Kate Middleton is a role model for me?

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I like the way she looks, so pretty and stylish but classic and simple at the same time.

Slim but toned and athletic figure, meanwhile I could lose a few kg.

Her personality seems refined and elegant, you will never catch her sharing controversial opinions or offending views.

She seems to be a supportive wife and mother

Seems overall to live such an elegant life.

AIBU? To want to be more like Kate and see her as a role model?

What's your take on the article?

I didn't personally post it to give my 'take'. I posted it to demonstrate that the rumours encompassed a lot more than a tweet.

I would also 'phase out' a woman who is rumoured to have had an affair with my DH. Wouldn't you do the same?

The article didn't offer any explanation as to why Kate would want her 'phased out', which was why it was such a strange thing to print. Why would they report a private falling out? With William in the middle?

At the point of publishing that article there were no rumours of an affair in the public realm.

Personally I would far prefer to raise a tiny activist than a stepford wife, but I guess everyone's different 🤷‍♀️

I wish the royals could be half as entertaining

@TheKeatingFive

Personally I would far prefer to raise a tiny activist than a stepford wife, but I guess everyone's different 🤷‍♀️

Please don't get me wrong, if you raise someone who coins the phrase "tiny activists" in that context with no irony, you are absolutely fine by me.

tiny activist

I wouldn't want to raise someone who blocks a road and allegedly believes it's ok for a person to die because an ambulance is not let through

I wouldn't want to raise someone who blocks a road and allegedly believes it's ok for a person to die because an ambulance is not let through

This isn't a necessary condition of being an activist, tiny or otherwise, so I don't get the significance.

tiny activist

This can also simply mean a whimsical, bullyish, badly behaved child. I wouldn't like my DC to be like this either

Small side point: Kate is only doing what she was always going to do. Despite all the guffing about social climbing, her family has links to the aristocracy on Michael's side and she has always been upper class, if not actually born titled. She was always going to marry a rich, upper class man, have kids and do community work. Might not have been Prince William, but the same role.

This can also simply mean a whimsical, bullyish, badly behaved child. I wouldn't like my DC to be like this either

I don't see why this would be your take, but cool, you are free to raise whatever kind of human being you want.

All I'm saying is the Kate Stepford wife model wouldn't be aspirational for me or indeed anyone I know.

wow, can't see anything wrong with tiny activists! Taking the piss out of it is a really small minded cutting down to size of anyone trying to make the world better. Why the fuck shouldn't we raise our children to advocate for a better world and teach them that it's a responsibility we all have? The poster who wrote it was also deliberately pointing out all the things that make a more worthwhile role model for a young girl or woman - hard work, intellectual achievement, ability to change the world.

People just want everyone to be as fearful and lazy as they are themselves and if you're not, you must be pretentious. Oh dear.

@julieca

It is not edifying to discuss Willam's affairs, but fine to take the piss of posters children then?

If you’re referring to the tiny activists, that poster sat up and begged to have the piss taken - out of her, not her children.

She was always going to marry a rich, upper class man, have kids and do community work.

I agree with this (except the last bit as I expect like most in this class she wouldn't trouble herself terribly).

She may have aristocratic links on her father’s side but her maternal great grandfather was a miner from County Durham.

Despite raising a Stepford wife, I confess to liking Carole Middleton. She's a tough cookie.

@TheKeatingFive

She was always going to marry a rich, upper class man, have kids and do community work.

I agree with this (except the last bit as I expect like most in this class she wouldn't trouble herself terribly).

And what do you do?

just want everyone to be as fearful and lazy

I wouldn't call KM lazy, and certainly not fearful either

And what do you do?

Earn a living like most other people.

@DrSbaitso

Small side point: Kate is only doing what she was always going to do. Despite all the guffing about social climbing, her family has links to the aristocracy on Michael's side and she has always been upper class, if not actually born titled. She was always going to marry a rich, upper class man, have kids and do community work. Might not have been Prince William, but the same role.

Yes probably, but the women don't have to do that. Even Princess Anne born into the RF carved out a proper career for herself. Or look at Princess Alice, an extraordinary woman.

YANBU to like her style and looks. YABU to think you know even vaguely what somebody's actually like as a person when you've only ever seen them in the media, especially someone whose public appearances and persona are so tightly controlled as hers will be.

Oh come on Kate is lazy. She does few engagements and no real big projects. But William is the same. They are also reported to have panicked because Harry and Meghan leaving meant more demands on them to do actual engagements.

to be as fearful

I imagine that anyone who can look as placid and collected as her while under so much pressure must have nerves of steel.

They are also reported to have panicked

I assume there's no tangible evidence of this either?

@mustlovegin I don't normally read Royal stories. There were a lot of news reports about their concern about the workload.

[quote julieca]@mustlovegin I don't normally read Royal stories. There were a lot of news reports about their concern about the workload.[/quote]
Got some links?

@Blossomtoes you could google? I read it in the mainstream newspapers at the time. Not tabloids and not magazines talking about celebs.