There must have been plate-smashing and pillow-throwing at Kensington Palace after a 48-hour social media drubbing. On Thursday, the Prince and Princess of Wales stepped out for their first work event since mid-July. Kate’s new “blonde” hair/wig stole the show, and not in a good way. It was one of those moments where the criticism and mockery escaped royal containment – it wasn’t just royal-watchers talking about Kate’s wig and William’s dry-ass skin. Actual influencers and social-media personalities were posting about the “Polly Pocket wig” and “lace-front disaster” and “how in the world is that man supposed to be 43?”
So, the emergency meetings were held and emails were sent, because you know neither Will nor Kate actually showed up to those meetings. Please, Kate probably just sent the wig-wearing gopher in her place and no one was the wiser. Decisions were made: the only way to push back on this horrendous and hilarious newscycle is by sending William and Kate out again over the weekend. Luckily, the Women’s Rugby World Cup has been happening for more than a week. Both Kate and William are patrons of national rugby teams (England and Wales respectively), so they were sent out separately to attend games. Kate went to East Sussex to watch England play Australia (England won). William went to Exeter to watch Wales vs. Fiji (Fiji won).
The big headline for Kate is that she left the blonde doll wig at home with the gopher. She’s still got caramel/bronde highlights, but some of this (not all of it) is her actual hair, which is much darker than the doll wig from Thursday. Is this not embarrassing for a future queen as well? To wear such a deranged blonde wig for one event, and then two days later, act like that never happened?
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Diana. May 1986, meeting Tina Turner and Bryan Adams, Canada. That’s all I’ll say
Also, I’ve been seeing a lot more criticism towards how they treated those poor children at the museum. Is this the first time they’ve attended a women’s rugby match?
Came to comment on the cosplay outfit too.
OMG it’s like furniture wasn’t the only thing she was scouting in the castles’ attics! That IS Diana’s outfit for that meeting! Only thing she left out was the brooch, and that’s probably because Comilla has them hidden away under her udders!
While I realize a photo is just a captured second in time, WHY is this woman hysterically laughing all the time, even when no one else around her is hardly smiling?? It’s manic!
Oh my gosh. I googled Diana meeting Bryan Adam’s. That’s a stunning and deliberate cosplay. It gave me the shivers.
I know Kate continues to copy other women instead of becoming her own person in any area. But – This b sides deep dive copying is so deeply unsettling and disturbing. And it feels different too. Not looking for direct comparisons, just desperation.
Kate seems to be copying because she has no idea who she is or what she likes as opposed to looking for comparisons.
Unless she’s trying to say she’s the new Diana – and not in the Queen of people’s hearts way, but in the she’s in danger way.
“The b sides deep dive copying”! Yeah, time and research was spent going to the archives for this one. It’s a toss-up for who she will SWF next, Diana or Meghan.
I googled it too. Wow.
It’s ridiculous. She’s probably got entire shelves full of binders of outfits Diana and Meghan have worn.
It’s like she cannot dress herself without examples of how other people do it. This isn’t normal.
She definitely has all of Diana’s outfits on a mood board. And Meghan’s too. The blouse with that fluff is not in style and looks silly. And while Diana was in style in 1986, it’s not like this was a common outfit she rewore and so finding something from almost foreign years ago it just obsessively deranged.
The thing about Kate is that despite her education, privilege, wealth, and years in the upper echelons of society, she remains visibly uncomfortable in her own skin. I’m frequently uncomfortable watching her because, to me, she so often seems to be walking on eggshells trying to pretend to be something she doesn’t feel inside. The over-the-top fake accent, the hair weirdness, the maniacal grins, the jazz hands, the sartorial cosplay, the tacky public meanness (i.e. towards Meghan), the transparent and vacuous PR stunts, the seeming lack of intellectual curiosity, no real sense of connection to the people she is around… everything comes across as pretense. She is so busy acting like what she thinks she is supposed to be that she is never herself.
I do sometimes wonder how much of this is because she never got the chance to develop into a full person because of her mother’s machinations, her Waity years, the jackass she married, and the royal institution. I honestly believe that, behind the scenes, she experienced ALL of what Diana and Meghan (and Fergie) experienced because that is what is done to women who marry in. All of those women have talked about how unrelentingly cruel and destructive it was. Until Meghan came along, I doubt Kate ever did anything “right,” except give birth to children, in the eyes of the institution and her husband. I would guess that she was nitpicked, diminished, gaslit, and verbally abused until she didn’t know up from down. The others left. She has stayed. Because so much of her public persona is one of pretending to be what she thinks is required, maybe part of her survival defense is literally donning the armor (clothing) of those other women? Her hair weirdness and gaunt frame might also be a part of that.
p.s. Acknowledging what she has likely experienced is in no way excusing the fact that she turned around and tried to drive Meghan to suicide. Nor does it excuse her continued treatment of Meghan.
