Is Kate Middleton wearing a blonde WIG?

[JustPassingThyme]

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.

I always hear a warning bell when I read a tiny bit of whataboutery that hauls in any part of Black experience as a reason why an aspect some other minority group may not to be discussed.

But fair enough, I just didn’t take what you wrote as a general rather than specific outraged sensitivity.

yes a jaw length bob with a few high lites - at her age it lookls silly

She is not wearing a wig. She just has very thick hair and contrary to what a lot of people believe, not all women lose hair during perimenopause. My mother’s hair and mine has got considerably thicker as we have aged (and more porous). Added to the fact she would had a bouncy blow dry as well. She might have extensions but it’s not a wig. Maybe she will go back to brunette for the Autumn!

But she's always been Catherine, it isn't a new thing or something she decided when she joined the RF. It was the press that called her Kate or rather Waity Katie. Her family call her Catherine and always have done.

I don't get why that is so hard to understand.

It not hard to understand, it's just new information to me. I've never been interested enough to care what she prefers to call herself or what pronouncements she's ever made about it. I assumed the press had picked up on Kate as that was what they had heard referred to as by friends. Why Kate otherwise when they could have chosen Cathy or Catherine or Cat or Kitty? Was it just to use the Waity Katey name?

Seems more likely it was how she was generally known.

I think her friends at university, including William called her Kate. But if it is her wish to be called Catherine now then it should be respected by the media. It is understandable that people call her Kate because that is what is has always been known as in the media.

@cumbriaisbest apologies I think I tagged you by mistake. I meant to tag whoever was going on about the correct name.

Definitely 100% a hair piece. The family holidayed in Courchevel this year and the Paris Match took candid pictures of them. In these photos Kate has her natural hair in a plait and the ends are the very thin and taper off ( as most girls). That people actually believe her hair is natural is a disturbing observation of the human ability to critique and rationalise. She’s a woman in her 40’s that’s had 3/4 kids and people romanticises that she has a head of hair like a teenager in the throes of puberty. To have hair remotely this thick in your 40’s you’d need to have Brook Shields level type hair when she was a teenager. I saw a young teenager with hair like that a few weeks ago and you do look as it’s so rare to see hair that full and thick. It’s almost slightly fluffy.

I don’t know why people are so offended by women wearing wigs.

Also I'm not sure i see it as disrespectful. I think its sort of an acknowledgement of her as a person in her own right, not just an appendage of William's family. We all first knew her as Kate in the media, and Princess Catherine sounds a bit kind of Disney in this day and age, Wasn't Diana Diana (unless she was being referred to by a news reporter...?)

Wouldn't it be Cate? Id think a Kate was a Katherine. I know they sound the same.

no Kate is often used for Catherine or Katherine.

Oh god no - the dreaded Bob !

What was she trying to promote at the museum?

This hair?

Wasn't Diana Diana (unless she was being referred to by a news reporter...?)

No, she was originally referred to as 'Lady Di' then PoW (or 'Princess Di') then (officially) Diana, PoW when she had HRH removed and finally just as Diana in the press. She was never called Diana Spencer in the press.

Choppy Bob?

No, this is the photo that the poster apparently believes is proof Catherine was wearing a hair piece yesterday. Despite being taken from a distance, and several months ago.

Photos taken yesterday from behind in any event show that Catherine’s hair is not a uniform length, but is tapered. So it is not unexpected that a plait will have a small ending - it finishes at the longest part of the hair, not the maximum width of the hair.

It’s also a disturbing observation of an ability to rationalise that this poster believes they understand all female hair. My thick and wavy hair has not thinned out due to either childbirth or menopause (If I let it air dry so have a complete mushroom head). My 80 year old mother in law still has incredibly thick hair - she says it’s like coconut fibre!

well it wld look a lot better than this head of extensions and toppers

no one at 43 years has hair like this perhaps a 16 year old - it just looks
plain silly like a mermaid drowning

How many Cates do you know?🤣

I was about to post the same but thought I might sound delusional so I'm glad you've stepped in first! Mine hasn't thinned at all since puberty.

One like this?

Personally I don't think it matters whether it's a wig, extensions or her natural hair - it's the overall effect that matters. We all have bad hair days and sometimes don't get the colour outcome we're expecting from our colourist. But luckily for us, we don't get scrutinised to the nth degree by the media and others the moment we set foot outdoors.

However, of course people are entitled to their own opinion on her new 'look'. Just a little bit of toning down in colour (less gold) and slightly shorter length would be easier to manage and make her look even more stylish and professional. Nothing radical needed.

I know you weren't asking me, but just the one, I think - Cate Blanchett.

There are endless variations of Catherine/Catharine/Kathie/Kate/Katherine......

Catherines have been called Kate before. c.f. Shakespeare's Henry V - sweet Kate.

In my experience, diminutives are usually given to people with affection.

Edie, Dolly, Mick, Dick, Billy, Sue, Jenny, Annie, Aggie et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.