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William says Kate always looks stunning.

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jeffgoldblum · 21/04/2023 13:08

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Pardon the Apple News link !
I saw this earlier and I might be a big romantic but it really touched me ! 🥹
It was very a very heartfelt and unneeded comment and for me shows that he's still wild about her after all this time they have been together.

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Wellfedandfedup · 21/04/2023 19:47

summerfinn · 21/04/2023 19:33

Kate is stunning. Anyone who says differently is blind. But yes she has had a nose job but was still beautiful beforehand

I think she's had a very subtle nose job too.

BranchGold · 21/04/2023 19:48

I think she’s naturally very good looking and attractive.

I think a lot of people aren’t aware of how advanced good cosmetic procedures are now, in creating a ‘natural’ beauty.

‘No one is ugly, only poor.’ Is very much a prevailing quote if you’re into the beauty/celebrity culture.

WhatHoMarjorie · 21/04/2023 19:49

Beauty certainly is subjective. I think Kate is an attractive looking woman whose looks have been elevated by the kind of high end grooming that is accessible to the uber rich. And her children are nice looking kids, healthy and smiley, but not any more special looking than most kids you'll see in the park this weekend.

ThePoetsWife · 21/04/2023 19:55

William is a cheater and is well,known to have a very nasty temperConfused

MouthfulofMidwinter · 21/04/2023 19:57

Hilary Mantel has it spot on, for me:

Antoinette as a royal consort was a gliding, smiling disaster, much like Diana in another time and another country. But Kate Middleton, as she was, appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished. When it was announced that Diana was to join the royal family, the Duke of Edinburgh is said to have given her his approval because she would ‘breed in some height’. Presumably Kate was designed to breed in some manners. She looks like a nicely brought up young lady, with ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ part of her vocabulary. But in her first official portrait by Paul Emsley, unveiled in January, her eyes are dead and she wears the strained smile of a woman who really wants to tell the painter to bugger off. One critic said perceptively that she appeared ‘weary of being looked at’....

...Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect bride to perfect mother, with no messy deviation. When her pregnancy became public she had been visiting her old school, and had picked up a hockey stick and run a few paces for the camera. BBC News devoted a discussion to whether a pregnant woman could safely put on a turn of speed while wearing high heels. It is sad to think that intelligent people could devote themselves to this topic with earnest furrowings of the brow, but that’s what discourse about royals comes to: a compulsion to comment, a discourse empty of content, mouthed rather than spoken. And in the same way one is compelled to look at them: to ask what they are made of, and is their substance the same as ours.'

TaLooLaBell · 21/04/2023 20:10

She's very pretty

malapast · 21/04/2023 20:12

ShamedBySiri · 21/04/2023 13:40

Aww that's lovely. I see she was wearing earrings which I think had been a Christmas gift from William but I'd lay money Charlotte influenced the choice. She wore them on Christmas Day of course.

Oi Robin Hood wants his hat back - one who robs from the poor to pay for the rich....

Clarabella77 · 21/04/2023 20:13

Sudeko · 21/04/2023 15:15

Exactly, but it's still not a given. She is still very disciplined and listens to their advice instead of doing her own thing. She is doing her best to look her best which can get boring after a while but she keeps on doing it which is an achievement.

Why in 2023 are we still saying that looking good is an achievement for a woman. For Kate it is partly duty, for other people it's a choice or good genes. I find it depressing that conventional beauty is often still the most celebrated aspect of a woman's life

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 21/04/2023 20:14

As would they majority of use if we have the resources and means as she does.

derxa · 21/04/2023 20:15

MouthfulofMidwinter · 21/04/2023 19:57

Hilary Mantel has it spot on, for me:

Antoinette as a royal consort was a gliding, smiling disaster, much like Diana in another time and another country. But Kate Middleton, as she was, appeared to have been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, with a perfect plastic smile and the spindles of her limbs hand-turned and gloss-varnished. When it was announced that Diana was to join the royal family, the Duke of Edinburgh is said to have given her his approval because she would ‘breed in some height’. Presumably Kate was designed to breed in some manners. She looks like a nicely brought up young lady, with ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ part of her vocabulary. But in her first official portrait by Paul Emsley, unveiled in January, her eyes are dead and she wears the strained smile of a woman who really wants to tell the painter to bugger off. One critic said perceptively that she appeared ‘weary of being looked at’....

...Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was capable of transforming herself from galumphing schoolgirl to ice queen, from wraith to Amazon. Kate seems capable of going from perfect bride to perfect mother, with no messy deviation. When her pregnancy became public she had been visiting her old school, and had picked up a hockey stick and run a few paces for the camera. BBC News devoted a discussion to whether a pregnant woman could safely put on a turn of speed while wearing high heels. It is sad to think that intelligent people could devote themselves to this topic with earnest furrowings of the brow, but that’s what discourse about royals comes to: a compulsion to comment, a discourse empty of content, mouthed rather than spoken. And in the same way one is compelled to look at them: to ask what they are made of, and is their substance the same as ours.'

Hilary Mantel was very bitter and jealous just like a lot on here.

WhatHoMarjorie · 21/04/2023 20:17

derxa · 21/04/2023 20:15

Hilary Mantel was very bitter and jealous just like a lot on here.

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Hilary Mantel woz wel jel of Princess Kate. She achieved nothin' in her own life!

Iwasafool · 21/04/2023 20:17

derxa · 21/04/2023 20:15

Hilary Mantel was very bitter and jealous just like a lot on here.

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She does sound quite nasty in that piece.

ratherbepaddleboarding · 21/04/2023 20:20

DuchessOfSausage · 21/04/2023 15:04

She is not a born beauty
It's in the eye of the beholder, and I think she is beautiful.

Not a fan of Kate or any of the Royals, but this seems like a snarky comment.

She is an attractive woman and always has been - she's fit and toned, she has good teeth, good skin, lovely hair. Whatever people may think of her I don't she she could ever be described as unattractive.

Also have no real opinion on Meghan, but I certainly didn't notice her "facially improving"'when joining the RF. She was already a successful actress and fairly "polished".

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 21/04/2023 20:20

derxa · 21/04/2023 20:15

Hilary Mantel was very bitter and jealous just like a lot on here.

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Yes, hers was definitely an empty life defined by her looks.

Grapewrath · 21/04/2023 20:24

I think Kate is very plain.
always makes me laugh when people calll her’natural’ because the signs she’s had Botox are glaringly obvious (no hate I also use btx but she’s no natural) 🤣

Roussette · 21/04/2023 20:25

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 21/04/2023 20:20

Yes, hers was definitely an empty life defined by her looks.

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Good lord.... DAME Hilary Mantel has an opinion. That's it.

Like all of us on here. To say she is 'defined by her looks' on a thread defining Kate by her looks is a bit of an oxymoron

Grapewrath · 21/04/2023 20:25

Forgot to add that I think Kate us perfectly ordinary.
I think MM is stunning though

tubing · 21/04/2023 20:30

I thought the Hilary article wasn't so much about Kate personally more the image society expects her to be? We don't really know much about her, a lot of praise around her is based on "not putting a foot wrong", "being nice & inoffensive" etc she can't have to much opinion or personality on show because the public won't like it, which is pretty sad in 2023!

tubing · 21/04/2023 20:31

To say she is 'defined by her looks' on a thread defining Kate by her looks is a bit of an oxymoron

exactly!

DarrellRiversCriminalBehaviourOrder · 21/04/2023 20:31

Roussette · 21/04/2023 20:25

Good lord.... DAME Hilary Mantel has an opinion. That's it.

Like all of us on here. To say she is 'defined by her looks' on a thread defining Kate by her looks is a bit of an oxymoron

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I suppose if I changed the tone of my voice when I'm being sarcastic in real life, this wouldn't happen to me there as well.

<<glances at the Wolf Hall trilogy on the bookshelf>>

Kittykatchunjy · 21/04/2023 20:32

mybeautifuloak · 21/04/2023 16:51

@Kittykatchunjy yes. Pippa is extraordinarily plain as my pictures show. Like I said, she smiles and dresses well. After the wedding people were saying how weird it was that everyone lost their head over her because she is plain and has a scrawny figure. People were going gaga over her bum which is ironic as she has no bum

You really are a piece of work aren't you? I see all your previous bitchy comments have been deleted, I'll report this one too. God you must be unhappy in your life to resort to such scathing commentary on other women who you've presumably never even met?

tubing · 21/04/2023 20:32

She is doing her best to look her best which can get boring after a while but she keeps on doing it which is an achievement.

JFC, maybe we aren't in 2023! @Sudeko how old are you can I ask?

Kvetching · 21/04/2023 20:33

I think Kate is a plain woman who makes the best of herself. See also Princess Di. She has a good figure and is tall, so that helps.

Meghan is very beautiful.

carriedout · 21/04/2023 20:36

LMAO at the idea Hilary Mantel was jealous of Kate Middleton Grin

Yes, I am sure she envied Kate's literary career and creative legacy.