Do you think Prince William ever wishes he was living in the olden days when crown princes could summon a witch to the castle to cast a special spell to make “the spare” lose his hair? William never looks more balding than when he’s standing next to Prince Harry and full head of ginger hair. For the record, I think Harry is developing a little bald spot too, so maybe William did summon a witch and have a “balding spell” cast.
Anyway, these are new photos of Harry and William yesterday opening up the “Help For Heroes Tidworth House Recovery Centre”. I’m assuming this center is something like what Americans think of as “Walter Reed” – it’s a center for wounded warriors and their families to spend the necessary time to recover from their war injuries. This is one of Prince Harry’s big issues – Harry has been working with charities and organizations working with and for wounded warriors for years now. This is Harry’s wheelhouse, so I wonder if he minds that William came along…? Harry was probably just excited to spend some time with his brother. Several of the wounded warriors asked after Duchess Kate, and they asked how William was preparing for fatherhood. William said he was “very much so” looking forward to it and “All the mothers have been looking at me, ‘just you wait, just you wait. Long sleepless nights.’”
Speaking of Kate, where was she? She made so many appearances in April and then she just kind of stopped cold. Duchess of Diva theorized that Kate was trying to make it look like she was working hard around her two-year anniversary, considering many people claimed that the Queen had given Kate and William a “two-year holiday” before becoming full-time working royals. Although we don’t know for sure if the Queen ever said or did that. What I do know is that Kate has been spotted shopping a lot this month, and that she made an appearance at friend’s wedding a few weekends ago, wearing that same polka-dotted dress. And wouldn’t you know, a gust of wind came by and Kate flashed her duchess beav because of course she did. So how does Kate spend her time? She’s learning how to cook!
If it’s true that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, Prince William is about to fall in love with Kate Middleton all over again. A source tells Us Weekly that the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, has been taking cooking classes from the couple’s new housekeeper, Antonella Fresolone.
Fresolone, the insider says, worked for 13 years at Buckingham Palace, where she was well-known for her “delicious” Italian cooking. (Among her specialties? Homemade pasta and freshly baked bread.) The Duke and his wife hired her three weeks ago, during which time she has been teaching mom-to-be Middleton how to make “a number of new dishes” in the small kitchen at Nottingham Cottage.
The expectant royal has been indulging her domestic side more and more in recent weeks, as her July due date grows ever closer. Earlier this month, she was spotted shopping for decor for the home she shares with Prince William. And on Saturday, she and her husband spent a “lazy weekend” together in London. (The Duke took a train up from Anglesey, Wales, to be with his wife before his royal engagements this week, which include a conference on illegal wildlife trade and the XXXVII Ordinary Union of European Football Associations Congress.)
The royal couple recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary. Following a trip to the Harry Potter and Batman exhibits at Warner Bros. Studios, they enjoyed a romantic dinner in London.
In the first months of their marriage, the royal propagandists often claimed that Kate was already an amazing cook and that William loved her food. Of course, I’ve always assumed that they probably had a part-time or full-time cook/housekeeper in Wales, so God knows how much Kate has really been cooking all along. Also: how different is a “lazy weekend” from a “normal weekend” with Will and Kate?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Oh my, William certainly doesn’t have much hair left, does he? Reminds me of me and my brother (though duh, I’m a girl)…I’m 3 years older than him and I have a ton of hair and he’s balding and he sometimes sighs and looks at me with a touch of envy in his eyes. 😛 I sorta see the same thing in that top pic.
As for the long, sleepless nights, hah! Does anyone think that they’d actually rouse their royal selves from their bed? That’s what an army of nannies are for.
Sometimes the first post comes up blank for me, so I’ve got to respond to you just to see what you said!!!
And I agree with you. Theoretically there will be no nannies, and maybe that’s true while Kate’s living with mummy after the baby’s born. Not so sure when she has to move back to London. Or will she ???
