To think Kate/Catherine, Princess of Wales, is one of the luckiest and most admirable women alive?!

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She’s a Princess and future Queen Consort. She’s the wife of a Prince and future King. Mother to Princes and a Princess. Mother to a future King and the British royal family’s future bloodline.

She’s very good looking, wealthy, has a good figure and wears lovely clothes. She has mastered the art of ‘do not complain, do not explain’. So, she comes across very well (such as how she handled this yesterday: Princess of Wales challenged during royal visit to Northern Ireland).

Unlike a diamond, I can’t find any flaws in Catherine, Princess of Wales; she comes across as too perfect to fault! She has it all and more.

There’s a lot to admire because she seems to be the luckiest woman alive. What does everyone else think?

She doesn't put a foot wrong but what an awful job to have. No freedom at all. no popping out for a coffee with friends, cycling to Waitrose and buying the shopping, going for a walk anywhere she wants.

Oh God not again....

For some reason, people in this country want a king and queen and think it's a very important role. You can't say that and at the same time say that the woman who is the next queen doesn't have a real job

I'd love a referendum to test this theory out

Don't you have any homework to do?

I’m sure she’s a nice person and wants to do terribly good things but really she’s signed up to a lifetime of being a puppet. And she’s being watched, every day. Surrounded by servants, secretaries, security and so on, every little bit if her life talked about. Definitely wouldn’t swap with her for any amount of money.

I'm not sure we have the same idea about what admirable means.

I think she does her role well; and does look lovely when at functions. But I would attribute the word admirable to a women like Michelle Obama or JKR for example.

Even on the tv show The Windsors, she’s mocked for being so perfect and lovely 😆

It must be mentally draining to have to keep up the appearance of being so ‘perfect’. I wouldn’t be able to keep up that appearance. Either that or she has a core of iron.

@RaidcandleShe's done very well for herself. I will give her that.
I notice no one says similar things about Camilla though who is in the same role? Probably because she looks like a bag of spanners?

No, no, no, - you've got it all wrong !

The correct expression is "a face like a bag of spanners".

If I was going to be rude I would say she has a face like a bulldog licking p*ss off a nettle....😉

I absolutely love her, but I definitely wouldn't trade places with her. Yes she 'has everything' but she also has pretty much no freedom at all and not very much privacy either.

I think she is good at what she does, so deserves respect for doing a great job.

There is not enough money in the universe for me to take a role where there is such high profile scrutiny of her outward being (looks, shape and style) and zero space or interest in her actual thoughts and opinions.

I really hope she continues to find it rewarding. It would not be for me.

Not for me, she can probably only really relax behind closed doors. Also I think her eyes always look sad

Yes lets shoehorn in a bit of Meghan bashing even though its not the subject of the thread.

She has done nothing except marry into the royal family. She has a 2.1 in Art History (sorry, but not the most exacting course!) and hasn't done a thing with it. She wears fairly inoffensive clothes chosen for her. Her greatest achievement appears to be staying skinny. BTW, Camilla looks great for her age, hardly "a bag of spanners" as someone said earlier. Her outfits are very nice and also probably chosen for her. She does need her teeth fixed.

I like Catherine, Princess of Wales and think she’s great but nobody is anywhere near perfect. We all have our faults in one way or another.

Should people only be admired for the "career" they have and not on the attributes that they possess ?

#princeofpegging on Twitter will give you all the gory details.

I think she is good at what she does, so deserves respect for doing a great job

I disagree that anyone ^deserves^ respect.

I have zero to no respect for the 'Royal' fucked up family.

I wonder about that. I think you'd get that weird phenomenon where progressives can be quite passive when it comes to voting (hello Brexit!) and don't come out in QUITE their droves, but traditionalists will move heaven and earth to save their beloved monarchy and all vote to keep.

I also suspect lots of people who say they think the royal family is dreadful would suffer a pang of sentimentality at the idea of guillotining the lot of them. I mean voting them out. 👀

(I'm from a country with a certain degree of, shall we say, HISTORY with England, and wouldn't think twice about voting to get rid of them.)

Exactly. She has no freedom whatsoever. She cannot do as she likes. She cannot say what she thinks. Poor cow, I feel sorry for her.

If her job is grinning inanely like a glazed eyed mannequin then she does it brilliantly. It seems everything is absolutely hilarious to her for some reason.
Seriously, what does she actually do that is admirable or worth respect? Nobody can say with a straight face she actually works hard.
She, by all accounts, attended the same Uni as William in order to bag herself a "prince" from day 1, puts up with his alleged affairs and does not have a personality of her own to speak of.
She's done her "job" of pumping out a few privileged sprogs to carry on the system for which she has been richly rewarded.
What an achievement.

I feel she’s very fortunate

1. She got what she wanted and must have known what the role entailed
2. She has a fabulously paid job for life and doesn’t have to worry about anything much.
3. She was able to have the DC she wanted without the angst so many have about affordability, cost of childcare, coping with raising her children with little or no support while undertaking a stressful job.
4. The news media stressing the hard working nature of the job but it’s no where as hard physically as most low paid work available to women in this country or mentally for skilled workers such as health professionals.
5. She has family holidays at home and overseas that most could only dream of.
6. Paid help for the menial chores is available — it’s her choice just how much housework, etc she does. It is said she is a “ hands on mother” but I bet she wasn’t responsible for the grotty tasks etc. Who wouldn’t wish to play with their kids while someone else washed the dirty nappies, etc.
7. She has her place in history and enough people extolling her virtues to protect her from most of the nastiness of the anti- royalists.
8. Very few have the privileges granted to her that weren’t born to them - she just got lucky.
9. If very few of us would change places with her, that is irrelevant — this is the life she has opted for and so she can be considered fortunate

Admirable ? You need higher aspirations in life. She’s a Stepford wife with zero personality.

She's the perfect Royal and seems like a lovely person and good mum and is very beautiful but ultimately she has married into money and has to tow the line so I can't say that is something to admire.

She's very pretty but I would hate to be her.