Ever since Katie Nicholl’s Vanity Fair story about the Duchess of Cambridge’s “skeleton staff” during the pandemic lockdown, I’ve been obsessed with figuring out just how many people are helping Kate in Anmer Hall, and how many people have to drive in (or take the train) just to take official photos of her or help her Zoom her fingers to the bone. Nicholl claimed that Kate was Just Like Us because she has a full-time nanny, a skeleton staff, a full-time videographer and a professional lighting rig at home, and this is in addition to what I imagine is at least two dozen Kensington Palace office staffers, an on-call hairstylist and a full-time personal assistant. But we’re supposed to give her a cookie because she’s a big girl who picked out her own clothes for her big-girl Zoom! The big girl is 39!
Anyway, Kate has done yet another Zoom. She picked out an old Rebecca Taylor tweed suit which she’s worn several times before. She Zoomed with teachers at the Ribbon Academy in County Durham about how they’re coping during the pandemic. The point was that Kate’s patronage Place2Be has provided “mental health resources” to that particular school, so Kate was just putting a bow on something she – likely – had very little to do with.
At one point, Kate made the point that she keeps making in a lot of Zooms and self-videos, which is that screw the mental health of children, the adults need to look after themselves:
“You play such a vital role in looking after our children. It’s so important that you’re looked after too and have the appropriate networks and support systems to make sure you can really do the best job you possible can. I’m really glad that Place2Be is there [for you]. They’re needed across the country more now than ever. I wanted to say a massive thank you to teachers across the country for doing fantastic jobs. It’s been really hard work but please look after yourselves.”
While it is true that teachers are doing a great job and that everyone is struggling and we should all look after our mental health, it’s just funny to me that Kate keeps directing all of these “adults should look after themselves” messages during… Children’s Mental Health Week, and during a moment when she’s supposed to be keen about the Early Years. I mean… Zoom with some school kids, maybe? But the Duchess of I-Can’t-See-Past-My-Own-Nose really is making the point over and over that someone needs to check in on HER, that she’s super-exhausted from working like a Top CEO, and that in the immortal words of Michael Jordan, f–k them kids.
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I would like to just take a moment to give Kate a little round of applause for putting on some clothes and pressing the Join Call button all by herself.
I too would like to give her the tiniest of golf claps. I mean the fact she has to do all this to make sure the peasants get the honor of her presence is so draining. How DOES she do it?!
Deep, spiritual stating the bleeding obvious sigh. Children’s Mental Health Week and she couldn’t even plug “Early Years”?? Why do they keep doing this to her. This woman does not want to do anything worthwhile, does she?
I think a “massive” round of applause is needed. Hugely.
I can’t stand how much she and her husband overuse that word. stuck out to me too.
I doubt she pressed the Join Call button herself. The only buttons she knows how to use are the ones on her clothes.
BOOM! Mike Drop!
What is weird to me is that Kate is doing, or tries to do, some zoom calls, William is always nowhere to be seen?
Maybe she is sick of looking at the bald penis with teeth. I know I am.
The last time they zoomed together she had her hands clenched and squirmed around with her lips pressed together and never once looked his direction. Their PR people may have come to the conclusion that they needed some apart time on zoom.
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That zoom call was horrible! Her hand rubbing was a huge distraction and showed she was beyond uncomfortable. Whatever dynamic her and William have it’s not healthy.
Ahahahaha . 😂💛
She hates her job so much. She has to do almost nothing for her absurdly privileged life and she still barely tolerates it.
Literally smile and look presentable… and why did she used to dread calls?
There’s been some funny video updates to the #katemiddletontopceo hashtag on twitter.
I reread the Tatler article and it’s so fitting.
“‘Of course she’s smiling and dressing appropriately but she doesn’t want this. She feels exhausted and trapped. She’s working as hard as a top CEO, who has to be wheeled out all the time, without the benefits of boundaries and plenty of holidays.”
She resents having to work for her privilege s and wants to define her role as posing and smiling. That’s never going to improve unless Kate has an attitude change.
That excerpt really says it all, doesnt it? She legitimately does think she’s working her tail off, that she’s “exhausted and trapped,” and that she doesnt have boundaries or holidays (I dont think she knows many CEOs……)
As time goes on its really clear that the Tatler article was sanctioned by KP, and it was supposed to be about how hard Kate’s life and how Meghan’s leaving made Kate work more. KP was just surprised at all the other stuff they included lol.
@Kalana: the line about having no boundaries and holidays makes me laugh so much. She has plenty of time to holiday as she takes time off when her kids aren’t in school so she can spend time with them so go holiday then. She (along with the rest of them) don’t do many engagements at all in July/August so that’s holiday time right.
And she’s got plenty of boundaries. She hasn’t done past 200 engagements in the almost 10 years she’s been at this and she didn’t do much in the first years so that she could get “used to it” all. Sounds like boundaries to me.
Her engagement count wasn’t super high last year (yes I know there’s a pandemic and everyone’s was lower that usual) so it’s not like she’s picking up the extra slack or whatever anyways
That Tatler article is so startling because that must be the way they speak behind the scenes. That is their word choice and usage and it’s so out of touch and ridiculous.
I always come back to that line as well. Kate doesn’t want to thank the NHS, the teachers, the mothers. She doesn’t give a shit about them. All she cares about is herself. She feels like she is being rolled out (to work) and hates it.
“As time goes on its really clear that the Tatler article was sanctioned by KP, and it was supposed to be about how hard Kate’s life and how Meghan’s leaving made Kate work more. KP was just surprised at all the other stuff they included lol.”
Tatler is a double edged sword. They can do a great take down and then appear to turn around on a dime and praise. The praise is really making fun of you in a polite way that only the English can pull off.
While the Tatler article had a few unexpected mean comments that Kate didn’t expect, all the stuff about being over worked and exhausted as a top CEO clearly came from her and she thought it made her look good. She has no clue what actual work means or what the peasants have to deal with to raise their kids so that self pity was meant to make Meghan look bad. But when the real world read it, she became the laughing stock, especially this year when everyone is facing so many difficult struggles balancing work and family and they don’t have to make do with a skeleton staff like she does.
“Plenty of holidays” kills me. Sure, everyone should have a holiday every now and then. Maybe a one week trip out of town/out of state each year and then a couple of days off around Christmas and stuff to stay home and relax with your family, but the fact that they specifically complain that she doesn’t get PLENTY of holidays (anymore) is so tone deaf and crazy to me. She doesn’t work 5 days a week. She doesn’t 8-10 hours a day. She has A TON of built in 4 or 5 day weekends and random weeks off a lot of the time. But she isn’t getting PLENTY of over seas holidays (during a pandemic!) so we all have to feel really badly for her.
