As it turns out, Keen Birthday Buttons Week is probably more like Keen Birthday Month. It would not surprise me at all if we were still getting 40th-birthday embiggening for weeks to come. I enjoyed seeing the variety – or lack of variety – in the way different media outlets wrote about Kate. Most of the usual suspects in the British media absolutely got talking points direct from Kensington Palace, and there was a repetition of certain themes: Kate is normal (unlike Meghan), she is not a hyper-emotional or melodramatic person (unlike Meghan), she’s a true British beauty (unlike Meghan), she’s not into being glamorous (unlike Meghan), she’s not in it for the clothes and jewelry (unlike Meghan), Kate is flawless and does everything perfectly (unlike Meghan) and Kate’s angry, spiteful, emotional husband is obsessed with her (and not obsessed with taking down Meghan).
One of the most mind-numbing reads was, oddly, People Magazine’s exclusive with some of the people who have “worked” with Kate on some of her few patronages. I’m sure this was organized by Kensington Palace too, they probably sent these quotes to People. It’s like three full pages of competent, hard-working professionals praising Kate for stuff like “smiling at someone” and “showing up once every few years” and “remembering someone’s name.” One of the people quoted said this with a straight f–king face: “She has grown into her role. It didn’t feel tired, it didn’t feel like it was a chore, but felt integral and with joy and integrity. There was a sense of her – I mean, you sort of think of Princess Diana and the Peoples’ Princess, but she felt so utterly in the moment and so utterly focused and engaged. It was so impressive, really.” For the love of God.
Hilariously, one of the best parts of Kate’s birthday keenery was the Express’s Richard Palmer halfway admitting that despite the massive fuss being made over Kate the White Savior of the Monarchy, she’s going to spend the next decade of her life doing the same as the past decade: f–k all. From Palmer’s Twitter:
ICYMI in Saturday’s Daily Express – the Express website often doesn’t run stories from the paper – my big takeaway from talking to those who know the Duchess of Cambridge well is that her priority for the next 10 to 15 years will remain her children.
Kate’s primary focus on her children means she is not expecting to increase the volume of official royal engagements she undertakes dramatically in the next 10 to 15 years. For her, it’s about quality over quantity, projects and campaigns requiring detailed planning.
There will undoubtedly be new patronages and projects she takes on in her forties but promoting Early Years research and initiatives and creating a national conversation that results in Britain’s children getting a better start in life are going to be central to her work.
Picking up the message of a story we ran using research by @PatriciaTreble just after Christmas, the Cambridges’ thematic approach to official duties is becoming central to the monarchy’s role, as the number of working royals and total of engagements declines.
[From Richard Palmer’s Twitter]
This means that in addition to Kensington Palace sending out guidance, quotes and talking points for how the royal rota needed to cover Kate’s keen 40th birthday, palace courtiers were also admitting in the same breath that Kate isn’t actually going to “step up” and do more work, that all of that endless “growing into her role” was for nothing, she’s still going to disappear for months at a time, she’s still going to show up sporadically to her paltry patronage list, half-assed and unprepared, flapping her jazz hands and freeze-posing. What also kills me is that… this is why Will and Kate exiled the Sussexes. Instead of actually “stepping up” and competing with H&M, the Keens pushed them out so that no one would expect Will and Kate to work hard or be interesting.
Photos courtesy of Paolo Roversi/Kensington Palace and Avalon Red.
So…basically it’s “Imma do nothing” from her until she’s hit about 25 years in the family?
People graduate HS, go to college, and become doctors in 10-15 years!
I was teaching at a CSU as a grad student at 21, and this twit can’t manage even 3 events weekly on the regular? At 40?
She could have actually become the early years expert she pretends to be in that time. Complete with phd
Lol, basically she is not going to do anything until her children are old enough to take on royal duties.
If she actually got a phd then we wouldn’t be gifted with all the upcoming “Kate’s keen to get started now that she’s 50 and truly knows her roll within the family” stories 10 years from now.
She’s not a scout troop leader. She doesn’t teach Sunday School. She isn’t active in a Parent Teacher Association. She doesn’t make costumes for the Christmas pageant or cookies for the party after. She doesn’t coach a kids’ sports team or work the concessions stand.
We would have heard about it until we were sick of hearing about it. She doesn’t do any of the trad things a SAH mom would do.
Exactly. Do not tell me how engrossed you are in raising your children and have nothing to show for it beyond a handful of pap walks to the school steps.
Even if she was part of her kids’ schools PTA, she could still do a lot more than what she’s doing and still have time for her kids. She doesn’t work a 9-5, none of them do really so she could absolutely do more. There are parents who work 40 hours a week and still try and manage to be there for their kids.
