A few days ago, Us Weekly ran a story about Prince William’s stoic bravery in the face of being sent the Falkland Islands. The gist was that tensions are currently rising between the UK and Argentina, even after they fought a war with each other over these crazy, rocky little islands. Basically, the whole thing was positioned in a way where you’re supposed to think that as soon as Prince William arrives at the Falklands, Brazil is going to declare war on William personally and poor Duchess Kate will never see her husband again! In truth, Prince William is only going to be gone for six weeks, and he’s just going through the same kind of training that other military pilots go through. I can’t believe politicians are still upset about the Falklands!
Anyway, with William being positioned as The Savior of Rocky, Desolate Islands That No One Should Fight Over, Duchess Kate is being positioned as the brave, selfless military wife who will pine away for her new husband every single day of his absence, all while endlessly re-applying her eyeliner. So it’s a wonder that the Palace is so tone-deaf with this – Kate has just flown off to vacation in Mustique with her family – and without William!
Rainy and 48 degrees in London on Friday. No matter: The Duchess of Cambridge – with parents Michael and Carole, sister Pippa and brother James – is off on a sunny vacation, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Passengers on a British Airways flight from London’s Gatwick Airport to St. Lucia in the Caribbean were surprised to see the family in the first class section on Wednesday, a photographer blogged. Their presumed final destination: one of their regular holiday haunts, the private isle of Mustique.
It is believed that Prince William is not with them, as the search and rescue helicopter pilot is spending this week at his RAF base in Anglesey, Wales, after hunting last weekend on an estate in Spain with brother Prince Harry.
Mustique, where Kate and William have been frequent visitors, is a well-known, pricey haunt for such celebrities as Mick Jagger and Queen Elizabeth’s late sister, Princess Margaret. It was even inspected as a possible honeymoon destination for William and Kate.
The trip to the sun comes just days after Kate’s 30th birthday on Jan. 9 and before Carole’s 57th at the end of the month.
The Palace had no comment on Kate’s vacation.
[From People]
Sure, married couples often take separate vacations, and if William is busy and Kate wants to spend time with her family, why not? Except that we shouldn’t have to hear about Kate’s heartbreak and how brave she is to WAIT for William to come back – she can’t even be bothered to spend time with him before he leaves for the Falklands! Plus, the palace should stop with the “Kate will spend this time building up her charitable portfolio” crap. She’s on vacation – AGAIN. Like always. So much for her charitable work!
By the way, have you heard that Pippa Middleton has lawyers, and those lawyers have taken out an injunction against the “harassing” paparazzi? Go here to read all about it – my problem with this is that Pippa loves the spotlight and she actively engages it. I know she gets pap’d way more than her sister, but Pippa has definitely encouraged it. Guess she doesn’t want to be “the star” anymore? Or maybe she just wants to control her image.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Pacific Coast News.
Pippa does not have Star Quality. At all. She is boring, and has no sense of style!
But she does give the impression to trying a hand at landing a titled husband. If her sister did, why not her?
That golddigger, title hunter vibe Pippa gives off is probably why decent, well heeled guys run the other way when they see her.
I hate myself for admitting this, but just the other day I thought, “We haven’t heard anything out of Pippa for a while. Guess the royal family finally got her to lay low for a while.” Now I know why!
Don’t be so hard on the palace – there’s only so much lying they could do.
Ha!
Given the Palace said, no comment, can we speculate that they have run out of excuses? or maybe the person who comes up with excuses is also on vacation, and they don’t have a temp for the role 🙂
Eh. I find these girls supremely boring and useless. And PLAIN looking. Pippa is what they would have called handsome back in the day and Kate needs a f*ckin sandwich or four. Shiny, pretty hair aside, what else is there about them that is so special?
YES! totally second that.
Pippa is really unfortunate looking. I bet she is really nice though
Sure, I bet she has a great personality…
She better. 🙂
Is it really a vacation if your entire life is a vacation? She just changed venues.
I was wondering that myself
I was also thinking the same thing as well.
agreed. also, DO a lot of couples take separate vacations? it would make me very upset if i had to vacation without my husband…
Well having to deal with inlaws like the Queen must suck… though she obviously knew what she was in for haha.
I wonder if a vacation is really enjoyable if you’re not really taking a break from work. Seems like it wouldn’t be as fun since there’s nothing to juxtapose it to. Wouldn’t it get boring after awhile?
This is the reason socialites go crazy. They get bored of never having anything to do. Most of their lives are spent vacationing and having parties. It gets old after awhile–especially if you were born into the lifestyle.
Maybe being a tabloid staple is starting to negatively affect Pippa professionally and socially?
And yeah, a trip to Mustique right after Christmas vacation, New Year’s shindig, and a lavish birthday bash (all within less than a year of the ‘wedding of the century’ and honeymoon in the Seychelles) is a little poorly timed. There really should be some sort of image management person on staff for Kate who can at least help create a public appearance of balance between her work and leisure time. I like Kate well enough, but the palace or whomever is in charge of image maintenance is not doing the royal family any favors with her perceived current day to day activities. I don’t even blame her- people more in the know within the institution itself should be more actively on this.
