As we discussed, Us Weekly is doing some very curious gossip-reporting around the Duchess of Cambridge. According to the Middleton Camp’s separate media operation, Kate is a “natural leader” and she’s also Prince William’s “pillar of strength.” Bish, WHERE? Prove it. The only way to really spin Kate’s actual vibe is that she’s boring and consistently lazy and that’s probably quite soothing to the Windsors and to William. But when you look too closely at what Kate is actually like, she comes across as a deranged mean girl and Single White Female who tried to assume Meghan’s story, style, compassion and intelligence as her own. Kate also exploits dead women for superficial PR hits. But back to the SWF thing – remember how Kate made Meghan cry, then Kate pushed a story about Meghan making HER cry for more than two years? Well, Kate is still trying to pretend that she, again, has been victimized by this whole ordeal.
Putting the kids first. Duchess Kate would “hate” for her and Prince William’s three children to “see her upset or struggling” over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s tell-all interview, a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
“The interview was particularly difficult for Kate to digest, but she’s pulled herself together and is staying strong for the royal family and her children,” the insider says. “Kate’s an extremely protective mother and while she’s all about open communication, George, Charlotte and Louis are still young.”
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are parents of Prince George, 7, Princess Charlotte, 5, and Prince Louis, 2. The source adds that Kate, 39, is “one of the most dignified women you’ll ever meet,” noting she has a “mind over matter attitude.”
“Kate is definitely strong enough to get through this,” the source continues. “She has a lead by example attitude, so it’s important for her to be a good role model to them. George and Charlotte are back at school, but she’s been spending her evenings with them. The children always brighten up her day, and she always says that when she goes through a difficult time, having her family there always helps. She feels so blessed to have her kids and a loving family.”
It blows my mind that the emergency-PR around Kate is THIS bad. I realize that Kensington Palace, Clarence House and Buckingham Palace are all in shambles and they couldn’t find a good, unified communications strategy if they tried, but this is truly rancid and beyond pathetic. First, Camp Keen is still insisting that Kate was victimized by the Sussex interview. Then, they’re making it about Kate the Keen Survivor, who is strong enough to withstand the stories about how she’s a bully and mean girl. Then they’re adding “she’s a MOTHER” to the mix. What in the world do the Cambridge kids have to do with any of this? Kate is “one of the most dignified women you’ll ever meet”? ORLY??
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Lol. I want my own sick bucket thanks!
Amen to that! I mean, what the HELL did I just read from US Weekly???! I’m giving this 4 vomit emojis out of 5, only because of the kids.
Is anyone believing this drivel? I get so pissed off reading these heroic Kate posts.
I stopped buying people and us a long time ago with all the annoying Cambridge stories.
Is it me or is this devolving into William and Kate leaking silly stories like this daily every time Megan or Harry make a donation, get a job, write an article or actually do some real work?
They are boring, fake, ribbon cutters, and most of all jealous and petty
Kate bores the crap out of me as does old baldy Bill. Not an attractive couple and old bald Bill is a cheater just like daddy.
I prefer Harry and Meghan who are lovely together.
Oh dear. This is not going to stop is it? The embiggening campaign is on steroids now. She hardly does anything and never opens her mouth so it’s ‘easy’ to be so called dignified. I seem to recollect seeing her bare ass a number of times while on official duties so there’s that I suppose.
It’s amazing what passes as “dignity”. Aloof? Yes. Air of superiority? Yes. Entitled? Yes. Dignified? Hell no.
And since when does dignity equal “mind over matter”? They’re basically describing someone who is emotionally constipated, who shoves down her feelings and presents a blank face to the world no matter what is going on. Is that dignified? That’s not what I think of when I hear “dignified.” All of these articles just keep hinting that her life sucks and she’s super unhappy and not very well supported emotionally but she just ignores all the problems and presents a front to the world. This all seems the opposite of positive mental health which she and William supposedly consider one of their biggest causes. Repress your emotions, pretend around your family, be your husband’s pillar of strength, lean into your role as the only person who can calm him down when he’s being a rage monster, support your husband is his smear campaign against family members even if it means hurting the brother in law that you supposedly love and care about so much, be loyal to your husband above anyone and everything else in your life including your own feelings, “Kate exists to make William happy,” basically remember that you are responsible for your husband’s feelings and you should be care-taking him while ignoring your own needs because it would be gross to think about yourself or to ask him to care for you when you need it, don’t talk to your kids about anything and don’t ever let them see you having anything but HAPPY emotions, just think your way out of upsetting situations, mind over matter, focus on your shiny QC crown and keep swallowing any of those pesky alarm bells that are going off in your head, heart or stomach, stomp it all down and smile for the cameras. This is the message that is coming from the woman who is all about mental health and destigmatizing therapy and asking for help? The woman who is all about maternal mental health and creating happy, healthy homes for children in the early years?
@amy too, I really wonder how much interaction she has with Raging Willie. Yes, all the articles point out that she is his steel, but in many respects, they seem to live separate lives. I truly wonder if she just lets him do his thing as long as it doesn’t interrupt her hair and Botox appointments. My perception of her is that she spends her days pampering herself, playing tennis and spending time with the kids when she feels like she needs an hour of kid joy. There’s not a lot of dignity there for someone who has every opportunity provided to them and still choose the least impactful route.
You can’t both praise Kate for repressing her emotions (although she didn’t bother during the commonwealth service) and then praise her for promoting mental health. Repressing emotions is not healthy and the opposite of what mental health practitioners recommend.
The reality is that Kate says little in public because she ends up getting to spend all her time shopping, getting her hair done and maintaining her botox and fillers. And sometimes she is seen with her kids doing fun events.
Kate leads an empty life and no amount of spin can gild the devils bargain she made to be a mannequin in exchange for a crown.
So turning a blind eye to racism is “dignity” now? Showing your kids that a wife should be a doormat to her wealthier husband is “dignified”? Not showing any support to a pregnant family member under attack, is “dignified”? The worst part is, they are trying to spin Kate’s racism and misogyny as somehow beneficial to the kids, rather than harmful. So this will continue on with the next generation of royals. And we wonder why society is still racist/misogynistic.
W&K’s 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up. It’s only just getting started.
Whenever I picture “What Dignity Means To Me”, I think of a Duchess standing in front of a priest* with her skirts billowing up to the sky around her and flashing her royal biscuit at an official public ceremony to honor the host country. So dignity. Much biscuit.
