Is Kate Middleton wearing a blonde WIG?

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Saw pictures today of Catherine, The Princess of Wales at the Natural History Museum.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-15064693/Princess-Wales-natural-history-museum-return-work-summer.html

I’m glad to see her back to work and looking happy. I’m also stunned by how different her hair looks. I always admired her amazing brown hair, so the blonde is quite the shock. Maybe it’s the wind and the rain creating the effect, but it almost looks like she is wearing a wig?

Just to clarify, I understand she went through cancer treatment and that can affect the hair in many ways. If she is wearing a wig, I really really don’t see a problem with it. If anything, it would be such a boon to cancer patients and people with alopecia etc who do wear wigs frequently. They could see that even wearing a wig you could look as fabulous as Kate.

Either way what is your verdict, wig or her own hair? Does the blonde suit her or do you prefer her as a brunette?

For the Vote:
You are being unreasonable, Kate's hair is all her own.
You are NOT being unreasonable, it's defiantly a wig.

Also as a side note I love her outfit.

The Kate Middleton force field of protection that gets formed on these threads never fails to amuse me 😂🤣

This.

I'm naturally dark, but the greys were coming thick and fast, so my hairdresser recommended having some highlights put through my hair to blend the grey. I'm a similar colour to Kate.

She looks fab as always

YABU for having this discussion, given her medical history.

It looks to me like her hair with highlights. Whatever it is or is not, she looks great.

Are great lengths hair extensions good?

I doubt very much she would wear a wig because it would start speculation like this!

She has to manage enough comments about her appearance without inviting them by doing something like wearing a wig.

Perhaps she has no choice but to wear one?

Shitpeas · Today 13:41
I reckon she's just decided to dye it blonder because it hides the greys better. It's quite a common thing women do in their 40s.

She has access to the best colourists in the UK so dyeing her hair is not her problem. She's supposedly had some lowlights for years as shown by the photos over time. Maybe their time in Greece over the summer lightened it more and she added some lighter tones.

Her mother has very dark hair which of course is dyed as she's in her 70s now and would have some grey otherwise.

You must mean ‘mousier’ and ‘bland’. Nasty? You have an extremely odd definition of that word.

So why would she choose blonde and not her natural colour as we knew it?

If it's what I think you mean I'm not going to get into a debate about what her previous rounds of chemo may have or not have done.

I used to have very thick, very dark (almost black) hair in my youth until it started going grey in my 40s. As I started colouring it dark to hide the grey it started to look very aging as skin tone also changes with age, so I'm now 'bronde' as my hairdresser calls it - probably lighter than the PoW. I'm not surprised the PoW is lightening her hair, regardless of it being a wig or not; it's her choice, but the dark hair of her 20s probably wouldn't look as flattering now she's in her 40s.

I think it just looks a little strange because I’m so used to seeing her with dark hair in the media.
but after all the crap she’s been through lately I hope people can be kind and leave her alone

And yet here you are.

The digs on threads like these! She may well be transitioning to natural with greys. It's a hell of a lot less hassle than dyeing your roots every couple of weeks. She looks fab.

I think perhaps a lot of hair extensions?

You criticise someone for referring to her as Kate, while describing a 43 year old woman with 3 kids as a girl? Help me understand that.

Why would it matter whether she's wearing a wig or not?

As soon as I saw the photo, I thought hair extensions. The curls are coming out at the sides from the back, as hair extensions do.

I thought her hair was lovely as it, didn't notice it getting thinner and like she needed extensions.

She was a nanny and a nursery school teacher. You don't get more `roll up your sleeves' than that.
You'd be surprised that some aristocrats actually have jobs. Shock horror etc.

She hasn’t dyed her hair. They have been sailing in the Med for a couple of weeks.

Calm down. OP just wanted a discussion not to criticise.

I’m sure you have NEVER commented on ANYONE else’s appearance. 😂 It’s just human nature you funny old devil. OP is allowed an opinion.

She's been dying her hair for over a decade, as can be seen from the abuse she got in the press for having visible roots when pregnant. Wearing a wig is far easier than the upkeep of dyed long hair. FWIW I quite like the idea of her secretly having a natural silver pixie and just wearing brown wigs when working but then being able to walk about unrecognised with her natural hair when off duty.

She only worked in a nursery until she was 20. I’m local to Althorp and back in the day the family socialised in the surrounding villages. Everyone knew the Spencer family very well and locals spent time in the grounds on a regular basis.
The family children still go to one of the local schools.

I don't like the colour at all but she obviously does so that's all that matters. I loved her hair slightly shorter and caramel high lights , I think it was George's first day at school and she was wearing a reddish dress, I thought her hair was stunning then.

ODFOD with your patronising "calm down". Expressing a point of view doesn't mean you're not calm.