so what would kate middleclass ahve done if wills hadn't popped the question?

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tbh i knew next to nothing about the woman until last night and cared even less. but honestly she hung around for 8 years doing nothing useful with her life apart from waiting for some fecking man to pop the questiong. what a loser.

Is it not possible that she actually has been working hard for her family business? And what, may I ask, is wrong with working for a family business? Lots of people do it.

So you have a degree, the means to travel the world, or set up your own business - and you choose to stay at home and work for your parents selling party ware?

To be honest I think good on her. If I had the money/rich parents/prince as a boyfriend to support me I wouldn't bother working either. I'd be quite happy being a lady who lunches, going to the gym, meeting friends for coffee, going shopping.

Oh and I have 2 degrees.

Of course she'd better have had a career!
Lots of options: weapons industry (to complement her BF job), divorce lawyer, alcohol /tobacco industry.. Or a high-flying career in a bank getting hefty bonuses

I wonder what MN would be discussing then - an appoling choice of KM's career!! :o

2 degrees here and would do fuck all given the chance.

Financial problems?? Oh, I love it! I wonder why she didn't seek advice from her parents' accountant them

Perhaps it seemed a convenient excuse?

2 degree here, and would have hated to spend my unmarried twenties hanging about for the boyfriend to return from his exciting life. (Actually, still couldn't imagine not working, but that's another story)

Times piece from 2008

I spent a lot of my twenties in a job I hated, because my Fiance and I had just bought a house and he had set up his own business, and we needed my high salary to pay the mortgage - I couldn't get another job paying so well. I put up with it all because when his business was off the ground I would be able to have children and stay at home. His business did get off the ground, I took redundancy so we could start a family, then he dumped me.

Plenty of women are stupid enough to put their lives and careers on hold for men.

i feel sorry for her, her life will never be her own and she will have people telling her what she can and can do everyday from now on

she'll never be able to go on a girls holiday to Ibiza

I do think if it was all about money/life of luxury she could have chosen better. Some nice rich aristocrat where she could have had all of that without the scrutiny.

I wouldn't want to have to the endless tours of schools/hospitals etc she's going to have to do and be subjected to all that scrutiny.

Perhaps they've been secretly engaged for years and she knew it was going to happen so knew there was no point having a career as such.

But undoubtedly as others have said the really important qestion is what does she use on her hair

Excellent article from the Times

What does it matter if she's not a career woman - her role now will be to produce babies (preferably male). And to make Prince William look good.....which she already does.

I expect tracey has hit it on the head. He has probably been promising marriage for years. "Oh come on Darling, you don't need to work. In a couple of years we'll be married. What's the point? If you get another job it'll be like last time - your boring little provincial boss just refusing to let you come to Klosters with me, the bleddy oik."

Read the Times article, I think I read it the first time but ROFL at the Queen wanting her to have a job - the woman who didn't take any exams when she left school as there was no point/need.

Agree with BalloonSlayer. To (kind of quote) Eddie Izzard, they seem to spend an awful lot of time on a yacht, in a yacht and near a yacht (or ski resort for that matter). No normal employer would allow that amount of leave.

I don't know what I would do in her position. Sat her today, trying to read and comment on a LONG and boring bit of Guidance -I know I have to do it as I have bills, but if I didn't ...

She'll have been 'spooked' undoubtedly