It’s an unfortunate truth that people who are abused, or just mistreated, often turn around and do the same thing to other people. Kate wouldn’t be the first royal women who is both victim and perpetrator
It is imposter syndrome plus a narcissistic mother. Kate is not well mentally and hasn’t ever been ok. But unlike Meghan the media protects her.
A good analysis of the situation she’s in, OriginalMich. She’s been put through the wringer for decades by the toxic UK press, ever since she came into the public eye. Unfortunately, she’s been a puppet to her mother’s ambitions to climb up to the top of the echelons of British society, & married to a man who’s a self-absorbed brat, indifferent to the public mockery she’s receiving. William has thrown her to the wolves! He can protect her, but is choosing not to.
But as you said, none of that excuses her bullying Meghan in the past & present. As Lauren commented: both victim & perpetrator.
@lungta
I don’t follow them as closely as others. From what I have seen, however, William is as bad, if not worse, than anyone else, including the press. It was a nothing in my life but, for some reason, I remember that there was a celebration for the Queen shortly after they married. Maybe it was the Jubilee or something? Anyway, there was regatta. It was raining and Kate was wearing a red dress. I could almost feel her nerves jumping through the screen when I saw the images and video. I felt sympathy because we’ve all been in similar positions, albeit not with the eyes of the world watching. I would have forgotten the event as soon as I saw it except for the fact that William acted like an openly derisive dick to his new wife, getting visibly angry whenever she nervously did something he thought was wrong. I remember thinking that if he acted like that in public, behind the scenes must have been a nightmare.
There is a photo taken during that jubilee where William is off with his umbrella and Harry called out to him because Kate was left there without him. She is wearing a red dress so the vibes you picked up were correct. It was the 2012 jubilee.
The photo with Harry reminding William about his own wife had been seen in social media, with French captions, showing it was never published in the UK. At least not in the main tags.
Exactly that. Minus the scary amount of make up on Kate…
@Layla … Just Googled the event. Holy Deus, you’re right! Does Kate ever, ever consider establishing her own fashion style?? All of the ladies of whom she ‘cosplays’ ad nauseam have done so; which makes her efforts–or lack thereof–glaringly obvious.
Oh, my! Yes! (Also, had some fun looking at the photos–Rod Stewart was there! And Phil Collins!)
Diana definitely wore it better!!!!!!
Honestly, this is Trump-level of nuts.
The fact that she pulled her hair back did not escape me. Which means that she in fact does not wear wigs but has too many extensions in. So i need everyone who blamed cancer for that bad hairstyle to shush.
That makes that whole disaster even worse. She actually gave her own hair that color and apparently only on top? Like they forgot the bottom.
She’s wearing a v part wig. If you look it up online you will see how the wig is installed and then you will understand how she can pull her hair back like this. The hair at the front is her natural hair pulled out over the wig. The mistake she made was using a wig far too voluminous compared to her natural hair.
If you recall her hair on the last ski trip, her own hair was very much thinner and shorter.
I looked it up and bingo, you are absolutely right. It’s a v part or u part wig.
Oh wow. Her hair was so dark and the pics were dark – or maybe I just wasn’t awake yet when I saw them – that I assumed she was wearing a puffy black headband and didn’t understand what everyone was talking about.
But her hair is pulled back! The difference is night and day.
I thought she could just say she went in for highlights and she has been swimming laps a lot and blah blah bad reaction resulted in that blonde and now she’s back to her normal color. But everything is completely different. Blah blah styling. Sure. But this is like plastic surgery for hair at this point.
Why is she acting like she’s at the world’s best comedy club, while most people around her are barely raising a smile..?
Hysterical 😹 She has that same cheesy joker face in almost every picture. Close your mouth, Kate.
Aren’t they meant to be observing a mourning period for the Duchess of Kent?
The maniacal grin is what always gets me. It’s too much.
Yes her manical smile was on full display while Peg looked like he was acting ( poorly I might add) his happy self. What a show by both.
