Duchess Kate’s latest “Marilyn Moment” is still making headlines internationally. And it really feels like this is the bum that broke the camel’s back, you know? She’s just had so many Marilyn Moments, wardrobe malfunctions and moments of exhibitionism and at this point, most people are done cutting her any slack. That includes the Australian newspapers too – the Rupert Murdoch-owned Australian newspapers bought the “bum photo” and published it today. Apparently, the photo was snapped by a woman, Diane Morel, a local Australian photographer who claims that she’s donating the money from the photo sales to “a bushfire relief fund.”
And once again, this whole incident has sparked an international conversation about free speech, freedom of the press and the “antiquated code of etiquette” given to the royal family. The Sydney Daily Telegraph ran a piece called “My bare lady: Derri-heir to the throne is fair game.” Annette Sharp wrote, in part:
“It seems a bit ridiculous to expect the rest of the world’s media to follow suit, particularly in a world in which flesh and commercialism go hand in hand… If the duchess can’t be bothered protecting herself by having hem weights sewn into her garments, why should the media protect her?”
Amen. Word.
There’s also word that Duchess Kate is going to be joining the Queen for some appearances in June. I imagine the Queen will be keeping an eye on Kate’s wayward hemline. Apparently – as of last week – Kate is scheduled to make an appearance with William and the Queen in France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day (June 6th). Um… a duchess/princess in Paris… no, I won’t go there.
And then, immediately following BUM-GATE, Kate’s office announced two more appearances for June – she will help launch America’s Cup at the National Maritime Museum on June 10. Then on June 12, Kate will attend a Garden Party for the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross, held at Buckingham Palace. So, she’s going to be working her fingers to the bone! Three major events within a week! After that she’s probably going to take the rest of the summer off. I’m not even joking.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
They are so boring IMO.
ITA. Why does the media hope she’s the next Diana? It’s NEVER going to happen. Besides after they way the royal family used and treated Diana, England should kick those welfare queens off their dole.
Not to mention, the more the media tries to compare Kate to Diana, the more it hurts Kate because it becomes glaringly obvious the differences outweighs, by a ton, any similarities. Diana had a strong work ethic, demonstrated a sincere concern for her people, was loving and smart. She used the press to her benefit and because of that, because of her, the country became enamored with the royal family again. Kate is no Diana. Not by a long shot.
Well, even if Diana had lived, I think there would have always been the comparison. She set the standard. Plus, she’s Will’s mother. We do that with celebrities and their offspring, on a certain level–we always compare their acting skills (especially if they don’t match up) with their parents. It was always going to happen, I think.
Kate and William just don’t do themselves any favors by being the laziest royals out there.
Alexi re “boring”: apparently not particularly boring, as we all seem to glom (Scottish vernacular) onto the D & D of C’s antics….which brings me to the following: could this pair be bent over in hysterical guffaws reading all the coverage they can so easily arouse from the media and the public because all they apparently need is a windy entrance/exit and a 9 month old youngster.
What else could explain the lack of dignity/form/respect? Just a lark for these two? Possibly.
Sophietta
So she is going to be at the anniversary of D day. Will she even know the significance of that event while attending. It seems that she is constantly at events where it is evident she is out of her scope.
I would LOVE to go there AND bring my neighbor–who was in Italy during WWII, rebuilding bridges/blowing up landmines left there by the Germans as they were retreating. And every time he tells me about WWII, he never fails to tell me the story about how his best friend in the whole wide world was killed within a week of getting in Italy–mowed down by machine guns by the Germans as they were chasing them up through the mountains.
What a joke that this woman gets to go.
Is Mr. C doing OK, VIrgilia?
He’s doing good–the same as always. It’s Mrs. C that’s not doing so well. Last time I talked to him, he told me that she had gotten a cold, and then had a bunch of fluid build up in one of her lungs….when they gave her medicine for it, she started getting the shakes, and couldn’t hold onto anything. They fixed that, and now she’s ‘fine’.
She still isn’t walking because of her hip, so I don’t know when she’ll be starting that. He said that she’s been sleeping a lot, during the day now.
And her memory is a lot worse now. He told me that every day he goes to see her, she always asks him when she’s going home and that she doesn’t like it there.
Awww, that is so sad to hear, Virgilia :(.
Virgilia,
Obviously, I don’t know the whole story here. But it sounds like perhaps Alzheimers is involved? Whatever the case, it takes a lot of strength and fortitude to deal with ailing family members. I’m sorry for your troubles, dear girl. <3
That is so sad, VIrgilia. We went through that with my dad. He was in a nursing home for rehab purposes, but wasn’t doing well and we were going to have that “you can’t come home” conversation, but he died before we could have it. In some ways that was a blessing. He never knew he couldn’t live at home any more.
@JennySerenity
He’s my neighbor–lives two doors down from me. About four years ago, I was making some cookies for the next door neighbor (who was really old too and on oxygen–his crappy stepdaughter wouldn’t give him any sweets unless I gave them to him), and I had randomly decided to make some cookies for the neighbors on the other side of them. And it was just a whim, basically because I hadn’t seen them in YEARS (I’ve been here for eleven years).
So I did, and when I brought them (you know, knocked on their door, etc), Mr. C pulled me inside and I talked to Mrs. C for over three hours–and that’s really how I started visiting them a couple times a week.
I do think she has Alzheimer’s…maybe not diagnosed, but she’s coherent, and she *knows* that she doesn’t remember ANYTHING. What’s worse is that now she’s sometimes forgetting who Mr. C is–and that’s the one thing she’s never forgotten. She sometimes forgets how many kids she has, doesn’t remember any of her grandkids or anything like that….she always thinks I’m related to her, even though we look nothing alike.
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Thanks you guys–I’m kind of prepared for her to die soon, because she’s been in the nursing home for so long (a couple of months) without really getting better. She was only in there because she fell and cracked her hip. And she hasn’t gotten any better on that front yet.
And all of this (or who knows…) will happen to us too! Just saying, when I’m in a nursing home, I will probably stop eating. I have known several women who let go in this way. They wanted to go, and be with their husbands, mothers… My mother tried force feeding my grandma, holding her nose…makes me sick that she did that!
I’m not talking about anyone else’s grandma. Just mine, and others I’ve known about, and me. I don’t mean to break anyone’s heart, but when it’s my time, that’s in the back of my mind. It’s sad that we perish in this way…disintegration. It is so strange to look at the future.
VC, I admire that you took time to get to know this lovely couple. I was wondering how Mrs. C was doing.
Mr. C is one of the remaining wonderful soldiers who saw so much during WWII. In the past six months, two dear men passed who had significant service during WWII (I knew them all my life and had no idea what they did). I’m glad you got to hear Mr. C’s stories about his service and recognize the horrors of war he personally witnessed.
I really don’t care about her skirt problems or her lack of hem weights, as the future queen consort I’m sure she knows better, but that’s the royal family’s problem, it doesn’t make any difference to me. Maybe she does it knowing the queen won’t reprimand her and she knows it’ll rile up all her haters lol.
I don’t understand the comments about why she gets to go to the d-day anniversary and whether she understands the significance of the event. It would be interesting to see someone with a college degree, or even a high school diploma, who doesn’t know the significance of d-day. Give her a little credit. Wardrobe malfunctions aside, she always acts professionally at these kinds of events.
