The Princess of Wales is still largely in her Incognito Era, but it kind of doesn’t matter. Something shifted last year with Kate’s health issues and disappearance – while there are instances where the royal reporters criticize her these days, the biggest difference is just the absence of dialogue about Kate entirely. She shows up every now and then, she gawps for photos, she goes away for three weeks. Rinse and repeat, and no one is saying sh-t about it. I guess that’s a victory for Kensington Palace – yes, Kate might be boring, but at least they’ve stopped the PR bleed of “missing princess/manipulated photos/William’s wandering sceptre.” So, this is an increasingly rare piece of pro-Kate fluff these days – Fox News did a piece about how Kate is “ruthless” about her schedule and her planning for the big job, keen queen consort.
Kate Middleton is said to be taking a no-nonsense approach to becoming queen one day. The Princess of Wales, who is recognized as Britain’s reliable royal, is said to hold a greater influence over the House of Windsor than once imagined, as she supports Prince William, heir to the throne.
“Her emphasis on a ruthless discipline in her regimented daily routine and commitment to self-improvement has helped her,” British royal expert Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital. “She divides her time meticulously between parenting, supporting the heir to the throne, and her royal duties and manages to fit in an intense workout regime. Regarding her three children, she can combine tradition with a modern, more middle-class approach to family. This, on top of her dedication to duty, is seen as essential for the monarchy’s relevance and continuity.”
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital that Kate has good reason to develop thicker skin.
“The onset of a life-threatening illness can make a person tough,” he explained, referring to the royal’s past battle with cancer. The princess announced she was in remission from cancer in January of this year. “When they have a clear goal, as Kate has, the maintaining of the monarchy and bringing up her family means the experience, although traumatic, can be used to advantage in the years ahead.”
“Kate needed confidence as a public speaker, which she now has,” said Fitzwilliams. “She is a fashion icon, which she uses to enormous advantage. And she and William are so close, as their PDA clearly shows. They are the monarchy’s future. They work brilliantly as a team now, and they will continue to do so when William becomes king.”
“Without a doubt, Princess Catherine’s toughness is a brilliant combination of resilience, self-discipline and emotional maturity – qualities which have rendered her the most popular of royals and crucial for the monarchy’s future stability as well as public image,” said Fordwich. “Prince William’s influence and enduring strength of their relationship is significant, but so is her independent strength. Together, their sum is greater than their respective parts.”
“She divides her time meticulously between parenting, supporting the heir to the throne, and her royal duties and manages to fit in an intense workout regime.” She’s been on like five vacations so far this year. She’s spent more time on vacation then she has doing public events. I’m sure some people are buying this, but it does feel like fewer people are buying it these days. Now, I absolutely believe Kate is ruthless – ruthless about maintaining her position, ruthless about rarely working, ruthless about her quest to be queen consort by any means necessary. Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of pieces are less about fluffing up Kate’s meager accomplishments and more about sending a message to William. William, who often seems desperate for a way out. This is Kate saying: there’s no way out, I will be your queen by hook or by crook.
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I believe she is absolutely ruthless about her appearance too. Being able to count trachea rings is not a good look. Maybe she and Victoria Beckham really are becoming besties.
the “intense workout regime” is the only part about this I believe. I think that’s what she spends most of her days doing – working out.
i have wondered what she does all day, Watch TV? Work out? She is not a very curious person seems to me, so I don’t think she is home reading.
I know, I wonder that too. Work out? hang out with her mother?
she’s not working, she’s not reading, i cant see her volunteering at school or running the english equivalent of the PTA. I cant see her crafting or doing things like that. maybe she just works out, shops, wanders around her gardens so she can say she is a gardener, sees a bee so calls herself a beekeeper, etc?
Don’t you guys think it’s funny (or sad?) how no one even suggests she might be hanging with friends?
Yep, she’s absolutely ruthless about working out & not gaining weight. I can completely believe she’s one of those people who weighs her food intake & maybe even her waste output. That’s her laser-beamed focus, her body.
I can’t unsee the trachea rings now that you’ve pointed that out.
If you are going to look up to a monarchy, why would you want them to be like middle class people? Who buys into this?
This reminds me of WW1 British propaganda. Who is the intended audience for this? When the principal in question is not available, is she really one?
Re: middle class, Sophie was of middle class stock so Lazy could at least have had the same workload as her. But Lazy is well, well below the bare minimum.
The embiggening is off the charts with this article. She is meticulous at being lazy and nothing more. She has help caring for her children and her home. She doesn’t do shit for Peg because he doesn’t want her near him. She does nothing with the charities that have been given to her other than doing a photo ops and copy dressing Meg or Diana or even her own daughter. Why we are coming out with this is puzzling.
