What does Kate do?

[RoyalFamilyFan]

Just wondering if there is an article anywhere about what a typical day for Kate is? I remember seeing a typical weeks diary for Princess Diana when not on Royal tours. Diana's was full of gyms, exercise classes, beauty treatments and lunches. Just wondering if Kate's would look the same?

Course she smokes.

Not menthol though as they are Banned!

I only found this out recently and I was shocked.

Her interests (to my knowledge) are tennis, gardening, piano and cooking.

I could quite easily spend a lot of time indulging in those. I think she and Pippa have a regular tennis game. I also think she prefers to have friends over rather than meet them out so they don’t get papped.

And yes I think she is a hands on mum and spends a lot of time with the DC after school.

Your interest comes across as stalkerish.
If I told you of a few school mum friends and where they meet for morning coffee after drop off would you be pleased?
Her day is not different than that of the many wealthy London women I know.
They putz about and do stuff.

I heard she's mad in to building scale models of cathedrals out of matchsticks. She's worked her way through yer St Pauls and what have you, and is now on the midlands. Scotland next.

I don't get why you think you need to know.

Diana was much more public - the trips to the gym, the dance classes, the hairdresser trips, lunch at the Ivy.

Kate and William clearly want a quieter, private life. Rather than going to the gym very publicly, she may well go jogging around the garden, or has a cross trainer in the spare room. She invites friends over for lunch rather than going to the Ritz where everyone sees her. She might be into all sorts of things - knitting, drawing, matched betting, Pokemon Go, baking, gardening, doing online courses with Coursera, posting on Reddit, whatever.

But you don't have any right to know any of that, do you?

@cabingirl thanks

It would be interesting to know what she is really likes doing. She has 3 children, but plenty of help, so isn't busy all of the time. We don't know if she likes reading, she doesn't seem that keen on horses or dogs, she occasionally takes part in a token hockey game at a school.

I think she spends some of it daydreaming of being an ordinary mum, with an ordinary contented life.

@eddiemairswife

It would be interesting to know what she is really likes doing. She has 3 children, but plenty of help, so isn't busy all of the time. We don't know if she likes reading, she doesn't seem that keen on horses or dogs, she occasionally takes part in a token hockey game at a school.

I think all the Middleton's love dogs but not all quite as much as James:

James turned to dog breeding after his marshmallow business flopped.

That is an amazing photo with all those dogs.

@AmberLynn1536

The OP is obsessed with Kate but not in a fan girl way, that’s reserved for someone else. I really dislike your disingenuous way to discuss Kate, knowing there will be some unpleasant replies, in other words getting other people to do you dirty work, you are not as clever as you think OP.

Yes

@seekinglondonlife

James turned to dog breeding after his marshmallow business flopped.

I remember when every Farmer's Market seemed to have a stall selling expensive marshmallows. It was obviously a fad.

DOC has been pretty reticent and hasn't done lots of in-depth personal interviews etc - which I think is perfectly reasonable. Why should she have to tell the world about her daily routine?

Like @cabingirl I think we've got a good sense of what she's interested in from things that she has said and that have been said about her. And I'd agree with all the things she listed.

I also think that in some ways her life is not dissimilar to other wealthy women with significant charity involvement. So she's doing all the things Cabingirl mentioned (although I'd add that I get the sense she does spend a lot of time with both her mother and sister) but she's also spending time researching and learning about issues, keeping up to date with her patronages (and we're told repeatedly that, like Philip, she does keep up to date, is knowledge, engaged and supportive rather than swanning in every 6 months for a photo opportunity then disappearing again). I imagine there's regular meetings with her team to agree on what's happening, to catch up on planned activities, to review issues etc.

None of that "work stuff" is in any way a full time job, but I imagine it's a fairly substantial amount of time. I've done the odd bit as a volunteer and it's time consuming, and that's usually only agreeing to help one organisation for a specific event or activity.

Sit around looking flawless and tell mumsnet how to dress.

OP you're determinedly focussing on the most positive aspects of the Royal Family: Catherine and the behaviour of the royal family during the war. it's pitiful

For those saying she last did an engagement on 14th December. My plebby state educated broke up on the 17th. Some private schools have only just gone back today so the kids will likely have been around.

Catherine's family are very discreet and are not going to blab about the details of her life. The fact that her bil is the brother of that prat Spencer from Made in Chelsea and we hear nothing from them tells me all I need to know. Even Uncle Gary seems to keep stum.