Agreed! Heck, I work full-time and did most of those activities you listed!
It does beg the question: What exactly does Kate actually do with the endless amount of leisure time that she has?
Works out with her personal trainer, works with her tennis coach, multiple tennis matches per week at the expensive private tennis club, goes to the salon 3X a week like she did all through the dating years. Shops shops shops.
Both George and Charlotte are old enough to have started piano lessons and yet all we heard about what Kate playing her three chords.
And it would be SO easy to do something like that, to put herself out there as Duchess Mom, leading the Scout troop and getting all kinds of credit for doing work and attending “events.” Isn’t she a patron for Scouts? And it ties right in to the whole Early Years stuff she wants to pretend to be an expert on. Low hanging fruit, and she can’t even be bothered to do that.
TOM, I work full-time in a demanding career, but I’ve done so much more than her for my child’s school, the community and my neighborhood. Seriously, I look like a rock star next to her (it’s not hard compared to her). And, she has full staff so she’s not even worried about laundry, shopping, cleaning or meals, which most of us also handle. The bar is so low it’s below ground. 🙄
I think she’s probably pretty active with them at home, but that is not challenging when you have someone to handle the hard parts. Most moms aren’t overburdened by spending time with their kids, but all the other stuff they are responsible for- the housework, the school stuff, etc. She doesn’t have to do any of that.
Or more importantly, so that no one would notice that the Cambridge’s projects and initiatives have no tangible benefits for anyone other than themselves.
Then she and William shouldn’t be elevated to Prince/ss of Wales for the next 10 to 15 years. Until they’re ready to put in the work, they can stay as the Cambridges.
I might be in the minority about that here but I genuinely hope the queen stays alive that long
It has nothing to do with the Queen being alive. The Duchy of Cornwall title is automatic, but once Charles is king? He can withhold the Prince of Wales title from William as long as he wants.
I whole heartedly agree with you.
That would save thecurrent energy crisis! The whole world would light up by Willnot’s incandescent rage:-) if only Chuck would grow some b… and hold back the title until they actually step up.
They’re supposedly so modern and ordinary, but don’t understand that modern and ordinary people actually work AND take good care of their children. In addition to cleaning their own houses, doing their own laundry, hobbies and charity work. Ordinary people get stuck in trafic instead of being airlifted with helicopters. I would be totallt ashamed to take so much public money and do so little in return.
I’m actually rather curious as to what happens to William and Kate’s ongoing lies when their children are grown.
Will they lie for their parents about what they can see is a dysfunctional marriage? Will they shudder at the thought of public speaking, sneering at the press as their father taught them to, posing ridiculously as their mother inadvertently showed them how?
With Kate’s real accent likely used at home, and her children spending most of their time between nannies and middletons, what will their voices sound like?
At some point, a house of cards has to get too big and collapse, doesn’t it?
I have always wondered this @weatherby.
It is unlikely the younger two will be working royals, given the precedent Harry has set. One of them might end up with a tell-all memoir.
I don’t think the kids will say anything, but I do believe that their friends will end up spilling tidbits about what really goes on there.
OMG, the photoshop on these new portrait shots is actually painful to look at.
I can’t get over these weird shots.
My thought was, how did the photog in the red dress picture make her nose look so large and bulbous?
The black and white photo is interesting because it is kind of a throwback to vintage and antique photos.
Paolo Roversi must have cringed so much – he’s a talented and celebrated fashion and portrait photographer but the ones he did of Kate is not like his usual style at all! His portraits usually highlight the physical idiosyncrasies and visual “imperfections” of his sitters, what gives their faces character. Check out his portraits of Tilda Swinton, Charlotte Gainsborough, Bjørk, Rihanna and Vincent Cassel.
It is clear that Kate didn’t want the very things that makes Roversi’s portraits interesting and arresting. She didn’t want any “imperfections” revealed but just wanted to look young, beautiful and glamorous. I really don’t understand why she chose Roversi of all people, when she clearly didn’t what what he’s known for. These bland images where she hardly looks like herself are embarrassing – not just for her but also for Roversi. I hope they paid him extremely well (and I suspect that this might have been a frustrating experience for him because Kate clearly wanted something that just isn’t his style). His portraits are the opposite of the blandness he had to produce for Kate.
He’s made a name in fashion photography with some very interesting work and he’s portrayed artist who are also seen as avant-garde and part of the international intelligentsia. That’s most likely why Kate chose him – she wanted to be seen as artistic and avant-garde. But that won’t do when she insists on these ridiculously filtered and photoshopped images where she doesn’t even look like herself. She not brave enough to be vulnerable enough to show the less than perfect mask that she has cultivated – that is ultimately what makes her so uninteresting, even when she’s portrayed by the greatest artists. She’s cultivated this aura of blandness where she reveals nothing intimate and real of herself – and no good art can come of that.
