Prince Charles has been waiting to be king since he was a little boy. He was four years old when his mother became Queen. To his credit, he found ways to occupy his time while he waited. While there’s been a ton of (well-deserved) focus on Charles’s shady financial dealings, Charles has been a charitable workhorse with a wide variety of passions, ideas, schemes and interests. He cares deeply about sustainable farming, organic farming, urban planning, conservation, environmentalism and a lot more. Meanwhile, Charles’s heir doesn’t care much about anything. William and Kate’s whole energy is a lack of curiosity, a lack of passion, a blandness of personas and interests. We’ve been told, repeatedly, that Will and Kate are “preparing” for their future roles. As if that preparation is their sole focus, as if they cannot do anything but “prepare.” They, like Charles, could be waiting a long time. Anyway, I was thinking about all of that as I read this latest excerpt from this week’s People cover story:
Kate Middleton is ready to step into the shoes of Queen Consort. With a slimmed-down royal family — Prince Andrew quit public duty due to his ties to Jeffrey Epstein; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back as senior working royals and Queen Elizabeth has battled recent health setbacks — Kate and Prince William are taking on more public work than ever.
A family friend tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story that it shows Kate is prepared to transition into a queen supporting her husband when the time comes.
“She is ready to step into those shoes with ease and is perfect for the job,” the friend says.
Kate is “more and more impressive as time goes on,” according to a source close to the royal household. “She is a focused and professional woman.”
I’m left with the impression that Kate believes she’s somehow “banking” her time, effort, keenness and work for the time when she becomes Queen Consort. Like, all we should expect of her right now is that she’s “ready” when the time comes. And even that’s a lie! She’s not ready. She and William haven’t even stepped up during the Queen’s health crisis. When the Queen was cancelling events, Will and Kate literally went on vacation! Kate has *barely* done one event a week this fall. So no, Kate is not “perfect for the job.” LOL.
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She is not going to be the Queen’s consort for many years. She should just sit back and relax, it is what she does best. Do nothing.
This, for real. If Charles lives as long as his mother it’ll be 20+ years before Kate can emerge from her button-covered coccoon and become Queen consort. In the meantime, she has her one event per 10 days to keep her busy.
Heh. Button-covered cocoon.
I laugh at how these articles actually think these two are going to become K&Q before age 60.
Is it treason to declare that you are ready to be queen NOW when the current one still lives and there’s another before you? The Middletons are trash humans, like raccoons, but without the cuteness.
Merricat, you crack me up!
Boring Bill and Keen Kathy truly are trash pandas but with only slightly less eye liner on the latter.
But is she waiting? This looks to me like an upstage of Prince Charles by the keens. It is quite extraordinary for the heir apparent of an heir apparent to talk about Kings and Queens when they are second from the succession. Are they really preparing the media narrative of Charles’s unsuitability of the throne and staging a man-made intervention to jump the line of succession?
I don’t think she’ll ever be ready. She’s not queen material no matter how British media sucks up to her to embiggen her. Measured against other European royalty and world leaders, whatever Kate has between her ears, if any, she cannot articulate them intelligently. She will be a disgrace to Britain. She’s a wallflower at best.
If she’s so ready, why isn’t she working.
The thing is: there is no “preparing”. What they are doing now is what they’ll be expected to do when they are king and queen consort: visit charities and advocate for certain causes. This is literally it. (Only william will have the added duty of meeting with the prime minister every week) This is their forever life. So if she is still preparing that means that she’s currently not preforming how she should be preforming (but we knew that already).
This is what I meant exactly. Working is doing. One doesn’t prepare to work. One doesn’t get paid to prepare for work. One is either worming or not working.
“What are you preparing for? You’re always preparing! just go!”
~Spaceballs
WTA: I *know* it’s a typo, but yes, since K&W *are* slithering WORMS, they ARE “worming” now… being part of the lowest of the low. 😄 😄 😄
I have to say that going to charity events as your job sounds boring as hell.
@Becks1 I have a theory that all things can be addressed with a Spaceballs quote and that has yet to fail.
I see people commenting on here that she is not working etc, but still, CB keeps posting stories with Kate out and about, doing stuff, greeting people, being in meetings, doing charity etc.
