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?

It didn't last long though!

No, but she doesn’t seem to want to come back to the UK 🤷‍♀️

We'll live.

Oh yes. I meant more that if she was genuinely overawed and uncomfortable with the reality of the RF hierarchy, she doesn’t feel comfortable in coming back

I think she's realised that all the plans she and Haz had for shaking up the RF weren't going to happen and that she was up against something a lot bigger and more complex than she'd realised/

I had a colleague do what MM did. She was hired to do my job when I resigned, and before she'd even learned it she was deciding how much better she could do it and all the changes she'd make.

She lasted about as long as MM did.

I’m just so curious about her psychology. She is a study in something. Certainly narcissism is part of it but such overweening self absorption and self belief despite all evidence to the contrary is really quite fascinating.

I agree @EvangelistaSister it is a fascinating study of human psychology

I think she has an indestructible self-belief and confidence, which served her well in her career. Everything was planned out and it worked. Then she married and for some reason (fascinating in itself) she did no research on what she was going into, when any common sense would have told her 'this is something completely out of your experience, take your time.' She treated it as if it were a new role - an audition, rehearsal and then she's the big star. Why should she research it? she's always aced it before.

I said at the time and I still reckon that the move to the UK was to pressure PH into making them official and she took absolutely no time to absorb what was expected of her. She also doesn't listen to advice (neither of them do); which is why they're lurching from one Big Idea to the next.

Can happily do without her but it's a bit sad for Harry, Charles and the children. He will regret that in time, and if she is the one standing in the way...!

I see her own dad is turning or has turned 80. I think her going NC with him speaks volumes about her character. He raised her on his own for years, he got her the best education. He was tempted by money to be rather more open than was wise, and this is what he gets. Well Meghan, the apple did not fall far from the tree, did it?

Wasn't it said that she threatened to split up with him if he didn't go public with the relationship?

I agree, it really is fascinating,

She treated it as if it were a new role - an audition, rehearsal and then she's the big star.

This is exactly how she comes across, she is inordinately and obviously so contrived, she seems to have no real sense of self.

She doesn't feel comfortable coming back because she knows the reception she would get, after all she has done!

On that day the Old Queen died were car travelling, listening to the news as it broke. I heard reports that H&M had announced that they were going to do an "inspect the flowers" appearance. This then became a foursome, with W&C attending to prevent a H&M ( Netflux) coup. Hence C's pissed-offness.
Did anyone else hear or pick up.on this?

Spare says there was no conversation in the car.

Dunno but it has the hallmarks of their MO at the time - briefing the press about what they're going to do and making decisions without reference to the rest of the family. The same happened when the family flew up to Balmoral.

She glares pointedly at Meghan forva few seconds. If you ever thought C was a softie...

I don't think Kate's a softie. I think she has a core of pure stainless steel, like QEQM. And I think that like QEQM you cross her at your peril.

I don't think she has the depth of character to realise that.
She just doesn't come across as sincere.

Those words 'depth of feeling people obviously had for the late Queen' have just reminded me of that long queue filing past the coffin and the way some of us became almost addicted to watching it.

She’s done exactly what she accuses him of, betraying her. Only she’s done it on a much much bigger scale. She’s betrayed and sold all of Harry’s family for her own gain. At least her father loves her. She certainly has no care or consideration at all for Harry’s family.

I know, yet the total irony of it seems lost on her!

It seems to me, as if part of the problem is that MM thought the UK was the same as in the US, but we have a very different history/customs/traditions, that I do not think she grasped at all.

@EvangelistaSister I agree. I wonder what on earth makes her mind tick. Some of her behaviour is just bizarre.

She knew that kingship (or queenship) was not in the end about the palaces and the art and the jewels, it was about service; which was why she signed her Platinum Jubilee letter 'Your Servant, Elizabeth.'

I actually found that very moving, @MrsDanversGlidesAgain. Bearing in mind that she must have known her life was drawing to a close it was an insight - though there'd been others - into exactly how she saw her role

Another was the comment (I think it might have been the Lord Chamberlain) that this was a lady who didn't take herself too seriously, but who took her role very seriously indeed

Even while as a republican I oppose that role, it still leaves space for admiration for the way she carried it out ...

@Puzzledandpissedoff what a lovely post. I agree with your points. I didn't know that was how she finally signed off, that's so touching.
To Elizabeth, it was about service, but she did have a good sense of humour - the James Bond skit and the Paddington sketch demonstrated that well!