I had a look at his work and my heart broke for him, because his work is stunning , i hope she did some private shots that celebrate his work, because even though the portraits may sit in the national gallery, i just walked pat a shop and they are on the cover of Hello Magazine, which further cheapens the experience.
Seems Paolo Roversi is perfectly content to further the talking points about this woman. I went to check out his work too and stumbled on this article entitled ‘ Italian photographer showers praises on Kate Middleton’. Vomit inducing.
Those photos are awful. She didn’t look like herself and they airbrushed the he!! out of them so she wouldn’t show any age. They also made her seem gaunt.
All that fuss being made over this mediocrity was so saccharine as to be nauseating.
William and Kate were sitting pretty after Harry and Meghan’s wedding. All they had to do was sit back and smile and wave. Their positions and future wealth have always been secure so why not let someone else do the heavy lifting?
the green-eyed monster reared its ugly head.
They wanted the attention Harry and Meghan were getting while sitting on their arshes.
Jealousy did them in, plus they lack charisma that draws people in.
Unable’s appearances with school children are uncomfortable, you would think that having young children, that she would be comfortable, but that manic smile, is off putting.
Considering just weeks after Meghan married Harry, Palmer was on twitter complaining that Meghan wasn’t working enough and needed to step up, (he didn’t know that she was working on the cookbook at the time), this is a drastic change in position for him. If this was Meghan instead of Kate, he and the rest of the rota would be outraged.
Some of the Twitter responses to Palmer basically ask him how he can live after selling his soul. It’s funny because he was very critical of Kate and William being lazy prior to 2016. There is no way he actually thinks differently. He just has adapted to the North Korean style lie in order to keep getting scoops from KP.
It’s a complete contradiction to what they’ve been reporting. “Kate is preparing to be queen”. Ok, but how? What is she doing to “prepare” for becoming queen consort? Especially when she doesn’t even touch the queens engagement numbers? We’re getting all these words and nothing to show for it. When is the last time we heard about the keenwell research centre?
I saw this headline and I just died laughing. Did anyone actually think she was going to start working more any time soon?!?!
No, but it is bold to just openly state what we have been predicting here for years.
As for the actual post…..yeah, they definitely got talking points from KP, that’s why the RRs and People mag etc are all using the same buzzwords and over the top quotes etc. Palmer is an ahole about Meghan and about the Sussex Squad, but I also think he doesn’t really like Kate either and I think his tweets are pretty shady here.
Another post from today referenced how Kate doesn’t want to be seen as just a fashion plate and she was frustrated that all her coverage was about her clothes, but Palmer is the one who said that they had nothing to talk about but her clothes bc she never gave a quote to the RRs, they could never hear what was actually being discussed at these engagements, etc. (it was meant as a warning to Meghan, to not become like that, but it stuck with me bc he clearly found Kate so boring.)
Palmer definitely thinks she shallow and lazy. He’s just stopped saying it for now. If William decides to go for a divorce, he’s one of the first ones I see returning to his criticism of Kate to facilitate William’s actions.
No no Becks, this is horrible for us Royal Watchers! It means there will be FIFTEEN MORE YEARS of stories where Kate “Comes Into Her Own.”
We will be talking about the damn “Meghan Made Kate Cry” story FOR THE NEXT FIFTEEN YEARS.
Oh Lordy, I don’t think I can take it!! 😂😂😂 15 more years of “becoming confident” lol.
In this case, we may have to put a hold on the drinking game or we all will end as total lushes.
Bitter Brother HAS said in the press in *his* view for the “future of the “slimmed down monarchy””, they will continue to “cut back on all the patronages” and only “focus” on a few “things” in the future.
He literally broadcasted their intention to do f#ck all for the public, and NO ONE called him out on it at the time.
If Will cuts back his patronages, the public should demand to pay no more taxes to his lazy a$$ family.
Ha! No one who has watched Kate over the last decade expected anything more out of her. Over 20 years, she’s shown us exactly who she is. Lazy, entitled and uninterested in anything remotely benefiting anyone other than herself and family.
All her kids are old enough to be in school full time now and there is no excuse for not doing engagements during the school day. There was more flexibility provided to her when the kids were younger but this is really pushing the limits of laziness.
Is she trying to suggest that Anne and Sophie are bad mothers? Because both of them do hundreds of engagements and they both have or had school age children.
The real question is what exactly does she do during the school day? And will the taxpayers start to care?
