Camo Keen! Pardon me, that’s Colonel Camo Keen! Today, the Princess of Wales put on her military jeggings for a photo-op with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. When Prince William became the Prince of Wales, apparently that title means that he can no longer hold an honorary position with the Irish Guards, so his “colonel” position was transferred to his wife, and William was given a position with the Welsh Guards.
All of that means that Kate was called on to serve her country by donning olive jeggings and posing for photos in the snow. She traveled to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire and wandering around the Irish Guards’ training sessions. She kept removing her cap and gloves for photos and you know her ass was cold. Honestly, these pics made me sad because we haven’t gotten hardly any snow this winter. I’m also curious to know if she was asked to wear a certain kind of outfit and she just turned up in her jeggings. Hm.
PS… I’m sure the nickname in the Instagram caption is the official military nickname but it still sounds pretty offensive!
Photos courtesy of Getty, Instagram.
Aw! Kate’s looking for a boyfriend. How cute. Lol.
She really does look more at ease being around a group of men than she does when she’s at an event where women are there. It really says a lot about her.
She does look much happier to be around men who aren’t having jealousy-fueled tantrums or overcome with rage because no one noticed his special jet plane slippers or wondering where he’s pruning his current rose bush and bringing god knows what home. I’m no Khate defender, but she always looks her best when outside and away from her probable abuser.
She sure does.
Has the Karen frantic hugging fallen out of fashion already? I bet she would have enjoyed giving an embrace to each of them Irish soldiers.
That guy in picture looks like want to say to her, “I wish you go home or anywhere else but here.”
I might know exactly what those people are thinking right in that moment. They have to cater to “special visitors” like her and it’s not fun. Also, she could have worn something else for sure. There’s a time and place for leggings or whatever those are, but not this time. Fun fact, the military has a budget that is not influenced by visitors or exposure.
Come rain, snow or sleet you WILL get these hands LOL.
Lol. Always nice to have a morning laugh. Thanks MrsCope. There should be a change from Jazz Hands to Middleton hands.
Urgh. I should always add at the end of posts: “I’m sure someone already thought of that or better,” on the hand and grinning traits.
Kiki needs to get a new public-speaking teacher. Whoever told her that she needs to constantly make exaggerated hand motions at completely inappropriate times needs to be fired, STAT.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Kate looks thirsty as hell for some male attention, what she obviously hasn’t been getting at home.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has a boyfriend. Probably her tennis instructor, or personal trainer. Someone sporty that she would have more in common with than Bill.
I dream of this for her. Sweet revenge for horrible Will.
The jazz hands will ALWAYS will be on display – no matter the weather.
Listen up folks, I did part of my military training on Salisbury Plain and the last thing you want is a non com parading around doing fk all but pose for pictures and getting in the way. but who did she ask “does my bum look big in camo” 😂
The good news is, she doesn’t usually stay anyplace very long, and it’s cold, especially with those jeggings. On the other hand, she’s getting attention from a group of men, so…
I don’t mind jeggings in this context. IMO she always looks better style wise and also happier at these outdoorsy/sporty events. I agree that nickname is derogatory, like if someone just referenced a random Irish person that way in my presence I would be taken aback and suspect them of being racist.
If the women in the military don’t wear jeggings then Kate shouldn’t either. It’s not a fashion show when you are in actual combat.
Best outfit I’ve seen her in for ages. Everything actually matches and no earring or clutch bag dilemmas.
@ Nic919, spot on. KKHate looks absolutely ridiculous in her jeggings. With an added bonus of constantly removing her hat and gloves as she gives us a pantomime of today’s events.
The use of the nickname caused a controversy during the jubilee
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2022/06/02/who-are-the-micks-the-british-regiment-at-the-heart-of-a-social-media-storm/
Goodness they’re really making her work! 😂
It is quite easy actually.
She just have to show up in the appropriate costume.
Private Benjamin Barbie.
I was going for “Action Barbie” but, Private Benjamin Barbie works as well. 😆 😆 😆
Shame she and/or her husband won’t be going to the IG to support all those who fought in the name of King/Queen and country.
Maybe she’ll be snowed in and forced to stay there a while. How long before she’d really be missed?
Grin like a maniac ✅
Jazz hands ✅
Look Keen ✅
Cosplay ✅
Good job Kkkate 🤣🤣
You forgot Big Blue. On a training exercise??????
