The Princess of Wales turns 44 years old today, and she decided to celebrate by releasing her fourth and final “Four Seasons/Mother Nature” video. Kensington Palace financed this video series and it absolutely counts as “work” for Kate. She does the voiceovers and she’s appeared in three of them. The text of Kate’s voiceover sounds very much like it was written by AI, and I don’t get the sense that these videos are popular in the UK, or that people were begging for Kate to do a weird video series celebrating the seasons.
The Mother Nature series has been a deeply personal, creative reflection on how nature has helped me heal. But it is also a story about the power of nature and creativity in collective healing.
There is so much we can learn from mother nature, as we look to build a happier,… pic.twitter.com/yZ3u6yLEe4
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) January 9, 2026
Her cap is full of secrets! She’s wearing Big Blue in the video, success! Honestly, I have no idea what to do with this or say about this. The royal reporters don’t know what to say either, so they just treat this video series like it’s a half-assed book report from a 12-year-old. “Yes, it’s so special that you want to celebrate the seasons, what a big girl you are!” The Royalist Substack claims that the video series was “far removed from standard royal communications” and that the series and messaging was “perhaps a little too emotive for the tastes of King Charles III” but it “has landed extremely well with the public.” Emotive? Kate reading out AI slop monologues about the seasons whilst prancing around various royal estates? This was not something “far removed” from Kensington Palace either – this was KP staffers attempting to put together something simple and childlike to “give” to Kate since she refuses to work. THAT is what Charles doesn’t like.
Photos and screencaps courtesy of Avalon Red, Kensington Palace.
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: The Prince and Princess of Wales visiting Mull, Scotland the couple visited the Ardura Community Forest. On the second day of their visit to the Scottish Isles, The Duke and Duchess will meet the Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment. The Mull and Iona Ranger Service plays a vital role in conservation, biodiversity protection, visitor management and education on the islands. Countryside Rangers lead guided events for visitors and the resident community – regularly partnering with local primary schools to ensure that every child on the islands has the opportunity to experience the beautiful natural environment around them.,Image: 993841772, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler/Avalon
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: The Prince and Princess of Wales visiting Mull, Scotland the couple visited the Ardura Community Forest. On the second day of their visit to the Scottish Isles, The Duke and Duchess will meet the Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment. The Mull and Iona Ranger Service plays a vital role in conservation, biodiversity protection, visitor management and education on the islands. Countryside Rangers lead guided events for visitors and the resident community – regularly partnering with local primary schools to ensure that every child on the islands has the opportunity to experience the beautiful natural environment around them.,Image: 993841786, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler/Avalon
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: The Prince and Princess of Wales visiting Mull, Scotland the couple visited the Ardura Community Forest. On the second day of their visit to the Scottish Isles, The Duke and Duchess will meet the Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment. The Mull and Iona Ranger Service plays a vital role in conservation, biodiversity protection, visitor management and education on the islands. Countryside Rangers lead guided events for visitors and the resident community – regularly partnering with local primary schools to ensure that every child on the islands has the opportunity to experience the beautiful natural environment around them.,Image: 993844788, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler/Avalon
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: The Prince and Princess of Wales visiting Mull, Scotland the couple visited the Ardura Community Forest. On the second day of their visit to the Scottish Isles, The Duke and Duchess will meet the Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment. The Mull and Iona Ranger Service plays a vital role in conservation, biodiversity protection, visitor management and education on the islands. Countryside Rangers lead guided events for visitors and the resident community – regularly partnering with local primary schools to ensure that every child on the islands has the opportunity to experience the beautiful natural environment around them.,Image: 993844804, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ian Vogler/Avalon
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales and William, Prince of Wales meet Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest, to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment, during a visit to the Isle of Mull, western Scotland.,Image: 993867333, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: OLI SCARFF/Avalon
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- Mull, Scotland, 30 April 2025: Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales and William, Prince of Wales meet Countryside Rangers from the Mull and Iona Ranger Service at the Ardura Community Forest, to highlight the importance of protecting and championing the natural environment, during a visit to the Isle of Mull, western Scotland.,Image: 993867413, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: OLI SCARFF/Avalon
Isn’t she worried that the big blue will slip off as she dips her hand into the water. Or is it a copy. That outfit is not flattering nor the wig hanging down her back. It is a I and the fake posh accent is so bad and her nay cha talk is so bad. . This is all so pretentious
She wore it scuba diving in the failed Caribbean tour, (or a copy version at the very least). She’s determined to be seen in it on the days she has access to it.