This one is great:
#KateMiddletonTopCEO I gave instructions to my servants, cleaners, cook and nannies today and ALL whilst in lockdown. I am SO exhausted!! #RoyallyExhausted
😂😂.😂😂.😂😂
And then there’s this:
Feeling Face vomiting that duchess of Cambridge is being touted as some kind of morale boaster to show its hard for us all
She has a huge house& garden, no money worries , job security , but no work to do & yet she is exhausted & that’s supposed to make us all feel better Grimacing face
“all the stuff about being over worked and exhausted as a top CEO clearly came from her and she thought it made her look good.”
Tatler KNEW it did not make her look good and which was exactly why they printed it. LOL! LOL!
I’ve been following the Top CEO commentary and I agree with all of the commenter who have pointed out just how unbelievably lazy KM has shown herself to be.
But Kalana highlighting the Tattler line about KM feeling “trapped” and exhausted with no boundaries has made me re-read it from a different angle. I wonder if that quote is not actually about her public-facing role at all— as others have pointed out, she very obviously has zero intellectual or emotional investment in that “job”—but, instead about the “job” of being the wife of the heir-to-the-heir within the BRF.
She’s still out of touch, but if the line is all about with-family dynamics, I can kind of see where that weirdly inaccurate grievance about “no boundaries and no vacations” comes from. She probably does have courtiers and staff in every aspect of her life nearly all the time, and they’re probably not that subtle about being in place to serve the interests of the BRF/William/Charles/George/TQ rather than Kate Middleton.
Pushing the point further: given her lack of engagement or work ethic, I would be that she ascribes so little importance to the public work that she might not have even realized that what she said was that the handful of 1-2 hour meet and greets a month is exhausting.
If that is the case, that is such an old-fashioned, insular, royalty-is-the-Court perspective that it makes me think of the French Monarchy before the Revolution.
Kate has been spoilt and coddled her whole damn life. She pushed the record button on her phone and expects a round of applause afterwards. She genuinely doesn’t have a clue and wouldn’t survive 5 minutes in the real world. It’s funny remember stories of what kate would do if she wasn’t married to the future king. It’s always “she wanted to be a county wife”, no mention of an actual career. She never intended to work, always wanted to marry a rich man to live off. And her stans love to call Meghan a gold digger?
Every single engagement or zoom she does, she expects a round of applause afterwards. That’s why they usually sanction someone from the ratchet rota to praise her to the heavens. Last week it was Emily Andrews on her video selfie. Also this week some old guy she spoke to on zoom was wheeled out to praise how “down to earth she is”. She was probably expecting the original zoom to be full of priase, but no one cared, so she had to go back and remind everyone how wonderful she is. She expects 5 minutes of work to be followed by a weeks work of embiggening. She is so go damn selfish and self serving.
Despite what the media says, she’s not comfortable doing these Zoom calls.
True, bit I love the jacket of this old Rebecca Taylor tweed suit. It would look great with her black skinny jeans and a pair of black quilted leather booties.
She has two nearly identical Taylor blue tweed suits. More of Kate’s expensive identical purchasing again.
@nota… I did think this looked a bit different from the other blue tweed outfit we have seen before. Frankly both are ugly.
@Nic919 – For the price she paid they definitely are ugly. IMHO, the jacket looks like a Chanel wanna-bee knock-off one would buy at Macy’s or M&S.
My2C: I just went back & watched the first few seconds–the first few seconds!!–and noticed that between her opening line of ‘a few quick fire questions’ and her asking that first quick fire question, she now has a pen in her right hand. Between her first line & her second, they had to edit!!
Ahahaha. Beaniebean, I just watched it, you are good! Pen suddenly appears.
I feel like its really become obvious over the past year – how much she hates her job. the push about the top CEO and how hard she is working is probably because she is so miserable having to do two zoom calls a week (and thats a busy week.)
I do not think Kate hates her job. I think Kate knows she is not good at her job and does not have the in-born abilities to be good at her job such as a Diana, Meghan, Anne or even Sophie.
I agree Kate absolutely hates the ‘work’ aspect of being royal. Hates and resents it.
Does anyone else think these zoom calls are so weirdly edited? Like she says one line and then edit they’re into the next scene, to me it doesn’t flow, it’s very choppy
@MY TWO CENTS
Of course the Zoom call videos are edited. Kate the Great Can’t Articulate without reading from cue cards and they can’t risk another blooper like the time she got called out on a call for not seeing her charity in 8 years making the show reel again. Surely you don’t expect Her Royal Tiredness to do it all in one take when she has so much top CEO-ing to do?
Could you imagine will Kate on an hour long podcast like the Sussexes? Or something that involves them actually speaking for an extended period of time that can’t be edited down into a little 45 second “summary clip” that they post to social media? It would be a disaster.
Yeah, it’s supposed to be Children’s Mental Health week and she really hasn’t talked about the children.
I don’t think ‘Freudian slip’ is quite the right term but it’s something in that space. Maybe just screaming lack of empathy for anyone.
I think it’s Kate is Keen week perpetually.
Kate’s not talking about the children because Kate doesn’t really like children. She likes HER children. That’s it. Putting Keen around kids is their only play because her conversations with adults are pretty empty.
This I agree with, especially peasants children , or children of color she thinks they have cooties. This girl grew up privileged, slumming it is not something that sits well with her hence the crazy ass way she behaves around people children. It’s funny because I was reading celebitchy old articles about the tatler hit job and I could not stop laughing at the comments. Then I got mad at how the British media will go after Meghan for existing but that delicate white ass flashing English rose is off limits. Oh what I won’t give to read Kate and william the right act to their faces. These two complete waste of oxygen deserve to be miserable together forever. They are in my eyes as bad as every racist and dictator out there.
I have thought this as well. To me, she is awkward around kids. She makes these manic faces and huge smiles to appear a certain way. Meghan isn’t like that at all. She gives them a gentle smile and they just gravitate towards her. Kids know when you are genuine and when you are fake.
The RF threw early childhood at Kate because she needed to do SOMETHING and she had kids so it made sense. But she is so awkward at it and clearly is just phoning it in.
“Oh what I won’t give to read Kate and William the right act to their faces. These two complete waste of oxygen”
I think the biggest part of the problem is that though the Trainbridges are well educated (some people are good at test taking) they are not particularly intelligent.
Also, the Trainbridges definitely lack emotional intelligence which Harry, Charles, Sophie and to some degree Anne appear to have in spades.