With all the talk of part time work she stills accepts full time perks.
what does she do in the day? have lunch with mumsie, play tennis with pippa, chat with Jason, peruse Willie’s emails and whatsapp messages, clothing selection and fittings, remodeling of the rooms and changing up the decor, planning the next family vacation, get hair, nails and skin treatments. so, so busy.
It’s astounding that the taxpayers still support this massive graft.
Don’t forget she likes colouring books! And there will be a lot of twiddling with her hair and gazing into the mirror, I suppose.
The last two consorts were the Queen Mother and Prince Philip. The next will be Camilla, and even she outshines Kate on the work side (Camilla supports some good causes too). But clearly Kate doesn’t feel like she has to step up in any way. Utterly hopeless. Even the courtiers have given up on her, evidently.
Every time W&K pull out this card, they insult all working parents. And they think we cannot see other royals raising young children while working for their taxpayers.
This is one reason for me to laugh at Kate being praised by stans as relatable. She is so not relatable, And patronizing to women who work and raise children.
Not to mention she has at least one full time nanny and 3 other nannies (one per kid), a cook, housekeeper, and plenty of other paid assistants.
This is exactly what I wrote earlier. She NEEDS to be home because her children are very young. Then she will NEED to be home because the teen years are tough and she’ll launch some ridiculous project telling everyone that the way to solve teenagers’ problems is to be home full time. Then, by the time Louis is in college and Kate is in her fifties, there will be another excuse — her health, taking care of an ailing parent, etc. There will ALWAYS be an excuse. And the most absurd thing is the way the PR is pushing how amazing/keen/perfect she is in the role and is coming into her own when really she has absolutely no intention of changing one bit of her lazy existence.
It sets the stage for a move to Windsor/Berkshire, because they will not send their kids to boarding school.
See, this is where if I were a Tax paying Brit, I would be raising hell. These people are actually asking me to pay taxes to fund and support the rich and privileged lifestyle of a lazy ass stay at home woman who has nannies and house hold help but has zero intentions of ever working.
If Kate wishes to be a stay at home mom, I have no problems with this, however it has to come out of her own pocket. Her and her husband can’t be getting public money and financial support if they don’t plan to do public work. It’s f——-ing ridiculous
There are parents working two jobs and balancing everything who pay taxes to support this lazy woman. That’s gotta burn. And Kate’s not getting the regular social assistance amount either. It is millions. So to suggest that parents who work raise bad kids is really bold and ignorant.
This is even more reason for Michael Sheen to be even more vocal along with other Welsh figures to have these people removed as their sovereigns. I hope Wales gets their freedom. I wouldn’t want to be associated with these Royal Rats.
So she’ll be 55 when she’s finally ready to take on actual work?
She’ll be closer to retirement years than career launching years, but we’re supposed to believe she’ll finally start putting in long dues paying hours when she’s much older?
I guess at that point she’ll want to fade into the background so as not to “outshine” her son….
The next excuse is if when she finds out she will be a grandmother, she will have to be a “hands on” grandmother.
No, because by that point George will be in his 20s and she’ll need to “be there” for him.
Honestly, at this point part of me would have respected her more if she had said, you know what, I’m not doing the whole “royal work” thing. I’m going to be a rich SAHM and you’ll see me when my husband is king.
I mean, we can argue whether the public would have stood for that, whether that would be appropriate considering who she married and all that, but at least she and KP wouldn’t have been lying to the public for the last 11 years by constantly acting like she’s about to start working.
I doubt she would believed that she would “work” when she’s Queen. Especially since she has constantly used various excuses for not working.
Becks1, actually we’ll see her when she can get a photo op. Especially if she can dress up and wear that jewelry. I think that’s what she wants to do and will do. I also wonder if this is what Willnot wants. He just wants her to be far away from him.
I honestly don’t think they’ll be married in 10-15 years so this is just more whitewashing and covering up for her utter disinterest in being anything other than a lazy rich royal.
Please. He could have sex in the streets with a 3-legged camel and declare Kate incompetent and frigid while getting it on . . . and she’d still hang in there. Perhaps if she got a huge payout. I mean huge, huge then maybe.
Can Kate ever give up her dreams of becoming Queen Consort…even for a huge payout? Even if she wants to, will her mother allow it? It seems like William will have to drag her, kicking and screaming out of the palace!
When he wants to get rid of her, he will. Without a huge payout, because all she has claim on is his inheritance from Diana. Nothing else. And if he did pay for her parents house, that’s her post-nup. She goes quietly, he doesn’t sic the courtiers on her and her family.