Even if it’s true that Harry’s balding, I would still hit. But I refuse to believe it’s true.
I like seeing photos of the two of them together helping a worthy cause.
Harry is so hot and I don’t see any hair thinning going on there.
if you see a picture from the top of harrys head you can totally tell its starting to thin. its happening…
No. I’m not looking. I refuse.
I don’t want to live in a world with a balding Harry.
They don’t even look like brothers…different fathers perhaps??
I’ve had the impression she was cooking for him at St.Andrew’s…? I mean they shared a flat and “loved to have cosy evenings at home”
Exactly, Micki. And what about all those “sightings” on Anglesey of her nipping into the butcher, fishmonger, or Tesco? All to go home and cook for William.
And now she’s just learning to cook? Although reading the article, it looks like she’s learning Italian, although the article was slanted to say she’s learning to cook. Interesting.
Their PR should keep a file of what’s been said and when so they can keep all the stories straight.
You don’t have to be a lousy cook to take cooking lessons. I am a very good cook, but I would love to take lessons to learn different techniques or cuisines.
@:bluhare
That were the good old times when she was still unsure whether she’ll be “approved of”. She tried hard to be the perfect one. Now she’s sort of slipping..
I’m a great cook (if I do say so myself). I’ve cooked all of my life. My mother, who is an amaaaaazing cook taught my sister and I to cook from scratch at a very young age. However, I’m always up for the opportunity to learn more skills and to learn about cooking different cuisines from others.
@Sami Hami: Nothing wrong with taking a special cooking lessons. I got several presents like that from a chef for VERY special occasions. In her case though I really don’t think that:
1. she’s a gourmet, more probably you’ll seduce her with a new workout.
2. she’ll invest her time in cooking more than once
3. she’ll have this time having a baby and all the rest.
I may prove wrong, so let’s wait and see
This rumors been circulated for years, but I actually do believe Harry is Charles’ son. Look at the eyes and brow line. Harry’s yes and brow line are pretty much identical to Charles’ and Philips’. It’s a pretty distinctive Mountbatten trait and Charles seems to be the only brother who inherited it. Red hair is also a pretty common trait among the Spencers. It IS possible, even if not very likely, for the recessive trait to make it through. Especially given the fact that Wills is blonde, another recessive Spencer trait while Charles was naturally dark haired. And Wills looks more like Charles every day and there’s no doubt in my mind whose son William is. Harry is actually starting to look a bit more like Charles too. So yeah, I actually do believe Harry is Charles’.
We all know William’s going bald but for the past 3 years this is the thinnest I’ve seen of Will’s hair. So are the previous photos photoshopped or are the Windsor genes just rearing their ugly head once again?
Harry’s only two years younger yet has still got a full mane going on, even with the bald spot and everything!
William’s starting to look like Prince Edward, his uncle. There was a photo in the Daily Mail yesterday where the resemblance was startling.
When Wills was younger – through his teen years, early twenties – I could clearly see Diana in him. But that is fading and those Windsor genes are stomping all over the good-looking Spencer traits.
William was gorgeous in his teens/very early twenties. I seriously don’t know what happened. It’s not just the hair.
No, Bluhare, it is not just the hair. It’s almost like his latent Windsor grumpy personality has affected his looks.
He is still fit, so body-wise he remains not bad looking. But his face? Not handsome anymore. Not even appealing.
As for Kate’s Marilyn moment, I’d give her a pass if this was the first time it actually happened. But this was probably the third or fourth time.
Either she’s extremely dumb not to know about weighted hems or she doesn’t care that she’s flashing people and probably gets a thrill out of doing it. I don’t know which is worse.
The Mail’s retrospective of various Marilyn moments made me laugh. She obviously doesn’t care.
In my early 20s, I wore a short dress on a windy day and flashed a pre-wedding party. It was a mistake I only made once. So embarrassing – despite my great legs and ass at the time!