I have no clue what she does in general, but reading this blog makes it look like she is indeed very active and working.
What do you guys consider working?
Not trying to show any attitude or anything. This is a sincere question.
What could she do to make you all content?
LOL, no, she’s not working. The pictures that Kaiser uses for the articles are usually from the same handful of events. The press just constantly pushes stories about her that are talked about here.
Last week she went to the christmas concert at Westminster Abbey. I think prior to that she hadn’t worked for 2 weeks and that was the appearance at the school where she was asked about Meghan.
She is not active and working, Kaiser is just covering the stories about her. I think she has done 60 events for this year, maybe? She works so little that I can look at these pictures and basically tell you what they were all from, which you should not be able to do.
And to answer your question – three years ago most of us on here would have said (and did say) that she would get a pass if she weren’t so lazy, i.e. if she did the kind of numbers that her 73 year old FIL did or her 71 year old aunt in law (Anne) did. But now, I would say that to make most of us “content” she would have to apologize for her role in driving Meghan to the brink of suicide.
Please add up the 95 year old queens appearances in a week before she got sick and before she lost her husband and compare them to Kate’s.
If Kate is ready to work, why isn’t she working. One appearance a month plus a zoom call isn’t what the Queen ever got away with.
Sincere question back to you: Why do you think Kate shouldn’t have to do the basics?
She averages about 1 appearance per week and usually the appearance is around an hour of her time. And then she disappears on vacation for months at a time. She’s been a member of the royal family for 10 years and every single year she has had the lowest number of appearances, averaging between 80-100 per year. That is abysmally low, particularly considering her lavish lifestyle is paid for by others. And alot of so-called “work” is nothing but empty garbage pulled together quickly by KP to give her something to put her name to, like that Early Years project of hers.
Commenters who know better than me say she averages one event per week or less. The photos we see on this site are from those events and are frequently reused. So you’re right, to the casual viewer her events may seem more frequent but they’re not.
Every time she does something, it gets reported on in the press, which gives the impression she’s doing more. Imagine if every time you went to work it was front page of the paper!
The things that royals do are made public via the Court Circular, so it’s possible to see what each royal is doing when. Compared to other royals, Kate is doing very little. Charles and Anne do the most, regularly do around 500 a year (visits, meetings etc), whereas Kate is usually around 100-150. And she’s worked about 60 days so far this year (for context, a day in which she visited a charity for an hour counts as a “day worked”).
It’s not unreasonable to expect her to do more, given her senior position. If she only did engagements 2 days a week and did three on each of those days (had a phone call, visited a charity, met with someone from their Foundation, for example), she’d be doing over 300 engagements a year. She does less than half of that.
Kate does the bare minimum. And it’s not at all opinion, it’s fact. If you read the actual articles posted you’ll see this.
In the ten years since kate has married into the family, she has barely cracked 100. She does not average close to 150 at all. William has exceeded 150 more often and gotten closer to 200. If kate has done more than 150 in a year it happened once. And even then it includes her multiple meetings with Jason Knauf as part of that number.
Kate isn’t meeting many people and the last thing she did was the Carol service where she showed up in a new outfit and didn’t even say a speech. The woman is lazy AF.
Kaykay—she could have kept her patronages going…or just have been their public face. She would have garnered a lot of goodwill and great PR from that alone.
Kaykay,
Just check here. She’s done only a few appearances in December–and a few in November. It’s weird to me that she aspires to be queen consort with that track record, especially since she isn’t even first in line.
https://www.royal.uk/court-circular
No, she’s not working. Less than 100 hours a year for a 40-year-old woman? She’s still counting meetings/phone calls with her staff as engagements, when no one else does that. Duke of Kent, recovering from cancer and strokes, generally outworks her each year. She should be doing a minimum of 500 engagements a year, and even that is light.
It’s not about the number of visits or events she’s doing is about how all her works seem to lack tangible results for example what did the public obtain from her survey or that early childhood center of hers other than pictures?? please tell me how she is adding value to the life of children with her center when there are families are unable to afford food& governmental funded early childhood centers shut down due to lack of funds? causes& people need resources not cheap talks and pictures
They do nothing or fail at just anything. They couldnt even get a xmas picture right: we got a family vacation photo under the sun and in the sands of Jordan. Merrry xmas from top ceo’s Katie and Willie
Right? The Christmas photo seems pretty basic and easy to get right. Kate can dress in her new “power” color, the kids can be adorable, Bill can pretend to love her in a matching plaid and it’s done.