Anyone who is comfortable around kids doesn’t make those awful faces. I could maybe understand doing that around little babies, but by the time kids are around two, you can deal with them without those manic grins because they have verbal skills. It looks silly and condescending. Especially because she is seen doing this every single time.
@BTB. I just needed to add that William needed some assistance to finish his degree at St Andrew’s so I don’t think he is very intelligent. As for Kate well she was great at copying notes from other students so she was crafty in that way. Doing the least amount of work possible was something they both did from a very early age.
If you notice in the pictures above, the children are doing their own thing and pretty much ignoring her. Harry would have come across better as a children’s advocate. When you see video or pictures of him with children, the children are responding to him.
Kate was accused of plagiarism when she was either at school or uni. As for Willie, I can’t imagine him doing any course work or studying at all. He probably had a sh*t ton of assistance to get him through uni. These people are not intelligent at all.
Children can sense a person’s energy and Kate can slap on her wide ass grin all she wants, but kids can sense her BS. Harry is a natural, you can always tell by the kids reaction to him. He just has natural warmth that keen lacks.
For some reason its so weird to me how dressed up she gets for some of these zoom calls. Its a zoom call, you dont need to put on a full suit. Wear a nice pair of pants and a simple sweater with some pretty earrings. I wonder if she wears heels.
I’m also still hyper-focused on this Sandringham zoom room- that plant looks so awkwardly placed, right? Like if you were sitting on the couch it would be hanging over your face. That just further cements my belief that the set up is 100% just that – a set up – and completely designed to mimic the Sussexes.
Finally, like I’ve been saying for the past week or year or whatever – I get the point of “look after yourselves” and at least with this school Place 2 Be is there, so there are resources for the teachers – but it still feels so condescending and empty coming from Kate. “Please look after yourselves, like I do, just tell the chef what you want for dinner while you go for an evening stroll.”
I too have been thinking entirely too much about this move to Sandringham. This thinking has produced the following ideas: 1) The Palace ( my new term for whoever is telling them to do what they do) thought that Zooming from Sandringham gives off a more professional, Official Royal Business tone to their calls.
OR 2) the Exhausted One and Will need to get away from their kids so badly that they’ve set up an offsite Zoom center at Sandringham so no one at Anmer knows when the Zoom call ends. Kate devotes 30 min tops to the Zoom appointment, then she wanders off to some luxurious Sandringham room and spends the next few hours online shopping or watching her YouTube makeup tutorials in peace while the servants bring her herbal tea and an almond to snack on.
@Harper I’ve been wondering about their setup at Sandringham too. My current theory:
3) Will now lives separately from Kate at Sandringham, hence their Zoom setup being there
Hmm, interesting but am sure the press is sitting on the real story behind things being based at Sandringham. I agree that they are likely living apart – she’s at Amner with the kids and he’s at Sandringham while Granny is in Windsor.
They clearly live separate lives and have done for sometime (if they ever did live together properly). Remember Willileaks himself said he doesn’t see the kids as often as he’d like as he’s sooooo busy.
This slip is telling us much more than any leaks.
I agree there is more to the Sandringham office move than we know. I suspect that since they aren’t supposed to be going back and forth from London to Norfolk right now that Billy is getting restless and this is a compromise. There was no reason to set up another zoom location when they already had one they were using at KP for several months.
I think Sandringham is for one of two reasons – someone decided it was more professional, its a power move for the future future king, something along those lines
OR
William is living there separate from Kate and the kids and they set up the zoom there because William wont go to Anmer for zooms, and they cant zoom from two separate locations, that makes it way too obvious. Honestly that’s the explanation that makes the most sense. I wonder if he has lived there since last March/April – it would explain why no other Cambridge or member of their staff came down with COVID. Maybe pre-pandemic they lived roughly separate lives as we have speculated on here and it wasnt as obvious bc it could be explained away by “kids schedules” or “work schedules” (especially as William was starting to pick up some of the more ceremonial duties at Buckingham Palace.)
I have read in more than one place over the years that William easily becomes bored with both situations & people and Kate tires very easily. Does anyone have any more info on this?
@becks I think the second scenario is the right one. Pre pandemic William was in London more than Kate, as she would be seen doing things with the kids in Norfolk without him. (Which to me is a huge clue. He doesn’t have a real full time job and most involved fathers would do fun activities with their kids if they had time for it… and he certainly does. )
With the pandemic restrictions William can’t travel as much as he did, and when he caught covid from an unknown they realized that he couldn’t keep doing whatever he was doing.
Also, with travel restricted in the UK, he can’t go do a quick ski holiday without getting noticed as much. Over the summer Britons were travelling to the EU for holidays so either of them could have done holidays without being too obvious, whereas it would be now. So this situation has likely been percolating since the end of last year when lockdown was much stricter all over the UK.
*For some reason its so weird to me how dressed up she gets for some of these zoom calls.*
I was about to say she looked good here (minus the premature smoking/sunbathing lines), but it is over the top, isn’t it? She just needs a smart top.
Also, lol @Harper great theory 👍
She actually does look good – I have always liked this jacket (although I dont like it as the full suit if this is the one I’m thinking of, she has two that look remarkably similar which is ridiculous) – but it just seems a little too formal for a zoom call. The good part about zooms is that you dont have to dress up as much as you do for in person events!
Maybe she’s wearing sweatpants though lol.
Maybe the heater was working at Anmer that day. Those old country houses can be pretty draughty in the English winter.
heater was “not working”
Sorry!
I was reading the “Kate is exhausted, she has to pick out her own clothes now!” article to my 14 year old son and ranting about how easy Kates life is but how hard she’s trying to make it sound and he was like, “wait, so she just zooms? And picking out the clothes is hard? She could just wear a t-shirt and no pants! It’s zoom. They only see the top of her!”
A little worried about what he’s wearing to virtual school when I’m not around now, but yeah. Kate could just wear a t-shirt and no pants and we wouldn’t know.
She dresses up to show what a big effort she’s making. Also, dressing up, getting her hair/makeup done is the only part she enjoys, especially if she can also buy a new outfit for the call.
When I was in healthcare it was infuriating to be told to “look after yourself” by a superior or a visitor doing some promotional pr/mandatory meeting bs, like Kate.
You’re already doing all you can to hold it together. There’s almost no room for significant self care without feeling you’re abandoning your post and burdening your coworkers with an extra shift.
WW I wholeheartedly agree. As a previous full time healthcare worker and the single mother of a (now adult) son with disabilities and serious mental health issues, I wanted to slam her with her own ring light. And I am not a violent person.