She just wants all of us to have thigh envy. Bc those are not 8-month-pregnant woman’s thighs. Those were my thighs when I was 14.
Anna
I saw those pics yesterday. Compare her thighs when the dress blew up at the wedding to her thighs in the skinny jeans during the girl scout blizzard trip. (sorry for saying girl scouts. Forgot the name.) Her bump, legs, arms are just so tiny to many other pics. This photoshopping madness makes no sense. Why can’t they just let her be seen as she is.
Call me conservative (which I am) but didn’t her mother teach her that’s it not good for the womb/baby to be exposed to gusts of wind going up her legs so far into the pregnancy?!
My mum doesn’t even let me sit on tile floors and I’m far from pregnant.
OK…I’ve never heard this one before. I’ve had two children and never once did I worry about wind causing problems. I do not think the wind will go up the Royal Birth Canal and jostle Baby Cambridge.
Warm air must be OK or else she’d never be able to let one rip.
Chrissy, no insult to your mother on that one. I’m English and my mother is full of medicinal old wives tales too. And some of them aren’t wrong.
Then the only explanation is she’s doing it deliberately, GoodCapon, right? I can’t think of any other reason. Frankly, I’d be embarrassed as all get out if my skirt had blown up as much as hers has, and at 7 months pregnant? She must be trying to make the Queen have a heart attack to move William up in line!
The oddest thing about it is she has never looked like she is aware her skirt is flying in the wind and almost exposing her private parts.
In the latest gust-up photo, her skirt was close to showing her butt but Kate was just smiling, with one hand fiddling with her hair and the other hand carrying the clutch wasn’t even trying to hold her skirt down. She seemed oblivious or uncaring that her skirt was flying up. Isn’t that something that is so easily felt the moment you feel the wind where you shouldn’t?
And IMO this is the issue with her short hems. It’s not about people wanting her to be a prude. Her sycophants refuse to accept that it’s not about Kate looking old-fashioned.
It’s about practicality. Short skirts easily lift up in the winds, longer hems don’t. Considering she has had 3-4 situations where her skirts either completely got lifted by the wind or threatened to do so, you’d think she’d know by now to be more careful and avoid wearing flimsy fabrics in windy weather.
Sachi
Are slips not popular over there? I had a gust of wind mistake once and lowered my hemline. On hotter days I’ll wear an a-line slip so if the dress does go up the slip is my saving grace. I remember Pippa wore a dress that showed a panty line once and that could have been avoided if she wore a slip too. So, are slips not popular over there or is it just the middleton girls that don’t utilize them?
FLORC: There are photos of Kate in her single days with her skirt blowing up and slip on underneath. So, yes, she knows about slips and how they help preserve a person’s pregnant modesty.
I definitely think all this could be avoided if she wore a slip. I actually don’t understand why you wouldn’t wear a slip under the dress, especially since it’s a short dress.
FLORC – I have friends who work in offices who wear short skirts/dresses and they all wear slips. A lot of offices nowadays have a more casual dress code, but my friends never forget to wear a slip when they’re wearing light fabrics. They say it makes the dress flow better and they feel more “groomed” and professional, but also comfortable esp. in the summer, without the risk of being exposed by windy weather.
My BFF who is a teacher in Bradford, on the other hand, often wears dresses without slips. They don’t have a strict dress code for teachers and most of her fellow female teachers also prefer to wear dresses. But her hems always go below the knees for modesty as well as practicality. It’s easier to bend down and interact with students if she doesn’t have to worry about her hems being too short.
The thing with Kate is that she has attended weddings before where she was photographed wearing a slip. So it’s not like she has never worn a slip and doesn’t know what it is. She just refuses to wear one now.
So, Kate knows what slips, longer hemlines, and hemline weights are and refuses to wear them.
When given the decision to either keep her hair in place or cover her bottom from being exposed she chooses hair.
She is the most photographed woman in the world right now and has been for a few years.
