The Duchess of Cambridge turns 40 years old on January 9th. When the Duchess of Sussex turned 40 last August, she did a cute video on her Archewell site with Melissa McCarthy, and Meghan launched the 40X40 mentorship thing, which was basically encouraging people to mentor one another professionally or personally. It was nice. Will Kate use her birthday to launch a keen button program or perhaps launch a charity to give wiglets to disaffected youths? Of course not. Kate is too Future-Queen-y for that, silly goose. She will spend her birthday quietly, with no fanfare, unlike Meghan!
Meghan’s 40th birthday celebrations in August were reported to have been organised by Colin Cowie. He has previously organised parties for big-name celebrities including Jennifer Aniston and Kim Kardashian.
Royal expert Duncan Larcombe told OK! he believes the Duchess of Cambridge’s birthday will instead be a “deliberately modest” affair. He believes Kate will have “no fuss” around her birthday as she wants to focus on her responsibilities to the monarchy and family.
“The first picture of the two of them kissing was taken when Kate was celebrating her birthday quietly with William at Klosters ski resort in Switzerland,” Larcombe explained. “But that was then, and it’s just not Kate’s style to want to throw a lavish party for friends and family. I can’t see her going on any VIP trips to posh West End restaurants either.”
Mr Larcombe said: “It will be low key and it will be focused entirely on the family. She’s unlikely to [announce a new project on her birthday, unlike Meghan who launched a mentorship programme to mark her 40th] because, firstly, it’s just not her way and secondly because of the obvious comparisons with Meghan and this awful continuation of one-upmanship that the palace is so keen to avoid.”
Larcombe says Kate is expected to mark the occasion quietly with Prince William and her family rather than party, as “the Duke and Duchess are growing older gracefully”.
[From The Daily Express & 9Honey]
For what it’s worth, Kate’s birthdays have historically been out-of-the-public-eye. I tend to believe that she just has lowkey celebrations with her family, and I remember one year, they went to a play in London. But let’s also be clear: Kate would love it if her staff organized some kind of keen busy work around her birthday. She’s clearly not going to lift a finger to “do” anything herself, but she would enjoy a birthday pie chart photo, or maybe something where she’s holding a phone or a pen and looking professional and keen. Alas, I think it’s too late.
Also: it’s pretty stupid to keep insisting that Kate is demure and modest “unlike Meghan” when that claim always blows up in people’s faces. Most recently, royal reporters were making a big deal about Kate didn’t want to pull attention away from the Christmas carolers by making a speech at her Jazz Hands Christmas special… and it turned out that Kate made the whole thing about her f–king piano recital, complete with Kensington Palace blanketing the media with quotes about her historic love of music. My point is that Kate is desperate for the kind of attention Meghan gets, it’s just that Kate is lazy and she doesn’t know what to actually DO.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Kensington Palace.
I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again: Kate doesn’t have the range, connections and work ethic to do what M did for 40×40. They really need to leave Meghan’s name out of their mouths because whenever Kate and Meghan are compared, it’s Kate that always falls far below the bar set.
That last part. She doesn’t have the connections. The fact that meg does, and managed to make those contacts by herself, must sting. 10 years on the job…
Plus ten years prior spent campaigning to get the job.
I want to know more about the real reasons why Catherine Quinn left as private secretary after a relatively short period.
Ok, what was that 40×40 thing though? I thought it seemed like a cool concept at the time, but have heard nothing since the initial launch. Did she and 40 of her friends just quietly give 40 minutes of their time to different women and that was it, or was it supposed to turn into a bigger thing?
No, it wasnt just 40 of her friends. I don’t know how active the hashtag still is on social media, but it resulted in people all over the world donating 40 minutes of their time to help people personally and professionally. at the time, the hashtag was very active and I would say the initiative was a big success.
It was everything from our own Oya here on CB taking professional headshots for women for free to people like Hillary Clinton and Stacy Abrams committing to mentor someone in their lives.
But sure, it wasn’t a big thing at all.
Uh…is this the new line of attack for royalists and Kate stans leading up to Kate’s birthday? This is the third time in about as many weeks I’m seeing someone trying to act like 40×40 wasn’t a major thing. If so, it’s a pretty poor one, considering Kate doesn’t and could never have 1% of the impact.
