OKmorty makes a lot of good points. KM just has figured out her stance, has been thinking about this role for 20 years and has a super supportive family who clearly have her back and never let her down.
I’m starting to think she’s a bit of a PR maestro actually, she clearly is also a huge and profligate spender, but she has curated a lovely niche as Nice, Tasteful Mother, who drops a bit of Zara and Hobbs and a few tactical rewears into the mix, took up photography so that she can release what she wants when she wants without external intrusion. She’s cultivating a semi-country girl vibe (and in fairness did bob off to Anglesea then Norfolk for years, giving herself a mega private home life), has chosen a safe, non controversial palette of interests (children, gardening, tennis). The Chelsea flower show garden was a master stroke of appealing to middle England. She never speaks unless she has to, reminding me of kate moss. She clearly has now invented a stately uniform for herself (dreaded coat dress). She’s a genius I tell you!
I feel for MM massively with the racism she obviously faces. I do often think ‘now if she was gwyneth Paltrow and marrying Harry and saying xyz, would she get this flak’ and the obvious answer is quite often yes.
Apart from racism, I think there is a bias in England against what’s perceived as ‘cocky, opinionated’ Americans. Which is wrong, but def a bit of ‘don’t be coming over here and saying what’s what’.