With all of this said William really has no logical case to say his wife is being targeted when her behavior says exhibitionist.
I love the shad you throw at these two @Kaiser. “What is the difference between a lazy weekend and a normal weekend.” LMAO
He really needs to get hair plugs the balding looks horrible makes him look old. 🙁 these guys cannot just shave their heads. Lol!
I don’t think the hair plugs would do him any favors either, Ellie. Besides, Wayne Rooney (a football player for Manchester United for US people) took huge shade for having some sort of surgery to improve his hairline. He’s a bit younger than William, but same sort of thing.
Do hairplugs look more natural these days? All I can think of is men with little rows of hair that are straight and unnatural.
I was rather confused by the cooking-lesson story as well. She was painted as a domestic goddess during the engagement and a while after in order to show their normalcy. One can always get better I guess. Also, I wish the Marilyn moment would have been covered more because this is getting RIDICULOUS. No, Kate can’t stop the wind from blowing, BUT we only see so much of her because she insists on wearing shorter hems with flimsy material and no weights. The only logical answer is that she enjoys it because, for most, that would cause embarrassment (not to mention having pictures splashed everywhere); and, if there were a way to prevent such an embarrassment I don’t know who wouldn’t take the offer of weighted hems.
Kate’s hemlines go higher and higher when William is around. You’ll never see her with a longer hemline in William’s presence unless the Queen is there as well.
She’s really shown us her privates so many times I doubt any part of her cares since she’s taken zero steps to prevent it.
What seems so crazy uncomfortable to me is pretty much these 2 things.
1. William freaks out when she gets caught flashing for photogs. There were even rumors he threatened to call off the wedding over it. And he seems like a pain to live with so why poke the beast?
2. Her torso is long and legs are short. Her crotch is closer to that hemline than we think. when she sits down the dress does not cover where she sits. It rides up slightly. I’d be mortified if that happened, but i’m not an exhibitionist.
Well, it was her decision to pork the beast, FLORC. 😀
Yuck! I can’t believe that made me choke a little on my coffee. Maybe she had the best of him early on, but that man is getting old all over at lightning speed. Ick!
I have to admit that Kate’s “Marilyn Moments” are in direct contadiction to all the other outward signs of her being a very well brought up girl… SURELY her mother went over why a young lady should wear a slip or petticoat? Apart from it protecting your modesty, your skirts and dresses simply hang better when worn over such… tsk, tsk – come on, your RH – pop over to M&S and pick up a couple! I have NO DESIRE to see the royal knickers!
Maybe Duchess Kate is refining her cooking skills. Lots of very good home cooks take lessons every so often.
I do believe Kate has a strong interest in home/hearth/cooking. Her mother is said to be a good cook and Kate grew up in that aura of cozy domesticity. I won’t give her grief about that. (About other things, yes).
As for the Windsor boys – wow, did Wills age fast. He could be forty, frankly. Harry is still cute but the lifestyle is catching up to him, too. Those men get a few good years, from late teens through their twenties, and then age hits them like a freight train.
Anyone notice Harry’s extremely baggy suit pants (above the crotch area)? It was the same look last week in the U.S. His jeans last week looked fine.
Is there a reason for the brothers to be in matching suits and ties??
The ties are their regimental ties, They were visiting a military charity afterall…
They have the same tailor. And they tend to wear blue suits most, if not all, the time. You only notice the suits when they are together.
I was just thinking, it’s been all quiet on the Waity front for a while now.
“caught a train up from wales” *snort*
i live just near KP in London and the royal helicopter has been in regular operation. no train-catching for these 2.
EDIT: just after i pressed send on my comment, it flew overhead!
That is a great neighborhood but the roar of the helicopter would drive me batty. I would quickly become an aggrieved royaloonie.
Can you do a bit of mooning to the helicopter– a bit like Kate used to do in the old days at school?
Good one, Noodles!