Or, they can wear camo and drab olive green in Jordan when they never admitted they were traveling and actually claimed the opposite, while sitting on golden poofs and donkey saddles.
Let’s see… which one says Christmas winner. Hmmm.
When a 95 year old out works a 30-something, it tells me that the 30-something is not prepared for anything.
+1 sounds like she and Will really want Charles and Camilla out of their way
She’s prepared to be the end of the monarchy. That whole family is vile and are protecing a man accused of hideous crimes. That should be enough for people to end that useless family’s reign over being lazy, inept, greedy and irrelevant.
Or that the 40-year-old just isn’t interested in (that part of?) the job.
That IS the job. No, she was not required to give birth as the ‘job’, plenty of thrones go sideways including the BRF one.
Oh, @notasugarhere, honey, yes she WAS required to give birth as the job…sweetie, she is a BROOD MARE. Seriously. Not kidding. And not only was that part of the job, it was THE main role: produce an heir and a spare. That’s it. Nothing else. Now she should be put out to pasture.
My God, the infantalization and coddling of this woman is gross. All I see when I look at her giant braying laugh is an insecure mean girl who wants to be a lady who lunches and laze around on her ass looking pretty. I used to have less revulsion for her but her active participation in a smear campaign that nearly drove a fellow American to suicide has changed all that. Now I can barely keep my food down while reading these sugary pieces about her.
This!!! I’m so sick of this. She is 40 years old, not some teenager. The teenaged Spanish and Scandinavian princesses speak better than Kkkate and this is beyond stupid. I think elegant billyboys side-piece wants to be Princess of Wales and this is more Middleton fluff trying to keep keen around. Charles will never step aside for bill and Kate will never be queen consort. The gloves are starting to come off bc Kate doesn’t sell. She is not interesting and can’t keep anyone’s attention. Her supporters are just racist MM haters. She is a lazy, vapid woman who has no interests no personality outside of being a mean girl and no ambition outside of tiaras and keening. Bill sees how well MM and H are doing and how M is an asset to Harry while Kate can’t even give a speech. So I’m guessing once the queen is truly down for the count, Kate will be disposed of and blamed for all of the H&M fallout
Kristin I am exactly the same. I used to find her annoying but fine until she showed us her mean-girl side and I have NO patience as an uncouth American for any of them.
Be careful what you wish for, comes to mind. If per chance they push Charles and cammie out. The last laugh might not belong to them.
Be careful what you wish for, comes to mind. If per chance they push Charles and cammie out. The last laugh might not belong to them.
PC would have to step aside willingly and that won’t happen. He has already been confirmed as the Queen’s successor. Unless they can push the scandal to the point of him being linked in a way he can be criminally prosecuted instead of Fawcett taking the entire fall, it won’t happen.
If Charles can be skipped then William can be as well. The entire system is about male primogeniture and not picking the best person, but the next in line has been the accepted system. If they want to choose someone who is not next in line then why not just exclude that family altogether.
Oh for the love of God….
Looks like keen anniversary week 2.0 has officially started, only this times it’s the winter edition and it’s the keen birthday month with extra keen on top 🙄
But they are NOT taking on more. They didn’t take on any of H&M’s patronages. There is never any mention of anybody taking on PA’s work. Some patronages dropped him but I don’t think other royals were assigned to them. They’re also ignoring the fact that the Queen and PC are both still alive. Notice none of these articles ever detail exactly how she is doing anything substantial.
People Magazine Headline 10 years on: Kate at 50. How the royal mum-of-3 is finally ready to be queen consort!
Calm down with the PR, mumbles. You’ve got a long road ahead.
and after 43 years I am “ready to step into” the role of being Mrs. MerlinsDad. I have been preparing for this since my 20’s. It takes time y’all. I would like to add how very grateful I am to have been given the space and time to do so. I am ever so keen to begin, wish me well!!!
🙂
Er…congratulations? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
But she’s really not. Compared to Letizia, Mathilde, Maxima, Margrethe, Sonia, Rania, Masako, Jetsun, heck even Marie-Therese, she’s sooooo subpar. She’s nowhere near their levels in anything.
