To think Kate/Catherine, Princess of Wales, is one of the luckiest and most admirable women alive?!

Blimey, that takes me back we did , didn't we? I had a whole family of pegs. Tempted to order some.

I agree with the others- I am not a fan of the Royal family at all, but I think she does a good job.

I wouldn't swap lives with her- no.
It is easy to see all the glamourous bits, designer dresses, travel, fancy functions, but I can imagine there is a great deal of pressure, little privacy- a bit of a caged existence.

AND you could draw little faces on them and dress them up like ladies.

She's not a future "Queen Consort", she's a future Queen.

Camilla has a special title because of her status as a divorcee. Catherine will be called 'Queen' as the wife of the King.

When pegging first appeared as a 'thing' I had to look it up and I'm pretty broad-minded. I prefer the old-fashioned wooden ones myself. The ones my mum had lasted for years and did a great job.

She’s very good looking, wealthy, has a good figure and wears lovely clothes

I've seen better looking women, she hasn't earned her wealth, she's far too thin, her clothes are ok but nothing special.

Lucky? Only in so much as she married into the RF (if that's what anyone would consider "luck"), admirable? Not really.

Ref the eyes, Kate might be happier if she didn't loathe William, which she evidently does. Still, the divorce won't happen anytime soon and meanwhile he continues to play away with impunity. She seems to find it hard to watch Meghan and Harry happy together - what a contrast.

'Unlike a diamond, I can’t find any flaws in Catherine, Princess of Wales; she comes across as too perfect to fault! She has it all and more.'

Jesus Carol calm down 😂

Ahhhh I'd been waiting for today's Kate thread, today's topic "just how bright can the sunshine out her arse?" answer: "very". Maybe she should be progressed to saint??? The women is practically a god.

BUT.... my husband is way hotter, has hair and I don't have a mumsnet thread about me everyday or indeed 50,000 articles written about me because of the way i stood or looked. I also have a decent career I have been able to pursue as well as having 3 fab children slightly younger than kates. She never had a career, she married and reproduced and never worked again (shaking hands isnt a job). Despite her saintly credentials and the money (she can get her hands on, it isn't her money) and her ability to move to a bigger house by simply seeing what they've got in stock, she really isn't anything to aspire to or admire.

I'd love her figure though. I've been out of shape too long myself , but then they have pools and gyms and space to jog etc
Without having to share !

I hope kate has security because you sound like a bunny boiler.

Also she is simply Catherine 'Princess of Wales' married to Prince William 'Prince of Wales', this is simply a femininsation of her husbands standing in line to the throne she is NOT a princess herself and neither was Diana... to be a princess you have to be born of the monarch not married into the family.

I don't get the impression she has much of an opinion on anything.
She is very bright and educated , but I bet trying to have a political debate with her would be hard going! She's probably happiest talking babies and fashion and her charity work and her family rather than anything too controversial.
Meghan would be far more engaged about world events I think.
I'll never meet them , so I'll never know!

Must we body shame others?

Her role though isn’t that taxing really. Turn up, look good, maybe a few words to others, look the right mood for the occasion

It gets billed to be a lot more for some reason. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t say much so becomes a blank canvas

Her looks and being unruffled seem to be the main reason people like her so much

Meghan every time - waity Katie is the epitome of dull and duller.

I'm not sure whether marrying someone "of status" is to be admired, any more than being born into that family is.

I suppose it's an easy life, in most ways, but I find the whole thing pretty pointless.

I admire people who are where they are because of intelligence or sone sort of genius - she's neither.🤔

Honestly I think she’s far too thin.

Hi Kate? Kids ok? 😂

Your views on the role of women are anachronistic (i.e. they belong to a different era). I’m struggling to believe your comment is sincere OP.

I agree with everything in the opening post except for her being lucky. She reminds me of the late queen. She’s faultless, really, because she’ll never express an opinion, and everyone will think they know her intimately, but no one, no one, really will. So she’ll be beloved.

She's very pretty but I would hate to be her.

She's the perfect Royal and seems like a lovely person and good mum and is very beautiful but ultimately she has married into money and has to tow the line so I can't say that is something to admire.

Admirable ? You need higher aspirations in life. She’s a Stepford wife with zero personality.

I feel she’s very fortunate

1. She got what she wanted and must have known what the role entailed
2. She has a fabulously paid job for life and doesn’t have to worry about anything much.
3. She was able to have the DC she wanted without the angst so many have about affordability, cost of childcare, coping with raising her children with little or no support while undertaking a stressful job.
4. The news media stressing the hard working nature of the job but it’s no where as hard physically as most low paid work available to women in this country or mentally for skilled workers such as health professionals.
5. She has family holidays at home and overseas that most could only dream of.
6. Paid help for the menial chores is available — it’s her choice just how much housework, etc she does. It is said she is a “ hands on mother” but I bet she wasn’t responsible for the grotty tasks etc. Who wouldn’t wish to play with their kids while someone else washed the dirty nappies, etc.
7. She has her place in history and enough people extolling her virtues to protect her from most of the nastiness of the anti- royalists.
8. Very few have the privileges granted to her that weren’t born to them - she just got lucky.
9. If very few of us would change places with her, that is irrelevant — this is the life she has opted for and so she can be considered fortunate

If her job is grinning inanely like a glazed eyed mannequin then she does it brilliantly. It seems everything is absolutely hilarious to her for some reason.
Seriously, what does she actually do that is admirable or worth respect? Nobody can say with a straight face she actually works hard.
She, by all accounts, attended the same Uni as William in order to bag herself a "prince" from day 1, puts up with his alleged affairs and does not have a personality of her own to speak of.
She's done her "job" of pumping out a few privileged sprogs to carry on the system for which she has been richly rewarded.
What an achievement.