There’s a movie that stars Meryl Streep as a woman that couldn’t sing but folk applauded after her performances. Reminds me of Kate’s plight. She keeps failing and the BRF and the RR/BM keep applauding while the masses point and laugh. And it seems more and more folk are joining the laughing chorus. The need to fix Kate’s problem before the chorus gets louder than the RR/BM.
There’s also the story of The Emperors New Clothes!
Florence Foster Jenkins was such a legend! I loooove her! But I get your point.
me too! I model a lot of my life after FFJ’s hahaha like just do whatever you love to do w great gusto and who cares if it’s good or not… But yes, I get the point here too, I think the diff here is the deep insensitivity, entitlement and actually lack of any joy in the doing…
my friends had a band named after her! so glad there are more fans Prof Thompson 🙂 sorry for the name change but she was perfect for the role, Ms Emma.
haha thanks LemonyLips, love the new name and so want to hear that band! 🙂
It boggles the mind be that someone could be this clueless.
It boggles the mind that the people who are PAID to advise her could be this clueless.
IIRC, did not several of her PAID staff exit stage-left recently?
I’m still stuck on this barely functioning adult employing a full time videographer to set up her professional lighting and film her Zooming. 🤦♀️
And that article emphasized how she had that set up at Anmer. But now everything she does is at Sandringham? So what’s going on with that? Did she order people to make her a whole other zoom room set up with laptop stand and ring light at Sandringham and she just abandoned the one at Anmer?
So many inconsistencies! So many unanswered questions!
I am an Illiterate Royal Rat Reporter (IRRR) for The Daily Fail so I am just going to make-up something and run with it until I can make-up something better for next weeks column: Cain & Keen are for all intent and purposes separated by mutual agreement which is not all that strange for Royals. Cain & Keen must reside in the same “areas” and keep up appearances (read hypocrisy as compared to the Sussexes) so as not to tip-off real reporters who would love to print the truth.
Palace intern promotes her zoom videos.
Oh, and as for staff – let’s see:
Nanny x2 (I’m assuming one nanny handles the virtual learning, the other deals with Louis)
Cook
Housekeeper
maids/general staff (not sure if there’s a better term these days, someone for cleaning, bringing the Cambridges what they want like food, tea, etc) – x 4
Groundskeeper
Grounds staff x2 in the winter?
Videographer
Personal assistant x2 (one for each)
Hair stylist (not live in but definitely on-call)
Anyway so I’m at 14, and I feel that’s probably as bare bones as they would go.
I’m starting to wonder if they are living at Sandringham because there is more staff? Or maybe they put people like Jason Knauf at Anmer so they moved to Sandringham?
I think they’re using Sandringham for ‘work’ for a couple reasons.
One because they have always tried to keep any media access out of their home. Instead of having meetings in the designated meeting space in 1A? They took over Diana’s two former apartments for their office staff AND for any public meet and greet.
Two because they don’t want any public clues as to 1) where William lives and 2) where Carole lives. My guess is William is at the main house at Sandringham most of his time, when he’s not with the nextdoor neighbor.
Three, William doing his usual push-back at QEII and Charles by claiming Sandringham as his ‘work’ area. Trying to reassert to everyone that he’s the future future king.
Maybe this is their way of low key separation.
Just as a comparison, the Queen’s skeleton staff during the first lockdown was 8, down from 100!
8! at Windsor? how on earth can 8 people maintain Windsor? Does that just mean 8 people that actually interacted with the queen?
@Becks1 – I think the “8” was reference to the direct personal staff of QEII. The resident Windsor sparky (electrician) and resident Windsor joiner (carpenter) plus their assistants would not be included in the “8”. Also the staff of the archives at Windsor would not be included in this “8” nor would the staff of the chapel be included in this “8”.
Plus all the stable grooms…..cos HM can’t be without the horses!
The groundscrew count makes me think it would be funny if their “skeleton staff” was really just a typical winter-season reduction that they’re playing off as a hardship like the normals are going through.
Sorry but the future of the monarchy isn’t looking bright.
Hopefully from your lips to God’s ears…
#AbolishTheMonarchy
On the BBC last night they showed a clip with Princess Anne on zoom talking about the Riding for the Disabled Association(RDA). There is no comparison. As a member of the RDA we are all grateful for her. She has done so much work behind the scenes. I don’t understand how Catherine can look at other members of the family and be so lazy still. It is embarassing.
Because Kate is lazy, selfish, snotty individual who resents having to do any ‘work’ at all. Anne is selfish and snotty, but at least she isn’t lazy.
And that’s what we’ve been saying here for years now – Kate can be boring, Kate can lack empathy, she doesnt have to be “Kate the Great” like they keep pushing – she just cant be lazy. Working covers up a lot of sins for the royals. But because she doesnt work, they have to push these narratives embiggening her, and then it ends up making her look worse, because we’re back to the starting point of “she’s lazy.”
“Anne is selfish and snotty”
As is the future Charles III but he ain’t lazy either.
I feel sorry for Charles. I can see the Monarchy falling massively in stature if Canada and Australia and some of the Caribbean countries become Republics, and it will be on Charles’ watch, so he will get the ‘blame’, yet it will be the fault of the entire institution, Cambridges particularly that they look and are so out of touch and unrepresentative of a modern multi cultural liberal democracy. I think the UK will be stuck with them though because they really are not that relevant to most people. They are just ‘there’. Not important enough to think about or take any notice of apart from as a source of gossip.
@Misty – Have any of Anne’s charities ever said a bad word about her? I have heard her engagements run with military procession which is why she can do and does do a minimal of five engagements a day on her work days.
Didn’t one of them subtly call her out last year during a Zoom where they mentioned they hadn’t seen her in 8 years?
@L84Tea – Was that Kate or Anne? I was thinking Kate but I could be wrong.
Kate was called out for not seeing a charity in 8 years. I have never heard anything like about Anne, despite the fact that she has hundreds of patronages. Anne does seem to do behind the scenes work with the major patronages she has and most people who work with her say she is very prepared and informed. Anne may be a snob, but she has taken the charity work seriously, as does Charles.
I still wonder how someone like Anne can tolerate an empty headed flake like Kate.
@Nick919 – I don’t think Anne tolerates Kate, more like she puts up with her at public engagements. She’s notorious for her blunt assessments of people, did not get along with Diana or Fergie, and I’m sure thinks Kate is an air-headed parvenu whose mother pushed her up the ladder of society to bag the FFK. Anne is in a completely different social set as well – lots of horsey aristos – that Kate has never cracked. She’s only on the fringes when she watches William play polo.
Ultimately the answer is likely…because she doesn’t have to?