I always suspected that she might be wearing a replica
It absolutely is a copy. There’s no way she has access to the real one.
An ideal place for it to come off.
The accent! It sounds so fake and forced. I’m so curious what she sounds like normally. She could have a dialect coach, just like she could have a stylist or a tutor, but no. She just concentrates on wigs and hair pieces. I don’t like her but I still get second hand embarrassment for her
It sounds like the same accent Gwyneth Paltrow used in Emma.
I wonder if she can even still use her real voice/accent. I think its part of why she is such a bad public speaker – its hard to talk in a fake accent like that. For a while I thought I just couldn’t understand posh English accents – but I can understand Harry, Charles, William, old clips of Diana, QEII, etc. (among others but thinking of royals.) Its just her that I can’t understand.
Also her veneers are too big for her mouth. That impacts the fake accent too.
😂😂it’s such a farce with this Mother Nature stuff she is pushing and how it’s helped her. Helped her with what? Stealing land from children and the public, who had access to it for years, so she can bond and make videos of nature and all its benefits but those benefits seem only for herself? No this is just her trying to compete with Meg and WLM and it s a very big failure!! Do some real work Can’t!!
Right? They took 150 acres of public land and closed down a children’s nature center. I need someone to remix these videos with those facts stamped on top of the AI drivel. Advocating for people to enjoy nature while land-grabbing nature from the public. That’s what should be remembered.
This is childish and embarrasing to watch. Is she seriously showing off how she has all the time in the world to frolic through her vast estate closed off from the public and become one with nay-cha??? How relatable. In the summer video at least she was showing other people, communities and you could file it under VisitUK.com or something.
Kate seems sad, lost, with no friends. The video is giving Diana Taj Mahal vibes.
Yes! Watching this, I thought, oh dear, Kate is alone way too much.
Lordy, I can’t bring myself to watch the video. Maybe later. I will say that I’m a sucker for that style of hat but I very much concede that is likely a me thing. The whole idea of a video series celebrating the seasons is bizarre. Money was spent on this. Wild.
Okay, I watched it without sound. Kate is on a solitary winter walk gazing at the moon. It looks cold. But no warm gloves for her on this winter walk. Instead she dips her hand, with her ring displayed prominently, into what looks like a frigidly cold stream. There’s some more walking and gazing. The end. Okay. Sorry, I’m laughing.
If you look up the word dull and boring in the dictionary I bet there is a picture of Can’t out in the wilderness in those word descriptions lol.
ITA on the depiction of Naycha Can’t for dictionary definition of “dull and boring.”
Turning off the sound is a tolerable option, as is watching it at 2x. I always have to turn on subtitles to figure out what she’s trying to posh out of her mouth, but then I have to see weird stuff like, “Even in the coldest darkest season winter has a way of bringing us stillness.” WTF? Does cold and dark usually engender bustle, disruption and noise?
Oh well. Good to know Brits are happy to £upport this blather. I hear it’s great at promoting UK tourism
I’m a fan of that hat on women with shorter hair, like a cute 1920s bob. With a yard’s worth of fake hair tumbling out the back, it just looks sloppy and terrible!
It hasn’t landed with the public at all. I have never seen it referenced outside of the royal media. No one knows what to do with it, even royalists. And if this tripe is what Kate considers deeply personal, she is as deep as a puddle.
The problem is that she probably counted this as work. That what gets me, the amount of public money this lazy woman gets and this shows that she’s as deep as a puddle.
Which sections of the public has this landed well with other than die hard Kate fans? I’m British and I’ve never heard anyone mention these videos! The Royalist yet living in fantasy land!
It must be the bots it’s landed with.
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@JAIS, couldn’t agree more!
The audacity to preach about getting out into “naycha” when you’ve stolen 150 acres of said “naycha” from the people you’re trying to con, I mean persuade, is breathtaking in its arrogance.
What a thick skin Kate-the-not-so-great actually has.