There was a great article in The Telegraph today about how the RF in general operates about 50-100 years behind the times, and are absolute in their not changing the status quo.
Only adverse publicity encourages changes.
Only two people in the last 50 years have rebelled against the system, Philip and Diana, who were vilified by the system.
Kate is not the second coming, I’m not a particularly huge fan of hers, but I’m a bit confused about why people are so upset with her. She has several charity events picked out to begin contributing to. People say its not enough. But do they know how many charities Diana had at this stage of her marriage? It was also 5, with only 7 more added the next year. Princess Margaret was the ultimate lazy royal, and revelled in her status, with her Magesties indulgence. But the real ire should be held for the former Mrs. Parker-Bowles. She is the next in line, and as such, what’s she doing to earn her civil list money? How many charities is the future queen supporting, besides Gilbys gin and unfiltered Camel cigarettes? That’s where the serious questions, critical comments and legitimate concerns about the modern royal family should rest. It’s one thing to to be the royal mistress,(who didn’t work or ever have a job even back then, and has mightily resisted doing anything you could perceive as work now) and another entirely to be her royal highness. Screw Kate, shes not going to be anything but a minor royal for decades. Where is the backlash against the atrocious, adulterous, entitled, morally bankrupt, future queen of England?
@ Rumourhasit say….I am not one to defend CAmilla, but once she was outed, she was abused by the public on a fairly regular basis. I am talking being pelted with bread and eggs whilst out walking, foul language, the works. It says alot that she stuck it out,knowing that she was the most hated woman in England after the jail birds.
The Palace, in terms of pr, have played a blinder with her because they realise how much people still care about Diana, so she is not pushed into the spot light, she doesn’t use her official title, and she is always seen in a support role that does not overshadow Charles.
That said, she does carry out engagements on her own, you’d have to check the court circular to find out, and she is a very involved patron of the Osteoperosis Society.
People don’t realise just how much William is like his father, and has essentially married a woman very much like his father’s wife, and i don’t mean Diana.
The probelm is, that there is only so much that staff can do. If the client (Kate) doesn’t want to follow the strategy and put in effort, it iwll just be a complete waste.
Uh you do realize that Camilla does more engagements than Waity right?
I love that everyone brings up Camilla, when in reality what’s sad is that Camilla is seen as the workshy royal yet she still does more than Waity. So what does that say about this lazy little bint?
Let Pippa’s lawyers do their jobs! Please force the paparazzi from taking pictures of this woman.
As far as Duchess Dolittle goes, whatever. You’re being glib, Kaiser. She works! She works hard at being William’s wife.
You don’t blame a 30 year old woman for not having the sense to know that, after ten years of being publicly called lazy, continuing to appear so while in her current position could be catastrophic? This girl stated in her engagement interview that she cares only what William thinks of her, public opinion be damned. So, please, stop pushing her laziness on to other people. She is who she is: a spoiled socialite turned spoiled duchess and, once again, she’s 30. By that age you are who you are, for better or worse–and you have no one to blame but yourself.
Hello…that was sarcasm. Sorry you didn’t get it. I am no fan of Waity or her no-a$$ sister.
My comment was meant for MoMo. Sorry. I must’ve hit the wrong reply button. Anywho, I got your sarcasm and laughed out loud. 🙂
I was a little concerned I wasn’t snarky enough. 😀
Lord have mercy, Pip looks like 8 miles of bad, tired road in those pics…and she is the YOUNGER of the social climbing Middleton sisters! Whoa, Nelly! No wonder she wants to curtail pap activity–she’s looking haggy in candids!
Poor Pippa and that face. She hardly seems to be lacking in male admirers, though. Perhaps they’re seeing something we don’t?
i don’t mean to be too harsh, but doesn’t she look somewhat like a dude?
All that sun damage has done a number on her face
Long bodies, short legs.
That family really does have unfortunate proportions.
And very big, thick, manly necks. Is this why Kate prefers to keep her hair down?
Maybe… or perhaps she’s just too lazy to put in up! 😉
(I’ve never noticed the neck thing before… I’ll have to keep an eye out for it!)
Ugh. I guess those stories of her and her family “canceling” their holiday was just a ruse to distract the public.
What the hell does she do all day to actually warrant a vacation? She hasn’t done anything since the Warhorse premiere, and that was just dressing up and attending a gala.
She was spotted shopping AGAIN, a couple of days ago, and that’s the most she’s done in the week.
She is a useless waste of space with no work ethic, goals, or ambitions but to be pampered and stay a spoiled little rich girl pretending to play house with William. Both of them are spoiled brats who spend lavishly, but want the public to see them as “one of us”, normal, and down to earth. Please. These two and their PR love to talk, but don’t do anything to back it up.
Her “charities” are probably just in paper. I doubt she’d actually work closely with those organizations. She’d most likely twirl her hair and apply eyeliner while they talk about serious issues. We haven’t heard anything about her visiting any of those organizations for private meetings since the announcement came about. Maybe she’d need another 9 months to sort it out, and several vacations in between.
