Unpopular Opinion - William and Kate

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Don't come at me, I'm sharing my unpopular opinion because I want to know what you all think but just don't see a spark between William & Kate.

Loved them since the day they starting dating way back when they were undergrads at St Andrews but I just don't see their connection in pictures and it seems a little forced when she has her hand on his back or when they do hold hands.

I don't expect them to hold hands and snog because I know they're mostly photographed whilst they're working but he looks bored and she looks like she's trying her best.

Does anyone agree with me?

They always look happy and very comfortable in each other’s company. The last thing they look is ‘forced’.

Let it alone. None of your business.

I don’t see a spark among many couple I know. Especially when they are working.

I totally disagree i think they look very happy together. They're often photographed laughing and smiling with each other. They seem very natural & relaxed definitely not forced

You see them in public with no idea how they operate in private. In public they are on official duty, I don't think anyone can judge a couple's connection based on that.

I think they look happy together but also know the proper etiquette for senior royal members to behave.

Agree op

Yes. I do. Whenever I see K in a picture it always looks like she's acting. Her training shows up a lot as well. Sit this way, stand this way, hold your head just so etc. Talk and smile them smile and talk. As a couple I think they can be as affectionate as they want to, despite it allegedly being protocol, they are a "happily" married couple so show it. Hold hands, stand close etc. But they don't and everyone just says it's because they aren't allowed to...🤔

They've been together twenty years, they've been married for 11 years and they've just inherited a huge job to go with their three young kids. They are not going to be nipping out of the hospice opening for a quick shag in the Range Rover. They seem entirely relaxed and in tune to me, which is what you would expect from a pin established couple verging on middle age.

I suspect my husband and I often look in public as if there's no spark. In fact we're totally in love and very happily married. We just tend to reserve the affection for private.

If I had to walk up and down, shaking hands and then listen to people bore on about my dead mother/now granny i’d be as brain dead as William. Especially as I’d rather be flying helicopters and rescuing people.
if I was photographed like Kate is I’d be turned out perfectly and smily all the time.

i do wonder what they do when they aren’t chatting ya ya with the great unwashed.

They are used to the no touching etiquette now so PDA will look strange I bet it feels strange to touch each other in public after years of not doing it

I think they have a strong adult relationship i.e. none of the dramatic/toxic pull of childhood attachment issues being played out between them. I think if you’ve been used to seeing relationships like the latter, a steady and healthy relationship can look quite boring and undramatic in comparison.

Yes I love them. But agree there has always been a bit of a distance. When he dumped her pre marriage I thought what an idiot. It was a sign that he didn’t feel that ‘can’t live without you’ feeling. When he got back with her I was pleased. But I worry about what may be a lack of passion on his part. She is lively Kate, but maybe too perfect and ‘chosen’ because of her stoicism and suitability to the role. However, I’m like that with my DH. Not very intimate, but best mates. A lot of marriages are like that.

Tbh it's probably better to always seem blandly comfortable in one another's presence than to be swoony one day and frosty another.

This clip did make me think it can't always be easy having to work with your spouse and be all smiles about it.

They look entirely comfortable and in tune with each other. So many people in the public eye seem to play their relationships out for the camera, hanging off each other, declaring undying devotion etc., that 'normal' interactions between happily married people are inclined to seem understated.

DH and I have been married for years, love each other to pieces but don't feel the need to put that on public display.

Thank you for the replies, very interesting to see what you think!

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake oh I remember this clip, caused a huge debate the following day after it aired - I read she was adjusting herself at the moment he touched her but definitely looked like a "don't touch me" move.

I think it’s because they are working, and very professional.

I think they are probably trying to remain professional and pretty neutral so that people don’t comment on them rather than the hospitals, institutions, projects they are visiting. They are meant to be bringing attention to the charity, not the other way around.

I agree with you. They appear more like friends, very little romantic connection visible between them. Like you said they don't have to be snogging or even holding hands, but I feel like when they make eye contact it's more like friends looking at each other than husband and wife. No twinkle in their eyes 😜

I'd presume they would have the official marriage, but then have a secret lover of that's they're thing, so to speak.

I respectfully disagree. They’ve been together for a very long time. I think they are well past the lovey dovey, cannot keep hands of each other phase. They seem very relaxed and comfortable in each other’s company.

I think being overly affectionate with each other in public can come and bite you in the backside. For example, the clip where Catherine shrugs William’s hand off her, if they had kept up their usual non PDA stance, nobody would have cause to speculate that something was wrong.

Similarly, because Harry and Meghan are very overly affectionate with each other, when Harry pulled his hand away from Meghan’s at the Mandela speech, it really looks like they’ve fallen out and had had a massive argument. It made Meghan look controlling and Harry look angry. If they were more cool with their PDA, no one would have suspected or speculated that they had fallen out.

I say this as someone who worked with DH and the speculation surrounding fallouts drove me crazy!

Twenty years together? Wow, where does the time go?

It must be horrible to have this level of public scrutiny on what appears to be a perfectly normal loving relationship. There are plenty of photos of them sharing a laugh, obviously happy in each others company, easy in their relationship. There is obviously etiquette to be observed on official engagements (thank heavens).

I think they look comfortable and at ease together.