This video says: you should all find your 150 acres of peace and quiet and frolic in it whenever you are not working, doing chores, taking care of kids and elderly relatives and someone runs your errands for you. It’ll be lovely, look at me completely healed 🧚♀️🤸♂️
It seems so extra tone deaf to have all these wide angle shots of Kate walking in this massive area of “nay cha,” completely alone, not another soul around, after all of the backlash about them stealing 150 acres of public parkland. The fact that she’s able to get drone shots of an entire stream/river running through wherever she is, and there is no sign of life at all, besides her, is egregious. It’s like rubbing salt in the wounds of all of those people who just lost access to this very same land, just so that “Princess Kate” can solemnly recite AI slop about the natural world at winter and how it’s especially healing and special for healed, special, special her!
“Hey peasants, check out my new backyard! Yeah, it’s large enough to have a full on ‘hunting party or yore’ in, but I just use it to solemnly walk around, alone and isolated (expect for my camera crew, natch!), ruminating on my “baby witch 101” understanding of how the seasons can be spiritual. 🙄
I don’t understand any of this. What is the purpose of these, what is she saying? If I had to repeat her message to someone else, I couldn’t do it. What a “royal “ waste of time and money. I think there’s something wrong with her.
Exactly….if i had to explain these videos to someone, the only thing I could say would be “well there are some pretty shots of nature but they all kind of look the same season to season bc of the filter they use for the videos and that’s about it.”
I know! This one didn’t look appreciably different from that first one, Spring! That one looked cold as all get out, too!
Kate: Nature is mine, Meghan!
Oh dear ..this is dull as ditchwater . David Attenborough must be in anguish ..there are so many wonderful programmes by people who know what they are talking about. On woods and gardens and wildlife ..I watch them all. Recently revisited the beautiful series made about Edith Holden and her exquisite Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady . Charles must be flinching at the way this idiot woman blithers on ..he knows his naycha , his Highgrove gardens are lovely. Such an embarrassment.. an empty vessel who knows zilch about art , music ,literature or the beautiful country she is supposed to represent . There should be a royal decree to shut her up
Good point… Charles loves naycha too. Strange that he and Kate never teamed up to do naycha events. Doubt there is much of a relationship there anyway.
Gardens are not ‘nature’, they are created by human beings. Nothing natural about them.
@Bethany – agree. Imagine one of the European female royals, or the late Princess Diana, churning out similar: what would people say? The words as well as the optics scream that something is worryingly wrong with her.
One of the things I find especially kind of weird about these videos, is that they don’t even rely on the trope of showing animals doing their seasonal, animal things…. It’s always just Kate. Kate, Kate, Kate. Kate talking about Kate
These videos are so….blah. I can see my 5th grader making a similar one for a class project. There’s nothing special about them. And they’re absolutely pointless. Seriously….what is the point of them?? Besides making Kate seem like she’s working?
Something I do want to point out though is that the other videos were all released farther into the seasons – I can’t remember for spring but I think it was early June; the summer video was mid August (my guess is it was meant to be later but then Meghan got active again), and the fall video was November 15 (I just checked.) If she was following that pattern this video would have been released early to mid February. But she released it on her birthday I guess to ensure that it got talked about and that people noticed it? So people could talk about how selfless she is to make her birthday about NATURE and not about her? It just screams insecurity to me.
Well, according to the Express, H&M made “cruel attempts to ruin Princess Kate’s birthday” by the widespread publicity around yesterday’s book event with Gayle King. Which as it happens, was not in the news on Kates’s birthday – but I guess yesterday was close enough for a headline. And close enough that in the usual Wales’ fashion, Kate needed something to try to one up H&M/ride their coattails/make sure they look at ME, whatever.
I myself have a perfect record – have watched exactly none of these silly attempts at, I don’t even know what.
LOL, this was actually the only one I’ve watched the entire way through bc it seemed a lot shorter than the other ones.
One thing I don’t get about these (not just one but this one thing lol) is that she could use these to promote tourism in the UK. “you might think winter is a dark and dreary time, but visit X lake in X county and see the beauty of frozen water and go sledding in the nearby park. Visit X town for their annual winter festival every January.” or something, I dont know – I’m not saying to make it an advertisement, but it could certainly be something more than just Kate wandering around looking pensive.
I’m astonished that she didn’t include her favorite winter activity: ski vacations! Someone must be reading the room 😅
I’m not sure about reading the room. Trains and flights are cancelled, schools closed, power outage due to storm goretti and we get a video about the stillness and quietness of the winter. Ok….