Also, can you imagine the wifework?! I mean, sure, she has domestic staff and nannies and all the rest of it, but I bet that she's expected even more than the rest of the female population to remember every single one of his relative's birthdays, produce thoughtful and appropriate gifts, ensure they are delivered on time. Ditto, the minefield of the DC school with parent/teacher meetings, playdates, extracurricular must be x100 because a) she's probably watched like a hawk b) additional security issues come in c) her children, and her, will be judged more harshly and more quickly than any of the rest of us will experience etc (eg, 5 year old comes over for playdate, refuses to eat food that's served, isn't super polite, at most, there's some eye rolling by the host parent. Can you imagine if that's Charlotte? All the sniggers about "oooh, she has everything and she's a right little madam, isn't she" or the posh equivalent...). And William strikes me as an engaged dad but I'm 100% certain he's not taking on all this thinking and planning.

Honestly, the stuff for engagements will not take that much time. As I said I have prepared stuff for a high profile visit. I was surprised how much I had to prepare including the briefing sheet. And I liaised with pa who said exactly what was needed and if what was provided was acceptable.
Of course it is some work to read all this pre-prepared stuff, but not as much as some of you seem to think. Hair, makeup and getting dressed up will take as long. Because of course she is expected to look perfect.

@BlingLoving they all have personal pa's. TBH I would prefer a pa to a chef or even a cleaner.

For some people I don't think you can underestimate the emotional toll of certain jobs and activities and how much time it takes stressing about and worrying about things.

In all the jobs I've had over the years the easiest ones were sometimes the longest hours and most physically demanding because it was really clear what needed to be done and once the hours were done I didn't have to think about it any more.

Whereas some part-time jobs I've spent hours extra planning, thinking and worrying about it outside of work hours to get it right.

For me - the pressure of getting dressed up to be photographed and talked about by the press, while meeting a world leader and expecting to make small talk through a banquet would be a nightmare. It would be far more stressful than my regular job/life.

It always amazes me when people think those public roles are easy or fun.

@Hibye23289

Do you think they have normal sex? Or would it have to be prim and proper. Like I just can't imagine her giving oral. I'm sorry, I've lowered the tone!

I remember seeing something on Twitter about how to remember who was who between the Cambridges and Sussexes. One suggestion was that one couple looks like they enjoy playing bridge and the other looks like they enjoy sex.

Even just rich people have pa's to do a lot of this stuff.

@cabingirl I think it suits some people and is other people's worst nightmare. I used to be friendly with the wife of a City Sheriff. They did almost daily engagements of visiting some event or group. She loved it and so did he. And it sounded like lots of small talk every day. But they both had the type of personalities to enjoy that kind of thing. They did it for about 8 years before retiring because of age - it was always retired people who did it because there was only a small allowance for clothes and no pay. So no one working could afford to do it. Dont know if that is still the case.

@RoyalFamilyFan

Honestly, the stuff for engagements will not take that much time. As I said I have prepared stuff for a high profile visit. I was surprised how much I had to prepare including the briefing sheet. And I liaised with pa who said exactly what was needed and if what was provided was acceptable. Of course it is some work to read all this pre-prepared stuff, but not as much as some of you seem to think. Hair, makeup and getting dressed up will take as long. Because of course she is expected to look perfect.

Engagement prep does not take as much time as if she was doing it herself, of course. But as with any management role, there is a time to it. Not just to read and absorb the information, but to be part of the planning stages including setting the tone and direction and strategy for the team to translate into actions. The hair, make up, clothing issues will be time consuming for her too. The rest of us can spend hours planning and prepping for a major event, and while someone else might research and get the pieces in, there's still time required to try stuff on, make decisions, have it altered, debate it's appropriateness etc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting this is a 50 hour a week job. But it's more than just a quick one hour before she turns up for an engagement.

I have a PA. She is amazing. She takes an incredible LOAD off me in my professional life. I would never be without her. But please don't for one second think that having a PA means that the mental load, the decision making, the responsibility etc doesn't still sit with me. In Kate's case, I imagine that is even more true. Just because she's not necessarily spending an hour browsing in a toy shop to buy the exactly right present for George's friend's birthday, doesn't mean that it's not still on her plate or that she isn't making the final decisions off the back of a selection of options.