To be disappointed that Kate Middleton has posed for Vogue cover

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I'm ambivalent to the Royal Family but like the way Kate has taken a relatively low key approach since marrying William. I think it's a shame she's decided to pose for Vogue. Liz Jones writes:

'But here is my important problem. You only grace the cover of Vogue when you want to become an icon and have your ego massaged. You are joining the fashion elite.

Like Diana, who wanted to be a mother, a Princess, a charity worker, an everywoman, a pin-up, Kate has sold her soul to the devil that is vanity and elitism, and those fashionistas who judge others only by their BMI.

Kate, who up to now has protected her privacy and that of her children ferociously, has opened the floodgates to the sort of forensic scrutiny her late mother-in-law endured'.

Plebs were rarely sent to the Tower. That was reserved for high ranking offenders. We'd probably just be done away with on the spot.

To be honest it don't really bother me. I've got more important things to worry about in my day to day life.

We can call her whatever we want - I'm just setting out what the correct, formal title is

Princess William sounds quite crap - hence why they were given a royal dukedom on marriage.

I don't really get why you're "disappointed" OP few people if any, turn down Vogue.

I was disappointed too OP. ‘Marie Antoinette’ was what jumped into my head.

If she and William want the monarchy to have a chance of continuing in the current climate I think they’ll need to do a lot less posturing and posing and ‘showing off’ and be seen to be WORKING and being a force for good in the world – as The Queen has been, and as Diana was too. So many things in the last couple of years (the weird retro Christening with the big pram and the uniformed nanny; the ski-ing holiday photos that looked like a 1970s catalogue; the posing at the Taj Mahal on the day of the massive demo in London) just feel SO misjudged and almost intentionally goady to ordinary people who are struggling to survive, never mind make a living. All this look at gorgeous us and our lovely family – it just comes across to me as desperate narcissism and very out of the touch with the mood of most of the country at the moment.

YABU --- princesses have always been featured in Vogue. I'm doing some research on period makeup and have been going through Vogue archives from 1920s onwards -lots of princesses in there to get publicity for their various causes.

"I did wonder why someone who complains about intrusive photographs would choose to be photographed in such a high profile way when she is not carrying out a royal duty"

If the boss at an art gallery you sponsored talked you into having a photograph shown in the gallery, and appear on a magazine cover for pr, you would arrange for it to be done properly. Not expect someone to snap a picture of you (without your knowledge) sitting on your outside patio first thing in the morning and use that, where there's every chance you have a dressing gown on, no make up, hair a mess, a cigarette in one hand and a finger up your nose.

As pp's have said, the royals release pre chosen photographs to the press in the hopes they won't become desperate and hound them. Of course when she's out and about in public she expects to be photographed. If she doesn't want to be photographed all the time, you can't blame her for retreating to the country, emerging to do the odd respectable magazine photo shoot and certain royal duties.

Maybe she thought since Anne and Diana also did it, it wouldn't be considered "low".

Princess Anne looked fab, Kate should have just damned the haters and dressed up. But think she was trying to minimise the hate..

Liz Jones! Haven't thought about her in a few years. What happened to the rock star and the other mystery man she was supposedly seeing? When she's not dancing to the Daily Mail tune, I find her interesting but I feel a bit sad for her - there's a lot of self-loathing, which can manifest itself as hostility to others.

Kate Middleton - no opinion really. There's nothing she could do that would please everyone. I wouldn't choose her life, for all the luxurious trappings. Trappings being the operative word.