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

Ultimate “cool girl”, no wonder she’s admired on here, totally laissez faire with hubby getting his kicks elsewhere.

It’s odd as she just shows how to live with extreme privilege and people look up to it

I wouldn’t actually get rid of the monarchy as there is some value in the tradition to me, I get this means someone has to front it but I don’t go along with the fawning. Especially when people talk about the dc, but also just a seemingly pleasant person whom they don’t know much about.

She is beautiful. She has lovely teeth. Sometimes I really think I’d like to kiss her

I think the women in Iran cutting off their hair and burning their hijabs are admirable, HTH.

And if I remember barely a critical word was said about her - some sort of MN Royal Family record. There is the wisdom of crowds going on here and Kate is fair game as a publically funded figure in our free-speech democratic country.

@sammylady37 not like I do she doesn't

I think she’s brilliant at the role which she has voluntarily accepted to fulfil. Her role does not ask of her to save people from burning buildings or cure cancer. She fulfils the brief and is a great role model for values many of us still uphold in a world where there are so many acceptable choices that it is impossible to criticise any one of them for fear of reprisal. It
is hard to see how she could improve.

She does not seem to have an off day or let slip anything unprofessional or untruthful. She achieves that perfect balance between warmth and professionalism which her role demands. She had put in many years of service with grace and always looks fantastic.

She is a very nice person who has a lot of good qualities.

I wouldn't swap my boring life with her for any amount of wealth or fancy clothing.

Imagine if she does something wrong in the future, it'll be a hard fall from grace.

I'd fucking love her waist measurement but the rest of it. No thank you.

You are naughty @beneathhereyes.
But you know there are days when Kate's parents must be rightly proud of her and how she fulfils the role expected of her and be proud too of their grandchildren.
I would be, tbh.

@PrincessScarlett
How do you know KM/PoW is a heavy smoker ?

@derxa

Nothing to do with “poor wee women” as you put it. It’s about strong women. Strong women need role models. There’s vast amounts of research on the importance of mentoring and support.

As for the PMs: I happen not to agree with their politics (particularly the present incumbent) but that in no way detracts from my respect for what they have achieved personally. Credit where it’s due and whether they are the “wrong sort” is irrelevant to this discussion.

To be fair her hand was also being held while this woman videoed the exchange and it could have become quite dangerous. King Charles would have been whisked through that crowd.

@Hitatiks
It was Princess Anne as she is still alive and there is a thread on Mumsnet praising her and the real interest she takes in the places she visits, the charities involved and the people she meets at them.

You need to “see it to be it”. You don't. I don't hold with this 'poor wee women' thing.
On the other hand we have had three women PMs. But they're the wrong sort so we'll dismiss them

Yes to both.

But you’re the one claiming she knows ‘all about’ the people she meets and speaks ‘appropriately and knowledgeably at all times’ so why would a response of hers be ‘careless’?

And the ubiquitous ‘oh you must be a Middleton/Meghan/Kate/her mam/a Tory/brown noser’ retort when someone dares to put forward a view that doesn’t comply with a lets bash a royal or whatever thread.

i agree with derxa

Only some on here aren’t happy unless they are pulling another mother apart. Be it Kate or Meghan or Camilla.

Because according to some posts on here that really
seems to be something to aspire to.

And as to the comment that said that this was ‘a failed PR attempt^ or similar?

We all know it was nothing of the sort. Just another goady bastard dog whistle thread to criticise someone folk don’t know from an egg.

Classy.

You trained for a profession and do it well but you go home at the end of the day and it's over

Incorrect, btw. I have an onerous on-call commitment which means that outside regular working hours I am available to work, receiving phonecalls and going to the hospital to review patients. This could be at any hour of the night. And is preceded by a regular day at work and followed by one, irrespective of how busy the night on call has been. And when I’m on for a weekend, I work a regular day on Friday, then am on call round the clock til 9am Monday and then do a regular day at work on Monday.

Seeing as you were making comparisons between us, do you think Kate is often woken at night and expected to leave her bed and attend work for hours in the middle of the night, making critical decisions about people’s health and lives while tired and sleep-deprived?

I wouldn’t call what happened in Belfast being ‘harangued’, I’d call it someone expressing an opinion which has its merits. She has been hailed here for how she ‘handled’ the situation, but all she did was smile and continue on her way. Hardly the height of diplomacy or grace. Do you live on the island of Ireland? Do you understand the repercussions of careless words?

Agreed with the piss take - or it's an MNHQ intern thread starter to keep the boards humming. Either way, it's working...

@derxa

Her great grandmother in law was Head of State for 70 years.
This role model thing does my head in. Why do people need role models? Set a goal and get on with it.

Two things:

You need to “see it to be it”. Women need role models precisely because historically there have been so few women in positions of power or even control. It’s very hard to believe you can achieve something if other people who seem like you can’t do it.

Theres nothing intrinsically wrong with what Kate does but achieving what you have achieved only through marriage and childbirth hardly sends a signal to women that they can be independently successful.

Besides, the reason people are responding to the idea of her being a role model is precisely because the OP set this up by starting this thread.

Well that's the system we've got at the moment and Kate has chosen the role of future queen. That's it. I never said she was anything like the OP said (which was a bit of a piss take imo)

Knowing all about them and speaking appropriately and knowledgably at all times

She knows precious little about most/all of the people she meets on her walkabouts. She certainly doesn’t know ‘all about’ the more high profile people she meets, and what she does know about them will have been researched and presented to her by staff.
’Speaking appropriately and knowledgably at all times’ seems to consist of a lot of inane pleasantries such as ‘hello, lovely to see you, oh hello, how nice to see you’. Any speeches she gives will have been researched and written by others.

I wouldn’t call what happened in Belfast being ‘harangued’, I’d call it someone expressing an opinion which has its merits. She has been hailed here for how she ‘handled’ the situation, but all she did was smile and continue on her way. Hardly the height of diplomacy or grace.

She and her children have police protection because their lives are in danger. Lots of others live in danger without such protection.

Yes, I’m aware she’s ‘literally going to be Queen’, I’m really not sure why you felt it necessary to state the very obvious. I find it baffling that people think it’s appropriate someone hold such a position (or indeed any position) purely because of who their spouse is. Meritocracy would be much better than the current system of mediocrity.

But I do not think her current role is of much value, is an essential role or would be a significant loss if abolished. You, of course, will disagree, as you are entitled to.

"She's literally going to be Queen."

So what? That doesn't make someone lucky or admirable. I don't think anyone should be queen or king.

This role model thing does my head in. Why do people need role models?

I agree, but that's partly why the comments in this thread about her being a role model, admirable etc are daft in themselves.