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.

@LondonWolf The skinny comments were probably expressing concern about her health, though, rather than attacking her husband, family and children.

It's quite shocking how these fairytales take hold, and people believe them.

Charles was not prevented from marrying Camilla, but he was sent off on his ship whilst in the Navy, and Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles - who was the man she loved most at the time.

And Margaret grew up in the two years she and Townsend were apart, and decided that ultimately he wasn't worth sacrificing her position in the Royal Family for.

Choices they made.

This.
She's as much of an actress as Meghan is, whilst also looking tense and not particularly happy at all. Whilst Meghan glows from within and has the good fortune to be able to escape soon

But how? That circle is notoriously impossible to break into if you're not aristocratic... New money is sneered at..

And the "clearly very happy" trope - I thought that the narrative had changed COMPLETELY... obviously it depends what we believe or have read - but it seems that all is definitely not well in the marriage

Vile gossip - which has been acknowledged as such.

Is that the best you have to offer?

I didn't suggest they were though .

But how? That circle is notoriously impossible to break into if you're not aristocratic... New money is sneered at..

Good point.

Bitchy comment I know, but I don't think Meghan is a great actress, because it's always so obvious she's acting.

How is this possibly bile. I am just pointing out that the OP's imaginary story of Kate's family background is false. I have said that it is because of Carole predominantly that the family are now very well off. I have also said there is nothing wrong with being working class and that being self made is something to be congratulated for. I have absolutely no idea how you can think any of this is bile

I admire the drive and dedication that enabled the Middletons to earn their wealth - being from a working class background is nothing to be ashamed of. They are lucky that they (apparently) had support from a family Trust for the children's education, but they should be credited for raising three seemingly delightful, happy and successful offspring.

I'm curious how a parent engineers their kid into any social circle when they're away at Uni, let alone one that's understandably tight and wary.

Well they can't. It's quite simple. It's just something to bash those Middletons with for getting ideas above their station.

Didn't K and W share a flat at St Andrews? She can't have been sneered at that much.

Making her change her course and university, making her wait around, they engineered the entire situation and made her the one that the RF wanted for him.
Even if Kate changed Uni and course in the hope of meeting Wills, the idea that her parents somehow knew above all others what William and his family would want, that they could force their daughter, far from home, to keep up this pretence of being the perfect future Queen long enough to wed and bed him, is ridiculous.

I think you're giving them too much credit as evil geniuses and quite rude about what shit parents they are

I'm with you - right until the last sentence.

The idea that anyone's getting ideas above their station for dating the anointed Windsors, or sneering at someone for having a modest background they can't help, tends to emit from a royalist position about social superiors and betters. It's anathema to Republicans like me who can't understand the genuflecting and fawning deference given to people who choose to style themselves 'Highness'. There's been some hideous snobbery directed at her mother in the past.

The Middleton parents, as well as Sophie, Meghan, Autumn Kelly, and Zara Philips, deserve all credit for the fact that they are, or were, independent, functional adults who can get on just fine in the normal, professional world. In this respect, the three Middleton children are a lot less admirable than their parents.

Pinkpeony2 · Today 11:44
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 mother went to a state school, and was an air hostess, then a secretary. One of her mothers great grandfathers waa a coal miner, the other a labourer.

Kate has been wonderful. Perhaps northern grit and northern down to earth qualities of her antecedents have helped make her the great person she is.

According to reports she's been pursing this life since she was a tween. Of course she was made for it - it was all she ever wanted in life.

How does a Tween pursue the life of marrying Prince William other than prancing around pretending to be a Princess?

Kate is Southern.

Even if Kate changed Uni and course in the hope of meeting Wills, the idea that her parents somehow knew above all others what William and his family would want, that they could force their daughter, far from home, to keep up this pretence of being the perfect future Queen long enough to wed and bed him, is ridiculous.

There are probably a load of women just like her with families who had similar aspirations. But, of course he didn’t end up with them. St Andrew’s experienced quite a jump in their applications.

There are probably a load of women just like her with families who had similar aspirations. But, of course he didn’t end up with them. St Andrew’s experienced quite a jump in their applications.

I'm not surprised. Had I had sharper elbows I'd have been scaling the walls of St Andrews

I pretty much agree with this.

I like her because she can stand back and be discreet when she needs to, can chat to people when she needs to, and she looks like she genuinely enjoys her role and loves her husband and children. They look like they relax and young too.

She understands the job and has a good all-round education, carries herself elegantly, is friendly and polite, well groomed. Ect. I am neither a monarchist nor a republican but I don't believe anybody is born to be anything. Circumstance and opportunities plus talent are what decide where we end up.

That's my take. She's handled everything very well.