Willy really looks severe in these photos. I wonder if he let his hair grow a little longer, like Harry, if he’d look better? As for Kate, well – she isn’t very smart about her clothing, is she.
Um, no to the longer hair, at least imo. The men I know with thinning hair usually keep it all very short/buzzed. If not, the sides start to look ‘bushy’ which makes the thinning top look… even more thin. 😉
omg williams hair!! hey lots of guys lose their hair, its not a big deal, but I cant believe how FAST its thinned out!!!
William its looking like his uncle prince Edward. On the side note, look how happy he is looking while doing an engagement with Harry, I wish he show such enthusiasm in Kate’s presence.
And here I was thinking of the huge difference between William and Harry when it comes to visits. Look at Harry having (or appearing to be having) a good time, and William all solemn most of the time.
Is it truly because as third in line he has to have such a stodgy demeanor? And totally agree abut Prince Edward!
WilWwwliam its looking like his uncle prince Edward. On the side note, look how happy he is looking while doing an engagement with Harry, I wish he show such enthusiasm in Kate’s presence.
Blue hare,
Harry is Harry and sadly no one in rf, other then his own mother Diana from whom he inherited his outgoing, charismatic personality, can compete with him. But still in comparison to how grumpy he looks around Kate, he is looking very relaxed here. Maybe because with Harry he doesn’t feel nervous about his public behaviour or feel responsible for him unlike Kate.
oh before I forget ot did anyone see the adorable photos where Harry is pretending to fight with a little baby and gives him his cap to make the baby boy smile on daily mail, seriously other then Diana no one in that family behave so charmingly with kids . He does have her gift and charismaand this is what makes him so endearing and lovable IMO.
I saw those photos, Angelic. And if I were a bit younger I’d have swooned.
The photos from the Chelsea Flower Show are really revealing of family dynamics. The whole family (Queen, Prince Philip, Charles, Camilla, but NOT Wills and Kate) showed up to support Harry’s charity. And like Lainey said, you can tell from the interactions in the photosthat everyone in that family adores the ginger prince.
Suze,
William wasn’t there which really pissed me off. The garden was in the memory of Diana, the whole rf came to supportHarry but his good for nothing brother was no where to be seen and we all know he wasn’t in Wales working as he was with Harry in the morning carrying out this engagement. This is what rubs me off the wrong way about William, he have no problem using his mother’s memory to make excuses for his and Kate’s lack of work and to gain sympathy but he refuse to remember her in any meaningful way and always making her out to be a helpless victim which she was clearly not.
Suze – The Yorks, Wessexes and the Tindalls were very well represented too.
It’s been pretty interesting over here to see how the individual American opinion really welcomes and loves Harry and despises William when the media isn’t pushing W&K down their throats.
It’s been all about Harry and how perfect he is in what he does. Then When William came people started talking about how unhappy he looked to be there and only made Harry look better.
Angelic 20
That is very sad. And a real shame. William and Harry make my think of the movie Twins. With Arnold and Danny. 1 brother clearly got all the best of their mother and father. The other got what was left over.
Here is the link to Daily Mail article on the garden show and Harry’s charity garden:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2327931/Chelsea-Flower-Show-2013-Lovable-Harry-greets-Prince-Philip-Prince-Charles-cousin-Beatrice-kisses.html
It’s a really good cause, and the Mail, for once, has a decent article on how AIDs has decimated Lesotho. Harry is bringing attention to this horrible situation and is also honoring the memory of Diana.
It sounds like he was very involved with this.
I think William should just shave it and go for the bald look. Bald with a crown.
As for Kate’s “homely” nature which seems to be her go-to PR strategy, I just don’t get it. That makes her sound so boring and antiquated!
I’m sorry, HoustonGrl (no, I’m not), but the visual of William’s coronation sitting there bald with a crown on his head is priceless! They could always put hair around the bottom rim of the crown if he felt self conscious.
Love it! I say shave his head and go full on Walter White!