Even compared to the current crown princesses of Victoria and Mary (okay, Kate and Mette-Marit’s work ethics are almost similar, but Mette-Marit is ill, so…) she’s so outclassed in terms of preparedness and suitability (work-wise.) Like, Leonor of Spain who is 16 is doing better speeches and harder events than Kate.
She’s not ready. She can’t even give us glamour, with her stupid buttons and copy-keening. Ugh.
Just do something Kate.
You’re not going to be Queen consort for a long time, so take some initiative and do something to keep you busy, if you’re not going to do the usual work.
Who’s feeding this pabulum to People? Ma Meddlesome? Really People, you are sinking to a new low of fictitious nonsense no better than a Barbara Cartland novel. Stop, just stop. Kate is nowhere NEAR ready to be Queen Consort and never will be. She’s too lazy, thoughtless and selfish. And please use the proper term, she won’t be “Queen”, she’ll be the reigning king’s wife and as such does not formally share his political and military powers.
Yeah, but what else could the write about her besides how she’s ‘ready’ to do her job? They already wrote about her tennis skills this week!
They must be somewhat freaking out that this two aren’t going to be the young monarchs they thought they would be. They could be waiting at most for 30 years or at least 10/20 years depending on the queen and Charles longevity.
Ok, I’m asking this because I really don’t know – what is there to prepare for? What is “the job”? And why does it matter if she’s “up to it” or not?
Eurydice, from what I can gather, I think they need to be seen working. That’s what all of the engagements for ribbon cutting and visiting charities are for. I used to think they would increase the revenue for the charities, but they seem to just appear and don’t do anything to put the charity in the spotlight. I’m back to: They need to be seen working. That taxpayer money should get the populace something, right? It’s really an easy gig, too. I wish I had had that type of job. Piece of cake. I would, however, work at getting the charities the spotlight they deserve and need.
Thank you. The media make it sound like there are specific duties she needs to prepare for, like knowing where are the nuclear codes (omg, can you imagine?). But if it’s just a matter of doing what she’s already doing, only more of it – that doesn’t need any preparation.
But, I wonder about the taxpayers getting what they’re paying for – I can see that argument when it comes to the royals who aren’t the sovereign – they’re hanging about, ostensibly doing work in the name of the Queen. But once Will and Kate are King and Queen Consort, they don’t need to justify themselves to the taxpayers. If the taxpayers want a monarchy, they’re just going to have to pay for it, whether W&K do anything productive or not.
Eurydice, okay, my heart stopped for a moment even thinking about those two and nuclear codes!!!! LOL
Here’s where I see the dilemma they’ve created for themselves. The become K & Q-C (who knows when) and continue to do business the way they are at present. Will they not just become forgettable? It isn’t like people will see much of either of them, and when they do it isn’t like they’ll be doing anything much. Does little Willie understand that his wanting to be adored by the masses will never happen with this business model?
It’s seems to me that Kate has done less work this year so I’m not seeing where she and William have stepped up.
They did the Scottish tour to boost up numbers but they really haven’t done much of anything this year.
And that Scottish tour was *so romantic.*
(Okay, it wasn’t, but it counts for like 7 of their numbers?)
In the 52 years I’ve been alive…what I’ve seen the Queen do…when she wasn’t injecting herself into politics…ALWAYS on the wrong side of justice & decency….could be done by a robot outfitted with the Queen’s iconic outfits…so yes…Catherine is ready to he Queen.
You can’t become perfect at something by half-assing it.
We know. Every person in America who’s ever glanced at a grocery store check-out aisle knows. Can’t imagine why anyone would care, but we know!!! It’s nearly 2022 and luckily a shrinking number of women and girls think Queen consort of a colonial empire is an aspirational goal in life.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they rewrote the rules, skipped a generation and will and kate became king and queen. There’s been a real press push recently to dub them perfect for the roles and I think it’s setting up something and/or testing the waters . I think C & C just want to relax and live a low key retired life at this point and they’re seeing how viable that would be
The Queen and Parliament have already named PC as successor, as expected. IF he ever were thinking of backing out, he surely would have then. He’s waited more years than W for this. W needs to learn to wait his turn. IF PC wanted to relax, he and Cam wouldn’t be doing over twice as much as W&K.