People give her a hard time about how bad she is at giving speeches…maybe she’s just not good at them? OMG she keeps looking down at her notes, she could have said or done more, why isn’t she perfect??!!! Haha, ok not that last one, but it’s almost spot on with what it seems like people really want to say in comments. There is some serious nitpicking. Not everyone in the public eye is good at public speaking, not even those who receive training for it. Giving a speech is not easy.
The Cambridges are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
@Bwarf
We are talking about a woman, who has a degree in Art History, who thought they still made Faberge Eggs. She is not the brightest bulb, and she’s shown herself to be completely apathetic to the simplest of charitable works. All she has to do is show up, look pretty, smile, and say a few words. She’s a grown woman, who by her own PR made it clear that she was going to be one of the most prepared princesses, because she’d been preparing for Royal Life ever since she got with William 10+ years before. We saw how that was a lie.
She’s over thirty and has had plenty of time to improve her public speaking. And if she can’t bother to muster, even some fake sympathy for the people who would benefit from the galas/charity events that she routinely doesn’t go to (when all she has to do is show up and smile, for the most part), then I can’t see her knowing or even really caring about the sacrifice that those men made for all of us.
And I feel that it is an insult for someone like her and Will, especially Will–whose grandmother ‘served’ during WWII, to go be able to go to something like that, when she can’t muster any fake sympathy for the undistinguished peasants.
Thank you, Virgilia. My parents lived through the Blitz in Britain — and after my dad died I got hold of one of his best friends to tell him dad had died and if there were any blessings out of dad’s death, getting to know his friend Frank was one. He was a bombadier for the US air force based out of Norfolk, and does he ever have some tales to tell.
I hope Kate has a clue. Her grandfather was in the RAF I believe, and trained pilots.
Prince Charles is over 60 and recently delivered such a cringeworthy speech to a group of Sri Lankan dignitaries that it prompted media criticism – unprepared, fumbling his words and referring too often to his notecards. Sound familiar?
I am going to be at Arromanches for the commemoration. That’s where William and Kate are going to be. I don’t think they are accompanying the Queen to Paris though. I’m hoping to catch sight of them when we go. We’re staying from the 5th to the 7th for the commemoration.
Best wishes for safe travels and a beautiful commemoration.
Thanks. 🙂 I’m looking forward to it as this could be one of the last big commemorations since everyone is getting so much older. I’m a big history buff anyways–I picked June 6 as my wedding date since my great-uncle participated in the invasion. We are currently stationed in Belgium and the whole area is gearing up for big WW1 Commemorations to begin in August. William, Kate and Harry are actually coming to right near where I live.
Touching and meaningful 😉
Kori, I think it’s lovely you’re going. If I were able to go, I’d be weeping from start to finish.
Tiffany, what exactly is she supposed to do to demonstrate that she understands the significance of the event? All she’s going to go is stand there solemnly and lay a wreath or something. I don’t understand the grief she gets.
I took Tiffany’s comment as a commentary on just HOW BAD Kate is at public events. I still remember her last speech, at an ART GALLERY, where she had to look down every few seconds to read her speech–which all she said was that she was so glad to be here at opening night, and thanked the staff for all their hard work. That’s it. Kate is an Art History major, for one. She probably *could’ve* said something a lot more substantial than what she did–like some short commentary on the theme of the pieces themselves–and she would, or rather, should know a lot more about the topic. But she didn’t.
The only time she really shows any enthusiasm or animation is when she’s doing sports related events….
I have a hard time believing that she really understands the significance of the event she’s going to. She barely puts any effort in the normal, every day charity events that she goes to. I mean, one of the charities that she is the so called patron of had to cancel a gala/auction last year, because they hadn’t sold enough tickets. And like others have posted–this is a woman who can have a single dress be sold out within hours of her wearing it.
She doesn’t care about anything other than William–which could’ve been a good thing (not caring or paying attention to anything the media says, because sometimes people are just going to be nasty no matter what)…but it isn’t.
@Virgilia, I’ve noticed too that she’s in her element in athletic events. I think they’ve really missed the mark with her. She should chose an organization like Paralympics or Special Olympics and get deeply involved. The PR would be amazing, and she would be involved in an activity that speaks to her.
Plus, mentally challenged folks can be very positive and non-judgmental. She won’t have to worry so much about maintaining an accent or using proper grammar, etc. I find her surprisingly insecure.
One thing though – didn’t Kate and William skip out on the Paralympics in London a few years ago to go vacation in France??? I think that’s when the topless photos scandal happened.
Along with VC’s comment I’ve been to those events honoring the dead. You may not share the grief of others that have been hit more personally, but you can refrain from looking bored and disinterested and laugh during moments of silence. If nothing else what helps me is to feel sympathy for those there that have felt the loss of someone in the service.
And this isn’t a slam to Kate. Just people who attend these things in general. Kids I understand being restless, but adults? no excuse.
Virgilia and FLORC, that is exactly it. She does not know how to read a room. It has been three years, why is she still getting a pass. She has a ton of people at her disposal to assist with these issues and she choses to either ignore them or not use them at all. The only person that looks forward to her events are the designers as they look at their numbers the next day for sales.
I’m going to have a charitable moment here. I think Kate really underestimated the public aspect of her role, I really do. I also think that she’s had enough missteps that may have resulted in a talking to from either her husband, her father in law, or her grandmother in law (or their respective staff) that’s she has got to where she’s practically frozen in case she acts inappropriately (dress and underwear choices excepted).
I say this as I started a job a couple of months ago, and lasted exactly 11 days at it. They didn’t like me as I wasn’t a “good fit”. I could not do one single thing right for these people, not one. I hadn’t worked for a while so I was very much listening to what they said so I didn’t make a misstep and these people wouldn’t let me send an email out (even interoffice!) without someone approving it, gave me things to do with no instruction then trashed what I produced, and wouldn’t let me ask questions when they gave me instructions to complete a task. I hated it. Just hated it. And was going to start looking for a new job, but someone did an end run around me and we had the “not a good fit” meeting. (At which I agreed and walked out!) I now have a new job, where people actually trust me and I am in hog heaven.
I say this as I see parallels between my short lived experience and Kate. It totally demoralized me, and the poor people who hired me are still dealing with the (very needy) fall out from that last place. Kate doesn’t have anywhere to go, and may not have a good support system, so in some ways I sympathise.
I do wonder with you, bluhare, about her support system…then again, does she need someone to hold her hand, hasn’t she been told before, and on many occasions? Sometimes you get what you ask for.
Your last employ sounds just awful – and one that needed an exit from immediately. You were ganged up on. Unbelievable awful. I have found that professional judging and jealousies exist everywhere. (i.e. among teachers) The only way from that dilemma is to be the boss so everyone is doing the two step for you. Or to find a truly cooperative work environment. Good manners would have been enough for you, I am sure.
Aw, bluhare, what a friggin’ nightmare. It sounds dreadful.
But they gave you ELEVEN days – which is insane. Kate has had three years – more, if you count the wife in training years – and there are still excuses galore made for her.
Well, she did twirl her hair at the Rememberance Memorial so demonstrating that even without any words it’s possible to show that you don’t have any idea of the significance of an event like that. Maybe she will *forget* to wear panties to this event and *forget* to have weights sewn into her short, light dress?
Bluhare
That sounds like a rough work environment. Glad you felt ok leaving and have a “better fit” in your new job.
Let me squash your defense though.
