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

Exactly. She has no freedom whatsoever. She cannot do as she likes. She cannot say what she thinks. Poor cow, I feel sorry for her.

I wonder about that. I think you'd get that weird phenomenon where progressives can be quite passive when it comes to voting (hello Brexit!) and don't come out in QUITE their droves, but traditionalists will move heaven and earth to save their beloved monarchy and all vote to keep.

I also suspect lots of people who say they think the royal family is dreadful would suffer a pang of sentimentality at the idea of guillotining the lot of them. I mean voting them out. 👀

(I'm from a country with a certain degree of, shall we say, HISTORY with England, and wouldn't think twice about voting to get rid of them.)

I think she is good at what she does, so deserves respect for doing a great job

I disagree that anyone ^deserves^ respect.

I have zero to no respect for the 'Royal' fucked up family.

#princeofpegging on Twitter will give you all the gory details.

Should people only be admired for the "career" they have and not on the attributes that they possess ?

I like Catherine, Princess of Wales and think she’s great but nobody is anywhere near perfect. We all have our faults in one way or another.

She has done nothing except marry into the royal family. She has a 2.1 in Art History (sorry, but not the most exacting course!) and hasn't done a thing with it. She wears fairly inoffensive clothes chosen for her. Her greatest achievement appears to be staying skinny. BTW, Camilla looks great for her age, hardly "a bag of spanners" as someone said earlier. Her outfits are very nice and also probably chosen for her. She does need her teeth fixed.

Yes lets shoehorn in a bit of Meghan bashing even though its not the subject of the thread.

Not for me, she can probably only really relax behind closed doors. Also I think her eyes always look sad

I think she is good at what she does, so deserves respect for doing a great job.

There is not enough money in the universe for me to take a role where there is such high profile scrutiny of her outward being (looks, shape and style) and zero space or interest in her actual thoughts and opinions.

I really hope she continues to find it rewarding. It would not be for me.

I absolutely love her, but I definitely wouldn't trade places with her. Yes she 'has everything' but she also has pretty much no freedom at all and not very much privacy either.

@RaidcandleShe's done very well for herself. I will give her that.
I notice no one says similar things about Camilla though who is in the same role? Probably because she looks like a bag of spanners?

No, no, no, - you've got it all wrong !

The correct expression is "a face like a bag of spanners".

If I was going to be rude I would say she has a face like a bulldog licking p*ss off a nettle....😉

Even on the tv show The Windsors, she’s mocked for being so perfect and lovely 😆

It must be mentally draining to have to keep up the appearance of being so ‘perfect’. I wouldn’t be able to keep up that appearance. Either that or she has a core of iron.

I think she does her role well; and does look lovely when at functions. But I would attribute the word admirable to a women like Michelle Obama or JKR for example.

I'm not sure we have the same idea about what admirable means.

I’m sure she’s a nice person and wants to do terribly good things but really she’s signed up to a lifetime of being a puppet. And she’s being watched, every day. Surrounded by servants, secretaries, security and so on, every little bit if her life talked about. Definitely wouldn’t swap with her for any amount of money.

Don't you have any homework to do?

For some reason, people in this country want a king and queen and think it's a very important role. You can't say that and at the same time say that the woman who is the next queen doesn't have a real job

I'd love a referendum to test this theory out

Oh God not again....

She doesn't put a foot wrong but what an awful job to have. No freedom at all. no popping out for a coffee with friends, cycling to Waitrose and buying the shopping, going for a walk anywhere she wants.

Yes!

Go on Twitter and search #princeofpegging

😂😂

I'm wildly anti royal and have no opinion either way about KM, but I don't understand the "never had a proper job" thing, when like the majority of women she partially stopped working when her children were very young (as the smallest one still is, I think?), but quite demonstrably has a job - senior member of the royal family - with all the tedious duties it involves. It's probably comparable to shift work in some ways - they seem to have flurries of activity when they're at everything for a few weeks, then a couple of weeks off, then more activity or international travel.

There was a gap of about 4 or 5 years between graduation and getting married when she had a string of weird sort-of-but-not-really jobs, because she was being constantly hounded by the press and in a kind of limbo over William/preparing to join the family, so definitely a weird situation, but it feels like people still moan about it 10 years later.

For some reason, people in this country want a king and queen and think it's a very important role. You can't say that and at the same time say that the woman who is the next queen doesn't have a real job.

Admirable???

The RyanAir pegging meme had me in convulsions. And before you say 'small things amuse small minds' (touche), just take a look at the size of it!

I'd repost it here, but it's a bit risque and would probably result in a ban 😀