I dread the time when she and William will go on to be on the Civil List and I’d have to pay my taxes for Waity’s lazy ass.
But even when not on the Civil List, the security for her little holiday in the Caribbean and her entire family is still gonna be paid for by the public who work hard to pay their taxes.
I’m so sick of her and her extravagance, and her insensitivity when people are struggling hard in the recession. I won’t mind if she goes on holiday after a very busy schedule, since I’d understand she needs the rest.
But this? After 2 weeks of doing nothing but shopping? It’s sickening.
As for Pippa, I said it here on CB before: she loves the spotlight, and she loves to use the press to her advantage when she wants her image to look rosy. She has no problems appealing to the media to make herself look good, and she tips them off wherever she’ll be so she can get photographed with any male friend who can be seen as a potential boyfriend/husband.
But after Loudon dumped her, and George Percy still shows no sign of romantic interest in her, she’s now going out of her way to warn the press to leave her alone since the attention is dying down and she’s not known for anything else but the girl who padded her butt for the wedding and treats the sidewalks as her personal runway. People are getting sick of her and the press trying to make her “happen”, and the hype is fading.
It’s so obvious she loves the attention and she has no problem courting it. During her “fly high” days after her lazy sister’s wedding, Pippa used the press to follow her tracks from France to Spain to Wimbledon. She was anywhere where she would be seen and noticed, trying to get in on her 15 minutes. She knew the cameras were there and she was basking in the attention. She loved all of it. She had no problem with them hounding her, even smiling and laughing as the paparazzi followed and shouted her name, while Loudon looked uncomfortable with the media circus.
Why else would she go out in different outfits every single time she’s off to “work”? Why are all of her clothes brand new, if she doesn’t want to live up to the silly style icon praise the press heaped on her before?
These Middletons love to court the press when it suits them. But when the press starts with the criticisms, they cry foul and they threaten to sue. They’re ridiculous.
Nowadays you can’t just mention the Middleton name anymore without adding ‘PCC’ somewhere in the same sentence 😀
Very true words. I was enamored (sp?) with Kate, but after the wedding it became apparent how useless she is.
Makes me very proud of our Dutch Princess Maxima, who is a very good role model and has actively made a lot of peoples lives better (read about her effort for micro-loans to make women in poor countries into entrepeneurs (sp?).
Kate is better looking than her sister, Pippa. Pippa seems so boring and unhappy.
I like that dress Kate is wearing in the last pic….
He and his brother just went away to Spain to hunt-I don’t see why she can’t go away with her family.
The Palace released this news last year (http://tinyurl.com/6ozoar7) only for dear William and Kate to head off in separate directions for their holidays just a month later. That’s another PR bullsh*t for you.
And as for Pippa… boo hoo, cry me a river.
After the wedding she immensely enjoyed being in the center of attention: her ear-splitting ‘cat got the cream’ grins, appearing in the front row of a fashion show and not to mention this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhIWNIj5QNY) are not the usual behavior for someone who felt harassed and who desperately wanted privacy.
She should have known that the press weren’t merely going to be satisfied with her daily London catwalks. They were always going to dig deeper and trying to find out more about her – who she was dating, her attempts to social climb, everything beyond what clothes she was wearing or where she was heading off to next.
In the end, I don’t think anybody’s going to miss her in the fashion world. Her fashion style is bland, cheap and tacky.
I have made it a goal a to save money for a proper vacation this spring/summer (which ever is cheaper). To take a break from my job, apartment, city. Just to get away from where I am. Where in Kate’s time does she feel like she needs a vacation, really?
I don’t get the Pippa fascination… She looks like one of those people steps away from living a hard life. I don’t think Kate’s anything special, but she looks better (and younger, if you ask me) then Pippa does.
I was about to make a new comment when I saw yours. I feel the same. Pippa looks awful. So much older than Kate. Her wrinkles look terrible here and her face droopy. You would think she could afford all those expensive creams nips and tucks so her face wouldnt look this way at her young age. Im 38 and mine doesnt look that bad! Im poor by the way.
Urgh. Can we please NOT encourage this standard of beauty that requires botox/plastic surgery?
There are several valid criticisms that can be made about the Middleton sisters (ie. the eyeliner), but I personally *like* the fact that Pippa isn’t tweaked.
It’s more gross that people get Botox and facelifts! Weird that you would suggest that. Maybe you’re into the tweaked look. Ew..
I like Kate and I don’t want to be mean, but… she and Pippa look kind of old right? Old before their time- I’m Kate’s age (and Pippa is younger??) and I don’t feel like I look that old. I wonder if they smoke. And I guess tanning on yachts since she was 19 doesn’t help- I’m perpetually pale. I’d probably trade looking young for yachting regularly though…
Don’t know about Pippa, but Kate is a smoker.