Kate was driven to get William. Driven to attend St. Andrews. Driven to adopt a posh accent, Driven to nail down that ring. Because she achieved all this it’s proven she can follow directions, survive in a fishbowl of criticism, and still move forward towards her goal. And she very may well have under estimated her role with the public, but I can’t imagine how she did that while playing the game in the tabs.
Yes, she’s shown us time and time again she is likely without a decent support system to prep her for events or she doesn’t take the time.
And when it comes to honoring our veterans or those lost tragically it should be common sense to not crack jokes or look like you’re being punished by being there.
This is a harsh comment, but it’s also something we’re all equipt with as adults. Common Sense.
Thanks, wolfpup and Suze.
Man, FLORC, squash me like a pesky bug, whydoncha!!!! 🙂
I get your point, and I agree that she “trained” for a long time. But she did not have the actual engagements that she does now prior to marriage (although I grant you there’s an argument there too in that she doesn’t have any now!), and the scrutiny level has ratcheted up. Looking at something is a lot different than looking out from something if you catch my meaning. So having just come from an environment where my every move was monitored (including standing outside listening to my phone calls!) and hearing “whisper whisper whisper” every time my “trainer” left my office, I can sympathise with being under the microscope a bit.
This isn’t to say that it transfers to her clothing choices, though. Hell no. The voice of experience should have taught her a thing or two there.
Bluhare
Is “Whydoncha” a comment on English By Palin because I only know that word from her.
I do get what you’re saying with inside and outside perspectives and agree. Although, as hard as it is to take criticism and to feel you’re just not good enough for an unknown reason all the strongest women in the public eye have said this is a must. You can’t turn a blind eye to your faults when how you live your life is broadcasted to so many.
She seems to have reached a very short sited goal. She got the ring and had the heir. That was the easy part. The hard part is her life should be an example of how a lady should carry herself. Surely, she understood why so many women refused William and why Diana is remembered in the way she is. It’s a job and Kate has had more than a decade to learn the basics.
Without ranting much longer there are many, many royal ladies past and present that are standouts because they bettered themselves and their world. Not just wore clothes and decorated homes.
Kate can do better, but if people are content and she’s content with the bare minimum then why should she better herself?
Man, maybe it’s just me, but I feel bad for her. Yes, she should be weighing down her dresses/skirts but come on. This is not Lindsay Lohan-esq attention whoring, it was an accident.
I’m probably just a sympathizer but the amount of crap this girl gets about her wardrobe (spending too much? spending too little?), her hair (good god, greys! Oh no, she’s wearing her hair the same way AGAIN!), her child (a one year old hit another one year old! Call in the military!) is pretty insane to me.
Agreed. She hasn’t really done anything shock worthy that deserves backlash.
As the article quotes above, its a bit ridiculous to expect the media to protect her. I fully agree with the author that the royals feel entitled to an antiquated set of etiquette used only to protect them. ONLY to protect them! No etiquette when it comes to their own behavior and conduct. This is a woman with all the resources of the UK at her disposal and she can’t seem to find underpants to cover her bottom. It’s pathetic, but it’s her image, and I don’t think the media needs to give her any more protection or sympathy. She’s NOT a sympathetic character.
Once is an accident. She should have learned her lesson in Canada.
Beyond that, I can’t remember the last time I accidentally forgot to wear underwear in situations where I had already had my skirts blow over my head. Not much dignity in being a habitual flasher.
If Kate is attending any events by the water or where there are windy conditions, she’d better make sure she NAILS her hem to her legs!
Has. She never heard of a SLIP? That would help a lot, even if the hem wasnt weighted.
She loves the attention.
LOL, Mich. Seriously. I’ve never had as bad an experience as this past one, and I would totally freak out if I had.
Forget underwear? Never!! Not with a dress like that on!
agreed and she is a beautiful inside out
Not an ounce of sympathy here. Too many malfunctions to be an “accident”. Not wearing underwear when wearing light, full skirts with unweighted hems smacks of exhibitionism, especially when the wind has wreaked havoc before.
+1000
+2000
Really, how many times would you have to be on a tarmac having winds blowing up your skirt with flashbulbs popping away before you had the brains to say, “Gee, I think I’m going to do something to cover my rear and/or vaj so that doesn’t happen again?” The fact that it keeps happening means that it is purposeful on some level. Either she is angry at something or feels that she is being controlled, or she needs approval for her body from the public, or she is an exhibitionist at heart and thinks this is all funny. I rarely comment on this chick and find her celebritization rather ridiculous, but sorry, this has just gone a lick too far to be accidental. End of.
Agreed! She knows the cameras are watching, and this keeps happening. It’s getting a bit annoying. We should start bets on when the Queen finally takes it upon herroyalself to sew in the hem weights for Kate
+2001 no sympathy for her.
Could not agree MORE! How many times is she going to stick non G-rated parts of her bare body out there during PUBLIC functions where she is a country’s figurehead? Yes you have a lovely body, no, we don’t want to see naked bits of it at every turn, thankyouverymuch.
KikiLaRue
If I may clarify why people take the stance they do on this. She hasn’t flashed her bottom, biscuit or chest to us a handful of times. She’s been doing it for over a decade. Now that she’s married to William and has birthed an heir she’s expected to act more demure and respectable if only during work, which is a few hours a month. This is a solid pattern of behavior.
And has anyone really said she’s spending too little on her wardrobe?
Regarding her hair.. It’s always down. Not a huge deal unless it’s in her face for a speech or covering a lovely diamond necklace. And imo she looks great with her hair up and back.
Her grays are also not a big deal.
And did anyone real freak out when George was rough with another child? I don’t recall anyone thinking it was anything other than a baby being a baby. That would be insane if it happened, but it sounds like an exaggeration unless you have links.
I think you might be reading some of the comments here out of context also. Her hair/wigs/clothes comments aren’t always literal. They’re jokes that spin off so far from Kate it’s just playful banter we have with eachother here and not attacks on Kate.
And to a certain point much is expected of her. She has all the resources along with a decade to prepare and a university education. Diana did more with far less.
Bottom line. She knows what she’s doing. The woman owns underwear. She can see cameras are everywhere. And she doesn’t seem to be ashamed of flashing her bottom in public during public events.
May I add that since she’s done very little in the way of accomplishments or demonstrated a real work ethic like other royals, there is really not much else to talk about besides her appearance…
Very true. And while other royals both married and born in work very hard and very little Kate was built up. She was more prepared and more excited to work hard than any other royal wife.
I blame the press on this more than Kate.
I remember a charity that had to cancel a fundraiser for lack of interest was rumored to want to ditch the dutchess as she wasn’t helping them at all.
For the woman that can sell out a dress once she rolls out of bed, throws on a dress, take a stroll in the park, and then go back to bed she barely has to do anything to bring awareness to noble causes. Pure apathy imo.
Is it windy around helicopters? How would she possibly know that? Oh wait, she married a guy that sometimes flies helicopters. . . I’m sure there’s another excuse for this “accident” that keeps happening over and over and over.
Maybe if she was known for more than being a clothes horse, I don’t know, being committed to charities beyond galas or half hearted visits, she wouldn’t face this scrutiny……
Didn’t see your comment before I posted to FLORC above, but I agree 100%
When you calculate the number of official appearances versus the number of mishaps, the percentage is high. With all the shopping, one would think she would have appropriate undergarments for her WORK engagements.
Actually, Diana did way more Royal engagements and she too suffered from people only reporting on her clothing and not her work. It took several years of Diana working before anyone in the press took her seriously.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said essentially that she would work herself to the bone, no one would notice, but if she changed her hairstyle it suddenly became international news.
