To have Kate Middleton as my new role model

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Or the Duchess of Cambridge for those who get uptight about her name.

She is so poised. Takes everything in her stride (even giving birth). She looks genuinely happy and in love and in control.

Operation Kate starts May 1st so I've got two more days to slob around on Mumsnet

I often ask myself WWKMD when dealing with my old fashioned, controlling and annoying in laws. Whatever she may or may not do, I bet she doesn't kick off at William's family. A lesson I could do with learning!

The bitchiness comes across as just that: desperate - but supposedly lighthearted - comments about her slimness, her dress sense, her marriage etc etc
It smacks of jealousy - or envy if you prefer to call it that.

I’m not envious at all! I really think it must take ages to look that good even with lots of help. Diana had money and wasn’t happy.

But Like I said, she has someone else do do all the hard work of eating healthily for her, she doesn’t do her own shopping or cooking, doesn’t have to weigh and measure and work out how many calories she’s had, just waits for calorie counted meals to appear on the table. And having your own well equipped private gym must be more of a motivation than having to share one with sweaty other people. I think it’s ridiculous to suggest that it’s just as hard for Kate to stay slim as for ordinary people.

Wasn't Boris Becker's third child conceived in a broom cupboard? Just from the few moments spent in a broom cupboard. Was indicative of fertility.

Plus she doesn’t have to juggle looking after the kids with looking after herself.

I used to work in fashion & love the stylish jogger look. I have not & will never own nude courts!

She’s had it all on a plate. As they all have.

Of course the cupboard was in Nobu. Standards in that fecund, if fleeting, 'relationship'.

Maybe she's going to be like the Kardashian's Mum and in 20 years have a reality show with her as the business "centre." 😬

I think that having nannies and housekeepers and stylists would be absolute hell. You would never be able to relax and do things your own way. But then, most people would find my way of living hellish, I guess...

I'm pro royal but unfortunately whoever you are in the public limelight you are ' fodder' for criticism.

Her parents worked hard and sent their children to a school that would open lots of doors for them beyond an education.

I'd do the same if I could afford to send my sons to a high performing independent school.

I shudder at the alternative to a royal being Head of State. President Blair , May or Corbyn anyone?

she has someone else do do all the hard work of eating healthily for her I knew they had a lot of help. But she has someone to eat for her as well?

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If people ARE bitchy (not that they are) its far easier to understand than a blind devotion to "all things royal" . KM has done NOTHING to deserve such admiration and devotion. Shes an ordinary woman just had a baby. No big deal. She doesn't need you jumping to her defence and calling people jealous if they aren't ecstatic at the news. She'll be fine, try not to get too over involved. You sound a bit in awe of them.

I shudder at the alternative to a royal being Head of State. President Blair , May or Corbyn anyone?
But you'll have Charles as king? Ask yourself this, if it was a republic and Charles was standing for president, would you vote for him?, because as it is now Charles is going to become king, head of the C of E and armed forces, and his qualifications? none, zero, just his DNA.

Absolutely appalling whichever way you look at it. We can never say we live in an equal democratic society as long as we have this family as it's figure head. There's also no need to think we'd get someone like Blair, but even if we did, so what, that is what a democracy is, we choose who we want, then if they're no good we vote them out. If we had a presidency run on the same lines as Ireland (which works very well) a hell of a lot cheaper too.

I'd say that as Charles has been trained to be head of all those things since he was born and will have extensive knowledge on them I'd say he meets the qualifications.

But I understand what you are saying though about a family being head of everything just because they were born into said family.

I'd say that as Charles has been trained to be head of all those things since he was born and will have extensive knowledge on them I'd say he meets the qualifications

I agree with you.

We are a nation of dimwits, we really are

Couldn't have said it better.

I admire the regular family next door who aren't on a fraction of what these people "earn" yet keep their children happy, clothed and fed. And although the mum may not look "poised" she still smiles and wishes others a good day.

BUT IT DEFINITELY HAS NEVER AFFECTED ME" - it was subtle, but it was all I heard

She was saying she'd never been affected by it so she didn't know what it felt like but she knew it was something very real for other women.

She's a beautiful woman, but as others have said, she has everything in place to give her an easy life and make sure she stays beautiful. She plays the part of the loving mother, but I wonder how many hours a day she actually spends with her children - I wonder this about other celebrities too with their live-in nannies.
She isn't always poised either - her skirt keeps blowing up, and remember when she was pictured giggling and twirling her hair during remembrance day events.

What normal 30 something gives birth & pulls on an outfit like that, it’s so dated!

The dress was lovely and she looked fabulous.

she has someone else do do all the hard work of eating healthily for her I knew they had a lot of help. But she has someone to eat for her as well?

Of course not. But to do all the shopping, cooking and calorie counting certainly. She probably has a personal trainer as well.

there’s some pretty aggressive posts here about Kate. However “shallow” it might be, being married to the future King, the work she does through charities and raising awareness, will have far greater impact than what the vast majority of us do

What normal 30 something gives birth & pulls on an outfit like that, it’s so dated!

That's exactly it. She's not a normal 30 something. She is going to be Queen and mother to heirs to the throne !

I despair that she would be expected to come out of the maternity ward like many of us did

I'd say that as Charles has been trained to be head of all those things since he was born and will have extensive knowledge on them I'd say he meets the qualifications.
To do what though, it's mainly as a figure head. Not necessary to the running of a country. Their powers are limited and rightly so. I would much rather have a president, someone who has had to strive and work themselves up into the position they are, and who we can vote out than an over privileged elite whose only qualification was to be born. Wrong, wrong, wrong.