*I’m not religious and struggle with remembering what the titles are. I don’t know if it was a priest, but he was dressed very fancy and reading from a large book, so I’m going with priest.
THANK YOU! Every time I read words about Kate being dignified, and never putting a foot wrong, I think – it’s not her feet that have been constantly on display! How many times has that woman flashed her bum in public while “on duty”?! It happened for years.
Lol. I went here to post a similar thing but your post is better. Didn’t they have to put weights in the hem of her dresses? And wasn’t there a scandal over her and her wedges obsession?
The photos attached to the Twitter thread linking this article show numerous examples of Kate showing her “dignity” to the world while on official engagements. If Meghan had even one flashing incident they would have criticized her to no end.
Oh please, I lost it at ‘royal biscuit’ LMFAO, I will think about your comment in my darkest time to have a good laugh.
JEEEZZZZ this is soo bad it’s good for laughing!
🤣 yes laughing was my immediate reaction.
So bad it’s comical.
This is so bad that I wonder if they are trolling us. Or someone in their PR department really hates her.
Glad to know I am not the only one who find these titles hilarious!
also, Kaiser’s photos that always go sooo well with the articles LOL
Those photos! So many of them show Kate baring her teeth like she’s about to take a bite out of someone. The one with her in the black evening gown should be captioned “I would like to eat your yummy-looking hat.”
That little girl giving her the side-eye. Children will put you on full blast all the time. Children have a built-in BS meter. She knows Kate’s full of it.
Can I borrow it when you’re done with it???
All these embiggening try hard articles are just LOL
Like….if you really are who and what you or others say you are, then others dont have to work so hard to proclaim you are.
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This exactly, LOL. If a magazine has to proclaim you’re “dignified”, well … ya obviously ain’t.
Especially if that magazine is US Weekly LOL
Bleck! It’s like people who go around using the word “classy” about themselves. It’s the biggest eye roll because people who truly have class do not have to go around saying it. They simply have it.
They are so perplexing to me. They seem to serve two purposes – making Kate look superior to Meghan in every way (which, LOL) but also setting her up for a fall from grace. Whichever suits Bald Bill’s plans, I suppose.
“She has a lead by example attitude” – does that mean she’s telling the whole world to work less?
Love this Couch potato. I can imagine the survey question, “On a scale of do nothing to do little, where do you rank?”
Probably – which is why their staff were so angry when Meghan asked them to actually do some work.
I am having so many brain-farts this morning. I read your comment as “She’s a potato with a lead by example attitude.”
But I think this line has potential for a lot of cheesy puns! Like “she’s always chipper in the face of adversity, and so down-to-earth.” Or, “when the chips are down, she’s always ready to jump into the fryer.”
I need to stop.
Not necessarily:)
Please go on LaraW! I need some entertainment!
It’s Friday and my work computer is not cooperating. Couch Potato, this is for you!
“With her russet brown hair and creamy scalloped coat, the Duchess was a true Tuber Rose during her visit to Westminster Abbey.”
“A palace spokesperson nipped those rumors right at the spud. ‘These allegations are half baked. The Duchess has long been a dedicated supporter of British cultivars and the arts.’ Kate is a patron of Bang Up & Smash!, an organization that promotes young up-and-coming British artists.”
I would love a 1-day work week!
That is the line that did me in…she “leads by example?!” I choked on the water I was drinking. If that’s true, then good luck to King Charles getting anything done during his reign if he doesn’t do it himself.
Also…”her children are at school during the day, so she sees them in the evening.” YOU DON’T SAY! Wow, every other parent needs to take notes; this is some groundbreaking stuff.
It never occurred to me to spend time with my child while he’s *not* in school. I’m going to need to sit and process this one for a little while to figure out how to implement this in my own life. Thank you, Kate!
Work less, show your butt more.
Going by past history and given how much they are pushing Kate as this dignified top CEO crap, I just have to assume she is nothing like that behind the scenes. That she’s a lazy, angry bitch who lashes out at the staff. That would explain why they seem so desperate to push this polished Catherine crap.
Stories from former staff confirm this. She’s known as Prickly Princess behind closed doors.
@XANTHA @NOTASUGAR
I wouldn’t be surprised if that story that Kate “told Meghan off for talking down to her staff” happened the other way around, and it was actually Meghan who had words with Kate for speaking nastily to staff. After they pulled a switcheroo role reversal on Meghan with the whole crying story and made her take the blame for Kate’s behaviour for two and a half years, it’s not far fetched to assume there are other stories where Meghan was falsely said to have done something when it was really Kate.
I agree Pearl Grey. It was probably Kate being rude. There was a tweet from someone that worked at a restaurant (I think) and said Harry and Meghan were always kind and thanked them and that Kate and Carole were awful to the staff and I think were banned.
There is a story from when she was first married about how she, Ma and Pips were shopping and Ma/Pips were all ‘the duchess would like…’ to the staff – apparently they were all rude and treated the store staff like the help. All the Middleton women have reps for being snotty AF.
I read that Kate behaved badly with the York princesses and they don’t like her.
Wow Ma Carole is getting really desperate here.
Oh jog on. Only fools will buy into this martyr narrative. Last year’s performance at the Commonwealth ceremony was anything but dignified. She’s already shown the world how foul she is on the inside and no amount of spin can ever erase that footage.
I will never her mean, pinched face under that stupid little hat at last year’s CW day. In church and in public too!
In the eye of other racist and xenophobe people maybe that was really dignified and classy behavior. :/
Interesting word choice.
Dignified is generally the word you use to describe a woman who doesn’t set her man on fire when she finds out he cheated….
Well, never complain (let other people complain for you), never make him explain I guess?
Why would he need to explain? He’s cheated on her for nearly 20 years, with her willingly sitting back and watching it happen.
I remember how he went to Jecca’s brother’s wedding and left Kate to attend Peter Phillips wedding alone. And he left Kate and the children to go on a hunting party, and in the party was Jecca.
She should have practiced some of that dignity last year during the Commonwealth service. You can’t do that openly and then pretend you’re not like that. We all saw it.
I agree. When people are found out, they use the “i’m not really like that” trope. Really? So why do it then? Kate is a mean girl through and through.
The choice of photo for this article for the main page is cracking me up.
But again putting out articles like this and doubling down on being a bitch instead of showing regret for letting lies about Meghan fester in the media for years really confirms her lack of decent character.