Diana also put her children first and was an active and involved parent but still managed to be a full-time working member of the Royal Family during her marriage. Even after she stepped back from her public role for a bit, she was still actively involved with the charities that she remained patron of.
+1!!!! Or can I say +100!
We have vid of Diana kicking off her shoes at her kids’ sports days. Where’s Keen’s??
Diana worked very hard and was a great parent. William and Harry praise her to the skies. I am wondering how Diana would have felt about her workshy daughter in law, Kate.
The Middletons wouldn’t have gotten near William if Diana was still around. Carole and her pseudo mother act would not have been needed.
And she did all that before she was 40.
Kate needs my gig. My kid is a sophomore in college and I transitioned from a sahm to a stay at home dog mom. It’s not unusual in my husband’s line of work for the wives to not go back into the work force after the kids leave home. I had plans to get a volunteer gig but the pandemic put a damper on that.
Are you me? Except I have three in college who still come home fairly often. Plus two dogs and three cats,😂
But did you all have to keep up a threadbare pretense that it would be anything but that? I should add using the same ole excuses one after the other to deflect? Honestly, had KP just come out and stated in the beginning that Kate would primarily be a SAHM there would have been grumblings, for sure, but the expectations would have been different and manageable. IMHO
I am kind of like you. I worked as a lawyer for ten years, but stopped when my kids were in elementary school and my husband was making enough that it didn’t really pay for me to keep working and paying for child care, etc. Since then I’ve done volunteer stuff, flipped a couple of houses, sold on Etsy, done some writing, and just generally kept busy; but I haven’t gone back to work for anyone else. I’m available for our pets, my not-quite-adult children, and my family members and that works for me.
Kate just needs a gig where she’s not living off the taxpayer.
She will hide behind her children until they have their own children, then she will cosplay as the Darling Grandmother that her own mother once was to her darling own. I’m over this woman.
Finally the truth is out, she wants to be a stay at home mum. there’s nothing wrong with that, But you then cant turn around and bash those that are keeping in the race. I am more interested to see how Meghan handles raising kids, she strikes me as someone who likes to keep busy
Yes , normally there is absolutely nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom, but she is getting this lifestyle because she is tax payers funded. So she should be working
If she wants to stay home, then she has to give up everything the public pays for. Harry is a born royal and they had no problem yanking his security, so I don’t see why this marry in lazy ass woman should be any different.
Even women who do not have full time or part time jobs, get out of the house and don’t just stay home. They can be involved in charities, volunteer work, and so on. But in this day and age, two career households are very common. With both parents bringing in money to support the family. I think Kate saying she wants to be with her children and not work much is really patronizing. For one thing many women don’t have the “luxury” to go to spas and have a lot of leisure time and money like Kate. They have to make sure their children gave a good education, take care of expenses, and put food on the table. This really makes Kate super unrelatable.
Maybe she should give up the HRH and no longer be considered a senior royal.
She isn’t a SAHM. She is supported by taxpayers. Those taxpayer funds pay for the two housekeepers, the three nannies, the cooks, the cleaners, the groundkeepers, and all of Kate’s excessive clothing purchases. The taxpayers also fund her personal trainer, tennis coach, tennis club membership, three times a week sessions at the hairdressers, etc.
I don’t mean to be rude but her kids really don’t need her that much – especially George and Charlotte. Most kids around George’s age can spend a few hours by themselves without having a parent watch over them constantly (as in the parent is still obviously in the house but they’re in one room and the kid is in another). Louis will be going to school full time this September so her kids aren’t even going to be in the house for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week for around 7-8 months of the year.
She can work. She can work and still be a great mother. She’s choosing not too.
She can definitely work more. I have doubts that she is capable of being a great mother.
I have no doubt she loves her kids (esp. Louis). However, a “great mom” would raise them to be independent, to be critical thinkers, and to stand on their own two feet. These are not things she learned at *her* mother’s knee, that’s for sure!
I see Louis as a double-edge sword. He was the unwanted third child she only got because of William cheating publicly on ski holiday. She’ll hold that against Louis eventually.
I hope Charlotte is not discouraged from pursuing science related major if she’s so inclined and not directed into art history with the ultimate aim for her by her parents perhaps marrying a Prince from another European country. I hope william does not mastermind who she dates and express disapproval like he did with Harry and Meghan. But I can see that happening.
I don’t think William is around enough to have any serious parental authority over Charlotte, especially her dating choices.
Having raised children, early years is the easiest to get right. I’m not discounting the amount of work it takes. But man the teen years are when things can really go off the rails. Getting it right for teens is not as easy and obvious as early years. This is what Keen has never understood or maybe didn’t care as she just wanted to be the patron saint of toddlers. Come tell us how to raise children after you’ve raised a few of them to adults.