No she didn’t. Ah, but yes, yes she did ladies and gents!!
Nothing like sticking out like an arrogant, self absorbed twit with nothing to offer but her jazz hands and big blue. 🙄
And that she and the rest are praised for this sort of cosplaying gadflydom is beyond my comprehension. You don’t see our Presidents and Vice Presidents playing dress up like this.
It’s not something you see the prime ministers in canada do either. The minister of defence will show up at these types of things on occasion but they tend to be former military themselves.
Actually, Kim Jong Un does this all the time—pose with military, scientists, different forces—all while acting like he is the expert/brainchild behind everything and everyone is listening to him talk. This is exactly what W&K’s “work” reminds me of…authoritarian government propaganda. I hope that’s what they were going for.
Actual audio for the photo of her standing in the middle of the circle of guards and waving her hands:
“So there I was in the middle of my closet, and my dresser and I couldn’t decide between my olive green jeggings and my sage green jeggings. It was rilly, rilly funny. Do you think we made the correct choice? Sadly, they don’t have visible buttons, but one can’t have it all, can one?”
I see the head tilt of interest is back. I don’t even have anything to say, she seems to be “working” at a decent clip this year which is better than her husband. And I know she has to be freezing. She’s super thin and those leggings cannot be keeping out the cold air and snow.
Funny how after Harry exposed the royals and their work quotas William and Kate have upped their (useless, pointless, worthless) events.
Yes, funny how when things are pointed out like that, suddenly there is work to do.
If she was going to wear the camo/uniform jacket, she should have worn the uniform pants as well. As it is, my first thought seeing this pics was Camo Barbie or Camo Cosplay. Like she’s going to wear just enough to look the part but not so much that you can’t tell how skinny she is.
That’s what I was thinking – why not just wear the pants, too? But right, then we might *gasp* think she’s fat. Ergo, Tactical Barbie. Sigh.
Tactical Barbie 🤣🤣🤣
Winner!!!
This is exactly it. It’s not a fashion show and she should be wearing the full uniform that the women who actually do serve wear.
Also skin tight clothing in cold weather is just dumb.
As are dress up boots. Learned that the hard way ONCE in Alaska. Never made that mistake again.
She looks like she showed up completely under-dressed and someone had to scramble to get her a coat, hat and gloves at the last moment. Either wear the full uniform, or wear your own clothes. It is clearly disrespectful to show up half-dressed to a publicity event! I am going to need to see several headlines about this massive breach of protocol!!! (So much sarcasm from me today!)
Oh my god her hand motions always crack me up. She mimics William with them. It is so funny.
She’ll get some front pages but she’s probably pissed off that Princess Lili has overshadowed her day out with the army.
I clicked over to the Fail to see how they were reporting and Princess Lilibet was their leading article. Kate was on there but, you had to scroll down. 😆 😆 😆
Seriously, did no one let Kate know that your supposed to tone down the makeup when you do military cosplay
Always with the hands and miming and shit. Useless woman.
Of course she removed her gloves. She’s got to show off Big Blue.
Poor guys! Having to stop their work to entertain this moron
The Irish Guards call themselves “The Micks.”
Is she wearing Big Blue along with the camouflage? Too funny.
It still makes me angry, even if the Irish Guards use it themselves.
Some of them may be genuinely Irish (not all of them are), but this regiment in the British Army is a vestige of the British empire. It’s 2023. “Mick” is an offensive term.
This was said just right, imo. 😉
Yes, from my vantage point in a US city with a large Irish population, this seems insulting. I don’t know what people are thinking about this in the UK and Ireland.
The British Army bestowed that nickname on them. It’s always been a pejorative meant to infer Irish people are lesser human beings than their English and Scottish colonizers. There are very few actual Irish people in that unit, and frankly it’s insulting they still use the name over a century after their butts were sent packing out of the majority of Ireland at rifle point.
I posted this upthread but it’s probably more relevant here. The nickname was the subject of a lot of discussion during the jubilee
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2022/06/02/who-are-the-micks-the-british-regiment-at-the-heart-of-a-social-media-storm/
The looks on some of those men’s faces lol. They are confused as to why she is there almost as much as she is
All I can think about is how thin those jeggings look and how cold she must be. It looks like she had the jacket tailored, why couldn’t she have gotten some pants taken in, too? Did they look too bulky? If you’re going to play soldier, at least look the part.
