captured of them unknowingly where they were holding hands or she was sort of hanging on him in an obvious romantic way. They both seemed like happier people in general. But it’s like night and day compared to now. She is a shell of her former self. While she was never a true “natural” at this job, at one point she looked like she generally enjoyed it. The vibrancy is just gone.
@Susan and Tea, I’ve noticed it in her too. In her eyes, I see a deep sadness, hence I don’t pick on her too much, but William and others “of blood” I have less sympathy for. She has invested everything for, I know it’s a cliche’, but gilded cage. No spontaneous fun in exchange for money. Hmmmm. Hence why the ultra rich and already set for life might shy away from that family. I wonder if Meghan has any regrets?
I agree with all of you about this, there’s just an undercurrent of sadness to her being now and I do feel for her. I wonder if her sole goal up to this point was to become William’s wife so she subconsciously altered herself to be the type of wife he wanted, but it means she doesn’t truly know who she is anymore. The only times I see any spark is when she is doing sporty activities, maybe that allows her to escape her thoughts for a while.
It is unfortunate that she is copying Meghan’s style, because is she had been styled like this from the beginning we would have applauded her because she really does look great, smoother lines and strong colours are winners for her.
Is she going….monochromatic? Like some of Meghan’s famous looks? This woman…..
I kind of want to send her a new mask. I just ordered some from Athleta that look nice. She should check there or the equivalent in the UK. at this point its not just that she insists on wearing kids masks – its that I think we have only seen her wear three masks? These two kids masks, one pink and one blue, and then a plaid one during the Pandemic Express. how does she not have more masks?? I keep buying them so I dont have to wash them as much, lol.
Yesterday I dressed to match my mask …..
I always try to pick the mask that best matches my outfit, LOL.
Except that to achieve a monochrome look you have to wear shades different from your main color. There she wears the same shade of camel.
Well, she IS pretty well known for her literal dressing and styling fails. It is any surprise she would take the monochrome concept and interpret it as literally dressing in clothes that perfectly color-match, to the point of looking like a cartoon character?
LOL Becks, you sound like me. I have more masks than there are days in the week – I have nine of them, plus disposable ones in case of emergency. I love coordinating my mask to my outfit on the few times I do have to go out; I particularly like the origami style.
If I had Kate’s access to designers, fashion, etc, I’d probably have one mask for every day of the month.
I have five masks now. They are all a different colour and I try to match them to my outfit too.
I bought the Athleta set too! I feel that don’t fit as snugly as the ones my sister makes, but they did come with the little extra strap that makes them fit better. I wanted some with ear loops for things like yoga (we meet in a civil war era Grange Hall, so well ventilated 😃) and chiropractor.
Tory Burch makes a really nice 3-pack mask set — pretty floral patterns, fits really nicely and super soft (plus they’ve got the fitted nose bridge and the little rubber ear loop adjusters) and it’s only $35 for the 3! I’m about to go and order another set if they have new patterns (I think they change them seasonally).
Meghan has been a real inspiration for kates wardrobe i see. Im so happy kates mot in a position to copy meghan california style tho. Sundresses don’t do well in that london weather
I see how Kate is very selective when wearing her mask in public.
Yeah the first thing I thought after seeing these pics was single white female.
It takes some…. creepiness to SWF your SIL a week after she let the world know what a crazy racist family the Royals are…. you do you Kate…or you do Meghan or Jedda or whoever you are copying this week.
Kate’s hair “grew” suspiciously fast.
I was gonna say: you know you can wear it curly one day and then straight the next, right? Just because you were praised once for straightening it doesn’t mean this has to be the new dawn (that leaves the sausage curls in the dust).
The Gruesome Twosome…
As soon as I read Kaiser’s description with all those shades of camel I was like OH OKAY 😒 we know who you’re copying.
Note on the mask – Second Wind, whose masks AOC has worn, makes these cute ones with cutouts on the lower jaw so it’s less fabric but still ACTUALLY FITS YOUR FACE. I bought two for when I want to dress up. Wearing a child’s mask is so bizarre!
I have given this more thought than it deserves and my conclusion is that it’s to signal look how petite and fragile I am, childrens sizes, tee-hee.
My question is… is Kate copying Meg or is Kate’s people having her emulate Meg?
In this instance I don’t see the shades of Meg. They are bound to at some point wear similar colors. If every time she wore monochrome colors or something we assumed she copied Meg I think that would be a bit much. I think of all things I’m not going to complain about her not looking like a old farm sister wife.
I hate hate hate the little mask though. Like get an adult sized mask!
That specific coat is very Meg-like. Meghan wore an outfit very similar to this to Canada House right after their return from Canada to the UK. She wore a brown turtleneck and a long camel coat. Very shortly after that (literally like a week later) Kate wore this coat with a brown top, shamelessly copying Meg. Now, between the coat, the turtleneck, and the long smoothed down hair, she might as well refer to William as Harry….which I’d bet she does in her mind from time to time…
LOL I bet you’re right.
You have to come from a despicably toxic family to even countenance talking about mental health while ignoring your sister-in-law’s very public and desperately sad accounts of her own mental health crises.
Yeah, I’m shocked they had the gall to do a mental health even so soon after the interview. These people really are stupid and tone deaf.