Remember this? [from this very website 7-12-16]
According to Hammel, Kate only smiles because her face is “collapsing.” She continues, “That, my Kate Middleton watchers, is why you will see her grinning maniacally at all times in photographs and videos, even when you get the strong sense it doesn’t really fit the occasion, even when you can’t see quite what’s so funny, even when those around her don’t seem remotely festive. Even when she’s staring into space, walking up some stairs. Even at somber events when it’s not right to smile, when she can’t lest she appear soulless, she tucks the corners ever-so-slightly upward.”
Royal Foibles once wrote her “face is melting.”
She’s in her era of joy. 🙄 don’t ya know?
She’s also “happy under a tree”. Or hugging a tree. Or standing next to a tree as hugging it is much too informal.
She and the tree haven’t been properly introduced and the tree is wearing ripped jeans. Let’s hope the tree doesn’t mention “her hormones”. She will have it chopped down. Her memory lapses are meant to show you how unimportant you are to her, not to be kindly excused in a comforting way!
She looks absolutely insane.
The vertical forehead scar is definitely showing near her left brow in the second photo. Why doesn’t anyone in the BM ever mention this?
I spent a ridiculous amount of time yesterday looking at closeups of Kate on Getty Images because her hair is pulled back & you can get a good look at that part of her forehead. She’s got a jagged line through her brow, there’s that vertical pale line just above it, then next to that is this vertical oval patch of skin. It’s very odd, but that oval had extra makeup on it, or was extra smooth, I’m not sure what was going on, but it was different. Very, very weird. Sort of like trump slapping on makeup on his hand, it didn’t hide anything. Also, not as much photo shopping on Getty, you see her skin as it is.
Austin Powers called Kate. He wants his suit back.
Someone mentioned it above. Google Diana meeting Bryan Adam’s 1986
So they were claiming it wasn’t a wig on Thursday, but you’re supposed to believe 2 days later her hair is thinner, shorter and darker. And then I’m sure she does something next week it’ll be back to long and blonde, and we’ll be expected to dutifully ignore that switch back.
The wig denials are stupid, no one believes them. Just get a better wig. And I really wish she would just retire that maniacal grin. No one is that happy all the time at every single event, and she’s been in this role long enough that she shouldn’t be worried about looking engaged.
The wig denials are silly. Why not just own it?
It wasn’t just wig denials, scientific journals were published explaining how ‘blonde’ hair increases fullness and volume. Kate’s legendary tresses were transformed into a showy cascade of blonde curls aided by the tireless hours she devoted to sunning on a yacht.
🙄🤣. These people are truly nutso!
Right?! Thank you! It’s all ridiculous!
Am I the only person who sees this as a completely different hair colour?
It is! You can see where she still has some “bronde” extensions in the back, but yeah, I took these photos as an admission that she wore a wig on Thursday
We should see her from the back too. Did she keep the caramel doll extensions?
I checked the video on the daily mail and it’s even lighter blonde than I thought. It’s the same v part wig or extensions. The volume is noticeable bigger than Wimbledon.
It is MUCH darker here, and it’s not only because she’s not out in direct sunlight.
Well the half-pullled back hair-do looks markedly better than the blonde hair sitting akimbo. The fact that it’s a different color is fine…if KP/kate wasn’t insisting that it’s all natural hair. It’s a visual admission I guess? Imagine if they just said yeah Kate likes to use hair pieces to try out different hair styles. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t and then keep it moving.
Can’t she just say she dyed it back to her original color? Blah blah swimming laps lightened / fried her hair?
No, you’re not! It’s like she spent all day after the backlash getting her hair colored differently and some extensions taken out. It also looks less fried.
It’s hilarious Tom Sykes is pretending it’s the same hair, just a different style. Btw, anyone else seeing a huge difference between his substack and his Royalist articles?
please check out the videos from the locker room. It looks very blonde there tbh. I stand by the real hair plus v part wig pulled back theory and same blonde in different lighting.
Yes and going lighter to dark absolutely confirms she had extensions or a wig on Thursday. The derangers will try to spin again.
That wide grin and face making again for keen.
How is no one mentioning the wisps on Peg’s head? I looks insane and so easily fixed!
These caught my attention too. They have a life of their own🤣🤣🤣
All I can see is Homer Simpson’s 2 arched strands of hair. (But at least Homer’s hairs have some order and intentionality behind them.)