She is so not iconic so not a good public speaker and she and huevo are not close. She is snobbish and not down to earth.
You would think that they could come up with something remotely true and positive about her and lean into that. But I guess they can’t come up with anything, so they take a page from the republicants and just lie outright and flip everything on its head. She is a horrible public speaker, exhibits no warmth toward the angry egg, and dresses like an old lady or toddler trying to copy someone else all the time. She is the opposite of everything they claim.
Typical Faux News. Believe what we tell you not what your lying eyes are saying.
So many lies in this article.
“The Princess of Wales, who is recognized as Britain’s reliable royal”
By whom? More reliable than the king? 😂😂😂
“between parenting, supporting the heir to the throne, and her royal duties”
What duties?
“she can combine tradition with a modern, more middle-class approach to family.”
So she wants to be a tiara-wearing, publicly funded SAHM.
“ Kate needed confidence as a public speaker, which she now has,” said Fitzwilliams.”
No.
They print lie after lie after bare-faced lie. Is she back from holidays yet?
I mean, I guess she’s slightly more reliable than her husband? He’s been known to cancel with short notice or show up visibly, er, shaky. But the remaining senior royals who do more than 100 events a year are going to be understandably pissed off at this characterization.
This is how we know it’s a KP source, too. That and that Kate’s main duty is supporting her wonderful husband in his role. Yuck.
Kate has had her events on embargo far more than William because of her propensity to cancel last minute. This was well before the missing months. So William is actually more reliable than her in that regard.
Ruthless? So they admit she is a “mean girl”.
I believe she’s ruthless about the amount of time she spends exercising every day and exactly what she eats/drinks. Whatever is driving it that’s a lot of discipline.
I believe that, too. The part about the intense workout regime is probably true.
And she’s “ruthless” about staying married despite the horrific situation it seems to be. So congrats to her?? What a horrible role model.
Her exercise schedule and the resulting lack of subcutaneous body fat (as well as trolling her SIL) is probably the only thing that she thinks she can control in that crazy institution. Oh well!
Classic ED. And she’s getting praise for it instead of help. Nobody is trying to help her, not her family, not her husband, and she has no friends. Great life you created for yourself, Katiekins.
A regimented regime means you don’t have to think.
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The crazy thing is that if Harry was still single the British press would be dumping mercilessly on KKKate and her lazy husband. The best thing that happened to these royals was Meghan with her beauty, her work ethic, style and Blackness.
That un-retouched is just so alarming.
Pretty much.
The comments in this old CB article are so prescient
https://www.celebitchy.com/438008/ls_does_the_queen_really_refer_to_duchess_kate_as_duchess_of_dolittle/
This 2015 comment from Maia:
“ The fact that Kate is shallow and pampered and lacks basic understanding of what her role can be is not a reflection of what can be done in the same role.”
So little has changed in a decade for those two. So many of the comments read like what is being said today except the kids are in school full time.
The hardest work kate does is looking for ways to not work.
@nic919 the comments about any wife of Harry’s would surpass Lazy did come true though. Meghan was a supernova in the Windsor blackhole and l Lazy could not handle her work ethic nor tolerate the press’ attention and the public’s adoration of her.
Sucks to be Lazy. She’s trapped and she’s this century’s Marie-Antoinette. The die has been cast.
It’s kind of a weird detail to throw in there. That she manages to fit in an intense workout regime. Sorry but why do we even need to know that?
Well they can’t very well compliment her hair with a straight face anymore, can they? But she has so little else to offer that they still have to say SOMETHING about her appearance.
True but it feels like a behavior issue. Did Fitzwilliams just make this up based on her thin appearance or do all the rota reporters know how strict she is about this regime? We say she prefers to do events close to home and maybe that’s so she can make sure to fit in an intense workout regime. Is her day really scheduled around the school runs? Or is it the workouts? Bc while Fitzwilliams talked about parenting, he forgot to mention the all hallowed school runs!
It’s the only true thing they can say with confidence. They don’t really know her or her life, they’re trying to prop her up with the palace-supplied talking points (confident speaker, fashion icon, so in lurve with her hubby), but anybody can see she’s ruthless about her exercise & eating regimen whatever the specifics may be.
Ruthless about her intense workout regime. Yes, that I do believe. The rest – including this whopper: she now has confidence as a public speaker – is utter crap.
She’s as lazy and unfocused as she ever was. She’s as much of a style stalker as she ever was. She’s no more ready to be queen than she ever was.
Kate is very reliable. She can be relied upon to do as little work as possible.