The 4 videos are so dull. Now a ski video for winter would have been so much fun 😆
Since I’m not from the uk, I had to look up storm goretti. So they released the Mother Nature winter video during “a multi-hazard event with exceptionally strong winds, heavy snowfall, and significant rainfall.” LOL. Ok…..is right. But, it’s her birthday! Time to be like Kate and appreciate winter, damnit! Ignore the hazards and take a winter walk, people. Without warm gloves.
A current headline from the BBC reads: “How do we get our roof back?’: Residents face Storm Goretti damage as many still without power”
Yep, perfect timing for a celebrating winter video, LOL.
What an exercise in narcissism, and in continually reminding us about cancer. At least she showed up for some shots in this one, so nobody can say it was 100% her team and AI like it seemed for some of the others.
Next up, days of the week?
Ha! 🤣
“Days of the week” !!! 😂😂😂
But this whole “seasons” thing, and the super shallow way that she’s doing it, and presenting each season, is just so very pre-school/kindergarten!
What’s next? The calendar we all made in first grade in the Midwest, United States, where we had to color a page for each month? “January is snowy and there is New Year’s Day!” “March is St. Patrick’s Day….even though we’re not Irish or Catholic…” “August is a beach holiday, even though most of us have never been to a beach.” “September is Back to School, even though school always stated in August…” “December is Christmas….we’ve all drawn a fireplace for Santa to come down even though none of us actually have a fireplace in our home….”
That’s what Kate’s “seasons” videos give me: “show me the most obvious, most basically ‘historic, cultural, out-dated ideas’ that each season traditionally brings up for those wealthy enough to have enough time to even notice and contemplate how nature changes thru the seasons…”
For most people, there is no “rest and rejuvenation,” during the winter. There is no “sudden burst of inspiration” in Spring that calls us to “create something new.” There is no “quiet winding down of, finishing, and putting to rest, our lofty idea of the summer” once we get into Autumn.
Imagine being this coddled…
The bar is so low for her, it’s like we’re all being gaslit into kissing her ass, and anyone who says otherwise is a mean bully. She’s been milking this cancer thing for years now and honestly it’s exhausting. If it wasn’t that it would be about how she’s suffering with something else, taking it easy, recovering, wintering, something else that gets her off doing anything at all. She didn’t do anything before the cancer and doesn’t do anything now – what difference does it make? She is treated like a delicate paper flower that must be praised for even bothering to grace us with her presence. We, the UK taxpayer, pay for all of this. It’s beyond a joke.
I’m sure Kate feels that us peasants are ever so lucky to have her on hand to tell us what season we’re in and how we should react to water and trees.
So no photo or video from William & the kids wishing her a happy birthday? Instead we get a montage of her frolicking in the woods, again. Geez, they are leaving this woman out in the cold. Literally.
I didn’t really watch the video, just listened and man, that accent and voice. What is she trying to do here?? Second hand embarrassment is right.
The royal reporters got from this latest video that Kate says she’s grateful to be alive. But she doesn’t really say that. The script for this video is not good.
They translate for her the way the American press translates for trump, in that they create their own narrative completely unconnected to what was actually said.
This latest video from the “Royal Influencer” is cringeworthy. I also watched it without sound because I can’t stand the sound of her voice. One thing that stuck me though, the video makes her look so alone, and lonely.
It is an odd image to project on your own birthday! Particularly when you have a husband & kids who presumably love you, and a mother who was there for you from Day 1.
I watched the video and I just do not understand what is happening
If Meghan had made these videos the royal rota would be screeching over how cringe they are. Let’s call a spade a spade here
I’m not sure what to say about this, either. It’s not very coherent as a message or as a photo montage – it’s not even particularly emotive, unless the emotion is “What?”
@Eurydice this is one of those occasions when I would LOVE to know what Camz said to Chuck about this video? At least Chuck has resisted the temptation so far to take a walk in a forest, pick mushrooms, and maybe sing about I talk to the press a la Clint Eastwood in Paint your wagon!
Omg, I’m screeeeeeaming!!
And isn’t that the scene where Clint, while singing, walks on top a fallen tree trunk – a la William trying to balance on a log while wearing a harness, crash helmet and surrounded by helpers.
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That is a very deep cut, Lady Digby! Brava. I will also now have that song in my head all day. 🙂
Yes. That’s where Squint is singing while wandering through the Ponderosas and walks on a fallen tree trunk. Personally enjoy what Tommy and Dick Smothers do to this song, one of the best takeoffs was on the Judy Garland show.