BTW people who blame Windsor genes for upstaging the pretty Diana genes should take a look at pix of her late Dad & her brother the present Earl Spencer.
Agreed, Earl Spencer did not age well.
But William still looks more like a Windsor now than a Spencer. Those Windsor genes are strong.
They did not open a recovery center, but rather were present during the opening ceremony/ paid a visit that was publicied.
Had they actually bothered donating their own money and spent their time planning, organizing and opening the center- then you could describe what they did as “opened a recovery center”.
They are celebrities that get paid millions of dollars to visit all sorts of social events- some or many of them have charitable causes.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for the English people to donate the moeny that enables the life of luxury for these family members, directly to charitable causes?
Why do they need to pay government money to have them “work” as national celebrities.
At least in old age, those families governed and “worked” as rulers of the country.
“At least in old age, those families governed and “worked” as rulers of the country.”
Exactly. The quote marks are actually quite unnecessary: they did work, insofar ruling was serious business. More often than not, their lives actually depended on how they performed.
Charles once said something to the effect of: “God, we’re a soap opera to them!” (“Them” meaning the public.)
He was right. The truth is, they are being kept mostly for entertainment value.
The question is… Are they really good value for money?
Well, well, well. Harry was killing it on his tour. Doing an amazing job and driving the girls nuts here. So William had to get over here and grab some of that goodwill.
As for the Kate cooking lessons. There’s no crime in this. My only issue is wasn’t she a cook before? Wasn’t she so skilled she made her own jam, sausage, and healthy meals every night for her husband in their cottage? I’d buy this if they said she was learning a new method or style of cooking. Or learning how to make her own baby food and such. Something specific. The information given seems just vague enough that they can say she’s doing something and not being lazy.
IDK. there’s just something a little shady about how they tell us Kate is doing something.
I can’ believe I’m about to defend Kate, FLORC (and you can smack me when I’m done), but I think that article was slanted. If you read it carefully she appears to be learning Italian from their new housekeeper/silver polisher/cook/nanny/whatevertheywanthertodo. So that doesn’t mean that the cooking stuff wasn’t overdone before, but I think she’s learning Italian. Must be hard to do that, knit, and decorate all at the same time. Kate’s truly wonder woman.
Hmm… I must have missed that. I’ll go back and read the full article. I did get the impression she wasn’t taking a normal cooking class with the public. She doesn’t seem to hang out with anyone socially.. I wanted to get the picture of the movie Sabrina and the old Baron (Duke?) helping her with her souffle. Instead it’s a picture of the help doing the work as she looks on and asks if you can test the taste by tasting it… You catch my drift.
And I cannot smack you Baroness! We have been without the wet wiglet for some time now!
I can’t believe I’m going to say this, FLORC, but I’ve never seen Sabrina. Two more smacks with a wet wiglet!!
bluhare… Tsk tsk! You’re only cheating yourself out of a wonderful movie. The original! Not the remake…
Assuming these cooking lessons are being taken and she intends to utilize the skills she’s learning somewhere down the road I can’t dislike this. If she is taking the lessons just to say she’s doing something and only intends to tell her chefs to make certain dishes she watched them make during lessons then she’s wasting time and tax supplemented salary. The chefs probably keep busy all day long without giving lessons.
“the small kitchen at Nottingham Cottage.”
I bet that small kitchen is as big as my apartement.
“Cooking” is not one of the skills a future queen needs. I don’t mind her having hobbies, but this is just more self-indulgence from an already incredibly self-indulgent pair. Kate needs to take speaking classes, and classes in history and diplomacy. She does not need to know how to cook.
I agree, Emily. I’ve got no problem with cooking classes, but I agree that she needs much polishing for her public engagements. Actually, she should just watch tapes of Harry. She can’t match his charisma, but at least she’d see how he actually interacts with people.
Sometimes when I look at what Kate is ostensibly interested in: homemaking, cooking, knitting, gardening, I wonder why on earth she pulled out the stops to land William. It sounds as if she would have loved a life married to an ordinary, out of the limelight, garden variety rich guy.