It would be a lot of work to skip over Charles and go to William. But you’re right–the push to do this has been present ever since the tail end of the Charles and Diana tabloid war, all through William’s growing up and college years, and until now. I think, however, that it’s not exactly William’s who’s leading the push on this, although he certainly isn’t calling off the attempts to market him as the monarchy’s next saving grace. I think it’s mainly the Tory politicians on the right, who don’t like Charles, and have never really liked him bc they think his politics is in opposition to theirs, and not representative of what Britain should be.
Charles, I think, is not someone who’s going to bend the rules of their constitution to suit the whims of the prime minister and whatever party is in power, like how the Queen did for Boris Johnson a few summers ago now, when he tried to prorogue parliament. He might try to grease the wheels behind the scenes to line his own pockets, but I do think he’d oppose shenanigans like what BoJo tried, on principle. But this is precisely the sort of thing that makes him incredibly unpopular with the Tory party and the other right wingers in power at the moment. Charles is also perceived as much more Europe friendly than they’d like, especially given all the stuff going on with Brexit and the aftermath.
They would far prefer a monarch who’s more amenable to their sh-t than Charles is. This is why, I think, they’ve tried their best to cultivate William as their go-to for the most part. William’s politics, I am willing to bet, are more closely aligned with the Tory right wing at the moment than most people realize. I do think that they have a mutually beneficial relationship with each other. Having the constitutional head of state in your corner for the most part means that he can be relied upon to turn more of a blind eye to how the Tories manipulate the unwritten constitution for their own ends.
William and Kate also conveniently let themselves be used as a dog whistle for the reactionary Little England Brexit crowd, the white supremacists who jostle towards them as the ultimate representatives of the sort of England they’d like to see–one that’s lily white, and does its best to destroy the mental health and well-being of POC who they think don’t belong in their country.
There’s a particularly nasty segment of that population that’s traditionalist to the point where they fully think William and Kate are the prototype of what every white English family should aspire to be–nominally “middle-class”, with the mom doing her best to cosplay their specifically disgusting ideals of white womanhood, motherhood, and domesticity, with three kids, and a father who preaches to Africans on how they should stop breeding and stop destroying the wildlife in Africa that white people want future generations to enjoy.
So I think, in those ways, there is a not insignificant opposition to Charles, and an attempt to not get him removed from the line of succession, but to at least make his reign short and insignificant as much as possible, so that its impact on British society will be limited. They’re putting down the foundation to Kaiser Friedrich III him tbh, so that they can move on to getting the reactionary they want on the throne.
The thing is that it’s not up to the royal family, or even the UK. The succession law is entrenched into the constitution of 15 Commonwealth Realms. If UK wants to skip a generation, the other 14 will have to agree to, and that include heavy weights such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand. At such time when monarchy is really unstable, internally because of the Sussexit, or externally because of republicanism sentimentality, they really cannot afford to rock the boat. And should UK become a republic, the whole country will have to experience a seismic earthquake. The establishment simply won’t allow it, because they have the largest stake in the UK’s wellbeing.
They cannot ‘rewrite the rules’ to skip a generation. Parliament as well as Charles would have to agree AND it would endanger the taxfree inheritance of all the private wealth.
The Keening Season is upon us! Get ready folks!
When Kate becomes queen consort, People magazine writers are going to have their work cut out for them, trying to make up new and improved excuses why she won’t work.
I kind of give them credit for just boldly lying. “more public work than ever” – how, pray tell? Where? When? what is this “more public work” that we should be seeing? Because the numbers aren’t showing it, even with as much as the Cambridges try to stretch their numbers.
but all there is to say about Kate is that she’s waiting to be Queen, because there is nothing else there.
Yep. It’s a complete lie. I’ve come to believe the Cambridges fancy themselves busy based on how much energy they expend on anything/anyone outside themselves. I think they expend enormous amounts of energy on the smear campaign against Meghan & Harry. I think they spend a fair amount of time scheming with Jason Knauf & I think Kate spends a lot of emotional energy engaging with her mother’s machinations. And Kate & William both spend lots of energy managing William’s emotions (to no avail).
