Page 12 | To ask what you think of Kate Middleton?

MrsMinge · 23/03/2022 08:47

I like her

ENoeuf · 23/03/2022 08:48

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YnapYVpO9e4

This stuff - Glad I’m not Royal 😂

Keekabooyou · 23/03/2022 08:51

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 23/03/2022 08:53

@CornishGem1975

Love her. Holds herself with poise and dignity. Doesn't put a step wrong. Reads the room and knows the assignment. Perfect choice.

Exactly what I came to say. She comes across as incredibly poised and dignified and an all round lovely woman.

And it pisses me off when all people can comment on is how "thin" she is.

LBFseBrom · 23/03/2022 08:55

@Roussette

Megain's greedy, manipulative, bullying, oneupmanship behaviours made her a dreadful person let alone a representative of the UK

Oh do give it a rest and stop shoehorning MM vitriol into a thread that's nothing to do with her.
Her name's Meghan by the way.

Quite right. There's nothing wrong with Meghan, there's plenty wrong with the media! ......................

The Duchess of Cambridge is fine as she is, there would soon be complaints if she pushed herself forward and gave strong opinions on controversial subjects. She seems very nice, caring and well behaved.

There's little point in anyone resenting her for having money and privilege because that's just the way it is for her. There are plenty of other rich people who who are far more flash about it and less congenial.

Let's just be grateful for what we have and glad we are not constantly in the public eye. No amount of money would induce me to be surrounded by publicity. As long as my health holds up and I have sufficient for my needs, I am content with my life and might even be able to help others at times without the world and his wife knowing about it.

ShirleyPhallus · 23/03/2022 08:56

@custardbear

I think she 'wears' her job well as Will's wife and a member of the RF. I doubt the trip was her idea it would be the Firm who sends them as ambassadors.

She's the opposite to her SIL, for which I am truly thankful - Megain's greedy, manipulative, bullying, oneupmanship behaviours made her a dreadful person let alone a representative of the UK, Kate comes across as sincere, kind, gentle and humble which is essential in such a role

What this basically comes down to is: The media was awful to Kate for years and years but she smiled politely and put up with it The media was awful to Meghan for a short time and rather than putting up with it, she called them out and then withdrew herself from the situation she was in

If this was an “AIBU” thread here everyone would be on Meghan’s side and tell her she was doing the right thing 🤷‍♀️

justanoldhack · 23/03/2022 08:56

She dresses too old for her age. She never says anything that tells you what she really thinks. She has swallowed The Firm kool aid and is basically their pretty puppet. She is terribly, terribly thin. She (allegedly) turns a blind eye to her husband's adultery. She's passionate about children and early years. She's very beautiful. She's trapped.

Allandnothing · 23/03/2022 08:56

Literally nothing. She’s a posh girl who married someone posher still. I have no interest or opinion other than being slightly bored with hearing about her.

magicofthefae · 23/03/2022 09:00

@Teadrinker11

Interested to hear some opinions. What do you think of her? I was just reading a Dailymail article where she and William are in Belize and people are complaining about them flaunting their lives and all that. People struggling and Ukraine on fire, etc and Kate and William are rubbing it in people's faces. What do you think? Yes, they definitely have it better than a lot of people but in one sense I also feel that she has to thread on eggshells being in the public eye so much. Say one thing she'll be crucified but if she says something else it will be the same, she can't win regardless of what she says or do. If she acknowledges and openly says that she's got it easy with her luxury lifestyle people will scream down her neck about that too. What do you think? What's your view on Kate?

She is an irrelevant privileged woman, whose only place in society is to remind us of the irrelevant -ness of the whole Royal Family and their horrific colonial empire roots. Get rid of them all. Republic of England/Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland. Use the money they eat up to solve the housing crisis in this country, and build more houses, the economy, NHS, etc.

Sharrowgirl · 23/03/2022 09:07

@Jamoffmytoast

Sorry, a Caribbean 'work tour.' Still nice work if you can get it.

Really? Meeting an endless procession of officials and dignitaries, having to make polite small talk and show an interest in what boring shit they’re saying. All the while people are watching you for the slightest verbal gaff, stray facial expression and then they’re going over what you’re wearing. Bloody exhausting.

TheKeatingFive · 23/03/2022 09:11

Bloody exhausting.

I can think of far more exhausting things than that in fairness.

All the research, logistics, timings, admin taken care of. Then they show up, reference a key point or two from the briefing notes, smile, chat, have dinner, drinks. Most even moderately sociable people would manage that easily.

Ringmaster27 · 23/03/2022 09:13

I’m pretty anti-monarchy. They serve no purpose these days. They are just posh people, who are descended from posh people and marry other posh people.
As a person, I think KM seems “naice” - but let’s be honest: the royals have PR people who are very good at their jobs, so we only see the version of KM that KM and her PR people want us to see don't we?
She’s an attractive woman who is very photogenic, has 3 beautiful children, seems to have her hobbies like sport and photography - but other than that we don’t know very much about the real person behind the public persona.
I 100% guarantee that at home, she’s the same as any of us - knocking about the house in tracksuit bottoms and slippers, yelling “George!! Stop poking your sister!!” while she wrestles a mystery object from Louis’ mouth….but that’s not the image we are supposed to have of the future Queen is it?

theworldhas · 23/03/2022 09:18

Nobody knows what’s she’s like. Her public role is just that - a role. She plays it well enough.

I guess you can certainly say that she is - or was - ambitious to take her job/role in the Royal Family. As marrying into a monarchy isn’t just a marriage it’s a high profile job/role.

But then it was an ambition of a very specific (arguably limited) sort. As for many ambitious women in their 20s, marrying into a position/role in which will never change or challenge them intellectually and in which they will never be anything more than a support act to their more important husband would be the antithesis of ambition.

