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Kate's Official Response to the Netflix Documentary

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KateBain · 16/12/2022 08:37

Keep calm and carry on

Kate's Official Response to the Netflix Documentary
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Judetiff · 18/12/2022 18:04

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Plumbuddle · 18/12/2022 18:12

ghjklo · 16/12/2022 10:37

has anyone heard her opinion on anything at all? not that you need to have causes as a RF member, but she strikes me as so unbelievably dull and robot like. where is the personality? she is but a doll.

Just very occasionally, she shows sides that express her individuality. I was personally quite struck that she went (seemingly slightly under the radar) to the mourning/demo for Sarah Everard. But of course all of the family and their satellites are constantly on stage. You can only be grateful when they don't seek attention. In 60 years I don't think I've seen our press so dominated by their narratives, it's appalling. I wish it would stop and then I get sucked into stories about it! 😂

antelopevalley · 18/12/2022 18:13

@ghjklo Just heard her talking about feeling broody. Nothing else.

Spectre8 · 18/12/2022 18:16

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It shouldn't happen at all!!! Thats the point they are making, that kit only has the level of media abuse gone to another level but why is it allowed to keep happening.

Just because the others have gone through it why should women coming into the rf have to.

Bugbabe1970 · 18/12/2022 18:24

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PeaceJoySleep · 18/12/2022 18:25

Eduardo and Jack weren't scrutinised for marrying beatrice/eugenie.
I know they're further down the line but they are princesses. It is so misogynist and I hope that whoever George marries isn't hated by the media

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 18/12/2022 18:27

vera99 · 18/12/2022 12:09

That link that I posted from a 2011 Mail article triggered a MN autosensor bot. It would appear what was fair game in the British tabloids by the Mails now chief Royal Correspondent is being airbrushed by the media including MN in 2022. Not that I meant anything scurrilous by linking it but it highlights the sensitivity of defending the Crown from each any any robust debate. Diana and now H and M are right to feel paranoid at the forces they have unleashed they are very real and powerful.

Wait a minute.

You’re suggesting that the RF commissioned a piece of work that detects negative articles about W&C - which would be a very specialist bespoke software - then they’ve ensured that non-affiliated websites such as MN, actually have this platform as a plug in to automatically detect and delete any articles that have been picked up?

Thats quite a stretch. And if it were true then it would allow a link to be posted in the first place, unless it was a REALLY shot software.

But tell us more - do the RF pay MN et al for using this software? How does it work in practice?

Blossomtoes · 18/12/2022 18:30

Mumkins42 · 18/12/2022 18:02

Exactly this.

One is subject to racism online and in the media at an appalling level. One is harassed and berated continually. One has two children she now has to worry about in terms of safety and experiences of said racism and abuse. One has minimal family and institutional support. One speaks out against said treatment and then is absolutely vilified for it. The other one now receives an obscene amount of pocket money from the Duchy Estate. Maybe I'd be smiling and keeping that stiff upper lip like a good girl too in that position.

It seems the hatred on here, in the media and online towards Meghan is greater than that towards pervy Andrew.

“One”?! 😂

Bugbabe1970 · 18/12/2022 18:30

Maybe she just loves her family and wants to do the best job she can!

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 18/12/2022 18:32

vera99 · 18/12/2022 12:30

The Mail article provides the context and background and scurrilously but not profanely describes Kates year as yatch deckhand amongst rich customers. It also defends her whole innocence in such matters. I personally don't see so called yatch girls as prostitutes nor do I have any knowledge of that world.That is my last word on the subject and probably but out of the Royal threads for a while. I don't want Special Branch knocking on the door....

No one is buying your faux innocence.

Your comment was deleted because people reported it and MNHQ found that you broke talk guidelines. Not because some gremlin in the bowels of Buckingham Palace is out to silence you

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 18/12/2022 18:34

wishingyouwell · 18/12/2022 13:50

Surpassing relatives in their 70s, 80s and 90s for royal engagements would have been a great start. Their stats from 2011 to now are appalling. They read 'lazy' and 'entitled'.

That’s your opinion, you know that’s not a fact, right?

MarshaMelrose · 18/12/2022 18:39

Mumkins42 · 18/12/2022 18:02

Exactly this.

One is subject to racism online and in the media at an appalling level. One is harassed and berated continually. One has two children she now has to worry about in terms of safety and experiences of said racism and abuse. One has minimal family and institutional support. One speaks out against said treatment and then is absolutely vilified for it. The other one now receives an obscene amount of pocket money from the Duchy Estate. Maybe I'd be smiling and keeping that stiff upper lip like a good girl too in that position.