Yep, she’s a smoker. The Firm tries to keep it under wraps, but everyone knows.
kate is a smoker, dunno about pippa, but i think she is one too
anyways, i have a cousin who is a year younger than kate and guess what, everyone think she’s younger or twins with her sister, who is 17. i’m in my twenties and people still think i’m in high school, lol.
a vacation? really.
this girl needs to do some actual work. if she wanted this kind of lifestyle she should have married a wealthy man with a lower profile.
she is not going to get away with this life of leisure when married to royalty whose $ has come from ‘the people’ over the centuries.
Great legs. If I had those stems, I’d be flashing them all over. :o)
I believe she’s actually going on “Holiday,” Kaiser 🙂
Ok I get why people here think Kate is lazy but where does the tone-deaf come from? Is it a well known fact Kate cannot sing?
So…first there was the engagement holiday in Africa, then the exotic honeymoon, then Christmas at Balmoral, then the private getaway in Calgary, and now the extended stay in Mustique. So five glorious vacations in about a year? And those are just the ones we know about. Must be nice!!
As for Pippa. Spare me the tears. If she didn’t want the press hounding her, then she shouldn’t have accepted a book deal since one is obviously the result of the other. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, sorry.
Please get an eyebrow wax, tan less, and use a bit of eyeshadow Pippa.
SO, I was going to ask why these people who DO NOTHING get all these vacations, and people like myself who actually work, can’t even afford to get away.
But I see that has been said about 20 times already.
So I will just agree that it sucks. And these girls look freakin’ old.
I’m really not sure what the Waity Fan Club expected when she finally got Willy to the alter. She has done nothing her entire adult life, so why should she start doing anything now. I seem to recall arguing this point before the wedding and got shot down by the Fan Girls. 9 months in and nothing to show for it. No even a pregnancy. Pathetic, lazy woman.
Yes and that is the woman he married, sure he could of married some career woman with tons of degrees but men do not pick women by their degrees they pick them by their attraction.
And some tabloid “will and kate living seperate lives” crap in 3 2 1…
Yuck! Pippa’s face!
Neither prince Harry or William and his wife are full time working royals yet. If she wants to go on five holidays a year, she can. We would all like to afford it but we can’t. So what.
So what? You do realise the royal family get millions in taxpayers’ money don’t you?
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think her vacations are payed by taxpayers. She is supported by her husband and her parents and if they want to give her their money to spend, she can go to vacations all year.
Tax payers are paying for her two Scotland Yards security officers that are going on that vacation with Waity.
Let the security officers enjoy some Mustique sun, I bet they are sick of Anglesey and London 🙂
Ummm who do you think supports her husband and his family?
William gets his money from his mother’s inheritance and his father’s estate. As far as I know, I’m not an expert. But if you’re saying this whole family is parasitic and lives off taxpayers money, then the other members of the family should be attacked too, even more so than Kate who is part of the family for less than a year. Maybe princesses Beatrice and Eugene? They’ve lived their whole (luxurious) lives on taxpayers money. Why is it only Kate who gets countless nasty comments?
I really, really cannot stand Pippa Middleton.
Can’t help but agree. Just cannot see anything special about this girl at all except maybe she’s got a cute caboose.
meh…http://cdn1.gossipcenter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_header/photos/pippa-middleton-red-purse.jpg
sorry…I know it’s pretty bi*chy to post a not-flattering picture of someone’s caboose, but I prefer credit be given where it’s owed. This girl’s a$$ is flat.
those fucking eyebrows – get a pair of tweezermans for god’s sake
Six weeks is cake. My husband is about to go to Afghanistan for a year. I only wish we were going to be separated a few weeks. 🙁
Every time William gets one of these CAKE assignments, every one oos and aas about how heroic he is. Puh-lease. All I know is that my brother is in the air force, and he cannot come and go as he pleases.
Best wishes for your husband and many thanks for his service to our country.
And imagine if you could just go wait on some island? Wouldn’t that be nice?
Real life stinks 🙁 Hang in there!!!!!
FYI William has stated that he would not hesitate to go to Afghanistan but the military would not allow it. Harry has spent time in Afghanistan before the press ratted him out and is set to return. Their story may not be as bad as yours but what ever happend to plain old empathy.
OH DEAR AMERICANS! THE FALKLANDS ARE IN ARGENTINA!
I like Kate and Pippa. People act like it’s okay to slice and dice them, primarily because they are rich and privileged. How much have any of you done for charity lately? Being so nasty to people online, I’m thinking not much.
Amen to that!
Well the taxpayers of the Commonwealth aren’t paying for my weave, dresses, eyeliner, cigarettes, cruises, vacations and pantyhose, so perhaps that’s where the anger is from?
You’re right between the 40+ hours I put in at work and the 15 hours I take at school I don’t have time to give my time to charity.
However i do hope that I’m helping by giving what little money I do have to the Humane Soceity and the WWF (these are reoccuring contributions that come out of my bank account on a monthly basis).
If I was in Waity’s position doing f-ck all 24/7 I’d be more than happy to volunteer my time (in fact I did volunteer at the Humane Scoeity during my gap year).