Palmolive said out loud what should have been said 10 years ago. There is nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. She has 3 kids, they should be her priority. It’s the media gas of her as being engaged in charity work that is insulting.
Kate will never be a Maxima, Letitia or Mary. Not even a Diana.
There is plenty wrong being a pretend SAHM mother when every penny she spends comes from the taxpayers. As others wrote above, if she wants to be a SAHM, she and William have to give up everything funded by the taxpayers. The palaces, the housekeepers, the nannies, the tennis coach, the personal trainer, the RPOs. All of it. If they fund every penny of their own lives, they’re allowed to do what they want. Otherwise, they have to pay the piper with 500 engagements a year each.
Nota: is there a scenario where the blood prince works but his wife doesn’t? Serious question. I’ve always thought it was bonkers that the woman is expected to marry the job. (As a married-in princess, First Lady, what have you.) Like, did/do Anne’s husbands perform Royal duties? They still get the perks. What would happen if Kate just made it official that she’s not ever going to work, but William kept “working.” Maybe they’d get half the budget they get now?
Anne’s husbands had jobs, didn’t do engagements. It was never intended that Anne’s husband/s would work as royals, just as it was never intended that Edward and his spouse would work as royals. They were expected to earn their own livings while Anne was gradually going to be phased out as a working royal. Edward and Sophie only ended up as working royals because they failed financially and their scandals made it PR expedient to move them in house. The monarchy was trying to slim down even then.
The idea that the future future Queen consort refuses to work in exchange for their millions in perks and multiple palaces? Not going to happen. This monarchy is already on its knees as it is.
The establishment doesn’t care, the majority of British people cannot be bothered, so..
The media always said Harry and Will would never do the amount of engagements Betty, Anne and the rest do. The “bread and butter” engagements would become irrelevant. The young royals seemed interested in high profile engagements only.
The loyal royalists are dying off, so yes, the remaining general public does care. The past four years have exposed a whole lot of negatives about the Windsors, from the intrinsic racism to the international coverup of crimes.
Andrew getting funding places scrutiny on all of them and their finances will be scrutinized much more than before because of this. Most Brits aren’t cool with the 50s housewife getting millions to do nothing. She can’t even pretend she’s doing the hands on raising of toddlers since they are in school most of the day.
Nothing wrong with being a SAHM in general but it’s different when you’re married to the second in line to the throne and are going to be Queen. Kate is expected to have a public role for the rest of her life and she is supported by the taxpayers heavily in exchange for doing that role. It’s not right that she can go “alright I’m not working, peace”. It may be working now aka no one is pushing back but once the queen dies and they’re PPoW, it’s going to be a different story.
Charles specifically pays for all her expenses under the guise of working so if she wants to just be a SAHM then she needs to give that up. She never will.
Kate will never “be” any of those women. She is very mediocre. and she always made excuses for low work numbers.
This right here. This.
She’s already trying to insert the Queen Mum as her model, hoping that everyone forgets whether or not the Queen Mum did any work as consort and just remembers her as the old lady who was trotted out on occasion in the years prior to her death.
She has purposefully avoided comparisons to Philip because he actually did a lot of royal work as consort.
Kate works hardest at coming up with excuses to not work than doing any actual work.
She tried inserting the Queen Mum as her model before they even married. She was (deliberately?) overheard saying she wanted to be just like the Queen Mum. Rarely seen and never heard. But even in to her 90s, the Queen Mum was doing the same number of engagements Keen does now. She did more than Fergie for several years, which lead to the original Duchess of Dolittle title aimed at Fergie.
She adds absolutely nothing of substance to the monarchy. I am astounded that people are happy to foot the bill for her frippery and nonsense.
There’s no substance in a monarchy.
W&K certainly bring no substance to this one.
Diana had substance and looked what happened to her. Harry had substance and look what happened to him.
The establishment does not want substance. Was it Piss Moron that said Harry should have listened to his brother and married some dim blonde? Kate is giving them what’s they want. Style and no substance.
This is why the PR in Kate and Will is so insulting. Both of them are extremely shallow and proud of it. They know their followers are dim sheep blinded by tiaras, titles and coat dresses.
She gives no style nor substance. Being bland is not the problem, her being lazy is.
I actually read the “early years” report– and as a person who has done public policy work in this area, I’m amazed she’s gotten away with this. It is grindingly rhetorical and repetitive, and is totally derivative of the substantial good work that has already been done by major research institutions on early childhood development but leaves out their conclusions as to what needs to be done. They conclude that the quality of “early childhood” depends entirely on economic security, housing, healthcare, food, and parental supports. To meaningfully address any of these would require significant political intervention and a reversal of current trends. If someone wanted to do it, you could take apart that report and look at the original sources of the research and their actual conclusions from their research, and write a critique about how the royals are intentionally obscuring the real public conversation that needs to be had about early childhood. Idealizing Kate and her family as a model for the wider society is ludicrous.
