Waity Katey and no jobs threads have me thinking

[LucyGoose]

As several threads have sprung up about Kate "wasting" her education, and squandering her bankeable skills due to her relationship with Prince William, I got to thinking....

did William really keep her hanging on for 7 yrs. with no guarantee of a wedding or engagement in sight? Would a young beautiful woman in this day and age really keep her life on hold for the next holiday with her boyfriend? Why the hell would her family basically pay for her to do this? She seemed to have no shortage of clothing, jewellery or spending money
Maybe the papers are right, the Middletons are social climbers willing to marry their daughter off to royalty, because there is no way in hell my family would pay for my education to have me wait around for my boyfriend to make up his mind.

Same for me Aitch and I feel the same butterflies I felt the second I saw my dh for the first time 11 years ago. Now I am 18 weeks pg, it may be something else also [cwink], but I am still ...emm... melt away when he smiles at me. [cblush]

they have done walkabouts together before though.

My husband and I married a month after we met. I knew the consequence of that. That my life and my family would never be in one place, that my heart would always be torn between two places, that it would become increasingly difficult, as the years went by, that my children would be, in many ways, foreign to me.

I still made the choice to do it. I don't expect anyone to feel sorry for me. I got everything I ever wanted.

no clue what you mean, expat.
what i mean is that i have always presumed that they had a similar deal, that they were in fact engaged but for the ring because not being engaged officially would allow them to keep the media at bay. seems much more likely to be that than her waiting to be asked while she made his dinner every night.

x-post there, expat. i don't feel sorry for you. i do feel sorry for her. i think being a royal must be a right pita compared to being an immensely wealthy posho on the fringes of royal society.

Your republican ranting looks really silly accessorised with crown adorned emoticons, you know.

She's not in bloody purdah, she's in the Goring Hotel with her mum and dad. Apart from the fact they can afford to rent the whole place (but then so many people take out exclusive use on wedding venues for entire weekends at mind boggling expense) there is nothing unusual about this at all. If you consider marriage to be regressive fullstop, fair enough. I think that is bonkers, though.

Yes they have Sybil, but here in the 1980s it is normal not to see your intended before the ceremony. The Middletons must share my retro nature.

Again, your opinion advanced as fact.