Keens going to get wrinkles from her wide mouth grins. Peggs beard still looks messy
Omg, too funny. The Boston Globe had an article the other day that everybody will be going blond now, Kate’s such a trendsetter. Followers didn’t even get a chance to make a hair appointment.
It’s giving maestro at the symphony. The jacket and suit is well-fitted. I just feel like a simple white button down would have been better than that fluffy ruffle thing. I get that it’s a Diana cosplay but simpler still would have been a better look.
I was thinking the fluffy ruffle thing was worn disguise her thin frame.
Same. All the unnecessary froufrou she wears, from pussy bows to buttons to lace to peplums to ruffles don’t suit her sporty frame even one iota so I think it’s all camouflage for an alleged ED with a heaping side helping of terminal Girly Twirly Refuse to Mature TEE HEE HEE
But she did wear a simple button-down with her Ralph Lauren blazer at that rain event. So I don’t think it’s that. The ruffle is bc Diana wore a ruffle with a black suit and that was her template for this outfit. The Ralph Lauren blazer and the simple white button-down at the rain event was more of a Meghan copy-keen. I just prefer the simple to the ruffle but someone else might like a ruffle idk?
It’s obvious she or her team saw the comments about her terrible wig and decided to ditch it. Her hair looked much better yesterday. The wig was just too big and too blond for her. But it shows that she’s very reactionary and that she pays a lot of attention to what is said about her in the press and on social media.
It’s always about herself and she responds to comments about her hair. She couldn’t be bothered to deny the crying story and admit she made Meghan cry.
She didn’t even have to say she made Meghan cry! She could have just denied Meghan making her cry and saying that every bride knows how stressful the run up to a big wedding is and that she broke down multiple times leading up to her big day and it was so worth it for what a beautiful day it was. It’s almost a “rite of passage” and then say that you could see how much thought and time and attention went into Meghan and Harry’s wedding and it was lovely.
I mentioned this before, but the very first press release on Kate’s behalf post wedding in 2011 was to deny the use of hair extensions after that photo showed obvious tracks on the side of her head. They made it a point to lie about a childhood scar that has never been seen since.
This is the level of deception we are dealing with as well as showing what Kate’s priorities are. Not charities, but her physical image.
I see someone called in the emergency hair repair brigade. Natasha must have taken her contact list of hairdressers when she left and Keen couldn’t figure how to cope.
My thing was she just had how many days of holiday since Archer left. Could she not have used one of those days to hire someone new. Someone who could professionally pick and set new hair pieces. Truly, showing up and looking professional is part of the job.
Natasha was gone before July. They just didn’t report it until then. So her hair was ok for a while without Natasha. Even at Wimbledon.
Kate just thought going Texas blonde was a good look.
Lordy, that makes it worse though.
Or, she’s frightened if she gets someone new to style her wigs, they could inadvertently let slip that she DOES wear wigs and/or extensions?
Texas doesn’t own bad blonde. Don’t blame Texas. Plenty of bad blonde to go around.
this is much better — that full Bridgitte Macron piece from the other day was atrocious, I hope it escaped out of an open window.
The beard is ok-ish — the gray combined with his tighter hair color and skin tone leave no real contrast so it always looks like he has a touch of mange. I don’t’ fault him the wisps – not all men want to shave their head – bald happens.
Suits for sporting events baffle me, but it appears that everyone was overdressed and stuffy.
Every time I see them on events like these, I wonder if both of them are mentally unwell because their facial expressions and interactions always seem so over the top and overly dramatic. Her mouth is always open during these events yet she’s incapable of saying anything coherent out of it for meaningful causes that impact the people who pay to fund her. He’s taken on her jazz hands and always does his dad joke level jokes for those too desperate for his approval so they do the exact same maniacal grin that she does. My first response whenever I see them out on events like these is to laugh because surely they have other patronages that involve more than sitting and watching sporting events? This can’t be the majority of what they do besides vacation for weeks or months at a time? What patronages do they actually have that don’t involve them being entertained by awards or sporting events and when is the last time they participated in any of those to help them raise money for the people in the UK? The people in the UK deserve better for their money.
Great post Nerd! Thank you.
They are both ‘on’ at these things. Neither one knows how to be genuine.
Lol… all the sycophantic royal reporters who were scolding us for insulting Kate’s “hair” and saying she looked good must be fuming right now at how Kate is making them look ridiculous for praising. Kate is backtracking so fast here I am getting whiplash from the U turn, and it’s obvious us critics were right.