Every year, every day it is the exact same comments over and over — there are people on this blog that spend more time every day complaining about Kate’s work than time Kate actually spends working.
It’s 2021, there is no room in a modern world for Monarchy and the BRF will look different, likely after Petty croaks. I believe Chuck will be the last “King of England” as such and the role of the family will drastically change with his reign.
Future future and company aren’t going to destroy the Monarchy and they are probably aware they will never sit a throne, the British people don’t seem to hate them (or even care about their existence all that much) so they skate by doing the minimum because they know the worst that can happen is the current version of Monarchy ends — it isn’t like they’ll be broke.
I always got the feeling that Cain, the BPwT, really did not want to sit on the throne but he would be mighty pissed and incandescent with major rage if anyone was to sit on the throne in his place.
@ Bay — maybe? But it isn’t like that’s in danger of happening, if the institution is still around he will be King after Charles, if it isn’t, he will be the Duke of Cambridge and/or Prince of Wales and still have all of the perks and none of the responsibility that he doesn’t seem to want. It’s a win-win for both of them. I know it’s a popular sentiment that Kate gets what some people think she deserves and he divorces her, but really that’s a win for her too.
@Carol I’ve thought the same thing in regards to Kate. Her mom may be very upset were Will to divorce her, but I’m not sure Kate would. She doesn’t seem to like being in the public eye and certainly isn’t very good at it. Being around Will is probably not fun at all. If they divorced she’d get a hefty settlement, wouldn’t have to pretend to work, wouldn’t have to be around WIll or his family, and could just do her own thing. She likely wouldn’t be hounded the way Diana was and after what happened to Diana the RF would be more likely to make sure she had any protection\security she needed. I often wonder if the allure of being Queen Consort isn’t nearly as alluring as it was when they married, but it’s just been the Middleton family identity for so long to make sure she gets there that’s just the way it is. I could see Ma Middleton pulling all kinds of guilt trips if she hinted she might actually be happier if Will did divorce her. Carol wants her to be Queen. I don’t think she cares whether Kate is happy.
Bay, that’s how I’ve seen William in the past, but now I’m not sure. He doesn’t want anyone else to be king, he doesn’t want the work of being king. BUT he does want all the perks and power to manipulate the press to hide his affairs, etc.
I’m fine with including parents, teachers, and supporters in a message about children’s mental health, especially if it’s done with some actual resources!
I’m glad that this organization has come through, even if it means having to put up with (I’m speculating) the do-nothing duchess as the face of their program.
I often complain about Kate not using her platform, so I feel like I should say that this is truly the best use of her: most of the video is highlighting the teacher’s experiences, and what they have to say, and Kate just sort of eagerly nods, or smiles, or shows a concerned/thoughtful face. It literally could just be a ten second clip of her facial expressions played again and again. It’s not great, but given the choice between this or her “packing” care boxes in heels, endangering frontline care workers, complaining about her privileged life while families struggle, or more inane survey “findings”, I think this is ok.
Right? People on here always say that “bread and butter” engagements like these are where she should focus instead of the big projects and initiatives she can’t complete. I don’t care to watch this video, but she seems to be doing her job. I understand the frustration around celebrating her to high heaven for the bare minimum, however.
She needs to focus on bread and butter because she cant pull off the big projects. I havent watched this video so cant comment on what she actually does here, if you and Jay say it was good for her then I believe you – but the real issue is that if she is “just” going to do the bread and butter engagements, she has to do a lot of them. She cant do just one zoom call a week and get praise for it. She doesnt have to have these huge ideas – she needs to look at someone like Anne and follow her lead in terms of just flat out working, but she doesnt.
If she’s only going to do bread-and-butter, she’d have to do a minimum of 500 a year. Charles does 500+ a year AND all of his big charity projects like Dumfries House, Prince’s Trust, The Duchy.
I am NOT defending FFQ of Keen, but for those of us who view calling people we don’t know as panic inducing, video calls with people you don’t know is a nightmare. And yes, it is exhausting, mentally and vocally.
She doesn’t have to essentially coldcall people. She could have longer standing relationships with colleagues but Kate hasn’t built these relationships or created these groups. Basically this is what happens when her team tries to create work for her with minimal prep on her part.
Kate has a ton of leeway in how she could go about her work.
I understand. But if she’s having debilitating anxiety about that she should seek professional help.
Hers isn’t shyness or nervousness, she waltzes right down red carpets and loves schmoozing with celebrities. It’s the lack of preparation and real life experiences/skills that she’s worried will be revealed.
It does suck, but when you are funded by the plebes to merely zoom a few days a week, at least have the grace to not mention your exhaustion.
I have anxiety about things like that – I hate even calling to order food(online ordering FTW!) and its something that my husband doesn’t understand. Zooming with total strangers on a semi-regular basis, making small talk at the kinds of engagements she does during non-pandemic times, etc – that gives me anxiety and I can feel it even now in the pit of my stomach. But sometimes I have to do it so I do it.
But you know what else? I didnt marry the Future Future King, knowing that these kinds of engagements, via zoom or in person, would be the bulk of my working life. She chased this for a decade. And now its too much for her?
Becks, exactly she chased this for nearly a decade and as some have mentioned, she and her mother did not have a post wedding plan. They were banking on the wedding and pregnancies and then rivalling whoever married Harry. Meghan having a natural charisma and work ethic made her look worse. If she really has developed anxiety as a result of low self esteem waitying and not developing as an adult she should seek professional help instead of relying on keening and making excuses of shyness or being a busy mother. She would at least have some sympathy and be relatable. Keening is not working and being afraid of people is not going to help her. Don’t think she has the self awareness for that. Probably thinks she’s better than anyone.
Agreed. She’s known from the start she was marrying the Future Future King. She knew she was going to have a public facing role and she would have to be doing these types of things.
This is the life she, her mother and her sister wanted.
Also when that guy called Kate out for not showing up for 8 years, Kate was Fine. No anxiety, no nervousness whatsoever. She glossed right past it and moved on as it were funny. It’s not anxiety on Kate’s part, it’s resentment. She doesn’t believe in any of this work and is showing up to do the absolute bare minimum she can get away with doing.
We’re being really nice by considering maybe it’s nerves or not finding her niche. No, both Will and Kate see their jobs as occasional photo ops. These engagements are about creating content.
There’s a gif of Kate from 2011 looking super fed up and rude, rolling her eyes and crossing her legs on a charity visit for a homeless shelter because there was a delay. She’s not intimidated by these engagements. The fragility is an act so that everyone lowers their expectations.