Basically, Kate is kinda screwed in that department but she’s also not doing herself any favours either.
LS
True. I also think Anne keeps the sour face and helmet hair on purpose so the media will not want to fixate on her for any reason whatsoever.
LS,
I always think of Condoleezza Rice at the 2012 RNC. Yes, she had lipstick on her teeth, but it’s her substantive speech that people talked about afterward and remember now.
Obviously Kate is not allowed to have public opinions on that level, and I do agree that there would be a focus on her clothes no matter what, but she has not done ANY substantive work to alternately discuss.
How hard can it be to weight your hems? Put on knickers that cover your bum? Realize that helicopters cause gusts that might embarrass you?
It’s not a one-off thing. And it’s not some huge mystery. I remember reading stories about Diana’s hems being weighted almost the minute she started working. Remember the see-through skirt when Diana posed at the preschool? She made that mistake ONCE. And that was just forgetting a slip.
Seriously. How difficult can it be to act wisely? Weight your hems. Schedule at least one royal outing a fortnight. GROW UP.
Oh Ellen.
For us normal people this isn’t hard. But Kate is a full time mother and a military wife. She has to redecorate her holiday house AND on top of that, she has to put in an official appearance once a month.
She has like three full time jobs! She doesn’t have time to tell someone to tell the tailor to fix her dresses or put a slip or underwear with more coverage!
People just ask too much of this woman!
🙂
@KiKi – OK. Let’s ride this train of thought. If this was an accident, why does this keep happening? The only option I can think of is “she doesn’t care.” She may not necessarily *want* to have these pics out there, but I don’t think she’s embarrassed by them. I find that to be equally as bad as the theory that she’s an exhibitionist. I just can’t find any believable excuse as to why someone with all this money and so much guidance keeps making the SAME MISTAKE.
Once or twice is an accident. However 5, 6, 7 times is on purpose. She keeps flashing us over and over again. How many high profile women get away with that many waldrobe malfunctions that can be easily fixed? No sympathy for her tone deaf self.
•TC•
It’s been 14+ incidents now.
Prior to the Australia/NZ tour someone (Suze? My2Pence? Sorry I can’t remember exactly who did) had counted her Marilyn Moments as Dss of Cam alone and said it was 13 times. Mind you, all 13 came with links. Kate had two on this tour as well. That puts her at 15 but I’m stating 14+ to be safe.
I cannot guess as to why Kate continues to have these issues but it IS unprofessional any which way you look at it.
@TC – “How many high profile women get away with that many waldrobe malfunctions…?”
You hit the nail right on the head! I can’t believe anyone can even gather sympathy at this point. The answer to your question is no one. Be they diplomat, actress, singer, head-of-state, etc.
It wasn’t me keeping track of Duchess Updraft in her Underpants, but you’ve got me curious now and I’m going to try to remember the incidents off the top of my head – so, no links…
Yellow dress, airport Calgary
Flowered dress, airport Brisbane
Polka dot TopShop dress while pregnant/wedding, and again at Warner Brothers studio – a twofer!
Orla Kiely skirt, Place2Be
And of course the two latest in New Zealand and Australia.
So yeah, seven, without really trying.I’m sure some research could bring up the rest.
As to why it keeps happening I think William doesn’t care so Kate doesn’t care.
Ooo, Ooo, *wags hand emphatically, waiting to be acknowledged* Can we officially refer to this incident as the Bum-Gate Scandal?
I think we should have a contest to see who comes up with the best name. I don’t have one yet, but I will!!
Hey, we could start a blog called “The Bottom Line” all about the numerous reveals of her nether regions!
I didn’t invent it, but my favourite is Her Royal Hineyness. And Duchass comes second.
How about Another Sorry Showing Gate? ASS-Gate for short.
*snickers*
Good one.
Lord, Mich!!! I didn’t even get my entry in (mostly because I haven’t come up with it yet) and you win!
She should be called duchass Kate as well.
I vote for The Barebottom Duchess.
How about Duchess Another Sorry Showing? Shortened to Duch-A.S.S. Then when Will becomes POW she’ll be Princ-A.S.S. of Wales?
Edit: I just saw your comment Eva. 🙂
Mich!! i bow to thee!
ROFL
Reece/Eva/Arthistorian – a gold star to all of you.
EDIT: scratch that. you are all to receive the order of the bare ASS. to be worn with a fetching blue and white sash in honour of the colours she was wearing when this latest ASS-Gate.
it’s on a yellow ribbon in honour of the colours she was wearing the first time she flashed us.
How many flashes to join?
LAK,
Many thanks for honour. Will hurry out to get a ballgown that will match the sash of the Order and my tiara. Ta ta.
Better make sure the ball gown has a cut out in the back or is sheer round the bum, ArtHistorian. 😉
I’m sure I can find a dress with a VERY low back – that would also provid me with an opportunity to display my lovely diamond sautoir.
Something like this might be appropriate for the occasion:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/472807660852692459/
She or her makeup person, apply blush like an 90yr old granny.
Her eye makeup is bad but I am always astonished why no one comments on the state of her cheeks. Her blush is always comical.
Yes, the blush is bad. And for moment there, I thought I was looking at Carole (2nd pic).
Lol. You are right!
It’s a ploy! Kate wants to divert attention from her atrocious makeup by showing us her toned derriere. Who says this woman isn’t smart! 😉
i think people have given up commenting on her atrocious make-up. It used draw comments all the time. may be we’ll get to the same level of fatigue with her flashing and stop commenting on that too and she’ll continue doing it regardless.
Don’t ever take on an event that isn’t glamorous, Katie! Something where you would have to give a speech that would signal that you have so much as a rudimentary understanding of an important issue. Don’t make any use of your very expensive education. Just help sell out dresses, that will do.
And don’t forget to curl your hair!
Wow, Hannah.
Sarcastic, much?
Must be nice to be perfect like you…..
I think Hannah’s sentiments are shared by many (most?) of the commenters on this blog.
No one is demanding Kate be perfect. No one. Just that she not lower the bar for appearances so much that when she does do 1 thing correctly it’s enough to throw a parade. I remember 1st time she wore her hair back. Praise shouldn’t be gien that easily. It should be earned.
Bingo, FLORC. There’s a lot of room between not flashing your underwear or lack thereof and perfect.
And she’ll win high praise if she manages to get through the upcoming engagements without the Flying Hem of Doom in action. The bar will really be set low for that.
Feeshalori: i was thinking the same when i opened this post. If she ties her hair back and has no flashing moments, they’ll be a parade!!
Sadly, considering how often she flashes or threatens to flash, you just know the more unscrupulous paps are going to aim their cameras at her nether regions waiting and hoping for a chance.
@FLORC/AM/Feeshalori – Your comments take me back to Sarah Palin campaigning for VP. Her debate against Joe Biden was on the heels of that unfortunate (to say the least) interview with Katie Couric. Palin was given so much praise for the “great job” she did. This was code for “making it through the debate without a colossal blunder.” It’s embarrassing and infuriating when the bar is set this low for anyone that isn’t a toddler.
HH
I remember that and feeling the same. This woman was terrible in the debate yet was praised for not stumbling over her lies. In place of not stumbling she simply ignored the questions and her responses had me questioning my understanding of the English language and how she was applauded.