It seems the hatred on here, in the media and online towards Meghan is greater than that towards pervy Andrew.

I'm lost. Who are these 6 people?

wishingyouwell · 18/12/2022 18:40

@LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet The stats are facts, yes. The woman is lazy as is the husband. It''s unfortunate and highly irritating.

bakalava · 18/12/2022 18:42

I'm lost. Who are these 6 people?

Half a coven dozen.

wishingyouwell · 18/12/2022 18:43

I wonder what would happen if Charlotte married a black South African man? @LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet and the likes may just self-combust.

Plumbuddle · 18/12/2022 18:46

antelopevalley · 16/12/2022 12:26

@lookluv Except William has publicly criticised Diana in public. That really was not nice. I know the Royal Family hate her, but sad to see him joining in.

Do you mean when he described her paranoia? I thought that was a compassionate reference to a mental health condition. When he said that it really conjured up for me the terrible psychological impact on those young boys of a parent's pain and MH condition. The ages they were, W had more understanding but sadly it shaped Harry's own psychological development in a negative way. I did not experience W as joining in to hating her at all. What came over to me was the awful repercussions on children of the perverted abuse of D by Bashir.

wishingyouwell · 18/12/2022 18:47

@LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet No it's not an opinion, the stats on royal engagements since 2011 tell the work shikers' story. It's very inconvenient for you I'm sure.

AreOttersJustWetCats · 18/12/2022 18:47

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 18/12/2022 18:34

That’s your opinion, you know that’s not a fact, right?

It's not an opinion that Kate does far fewer engagements than most of the other senior royals. Anne seems to typically do 350+ per year, in her 70s, and Charles does similar. The Duchess of Cambridge did just 119 engagements in 2021. Not every engagement is a full day's work - many are just an hour or so.

TrixieMixie · 18/12/2022 18:51

Why do people care so much about a family they don't know? I work hard for a living and as far as I'm concerned the 'feud' between two rich and overprivileged women who are only in the public eye because of their husbands is a bunch of shite. Just a slightly posher version of Rooney v Vardey. I will read about it up to a point - as I did with RvV, for the entertainment value but I wouldn't waste my time watching the Netflix. I was sad when the Queen died as I would be about any public figure who had done the nation service. But I am baffled why some people seem so over-invested in the Royals.

Isinglass20 · 18/12/2022 18:54

Inspecto
”…..where is the heroism…..”
I think you’ll find that the Monarchy believed and so did the Church that their right to reign was god given: the divine right of kings hence the consecration by oil in the Coronation service in Westminster Abbey. There was nothing heroic. Even with the restoration of the monarchy after Cromwell’s republic the monarchy was not held in high regard. It was Prince Albert who sought to improve the image as did George VI and the Elizabeth II

HAVELOCK · 18/12/2022 18:54

PAFMO · 16/12/2022 09:39

Or one that's not having to deal with racism.

You’re joking right?? MM is whiter than the Princess of Wales. Funny how she uses that race card regularly and yet she married the famously racist “royal” 🤣🤣

AreOttersJustWetCats · 18/12/2022 19:00

HAVELOCK · 18/12/2022 18:54

You’re joking right?? MM is whiter than the Princess of Wales. Funny how she uses that race card regularly and yet she married the famously racist “royal” 🤣🤣

Yet somehow, despite being apparently "whiter than the princess of wales", her young baby was compared to a monkey. And headlines described her as "straight outta Compton" somewhere she has never lived.

Your racism is showing.

pelargoniums · 18/12/2022 19:02

HAVELOCK · 18/12/2022 18:54

You’re joking right?? MM is whiter than the Princess of Wales. Funny how she uses that race card regularly and yet she married the famously racist “royal” 🤣🤣

I could play racism bingo with your post alone, let alone the whole thread.

Comedycook · 18/12/2022 19:03

MM is whiter than the Princess of Wales

Please explain what you mean by this and what on earth possessed you to write it?

Plumbuddle · 18/12/2022 19:04

elfies · 16/12/2022 15:19

I think Kate suffered injustice far longer than Megan did . Not colour prejudice but Class victimisation , her family too . Harry saw this happening and thought of Kate as a 'sister', so must have seen the injustice . Why then is he making her life a misery by pointing the finger at her now . Harry you're just as two faced as your other half and deserve all that comes to you .

I find Harry's preparedness to have Kate belittled and held up as a target for spite (and particularly spite from women) in public, to be really one of the worst things he has done. There is simply no evidence of her having been anything but kind to him historically speaking.

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