Kaiser is good at picking pictures. There have been more than a few times I’ve read a story I would normally bypass because the header picture draws me in.
It is another prime example of them taking Meghan’s characteristics and trying to apply it to Kate. Meghan has shown, in the last four years of abuse, that SHE is one of the most dignified women you’ll ever meet.
The picture selection for this story. *chefs kiss*
I came to post the same thing.
If there were an Oscars for selecting story pictures, Kaiser would sweep all the categories.
Give her a Pulitzer!
CAROLE – STOP! You are embarrassing yourself and your family with this blatant BS that NO ONE believes.
A dignified women doesn’t literally flash her ass to the world at every opportunity. Nor do they leak stories like this to embiggen themselves. Also neither is desperation – which you all reek of at the moment.
Even Carole must see how ridiculous this is? She’s a lot of things, but not stupid. US must have just made this up completely on their own, because who in their right mind would want this idiocy published if they were truly on Kate’s side??
This is gross and makes her look pathetic. Duchess Meghan reveals she felt suicidal and of course it’s all about the poor white woman and her kids. Sounds about white
It really is gross. Kate is “strong enough to get through this” – strong enough to get through what? being called out on her lies?
This. Strong enough to deal with being exposed as a bully, racist, meangirl?
Right?! Kate has to “get through” being called a good person, having Meghan say Kate did exactly what she would’ve done with an apology and that her fans shouldn’t hate her? It’s wild that they’re acting like the entire interview was bashing Kate when all they really had to do was focus on the other 90% of what Meghan said about her and pretend the rest of the interview (lying to protect other family members etc) wasn’t about her. That’s it! PR solved! This continued, unhinged response just proves her guilt!
Sunday, I was thinking the same thing. Isn’t it interesting how traumatic it’s been to Kate for being called a “good person”. Really? This is the beach you want to die on? Wow, if this is Carole, the brf need to shut her down.
Yes to this!
Seriously Karen, it’s not about you!
it really is unbelievable. How stupid do you look when you are complaining about being called on your shit behavior and still try to play the victim card? All these stories are revealing who she really is. Someone who is a total bitch, bullies, lies, creates false narratives, victimizes herself for all the crude behavior but won’t own it or be discussed because she is the future door mat of the other brother. Holy shit, unbelievable! Kate, we don’t care. Why don’t you sit back and compose five more questions about how to cosplay yourself in to Meghan, you jealous, incompetent wuss.
I haven’t slept so I feel bitchy myself.
It is gross, but what gets under their skin is that they have been exposed for being mean and for being liars. Sure the sycophants will listen to this, but they aren’t the ones Carole and Kate want to convince. They don’t like that a huge swath of people can see Kate for the pathetic bitchy woman that she is. And the audience outside of the UK that isn’t brainwashed by the tabloid coverage will believe that what Kate did was wrong. And it will be something that lingers forever. Because doing that to your sister in law is cold and regular people have sister in laws and can see just how bad it was for Kate to do that to her own sister in law.
The unintentional shade of this article is killing me! Hell yeah it’s an “EXCLUSIVE” that Kate is “one of the most dignified women” and “very strong”, nobody else is saying that!! Hahaha
These people are cuckoo!!! I’m trying not to come so hard for Kate because this is their hideous PR team’s fault, but the idea that Exhausted is stellar at anything is laughable
If it comes from Kate’s pr team, that means it comes from Kate.
And Carole.
No for stories like this you have to blame Kate. She wants this. She doesn’t want to apologize for what she did to her own sister in law. Instead she doubles down like a trumper in the lies and white victim hood.
Kate would never do the work to have her own PR team. Too many phone calls or emails or ideas involved. She just complains to Carole and Carole picks up the phone.
To take the trolling to a new level, US should have published every photo of her dress blowing up over her head, then caption it with something inane like, “Despite the many challenges, Kate has faced during her time in the royal family, she has managed to emerge as…blah blah blah” — I can’t even make anything up that’s worse than what they actually printed.
I think it’s comical that Kate believes that she’s a victim in all of this. She’s really upset that she was exposed as a mean girl and Karen.
She’s obviously taking her cues from Sharon Osborne. Maybe Kate is afraid of being “fired” too?
She’s so “strong” but she cries over bridesmaid dresses when she doesn’t get her way? Last week the story was about how William was so “protective” of her. Definitely dueling PR stories.
That’s actually really interesting. They basically have dueling and contradictory PR going on in which they are each the “pillar of strength” for their upset and reeling spouse. Is this unintentional? KP PR is all about how strong, manly man William is enraged that weak, trad wife Kate is facing an accusation and he must protect her and shield her from questions and criticism because she’s just too fragile to take care of herself. And then Kate’s Middleton PR is out here saying that Kate is the strong one behind the scenes, the kingmaker top CEO, the family’s rock who is supporting and calming an upset and angry and spiraling William. Are they purposefully doing this so that they can both get the good PR of being the strong supportive spouse but also still get to be fragile victims whose spouses care about them so much and think they’re so sweet and perfect that they should never face any kind of backlash for their own behavior? Or is this completely uncoordinated and they’re both doing their own thing, both trying to look like they’re the good, strong, protective spouse while the other one is weak and emotionally fragile and needs to be taken care of?
Is this all a set up for when/if they divorce? So they have a long history of articles to point to that support their narrative of being the long-suffering spouse to a person who needed constant saving from themselves? “He/she was always propping up and comforting her/him and never got to take care of him/herself. He/she was just doing way too much work to make her/him look good to the public and the strain of having to emotionally coddle her/him and cover her/his misdeeds has led him/her to feeling overwhelmed and unsupported in the marriage. He/she tried the best they could to protect her/him from her/his own bad behavior but they just can’t do it anymore,”
@Amy Too – duelling and contradictory PR is right and it makes me wonder whether they are really so estranged, so completely apart from each other that they don’t talk or consult one another at all – not even to liaise over what they release. I know we talk here about them probably living separately but the only thing that explains the crossing stories is that they are working completely separately too. Ma Middleton spins the Kate Top CEO, best mother, top Middleton bloodlines, indispensable rock to poor William stuff and Jason flings out the William is the angry, non-racist gatekeeper of the entire family and protective of his poor, crying wife stuff.