Oh, FLORC, I’m laughing at you right now. Not at you, but you poor person trying to understand Sarah Palin with English as your second language! English is my first language and I’ve never been able to figure out what the hell she’s saying, so I admire you for trying. 🙂
Considering I was maybe only a few years into the English language at that point I was watching tv with subtitles and it made such little sense.
Now i’m convinced she spoke her own language and I made peace with that.
“a bushfire relief fund”
Heh.
I’ll go back to my corner.
Yeah, my mind went there immediately
I giggled too.
me too.
A snicker from me as well.
LOL!! Never even occurred to me!
I don’t get it? This is serious stuff, people.
@mimif
You are aware that this is a gossip site and not The Guardian, right?
@Mich total and absolute sarcasm. 🙂
The Cambridge clamarama is no laughing matter.
Except when it is.
@Abbott you’re killing me today 😀
Ha! I totally missed that! LOL
Ha!
Agreed! Lol
funny…”bushfire relief fund”! If we started one, do you think that the palace would listen?
+1
The British press protects the royals *a lot* — if TMZ had a UK office and worked that beat, you best believe the dirt would be flowing on a regular basis.
I would love for that to happen.
Me too. So much fun – what a great idea!
Just noticed…Kimye have their own tab on the frontpage. Huh.
It changes to who has the most news going on at he moment i think, I first noticed when it was george clooney, then angelina, dont panic they should be gone soon.
The British press are enjoying shouting about this for nefarious reasons of their own, as I said yesterday. They’re covertly making all sorts of points – many of them concerning the still unsorted spectre of press regulation.
I can’t see this as a privacy issue. It might well be a lowest common denominator (or, as Justin Theroux so patronisingly put it on the other thread today, a bread and circuses issue) – but it has nothing to do with privacy that I can see. It’s a shame that we’re all so titillated by this nonsense that a photo of a famous woman’s backside can sell for six figures but it’s an equal shame that a public figure in a diplomatic role thinks it’s fine to concurrently forget her knickers AND her hem weights. For the umpteenth time.
No saints here!
Brilliant. Can you work the bespoke part in there somewhere?
Thank you for the context.
I agree with every word in this comment.
I don’t think it’s tittilation that makes the price for her bum and bush pics sell high. It’s because her waldrobe malfunctions are banned from being published in the UK papers and she’s part of the royal family. Censorship makes people curious.
I don’t know anyone who is getting off on pictures of her butt or the other pictures of her naked breasts. There is nothing special about her bits as far as I can see. If she wasn’t part of the royal family I don’t think most people would bother clicking to see someone’s butt unless there was something specially sexy about it .
@T.C. – I meant titillation in a more general way than prurience over bare bums. Or tits. Or any body parts. I’m talking about being titillated by scandal and gossip generally. And, of course, I include myself in that unhappy body politic, since here I am on an internet gossip site.
And as for censorship making people curious: yes, of course it does. But, as I said in my first comment, this is exactly what the British media want you to take away from this. At the moment. Behind the scenes, many battle lines are being drawn at the prospect of the implementation of Leveson. And if the press can use the RF as proxies in creating an opinion against regulation, that’s what they will do. And are doing.
You’re dead right, Sixer. The Daily Mail’s glee over not publishing the photos (yet publishing the pixelated version so we can see how noble they are for not publishing the NSFW one) is bloody funny. And not, at the same time.
I feel it’s important to point out that the woman who took the photograph was NOT a photographer, but a local who just happened to capture the money-shot on her camera when the RF visited the fire-devastated Blue Mountains.
I really hope she does donate the funds – another article I read states she’s a local of the affected area, so I don’t doubt that she would. The blazes in NSW last October were horrific, and it would be pretty fantastic for the bushfire relief effort.
MisJes
I wouldn’t be at all shocked if the professional photographers there did get those bottom shots, but refused to print out of fear. Even though this time no one can claim it’s a privacy issue.
•Florc•
Can you imagine the number of wardrobe malfunctions that Kate has that weren’t published? And I’m strictly talking about her as Dss of Cam and not pre-marriage. It must be a decent number.
LadySlippers
Just as DoC and her preference of skirts to Jeggings i’m sure the number is greater than we realize. And said skirts for the greater majority had extremely high hemlines. I’m talking mid thigh.
And she wasted no time as her 1st flash as DoC was the moment she landed in Canada on her Honeymoon.
I haven’t heard anyone say this yet – the idea of not selling a photo that shows a woman’s behind for $100,000, because one has “morals”, is pretty high minded. If one could buy a house, get braces on her kid’s teeth, or whatever a pleb needs…I think few would hesitate. It’s not like murder!
According to the German tabloid Bild, which first published the picture, the photographer is an amateur who was taking snapshots of the royal visit and didn’t realize she had taken the “money” picture until she got home and developed her shots.
Ho-hum, a short D-Day appearance, launching America’s Cup and a Garden Party for the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross. Those are heavy responsibilities indeed. Let’s see…she’ll twirl her hair distractedly and look bored at the D-Day event; wear her wedges of doom and skin-tight, painted-on jeggings at America’s Cup, and a floaty little dress that the wind blows up at the Garden Party revealing yet again her penchant for wearing the tiniest of butt floss.
Nailed it.
We’re “jaded” too.
Apart from working hard to look serious at the commemoration, more fluffy appearances.
If the paparazzi has adhered to the “antiquated code of etiquette”, Princess Diana might still be alive.
No. That’s just not the case. Only saying this once. Diana teased the press to chase her everywhere and removed her best security from them. Your comment makes no sense and are ommitting enough facts from this to make non-fiction pure fiction.
Comparing any of Diana’s life to Kate’s life is like comparing a toad to a frog.
If Diana had worn her seatbelt she’d be alive. It’s really just that simple.
(Also, if she kept her RPOs they would have had experience dealing with the press and that would have made a huge difference too)
The RPOs would not have gone for the drunk driver, lack of seatbelt, or the press evasion tactics. There were a lot of variables that night.
•AM•
Agreed. But if only one thing could be changed from that night, having her seatbelt on would have been a gamechanger for her.
(The Fayads’ security team was quite the joke)
Seatbelts, seriously everyone!
The AAA training video shows, in slow motion, what happens during a crash when a seatbelt is not worn. They used dummies in the video but the effect was horrific. I’d always worn my seatbelt – I feel vulnerable and uncomfortable without it- but that video made me aware of how important it is that backseat passengers use it as well.
I’ve heard this whole scene torn apart from a medical standpoint. The variable that had the least impact was the press. Alcohol, lack of security, speeding, no seatbelt. Poor judgement all around.
Buckle up.
I agree Megan. There are many things that could have changed the outcome that night and the paparazzi’s actions are one of those things (along with seatbelt, security, drunk driver, etc). Any one of those could have changed the outcome, so I think it’s fair to say that if the paparazzi had acted differently then Diana might still be alive.
I believe some things must be seen as a given. Paparazzi probably always will be obnoxious (excepting for laws). Seatbelts and underwear are something we can control.
Somedays I really miss Diana.
She’s probably really mad about this picture getting out. Not because of embarrassment or invasion of privacy but because it’s forcing her to work when she had no plans to.
Seems like, until this broke, she was prepping to coast off of the good PR from the NZ/Australia trip through the summer and not work much, if at all. Now she can’t.
Not quite. The events were already scheduled. No one mentioned it because of the POW/Putin drama.
If i may presume, i think pleaseicu meant the 2 extra events ie the America cup and the red cross. those events weren’t on her diary until A.S.S-gate [Thanks Mich!].