No one should be surprised. They will continue to do this bc the majority of Britain DO. NOT. CARE.
The British ppl, seems willing to drink the performative Koolaid, and will continue to prop them up and not ask questions. The shame then really ought to be on the charities that continue to use and parade then as mental health promoters. Like at some point, you have to be considerate of how shoddy it is to use content/PSAs with fraudsters who damage bc they don’t actually practice what they’re preaching
They don’t really care about mental health.
Someone who worked with them on Heads Together confirmed on Twitter that of the three Harry was the only authentic one. The other two were just doing this for show and she called them “arrogant and audacious”.
@Andrews Nemesis: IMO they just don’t think of Meghan as a person with feelings — I’m sure at no time during this entire sh!tshow did they wonder how they would feel if things were reversed and they were being treated the way she was.
I think they saw her as a problem, an annoyance, something they just needed to tolerate, a pawn in their pissing matches — but never thought of her as a person with feelings they should consider.
The tiny masks bother me SO much for something that is completely inconsequential to my life.
Me too…looks ridiculous
They irk me too. They’re not as effective if they’re too small! Also irksome is that she’s copying Meghan’s hair lately.
Man her coat and turtleneck remind me of Meghan’s worst outfit.
It sure seems the Oprah interview spurred them to actually work so that is nice.
Im sorry but im just now noticing that 1 picture where william is standing with the umbrella and just let kate stand there exposed to the rain
Haha, I never noticed that before! Quite the juxtaposition between the famous Sussex photo of them sheltering romantically under an umbrella during their last week in the UK.
I know photos just captureone moment in time, we shouldn’t read too much into it, but it’s kind of perfectly apt, right?
I just noticed it too. Even in the rain, the Sussexes sparkled together in that famous umbrella shot. And here is Kate and Will’s parallel umbrella shot, with Will under the umbrella alone, turned away from his wife and oblivious to her needs. All posed before a heart with a crown hovering above. This is such poetic imagery and this photo deserves an award. It’s Diana’s Taj Mahal photo call only for Kate. We need an entire post to compare and contrast these umbrella photos.
I don’t understand how someone who owns hundreds of designer coats has but one tiny child’s mask. Priorities!
And, I know I’m a broken record on this, but at least one of their patronages (the NHS mental health one) fundraises with masks. It’s a missed opportunity to not only model safe behaviour, but raise funds for the charities you claim to support.
“Healing hurt” … while trying to destroy his brother’s marriage and family? And the news is “Kate repeats a coat” to further the “Kate is thrifty?” twaddle. Sure, okay. Could these two BE any more incompetent and useless if they tried? They are shameful.
Ahhh de happy couple……I know this is shallow but seriously is Kate wearing a brown silk skirt under that coat? Hair, coat, jumper yet another carbon copy of Megs ! Seriously what is going on with her, sorry l find this whole copycat thing v odd, l mean de girl hmmm lady is nearly 40, between that and leaking this crying story, lm.sorry any professional normal person would be ‘mortified ‘ if that was leaked or talked about in de working place, seems like Kate has some sort of stunted growth or something l just can’t with this immature girl !
William can’t keep pretenses for long. Why did he leave Kate standing alone in the rain without him remembering to share the umbrella with her? No muscle memory.
For someone so “protective” of Kate, William sure does have a habit of leaving her out in the rain a lot, literally and figuratively.
These forced joint engagements are pure “Look at us, we’re the good couple!” palace PR. It’s time Bill and Cath pick a new cause because mental health ain’t it for them.
I noticed that too! He walked away with the umbrella and made sure that HE was under the umbrella so that HE wouldn’t get wet and left her standing out in the rain! Very telling.
Did anyone notice the mural behind W&K?? KP PR genius squad at work, lmao!!
I love how whenever shit hits the fan or increased scrutiny is on her, useless Kate repeats outfits to cosplay the thrifty Duchess and deflect attention from the cost of her tax payer funded wardrobe and general uselessness. And look! She found her mask! Amazing that she could wear it today, but couldn’t bother to put it on during her “use a dead woman for PR” sprint through the park the other day. These people truly are disgusting.
A related article claims that her wardrobe is not tax payer funded. Prince Charles gives the Cambridges millions a year for their expenses out of his Duchy of Cornwall income. That said, why was Harry told that Meghan should continue acting to support herself because there was not enough money? Different strokes for different folks?
Technically they’re right. Duchy of Cornwall money is not tax payer money, just the same as the Duchy of Lancaster money and the Crown Estate money. They’re all government owned real estate investment portfolios, essentially, and none of the money comes out of taxes paid…but it’s still government funds, still *public money*.
A distinction with little difference, I think, but a popular talking point when the Royal Rota wants to defend royal spending and just as popular to forget as soon as they want to hammer a royal for something.
I think she looks like a poo-sicle. I am also one of those people who can’t carry off brown very well, then she went ahead and wore the same brown through out. Poo-sicle. I wasn’t a fan of Meghan’s brown outfit but it was at least interesting, which Kate, with all her theme and “literal” dressing, can never seem to fake
Yikes. A classic case of ‘what you ordered online’ (Meg) vs. what you get in the mail (Kate).
Kate wears a lot of colours well, but brown is not one of them.