Yesterday was Veterans Day here in the US, and Remembrance Day/Armistice Day everywhere else. While Prince Charles had some public events on Thursday, they were not specifically related to Remembrance. Only the Duchess of Cornwall did specific public events for Remembrance on the day. I mentioned how strange it was that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were sent out to do any public events on the day. Something weird is definitely happening with them and I don’t think it’s just “their marriage is bad.” Anyway, all of that to say… I was wrong, sort of. Today, Kensington Palace posted this video of Kate meeting with a veteran and a young Scout and I’m sure that means this video counts as two events! Royal Math™ . I have no idea if this was actually filmed on Remembrance Day, but I suspect it was not. The editing turn-around wouldn’t have been that quick!
I genuinely wonder if Kensington Palace feels like they can’t trust Kate to speak off the cuff or even make speeches at this point, so they have to control every element and produce these videos in-house. This was posted to the Cambridges’ YouTube channel, and it’s only the fifth video they’ve published on YouTube in the past four months.
As for the video itself… I always struggle to find something nice to say about Kate, which is why I tend to emphasize her comfort with seniors. What she’s doing here is fine, and I’m sure Colonel Blum enjoyed speaking to Kate. The point of including the young Scout, Emily, is to “talk about Remembrance across generations.” It would have been smarter to have Kate as the facilitator of a conversation between Emily and Colonel Blum, rather than have Kate as an awkward interviewer. Is she keenplaying Oprah? Jazz Hands: A Conversation.
Screencaps courtesy of the Cambridges’ YouTube channel.
Honestly, whatever, nice that they did SOMETHING for Remembrance Day, but after the events of the past 24 hours I don’t even care that this is a “nice event.” She’s a garbage person and she’s married to a garbage person and both are hell bent on destroying a woman’s life because she is better than them.
They are disgusting, vile people and that’s all I could think when I saw this video.
ETA sorry, let me tell you how I really feel, lol.
@becks1: don’t feel sorry. You worded my exact sentiments.
Lol, well said, Becks!
Everything you said +1000
I’ve always said that Kate is the epitome of a mean girl. The type that throws stones and hides her hands. The type that points out the stones so other people can throw them. Here’s the thing. It will all come out and they will turn on her. We will all be here to remind her of her role in all this. She may be liked but only as a comparator to the black duchess. She is not LOVED or trusted by the public who know how much she was willing to endure just to be queen consort some day.
I could not agree more.
Hopefully none of these strangers are loved or trusted by the public. A lot of energy for unelected figureheads .
Thank you!!!! I was afraid to comment because I was so irritated and couldn’t trust myself, you summed it up, lol.
The Duchess of Larvae and her performative poppies do not impress me.
@ Maria, yes!! And how impactful for her to make a 98 year old veteran to construct a paper poppy! How insulting.
Don’t apologise. And yeah I feel you. Yes it’s nice they did something but she’s also someone who benefited greatly from the abuse and torment of a biracial woman at best and contributed to it at worst. Her employee is trying to call said woman a liar and he would not have given up his emails without his employer’s permission. I try to throw her crumb every now and again and praise something but yeah. Horrible person.
So yes. Say what you want. And I don’t care if I or anyone else gets hit with the “you’re so mEaN to Kate!!1!!1!!1”
Yes, Becks1, exactly!! I have nothing but contempt for both of these vile and evil jealous slugs.
But I thought that Emily’s questions and interactions with Col. Blum were much more inspirational than Keen Mumbles-A-Lot!!
Well done Emily!!
No need to apologise
No doing a video ahead of time is not the same as actually taking the effort to do something on the day itself. The moment of silence is supposed to be at 11 am on November 11. It is not a holiday season.
William and Kate do so little they had time to show up somewhere. But they could not be bothered to do something in public.
And don’t feel bad for disking vile people who are being exposed for who they are. They deserve all the scorn.
@Becks, couldn’t have said it better myself. I’ve been done trying to find “nice” things to say about Frick and Frack across the pond over there. I don’t care what she wears, and I don’t care what they do. They are horrendous people, period. Wake me when Ms. Karma comes knocking and they finally get their comeuppance.
@Becks: I’m with you.
Well said, Beck1.
It’s infuriating, but I’m comforted by the thought that she’s trapped in that garbage pit, forever and ever, amen. There’s no peaceful tree anywhere under which she can sit.
I do not think your are alone in how all this makes you feel..
Well put it this way Becks, we all know if she wasn’t surgery’d and blow dried and styled to the max, people would actually realise she’s a vile b1tch. Shame that superficial looks can hoodwink the public into thinking she’s wonderful.
I don’t think a manic giggling racist nutter is the right person to engage meaningfully with vets and Holocaust survivors.
Completely agree with Kaiser that Emily should have been the interviewer but we all know the Wiglets can’t deal with being sidelined.
BSN: ah! Phooey! I guess I’ll have to listen to more of the video, ’cause I didn’t realize Emily actually conversed with the colonel. I thought it was just Kate asking dumb questions & making pointless comments (her husband at Sandhurst, golly). That’s what I thought might be interesting.