I can absolutely relate to social anxiety. I can barely call people I do know without feeling stomach-turning anxious, and probably would fail at a job where I had to cold-call strangers.
But… here’s the difference. My anxiety comes from a fear of sounding stupid, being disliked or thought poorly of, or maybe of someone being rude and me freezing up in response. Whatever you may think about Kate, most regular people are still pleased with the opportunity to meet her or Zoom with her. I mean, I don’t think much of her but I still think it would be cool if she Zoomed into my work one day, just for the novelty! Even if she said nothing of import, I’d still be polite and try to make her feel comfortable. So what I’m saying is that she has a guaranteed positive reception from people who are expecting her call. I’d think that should mitigate a lot of anxiety, at least it would for me.
That’s exactly it. Kate has been in a bubble for years where she will only be meeting people who want to see her. She doesn’t have to argue for a higher wage, or face any conflict at all. So I don’t think she’s bad because of anxiety. She can certainly flirt and be social with men. She just doesn’t care enough to be prepared or show real interest in anything. That’s why she remains so bad.
I understand anxiety (I have social anxiety and I hate having to be with new environments and people) but if I knew my job was going to involve meeting with people and I had unlimited resources and money to get better at it, I would at least try. I don’t think Kate really tries. Not to say she hasn’t improved but some improvements after nearly 10 years isn’t anything out of the ordinary
I once passed up a job offer in my field that seemed somewhat attractive except for the fact that one of the tasks was to physically meet and greet the guest speakers that flew in and show them around. I knew I could put on a game face in the moment, but that afterward I would be racked with the form of social anxiety where you berate yourself internally: “I can’t believe I said that; I am such an idiot.” I knew I would be so hard on myself and to this day I am still relieved I passed on the job. Sometimes I wonder if Kate suffers from the same, or if Will tells her afterward that she said this or that wrong and it all adds to Kate’s anxiety and avoidance theory of royal work.
Harper, I completely relate to going “oh my god I completely said the wrong thing” when I didn’t and having that feeling fester. I’ve had retail roles where I’m basically seeing the customer all the time. Combine rude customers + social anxiety and I was a wreck half the time.
Kate may have some form of that (although she seems perfectly happy chatting to celebrities and Ben Ainslie) but just how you rejected the job, Kate could have rejected it too by not marrying William. I know that’s easier said than done. Rejecting a marriage is not the same as rejecting a job but if I really loved my boyfriend and really wanted a future with him and knew this aspect was “non-negotiable”, I would aim to at least improve myself – especially if I had her money and resources.
But like you, I’m sure William doesn’t help.
@Harper Based on their most recent Zoom together I’d say he’s definitely very critical. He seemed fine and relaxed. She was a mess, rubbing her fingers together nervously. It was the worst I’ve seen her. Made me wonder how many takes they had to do and what his behavior was in between each one. She’s definitely more relaxed when she’s on her own.
These are all completely softball ‘calls’, set-up and prepared by her dozens of staff. The handful of people attending will have been given strict rules about how to act, what to ask, etc.
Trying to defend Kate for failing even at the simplest of things like short Zoom calls is just more infantilising.
For real @nota. There is no reason to be giving a pass to Kate TEN years into the job. Nearly 20 if you count the dating years. No excuses. If she has anxiety, or nerves, or whatever it is that people come up with to excuse her bullshit than she should get help. All of that money at her disposal and she refuses to grown and learn for her role. Diana wasn’t good at public speaking so she got help and you can see her improvement from the beginning of her marriage until her divorce. Kate is bad at this because she does not care, nobody is forcing her to improve, and chica is lazy as hell. She knew she would have a public role and said fuck it imma do me, which is absolutely nothing.
Agree. She would have been given a detailed backgrounder and questions to ask so god forbid she doesn’t have to think of something herself, and they would have been given instructions on what to say/not say. Everything is timed to the second so there are no gaping holes in the conversation while she tries really hard to be spontaneous.
The only thing I’d give Kate somewhat of a pass on is things she does with William, as there’s obviously more going on there than we know.
Otherwise, she does well enough with external, in person events, like the ones on the Covid train tour, the meetup at the college, whatever the garden event was with that dead sunflower, etc. – which to me would be much more anxiety inducing.
The Zoom calls are a curated, limited group of people, with a more or less designated script. Awkward moments can be edited out before things are made public. She’s in her “home” environment, set up as she likes. The calls are relatively short. If there’s something she wanted help with, she has access to anything she needs.
No matter how bad she was to start with in her “royal work” life, if she really wanted to improve her performance (e.g., learn how to be more natural without having to obviously read from a script, etc.), she would have. In ten years there’s been little discernible progress. Even introverted, anxious people become more comfortable by doing, if they’re committed to making progress. Every indication is, Kate doesn’t want to be doing any of this.
Most people have no choice but to improve otherwise they’d lose their jobs. I can’t just say “I’m shy” to my boss as reason I’m not performing well and the royals don’t help matters by rewarding her for not doing anything. She literally got the royal order for disappearing after the Rose rumors got out. She’s getting praised for doing her own makeup. Her entire royal tenure is a straight up joke that nobody is calling her out on.
“She literally got the royal order for disappearing after the Rose rumors got out.”
@JT – I am glad you brought this up as I have got to ask a question.
What kind of person would take “a royal order” or any other type of “award or commendation” from their grandparent-in-law for turning a blind eye to their spouse’s cheating?
The fidgeting she did sitting next to William was not normal. There is clearly some tension going on there because you do not act like that next to your spouse of a decade if things are going well. He should be a person that makes you feel more comfortable not less.
(When they did the first few zoom calls last year they didn’t seem so awkward so the move to sandringham suggests a more recent fall out).
Does well with external in-person events? Like Can you test the smell by smelling it? Asking the same fisherman three times what type of fish he caught, because she’s too dim to pay attention to the answer?
When all Kate is required to do is show up, wave, be pandered to and patted on the head? She still manages to mess up, but what, we should praise her Evita impression?
@nota, I was referring specifically to the discussion in this thread about Kate’s supposed anxiety. When I said she does well enough with external events, I meant, she doesn’t appear anxious meeting people in person. Even though she’s still mostly in a bubble with those visits, it’s a less controlled environment than Zoom calls (where edits and do overs are possible), and IMO, would be more challenging for an anxious person. Yet she manages them just fine. Basically, I don’t believe anxiety is a factor in how she performs (except when William is involved).
That the content of all her interactions is usually subpar, and she’s made little effort to improve, is something I agree with.
