Kate's Official Response to the Netflix Documentary

[KateBain]

Keep calm and carry on

The context behind this was that a poster made a comment that was straight up racist, and then claimed a "witch hunt" when they were told they'd been racist. Your examples are not applicable.

just wondering where one would find this info!

The Court Circular is a revealing source.

Apparently lots of me-time between telephone call 'engagements'.

The context behind this was that a poster made a comment that was straight up racist, and then claimed a "witch hunt" when they were told they'd been racist. Your examples are not applicable.

I don't care about the context. I'm interested in the poster's statement that stands on its own - that they've never been accused of racism because they've never said anything racist. Ergo, if you don't do something wrong, then you'll never be accused of it.
I've just demonstrated that's a very naive and simplistic statement. It's actually easier than ever to be accused of something you haven't done. And, therefore, just because you've been accused, it doesn't mean you committed the act.

There's a chap called Tim O'Donovan who tots them up each year for each of the Royals and it gets published in The Times. He's been doing it since 1979, apparently as a hobby!

@Aspiringmatriarch thank you!

If anyone’s got too much time on their hands it’s Mr O’Donovan!

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

A childless George would simply result in the crown passing to the next up in much the same way as Great Granny would have eventually clicked had the 1936 abdication never happened.

I think she is probably pleasant enough but I don't think she has any depth. For me, she is probably the most over-rated woman on the planet. Girl next door pretty after a nose job, cosmetic dentistry and chock full of botox and filler. No great shakes on the work front ever and was so desperate to marry for status and privilege that she put up with a lot whilst she and William were dating including him dumping her to chase other girls, allowing his friends to ridicule her etc whilst her parents paid out mega-bucks to keep her available at the drop of a hat and able to run with William's crowd. Once they got the goose that laid the golden egg, Carole and Kate weren't going to let go. I think Kate made a deal with the devil but she is happy with what she has, especially as her image has been sanitised so much that she is akin to the Virgin Mary! Professionally, she isn't a patch on Rania, Letizia, Maxima, Mary or Mathilde who all worked before marriage and whose confidence, carriage and charisma speak for themselves. Kate is very beige by comparison and the winsome, homely, goody two-shoes shtick she has going on is wearing thin as she gets older. I haven't seen any evolution. She is in an excellent position to have really done much more for people but she has done the least she could get away with. She lives in a bubble and is very protected (the old silent covenant between senior royals and the Press) and sadly, I don't think she will develop further.

I wonder why everyone feels the need to pick a side. In my opinion, both are right and both are wrong in their own way.
Kate, from whatever little we know and see, grew up in a stable home, has two siblings who have gone on to make their mark in their own way, very sensible parents and a upper middle class upbringing of good schools, college and a good life. She grew up to be who she is today because of the environment she grew up in and she's the perfect mould for someone who is going to be Queen someday.
Megan, on the other hand, had a different upbringing. Parents divorcing when she was young, being raised by a single mum, a mixed race background that would have come with its own challenges especially in that day and age, her foray in movies/tv and trying to find roles that would suit her plus an extended family that seems to have its set of issues with her and vice versa. It's a very different story altogether and of course one is British, the other American. And we know how different these two cultures are!

There is nothing wrong with either of them. They are who they are from the experiences they have had in their life and they are doing what they think is best for them and their family now - one supporting her future husband and playing her role diligently as future Queen and the other who found all this too stifling and wanted to live her life on her own terms.

We are in 2022. We speak so much about being kind when we saw people like Caroline Flack take her own life and yet we cannot leave alone two women who are equally in the public eye. Even if you think one of them is wrong in your opinion, who are we to throw stones at them?

It's all PR because they don't want to lose public funding! Don't believe in the system it's outdated. Monarchy should be abolished and they should get real jobs like us peasants. The Crown Estate technically belongs to the state and money could be made from all those buildings.

True but Anne was a high level competitive equestrienne and even represented us at the Olympics! This in addition to her charity work and small children (at the time).

Well said

The Crown Estate was given to the treasury by the monarchy. It would be interesting to see the reaction if they decided they wanted it back.

She also only ever dated and married white guys, has publicly celebrated having her dads pointed nose, straightens her Afro hairy and puts CAUCASIAN on her CV. But she plays the race card when she wants to be a victim. She’s a disgrace to people who really do suffer racism and is doing them no favours at all.

Hey, you might think of yourself as a peasant but I'm not. I've met members of the royal family and they've been very courteous and spoken to me respectfully.
Don't project your feelings of inadequacy onto other people.

Yes, she was. Bone Cancer. It was fairly well know gif at least a year before she did. Along with Camillas Parkinson’s- both stories broke and were shut down at the same time.

😂😂😂 Do you think this is one of those identifying hobbies some MNers talk about their husbands doing?

Well H&M we’re in the same position, and they did. But then he did only get 13mil from mummy and daddy has stopped giving him money now. Brat.

The crown estate and their personal property portfolio are different things they wont suddenly become poor if they lost their royal status tomorrow

Girl next door pretty after a nose job, cosmetic dentistry and chock full of botox and filler. No great shakes on the work front ever and was so desperate to marry for status and privilege that she put up with a lot whilst she and William were dating including him dumping her to chase other girls, allowing his friends to ridicule her etc whilst her parents paid out mega-bucks to keep her available at th

Honestly, the vitriol and bullshit from some posters is ridiculous. Aren’t you embarrassed?

Also I highly doubt she’s had the cosmetic work done you claim but even if she needed it - are you suggesting she’d be it as likeable if she were ugly?

And what’s wrong with having Botox and fillers?

“I am guessing you follow gymnastics and/or figure skating from those comments? Sports where maintaining a pre-pubescent body shape for as long as possible helps massively with the physics involved in performing elite skills? Not all women’s sports are like that any more.”

Olympic level women swimmers have talked about body checks, weigh in, limited eating and developing eating disorders as a result.

I experienced it myself as a swimmer, when training one day, as I was getting out of the water coach said to me, ‘bit of a belly, cut back the bread and smaller portions at meals.’

That was many years ago, but it was when I’d just started ‘developing’ as they used to say. I was completely unaware of how my body looked until that moment. Before that moment it was simply the thing that I lived in that helped me jump, dance, swim etc.

I do not think it’s a good thing to point out anything regarding women’s bodies bodies, or question whether or not they have eating disorders. Nor would I put up pictures of them that are meant to focus on their physiques - to prove a point.

This all happened in her early-mid 20’s. Catherine is over 40

How do you know who she’s dated?

I don’t blame her for putting Caucasian on her CV in a racist America where mixed race actresses chances of getting a part are so much slimmer than white actresses.

As the mother of mixed race children - she’s not damaging anyone at all. Unless you’re black, that’s not your stake to claim.

Well I go off facts not flash in the pan stories with absolutely no evidence whatsoever

If George was gay he would end up in a lavender marriage.