I see them as Charles and Diana were eventually portrayed in the Crown – when doing an event together Charles’ official car picked Diana up in a lay-by she’d driven too so they arrived and left the public event apparently together then went their separate ways afterwards. History repeating indeed.
Yup, the dueling narratives are interesting IMO. This is a time for KP to have a unified front, and it seems instead that there is a pro-Kate narrative and a pro-William narrative being pushed by their respective sources/go-tos. Neither one is bashing the other at this point, but its clear there are two different forces at work here.
@AmyToo, you make all good points and I agree. But from what I’ve seen on Twitter (I realize this is anecdotal only), her stans aren’t the brightest bulbs and they’re DEFINITELY not critical thinkers.
They probably won’t even notice the dueling narratives because they’re so busy fawning over both of them at the same time. They just see it as all great (and true) PR, so they take the good quotes and pair them with photos of glamorous, elegant Kate.
Then, like clockwork, if US publishes something negative about their queen, all of a sudden US will morph into a trashy tabloid, not to be trusted.
I’m sor, HOW many times did she show her whole bare ass to the world because she couldn’t be arsed to weight her hems?
Izzy, I was actually thinking of her when I sewed washers to the hem of my floaty circle skirt the other day.
Oh, yes. How could I forget the children?
She’s a MOTHER phoenix. A very protective mother!!!!! No one can say anything bad about her because of that!
@Becks I think you’re being very condescending. Kate spends time with her children AFTER they get home from school. Can you say you’ve ever thought to do the same?! We should be thanking her for giving us such sage advice.
And she’ll be announcing her pregnancy in 3….2….
100%
I doubt it. Will is staying far away this time, lol.
Turkey baster pregnancy.
This is laughable but also really gross IMO. It’s crossing a big line. Kate was the one victimized by the mean black duchess talking to the mean black talk show lady. Kate is the one who has a loving family and children (even the line about feeling “blessed to have her kids” feels icky to me considering Meghan’s miscarriage this past year.) She’s “pulled herself together” – so she got over her white woman tears and is now….doing what? Spending time with her kids in the evenings (what is she doing during the day, because she’s not working).
These embiggening stories need to stop.
The kids are working far more than she is Becks1, they’re at school.
She’s such a cold and self-absorbed person. Kate has always been described as cold but I didn’t think it meant she lacked empathy in some fundamental ways or might be that much of a user or cruel or racist.
Still takes me aback that for all the criticism, the Windsors and the Middletons turned out be worse than we thought. Chillingly self-absorbed, calculated people.
Her cousin the professor outed this part of her nature 10 years ago. She meant to say something nice, but the truth of what she was saying was awful. The entire Goldsmith/Middleton family knows Kate has no interest in the world around her, no interest in anyone beyond her immediate family circle. No empathy, sympathy, or interest whatsoever.
Well you normally learn so much in your 20’s, before you have children through working, studying and travelling but she spent all her teens and 20’s trailing William and turning herself into an empty vessel for the Royals to fill with whatever they wanted so of course she has no interests in anything. Theres nothing in her head at all. Shes the perfect Royal wife/robot/womb and that’s it. That’s all there is to her. How can she be a natural leader when she is such a dreadful public speaker? She can barely string a sentence together.
She’s emotionally stunted, as is her despot of a husband. She lacks empathy, remorse, all of the traits we, as human beings, usually learn by the time we reach our teens and early twenties. She stopped maturing emotionally at the age of 12 while she was a spoiled, cossetted little princess whose own mother manipulated her into the self-absorbed, lazy social climber she is today. She may be a good mother but as a compassionate and caring human being she is an utter failure.
I don’t think she is a good mother and I dislike that most of us feel like we have to add that “well at least she’s a good mother” line to criticism. You yourself say that she (and William!) lacks empathy and remorse and is a coddled, spoiled princess who stopped maturing at the age of 12. Can you be a good mother if you’re a terrible person? Can you be a good mother if you keep your kids in a family where dad is a rage monster sociopath who is not afraid to throw anyone, including beloved family members and his own wife, under the bus to hide his own affairs? This article alone that is all about her being a good mother says that she’s modeling this stiff upper lip crap for her kids, she never lets them see her have feelings, nor does she talk about things with them.
She loves her kids and she lives with them. She is not an abusive mother. She makes sure her kids are taken care of at all times and they have a lot of things and stuff because their parents are wealthy so she is not a physically neglectful mother. But that doesn’t automatically mean she’s a good mother.
She doesn’t model healthy relationships. Her marriage is basically one huge red flag at all times, she refused to support or welcome or even greet her sister in law on more than one occasion and she was actively evil in her takedown of her, she’s jealous that her brother in law loves his wife more that he loves her and wants to spend more time with his family than with her family, she lets her mother run her life, PR, household, and make child rearing and marital decisions for her, she’s competitive with all women including her own sister and doesn’t have any female friends. She doesn’t model healthy emotional well being or mental health. She looks extremely unhealthy and dead behind the eyes and all of her PR is about how selfless she is and how much other people value her. She has no self-worth or even self-image: she seems like a bundle of insecurities walking around in other people’s clothing, sitting in other people’s zoom rooms, doing other people’s projects because she copies so much. She values image above all else. Her children are exposed to a father who is self-described as being incandescent with rage a lot of the time and they see their mother bowing down and door matting herself for him. She has no work ethic and no charitable passions and she’s supposed to be raising the next generation of working royals. She both allows and exacerbates the whole heir-girl spare-boy spare thing by insisting that George is the quiet contemplative kingly one, while Charlotte is the cheeky girly one, and Louis is the silly clown-like baby who makes everyone laugh. I would put all of these things on my list of “things to avoid when you’re parenting.”
On the “good mother” side we have what? She takes a lot of photos of her children and releases a lot of pictures of the family all wearing blue gingham. She smiles at her kids and points things out to them when she’s at official events and engagements. Her parents and siblings see the kids a lot. Her kids go to a good school. She has a lot of articles written about her that remind everyone she’s a mother, she likes to be around her children, and she drives them to school. She has spoken about doing things like pitching a tent and taking it down, baking a cake, and planting a garden with her kids. Those things are good and fine, but they’re very outward-facing, projecting an image. But what about her children’s emotional well being? What about being a good role model? What about making sure her kids feel safe and secure and well loved for who they are, and not like they’re royal family pawns who have to go take “dynasty” photos with their cold, distant, aloof paternal relatives who value them politically because of the blood that flows in their veins but who don’t value them enough personally to actually let them be included in the family’s Christmas celebrations?
