Kate Middleton

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AIBU to find Kate Middleton really annoying ? It's probably just me but I find her so smug. Anyway feel much better for getting that off my chest !!!

I think people's patience will run out.

oh, we can only hope!

Is that the key to becoming a republic? The Queen consort aging like a normal human being?

Deuce take it, are we not capable of a more noble motivation than that?

Last year Beningborough Hall held an exhibition of royal portraits and there was one of "farmer" Charles feeding chickens in patent leather shoes. Who the fuck wears patent leather shoes to go out into chicken shit? Only a man with another man to clean them, that's who.

Oh, that's Prince C in the shoes. Not the chickens. Obvs.

Charles feeding chickens in patent leather shoes. Who the fuck wears patent leather shoes to go out into chicken shit? Only a man with another man to clean them, that's who.

Excellent observation!

Kate M is just bland.

I also don't understand the strong feelings one way or another about the Duchess.

As far as I can see, she doesn't do much mothering OR working. Does anyone on here really believe that she does nappies and nightfeeds?? She'll pack the children off to boarding school soon, and STILL claim that she can't work as she's a full-time mother, despite only seeing them in the school holidays.

As far as you can see? How would you see? And what claims has she made about not being able to work?

is there a tradition for royals sending small kids off to boarding school? Harry and William weren't boarders were they ?

I'm pretty sure they boarded at Eton.

Prince Charles was a boarder at Gordonstoun and apparently hated it.

But Charles and his sibs were prob the first generation of British royals to be educated at a school with other people.

There was a news clip about the little boy that drowned in the sea a few weeks ago...seconds later the next news clip was about Kate's new fringe. It was a defo FFS moment.

You have a story about a little boy growing and then seconds later they can switch to Kate Middleton's new FUCKING hairstyle and what her new Autum wardrobe is going to consist of. 'Good Morning Britain'. Are you taking the absolute piss?!

William and Harry both went to Wetherby
Andrew and Edward went to Gibbs - which was closely linked to what became Wetherby
They weekly boarded from age 8 : common among Jet Set parents after all!

But then if Kate went out looking like this then we'd all be laughing at her.

Poor woman. I would say that we've all done it, but to be honest, I haven't.

But instead, we have THIS to look forward to.... HRH King William V and Queen Catherine.

Might be rather restful after Charles III. I have high hopes he'll be as pivotal in the history of the monarchy as his namesakes.

Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are the most popular dog in Britain, according to Wikipedia. So it must be true.

Gosh doesn't William look like Prince Andrew in that picture!

And I think people are terribly harsh and unfair about the "Kate following William to St Andrews " thing.

I really thought I read that his choice of Uni was changed at the last minute (I remember that at the time) so there was no chance of people applying just to be there with him.

But, supposing I am wrong, or that Kate had met him beforehand and was privy to his secret plans . . . why does that mean she was trying to marry him? I expect she met him, liked him, fancied him, talked about Uni plans with him and thought "Wow, wouldn't it be fun to hang out with him at University! Might get invited to the palace, ha ha, how cool would that be?" They were friends for ages, sharing a flat and going out with other people, before getting together - think Monica and Chandler.

If she was really desperate to marry William from the off she probably wouldn't have gone out with anyone at University in an attempt to look "pure".

I know quite a few of my friends have spent years in relationships waiting for "the man" to commit to them. It's not uncommon at all. None of these men were princes, particularly rich or massive catches. They just happened to be men that my friends loved and who were a bit slower to settle down than my friends would have liked. Sometimes it has had a happy ending, sometimes not. Hopefully with Kate and William it will.

Well even if she did follow him to uni (which I don't believe) so would hundreds of other wanna-be Queens. You can lead a horse to water...but William and Kate had to fancy each other, get on and want to make a go of it. No parental encouragement or manipulation would change that. Look at Charles and Diana; pretty much an arranged marriage and it went tits up.

BalloonSlayer I know quite a few of my friends have spent years in relationships waiting for "the man" to commit to them.

But did they do virtually nothing that time, other than present themselves as ideal housewife material? Did they purposely avoid working in a job that actually used their degree for the whole time until they got married?

Actually, I know a couple of sad cases like that too. They are both still unmarried, approaching their forties and with no security, career, home or income of their own. That's what reality is like for people who take the same approach to life as Kate did. Even the monied set look down on her for doing almost nothing with her life prior to marriage.

Other women don't have to run their possible avenues of employment past their live-in boyfriend's family and get security approval, do they?

I very much suspect Kate was told years back to stay at the family business until the pair of them felt ready to have children. On one of these threads, someone linked an article by the woman who founded Jigsaw, discussing the press lying in wait for Catherine at Jigsaw each morning, and how she had to slip in through the back.

Even the monied set look down on her for doing almost nothing with her life prior to marriage.
I would hope that they have much better manners than that.

The Middleton's have very carefully and cleverly kept their business as a Partnership so its income and expenditure are private.

She did not get a normal gel's job in a gallery in Bond Street because of the press - simple as that.
At least working at her parents' firm she was guaranteed privacy and no prying about her gift wrapping skills

bad apostrophe sneaking in there : slaps self on grammar police wrist

Ta1k She did not get a normal gel's job in a gallery in Bond Street because of the press - simple as that.

I'm sure if Kate Middleton had been determined enough, a well meaning friend could have provided a safe job for her. ie if she had actually wanted to work (not including a part-time job in Jigsaw) and achieve some semblance of independence in her twenties, when she was by no means sure to marry William, she could have found some means of doing so.

She seems to have been a remarkably willing participant in the job avoidance in case of publicity angle.

I see the whole Middleton family as a sort of modern day re-creation of those mediavel on the make dynasties who carefully aligned themselves with power and wealth through the Regent. When skilfully done by experts such as the Middletons, it gives a rare glimpse into history!

Scremers
She largely worked for her parents' company : which got no publicity at all.

We have no idea how much she got paid out of that business but I suspect she did not sit on her diminishing backside.
So she did have as much financial independence as any child of a business owner needs.