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.

Blusher really? If you're that shallow the Kardashian family will be right up your street

It’s a pity the adage ‘If you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything’ isn’t applied more frequently on here. The level of spite is awful

i think the word "spite" is used so much on MN because it's like being back at school. "spite" is such a juvenile insult.

The thread title is a question. People are answering it.

Anyone else feel Kate was born to be a royal?

(as a reminder)
My (fairly numerous as it happens) encounters with the landed gentry in general and the RF in particular is that they can be rude, kind, entertaining, hilarious, bonkers, well dressed, badly dressed, bland, and all the other things people are.

What does help is going to the right schools. You really do learn how to stand, sit, walk and talk (we had elocution lessons, deportment and even ballroom dancing for all the coming out parties we'd be going to. I was very popular at balls in the mess later on thanks to this).

What we want in a "royal" is for someone not to rock the boat. To be able to make endless small talk about boring things, smile and wave. That is it. They are not to have opinions, green hair, punk clothes or rock out to Iron Maiden in public. Frankly? In return for that lifestyle and never having to worry about a gas bill again? I'd do it.

So we'd only ever be able to post anything about people in the public eye if they were nice. What an exciting offering MN would have for sponors. A massive arse kissing contest, mixed with tumbleweed.

Have to ask why you're on this thread then 😂

I think she takes it seriously yes as she should, having married in. I like her though.
I think it's interesting, I feel she is an example of the quiet confidence that comes from having a supportive loving family behind you. The best thing she can do for the rf is give her dc the exact same love, stability and support she had.
I left my days dad so I know life gets in the way of best intentions, but I chose a shit man because my family invalidated me from.the day I was born.

Technically, unless they are one of the very few who hold peerages in their own right, even female aristocrats are 'commoners' since their titles are courtesy titles only. Same with the royals. The court papers listed Princess Anne as a 'commoner' when she got done for speeding. The only one who was not a commoner was the late queen herself.

Because it's showing up on the trending threads. And because the handover of monarch makes discussion of the value and worth of this family to the nation currently topical.

She was groomed for the role by her Mum or so I read. Put into positions in terms on education and activities so that she would have the opportunity to marry a royal. Didn’t she cancel her place at university last minute so that she could have a gap year to travel where William would be, thus ensuring they met

Well they're working then not doing good works

Pa Middleton is from a very wealthy background going back generations

He is NOT self made - Carol - yes absolutely

Nope. Nobody is born to do any role. They become adept at it over time.

Fgs stop fawning over extremely wealthy and privileged strangers.

Because the title asks "anyone else feel Kate was born to be a royal". I didn't realise the only answer available was "yes" so I gave mine and the reasons why I think that way. Perhaps you could go through all the threads and instruct me as to how I should answer.

I think her mother very much wanted her to be one.

Ignore green eyes posts

I like her.
I find her quite fascinating actually.

Look at the Queen. It would have been easy to label the queen as boring/in an easy job in her early years. Look how so many now realise how they valued her many years of unwavering, predictable, easily recognisable and unbiased appearances. ''Always the same'', ''always there'', ''never shocking or unexpected''.

The fact that Catherine makes the job look easy and that she must be boring, means she's dong it very well IMO.

What I described was AIDS charity work and clearing landmines and explosive ordnance from conflict afflicted zone. Nothing else, I don’t know or care enough about Diana to bring anything else to the discussion. I’m not interested in the royal family and am too young to remember Diana but even I know her passion for those charities. If you have to be so dull you can’t even passionately champion charities to be a royal then what’s even the point. As I said in another post, might as well replace them with cardboard and save some money. And the Queen was far from controversy free.

She was trained from birth to marry up, just like her mum did.

I think she was known as Middlebum at school because of her flashing. There's so many pics of her with William that show her backside that I can't help but think she was doing it deliberately. She doesn't look like she's wearing knickers in any of them.

Did she not copy William in having a gap year so she'd fall into his path by starting at the same time?

Her ambitions seem to have been marry up, marry William, become Queen and give birth to a King or Queen.

She's succeeded with all but one. And William's affair or any future affairs aren't going to get in the way of her achieving her last goal.

Yes this!
there was a glint. A sparkle.
I think from hearing there was a certain dry wit too. And an ability to be very subtle but certainly make certain opinions she had known.
she did this very well for example in timed announcement during lockdown.
and the smile,things she said about her husband.little witisms in speeches.
listejing to stories from those that DID know her she seemed a right cheeky one.

She also seems to have no friends. Her entire circle is her husband and children and her sister and mum

I like the "seems" in that, Shirley
Certainly it can look like this on the face of things, but if Kate chooses friends and staff who share her own level of discretion I can quite see that we'll never hear who goes in and out of their homes

Agree with this. Deliberate strategy and it paid off.

Her old boyfriend in St Andrews Rupert Finch is extremely handsome, he went onto become a top lawyer in the city. Had they stayed together she would have had a very privileged life anyways. He attended W&K's wedding & Rupert married a very beautiful aristocrat! Thank you daily mail!

The fact that Catherine makes the job look easy

Getting in and out of cars, wearing dresses and tiaras, smiling for the cameras, sitting with a Duchess slant, not getting her tights laddered. What is this difficult job that she makes look easy?

What isn't easy, and i will grant her this, is not snapping at people who are shouting at you, or who put inkwells where you least expect them (on a desk where a document is to be signed in ink, for example) but even if she did snap, she would be forgiven because it is so hard.

Yes, i am not a monarchist. So sue me. But this constant narrative of how hard it is - bite me, to be frank. It isn't hard.

@Brightstar12 I agree with you, even if I had met pw and even if I were beautiful, I wouldn't have felt enough.

What I admire about Kate, I think other people see as "beige" but it takes real resilience not to care what the public thinks of you in a way that would depress you and deplete you, but to still have the self awareness to adapt and evolve in to the role.

I know from having failed to do it, that it takes such self-control not to offend somebody at something with your reasonable opinions!

It takes a strong sense of yourself to hold back on educating others with your correct opinions!

So yeh, for the joke, I sometimes ask myself, how would kate react to this? And she'd respond as the bigger person in the situation no doubt!!

I do in serious have people in my circle of acquaintance and I might ask myself "how would síle handle this?" How would elle respond to being given the silent treatment? It helps.

I agree. Kate is perfect. Has never put a foot wrong. No ex boyfriends that we know of. Respectable family.

Not flakey, not opinionated. Complete harmless and nost importantly for her role, she’s thin and photogenic.