is Kate Middleton really "middle class"?

[hatwoman]

she seems lovely and I know, in theory, she's not gentry, but I strongly suspect that if I met her I'd think she was quite posh.

She is the epitomy of middle class. I bet half the people on MN reckon they're middle class but aren't.

Once again the Daily Mash have it right.

"Once again Britain will lead the world as we make the most enormous fuss imaginable over two incredibly wealthy young people who have been handed everything on a plate."

Mamatomany - answer the following questions -

What do you call your evening meal?
What do you call the thing you pee into?
What do you say when you are introduced to someone?
Do you say "Would you like a cup of coffee? or "Would you like a coffee?"
What do you call the course in a meal where you eat something sweet?"

and I\ll tell you whether you're middle class or not. It's nothing to do with money.

Oh it's like an online assessment lol
We have dinner
We go to the toilet
Pleased to meet you
And yes I would offer a cup of tea/coffee
We have pudding.
I suspect we're either well spoken working class or lazy middle class lol

Ironically enough, by putting the young people in question on a plate...

Asda are already in there with a mug.

I'd say "would you like some coffee?"

I work in an environment that is very middle class and it's only now that I realise the gulf between the middle and working class. It is still very much alive.

And, indeed, there is already a plate in production...

If you listen to the interview with her with william, she does sound posh, but I think she has been polished - listen carefully her accent slips a couple of times - when she says 'cos' she sounds middle not posh. So I think she's had lessons.

Kate isn't upper class as her parents worked to make the money rather than inherited it (and a title).

As others have said class has nothing to do with income. They are two entirely seperate things.

As for seeker's online assessment:

Supper
Loo
How do you do
"Would you like a coffee"
Pudding

definitely middle middle and nouveau riche altho i suspect if one didn't know anything about her background, one would say upper middle

domestics Your "a coffee" is the odd one out

I'd say she's middle class (would need a stately home and title to be upper). But on the telly it said her grandpa was a lorry driver and lived in a terraced house, so I think her own parents have been very upwardly mobile.

I know

Although if I said it in Welsh I would say "a cup of..." so I'm not entirely sure why I don't in English.

I am in no way, shape or form posh.

I think this is the end of the monarchy. First Prussians, then a Greek now a girl from a miners family.

I suppose that now they have closed all they mines, the miners sit around doing nothing, a bit like the Royal family, instead of riding to hounds they use whippets and ferrets.

Can we expect vans from B & Q, The Sofa Warehouse and Wickes kitchens rolling up at Windsor Castle soon?

Can I just register how utterly awful the term 'noveau riche' is.

Mamatomany - you are more middle class than anything else - 3 out of 5!

I would put money (if I had any - that's how I know you can be poor and middle class!) that Kate's parents would have scored 0 out of 5 30 years ago.

Not that it matters.

So the Daily Mail was critical????? KAte must have told their reporter to piss off methinks.

I did have admiration for the hard working family and the grandmother's mining roots. It sounds so humble, resilient and honest but a cursory glance at Uncle Gary and the murky world of coke dealing, pimping and his so called enjoyment of watching hard-core porn on his large screen tv at the £5m Maison Bang Bang in Ibiza, can't help but make me wonder how far the apple falls from the tree where the Goldsmith side of family is concerned.

He features on a forum with a photograph of his gracefully monogrammed garden wall.

www.spotlight-forums.com/showthread.php?p=1291980

So she's got a crude and embarassing uncle. So what? He's got a crude and embarassing grandad....

I have yet to find out why 'old money' is superior to 'new money'! Old money just got there in the year dot by being the strongest on the battle field!

the family.

Does Philip deal drugs and organise whores for visitors too? Wicked!

Oh probably. He's certainly the royal that I'd most like to hang out with. Seems a right laugh