Wish I could upvote your comment, Amy Too. I see their young children already publicly acting out against her and her behavior.
@AmyToo these are all great points. I think as the kids get older, it will become more and more difficult for her to keep it up, though. After I had a baby, I developed a condition that often keeps me bedridden for days. When he was younger, my husband or mom could simply say “Mommy’s not feeling well today” or “Mommy’s getting some work done” (paying bills online, stuff like that) and that was that. He’d just accept it.
Now, he is so much more aware and constantly asks *way* more probing questions. He asks exactly what’s wrong and what is my doctor doing. Do other people have the same disease you do? Can’t you take the medicine they take? Has anyone ever had the same thing and gotten better? Are you ever going to get better? And if I try to skirt the truth by telling him I got a lot done on a given day, he asks for details; he’s so curious. He’ll ask for specifics, and I still try to be as vague as possible “I had a few phone calls to make, some paperwork to deal with— boring grownup stuff!” But he’ll still ask, “but what exactly?” And I can tell he knows. I’ve seen him peering over my shoulder at my phone screen. He’s genuinely curious. It’s a lot harder to maintain any kind of facade, and it became impossible during the pandemic when he was home 24/7 and knew where I was at all times.
Right now, Kate could probably show the kids that photo of her taking notes in her binder while looking at that bar graph or whatever (lol) and some photos of her shaking hands at engagements and they’ll think “that’s Mommy’s work!” but as they get older, that won’t fly anymore. They’ll pick up the tension between her and William, they’ll see that both of their grandparents and some of their aunts and uncles work a lot more than their parents do even though they’re a lot older than their own parents are. And they will ABSOLUTELY have lots of questions about Harry and why they don’t see Archie and the day George does some Googling, it’s *over* for them.
Plus, they LISTEN TO EVERYTHING. There are times I would have sworn there was no way my kid overheard something, but then my mom will tell me he mentioned it. God only knows what he tells his teachers and classmates.
William and Harry always went to boarding school from a very young age so William probably this has probably never occurred to William and they’re not worrying about it yet, but they really should be.
My dissertation of a comment got cut off, but imo William and Kate should be particularly afraid of how they’ll explain Harry’s situation to them. “Why did we never see Uncle Harry and Aunt Meghan? Why did he move to America? Why did they have to go so far away and not just to a different town? Why don’t they ever visit? Can we go visit THEM? But why not? Why can’t we go visit them? We always see Aunt Pippa and Uncle James! Why can’t we see Daddy’s brother and play with Archie and (baby girl) Sussex?”
Classmates will make comments about the Sussexes (that they overheard their own parents talking about at home!) that they’ll want clarified. And eventually they’ll see all of it online. They’ll know exactly what their parents did to Uncle Harry no matter how their parents try to spin it.
They should have anticipated all of this, as well as the fact that every single thing about the way Harry was treated will become issues for Charlotte and Louis as well, as “spares,” and that Harry actually created an excellent blueprint for them. It seems to me that they either didn’t think or didn’t care about how their actions would affect their children and their relationships with their children years down the road; their jealousy at being less popular than H&M at that moment drove everything that they did.
So yes Amy I agree she’s not a great mom, it’s just easier to play one on tv right now. But I predict they’re going to have serious trust issues with their parents when W&K tell them one thing but they read the complete opposite online. They can and will be indoctrinated to a point, but not like it used to be, not with the internet and social media.
Amy too exactly! How can she be a good mother when she is not a good person? She is probably nice to her kids, huge them etc but there is so much more to being a good patent. How can she make sure they grow to be their own persons, fine out who they are, respect others etc when she herself has no idea?
@amy too… excellent comment and more people should be honest about the type of parenting provided by people who choose who stay in that toxic environment. Nanny Maria is the only stable adult personality these kids see on a daily basis and that’s their best chance at not becoming too messed up.
Nic919, it says something that both Charles and William married someone who physically looks like their primary nanny.
Oh I hope this level of pathetic desperation from her PR peeps means she is freaking out that the world knows what a lying b*tch she really is.
Burn your insides out you lazy, useless wretch. May you live in misery forevermore for the choices you’ve made.
She and Carole are definitely flipping out. So is William, but I have a feeling he’s only worried about himself, ahem.
This is not a good long term strategy. It’s really boring and inauthentic and does not engage their audience. It’s all tell and no show.
@Wilma and once again, they completely miss the point. People loved Diana because she was real and she had flaws that the world saw.
Meghan was also a real person, relatable, because she didn’t pretend to always be 100% perfect and always doing and saying the exact right thing at all times. She’d been divorced and she let her guard down on the South Africa tour and what people saw was a real person talking genuinely about her feelings. She admitted during the Oprah interview that she might have done some things differently. The world reacts with adoration.
After seeing people’s reactions WORLDWIDE to both Diana and Meghan, they still don’t realize that the public will never like or connect with Kate if she’s a perfect mannequin who never, ever puts a foot wrong or makes a mistake or admits she’s not the best at absolutely everything ever.
Like fetch, Kate Middleton is not going to happen. If she were to happen, it would have taken place ten years ago, before the stink of mean girl racism became the Cambridge brand.
Ironically, I find the whole embiggening campaign to be distinctly undignified.
So true! Nothing dignified about scrambling desperation.
What a baby. When we read stuff like these we forget that she is an adult in her late thirties. I mean. It was a fight about children’s tights in a wedding that wasn’t ever hers. JUST LET IT GO. In the interview Meghan was by no means agressive or disparaging. She said they were both stressed out and thar Kate is a good person. In a family things like this happen all the time and it’s OK. The problem here is that Kate knows that she threw Meghan under the bus and can’t deal. I’m always SHOCKED to see how something this stupid could be weaponized by these people. I mean… they are THAT shallow to exploite a narrative this childish “Meghan made me cry. She’s mean”. And then they go and say that things should be kept in the family… you can’t have both ways. You either protect everyone or else people are going to defend themselves…
I guess her polling has nosedived because the pr embiggening push is ramping up.
To Kate’s Keen PR Team: Meghan GAVE YOU THE OUT in the interview! She blamed the press and miscellaneous staff and said maybe Kate was prevented from correcting the story just like she was! You could have just done the same, focused on her saying Kate’s a good person and moved on to some fluffy photo-ops that don’t involve a murdered girl’s vigil! Repeatedly responding like Meghan threw down a gauntlet just confirms Kate’s guilt and personal involvement in everything! Get a GRIP!
