Was there anything Kate didn't excel at?

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Having read many articles Kate (pippa & James also) is so accomplished since she was tiny.
She is very sporty.. strong swimmer, excellent skier, hockey player, lacrosse, athletics, netball.. Plays piano very well & also was lead in schools drama production. Excelled at art.
It seems the Middleton's didn't do much in the way of equistrian sports?
Would love my dc to be as accomplished & well rounded. Can't afford Marlborough or any private for that matter!

Kate is more known for her sportiness than her piano playing.

Why are we all oooohing and ahhhing at how exceptional she is? She went to private school, she's an all rounder !
I know someone just as exceptional from state school and who have worked their arse off and are now very high up within an international organisation earning £150K. And younger than KM. (And others too)

What a waste to be so exceptional like KM and to do absolutely zilch with it.

My husband is like this. He is really good at anything he tries but is also really lazy. It’s infuriating.

Pegging

She's never held down a job

Never had to juggle work and childcare and cooking tea.

She's no role model

Ooh I get a drink too. I bet it wouldn't take long for someone to come on a 'positive' Kate thread and criticise her. Lots of things have changed on MN over the years but certain posters can always be relied upon

Having a job?
Earning her own money?

If you mean me, cheers! 🍷

Seriously though, I haven't criticised her, I just say it is not exceptional for a public school education when I know others who have done even better without that hoik up.

And we really shoulldn't be revering her as something outstandingly special.

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a9533617/kate-middleton-riding-horses/

She is certainly genetically advantaged in her looks, general sporting ability and general intelligence.

Maybe not exceptional in any of them, but the combination of them all together does make her impressive.

And then the circumstantial advantage of being born into an aspirational family with money which provided all the opportunities for her talents to be identified and honed.

She really has had an abundance of advantages. Genetic and circumstances.

She is known for one thing only. Marrying well. Unless she has forgotten to mention her Olympic medals???

I thought St Andrews is seen as a bit of a safe,respectable (and fun) university for people who have been taught well enough to get decent AL results but aren’t actually terribly bright or self motivated enough to cope with a very academic and competitive university.

It remains to be seen what she will do with all these exceptional qualities that she supposedly has.

Pippa went to Edinburgh uni, is this more elite than St Andrews?

Pressed too soon ……..so I wonder why she decided to change her well earned place at Edinburgh for a place in St Andrews.

www.thedailybeast.com/pippa-middleton-dating-britains-most-eligible-bachelor-george-percy

According to this article Pippa's set were known as the Castle Crew...

Err no it doesn't.
She's going to be The Queen.

All her qualities: looks, intelligence, physical ability, personality bagged her the future king.

That's pretty exceptional.

If it's true that she set out to bag Prince William, that shows pretty exceptional levels of Machiavellian planning and success.

That in itself would be impressive.

This is weird. While personally, I wouldn't say Kate "excels" at a lot of things, she's clearly a well rounded, relatively smart, hard worker who loves sport and has some natural athleticism that she's also put effort into.

As for these statements above, I just haven't seen any evidence of this. Her not being hugely good friends with William's friends - well, if anything, that speaks to her good sense as it was his friends who were insulting her and her mother pre engagement. I wouldn't want much to do with them either.

There's never been any suggestion she's lazy at all and the Queen did the thing where she awarded her that personal award/recognition that's completely at her discretion (and she didn't hand it out easily either). Arguably she could absolutely have done more royal duties earlier in her marriage but it's fairly obvious that she wasn't sitting around eating bonbons - she has hobbies, focuses on her children, takes part in things etc.

As for the researching her causes and visits... I've seen people complain that her visits are often quite short but the one thing I see and read about over and over again is that she's well informed, knows what's going on and understands the issues.

So this all does sound a bit sour grapes frankly.

Fair enough, I thought posters were discussing her educational qualities mainly, not her looks. Then again that is all some people seem quite hung on.

This sounds like something on the ThatHappened community on Reddit

Oooh I must look that one up!

Thank you!

@SavBlancTonight Interesting. I keep reading that Kate refuses to prepare or research for visits.

I’m afraid she’s not very good at the piano. As anyone who can play and has seen her play will tell you.

Which is fine, why should she be, it’s not her job, but it’s a bit sad when so much is made of her ability to poorly play a piece that any 8 year old who’s been learning a couple of years could.

That is why they recorded the piano playing at the carol service rather than doing it live. Makes sense, no one wants to embarrass her.