🎼 I talk to the trees,
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me
The breeze hasn’t time…🎵 then Tommy stops…
I would love to go for a late-night solo stroll, but like the vast majority of people, I don’t have private land with a security perimeter and a security detail with me.
God, what a useless woman. Is she not ashamed of having the world see what a simpleton she is?
Just WTF was that? Reading small texts created by AI and assembling them one after another like this confirms that AI makes no fcking sense sometimes. So so cringe.
The ring has the purpose of identifying her because there are no close ups.
She is her ring. She identifies as ring.
She is also quite passively very aggressive in this video, wearing the boy cap she knows very well we all hate, fan or not: that gives me high melania vibes like the “I really don’t care, do u?” A subtle statement that she will do it her way, forge her own path, with a boy cap. Fashion style icon, right there.
🤷♀️ I have a wool cap like that. I like it in winter because it keeps my head warm but shades my eyes.
That cap was debuted by P Anne back in the ’60s or ’70s, and worn religiously since. KM sucking up to the fearsome Anne, or trying to one-up her?
She has copied the style and tone of Jonna Jinton, who has loyal fan base and over 5 million subscribers.
What a strange video to release to the public! From the sad, plinky piano to the way her outfit makes her melt into the scenery, all this says to me is: Kate is sad, cold, and alone. Cold, like the metal of her huge, awful ring that she’d like to drop into the stream.
If they were going for inspirational, they failed.
What a load of codswallop… I am not sure that is a word used beyond England, but basically you get my drift. And no, this has not gone down well in the UK – no one who doesn’t follow the royal channels ( or us here) knows anything about this worthless series.
Something is so off and weird about what a happening with Kate. They struggle to acknowledge her birthday or Mother’s Day and sometimes their anniversary every year but will make a big deal for William on his days. I don’t think they’ve missed any of his bdays/Father’s Day but they always skip one or both for Kate. Anyone else notice? I guarantee they aren’t getting along behind the scenes or someone doesn’t like her on staff. This has been consistent for a few years now.
Also love how tom is clearly lying about the UK public liking her videos. She’s actually been criticized the most for doing these. That alone should let you know about his credibility
“…But it is also a story about the power of nature and creativity in collective healing.” As an editor, if a writer submitted this in an article, that sentence would be so marked-up in red pen that you wouldn’t be able to see the words. Winter is a “story”? What is “collective healing?” Where is the “creativity” in walking in nature? Is the creativity in the room with us? Because all I’m reading is filler copy. It reads like what high school/college students use to pad their essays to hit minimum word count. I’m embarrassed for them that with the access she has to money, experts, PR people, etc. that this is the best they can come up with. Talk about failing up.
I think it was best they could do given the direction they received – which seems to have been “Nature is good and make it all about me.”
one nice thing-her wiglet is a great colour in the header photo.
Spitting Image would have an absolute ball with these videos.
Voiceover: David Attenborough-style
Winter…the annual migration of this Middleton family and their offspring to warmer climates will take all their energy. Their flight to Barbados alone, will be a gruelling challenge, before the final leg to the Grenadines, where their instinctive radar will direct them to Basil’s Bar, where others of their kind are already waiting, with their whooping call of recognition. .
But the challenges will not stop there for this plucky troupe.
AwaitIng these creatures just weeks later…another big push, this time to the summit of some of the highest mountains in the Alps. Who knows why they are urged to make this mission every year, before returning to their natural habitat in Spring, where the matriarch will bizarrely source Easter baskets from other birds to feather her own nest.
You should be a comedy script writer, if you aren’t already, fabulous just fabulous. 😂
Thank you for brightening my evening!
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Brilliant!
Totally off the wall comment, but—don’t most people who stand at the edge of a river or creek look down at the water & not up at the sky? Or is that just me?
KM was looking up for the drone swooping in to photograph her.
She stole her look this time from Keira Knightley’s character in “Love Actually,” newsboy cap and all.
Instead of spending the year vaguely talking about the benefits of nature, I wished she had used her time, energy and money on a series of videos highlighting free and accessible national parks. Her projects are pointless and forgettable.
Oof! That whole dippy little clip is so uninspiring, so cliche, its ridiculous. It’s worse than a snooze fest, more like an energy vampire, trying to steal your lifeforce. LMAO! It looks like they used AI to create her too, like it isn’t a real person. Anyone who thinks this is something special needs to get out more. And may I add that I hate those newsboy caps with the heat of a thousand suns.