I hope they don’t get a grip. These stories are so silly, they’ve become kind of fun.
That Kate has chosen to play the victim and not even try to explain why she let the lie linger tells you just how despicable of a person she truly is. And using a murder victim’s vigil to boost her own PR just shows her sociopathic nature. This woman is cruel and selfish and fits right in with that backstabbing family. Carole taught her well.
It seems she’s terrified of the world actually seeing who she is and what she really thinks about anything.
If, after Oprah’s interview aired, she’d admitted she was wrong and explained that Meghan was correct in that she hadn’t been “allowed” to respond at the time, but was taking a stand now whether the palace likes it or not because she couldn’t stand to see more lies about Meghan, we at least would have admired her integrity for that *one* moment.
All I got from this is that she is a mother of young children who loves her kids and and spends time with them. Duh. How is that “dignified” or “strong”?
Exactly and the whole she believes in communication but they are young… what’s that even mean, does it mean she may tell them she has been called out for being a mean girl? I don’t get it… She is a pillar, dignified, the source of strength for William, hard-working, KEEN… and they left out nausiating.
And has boatloads of help and money at her disposal. She’s far from an everywoman/everymother.
The more I read about her, the more I think her emotional age did not make it past 16, if not 12.
Diana never lived to the actual age of Cathy or Will, yet she was far more street smart than either of them.
Are they preparing to get divorced or something??!! These ridiculous articles just keep coming out day after day! What is going on??
I wonder if Will is straying again and Carole is trying to bring him to heel.
@Harla, I don’t know, but if William is as constantly filled with rage as we’re led to believe, he must do *something* to cope with it. I have no idea if he drinks or cheats more or what, but he’s got to have some sort of outlet for all of that fury.
I think that Kate is deeply, deeply unhappy, and that is reflected in how she tries to claim petty victories or assert herself as alpha palace girl. She is exactly what the BRF wanted for Diana, a docile silent woman whose only real responsibilities are to birth children, smile and look pretty. Don’t make waves. Just look the other way. She was quite taken with William when they were young but Carol Middleton is basically a stage mom or pageant mom who pushed and pushed her daughter into this role to elevate their family. Like the Boelyns. Kate was told she has to do this and you’ll be Queen and it will -all- be worth it, the family is counting on you.
This doesn’t excuse her behavior but I just feel sorry for her.
I think Kate is just shallow and mean. She’s only unhappy when the dysfunction affects her like William cheating on her. Otherwise, Kate is an eager participant. Carole and William aren’t forcing her to be there. No one is forcing her to lean into so many racist tropes. Or not commit to even her little amount of charity work.
So much this, Kalana. Kate accepted cheating and straying in her business arrangement marriage. She’s a full participant in all of the bullying of Meghan, benefitting from all of it.
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The Palace never wanted the Middletons associated with them, nor do they welcome inept and lazy Kate. These PR shenanigans? Not only do they have competing palaces, they have an heir to the heir to the throne wanting to dump his wife – while his wife and mummy in law are running their own silly PR campaign.
Agree – and how can Carole churn out stories about how much William relies on her with a straight face when she is also briefing nonsense about Kate being CEO and the strength of Middleton blood? Surely William is no longer inclined to lay his head in her lap when she is effectively undermining him? It suggests that Camp Cambridge is completely divided – not just Kate and William apart but Carole is on the wrong side of the river with Kate too.
Kate could’ve stepped back and said ‘no’ to Carole any time. By a certain point in her 20s (grown woman territory!), she had enough connections and infamy to at least snag a ‘normal’ but still wealthy/privileged man. She could’ve easily done that, especially after how many break ups with William, and chose not to. Everything that she is suffering now is of her own making. Carole has a huge responsibility but she can’t be blamed for everything. Kate chose this life and chose to be a bitch to anyone she deemed lesser than or who she believed stood in her way. There is nothing that could make me feel sorry for her.
She could have walked away after the 2007 breakup. At that point, like you said, she could have used her status as the FFK ex and tried to get a rich man and live a quiet, publicity and scrutiny free life. She was also an adult so even if Carole disowned her, she could have been okay after a while. But at this point, it’s clear she’s in it if solely for the crown and will not leave William, no matter how much of a POS he is.
And there was nothing stopping Kate from being publicly cordial at the CW service. I didn’t expect her to do her usual smiley faces but a simple small smile would have gone a long way.
The only real sympathy I have for Kate is that she wasn’t really given an alternative life plan thanks to her mother in her teens and maybe wouldn’t have gone after William with such ferocity but again, she’s had opportunities to walk away from it all. And maybe still does.
Yeah Kate was 29 when she got married. That’s an adult. I dont know how well-developed she is as an adult, I think she’s probably a pretty limited person (stunted may be a better word) but that’s on her.
My current opinion of Kate IS that I think she is deeply unhappy, and I have to wonder if she wishes she had made different choices years ago, AND that she is a bitch who played a big role in a smear campaign against her SIL. The former does not excuse the latter for ME. I think that it may excuse her for MEGHAN though, hence the line about Kate going through some things and Kate being a good person.
but I’m not as big a person as Meghan, ha.
Kate took out her unhappiness due to her bad and selfish life choices out on Meghan and created a hellish environment for a pregnant woman who was living in a different country without her mother at her side. Meghan was on the verge of suicide because of the absolute lack of compassion of which Kate played a large part. I have no pity for Kate since she is instrumental in making Meghan’s situation horrendous and karma is a bitch just like Kate. She has earned the misery she is now experiencing.
Besides Kate just doesn’t like being called out on her shit. There is probably far more she’s done that we don’t even know about.
Good Lord, here’s another one. They are just proving Meghan’s point. KP can bend over backwards to prop up Kate, but were silent on Meghan’s character assassination and racial abuse. And newsflash, Kate isn’t going through anything. She’s lost nothing. She has everyone fawning over her lazy ass for the simple fact she’s white. Meghan was emotionally abused, her stellar reputation is in tatters, all because William & Kate & Carole are so insecure, inept and racist. So tired of these stories.
what’s up with these pieces highlighting things that not only don’t need to be highlighted but makes it seem worse by doing so? like i don’t need to be told kate supports her husband over her brother-in-law and spends time with her kids but isn’t giving them minute-by-minute details of the oprah interview but the fact that somebody feels the need to put that info out there is notable. (i guess having a terrible pr team means they’re gonna be terrible at pr. who knew?)