ETA: just watched the rest of the video. Loved both the veteran and the scout.
All in with you becks
We’ve all had one of those days in the comment, Becks. Let it out.
I agree with you but also a small (small! No one needs to shout at me!) part of me feels like she’s a pathetic creature. I tend to feel that way about most small time bullies, but she’s just so obviously a small, pathetic human (who is responsible for herself and her actions and should be getting therapy to deal with her issues and not taking them out on other people).
Yup all of this. I take pleasure in the fact that the Sussexes are free and these guys are forever trapped under the control of BM with no say how they live their lives or spend money. Trying to stay on the good side of people in the UK who think they are parasites.
Becks1: Agreed. Kate and her husband are just terrible people. Not to mention the video was horribly edited and Kate accent is awful!
Same here!
Yup, nothing good she does can negate her evil intent destroying her sister-in-law because she is out classed by her in beauty, brains, work ethic and charisma.
I don’t think something weird is happening. I noticed a pattern for a while now when they send their attack dogs after the Sussexes they always lay low to give the press the opportunity to have their full attention on the attacks then they step out after, doing a cosplay of the things the Sussexes were attacked for.
Gaslighting. I can’t stand them. And she speaks so awkwardly. Why do I think she sounds like Eliza Doolittle in real life when she isn’t being all “future queen-ish.”
Haha. I think it’s because her crude behaviour screams volumes about how common she actually is – not class-wise, but you can’t tell me she wouldn’t look out of place slapping another woman in an east end pub if William was giving her the eye. She acts like a fish wife.
In the media created love story they already made sure to mention that Kate would keep other women physically away from William when they were at pubs, which is why he liked her. And she finally got his full attention by wearing a see through lingerie slip as a dress…. So truly a high class love story. And that was the sanctioned version.
What is it with this family and black turtlenecks? She’s moved on from cosplaying Diana to cosplaying Gru.
Kate Middleton is a vicious monster. No amount of videos with vets will change that.
Whenever Keen does anything related to the scouts you know sis is down bad PR wise. She ignores the organisation the majority of the time but when her schedule is looking too light (and that’s saying a lot because the bar is already in hell) or she desperately needs to cast herself as ‘the better duchess’ when her lapdogs are smearing M in the press.
And the day before was a Holocaust survivors visit. And no one would criticize that either.
Only royalists pretend they are not the vile people they have shown themselves to be.
Riveting content.
And The Fail has an article about her ditching handbags/clutches thanks to her “growing confidence.”
Still learning and growing and using that as an excuse.
The infantilization of that 40 year old woman is insane. They do it to cover her total incompetence as a functional human. She clearly isn’t. I can only imagine how long it took to find decent takes to use.
@Rapunzel: The real story is she’s ditching handbags/clutches because she’s cosplaying Meghan who many times didn’t take a bag on engagements.
Speaking of cosplaying, did anyone notice the monochrome green? How many times is that now? This is borderline psychotic
I read that and really don’t understand what confidence is needed to hand her clutch to one of her assistants. How else is she going to do her performative ‘jazz hands so I look engaged’ act?
I tried to watch the whole thing but I couldn’t. I had to skip through it. The sentiment around it was nice but Kate as the interviewer was not a good choice and it needed to be edited down to about 4 minutes. She said she was at the Penisioners Hospital. I hope she paid a visit to some of the residents while she was there.
I read something that theorized about why they send Kate out on events featuring old people and kids: she is so jealous of other women and terrified of being seen near/compared with them that she or the RF limits her events (whenever possible, I guess) to age groups in which she need not compete. It made me think that we rarely (maybe never?) see her with other women LIKE her—Moms of young kids. She has no friends that we know of. We don’t see her with Pippa any more. And of course she chased Meghan out of the country with her vile campaign.
What a life she’s built.
I can’t wait till the sh#t house she’s built for herself collapses from within on her. Only a matter of time.
AMEN!
Oh my god, they had to add subtitles because Kate’s “posh” voice is so difficult to understand.
They needed to add it or else all the comments would be “what did she say at 0:50?” Her mumbles are truly unintelligible
Actually I think this might be because of deaf people/hard of hearing? A lot of video channels on Youtube include captions for those who are hard of hearing, it’s widely considered to be a marker of accessibility (like with the image descriptions you see on Instagram for those who are blind/seeing impaired).
Thanks! I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t think of this.
In the US, it’s often referred to as being ‘508 compliant’, referring to the American Disabilities Act. When federal agencies post anything online, it’s supposed to be accessible to those with sight problems or hearing problems.
I’ve always viewed Kate as a petty, less calculating version of Margaery Tyrell
Margaery was actually intelligent and nice, is the difference.
she and Will could so easily tell knauf not to be helping out the daily mail even just to protect the family and the fact that he is – clearly not only do they hate her and not care what harry thinks of them – they don’t care if they take themselves down, they just want to hurt her. just awful.
