Kate's Official Response to the Netflix Documentary

[KateBain]

Keep calm and carry on

I personally don’t see the problem with Kate doing less engagements atm.
I just think while her kids are young then take the chance to spend time with them, because the role she’s signed up for doesn’t have a retiring age.
Maybe W&K want to be as hands on as possible with their kids, to raise them in a close loving family, so there’s none of this heir and spare shit going on in 20 years time.
Makes sense to me personally. I’ll reassess in 15 years time

I seriously do not get the love for Kate. I feel very sorry for her tbh. Poor woman looks miserable most of the time.

It’s also about history, national identity and appreciation of being a sovereign nation for many. Your opinion isn’t the only one, no matter how in vogue it is to rip into the RF.

What would happen if George was gay? Isn't his duty to provide an heir and spare?

And here we are. What an awful and totally unnecessary way to speak about someone.

Kings have died childless before. As have queens. It just goes to the next in line.

Looks miserable most of the time? Really? No, but really? Despite ALL the evidence to the contrary?

In a truly modern, streamlined monarchy – “we’re very much not a homophobic family” type of thing – he could marry (King and King Consort) and they could adopt, or pursue surrogacy. In reality, another arranged marriage à la Charles and Di, but the third person in the marriage would be a man rather than a woman.

In my ideal future we’d knock the monarchy on the head long before Wills hits the throne; the whole thing is pointless and bonkers.

“Kate has spent her entire life since she met William smiling serenely”
You miss a very important key word there - public, her entire public life… you have no idea what she is doing for the great majority of her life. From what I’ve seen when she and William are together she isn’t smiling serenely, she’s roaring with laughter, they seem great together. Are any of us d as hoeing our true selves when working? I certainly behave differently at home than I do in my professional capacity, so does Kate I’m sure.

Just like her mum who planned for years for her to marry William

yes Carol Middleton did a great job of producing 3 children who all married very rich partners without having very successful jobs themselves.

i think this too.

Catherine clearly had a happy childhood growing up and wants her kids to experience the same.

William clearly had a miserable childhood growing up and wants better for his kids.

Its more than fair they want to spend time with their children and also prepare those children, particularly George, for the lifelong role they will have.

Weve seen what happens when Monarchs are detached from their children and the resulting adults they turn into. Absolutely fair W&C want to start a change in that way of life

I’ve said this before but she, through no fault of her own, has a bitchy resting face. I don’t think it’s misery - she’s smiley often enough!

No, Kate’s dealing with misogyny instead - and mainly from other women. Meghan is ‘playing’ a race card and it’s sad to see and really damaging for people who are actually suffering racism.

They’re an upper middle class family. Most upper middle class people marry upper middle class people.

Ive see it all now. Criticising the Middletown’s for not marrying cleaner or KFC workers.

James did try bless him with his marshmallows 😂

Well, the phrase “playing the race card” and belittling her experiences of racism as not “actual” are both in themselves racist, so…

There was racism from the press. No doubt about it. I tell my mixed race kids not that they do not have to listen to or believe everyone’s opinion is relevant and ignorant people’s comments are certainly not relevant. Same applies here. I would never tell them one racist comment make the whole world racist. WRT Meghan, I don’t believe there’s as much racism as is being made out but there was definitely not no racism.

The minute someone uses the words "playing the race card" it tells me everything I need to know about their character and motivations.

You say Kate dealt with misogyny instead - do you think Meghan didn't?

@wishingyouwell I actually think I’d like an apology for accusing me of being racist.

I’ll wait.

Meghan has got what she’s always wanted - a celebrity life in LA. I think she was shocked when she realised that being a royal was less red carpets and more cutting ribbons at a hospice in Middlesbrough - so she high tailed it back to LaLa land and took her daft fame ticket with her.
She’s a beautiful clever lady with an unattractive dumb man but he’s the means to the end and hard done by she’s not.

OK, then compare William and Kate to Charles and Diana at the same age/stage. They do less than half the number of engagements.

I don't have strong feelings about it one way or another, but they're pretty part-time working Royals if you ask me. There's a happy medium between workaholic and lazy and I would have to put them on the lazy end of that spectrum, personally. Or maybe that's too much of a personal judgement. I can't say what exactly they're like as individuals but in their public role they do appear to feel less is more.

James did try bless him with his marshmallows 😂
He really did. Poor James, I think he's had a few issues. Seems to be settled happily now.

Out of curiosity where did you get your data? Not questioning it just wondering where one would find this info!

If they did do half as much as Diana and Charles did - well look at how utterly miserable the latter two were. And how unhappy the boys were. I don’t blame them for not wanting the same lifestyle.

He’s spoken out a lot about mental health having suffered from depression. I believe he advocates for therapy pets as well.

For everyone criticising the Middletown, you need to remember that none of them asked for this judgement and scrutiny. For Pippa and James, they have become accidentally famous by virtue of who their sister went out with. Same with the parents. Very unfair to attack them when you don’t know them. Especially when they have taken the opportunity of their unwanted game to do charity work and advocate for MH issues.

Is that true, though? That you just have to not do something and you'll never be accused?

Haven't there been a load of convicted murderers released from gaol because they were subsequently proved innocent. How many people are accused of offences and found not guilty? How many people on MN say they've been accused of illegal acts by their ex-spouses which aren't true?

I've seen threads on here where celebrity has made allegations against an unnamed attacker and people have been happy to name individuals and call them rapists, often based on no more than they think they look creepy. Indeed, Harry made an accusation of racism against one unnamed RF member. I've seen people on here say it's, Charles, Anne, Camilla and William. They even accused Philip until Harry ruled that out. Only one person was guilty but all were called racist for the comment. And it might not even have been one of them that said it.

An anonymous twitter account started the William affair rumour. A gossip site started the Meghan yacht girl rumour. Neither are guilty of those accusations but people still repeat them.

Lord McAlpine was openly accused of being a paedophile on twitter. Lots of people accused him of it. It wasn't true. Sally Bercow had to pay £310,000 in damages as did others.

Carl Beech accused a number of men of being in a paedophile ring, of torture and murder. The Met police said they believed his allegations. Those men had their homes raided, dying loved ones questioned, lost jobs and reputations. Some died not knowing if they'd always be branded as a paedophile. Or their wives died with perhaps some doubt of whom they were married to. On MN, as indeed across all social media, people openly said that they were all paedophiles and they'd always known that was the case. I saw people who hadn't even been named branded as a paedophile all because they were of that age or political leaning. There will be people on here today who will still believe it....because they read it on twitter.

You seem very smug that because you haven't committed a certain act, you'll never be accused. I guess that's what all these others thought too.

MarshaMelrose, great post.