The public royal diary didn’t have her working at all this summer accept for the France trip and the usual mandatory events like Trooping the Colour and the order of the garter. All the media about her plans for the summer, even at guess work, were united in one thing. she wasn’t going to be seen more than the mandatory events and was going to stay hidden for rest of her maternity leave.
Heck she didn’t show up for a flower being named after PGtips last week at the Chelsea Flower Show and now suddenly she has 2 events in a week. what could have changed…….ummm…i wonder what?! oh i know…..A.S.S-gate!!! The Palace, which didn’t make a comment on this, needs to change the conversation and viola!!! Missy is out the door working. two events in a week!!!
That maternity leave should be over, too, right? After all we are headed full steam toward PGTips first birthday.
So cheek flash = work dash? Lol, what a mess.
Bwah!
😉
I believe all this attention on his wife’s body parts turns William on. That’s the reason why he fights the press on publishing b/c it brings more attention to the photos and also why the flashing does not stop. If it really bothered him, it would have stopped immediately!
Kate creates waves in no other way. Dull and boring she is, afraid to stand out in “the firm”. Also, maybe the family was somehow secretely involved with the timing of the photo release as it distracts from Charles’ comments about Putin.
Now that the press is shrieking about her inappropriate exhibitionism, cue the nanny to ready Prince George for a timely photo-op. Maybe even a “normal mom” moment in Kensington Park!
5…4…3…2…
I wonder if those were added because they knew they couldn’t stop BumGate from happening. Tanna has been gleefully hinting that something was about to go down. Worst thing they did was getting in bed with him. He’s going off on them in hilariously snarky ways.
I find it hilarious they think trotting her out after nearly 2 months of exile will make everyone forget she was commando at an event and flashed the press corps. All I can think about are those kids and that her skirt could have lifted up as she was kneeling down to talk to them. There’s no excuse for her stupidity.
Duchess Bare Bottom really did it – because this scandal was juxtaposed with the Kardashian pre divorce party – they are being linked in media articles.
I am sure the Queen is going nuts.
I wonder how much the Queen knows.
Probably more than we do. I seriously wish I could listen in to her and Philip talking about it. And Anne!! She’d rip her such a new one Kate would forget she had an old one!
bluhare: i think anne should rip her a new one.
I bet the help knows. We’ll just have to wait until 1 of them leaks the info post employment.
She has beautiful legs, so why not show it off. They are her best assets.
You can show your legs off without revealing a bare bum in public. Very poor judgement on her part and showcases not only her shapely posterior but her utter lack of decorum.
+1. There’s no reasonable defense for showing her as* to the public.
I have been told (and I agree) I have nice legs and bottom. Certainly a physical asset of mine. And I hear this having not exposed myself to anyone r by wearing tight clothes I look poured into.
They don’t say less is more and to leave something to the imagination for nothing.
If Kate was a model and not a public figure representing the Monarchy on these trips I would say it’s her job to not be covered up. But this isn’t the case.
It is Kate’s job to be covered up and to follow protocol with her clothing. I hate wearing scrubs, but it’s what is expected of me for my job. The rules and expectations are no different for her. Claiming otherwise seems like a child’s argument. Not meaning to offend. Meaning that last line very literally to how a child would argue a point on personal preference and not fact, rules or logic.
+1
If you’re so concerned and offended about the pics being shown to the public, doesn’t the photographer deserve *some* of the blame, too?
Regardless of the publishing or even existence of the pics, the fact remains that she flashed her hosts and the public at a public event that she was invited to. That’s really the issue for me. It is rather disrespectful and it makes her look unprofessional. But then, this woman has never held a proper job in her life, so the issues of looking professional on the job might be a difficult concept for her to grasp.
Kate should turn the other cheek.
Hehehehe.
good one! 😉
Haha. You know she’s going to because she refuses to give up her school girl antics.
But Snark, which one? We’ve now seen both!
😜
that is the best comment I’ve read to date. 🙂
So I guess this means the Firm aren’t keeping her hidden as a “punishment”. Interesting…
That wouldn’t be punishment. Working would be punishment!
Yep yep!
True enough. I remember for awhile every time she worked more than 2 events a week people would ask if she was being punished. The girls camping trip in the snow, the fishing town that was hit hard by the recession, the random and short noticed charity visit.
she would solve the problem by wearing slacks from now on. She obviously doesn’t get that flimsy dresses blow in the wind, and maybe she has never heard of underwear.
Just seen on Hello!: “Kate’s make-up artist shares beauty tips for summer!”
What make-up artist is proud of being associated with Duchess Racoon of Blusher? LOL
Snark aside you make a good point. Does she really have a makeup artist for all events or her make up artist she had on this last tour?
I thought she famously applies her own make up. How we see it is after photoshop and filters.
May be Hello is playing on words. Kate is rumoured to use Bobbi Brown products and Bobbi Brown is a make up artist……
it´s about make-up artist Arabella Preston.
“Describing working with the Duchess of Cambridge as a “huge honour” that´s all about Kate. I bet this woman worked with Kate one time and that´s all.
Would be shocking if a profesional makes her terrible make-up.
I think she’s secretly an exhibitionist and enjoys the attention. I can’t imagine she is not aware of the problem or unable to stop it, she simply loves exposing herself. Why else would she NOT have someone take care of it? Simple slip would have saved the day – the Queen wears them. I’ve never seen another royal woman, except Fergie, with her legs and bum exposed. She’s probably insecure and, since legs are her best asset, she wants people to notice them. I recall that she captured Will’s attention by parading near naked at a “fashion” show. So maybe he likes it too.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/27/article-2641053-1E3D6A2200000578-824_306x423.jpg
Windy day, but her hair is pulled back and she’s wearing a slip which preserves her modesty. So she does know HOW to do it.
and of course Jezebel is blaming the media and absolves Kate.
Ha! Of course they are…
It’s not like the media ever publishes nude photos of the male royals. Oh wait…
Thanks for the article tip but now I’m little P.O’d. According to the author, her numerous exposures are but “momentary wardrobe malfunctions”, which are not her fault, and the press is wrong to publish what she carelessly flaunted to the public. Talk about trivializing the feminist argument that women should be able to dress and act provocatively and still maintain the right to not be publicly harassed or humiliated. The duchess is not getting a “bum” deal from the press and her so-called detractors. She is the bum deal, the consort of a future head-of-state so lacking in common sense that she can’t even be held responsible for her own “wardrobe malfunctions”…SMH.
I agree it pissed me off too. People just do not get it.
I personally find the Jezebel kind of feminism very infantilising.
Men are men…and that’s the end of it. It’s just the way they are, and women need to accept that. They will always like seeing up a woman’s skirts! I do however, like Dame Snarkweeks analysis of the men centric media controlling the conversation (in the last thread). We need more women at the top!
Well said. I love that you called her a bum deal.
To add to wolfpup, when it comes to feminism there will be a thousand interpretations of it. That’s fine and no one has to agree as long as those thousand perspectives are from women and not men in corporate/media/political/religious/educational arenas. Otherwise I’m fine. When those female social scientists wrote provocatively about Kate’s largely ornamental role within a ‘modern’ monarchy I listened with interest. But when the cheap, rags ran stories about Kate versus Cressida I rolled my eyes in disgust. Not to mention Kate and Pippa vs the Yorks, Carole vs Camilla, Camilla vs HM, Anne vs Diana, Diana vs Fergie and on and on and on. Women vs women sells.