Sounds like you’ve got a good outline…
I bet you spent more time reading that report than Kate ever did.
This is hilarious. In 10ish years they’ll be fifty! It reminds me of a line from the first season of ‘30 Rock,’ when Liz is complaining about Jack and his ex (played by Isabella Rossellini): ‘Between you two, you’re a hundred years old! This is not the way for a hundred year old couple to behave!’
So we should expect more of her charities to close due to her lack of interest? If I were running or on the boards of those charities, I’d focus on fundraising ideas and projects independent of her.
Kind of a slap in the face to working mothers who also somehow manage to prioritize their children.
Well, at least after all of these years, they are finally being honest. Most long-time watchers have always known that Kate never had plans to do much in the way of “work” and that she actually prefers to be a SAHM. So, there it is. I’m just wondering what the rationale will be in 10 – 15 years when she’s 50 – 55. Probably something about supporting the transition that both her husband and son will be making into whatever royal “positions” still exist at the time.
I honestly don’t care if she “works” or not. Then again as an American, I’m probably unaware of whatever it is the royals are doing that isn’t scandalous. They go to events? Shake hands pre-Covid? Fundraise for charity? That’s the “job,” right? Like, it’s great that Princess Anne or whoever is doing a lot of events, but I don’t know what that actually DOES in the long run for anything?
Technically, being a parent and reproducing is Kate’s job, she did it. Anything else is gravy. I’m not really defending it, I just don’t …care, I guess. If the BRF lets her get away with only doing 100 “events” a year, I guess they don’t care either.
It is 2022. Birthing children is not her ‘job’. Plenty of thrones go sideways, including the BRF. And she isn’t raising the kids or doing the work of a SAHM mother either.
If W&K aren’t going to do the work, they don’t get the perks. Immediately give up all the palaces, nannies, housekeepers, helicopter flights, and royal protection officers. Otherwise, Get The F*ck to Work.
Yes, she has fulfilled the primary requirements of her role: birthing an heir and a spare. The line is secure and unbroken, as of yet, in that regard. However, what’s lacking or lagging is her public role. Based on precedent, and even comparing what she does or has done to other royal consorts across the globe, Kate is not only work shy (as she was once called) but is a tragic failure. Hers is not the case where she only had ‘one job; you only had one job’ but one that also requires public service as well. The latter is where the excuse making, Kate coddling and back-peddling comes in and is at issue.
Chelle there are 3000+ people in the known line of succession. The BRF throne went sideways in the last three generations. It is not part of the job in 2022 to have children, not even for a royal.
Haha. That’s true. It did go sideways—even as recently as w/QEII & her dad. I wasn’t even thinking about that when I wrote my statement 😂😂. I don’t know what antiquated relic they (W/K) are trying to hold on to but the fact remains that’s she’s always been dismal with the public service / public facing of her role. At this point, I’m actually glad they’ve basically come out and said “hey, it’s a wrap folks. She’s done nothing and will continue along that path.” Be honest with the public. Stop trying to gaslight.
It went sideways the generation before that too, with George V and Mary of Teck (Duke of Windsor and Bertie’s parents, QEII’s grandparents).
George IV’s daughter Charlotte was the next in line–she passed away and her baby by Prince Leopold was stillborn. But the line moved eventually to the daughter of one of George’s brothers Victoria.
Yep. Yep. Thank you all for reminding me of that.
What on Earth is freeze posing?
There is video footage of kate at the Tour de France holding a pose with a “shock” look for the photographers while the rest of the crowd, including Harry and William, were looking in a totally opposite direction actually watching the race.
And the funeral photo shoot of her in the car staring directly at Chris Jackson was more of the same.
Few of Kate’s photos are genuine reactions but exaggerated for the photographers, hence the hyena laugh and jazz hands.
Her kids are very entitled and well taken care of, with or without her. How about making her focus all the less fortunate kids she claims to care about?
I don’t get it, the children will probably be away at school and busy with their own lives as they approach University age.They will be teens then young adults. Why can’t she work, she’s not following them to University? Then the next excuse is that when her first grandchild is due, how can she POSSIBLY work then, she has to be a hands on Grandmother.
I can’t with this argument. I’m working and focusing on my kid. While cleaning the house, cooking and grocery shopping by myself. As are milions of other parents. What exactly does she mean by focusing on her kids? Does she follow them around constantly? She has at least couple of hours when they’re at school, but she probably spends them in hair salon…. Kids learn by example and she has nothing here.