And I don’t know how “ruthless,” ” regimented” and “disciplined” matches up with videos of her frolicking in Nature.
Well, one could argue that not working this hard takes quite a bit of discipline, no? 😉😈
“Her emphasis on a ruthless discipline in her regimented daily routine and commitment to self-improvement has helped her,”
So the words they choose to highlight about her are “ruthless” “disciplined” “regimented”. I guess that’s better than “furious” “livid” “enraged” and whatever other words that are continually associated with her husband, but not by much.
What an unappealing bunch of people; it’s hard to imagine anyone who isn’t a Disney villain or mid-level military official in an autocratic regime finding them interesting, and the bizarre messaging of the RR /palace is doing them no favors.
Can you imagine what she might accomplish if she put the same amount of energy that goes into ordering puff pieces, into actual WORK?
…yeah, it probably still wouldn’t be much, would it? She’s a charisma vacuum, and even at her absolute best the words “mediocrity personified” would be extremely generous. She’s a parasitic mean girl. That’s it.
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She will never change. She achieved her mission in life which was to nab the damaged heir to become Queen.
All of that “rigid routine” is screaming “disordered eating/compulsive exercise” to me.
I agree. It’s obvious that’s the tabloids’ code for dieting and overexercising.
Yes! Thank you, I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s all saying “this woman has an extreme eating disorder” to me. “Ruthless”, “discipline/d”, “regimented”, “meticulous”, “Intense workout regime”, “self-improvement”, “life-threatening illness” – what are they really trying to tell us here?
Agree completely. The writer could have used words like “detail-oriented” and “dutiful” instead of words like “ruthless” and “regimented,” so the choice of words is certainly interesting. None of this screams “works hard at her royal duties” though.
Yeah, I just saw red flag after red flag in this article – and celebrating her “discipline” as if that’s all part of her job. It’s gross and irresponsible in my view, but no surprise as it comes from Fox News!
So it is believed by the writer that will and keen are close based on those awkward videos where keen comes on to him and he looks uncomfortable
Ruthless really stuck out to me. Could that be a jab? And could it be she is is so ruthless about her exercise because it’s the one thing she can actually control???? Her weight and her body???
Yup. Her looks are all she has, so it makes sense she’d pour most of her energy into those.
She’s fighting a losing battle (some would say already lost battle) with Father Time.
PDA is no longer against protocol apparently.
Pure 🐎 💩. This woman is a disgrace to women that bust their butts 24 /7. I’ve had MS since 1995. It hasn’t been a bed of roses. I had to work. Hell I wanted to work. The 24/7/365 chronic pain is ruthless on my body. I retired in 22. I thought my golden years would be on my mom’s or dad’s Caribbean island. That’s no long a possibility. My point is there’s 1000s of women with chronic debilitating illnesses. Yet everyday these women “WILL” themselves to get out of bed and work. It pisses me off when Kate laziness is considered modern and that she works. She visits and that speech last week shows just how much she cares about being a working royal. She couldn’t deliver a coherent 1 sentence speech. I’m sure she doesn’t give a rats ass to learn Welsh. These people make me🤮
Connie: Sorry you’re dealing with MS and chronic pain. That sucks.
That’s interesting. You have first William being described at the quiet disruptor, a demanding boss, not for talking, demanding actions. Now you have Kate being described as ruthless. This is mostly pact in positive terms with some shade. I am wondering what public persona they want to portray.
Everybody else would be described as bullying.
“She is a fashion icon…” Is this an Onion article? 😹
Should be the Private Eye but they’ve gone full establishment stitch-up too.
She looks a decade older than her years. To quote the Sondheim line “Does anybody still wear…a hat?” I thought they wore them because Lizzy insisted. Rather than putting a fresh spin on the monarchy she doubles down. No wonder they can’t connect with the next generation. And the Karens the Daily Mail appeals to, are dying off as will the tabs.
Hats are a good way to keep the peasants far away and not come too close to her.
It’s also a good way to ensure that your wigs stays put!
If we were to believe what has been written and Kate has claimed about her daily routine, she rises before the sun is up to swim in cold water, wakes up all the children, serves them breakfast, drives them to school, goes to a cafe, has pastries with the other “yummy munmys” comes home, works out a minimum of 1 – 2 hours a day, has phone calls with her staff and organizations, drives back to school, participates in any afterschool activities or games (not sure they do that during the week in England), comes home, cooks everyone dinner, has a gin and tonic before bed with her husband. It’s far more likely the swim is only in Norfolk and the nanny helps with the mornings and she meets with her staff 1-2 times a week, if that.