Do I dare say that I have a degree in Women’s Studies? There is Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism (I’m here), Marxist and Socialist Feminism, Psychoanalytic and Gender Feminism, Existentialist Feminism, Postmodern Feminism, Multicultural and Global feminism, even Ecofeminism. I saw two men in one class. Unless one is a woman, or a man who has cared to be educated about women’s issues, then all one can expect, in my experience with men, is knee-jerk reactions of fear.
Dame Snarkweek, I think you have a wonderful voice: very smart, and well-spoken. Don’t let some john mess with you. You know he wouldn’t have bothered if he didn’t feel threatened.
wolfpup
*lightbulb goes on*
You are right about that John fellow and I am a little embarassed that I didn’t figure it out sooner, lol.imagine someone using a bum flashing incident to insult and denigrate women in general…shaking my head here. For what it’s worth I learn so much from your posts. LAK, LadySlippers et al supply the facts, Bluhare brings the funny, Sixer is our inside agent and FLORC has the longest memory of anyone but as far as I’m concerned your comments are the soul of introspection and humanity. Brava!
No one has ever said anything that nice to me…thank you.
Sorry but who’s Jezebel?
A website covering stories involving women or feminism.
I generally enjoy the site about as often as I enjoy the Onion, but it swings to extremes very often.
Thanks!
I’ve come to the conclusion her serial flashing can be explained only by a psychiatrist or possibly even a philosopher. The sense of the unbearable lightness of Kate’s being is strong with this one. It’s like she can only feel she exists if her physical being is the object of of the camera lens and the gaze of third parties. Otherwise she might just float or fade into nothingness.
I could also be convinced she is doing this to fulfill her no. 1 priority: keep William interested sexually. Especially if she has suspicions he has been wandering recently.
I am starting to doubt the Queen or Charles have any desire or ability to require she stops this. They seem to have thrown up their hands and decided to let the children make their own mistakes.
Question: where is Carole on this? She seems a careful dresser herself and all the tacky flashing and rude jokes would seem to undermine her campaign to be accepted among the Aristos ? Thoughts?
•Bored•
Most psychologists/psychiatrists wouldn’t comment because they don’t have enough information to go on. Well, good ones worth their salt wouldn’t. And often they get ignored anyway.
Personally, I’d love to sit her down and ask WTH is she thinking.
Someone awhile back thought the Cambridges’ never read their press, anyone have links that support that?
(And not all Royals read their press. QEII does and Diana famously poured over hers; whereas Philip and Anne do not)
Interesting question about Carole’s view. Carole does not always get it right when it comes to dressing for the part of aristo.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1216805/If-I-legs-like-Kates-mum-Id-flaunt—-does-daughter-Her-Maj-approve.html
That’s my question as well: where is Carole? If anyone has a vested interest in seeing her daughter succeed in the RF, it would be her. Unless she herself has a cavalier attitude toward this situation, she should be dispensing advice pronto to Kate for damage control. Perhaps Kate doesn’t listen to her, but I find that hard to believe since it seems the Middletons are her port in the storm and she escapes to their home as often as she can. And even if Carole is a poor dresser, I’m sure she has to realize that going around bare-assed doesn’t do too well for one’s reputation, especially if you’re going to be a future Queen Consort.
Carole tried having more attention on her. It backfired. Carole having a suite in Amner and KP was not pleasing and Carole on tour to Aus/NZ was not received well in the news.
Funny enough my friends over there are saying Kate is still pretty much living at her parents again.
And as a side comment it was rumored Kate and Carol saved money by wearing eachothers clothes. When Kate’s style appeared very matronly that history was cited.
I bet Carole doesn’t care. George is her ace – she doesn’t have to worry any more.
Carole better care. Should the Firm decide to cut Kate loose and she or her family put up any fight or press tricks the Middleton name will be dragged through the mud.
She’s granny to the future King as things sit now. That’s 1 rickety basket to put your eggs in.
If/when they decide to kick Kate to the curb george will belong to the crown and ain’t nothing Carole can do about it.
The Middletons can’t breathe easier just because Kate is the mother of a future heir. Not if she continually proves an embarrassment in public and thumbs her nose at convention. On the contrary, it would behoove Carole to set Kate straight if she can to protect the Middleton interests. As FLORC and Lisa say, their name will be mud if there’s any parting of the ways and the RF will own George if that happens. It won’t be pretty in the history books for the Middletons, and I’m sure that won’t make Carole a happy camper.
The Queen gives her kids and grandkids the long leash and most of them strangle themselves at one point. No one will intervene till a big bang comes and bumgate is too small.
•Dany•
Very true and spot on but a great many people unfortunately think otherwise. It takes something approaching a nuclear bomb to get The Firm to react.
I’ve always heard that the Queen hates confrontation and will do everything in her power to avoid it. Look at the lengths the situation came to at the time of Diana’s death before she finally acted and came down from Balmoral. That was very nearly a nuclear bomb with the monarchy at an all-time low in popularity before the Queen showed herself. The problem with this situation is that the institution can lose a lot of support and respect due to a royal who is being made a laughing stock throughout the world because she constantly exposes herself. If she can’t respect herself and her position, why should the nation? Consequently, why should they then revere the monarchy?
Maybe the woman who took the photo should have shown a bit of class and respect for privacy and not sold the picture. But then again everything is about the dollar. Wonder if she wil use the money as she says will. Hey then I guess it was worth it and Kate is a charitable person afterall!
Good one!
Lol!
LoL. Kate is not the charitable one, it is Will, he was the one who pulled her skirt up, remember? Or the wind. LMAO!
Well he helped but it was still kate that gifted her ass!
“””My bare lady: Derri-heir to the throne is fair game.”” That is the best article title ever. Are we sure Michael at dlisted didn’t write this?
Regarding her schedule, she was always going to France, but how funny is it that one bottom shot later, 2 engagements have been added to her calender.
Perhaps that is the secret to getting her to work. publish all her bum shots uncensored every time she slacks. That’ll get her out the door sharpish. Heck, her charities might see her.
The danger is that the charities and public may “see” her in more ways than one.
Anyone notice no is talking about Upchuck’s Putin comment anymore? Also if the brf wanted to protect kate and didn’t want this picture out there it wouldn’t be out. Makes you wonder.
Perhaps they are trying to find creative and unique ways to be charitble. it works for the Kartrashians.
Lisa
Pictures of Kate smoking/mid drag off a cig while likely already pregnant got out. They were swiftly and fairly quietly removed, but out there. The BRF is not immune to scandals. Every so often something slips through the cracks. Their best hope is to remove and contain. Once it becomes too big and gets too much attention it’s a bigger issue.
Since this is out and many outlets have run with it, an it’s not a privacy issue they only have 1 play here. Put Kate out there with the Queen and give the press something good to cover.
I’m betting Kate wears trousers.
The only person who shoud b getting an eyeful of kates ass is william – ffs kate, put ur knickers on! Its not even as if they wer on a private holiday and wer caught by th paps! She was on royal business! And when i think of all th fuss they made about th press during t!tgate a few years ago – wtf r they thinking?
+1000
Has it crossed anyone’s mind that William probably gets super hot at the thought of Kate being accidentally exposed. He probably loves groping her when he thinks nobody is looking. Its the only explanation that makes sense, given that everything she does is monitored by an army of royal attendants
It’s definitely crossed my mind that this is William’s kinky version of 50 Shades of Royalty. Now that I have that image before me, I just want to go somewhere quiet and be decorously sick.