NellGwynne · 23/03/2022 09:21

I’m always astonished that so many people seem to assume Kate was calculating and only wanted to marry William for his position. Does it not occur to anybody that she may actually love him?
Ther is this assumption that any woman marrying ‘up’ does it for position not love. We aren’t in a Jane Austen novel.
Likewise, people seize eagerly on the idea that William has affairs . Because it can’t possibly be that they are actually in love and happy with each other can it?

Blossomtoes · 23/03/2022 09:23

Use the money they eat up to solve the housing crisis in this country, and build more houses, the economy, NHS, etc.

How much money do you think they cost? It wouldn’t even make a dent in that lot.

theworldhas · 23/03/2022 09:23

I thinks she’s totally fine. But for the above reason, I don’t think I’d have had much in common with her and I certainly don’t envy/admire her. I’d rather a weekend in Blackpool off my own endeavours than endless “work engagements” around the world where the most you ever get to cut loose is a quiet drink in a very high walled resort.

emuloc · 23/03/2022 09:27

@custardbear

I think she 'wears' her job well as Will's wife and a member of the RF. I doubt the trip was her idea it would be the Firm who sends them as ambassadors.

She's the opposite to her SIL, for which I am truly thankful - Megain's greedy, manipulative, bullying, oneupmanship behaviours made her a dreadful person let alone a representative of the UK, Kate comes across as sincere, kind, gentle and humble which is essential in such a role

Why are you truly thankful that in your opinion Kate is the opposite to Meghan? What difference does it make to your life? You know nothing about either women. Bonkers.

theworldhas · 23/03/2022 09:28

@NellGwynne
It could be both. We may be attracted to someone physically/their personality. But we also simultaneously weigh up their position/job/location etc.

She willingly gave up many of the pleasures/tribulations of a “normal” life for those of an “extraordinary” life in the public gaze. And not just for herself, but for her children. And not just for a year or two - but forever. That is no small thing. Pretending that love would have been the only factor in such a decision would be naive. Love fails all the time if and when the other stuff is insufficiently satisfactory according to our personal worldview/needs.

theworldhas · 23/03/2022 09:33

I’d personally hate for my children to grow up in a goldfish bowl which gets ever smaller and intrusive with each passing year. That’s one of the main reasons I don’t support the British Monarchy in its current form. It’s clearly a horrible environment in which to raise children - as attested to the fact that so many of the adult British Royals have had serious mental health issues/breakdowns etc despite every material privilege imaginable.

Gonnagetgoing · 23/03/2022 09:41

@NellGwynne

I’m always astonished that so many people seem to assume Kate was calculating and only wanted to marry William for his position. Does it not occur to anybody that she may actually love him? Ther is this assumption that any woman marrying ‘up’ does it for position not love. We aren’t in a Jane Austen novel. Likewise, people seize eagerly on the idea that William has affairs . Because it can’t possibly be that they are actually in love and happy with each other can it?

@NellGwynne - Kate loves William now - bBut ut when she met him at uni then of course she was after him because of his position in the RF. Of course she then had to spend time with him to see if she liked him.

It's exactly the same with Meghan - she was in England, wanted to meet a suitable man and when Harry appeared she knew exactly who he was despite her pleas otherwise.

But liking and loving someone are different and can develop later on.

Brefugee · 23/03/2022 09:55

Bloody exhausting

Huzzah for the RF. Bunch of Stakhanovites, the lot of them. Hacking away at the coal face so the rest of us slackers can see what a good example they are of hardworking families who don't suckle at the teat of state benefits.

Sure. A couple of weeks a year it's meetings, dinners, boring small talk. Funnily enough that's how my working day is. For much shittier pay.

She chose the goldfish bowl for herself and her offspring and their offspring for generations to come. There must be a huge degree of understanding to take that on. Not "oh he's so hunky swoon i must marry him" stars in your eyes True Lurve.

NellGwynne · 23/03/2022 09:59

@Gonnagetgoing

How on earth can you know what Kate felt? Are you saying it was impossible for her to have got to know him as a person and fallen in love with him? What a stupid thing to say. They shared a flat before becoming involved.

SleepingStandingUp · 23/03/2022 10:08

@Gonnagetgoing

Kate loves William now - bBut ut when she met him at uni then of course she was after him because of his position in the RF. Of course she then had to spend time with him to see if she liked him.

Unless she's told you this herself because you're best friends, you have no idea whether she thought yeah I wanna be queen, I guess he'll have to do, Harry won't be got for a decade yet, or if she thought fuck, I actually really like him but his family are crazy and I don't want that life. Or if she thought he's hot, we can have fun and ill walk away then woke up one morning and realised she was in love. I know people are obsessed with the idea that Mama Middleton raised her girls to hook super rich men and that William basically had no chance to escape their calculated clutches. But at their age, its quite easy to fall in love and think the grown up stuff will never really happen. Dad v will reign until he's 100 and then we'll be in our 60s and that seems like a life too far away to be real

spacehardware · 23/03/2022 10:10

Oh come on she had a poster on him on her wall as a teenager. They may never have thought they'd land the big one, but ma Middleton definitely intended her daughters to marry aristos/oligarchs/billionaires. For. Sure.

SleepingStandingUp · 23/03/2022 10:10

As for Kate, there's so few stories about her I assume she has very loyal friends. That suggests she's a decent sort of person. Her family seem very close. She seems like a good Mom. If we bumped into ea h other in Starbucks in she we could have a perfectly nice chat about raising three kids albeit very differently and she's probably a laugh once she feels safe. But it must be quite isolating to know that any new friends have to prove their worth becks being trusted