What Kate is not interested in: charity work, public appearances (when they involved more than waving and smiling – when you actually have to interact with the public or, heaven forfend, make a speech), horseback riding, hunting, is really what makes up royal life.
I think the cooking and knitting stuff is trying to sell Kate to the public as an “ordinary housewife”. They are very, very behind the times with this.
I think Kate likes shopping and getting her hair blown out and going on vacation. Which makes her a perfect match for William, who is just as shallow and lazy as she is.
I assume from the article that Kate is learning to cook ITALIAN food from their new housekeeper and she already knew how to cook basic stuff. I had been cooking for years and then took a six week course in French cooking. I don’t know anything about Kate but I have a feeling her mother taught her and her siblings how to cook well enough to take care of themselves.
I know everyone snarks on Pippa, but one of her University flatmates (no not George Percy, the OTHER ducal son, Ted Innes Ker, a golfer, was interviewed and happened to mention that Pippa was a really good cook and took good care of the guys she was flatmates with.
Let’s praise a female student for taking care of men.
What do you mean by she “took good care of the guys…”?
Is that her job to cook for flat mates?
Why? because she is a female and they are males, so she should cater to their culinary needs?
I find your statement very problematic and off-putting.
They can cook for themselves.
There is no importance if she can cook or not. That says nothing about how nice she is, what kind of a person is she, her talent or charm, her academic ability or lack thereof.
Every time I read a post about Kate and the rest of the paid national celebrities of England, I feel like some of the people are stuck in the distorted value system of the middle-ages.
Get with the times, will you?
I’m just repeating what he said that’s all. Those were his words. She was a good cook and she liked to cook and she took good care of them.
Not saying she should have or not – she did and part of what she did was cook.
I mentioned this because it is frequently stated that Pippa is unlikely to know how to cook – but in fact she does. That is all – nothing Medieval about it.
Also even good cooks enjoy learning new techniques and recipes.
I am not sure if Kate did, but Pippa was sent to a summer cooking school after A levels. It’s something private school kids do. It’s essentially cooking camp for teens, except they are being taught basics of corden bleu cooking.
Given how often Kate’s cooking has been mentioned, from university days to Uncle Gary holidays, i presume she was sent to a similar programme.
Do they have this for adults? Because I would love it.
Yes they do. Most have expanded to include adults. Courses tend to last a month.
This is the place Pippa went to.
http://www.cookeryatthegrange.co.uk
Many thoughts here.
-Harry…suits…*headdesk* Get thee to the tailor!
-Will didn’t show up to Harry’s garden opening at Chelsea Flower Show but almost everybody else in the fam did. Including the Queen & Prince Philip! Why?
-I thought she could cook before? Italian isn’t complicated at all that’s why it’s so good(imo).
-I just read a comment on DM saying Kate should wear the logo of her charities on her underwear, then they’d get as much exposure as she does. ITA with this.
Yep, that was the oddest thing of all: she didn’t seem to have lifted a finger to keep the skirt down.
Don’t get me wrong I can understand it is she loves the feeling of wind fiddling with her skirt – I do – but if you aspire to perform such a traditional, conventional (and purely ceremonial) role as the one she has landed, then you are expected to play by its rules. She gets to live in palaces, with no apparent care in the world (certainly not of the monetary kind). Surely dressing more appropriately (or even conservatively) is not too high a price to pay?
I have the feeling she thinks her legs are the bee’s knees. Which is sort of embarrassing because they aren’t. In profile, they look good enough; but en face… no. Not at all.
But I am sure Wills like them, so she flaunts them.