Eeewww surely he can control himself til they get “behind” closed doors” lol!
I think she forgot to wear something because of her busy schedules plus the baby.
Her Royal Hineyness is doing a royal appearance. Can’t wait.
Just for a point of reference. If anyone with a job with the public flashed like this the first time would be embarrassing but a few more times and you would be written up . If it kept happening you would be fired.
All of these problems should have only happened once. They are all easily fixed.
She was WORKING when this and most of her other flashing incidents have happened.
Try pulling this crap working at Macy’s or in any office environment and you would be fired for not dressing/behaving professionally.
The British taxpayers deserve better than this from their representative.
http://www.whowhatwear.com/office-work-fashion-style-rules-dos-donts-2014?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=May+28th%2C+2014%3A+Office+Style+Rules
Exactly she was working,so it’s not a privacy issue.
The Reporter at the Express said this was not a Privacy issue at all, since Kate was performing a public royal duty.
I wonder if the Palace leaves the newspapers for her to see?
“If the duchess can’t be bothered protecting herself by having hem weights sewn into her garments, why should the media protect her?”
The problem with this is that it sounds way too similar to rape apologia, i.e. ‘she was wearing slutty clothes so she was asking for it. It might not be the same, but it’s too close for comfort, you know?
And also, I don’t believe for a second that the photographer sold the photos for bush fires. And even if she is, it doesn’t make her commodification of another woman’s body ok.
IMO these are nowhere near the same thing. It is incredibly offensive, disrespectful, and inappropriate to liken rape or rape apologia to this situation.
Yes, appalling and fallacious.
This is a topic that is relevant and important to women and so I am all for continuing the conversation. I think Bohemia is intelligent enough to discern the difference between rape apologia and legitimate Kate criticism and I am not offended. The eerily similar parlance and tone are what gives some of us serious pause here.
Yeah, it gave me pause too. Not in a good way. It’s a fallacious argument. What’s so hard to understand? End of conversation for me.
I’m so glad her office booked two more events. The first one sounds like it’s sure to offer a stiff breeze. She’s probably planning her short skirty outfit now.
I’m guessing those awful jeggings (to once again show off the bum) and wedges.
I hope Diane Morel keeps every cent. She earned it. Why should she donate the money to the relief fund/any charity? She took the picture of a public figure in a public place. Would Rupert Murdoch donate the proceeds of what he makes in sales /licensing,etc., from one photo? Keep the money, Diane!!! Don’t feel guilty!
Exactly. I think she is only donating the money to charity to deflect the unfair criticism she is getting for taking a photo of Kate without underpants. It is great that she is donating her earnings to a good cause, but I’m hoping she keeps a good chunk of cash for herself and her family. She should not feel guilty or be made to feel guilty by anyone. She should go on a royal vacation for literally exposing the royal ass.
When I first read the word “Bum-gate”I thought it was about William the bum and the lack of his work ethic.
Some people are so starved for attention. Fake shout outs to twitter…endless BS stories ….
Um well, you guys do realize that not only American soldiers participated in D-Day right? Most of them were American but there were a fair amount of British soldiers too. It was a joint Allies effort (they did leave from England after all) and it makes sense for some members of the royal family to be there. I bet David Cameron will be there too and I’m pretty sure Obama is making an appearance as well. You may not like the fact she gets to go, but she is British and represents the royal family. She’s been doing these kind of memorial events for awhile.
And I am sure she is fully aware of the significance of the event. They do study WWII in Europe too in school and they learn more than the whole angle “the Americans saved the day and everyone went home happy.” Kate may not be the brightest person but I am sure she knows how important D-Day is. I have been to the Normandy beaches/American cemetery twice not to mention I have been pretty much all over the Normandy countryside and there are plenty of cross memorials commemorating the lives of French, British, American, Canadian (and other nationalities) soldiers. Not to mention I am sure Kate’s grandparents were affected by the war too in some way (as were mine, my grandparents are French and lived in occupied France). Even if Kate hadn’t realized the significance before, she will when she sees the cemetery. Not one person I know who has visited walked away thinking it was no big deal when faced with the vast amount of graves.
What’s with the tone of your comment? Did anyone claim Europe didn’t study WW2? Or that it was fought as a World War and not just Americans?
And while it makes sense for more members of the BRF to be there it doesn’t mean they’re required to be there and choose to go. I’d imagine if Kate was planning to go to this all along it would have been on her schedule before this latest scandal.
2 more things.
1.Kate has been faced with mass grave sites before and still giggled and looked bored while attending very short visits.
2.Americans don’t just learn that they came and saved the day. That’s a very small minded statement. I’m an American and was taught we came very late in the war officially.Many citizens joined other countries armed forces though.
Please do not make blanket false statements like that.
There’s a lot that Americans don’t necessarily learn in school about the war since we obviously learn about it from the American perspective. That’s to be expected (I’m American too btw and we never learned much beyond what we did in the war. If you did learn more, kudos to your school then for taking it a step further)
What annoyed me was that some other commenters didn’t seem to understand why Kate was going to be there. Most of the British contingent led the assault on Juno and Gold Beach and the Americans were over on Omaha and Utah. In any case lots of people lost their lives that day and it’s a very humbling experience when you visit the site regardless of your nationality.
Amy
Thanks for clarifying. I was unaware of the previous comments.
I still feel like defending those wondering why Kate was to be there. Mostly since it was just added post scandal and she never looks like she wants to pay tribute to those who sacrificed their lives. Always perks up in the hour later shopping pics though. That snark aside her attendance seems more like a ploy and not a sincere gesture. In that way I also question why she’s attending.
Obviously she doesn’t wear any undergarments. Fortunately, the Paparazzi are doing their job by photographing her as the loose exhibitionist that she is. She will just get less and less popular. Let’s hope the Paparazzi keep showing her to the world for what she really is. A dirty old B*!!
I don’t know why but it happened in every royal tours. It seemed to me that Kate has successfully managed to make the “flashing my bum” as her royal tour’s signature.
A very personal touch.
I believe she has a preference for flashing i.e. attention, and also that she is very stubborn, and just doesn’t care that much. I don’t think she reads the press either. If she did and/or cared, she would have altered her make-up style months if not years ago, and her hems would have been weighted after Canada if not much earlier. After all, she waited for William to pop the question for nearly ten years regardless of everything else. So if she likes it this way, it is not going change no matter the amount of bad press she gets. Also, I think she looked mildly surprised when her red dress blew up at the airport in New Zealand, so obviously she had not considered this possibility at all. All in all, Katie simply isn’t very intelligent, and apparently it shows in everything she does.
Why isn’t anyone pointing out the obvious: She was probably wearing a damn thong. Just like all the other women her age. I seriously doubt she was totally panty-less. If you look at the photo, you can’t see the top of her butt where the horizontal strap of the thong would be. And as we all know the vertical strap is always buried pretty deep in there. The whole thing is ridiculous.
Ugh, I don’t care if she’s wearing a thong or nothing at all, it’s her business and shouldn’t be ours. That’s the point, the world shouldn’t have to see such a display. And I honestly didn’t care to scrutinize that photo to identify a thong. All I could see is butt cheeks. If she had weighted down her hem or worn a fitted slip, this wouldn’t be the latest continuing saga of Kate’s nether regions exposed to the world.