We talked previously about how the birthday photoshoot served to undercut all of the royal reporters who agreed to put out the keen talking points about being “low-key” on her 40th. This photo shoot is a lot of things, but it ain’t “low key”.
I feel like this is a slap in the face for any reporters who took up the mantle of Kate’s “newfound confidence” and stepping up now after so many years of “listening and learning”. Kate’s like “Surprise, suckers, Ima keep doing exactly what I’ve been doing, you fell for it. Again!”
10 – 15 years sounds like when Will and Kate expect to take over the monarchy. Until then, Kate won’t expend a single iota of energy unless it’s absolutely necessary.
Ok I know she’s lazy and really wants to just focus on kids and a few photo op things, but have a legitimate question. If they’re slimming down the monarchy, doesn’t it make sense to start cutting back now, with reduced expectations? No matter how they talk about blindsiding, they wanted the Sussexes out or very much on ice, so they wouldn’t outshine the heirs and also to provide fodder for not working enough to justify their costs. Anyway, It seems they want to be more about symbolism and continuity, not innovation and diplomacy. What about the a Spanish monarchy? Is that a way for the Cambridge’s to model themselves on. You only really see the King and Queen, and the oldest child. Are there other members who do anything royal or do they do their own things ( I vaguely recall one of Felipe’s sisters had some money/ tax legal issues)? How much do they actually do over there? I know Leticia is in way different league than Kate and a professional, but are they hyper visible and doing a ton of appearances? Do they have a less solid position due to being reinstated after the dictatorship? Just not clear to me what they want to do, when they’re not stalking the Sussexes.
Slimming down the monarchy doesn’t mean slimming down expectations. It means those who are left living as pampered poodles are required to do more not less. There is no talk of reducing their costs, ergo there should be no talk of reducing their work. No reason why W&K cannot both be doing 500 engagements a year, given how the BRF count and schedule engagements. They’d still only be working 1-2 days a week AND have months of vacation time.
Slimming down to the main line? That’s what most European royal houses have done or have announced they are doing. That still means, because of the longevity in the Windsors, that W&K should be out there doing minimum 500 engagement each every year in exchange for two massive homes, multiple luxury foreign holidays, and 50+ helicopter jaunts during a pandemic year. That would also mean that W&K’s two younger children should be raised without titles, and raised with the expectation of earning their own livings.
If they slim down the monarchy, then the public should slim down the sovereign grant, they really can’t expect to receive the same amount of funding for 4-7 people that they do for 15.
Does anyone remember a story in de British press when they where just a couple of years into their marriage, l remember the press said that William approached the Queen and Charles to ask if Kate could reduce her workload as she wasn’t really coping with her position, think this request came from the Middleton’s , now nothing really came of this but there where rumours that Kate just wasn’t coping too well !!!
And here we are 10 years on same sort of story appears !
Yes her children “Botox”, “Buttons” and “Blowouts” 😐
Louis will be 4 this year and will start at Thomas’s in the fall. With all three children in school that should be the end of using the children as an excuse but it won’t be. I don’t think they are going to send George to boarding school. Which I think is fine BTW. IMO British children board at too young an age. But the new excuse will be that she sooooo involved with her children’s school activities. Remember when they had that story about how she attended a school meeting and they acted like she performed a miracle. After a summer full of speculation about whether or not George was going to board then all talk stopped cold. KP made some sort of deal with the media to eliminate that conversation. IMO. This comment was made because the claims that the Cambridge’s were stepping up were becoming so obviously ridiculous. Palmer and Patricia Treble utterly embarrassed themselves with that article a few weeks ago that tried to claim that the Cambridge’s were actually working harder because their number didn’t drop so much even though Charles, Camilla and Anne all posted much higher number. And the fact that the older members of the family had more in person contacts even though they Jade greater covid risk just highlighted that how lazily they Cambridge’s conduct themselves. So now they have to try to excuse the lower work levels.
Kate the “Peoples’ Princess”? Bitch please.
Lazy Mutton Bitch.
Hell, even Betty Draper volunteered in her community and went back to get a graduate degree.
Even Betty Draper developed some personality and did something with her time. Kate will shop and vacation untill she drops dead.
I hope that their funding will some day be tied to the amount of ‘work’ they undertake. Hopefully the British public won’t be willing to lavishly fund royals who only do part-time work.
I keep thinking that this will make it easy for a divorce. Kannot isn’t seen much now and I suspect we’ll see less of her in future now that all of this is being said out loud. She’ll end up fading into obscurity.