Face it fan girls your idol is a waste of space, her excuse that she’s doting on William and being a good little housewife is idiotic when you take into account that they have help and she lives in London many times throughout the week shopping, getting her hair did and spending time at KP. You guys idolize a pathethic, parasitic, spoiled hard looking 30 year old who looks like it pains her to spend even 5 minutes in the company of the poor plebs. How sad you lot must be to look up to such selfish, snobbish, airhead.
Why shouldn’t she be able to vacation with her family? Nobody argues the fact that they are a very close family. It’s been a very eventful year. Because she married a royal she has to give up her own family ties? That seems to be what tears all the other royal families apart. Let the Middletons have their family vacation. Why not? Don’t let jealousy or envy get in the way of common sense.
I don’t care as long as Americans taxpayers aren’t paying for it, which, obviously we aren’t. I might feel differently if I were British and if I was expected to help pay the bill (and I have no idea if they do or don’t.)
I am not from the UK or the USA, but am from a Commonwealth country. I am more tolerant of Kate and her lifestyle..quite possibly because my tax money isn’t paying for it. I would think her hairdos, dresses, ciggies, makeup etc would come out of William’s personal money.
Nope…..we just pay for our President’s endless vacations and golf games 🙂 People in power are all the same. They do what they want. Because they can.
Get a better excuse next time darling. Jealousy or envy are tired, old cliches and are not the reason why we dislike this family.
What is the reason then?
The very idea of royalty or a royal family is positively feudal, is on the top of my list. The fact that most members of the British royal family seem to be twats helps.
Vulgarity, lack of discretion and damnably aggressive social climbing on the Middletons.
As for Waity — Among other things, she’s extremely lazy and incompetent, among other things. Marrying into the RF isn’t going to change her Waity Katie ways. It took her almost a year to announce four charities, she’s working at a snail’s pace right now, and everyone is piling heaps of praise for what an ‘incredible’ woman she is when she has hardly done anything. Modern woman my a$$.
Wanting to be papped is one thing. But OMG, the way paps treat celebs, screaming at them, egging them on, chasing their cars. I totally get why celebs get fed up with them. I really have zero tolerance for paps because they have no class in the way they treat celebs.
I’m no Pippa apologist, but the Daily Fail crying foul about that injunction is a bit much.
The Guardian reported a few days ago that the Daily Mail’s picture editor said at the Leveson inquiry that … the Daily Mail does not use the avalanche of photos it receives from outside suppliers, as there is “no reason, no justification” for publishing pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge’s sister every time she leaves her house to go for a coffee.
these ugly sisters
these ladies always look so tired
Hardly holidaying alone, William’s headed their after his weekly shift ends. Check your facts.
The royal family may be paid by the taxpayers, but they also bring in millions of tourism money to the country. A lot of business has grown out of royal family merchandize. So, it is a two-way system.
Bull s***! I’ve been to England a number of times, met other travelers there, too. Not one person said that the reason for their visit was because of the Royal Family.
No one even sees the royal family, for goodness sake. We foreigners have a better chance of observing the Royals in magazines then we would in person.
The Royal PR machine is full of nonsense.
I call bullshit on that one too. When I went to England I went for a look at Buckingham Palace and St James Palace, but there’s no way I went there because of the Royal Family. To be fair I suppose a lot of tourists came to London for Wills and Kate’s wedding.
The two-way system is Brits pay their taxes and the royals take them.
Do the bankers, ceo’s, wall st. crooks etc. deserve all the money they’ve been given by the American tax payer? What about corruption and fraud among military contractors? Not a peep or any resistance from anyone.
What about all those hard working celebrities and women ca$hing in big time in divorce settlements? They didn’t really earn it either.
You don’t think any lazy people have made it to Washington?
Did Diana have to ‘work’ that hard making all those appearances and attending state dinners in high fashion?
Kate’s in an enviable position for sure, but no better or worse than anyone else. Obviously i don’t understand all the contempt thrown her way.
It’s because a lot of women love trashing other women, in real life and on the internet. I’ve never seen an article on this blog or a comment criticizing prince Harry who is also not working full time, just like his brother and his wife, and who probably spends more time in clubs than at his work. But he is a man and he’s hot so he’s fine and Kate receives tons of hateful comments.
ITA
Very true. Men do not get the same criticism as women. I’ve seen Prince Harry do some extremely offensive things over the years, but the criticism is always short lived.
I agree that women are often unfairly criticized for doing the same things men. But this is not the case here.
Both Harry and William have full time jobs- they are both in the military.
Kate doesn’t have a full time job. Doing one or two public appearances every month doesn’t seem like it would take up alot of time….
But why exactly does not having a full time job equal not doing anything? No one here knows what she does behind closed doors. I have read some reports that she is taking Welsh lessons.
Most posts about her have been from one event or another that she attended on behalf of the Royal family. And it seems like her public appearances have been increasing lately. And during the Olympics and jubilee I would expect that she will be doing quite a bit.
It was made very clear by the palace at the time of the wedding, that her duties would gradually increase over time. The Palace is still very sensitive about the public outcry over how Diana was treated.