The problem is that their problems shouldn’t deprive the public of what they are owed in return for keeping these people in palaces. I believe they deeply resent their obligation to the public & are extremely bitter that Harry & Meghan got free.
I don’t even think they are going to match what they did last year and it wasn’t that much. Kate won’t get near 100 and she doesn’t have a mat leave as an excuse this year.
She putting phone calls with individual members of her staff in as ‘engagements’, so she’d been padding the numbers all year.
Or they do so little that “more public work than ever” means two more appearances than their usual quota, and still doesn’t amount to much?
Kate replacing the Queen is like Hilaria Baldwin replacing Saint Nick.
Or Melania Trump.
Ohh please,just this month she couldn’t even read a speech at the concert she was “hosting” , yeah so I guess she’ll need another 10 years to prepare herself for making 3 min speeches.
I want to hear more about her “amazing new style”. What—fewer buttons? Or do they mean copying Meghan?
Well said. She is certainly copying her hair, that’s for sure.
I guess after the hate campaign directed at Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry and getting them out the working royals she is aiming for the Queen and Camilla now 🙄
So true. All of these stories about the monarchy being in safe hands with Kate and William, the monarchy being secure with Kate and William, Kate and William the perfect, blah, blah, blah. It’s totally disrespecting Prince Charles and his wife. That BBC story did some serious damage. William is currently on a PR blitz with daily stories singing his praises for his wisdom, kindness and humility.
I only noticed she has Duggar women hair, huh. The student beside her wondering “what’s so funny?”
Amazing new style?? Thanks to whom? Are they referring to the endless, insanely expensive coatdresses and the overdone plaid coats? Also insanely expensive? Let’s face it, she’s a perfect candidate to NOT be queen consort.
I posted on the other thread and now I’m utterly convinced, this pure fiction is coming from Ma Middleton of Bucklebury. People should be ashamed.
I agree. This is overdone and to a US audience which makes no sense. I don’t think they realize how much driving your American sister in law to considering suicide while pregnant isn’t going to play well with the non bigots.
C-Shell, ITA that this is Ma Mids (and likely Kant). What I don’t understand is why they’re pushing so hard here in the US. They do know that Kate is the darling of the racist MAGAs, right? I don’t see her picking up anyone else. There is a great swath of people here who really could not care less. The people who have paid attention and have seen what was done to an American woman because she’s a WOC and an American holds Kant in contempt (as well as the rest of the brf).
I can’t wait for Wont and Kant to show up here. I seriously doubt that they will be prepared for their reception.
They’d have to be rock-stupid or crazy to show up here, but, hey, then again…🙄🙄
The work in itself is just appearance and that’s it. I think the work of a Royal is… Nothing. So she’s perfect for doing nothing.
I know the feelings about Harry and Meghan leaving and all and all but in the end, it’s the better path for them. They can do interesting projects without any restrictions. I’d rather hear about Meghan’s projects with Netflix, Spotify than this. Haters gonna hate and I don’t call myself a stan but Meghan’s eloquent, was more proactive. A lot of people say Meghan is bitter about not being queen (Not true) but she doesn’t really miss anything on that role.
But Kate does not do even close to the same amount of appearances as does Sophie or Anne, so she’s not fulfilling that aspect of the work. And if she is future future consort then she should be doing more than either of them.
Being bland and inoffensive is Kate’s brand. And I actually have to give her credit for that. I have no idea if she has no personality IRL or just hides it well or what, but I think she fares better than most people who’ve married into the family because she is blending in and not standing out. Camilla’s doing pretty well at that too in her old age.
The media is conveniently not reporting things like when Kate thought it was appropriate to give the cold shoulder to her brother and sister in law at the commonwealth service, which was rude at best if not childish. And the media has not questioned the fact that the crying story was confirmed by Meghan to be false and that kate made her cry. No follow up on the UK side as to why kate remains silent on this false story. So she really isn’t bland. She’s actually quite mean, but the UK media does not cover her actions in that way.
I think the only job of a queen consort is to be married to the king. So she is saying she will do anything to stay married to ffk. Thanks for sharing.
Tin foil tiara theory:
QEII is really sick. Sicker than let on. Katie Keen knows the divorce is coming after granny passes and is pulling this desperate PR to try to sway Willyboy’s mind, or if not, bank some goodwill to fight the inevitable smear campaign coming once Will drops the hammer.