I can understand anxiety and how this might be hard for her and that’s why she maybe doesn’t do very well or doesn’t do a lot of these types of engagements and calls. BUT what bugs me is them constantly telling us that she is PERFECT and the best at everything and how she is doing “landmark” work during this pandemic and how she is the Number One Super Top Ultimate Royal at zooming and engagements. She obviously doesn’t want to acknowledge that she has any kind of anxiety about these sorts of things, and she wants to be thought of as a super woman royal who is literally better than all the other royals combined, so why do we need to make the excuses for her that go completely against her own narrative?
And if this sort of stuff is super hard for her and that’s why she doesn’t do it well or often, then do something else! Donate time, money, services, or food. Come up with other ways of supporting these workers and children and parents that doesn’t involve doing the number one thing that gives you a ton of anxiety over and over and over again. So many ideas have been posted here over the years about things she could do that would be meaningful, easy for her, and make a difference. She could have compiled the Hold Still photos into a collectible coffee table book and sold it with proceeds going to the NHS or mental health charities. She could have done a second hold still project and sold a whole second book by now. She could have set up a way for normal people to donate money that would then go towards buying lunch for teachers. She could have auctioned her old dresses to raise money. She could have filmed herself reading to her own kids or doing a craft or baking as a sort of “Break time with the Duchess: let Princess Kate entertain your kids for thirty minutes so you can make dinner/switch the laundry/go lie down in a dark room and scream into your pillow” (that wouldn’t involve cold calling strangers and it wouldnt seem weird if baking or crafting was edited.) She could have partnered with restaurants/catering companies/grocery stores to put together sack lunches for hungry children. She could volunteer at donation centers for real (not in her white dress and high heels). There’s so much more than just zoom calls to say “thanks. And also, make sure you avoid this problem. I don’t know how you would, but just do it.”
“She could have compiled the Hold Still photos into a collectible coffee table book and sold it with proceeds going to the NHS or mental health charities.”
And charged three-times the price (at least 300 BPS per book) if you want a personal note and her original signature.
Then she could work behind the scenes and launch projects and help to organizations instead of calling.
But she does this because the other option would take effort.
I have a colleague who has to psych herself up for ten minutes to make a phone call (she’s a superstar at literally everything else), so I do get it.
But IF that’s the case with Kate, she has two options, and has had two options for ten years now.
Either put some effort into overcoming her lack of skill there. She has more resources at her disposal than she knows what to do with and no shortage of time.
Or work out a way to do her job without having to come up against that. If she can’t stand being in public then (leaving aside the question of why she agreed to marry one of the most public men in the world) she could shape her role to fit that and do more work behind the scenes with a friendly photographer.
She is not without options here, if she really is anxious about it, but she doesn’t seem to have done anything about it whatsoever in an entire decade.
If she spent more time with her patronage’s she would develop a relationship with them and not be so scared and awkward. Take Harry’s zoom calls with Wellchild. Harry is very involved with the charity and has a close relationship with the kids and family, so his zoom calls with them looks like old friends chatting.
Also, Kate is not some shy, meek girl. She walked down the runway in a sheer dress and regularly flashes others on royal engagements. She just doesn’t care.
Meghan and the ladies at the Hubb kitchen too. Whenever we see her with them, even on Zoom, you can see that they’re comfortable with each other as opposed to treating her as a guest.
Did they actually start the video with her saying: “big 5 questions?” or is my hearing bad?
She’s says “a few quick-fire questions”. I don’t know why they were no sub-titles on the YouTube video but they’re on the twitter video.
https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1357456658084093954
She said: “A few… QUICK FIRE QUESTIONS!”
I’m not shouting, she did! 🤣
The other people in the video have north east England accents and are easier to understand than she is.
If you watch the whole video, she’s completely different when she talks to the male teacher. Flirty, more animated, smiles more, over the top enthusiasm/reactions and she plays with her hair. Cringe.
“The other people in the video have north east England accents and are easier to understand than she is.”
@Keen Kate – I was watching a British TV show last night on BritBox and was surprised at how “American” the British accent of some actors sounded. In which part of the UK does the British accent most resemble a generic “Yank” accent?
When watching BritBox and Acorn TV, I always have the closed caption function turned on because some British accents I cannot understand. I also get a great hoot out of hearing the British pronounce “St. Johns” and “Derby”. I love BritBox, Acorn TV and British accents.
BTB: for this American, I always found the further north you go in the UK, the tougher it is to understand people. Once you’re up there in Scotland, fuggedaboutit!
Pronouncing Northern Ireland “Norlin Airlann” or “Noelin Eyelan” always blew my Yank mind. I just love the Celtic accents.
ahahahahah her pronounciation is horrible. I now get what everyone was saying here. Also, I have decided my hearing is still good so I have no other option but to blame it on her.
I just feel like she is speaking in vague generalities and not offering anything concrete. Not doing anything of substance behind the scenes to actually help.
She keeps repeating thank you and you are working hard/helping in all her calls…
Just like she repeats that the first 5 years are important for brain development, as if ages 6-25 aren’t (the brain keeps developing until at least age 25). What if the first 5 years are perfect and then there are issues after that?
This is something that really bothered me with her early years thing. She only focused on the first 5 years and that’s it. Once you hit 6 you are on your own apparently. Harry lost his mom at 12 and it clearly had an impact on his mental health . Her early years project is such a joke.
She and her husband have the same problem. And in that one and only foursome panel interview they looked worse.
They both learned their talking points and ONLY their talking points. That’s all they could remember.
Come on guys, you are so jealous that kate is just like us but in an extra version of ourselves because she is like top CEO, has sausage hair, gets to have this wonderful life by barely doing anything, but what she can do, she does perfectly. She presses that “join meeting” button like none of us does.
I’m jealous of Kate in the same way I am jealous of Melania 🤣 The kids gloves treatment compared to better and nicer women who have achieved more and care more (Meghan and Michelle).
Poor over worked exhausted Katie duchess mcWaity. Kids who has time to worry about them when there is hair twirling to be done and eyelashes to be batted when a boy is talking to me, william hasn’t looked at me in months. So yeah children who?.?.?.
She picked out her own clothes and did her own makeup? Look at Waity being a big girl! Charlotte could never, honey!
The outfit looks too Chanel-like to wear for a teacher Zoom, when you know your audience is severely underpaid and their work clothes have to be sticky-hand proof. This would have been the time to put on a bright sweater and a colorful scarf to be more relatable.
I would have worn a killer sweatshirt.
A scarf? Inside? The outfit looks nice but I agree the price is ridiculous
It’s funny how Kate keeps going with the soundbite of “please look after yourselves” like it’s that easy? Does she want to be considered as sort of martyr for mental health awareness when she’s done nothing in her power to do anything productive with the subject? How cringe.
