Anyone else feel Kate was born to be a royal?

[Brightstar12]

Watching the Queen's coverage all week & Kate looks like she was born for the role. (Also please don't turn this into a Meghan bashing thread, Meghan is equally beautiful & elegant but has chosen to be a non working royal which is why this thread is about Kate).
Even looking back at old school photos she looked so poised & elegant. She had an idyllic childhood, supportive parents & is doing a wonderful job in her new role.

Yes, I think Kate and William are fabulous. Gorgeous children too.

They are a fab family. I just feel Kate has been primed for this from birth if that makes sense. She just seems to instinctively know what to do, gets on with her role & never puts a foot wrong. Good job Carole & Michael!

the trouble with saying that is that it makes it sound like she set out to marry a prince.
she wasn't born royal.

She gets it. She knows what's expected and that's what she does.

She has had 20 years to get used to it though - as Prince William said in his statement a few days ago.

The couple were together for a very long time before they married. I think they even split temporarily. Clearly she had plenty of time to figure out what would be expected of her and really think it through. Good for her.

@Samcro no I don't think she set out to marry one but I do think she was brought up in such a way that she would fit in anywhere & with anyone. She was obviously very middle class but I don't know many middle class women so suited to the role.
I do think her parents should be given credit, they must be awfully proud of their three children.
The eyes of the world are on the U. K & the duchess is doing us all proud as are the rest of the royal family (obviously barring Andrew.. however he should be allowed grieve for his mother)

Yeah I agree we are lucky to have her.

Even if she did set out to marry a Prince she's certainly proving it was a great idea and taking it very seriously.

Yes, she is more royal than the royals!
I think being tall and slim helps.
I luff her.

She wasn't naturally born like that, ots years of training. No doubt etiquette classes, elocution lessons etc. I think if most of us had that we could be like that too

She's just very reliable, she gets the role & gets it right. I bet she's a wonderful, fun mum with the three kids. I've never met her or seen her but she's doing us proud this week.

I think she's utterly fabulous, I love her!

I don't know if I agree with that. I think her parents were highly invested in her, Pippa & James. They went to the best schools, had the best of sports equipment, played every sport under the sun & had a very middle class life. However they weren't aristocratic.

No

I just think she has proved her worth again this week. I should have called the thread "the Kate appreciation thread"!

I remember reading she swapped to St. Andrews. Was that to get in the right circles?

She does seem inordinately happy to be seen and not heard 🤷🏻‍♀️

She wasn’t born to be a royal no. Of course not.
She was born into a very wealthy family who’s wealth is old money and stretches back.
Her family are upper middle class and that also stretches back through previous generations.
Her family were wealthy enough to have the right family connections before she was even born, and then gave her the right opportunities.
She must have the right temperament too and how she conducts herself attracted William who will have been extremely well trained in who to involve in a serious relationship.
Once in the serious relationship she has been heavily trained and prepared and alongside that she has the temperament and personality which slots right in to the royal machine.
I love the phrase she is more royal than the royals 🤣
She seems like William to me in the female form! Can’t imagine a better match and I just love the fact she wasn’t born into royalty. It’s all learned and performed.

She’s definitely good at the job. I agree with the pp who said we are lucky to have her.

Yep, being beige in human form helps. So inoffensive it's almost offensive.

She wasn't born to be royal, but she was certainly born into a family with expectations for their children.
And there's nowt wrong with that.

There's clearly a lot of work goes on regarding her appearance and articles suggesting subtle surgery and tweaks abound. Nowt wrong with that either if she chooses to do it, though the question will always be whether she did it for herself or for her image.

She does the job well. As do the vast majority of the RF.

@Pinkpeony2 i think that's a very important point that you mentioned above. They were a very middle class family with generations of wealth. When they got engaged she was called a commoner which made her seem like a normal joe bloggs when the reality was anything but!

Well she's as bland as the rest of them so I suppose so.

Isn't the expression 'born to be a royal' more that she's doing a good job of it now she's doing it rather than the literal sense? Like when you say someone is 'born to be a pianist' or 'born to be an F1 driver' etc because they have certain attributes that make them a good at it?