I had a friend say to me “but harry has burned his bridges with the family now” in regards to the interview. Excuse me, but his family’s 4 year smear campaign to ruin his marriage, kill his then unborn child’s and make he and his wife’s life a living hell, is what burned his bridges with them.
Some people are clinging on to the idea that the Keens haven’t done anything wrong because they don’t see their actions themselves. Kate is a sly, calculating, manipulative, passive aggressive mean girl. She doesn’t have the guts to say it to anyone’s face, so she gets her mouthpieces to do her dirty work for her.
I have so much respect for Meghan for saying it with her own mouth, Kate meanwhile is shady, her whole life is a lie. She literally has zero morals and will thrown anyone under the bus to save herself. I mean she literally used a dead girl to promote herself. There are no lows she wouldn’t stoop to.
The Duchess of Cambridge is a Literal Angel Sent from Heaven – A palace insider shared that he becomes lightheaded when he encounters Kate’s perfection. “I cannot think of another woman who measures up. She has the brilliance of Marie Curie, the beauty of Helen of Troy, the eloquence of Jane Austen, the righteousness of Joan of Arc, the bravery of a Gryffindor, the poise of Audrey Hepburn, and of the compassion of Princess Dia…I mean the compassion of, um…Jesus Christ?” When asked about Meghan Markle, the insider had less to say, “She’s not very memorable, is she? If I had to describe her, I’d say she’s the human embodiment of stubbing your toe.”
Excellent. I see next week’s press release is ready….
@Coco oh my GOD I’m dying 😭😭
“she’s a MOTHER”
Yeah, so is Meghan and nobody gave her a break because of it. They nearly drove her to suicide when she was pregnant. Kate wouldn’t survive one day in Meghan’s shoes.
No, she can’t even handle the press on her own. Will had to come to the Mentally Healthy Schools engagement to prop her up in case of questions about making Meghan cry. Entirely incompetent after years in her role. These endless embiggening articles are a joke when everyone knows she’s basically a talentless broodmare.
EXACTLY this. The disgust I feel for these cretins and their bile-spewing is enormous.
You’d think that this would be the time for Kate/Carole and William to have a unified PR front, but it seems like the split in their PR is only deepening. Kate’s PR continues to center herself while William’s PR gives her a throwaway sentence or two. The fact that she and Carole are so insistent on framing her as a victim shows how pissed they are that the world sees her for the vile creature she is. Meghan graciously threw up a shield for her and she’s spitting on it with each crappy PR attempt.
So much fear and jealousy at work here on the Middleton end. Kate jealous of Meghan’s devoted husband, Meghan’s success, fear of William dumping her. Carole jealous of the public embracing Doria, fear that Wiliam is dumping Kate.
I keep seeing her dignified face, in church, last commonwealth day. Oh me, oh my such dignity.
Right?!?! Like the dignity of the mean kids from 7th grade.
If by dignified, you mean the personality of a wet napkin, then yes. By all means she’s super dignified.
Mark my words, Kate is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. It’s only a matter of time. Her fake world is caving in on her and there is nothing she can do about it.
Kate has in the past attended events while heavily medicated which was noticed by the people who attend. A friend of a friend had attended something they were at a few years ago and Kate was obviously on something. It was not long after the rose affair was made public.
The mattress has been upgraded to dignified!
Is this a joke, because April 1st is only a few days away. Dignified my arse, because Catty was anything but dignified at the Commonwealth service.
Duchess Kate is one of the most dignified women you’ll ever meet…unless you’re superior in ability, reach and beauty, and happen to invite her to your wedding or sit near her at a Commonwealth service…
The photos!!!! Chef’s Kiss! The PR…gag. So so bad ….so bad!
Even more proof that William isn’t with Kate, isn’t it? They’re so separate, even their offices don’t communicate with each other before their planted articles are released.
She is a mother. Gosh how riveting. How noble. How special.
Mother to the future future future King of England. That’s what they left out and what makes Katey Keen so special and not like the rest of those normal mothers.
It has always perplexed me as to why Kate is thought to be such a good mother and always cool and ‘dignified’, when so many photos contradict these myths. To give three examples of Kate the bad tempered mother: Firstly Pippa’s wedding – photos of the day in Daily Mail show a scarlet-faced Kate berating three-year old page-boy Prince George outside the church and reducing her little son to tears [he apparently took Charlotte’s flower basket off her]; Next at Meghan and Harry’s wedding – this time Charlotte and George have been taken behind a tree by Kate, and thinking she is out of the view of prying eyes – scarlet-cheeked Kate can be seen pointing her finger at the children as she lambasts them both. The worst pics -those showing George looking especially distraught and in tears – have now been removed off the DM website. Finally, there are the horrible photos at the Royal Regatta [Harpers Bazaar Aug 8, 2019] when Charlotte pokes out her tongue at the crowd. Kate swoops on the child like a Harpy – teeth drawn back in a snarl as she harshly grips the cringing little girl’s arm- before suddenly changing expression as she spots the camera. Carole has Charlotte’s other arm in a firm hold. Surprisingly no journo made any negative comment on any of these examples of Kate’s excessive fury directed at her own young [royal] children. At Pippa’s wedding both children were under four – Charlotte only two – yet Kate expected them to carry out duties of attendants to the bride. HB pics especially are worth a look.
@Irma, I don’t even think these incidents suggest she’s a “bad-tempered mother.” EVERY mother has moments when they are thisclose to losing their sh!t because dealing with children that age is stressful, and these were all high-profile events.
What mom here hasn’t ever had to shout at a child, at some point, out of utter frustration over the child’s misbehavior? The only difference is Kate is constantly surrounded by a million cameras when these things happen.
I’m not a Kate defender and think she way she treated Meghan was unforgivable, but as a parent I totally get being on your last nerve if a child has been up since the crack of dawn, acting out and not listening to a word you say. Everyone reaches a breaking point and for many of us, we can walk away for a little while to take some deep breaths and let the other parent handle it for a bit, but Kate doesn’t really have that option. It happens to *every* parent at one time or another.
Lorelei I totally agree. I don’t think those moments even if they appear vicious and angry are indications that she is a bad mother.