Katie is laughing like a maniac because unlike the Minster who was forced to resign over her tax affairs, she can do what she likes and get away with it. Same for Will, both barely work, get SG and Duchy income to pay for Royal lifestyle, should be paying a lot more tax but they are untouchable.
Yes the irony of Rayner resigning from cabinet for following bad tax advice for a second home, when these two have multiple free homes costing taxpayers millions. The outrage and standard applied to elected representatives who don’t come from money is non stop, but the millionaires who don’t work and can’t be removed get a free pass.
Exactly @Nic919 the double standards over the BM outage over Rayner and the ministerial code versus these charlies lapping up another luxury mansion paid for by the tax payer. They had a two month holiday then attended one event on Thursday, got upstaged by a wig, now they each attend a separate rugby match and call that work? Where’s the outrage for their lack of output? We pay a fortune, the BM tell us they are great and make the nation proud? When are people going to realise that there is no there, there? All take and no give?
Sporting events aren’t work. How does the U.K. put up with this???
@Aimee this UK taxpayer is seriously unhappy with PoWs ligging antics at our expense. They are just freeloaders. Such a contrast to the late Duchess of Kent who an elegant and classy woman. After retiring from public life she gave music lessons at a school because she was a giver not a taker.
It seems Kate is the only one who is getting the joke . Like why is sage full teeth laughing? What is wrong with this woman? It’s like her pills have kicked in finally. Or like she upped the dosage because on Thursday she looked completely out of it not today. She is all in. . I really so think someone, possibly her parents should get this woman some help . Something is really really wrong here . Especially if you consider how she is being called out for leaving those children in the rain even though I think it’s grossly unfair to only call her out because wank was just as selfish and uncaring with his umbrella.
Those kids were failed by all the adults that day, including the teachers. The teachers ran in & got the kids’ jackets to bring them out to them instead of just herding everyone into the museum! Just poor decision making on everyone’s part! Get those kids inside & wait for the rain to stop before continuing on. Geez Louise.
Don’t think it’s unfair to only call out the racist concerned with a baby’s skin color.
Waity will NEVA get morsel of sympathy from me.
I know Keen is meant to be laughing, but her face looks like a tragedy mask. Girl, open your eyes and close your mouth.
Look past her rictus grin to her hands. She is skeletal and needs help, not a new wig.
William just looks miserable. And he continues to be a jinx.
As Nancy Mitford once wrote about someone’s not very appealing baby ..poor thing, its kinder not to look . They are really an unappetizing family.
Oh, dear! Please tell me that was a work of fiction & not a memoir!
Nancy Mitford wrote about her own family and experiences, so not exactly fiction. She had a waspish wit.
Her sister never used to gurn and guffaw constantly, and was still capable of smiling nicely for a camera without looking mental.
Maybe it’s something Ma installed in her to look ‘animated’. It’s just so LOOK AT MEEEE…
Both useless, grifters on the public dole. Plain and simple.
Will should abdicate, they should divorce, take their millions and retire completely from public life. They’ll be happier and so will everyone else.
Take their millions? What millions? Without the Duchy income they don’t have millions. OK maybe William has what his mother left him. But they don’t OWN much. Not their houses. Or is Anmer really Williams privately? But the rest is not. And whatever William has would not last long with their life style.
Something is giving off Sister Act/queer choir leader/gospel/ moving and grooving in a musical energy with hand clapping. Such whiplash from Thursday.
Did Kate spend all her time at the game flirting with the old fart to her right? They seem to be the only two finding SOMETHING hilariously funny.
The wisp of hair on top of William’s head lol.
I saw that lace-front post on Twitter(from someone who doesn’t even follow the BRF). That had millions of views and thousands and thousands of likes making fun of K(it went mainstream). As well as one hit tweet on: W looking old for his age. That was 💯 humiliating for both WK. Karma …lmao
This is so embarrassing. First the bad wig & now the complete hair change again. What is going on?? Are they completely losing it?
What is wrong with her? She flat out is not normal.
I am not on Twitter . I would really appreciate it if someone could share a link for the wig and dry skin jokes . Thanks if possible. I could really use a good laugh today.
It’s like someone told the WORLD’S FUNNIEST JOKE EVER, but she’s the only one who heard it.
Just so weird. Maniacal looking.
At least her hair looks better like that.
That explains the Thursday joint engagement for which both looked exhausted and miserable.