I know, right?
I wonder who has told her she needs to be “working” more – because it’s noticeable and there’s no way she’s doing it willingly.
I am dying with laughter at princess keen Bet when she pictured herself being princess Mcbuttons she didn’t factor in that she would have to work this much. When queen Betty was alive she did nothing . Now Betty is gone and the kids are in school full time. Her cover of being a there for you mom could only go so far . Especially with people paying attention in real time to how little she and willy actually do . Especially with the cost of living crisis. I am so happy for them . lol ol. Spotlight is all yours now keeney
This just made me remember the royal revolutionary story..I would’ve loved to see Keen Guevara in a beret. 😂😂
I’m that way too…more comfortable around men. It’s from having a mother and sister who are controlling, judgy, and short-tempered and/or passive aggressive. My instinct is always to protect myself from women, even (maybe especially) women I like.
Not in proper uniform for a female serving. Kate makes Pvt. Benjamin look like G.I. Jane.
I believe Kate is too street smart to get a boyfriend since Willie WILL use that as grounds for divorce, despite his own many, many mistresses and assorted others.
Haha…Colonel Camo Keen – that’s the best!
Lulu, Kate IS the woman you’d want to protect yourself from and she doesn’t like women because she judges them as natural enemies and competitors.
Irish-descended person here. Yes, “Micks” is offensive. However, the British Army states on their website that “the Irish Guards are known affectionately throughout the Army as ‘The Micks’ “. So, if the British Army says it, I guess it must be true. :rolleyes
You said it better than I did. Agree.
Does Kate have any ladies-in-waiting? Because if she does or will, I’d change that to gentlemen-in-waiting. She’s jealous of all women, thinks Will would be interested in them (he would) and she could be so much better served by men, whom she seems to truly like.
Bet the men are wearing thermal underwear. If she had a todger it would have frozen.
💀.
Her make up is just terrible. No reason for this black eye in the day.
My take is that she doesn’t look at all comfortable surrounded by the soldiers, nor they her. I don’t believe she enjoys being surrounded by men at all, she just doesn’t have the confidence. It was possibly an awkward encounter?
My other comment is that the pictures, unusually, reveal her true height, she must wear exceptionally high heels normally.
Strange woman is what comes across here.
Unblinkered, All I can say in response is that she’s smiling the whole time and doesn’t have resting bitch face at all. So you’re saying she’s neither comfortable with men or women because of her insecurity? I don’t know. She had the temerity and tenacity to hunt down Will for years until he married her. But maybe that’s just because Monster Mom was right behind her plotting every move.
Take your point, J.Ferber, and wouldn’t disagree that KM will prefer an all-male outing v. female the latter being competition, but for me in those pictures I think she looks tense, not comfortable. Probably me, and I do agree the fixed smile is there in some of them.
I’m pettier than I realized. I caught myself grinning when I saw that at least one of the uniforms still has the insignia ER. I’m glad to see that the switch-overs from ER to CR are apparently gradual.
This is so vapid. She actually had years to show interest in the military and actually engage in military exercises. She’s had nothing but time to learn some ISH! Look at Queen Maxima jumping out of planes! Crown Princess Mary actually JOINED the Danish Home Guard and went through training (both practical and theoretical) for years and rose through the ranks. She is now Captain in the Home Guard. It is not an honorary title. Yet, Kate shows up in her camo and big ring and looks like a teenage girl wanting attention from the football team! UGH!
Oh dear! That dark patch / triangle just under the jacket above her legs is doing her absolutely no favors at all (see top picture). Once seen, it can never be unseen! Look away now and save your eyes, lol.
Did this even make the news with their fans? All I heard about today is a little princess.
IZ Q, I agree totally. She LIKES being the only “girl” in all-male company. She feeds off it. I bet she flirts and acts girlishly. Too bad the main man in her life can’t stand her. Not that I feel sorry for her at all.
Kate was called on to serve her country by donning olive jeggings and posing for photos in the snow
Hahaha oh that’s good for a laugh
Oh dear lord, make the jeggings go away!
And this woman could be an astronaut making a spacewalk, and she would remove her spacesuit gloves in order to flash Big Blue.
Oh, live on the Oregon coast, somehow I got your snow, feel free to come get it. It’s supposed to stop by this weekend. I remain unamused.