Well, bully for Katie

[Lucyinthepie]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382889/Royal-Wedding-2011-Kate-Middleton-says-shell-housewife-now.html
Anyone else think that she should be doing the work that is associated with her new life of luxury? Justify the expense to the taxpayer and get out and fulfil the usual royal diary of visits.

carminaburana - I agree with you, and in fact I think the whole Middleton family ethos is an excellent role model.

But people are doubtless both very envious and very ignorant of the hard work that everyone involved put in to that degree of success.

But bonsoir does she not seem anomalous in her family? Her parents have obviously worked so hard but she doesn't seem to have inherited their work ethic IMO.

head in hands.....

I guess when I think of female role models I'm thinking in specific relation to my daughters, and I hope they can find some middle way between the pretty lady who gets married and then does knack all except be judged for her hair and her clothes and her weight (whether in a church or not), and a 'crop haired animal rights activist who dabbles in lesbianism'.

I live in hope.

Part of me thinks it´s a shame that she hasn´t worked.

That said-we also don´t know what was going on with her & William-whether she thought they would be married & would soon have to stop.

Was she followed so much by the media that working would have been difficult?

I like her as someone who is in the media that isn't anything like k price, or all boobs and tan.

She seems restrained and possibly quite nice. Better role model for that reason imo (not that I have dds yet).

She is just one of many women that will be noticed by young girls. I don't see she has to work (where, in an office?) to be a role model.

She seems tremendously hardworking to me. I don't understand you.

But what will she do all day in Anglesey?

If she were based in London she could go shopping and to lunch, but what does a 20 something do all day up in Wales?

Moules - how can you possibly know that? Have you met her? There's really been remarkably little about her in the press until now. Again what work would you expect her to do. SHe could hardly openly work for her parents or any other company. Or should she just have stopped seeing the man she loved so that she could get a job without hassle from the press?

Honestly, who cares if she's 'workshy' or otherwise?

Rich woman marries even richer bloke, decides to stay at home. I mean, BFD.

Seems OP's eaten some sour grapes.

Lynette - as others have said, I think she will write thank you letters, study the intricacies of Royal protocol and managing the paparazzi and cook nice dinners for William, interspersed with keeping herself groomed and coiffed in the manner which befits a member of the Royal family about to embark on a tour of Canada. And try to get up the duff pronto!

That's plenty to be getting on with - I would need to invite a few friends to stay as well, as I am sure she will. She might work on things like who she is going to appoint as Lady in Waiting...

Please explain how she is hardworking bonsoir

Just look at her: do you think she got to be the way she is and where she is by lying on a sofa waiting for life to turn up at her doorstep?

"carminaburana Tue 03-May-11 18:07:37
I'm really not sure why she's a bad role model to young women .
She's a young woman who's married the man she loves in a church - and no doubt they'll go on to have 2 of 3 kids and (hopefully) live happily ever after.
Honestly - what more does any woman want?"

what more does any woman want? are you serious?

choice isn't stepford wife vs single mum btw

TBH, I´d rather see her in a supporting role & them have a long & happy marriage than her take off on her own & it all fall apart.

do you not think women sometimes want careers of their own? or have non-baby related goals in their life?

'the way she is'? Privately educated, fairly pretty, nice hair and expensive clothes? Yep, she's slogged her guts out there hasn't she!

by that logic WAGs are grafters

Careers are vastly overrated in my (post-career) opinion. Money is what matters, and lots of interesting things to do.

And how do you get the money if you don't have a career? Daddy or hubby, I guess?

Exactly - patriachy in action!

Anyway my comment was to the "what more does any woman" want comment - than to be married with 3 children and a DH who supports her. Which, the more I think about it, was probably designed to annoy

Or you make your own first .

I am so with Bonsoir - she didn't get where she was by sitting on arse all day.

Lets face it, poor girl is never going to win in anyones eyes - however unlike her deceased MIL she is obviously loyal and has loyal friends who don't feel the need to discuss if she has ever smoked a bit of a spliff at uni.

If she writes a book you will all say she is cashing in
if she goes back to jewellry designing - cashing in
sits at home making her marriage work - cashing in

Quite frankly the best possible role model she can be is to love and be loved by her husband and make her marriage work if she can, we all know (or maybe we don't) how hard marriage can be when you adore each other, how hard making a relationship work can be and that is without media intrusion and bitchiness from every corner. Leave the poor girl alone.

TBH I find the idea that the Royal Family might, by any stretch of the imagination, be role models for ordinary people, a bit odd.

From and in a parallel universe, uniquely rich and privileged, constantly under scrutiny, basically totally unlike other families, yes. But models...? I fail to see how you could take as model anyone whose very existence is so totally unlike reality for the vast majority of people.

They could conceivably be role models for the very rich, who can afford to consider that careers are pointless, but in the case of mere mortals for whom careers are a necessary means of existence and survival, they are surely not viable models.

ahem charity work?