I know William and Harry have their regular jobs and she doesn’t. But if her husband is just a part time working royal I don’t think the palace can push Kate to be full time. Her role will always have to be smaller than William’s, she is supposed to be in his shadow, he is the future king after all. Just like prince Philip shouldn’t overshadow the Queen. This is not me making excuses for her, I think it’s the way royal family works. Those people are OBSESSED with roles and protocol.
Not a peep out of anyone? People have been SHRIEKING about CEOs and Wall Street types and the bailout for 3 years. Not on this site, but that’s not what this site is about.
And you have to be plenty of things to get to Washington, but lazy is usually not one of them.
I have no problem with the duchess, but I understand the eyebrow raising over her lifestyle. Her PR has been horrendously bad at explaining what it is that she does. And people care, because she is a public figure.
I don’t think her PR has been bad at all, people take what is said and spin it against her. In this modern age women who just want to be housewives are crucified, Kate stated she just wanted to be a housewife, that she wanted to take her time and choose a few causes that she could be personally involved in, that she wanted to learn about her role before diving in. Blogs like this took those statements and spin it into Kate being lazy, whereas she as always stated she wanted to be a housewife and take time to learn her role. Kate and William are NOT on the Civil List so they are not getting tax payer money other than security cost. William has money from his trust from Diana and also his father. Yes they are rich but I see nothing more than a young couple wanting to get their marriage off to a good start and gain their bearings before being fed to the sharks.
@meamay – i work in Pr, brand management specifically,we are always discussing how badly her brand is managed in the office. Her PR is the reason why people snark.
She’s never put out a statement wanting to be a housewife. Her behaviour points to someone who does not want to work, not even for charity. Unless she has to and there is a party involved. The Housewife business is pure fiction because she has a housekeeper in Anglesey, and a slew of household staff in London.
Any statements put out by the Palace on her behalf, and William is very controlling in that respect, have been contradictory and reactionary.
Also, whatever the script they are spinning, she’s clearly not on message> There is a huge gap between what the Palace say she is vs what the public can see for themselves. At this point i would say that rather than managing her brand, they are in some kind of crisis, so they offer up these titbits which end up making the situation worse because it makes her and by extension William look bad.
At the end of the day, if she did say that she wants to be a housewife and nothing else and stuck to her guns, i am pretty sure people would snark for maybe a week but then they’d accept it and move on.
My advice, if any of her people ever read these boards, would be to stop with the statements, work out her role behind closed doors, and just get on with it.
Look at Charlene of Monaco, one non-denial denial of that toxic wedding situation, then no further statements. She’s simply got on with it, and now most people probably don’t remember it, and barely comment except to say that she looks nice.
As others have said, William is a part time royal. He is not the heir, Prince Charles is, William is not yet expected to be a full time royal, he has a full time job and Kate has stated she wanted to be a house wife, her main duty is to be a wife. Given the rate of divorce in the royal family they wanted to give these two kids time to solidify their relationship before throwing them to the papparazi wolves like they did to Diana. Kate has plenty of time to make her mark and she is slowly doing that.
Kids? These kids are 30!!! I can understand you would call them kids, if they were 20. At 30 a lot of peaople have their own kids. When will they grow up to adults, at 40, 50?
I have never seen any public statements from Duchess Kate -on any topic at all. Nor have I seen any statements from the Palace that say she wants to be concentrate on being a housewife.
Her team says she is planning on doing one thing and she does something else or nothing. That’s s where I see the disconnect.
kids??? to solidify their relationship??? are you joking??!! Please tell me you are. These ‘kids’ have been dating for 8-9 years. And living together for maybe 2-3 years of that before getting married. If that does not solidify your relationship, i don’t know what will.
Any shots of Pippa without make up? These were close but I need my catty moment in the sun.
As for Kate – I don’t think anyone of our generations thinks she is “pining”. The palace acts like William is off to WW2.
Be careful what you wish for!
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Happy weekend! 😉
Goodness Gracious. The Pippster is a true dog. She’s also a 2 bag date for sure.
I’m surprised she would reduce her fertility by smoking. Add to that….
“Being too thin is worse than being too fat when trying for a baby, women have been warned.
A study found that skinny women are less likely to become pregnant than those who are overweight.”
Interesting..my Uncle’s ex-wife was extremely skinny, in fact I believe she was anorexic. Even so, she managed to get pregnant 3 times in five years and gave birth to 3 healthy boys. Looking back on it I’m surprised she managed it.
the dutchess should use this time to start becoming high profile in her patronages to show she has some worth other than being Willy’s wife. it is time she earns her kohl liner
I just noticed that Pippa is just as heavy handed with the eyeliner as Kate. Someone needs to steal their eyeliners soon. Or at least introduce them to a brown of some sort.
As for her vacationing – I don’t really care. It’s better she’s going with her family than a group of girlfriends (does she actually have friends…? Do I actually care…?) in my opinion. It would just be worse to me.
And as for her weight, she is thin, but she really don’t look that thin to me. I think a large part of it is her type of frame. I mean, no body harps on Pippa for being thin, but looking at them next to each other they are practically the same size. Kate is a bit taller, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they weighed close to the same (though Pippa works out, so her muscle mass may tip the scales a bit more, so at least their measurements would be similar). And yet, no one (that I have seen) harps on Pippa about her weight.
