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.

You need to be partly a doormat to be a royal and know you will never be able to be happy so yes she seems to fit well .

I think that she is a professional and hardworking and ethical person who would have been an asset working in any organisation.

She is well-suited to William because they appear to be steady people who want the things which hard work and self control can bring: family and a comfortable home. She gets the 'gig' of being Royal and has agreed to go along with its forms and its 'disciplines', I think is the word. She understands its limits too: she knows that valuing the volunteers of society who do their bit is a worthy purpose. She isn't seeking in any way to see if Royalty can be some sort of platform for saving the world. She is not at all egotistical in her conduct with the press. I think she has learnt her job from watching the Queen.

I think she understands that less is sometimes more: she isn't doing her style, or the couple's initiatives, in a flashy way. She understands the accumulator principle, that what you do properly, every day, meeting and thanking people, giving dignity to the performance of civic service, both yours and theirs, builds into a solid reality of collective good values. That is just what the Queen did. I believe that throughout the decades to come, we will cherish Catherine's contribution in the same way that we did Her Majesty's.

What utter tripe 🙄

Huh? She looks perfectly happy. She looks like she loves and gets on with her husband, who she knew for years before marrying. She has a strong, loving, supportive family behind her. She experienced, and dealt with, all the flack the media threw at her before she got married. She has her own young family. She lives in lovely accommodation, doesn’t have to worry about money, and seems capable and happy with the work she has to do. She’s rock steady and deals with royal life better than most previous aristocratic ladies have. I think she’s quite impressive personally.

Nope. This is a case of nurture over nature. I think both she and William are about 60years behind the times. Even Diana 1980s - 1990s seems more modern.

I agree that she’s impressive.

for sure she’s not a great public speaker - certainly not as good as Meghan - but the role is abouy much more than that. It’s about being a symbol of an historic institution. I’m actually very anti monarchy - but it’s here and it’s important to a lot of people - and I think Catherine fulfills the role very well and appropriately.

it is not appropriate for an unelected monarchy to preach social change and to be “leaders” in the way that Meghan and Harry are positioning themselves. The reason why the royal family has survived was because it stepped back from real political power.

i find it genuinely shocking that Meghan and Harry don’t have any apparent awareness of how undemocratic their aspirations to political leadership are. It genuinely shocks me.

You must have a different view to mine .
Because I deal with a lot of litigious divorces I tend to identify a look that most women married for a while on wealthy families carry around . She has that exact look , the “ I’m so trapped “ look . I also think she looks old for her age , she didn’t a few years ago but she carries a gloom to her .

To what does the "doors for departure " thing refer?

Catherine’s mother was cabin crew, her father worked for BA in operations/management. It’s what the pilot says to the cabin crew when the aircraft is being readied for disembarkation.

It’s a snide reference to the family being middle class and having to work for a living.

It’s “Doors to manual” though, not “Doors for departure”.

I'd be proud my parents had had jobs. What works twits that said this.
I think if k&w ever split she'd be ok. She has her sister, close friends, she'd probably keep on a few charities as the mother of the future king. But I think they're well suited. She and her middle class family oh the horror are the reason william is more grounded. He is more supported. Emotionally and practically. He not only has his house at the Palace but he has a gang he can trust.

I agree.

Thank you, i never realized that.

It’s doors to manual/automatic for a Boeing, and doors to armed/disarmed for an airbus actually.

Yes, but I meant that “Doors to Manual” is the slur that is directed towards Ma Middleton and her family. I don’t think the assholes saying it are giving too much thought to which aircraft type she flew on!

Isn't born to be a royal if you're not born as a royal a bit of a contradiction? The whole point of being royal is being born to specific royal parents, which she wasn't. If it was a meritocracy, it wouldn't be royalty.

FFS this thread makes me think this country is loony and no one should complain about income equality when the whole country idolises such a privileged family who don't even pay inheritance tax like the rest of us peasants.

The media has been so successful at brainwashing the masses

Lucky to have her - WHY?! How does she improve your life or the life of anyone in britain??

What makes her impressive?

It's fucking nuts isn't it.

I think it's impressive that she's honed the Stepford wife role superbly. It's also a bit odd. I couldn't imagine carrying out that role for decades.

Could swap her for a wax work mannequin and I'd never notice

I’d love to see you try her role and see how well you did.

This!

I cannot understand the hero worshipping. She was a well off privileged young woman who had the benefit of an excellent education and has now married into a position where her role is to look pretty, keep silent and diet aggressively to stay very slim. There's nothing admirable about any of that.

What makes her impressive?

Her hair and her pronouncing of 'parents' and 'carers' pah-rents and cah-rers

She sounds more posh than the royals. I think it's time we wrote her a sycophantic poem 🤣