I call shenanigans just on the pastry deal alone. 😈🤣
Seriously! That and the 1-2 hours of working out. No no no, I bet she devotes at minimum 3 hours of exercise a day; that morning swim is just the first bit.
Who are these mommies? Only friends we have seen recently have been Rose and her friends inviting her to some event. It is weird she has been future Queen so long and seemingly has no support system of women. I don’t like Camilla, but she has a lot of women her age she is spending time with and supporting her in her evil ways.
“Kate needed confidence as a public speaker, which she now has,” said Fitzwilliams.
If she has confidence as a public speaker, it’s misplaced.
This all really reads as a backward attack on William. Kate is steady, driven, high-functioning, disciplined, emotionally mature . . . all the very specific things Prince Incandescent the Drunkard Rose-Trimmer is not.
My only question is this: it is Kate and Carole who are launching this warning to him? Or the rota rats? Either (or both) could be seeking to make clear that he needs to offer them what they want, or the truths start coming out.
The only thing she’s ruthless about is getting to the throne. She’s in a loveless, possibly violent marriage with someone who has such little regard for her he regularly embarrasses her publicly. I’ve no doubt W has a sidepiece (and sidepieces of sidepieces) and that he and K do not live together — oh they travel together with the kids so it appears like one big happy family but their marriage is a complete farce. I feel so sorry for their kids, being brought up in an atmosphere of cold disinterest, disrespect and acted-out rage between their parents. Those two are as useless as t*ts on a bull and their sheer lack of interest in helping the people who pay for their very luxe existence is offensive, as is the increasing number of fawning articles about them like this one that are outright lies.
Question is what happens to OTT coverage a year after Will and Kate become King and Queen but hardly do anything? Both are all advertising and no product. What happens when it becomes obvious from outer space that neither of them wants to do much in the way of royal duty? Do the tabs start asking hard questions or just cover their monthly then quarterly then annual event (s) and still cover for their rank ineptitude and chronic inability to show up? Expose them and ask why are they there if they refuse to fulfil the basic functions of monarchy or just continue to applaud them? How long can both spin this cushy number out?
I’ve wondered this same thing. Will this embiggening of FK and FQ last forever? After the hat ceremony is over, and KP essentially merges into BP, will the media feel freer to expose these two frauds? Or do they know William will always be ruthless about having a state media that makes him look good and hides his many problems, so nothing will change?
How about that journalist in Asia said “one day we will expose everything we know about William and it will make your eyes bleed”–when will that day come?
Kate is good at three things: (1) being lazy, (2) being William’s doormat/target of his screaming and throwing things, and (3) starving herself. I don’t believe any stories that try to stretch her “abilities” beyond that.
She hates having duties. She has no style. She looks unhappy. She doesn’t give speeches. Where are they vacationing again? I can’t come up with anything nice to say about her. Shame she gives nothing to her country. Sorry for the cancer but she needs to work for living like the rest of us. So tired of these same stories about her. She is going to be a horrible queen.
Shaking my head ….Propaganda without content 🥱
Well now isn’t this out of the typical Faux News playbook. Talking Point 1: Kate is a confident public speaker. Check. Kate is a fashion icon. Check. Kate & William are clearly in love, look at all the PDA! Check. 🙄🤢. They are astoundingly consistent in their misstatement of facts that we all can see right before our very own eyes. Kate is NOT even a halfway decent public speaker; her personal style is all over the place; William cannot stand to be near his wife.
I believe everything about Kate’s obsession with her weight and her appearance. As someone who had an eating disorder as a teenager, being “ruthless” about working out and controlling my weight was what I did when I fell out of control in my life.
The rest of this article is fairy-tales and hogwash, but more importantly, I think it’s a direct message to William that he cannot get rid of Kate.
William tried for a year to become a hot single dad, but he lacks some crucial quality that all the money in the world, and an entire propaganda machine cannot fix.
Though watching William try to be a HSD was/is consistently entertaining.😈😉🤣
He was so so very bad at it.
“Sometimes I wonder if these kinds of pieces are less about fluffing up Kate’s meager accomplishments and more about sending a message to William. William, who often seems desperate for a way out.”
They are working on fluffing up her and her husband’s curriculum vitae ahead of the impending accession. Indications from recent public events (24 hr Canada trip) suggest Charles’ health is not improving. Has Charles attended any public events since returning from Canada?
She has confidence as a public speaker now? Like when she just christened the ship in Scotland and had to slowly read two sentences written for her? LMAO! I find the use of the word “ruthless” so interesting. That is not a word one would typically use in a positive, fluff piece. Test yourself. What is the word that first comes to mind if someone says “ruthless”? I think “mean”.