I didn’t listen to more than the first couple of minutes of the video, but I agree with Kaiser; it would have been better to have the scout talk with the veteran, with Kate as facilitator. That would have been interesting, and I think both the young girl & the older veteran would have enjoyed their conversation. And it would have been a true conversation between generations, rather than Kate asking not terribly interesting questions with no follow-up. I wanted to know more! How old was that guy when he got called up? Young, I bet, if he was in scouts up until the war. What did he think they saw in him that made him officer quality for Sandhurst? How did he feel about that? And the scout. Why did she join? What is she hoping advancing to Scout status will be? How did scouting help her cope through the pandemic? Was she able to continue scouting activities during the pandemic? Argghhh!!!!
It’s called Remembrance Day, not Remembrance. Sorry to be picky.
The girl seems to have more knowledge than Katie keen. Also she can’t seem to express sympathy for the passing of the gentleman friend who died in the war or his wife. That would be because she is a heartless bitch
It wasn’t in her script. And yes she is a heartless bitch.
“Is it lovely to reflect….on the people you lost?” What sort of a damn stupid question is that to ask? Or even a really badly phrased question from a University educated person!
Everything in her world must appear to be lovely, lovely…to be so thick as to not recognize–OR CARE– that memories of loss would be painful is just so revealing.
Exactly what I thought!
I’m not giving them the views. See, Kate? I can be petty too.
On the post about the last speech she did (they gave us less than a minute clip) I was complaining about all the damn long pauses at every punctuation mark. Last night I figured out who she was kopykeening!! I stumbled across a documentary on the Queen Mother. She did the exact same thing!
I’ve tried to study why I can’t understand Kate: what it is about her voice. She is very nasal, and her voice is resonating in the nose and head, I can even hear it resonating or vibrating in her nose. It’s very hard to understand. I don’t find her genuine at all or interesting. Did anyone else notice that she was not actually wringing her hands when the others were talking, but worrying her thumbs terribly. And she seems like she is acting engaged, but actually worrying about what to say next. Hand wringing.
From other pictures but especially the ones that Celebitchy posted from the Cambridges appearance at the Environmental Summit, her face is astonishing. I’ve been wondering what is going on with her. If she had a nervous breakdown, if she is an alcoholic. Yes, I agree with a previous poster that she is becoming pathetic. I wish she had married someone else and had a quiet, private and privileged life. This life is not for her. There is a terrific amount of anxiety there, and I wonder what lengths a person would go to to assuage that anxiety. She’s making me mad, because she’s making me begin to feel sorry for her.
So I heard someone say once that they were in a racist group, and I told them that that was based on putting someone else down so they could feel better about themselves, and it never works. I say the same here: she doesn’t look like she feels better about herself, her life, her marriage. Just think, she could have had an ally, a sister, a confidant, someone who was really caring and smart and savvy, who could have given her some really cogent and sage advise. So all the machinations have not helped.
She actively participated in a smear campaign against her pregnant sister in law who was considering suicide. There is a special place in hell for someone like that. Whatever she is going through at the moment is on her. Just last week she was posing with Knauf who is openly cooperating with a tabloid in a case dealing with a personal letter to a parent. So she is still actively a part of this and it’s too damn bad if she’s not feeling sunshine and rainbows. She is choosing this and could leave any time. This is all on her.
Exactly. She just wants someone to throw under the bus. Now that Meghan is out and about, keens lacking is on display. She’s a vapid person who hates anything that shows her to be less. She is so inept, it’s exhausting how ppl bend over backwards to act like she’s a daft child.
That was pretty sweet – we should cherish that generation and their stories while we can .
This 40 year old woman is utterly useless. UK this is your future future queen consort. Good luck.
I think Kate being useless fits right in with her future useless job as queen. In the 21st century what purpose do royals really serve other than their own interest. Create a nonprofit and call it a day.The former institution of bricks and mortar will still be tourist worthy without the tax tab.
Imitation is flattery. If Megan’s style and flair can move the needle for Frumpy then the rest of the remainders should follow suit. For goodness sake give us something to look at if your going to plaster the news with photos and inane stories.
I just watched the video. I don’t think she did bad. She is just kind of boring. I don’t think there’s much to do about that.
Just watched it too, how did de lovely warm veteran and Emily understand a word she was saying , de hands de hands , how bad is she at everything !!
I couldn’t watch more than the first couple of minutes. First of all, her faux-posh accent is unintelligible. Second, the hand movements are distracting. Third, she’s reading from a script, not her heart. Every Remembrance Day (here in Canada) is emotional for me, I get weepy. My dad flew bombing missions in the middle east in WWII and got shot down. He and his crew had to survive blistering heat and precious little food and water for 3 days before they were rescued by the RAF, mere hours before one of Rommel’s tank brigades would have found them. In the few minutes I watched Kate, she seemed unengaged and acting her way through the interview. Imagine what Meghan would have brought to the conversation. Real connection, emotion and gratitude for the service this veteran gave during a perilous time, and for the scout who is embarking on a life that will give so much more than this lazy, vapid leech.
I had to laugh at the Kate posts this morning on social media. Some go on about how she is “standing in the place of the Queen” on Remembrance day on the balcony. It is ludicrous.
Mumbles is trying. I give her points for trying and take away the very points for being a mean girl. Nothing can redeem her except an open act of contrition towards Madame Duchess,