I agree. This is Diana statue 2.0. She spent so much time trying to be in front that it was embarrassing. Bill looks at her with contempt and disgust. He can’t wait to be rid of her, but her mother wants a title and to be the mother of the queen consort so she will debase herself and try to be relevant so bill doesn’t divorce her. She should really have done what Pippa did, marry a wealthy guy and be a vapid homebody.
If she knows a divorce is coming, wouldn’t it make more sense to assemble an active working life to counteract that? Like, get out there, cobble together some Early Years shtick events with giving parents in need some supplies or kid-friendly gift games, and actually work so that her PR seems credible? Because her PR by itself stinks and is total nothingburger.
(I agree that after the Queen dies, a divorce is due. I am stupefied at the approach of appealing through the Press alone, because ultimately, William has the bigger sway and can completely nuke her and the Meddletons.)
Disrespect, thy name is KKKate.
I wonder how this works behind private doors? Does Chaz just ignores the noise while sipping his brandy, kisses KKKate warmly before joining Camily and whispering in her ears ” Do you believe this broodmare really thinks she can jump us over”? and then both share a LAUGH?
We know ( almost) that William signed another contract. Their Xmas picture was to SHOW that yes, they travelled together, as people were openly theorizing they were not. So, there is a new contract, William is obligated to look at her and touch her in public so that people think they are in LURV ( bar so low woth those two)…but they will stay a couple of hours with TQ, I think then what?
Gin Tonic, anyone?
Are you serious, KKKate? William , the pampered prince, is your servant now? I doubt he even grabs himself his glass of water, let alone gin tonic for you.
Welcome to Middleton PR going bonkers AGAIN! Prepare for William´s response.
Oh for god’s sake. She’s barely, BARELY, a working royal now. Ready to support with what experience and what work ethic?? PLEASE.
Things are getting desperate in Camp Middleton. They know TQ’s death means curtains for Buttoned Mutton (with thanks to a fellow commenter).
We cannot have a queen consort that shrieks with laughter at nothing. It looks insane and insincere. How on Earth could they seriously put her into soft politics with no backup (ie no Charles and Cam to smooth things over) and let her cackle and gurn her way into “is Kate okay??” headlines.
William is a nasty piece of racist work but we are stuck with him (you will never get the British public revolting openly against the monarchy).
Why isn’t the Royal rota mad that people magazine is getting all these exclusives on will and Kate and they’re getting the sloppy seconds
People magazine is one of them now, they feel.
Honest questions here. Is People magazine just another outlet for W&K propaganda? Is this how they’re planning to conquer the U.S.? Do these People magazines that focus on W&K even sell? It just seems like a waste of ink to keep printing the different variations of the same stories embiggening these two.
They’re just publishing PR pieces sent to them. They get away with it because they’re just quoting these unnamed sources – which is a complete joke given that this is hardly newsworthy and certainly not threatening to the source to gush over TFQC.
I saw the ad for the Keen Christmas concert. Kate will give an interview; that’s her hosting. She threw in an ugly Xmas sweater (it’s ugly to me) for good measure. What’s galling people are packed in Westminster Abbey and not a mask in sight, flaunting the abbey’s COVID protocols . If WA becomes ground zero for an outbreak it’s on Kate.
Its reportedly a cardigan. And she’s wearing that cardigan totally buttoned up (buttons!) to her Peter Pan collar. I hate those collars on anyone but especially her.
That stupid collar is actually part of the sweater; must’ve been why the sweater appealed to her. That and the big sparkly buttons.
She’s perfectly ready and she’s going to redefine the role.
She will do hardly/no “work.” Possibly less than she forces herself to do now. Here’s the thing.
If she decides to just play in the royal jewel house all day…what happens? If the queen consort decides she wants to vacation with or without William and let all the charities and patronages eat cake (except for Wimbledon and any thing that puts her in a celebrity sphere) who’s going to stop her? Is there a mechanism to MAKE her do anything other than “tradition?”