However, Kate’s smoking…she should just quit. She may gain a little weight from quitting, though I honestly doubt it will be that much, but it really is something that tarnishes an image. And, if the try for a baby, she’ll need to.
No she doesn’t have girlfriends (which makes it even odder when you take into account all those weddings she goes to). Apparently her friends are William’s friends. She may have had some in Uni, but it’s clear that the only “girlfriends” she’s ever in the compnay of are her protection officer and her sister.
I’m really surprised no one has brought it up to be honest. I think it was mentioned a few years back but nothing since. You think people would be wondering how a girl her age has no friends (except her husband’s). But then again it’s been abundantly clear that she’s made William her life. No wonder she’s held on to him for so long. What would she be without him?
Her zodiac sign is Sagittarius. I know some women with this zodiac sign, no one of them have real friends. but it is my opinion. to be honest i don’t like Sagittarius women very much. they are selfish and stop at nothing.
It has always been said that she dropped her friends for William’s. All the women she is seen with at weddings are all William’s friends. For what reason did she drop her old friends though? Is it because she couldn’t trust them (ALL of them?) and that William’s friends are more discreet? Or is it a typical social climbing move, to drop her old friends and push herself into her more socially elite partner’s circle?
The only real friends she ever had, the oens who stuck by her thick and thin, were Pippa and Carole. And they are her RELATIVES! That’s really sad.
It has always been said that she dropped her friends in favor of William’s. All of the women she is seen with at weddings and other events are all Willy’s friends. What is the reason for forgetting her old friends though? Is it because she coudn’t trust any of them (ALL of them?) and preferred Willy’s friends who are more discreet? Or is it a typical social climbing move, to drop her own friends and push herself into her more socially elite partner’s circle?
She has had two ‘friends’ who stuck by her through thick and thin: Pippa and her mom Carole. They are her own relations. That’s quite sad.
I noticed that too. She has no friends from any walk of HER life be it nursery, prep school, high school, university or neighbours etc. All her so-called friends are HIS friends. All these weddings they attend are for HIS friends from all walks of HIS life. i understand that when you date/marry someone eventually your friends blend, but it is so wierd that she has no friends from her own life. That’s probably why Pippa and her parents are her only friends. The same for any hobbies or extra curriculum activities. It’s very telling that it took till marriage for her to explore the possibilities of her arts degree in order to support the arts charities. This is something she could have done while waiting. After all christie’s and sotheby’s are always taking on arts majors from the posh families while they wait for their rings. Pippa on the other hand does have friends outside of Kate and her parents.
It makes one pity her for a nano second because that is clearly what it took to land her prince.
These two are very unfortunate looking girls,i wouldn’t trade my face or my being commoner to be like them,and i’m older than both of them.Did Kate ever hold a job when she was younger or teenager,if not ,what can you expect now that she was old.
I usually read your blog to get away from the daily boring job, basically…
But I have to stand up and say that the Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas as it is the true name are in the continental territory of Argentina, it was taken from us…It was stupid of us to go to war that is true led by a drunk dictator but we will never give up on our rights.
Guess it is hard for imperialists countries to know what it is like.
It is always about the rights of the so called ´third-world-countries´ that get pass over by ´first-world-countries´
Sorry to bring this up here but I feel I had to
William will join the Middleton-family holiday this weekend! I think, there is only one reason for William to make all this holidays, visits and parties with the Middletons: William loves to be in a (functional) family! For me, the Middletons are only social climbers, i don´t like them, but they hold together! They have a strong “inner circle”! This is what William wants! All he ever had was the drama “Diana-Charles-Camilla”…and the cold Windsor-family. I think, he married Kate (primarily) because of her family. They took him as a second son and he loves it. You can see it in Williams face, when he is with mummy and daddy Middleton…
He married Kate because nobody else would have him. When he dumped her in 2007, he tried courting other girls, girls from aristocratic families like Isabella Calthorpe, but they wanted nothing to do with him. They all knew what was in store for them if they became his girlfriends, and they didn’t want to give up their privacy and independence catering to William’s needs. They were all too smart for him.
Kate, with her family, were the only ones willing to please William. They sold him the image of a loyal, dedicated girlfriend who would do anything to stay with him.
Kate gave up a decade of her life trying to pursue and please him. She has no identity, she has no friends of her own, and she has done nothing else but chase after William.
Her face has been known to the public for a decade now, but nobody knows what Kate is really like. Her interests, her activities, her opinions…nobody knows because Kate has never shown anything beyond shopping and vacationing with William. She has achieved nothing of merit but bag the Prince. Now she’s known as nothing else but an indulgent, do-nothing clotheshorse with the massive head of hair, and an insensitivity to other people’s situations (the London riots, the New Zealand earthquake, Remembrance Day) that even the embarrassing Sarah Ferguson didn’t have. At least Fergie was warm and kind, per the people who have met her.