She looks so nice in that blue! I always love seeing her with kids- she seems to genuinely enjoy getting to play and be around them 🙂
LOL good one.
Come on, she does look good in that blue. lol
As someone else wrote on here, she is painfully awkward with kids. She remains awkward with her own kids all these years later, which is why Nanny Maria and her staff are always on hand to get the kids away when Kate can’t handle them.
‘Not now, George! Not now, Charlotte! Not now, Louis! Mummy doesn’t have time for you right now because it is Children’s Mental Health Week – which means mummy must go and take care of herself first and then if she is feeling pampered and motivated enough, she can later be the best possible mummy to you for half an hour or so. But only if she doesn’t have to ‘go to work’ for a ten minute zoom call at Sandringham. Because after work, mummy needs some more me-time so she can be a better mummy to you.’
Perfect.
“Look after yourselves, because this Zoom call is the most help you’re going to get from the Windsors.”
Ahahahahah
I don’t like the whole mental health schtick they’re sticking with. Besides the fact that they didn’t care about the Sussexes, it just seems useless. This is the problem with the whole “If you have a platform, you have to use it” mantra. You end up with famous people with over inflated sense of importance because they say something as obvious as “take care of yourself”.
Let’s look at poverty, abuse, lack of proper access to mental healthcare, etc. The Cambridges are not doing anything useful at all. William and Kate are very tightlipped about their mental health and they say basic things about the subject matter. Harry and Meghan did more just from 20 seconds of vulnerability.
“I don’t like the whole mental health schtick they’re sticking with. Besides the fact that they didn’t care about the Sussexes, it just seems useless.”
This is exactly the reason why Cain and Keen Trainbridge will never have any credibility with any campaign, scheme, project or charity focusing on mental health.
It’s so profoundly tone-deaf and hypocritical. All empty words after how Meghan was treated. And we certainly have visual evidence of that. Empty and meaningless.
@kelley and Bay, yup and tbh, you don’t even have to like the Sussexes. Remove them and you still see that their work is merely symbolic with little substance. Whatever substance they have so far seems to be when they’re the face of something as opposed to products of their labour/ideas.
With all the attacks mugxits give Harry and Meghan because they’re apparently oh so evil, they can’t deny that their work has impact. Racism is a hell of a drug.
https://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CAMBRIDGES_ZB68_283268_00411.jpg
And this one, rose is miserable, she doesn’t do well being ignored and told to act her part. Notice the pinched face. I find these pictures hilarious. Kate probably had no idea back then that those two were screwing around behind her back. I have no sympathy for her make no mistake because a man can only do to you what you allow him to .
@Over it – Thanks for digging up that picture.
With respect to the picture: Did anyone else but me notice or think that almost senior citizen David Rocksavage is a hell of a lot more attractive than the almost 22 year younger BPwT Trainbridge?
Lol. Who isn’t baldy Mcegghead looks have gone to the dogs.
Bay, that picture and story are in the CB archives. There a few pictures of her, I remember everyone raving over the dress she was wearing. The story was about a charity event the Chomodeley’s were throwing, I can’t remember the title of it, sorry.
That picture is not great for Rose but in other pictures from the same event she looks a lot more relaxed and at ease around Kate – they greeted each other with cheek-kisses, etc. I would not be surprised if at that point in time (2016) Kate and Rose were legitimately friends and Kate had no idea about the affair (if it was happening at that point.)
We need to lobby Kaiser & Celebitchy do a post updating gossip on Rose Bush tending.
I am now at the conclusion that it was only a fling for “Rose Who?” and William wanted it to be more than a fling. However, I could be wrong.
The other one with the 3 of them where william can’t look either woman in the face really shows a guilty man. I can’t understand how any woman lives with a man who humiliates and cheats, no amount of jewelry or palaces is worth my dignity and self esteem. Kate is a pathetic role model for her daughter.
Kate doesn’t have female friends, Becks1. Kate was happy to show up, pose, and take credit for all the work Rose did arranging that EACH fundraiser. But a friendship? Even without the affair, there would be no friendship there.
I think even back then Willie and rose were screwing. Kate looks like the cat that’s got the cream, because she’s at a public event and she knows the attention is on her and not her rival, who she’s desperately insecure about. In public kate technically holds more superiority, but in private she’s nothing, her husband doesn’t give a damn about her, the aristocracy think she’s a joke, and her greatest love rival isn’t the slightest bit threatened by her. Rose and Willie look awkward as hell. Yep they were definitely bonking back then and Kate knew all about it.
Who takes pictures while being on zoom. The more controlling they are on controlling the narrative, the more suspicious and untrustworthy they look.
I swear that if there weren’t pictures of the Cambridge children behind her, you’d think she was at Meghan and Harry’s house. Truly. The furniture, the plants, the decor … same. Shameless.
Her face in those pics with the kids is the stuff of nightmares.
Her face genuinely creeps me out sometimes. Idk if it’s the lack of top lip and the grinch smile, the stretched rubber-like face or her wicked witch eyebrows but…*shudders*. She truly does resemble one of cinderellas step sisters.
‘Hello, Duchess of Cambridge here. Be sure to look both ways before crossing the street. Take care. I mean, be sure to look after yourself.’
Absolutely agree with Kalana above. When the guy called her out for not visiting in 8 years she was not flustered at all. Nil embarrassment. She just batted him back. From memory there was not even an apology from her. Just a comment about how time passes so quickly. I call BS on the shy, nervous claims. As someone else said shy and nervous is not in evidence at glamour events.
Kate is work shy in the extreme.
Mmmm this is what the queen wants. A job to congratulate the people who is serving her without actually doing the job herself.
Unfortunately for kate, the BM is reporting about kate and only her without focusing on the people who they should be reported about.
Lets look at meghan, meghan’s talk about the work and focusing on the people job and congratulating them. She knows what they were doing, she studied them. She didn’t try to claimed their work as hers.
Good luck lilibeth you got the best ceo in the whole wide world. You deserve kate.
Kate just really comes across as fake. Faking genuine interest. She is such a hollow person. I bet she was just watching herself on those Zoom calls (you can kind of see it early on in the video when she is trying to opimize her hair). To her it is all about how she comes across.
Kate’s vaunted efforts to look busy and capable remind me of a recurring nightmare I’ve had for years, that I have a looming deadline to produce something of substance, but couldn’t get it together and now have to submit something that’s obviously inadequate, no matter how I try to dress it up. I am filled with shame and embarrassment, then thankfully I wake up. She is actually living this in front of whole freaking world! Minus the shame and embarrassment of course.