I think it shows she’s not really around much to see kids act like regular kids so she freaks out when they aren’t perfect. There was nothing to show they acted up during Harry and Meghan’s wedding
With increasing frequency, the kids act out against her Posing As Best Mummy Ever routine. They’ve always sought out the nannies for comfort in public too.
We frequently see the kids acting out against her in public, and the kids reaching for the nannies for comfort.
I think it just confirms that she isn’t as hands on as she claims and doesn’t know how kids that age act. The worst thing which isn’t that bad, was Charlotte sticking her tongue out at the regatta. There wasn’t anything they did at the weddings to warrant a scold. And there were cameras everywhere.
Sorry, but I would have told that pageboy off too.
That….header picture… and title 😄😝🙃😉🤣😃😅😆😁
I’m weak……
Ugh that black lace dress in that last pic
It is hideous
I was just listening to a podcast — Dan Harris interviewing Tanya Selvaratnam — on domestic abuse and she describes the war between the “patriarchy and feminism,” and that women and men are on both sides of it as are men.
I know that’s not a new insight, but it occurred to me that the conflict between H&M and W&K falls into this, and that Kate is now being held up for her “dignity” for siding w the patriarchy, at whatever cost it may be to her (which I’m personally increasingly suspecting).
I think that’s also why there’s so much invested in bringing H&M down. It’s not just the BRF, it’s the patriarchy at stake… So holding Kate up is part of buttressing it, also why the motherhood thing is introduced, as if Meghan isn’t also a mother… And then that’s where of course race comes in too…
Kaiser, you truly have a gift for photo selection. #dead
I wish she would keep the children out of it. Her playing victim and all that.
Kate is such a flaming mediocrity.
All this conflicting PR seems to me that the Middleton’s are on their way to a Boleyn level downfall. Bill wants out but his Rose gardening would hurt his dad image. Kate would take the fall: she and her family leaked the bad stories about Meghan and they will be blamed for the bad blood between Diana’s sons. The Windsors I think never liked the Middletons and probably want them gone for good. Throw in Kate with a side piece for good measure. The Middletons can scream all they want and threaten to expose secrets but the BM will side with the royal house.
They are working really hard to clean up Kate’s image, we used to get a break from it but now it seems to be all the time? If she was perfect for the role then there would be no need to say anything?
“one of the most dignified women you’ll ever meet” – what a joke!
Ugh, statements glorifying Kate might be more believable if they weren’t such hyperbole. Give us some real, reasonable examples and we can decide for ourselves how dignified/hardworking/caring she is.
I don’t say this to disparage mothers or women who make being a parent one of the most important things in their life, but, does this girl have anything going for her in her life, aside from being a mum/having kids/being a parent? It seems like a significant portion of the last few fluff pieces that we’ve seen about Kate (in the US press fwiw) have all been about how she’s white-knuckling her way through the tragic havoc of being exposed as a liar by leaning on her family, especially her kids.
Every article is about the exact same thing–she’s a mom with kids, who has a tight knit family. She’s getting through tough times in her life by focusing on raising her kids. Her kids are her life/her rock. Etc etc etc. I guess they decided on this particular PR strategy after they figured out that digging themselves deeper into their lies about Meghan and the bridesmaid fitting wasn’t helping to dispel the image of Kate as a mean girl, it was only making things worse by exposing more of the truth–that Kate is a fragile white b*tch.
So they settled on putting out stories about how she’s a mum of three young kids instead, who’s simply devastated about her lying being exposed. She doesn’t need the truth about who she really is coming out right now because she’s just a mum, with three young kids at home, who she has to parent and be there for. Isn’t Meghan just such a AH for not sitting by quietly and letting her reputation get slandered by the lies that Kate didn’t bother to set straight for two years, that she encouraged and benefited enormously from?
Never mind the fact that Meghan, too, is a mother of young child–she doesn’t deserve the same empathy or courtesy or respect from the press. Only snowflake Kate gets to have embiggening articles written about her, where her motherhood is used as a way to bolster public sympathy and strengthen her image. Meghan, on the other hand, gets screamed at for putting her hand on her belly while pregnant, and gets gloating sneers from the British tabloid press about how she’s a hypocrite regarding privacy when she writes an article about her miscarriage.
Notice how differently the media chooses to treat black women who are mothers, vs. white women who are mothers. For Kate, being a mother is used a status that’s used to net her positive, sympathetic press. For Meghan, any positive discussion of her motherhood in the press is almost entirely absent. It’s completely ignored in the haste to smear her, and when it wasn’t, it was just another angle from which to attack her and put her down. Motherhood is a status that garners white women strength, protection, and empathy in the eyes of society, and you can see Kate and her PR machine taking full advantage of that fact in the last few articles they’ve put out about her, like this one.
Meghan showed Kate up and showing up the higher ranks is a cardinal sin, even if completely unintended. Look how fun, fabulous Fergie was quickly branded the Duchess of Pork to keep her in her place. Confident, career-woman, self-made millionaire Meg, with her international relations degree and calm composure speaking in front of the UN, was/is far better suited to international diplomacy and public meet-and-greets than Kate.
The Middletons do their own PR. As with the intrusive, “long-range” cameras in France (which Middleton knew were there, which is why she posed like a Penthouse cover), Kate is an exhibitionist who has nothing to offer except, “l got William”.
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@COTTAGE CAT— I actually never saw those photos…did she really pose?? And people still still drone on with the “never put a foot wrong, perfect dignified future future keen kween” garbage???
10 years. A decade. I’m a very awkward person and not the smartest, and I wouldn’t have been good at the job, but there is no way I would’ve sat back and not attempted to learn when I had access to people that could’ve helped me. I even consider myself pretty lazy and yet I wouldn’t have allowed another woman to be smeared to make myself look better.
Also, not about to let my butt show, but that’s just me. Maybe I’m more dignified than I give myself credit for.
I’d really like to know the context of that face she’s making in the header photo. What IS that? Who makes a face like that? What does it mean? I need to know.
Honestly, they’re digging their holes deeper with those kind of trash-articles. They made it seem like Meghan actually revealed Kate murdered someone, while she just fact-checked a fake story and even added ‘she forgave her’. Trying to portray Kate as victimised (by what, the truth? LMAO) and all, is so ridiculous, it really baffles me.
She wants to be Doria? What gives?
At this point, I’m embarrassed FOR Kate. Surely The Firm can hire a better team of PR people than this!