Her family holds together? They better. Nobody else has their back but their family. That “closeness” in their family enabled Kate to be the sloth that she is now. I see nothing commendable about Carole and Michael Middleton, who encourage their kids to be lazy just as long as they marry into money and titles and their dreams of social climbing are realized. They do their kids no favor.
And now they’re all tabloid fodder. Ma Middleton must be loving it all, it’s the culmination of her dreams…
Or maybe she isn’t loving it at all?
Th walking disaster that is her daughter Kate, who can’t string an intelligent sentence together, has nothing smart to say when asked questions, and can’t display empathy and sincere emotions; as well as the reputation for notoriety Pippa is starting to have in public with her social climbing/gold-digging vibes, aren’t good for Ma Middleton’s social climbing plans.
No I don’t think Pimp Mama Middleton gives a toss whether people think her daughter is a social climbing dullard or not. I think she probably gives two fingers to the haters, afterall she got her family an established place at the top of England’s class system. No matter what they will stay firmly entrenched there because Waity will pop out the next future King and nothing will change that. Even if they were one day to divorce (not going to happen, William is spineless and Waity will turn her cheek when he cheats), nothing will chnage that her grandchild will be the head of state. She probably nah, nah, nahs at all the reports of her social climbing family.
Besides who cares what the public thinks, they have to pay for William and Waity no matter what (the Brits will never get rid of their beloved monarchy, no matter how idiotic the concept is to everyone else).
No matter what happens, even if she was unable to pop out an heir and Willy divorces her, the Middletons will forever be a footnote in royal history!
Hey, Kaiser! There are reports William is joining Kate. Gotta love it. They cancel their ski trip because of the expense, but still manage to go on vacation together, but this time with her family. Nice misdirection. Same result.
In the end, I think that Will and Kate do whatever it is they want to do. Any man who accepts his wife’s lazy, indulgent, self-serving behavior is most likely much the same as said wife.
The world will not get much from these two.
It really really bothers me how William can go off an do all of this training because he wants to be a soldier just like his brother, only because he is really trying to push off becoming a full time royal as long as possible. The same goes for Kate. Meanwhile, their entire past has been white-washed and they are made out to be the perfect couple, and Harry has to pick up after them. Kate is really really a pathetic creature. She will never be queen.
Isn’t it funny how their fans would say, “William works full-time, check your facts, stupid!”
In reality, William gets shorter hours when he’s at work, and he gets to take as many days off as he wants.
Just a regular RAF officer, my ass.
He and Kate are full of sh*t with their “We’re just like you!” PR talk.
People in the UK are dying of cold from lack of fuel and electricity, students are struggling to pay their tuition fees, and we are all experiencing the effects of the recession. It won’t be too much to ask our royals to display some austerity and sensitivity to our plight.
Royalty itself is an archaic institution. It has outlived its purpose and it’s only here on the goodwill of the people and on our dime. If they can’t adapt to modern times and learn how to represent the people well, then there is no use for them. The Queen has shown herself as in-tune with the people. Charles has, too, to a lesser extent. William, though? He seems nice and is charismatic enough, but I can’t take him seriously when reports come out about him sending his people to bully journalists into stopping their criticisms of his wife. When freedom of speech is oppressed and power is abused, we’ve got a huge problem.
William and Kate are going to get a huge backlash from this. Their PR is turning out to be one huge disaster. It hasn’t even been a year and Kate is proving herself to be nothing special, unimpressive, and disconnected from the rest of the UK. Same for William.
But then what can you expect from someone like Kate, who said it herself that she doesn’t care what other people think? And that William actually thinks Kate was in a “good place, work-wise”. These two are peas in a pod. Both self-indulgent, spoiled brats who get protected by the Palace just because William is the heir’s heir.
Meanwhile, Harry gets fed to the wolves often. Same with Beatrice and Eugenie. Nobody comes to their defense, because they’re “dispensable”.
It really bothers me how when William does a simple little demonstration, he is praised as a hero. When Harry goes to war to fight for his queen and his country, people make him seem like a spoiled brat all because he has to leave early because him position was reported. Harry has to do 50 times more work to recieve a small amount of credit while Will and Waity can sit on their butts and get all the praise in the world. People like to be rude to Beatrice and Euginie because they dont work. They are both in college and they are involved in lots of charities. But, when Kate does something once in a blue moon, she gets praised for being “just like Diana”.
Jeez, these two sisters are going to age so badly. They have terrible skin tone on their faces. Pippa has terrible puffy eyes and Kate’s face looks way too old for her biological age.
Seriously makes me puke. It’s not as though she isleft at home looking after the kids and holding down a job like the rest of us military wives. She is such a dick!
Ha ha, Nonny! I like your directness! Good on ya! Why doesn’t the British public petition a change in your ‘democratic’ constitution to allow the RF to be voted out? This latest addition will lead to its downfall anyway. I read somewhere long ago that PW would be the anti-Christ?A plausible possibility, with full support of his materialistic, manipulative wife…
Sad. No one leaving these comments personally knows either of these girls, so why is everyone judging them so harshly? All anyone knows is what is published in tabloids.