Exactly. Any work Elizabeth does, William will have to take on – and maybe not so much because I don’t know that the UK relies on the monarchy the way it used to. So William will be signing things and meeting with the PM, etc. and Kate will be doing what? Pretty much what she does now. She’ll stand next to William, wearing a tiara, and mumble something or other to visiting dignitaries, or act as hostess for a holiday party or something – but might even do less than now because she’ll be so “busy” doing Queen-things.
Where she might have to get her ass in gear is when/if Charles becomes King – because he’s going to be relying on W&K to do some heavy lifting.
Yes, reports say that Kate is buckling down hard, working with a coach to make her more comfortable speaking in public, brushing up on her language skills for her role on the world stage, and in her spare time taking an online course in early education so she can participate more fully in future research on a topic she feels so strongly about.
Also, she’s in the process of finalizing several charitable efforts that will bring tangible results for families in the UK, and I hear she’s also bringing on board a team who can help her make better use of the Cambridge social media platforms to celebrate good works and bring attention to the work of experts.
And she’s finally cutting her hair.
(Obviously I’m kidding, she’s not doing any of those things)
I know your kidding but I have only admiration for people who work hard at improving. Diana wasn’t a natural speaker but she got someone to help her. If The Crown is true Liz got a tutor so she was comfortable having conversations with country and world leaders. I have feeling they have tried for years to coach Cathy and they have finally give up and decided to record ad edit everything she does. She will remain an intern at her job for the rest of her life. The palace is prepared for someone who cannot be taught but they were completely unprepared for someone, Meghan, to come in at an executive level.
Who is this “family friend”? I was under the impression that anyone in their circle who speaks to the press is out, persona non grata, shunned. Is the friend her uncle? The phrasing sure sounds like him.
Anyone who speaks to the press without a script written/approved by either the Cambridges or CarolE is out. This “family friend” is hardly going rogue.
That’s Karen in her office cubicle at KP.😉
Do people know what it takes to be queen consort? To be married to the king. That is LITERALLY the only job requirement. So yeah, Kate is “ready” to be queen consort. This is one of the many reasons why monarchies are stupid.
Staying married to William isn’t a certainty though. They clearly live separate lives now and will William want to have her around when he acquires a higher rank? He’s disdainful in public currently and unlikely to get better.
This busy schedule of Kate always confuses me because I don’t see the woman working. Like a Christmas concert where she didn’t speak even though it’s billed as her thing. Before and after that, nothing. It’s like she is already on her Christmas vacation. I would be livid if I was force to pay for this ridiculousness.
I had to take time off from work to do exactly what she did….go to a concert.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…HA!
They’re really laying it on thick, aren’t they?
What role is that though? She’s going to be consort, not monarch. Her role will virtually remain the same no matter what her title is – charity work when she feels like it and looking good. She’s just going to get a fancier title but again, she’s not going to do anything that she can’t do now because she’s *only* a Duchess.
I’m torn on whether this latest round of PR overdrive is a sign that serious sh*t is happening behind closed doors or if it’s simply an attempt to drum up as much hype for her 40th birthday as possible. I kind of feel like it’s more the latter, especially to try to compete with the attention Meghan received when she did that cute birthday video with Melissa McCarthy + the 40×40 initiative.
Sidenote: I’m seeing this cover all over the supermarket aisles AND the People Christmas special too. People’s British editor needs to remember that he’s working at an American magazine and oversaturating it with royal coverage IS going to backfire at some point.
Have you seen anyone pick it up at the supermarket? I haven’t.
I think this is just the yearly January Keen is really Keen for something and this year she will really come into her own/shine/step up.
There are lots of unsold copies of this week’s People.
I wish I had the technical know-how to put a short piece together of all or many of the royal women, including our royal Meghan, giving a speech, followed by Kate slogging her way through one.
I don’t understand how you employ someone and tolerate them not doing what you hired them to do. From an American point of view, the Royal Family is funded thus hired by hard-working British people. Why do they not demand more of their employees or fire them?
If you ever learn how, make sure the last clip before Kate is of the young Spanish princess delivering a speech in multiple languages!
Why are US magazines printing anything on lazy kaity? The only thing I see her & willie doing: Is ENDING The Monarchy.
She will have a long long wait. She can be “ready” all she wants but it won’t happen for a while.
I do believe she is born ready to be a future queen.
A mannequin who didnt have an opinion, a symbol of woman as doormat.
She is perfect.