Harry does have a bald spot, but it’s not very noticeable. I do feel kind of bad for Wills, always being compared to Harry….let’s give him a break …they are both completely different people with different personalities. There was a big hubbab about Kate taking cooking lessons and that she was a throwback/old fashioned woman..but I think a woman should be able to cook without being labeled a homebody….some career men and women enjoy cooking. Regarding Kate, it doesn’t bother me if she doesn’t work, and who’s to say how much charity work she should do…she is a member of the royal family and honoring the traditions, and gearing up to be a wife and mother…I just think it’s okay if she does’nt work because part of the reason she’s there is to be a symbol/caricature to the people, and she has a certain role to fill…and I think she’s doing okay. I always look forward to any pics of Harry…he does well with babies and elderly people…his smile and gleam in the eye is killing me.
Kelly
William and Harry will forever be compared. Mostly because Harry is making the RF look good and he’s just a “spare”. Will is the one that should be gearing up since he’s 2nd in line. It looks bad that he seems to view that as a burden rather than a privilege. When he has worked and not blown it off he seems disinterested. Many 1st hand accounts are out there about Will and his temper when he doesn’t get his way and his unfair nature. He must be the one praised and if putting down harry is the way to achieve that without earning it then so be it.
Kate also needs to reflect well on the RF to maintain their relevance in these modern times. The RF still has some power and the public is distracted from knowing this by watching them do charity work. She gets by with the bare minimum an then people start to ask why she doesn’t do more when all her financial needs are covered by them. Also, she does little to honor the RF traditions. Her and Will skip on many tradition engagements and also refused to attend Christmas with the Queen. She also doesn’t honor the dress code. All of this is reflecting poorly on Will as well.
To gear up as a wife and mother… She’s had plenty of time for that and William would have to be around for her to be a wife to him. For the mother part she’s going to have many nannies and will likely not be a mother to her children in the way we were all raised. That’s what the skilled nannies are for.
At the end of the day, assuming you do live in Seattle, You are no richer or poorer because of her. The citizen of the UK are. It doesn’t help that when she does work she looks horribly bored and doesn’t seem to care about the citizens that wait in awful weather to catch a glimpse of her.
Waity Katy had the cheek to scorn the photographer who took topless pictures of her ON A PUBLIC BEACH and she walks about with a skirt pregnant showing her dirty washing – no she hasn’t changed from her clubbing days getting out of cars showing all she had – not a patch on Diana. Not sure if Wills is bothered, don’t think he is into Waity that much anyway, just needs an heir, like his father did.
I went to Catholic school and the uniform had knee-length, pleated wrap skirts. I don’t remember the name of the style, but you wrapped them around to put them on and they were adjustable at the waist and it was like one large rectangle of cloth you wrapped around and buttoned into a skirt? I’m not describing it well. Point is, lots of fabric that flared a lot so it was really hard not tI have Marilyn Moments on an even slightly windy day. As a result, we all just wore shorts underneath over our panties. I don’t see why she doesn’t do this, especially since this has happened before. She can still give us thigh envy and wouldn’t risk flashing everyone her royal knickers.
Or here’s an idea: WEAR PANTS. This is the twenty- first century, women can wear pants outfits to dressy events. You can’t tell me she doesn’t have acess to the finest and most elegant maternity pants suits available. Is shown off her legs really worth risking the paps taking photos of your junk?
Kate would look amazing in a pant suit. Like the flowy Armani pants Cate B wore. Sometimes the right pants show off your legs and butt while still maintaining your modesty.
I know the skirt you’re talking about I think. The fabric was light?
Make the spare lose his hair, hahaha! I’ll be laughing about that all night. Why did Kate wear that dress again? I thought maybe the first time she didn’t realize it was so short, but now we know she did.
I call BS on this entire US Weekly article Housekeepers in royal households (especially Buckingham Palace housekeepers) do NOT cook, that’s what the army of chefs is for.
No real Kate stories this weeks so someone at the magazine just decided that because the new housekeeper is Italian she must cook…. “let’s makeup a story that she’s teaching Kate how to cook, oh and lets throw Carol Middleton into the mix too”.
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