To not want a minute by minute account of Kate's pregnancy and little sympathy for her.

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She's rich, she has all the support in the world and will have no cooking, cleaning, vocational work or responsibilities. I really really really do not want to have daily updates on her condition or her pregnancy for the next nine months! It's so typical of everything she stands for that they have already announced she will have to be on rest for the foreseeable future. As opposed to doing what exactly??!

My best friend had HG and lost a stone in 8 days. She went to hospital and was told to pull her herself together as most women had morning sickness. No time off work, no help whatsoever.

Oh, and I called her Kate because everyone else did and I didn't want to be sneering and pedantic.

I wasn't being ironic when I called her Catherine.

"it does tend to push more newsworthy stories into the background."

Not on tonight's news it didn't. It was just a tiny incidental piece well down after the headlines.

"I can understand people being totally indifferent to Kate and William and their baby. I can understand people being irritated by the media coverage.
But I can't understand some of the really personal and spiteful comments being made about them and about Kate's family. Some of the posts on here sound very bitter."

I agree. There are far too many chips on shoulders on this thread. So they have more money and are more privileged than we do. So what. OH and I aren't rich either but we don't resent those that have a higher income than we do. Guess what - we are happy with our lot. It is so time consuming and negative to worry about others who appear to have a "better life". I am just a lowly commoner and had a high risk pregnancy, but I had excellent care throughout courtesy of the HS, and was lucky enough not to suffer at all from any kind of pregnancy sickness.

Those of you who are so bitter and hateful a) Get over yourselves b) Stop being so vitriolic and nasty.

I'm still laughing at a thread with a title of "not wanting a minute by minute account of Kate's pregnancy" running to 17 Pages

My mother is a huge fan of the royal family and she dosent follow Kate's movements half as well as some of you outraged posters.

Tis funny!

Bunbaker it's not especially thought through to say that the detractors like myself have chips. It's entirely possible that some us (myself for one) find the whole royal roadshow lost all vestige of credibility with the witchunt of Diana and the tampax tapes etc. And the repellant pr of Charles' lackeys, such as Nicholas Soames doing down Diana so publicly and going on prime time tv to call her a loon. Others may be more lofty and object to the monarchy on philosophical and political lines. It's not a question of chip, it's a question of questioning what their point is. And when an able bodied reasonably educated woman like Kate elects not to work for ten years so that she can 'be available' for william - in this day and age - some of us may wonder what the hell it is about these pointless people that we're supposed to revere.

I for one revere bugger all. It all seems a bit Bennety to me.

Do we 'follow'? It's more osmotic.

William calls her Kate. Ive seen news clips with him calling it her.

Yellowtip But why do you care? I don't.

This is another topic where the MN interest far outweighs anything I can see among RL peers. My mates just aren't interested

I've had time to read a bit more now, and I'm really surprised at some of you being so vitriolic towards people you don't know. Be anti-monarchy by all means, but don't make such unpleasant remarks when you have nothing other than hearsay to base them on.

FWIW I was at uni in St Andrews at the same time as the couple; they got their degrees on merit, not because it wasn't good pr for them to fail. So, yellowtip, they're not that stupid. My brother did the AAC course that Harry did and it was bloody hard work and requires quite some considerable brain power. I imagine the RAF training is similarly rigorous.

Nice introduction? Was this serious or (as I suspect )a p take ?

Those banging on about tax payers money - watch this:

soverylucky it's not to do with now, it's the utter lack of dignity and desperation of doing bugger whilst single for ten years whilst 'waiting' for William. Not a great role model at all.

Bunbaker I only care because there's an expectation (especially on MN) that one should fawn. Absurd. Why would one fawn to someone like Kate? Or to half of the others?

gwennie some graduates of St. A might have considerable brain power but others less so. My parents were both post war graduates of St. A; I know plenty of others.

Roffling at all the time people have spent arguing the toss on this thread when they supposedly aren't interested in the story!

Yellowtip, even if Kate didnt do much before she married him, I dont think she is going to have much choice about working until way into old age, long past you or your DH I expect.

Do you fawn or respect anyone?

Do you think you believe what you want to believe?

I appreciate I am late to this thread, so you dont need to answer me if you dont feel like it.

Why should a person have to work of they are in a financial position not to do so, because YOU don't like it?

How bizarre.

I have huge admiration and respect for a great many people amillionyears, just not Kate.

Oh come on Pickled, how lame for an able bodied girl to do absolutely zilch (not even charitable work) for nearly ten years. Please.

Maybe, just maybe, Kate/Catherine/The Duchess having HG will help bring it into the public eye more and we'll see more understanding of HG/severe "morning" sickness.

Tess I said the exact same thing on here on Monday night, and lets face it the media have been all over HG for 3 days now. So if just one woman gets better treatment from her GP/Hospital/Employer that will be a positive outcome.

But not as good an opportunity to give the DofC a damn good shoeing though right?

You have an almost unhealthy sounding dislike of this woman!

I'm getting scared.

I agree pickled! Its almost unhinged.

Oh don't be so absurd. I'm simply standing my ground in the face of abject fawning. If we're expected to bank roll and look up to the royals and those who marry in such as Kate, then they should at least have done something or be something to command respect. Ten years of idleness doesn't cut it that's all. It's not even personal; it's about the institution and the idiocy of fawning over very, very unexceptional people. I can't think of a single peer from university who just hung up their boots after graduating in order to 'be there' for a man. It really is impossibly weak. So I won't fawn. Simples.

Well I like Kate