You were too busy licking Kate’s ass, Of course you didn’t notice how successful Meghan’s initiative was. Anyway, maybe this thread will help you
https://twitter.com/latteiicious/status/1422917958699950081?s=21
It wasn’t intended to be a continuing program, just an initiative for folks at that time, in honor of Meghan’s 40th Birthday, to donate the 40 minutes of their time to mentor women, and a lot of people did. It was pretty notable.
Pamplemousse, someone on a different post yesterday stated that you’ll find the 40×40 mentorships are ongoing on linked in.
The audacity of this person to try and minimize the impact of 40×40 when women from all walks of life – journalism, politics, law, medicine etc took part with testimonials on Twitter and LinkedIn for months afterwards. LOL. Just say you hate Meghan and go!
PS: Kate still doesn’t have the range…she’ll never have the range. Bitter pill for a few to swallow but it is what it is! Hehehehehe…
I seem to have touched a nerve…. Like I said, I’m on board with the concept and thought it was a unique way to mark turning 40. After the initial splash with the big celeb names though, I just didn’t see anything. I’m pretty active in women’s networking groups and on professional spaces in social media, but maybe I just missed it. Not a peep in my corner at least, though that may be because it’s not immediately obvious how the match is supposed to happen if you’re not already part of those mentorship circles. Anyway, had to go back and rewatch the video and I think my expectations weren’t aligned with the message. I thought the idea was for this to become a mentorship initiative with channels for identifying a mentor/mentee and plan for subsequent follow-up, not a general call for a one-off 40 minutes. Clearly I was wrong, in which case, I stand corrected and the 2 minute video was a resounding success.
I’m currently mentoring a young girl (high school) because of it.
@ Oh, wonderful link!! It truly brightened my day and put an enormous smile on my face that I desperately needed!!
Yes, Meghans 40×40 has had a global impact with impressive women stepping up and into her imitative. I am certain thousands of people are benefiting each day in a wide variety of mentorship.
And Duncan Lacrombe is talking out of his @ss! Mumbles wants her to celebrate her birthday focusing on responsibilities to the Monarch and her family…..when has Mumbles EVER focused on her responsibilities to the Monarch? Maybe she is focusing on how many more ways she can skip doing any actual work?
@ Pamplemousse, I am glad that you looked at the video but your statement is still a contradiction, “ I just didn’t see anything. I’m pretty active in women’s networking groups and on professional spaces in social media”., to which also brought up only celebrities, which is certainly not the case.
The reason that Kween doesn’t want to compare herself to Meghan, and it’s not due to BP not wanting the keen comparisons, buts it’s because Mumbles does not want to do the work. Mumbles McMutton has access to multitude of groups/people across the globe to create a legacy of philanthropic work. Hell, she can’t even catch up to Anne who has decades of years on her! Even TQ outworks her!!
@Oh
it’s a little unhinged to come after a random commenter with profanities based on a single comment. Meghan will be ok, big mean Pamplemousse can’t hurt her.
Good god at the reactions. Don’t feel bad, I was wondering the same thing. Haven’t heard anything else about 40×40. Doesn’t mean I’m a Kate fanatic or that I’m trying to erase Meghan’s impact or efforts. It probably means it’s one of approximately one gazillion hashtags that I havent clicked on. You know who else’s birthday fundraiser/idea/hashtag I don’t know about?? PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE’S. Christ on a cracker, ppl are so freaking intense.
@Pamplemousse – people are reacting a little strongly to your comment bc there have been a few like that over the past few days – “oh, btw, did the 40×40 initiative even do anything? I didn’t heard about it after the first day.” There’s a very innocent but still trolling quality to the question and its being asked often enough over the past few days that it feels like a talking point from the Kate stans.
@Pamplemousse: You didn’t touch a nerve, you just didn’t know the facts, as others have posted the “receipts” or “evidence” showing the success of the 40×40 initiative.
It’s 4 days into 2022 and they’ve had at least 2 stories a day on how worked up Bill & Cathy are about Harry & Meghan.
Somebody has absolutely lost their mind. Bill & Cathy are like bunny boiling levels of obsessed with how they cannot stop mentioning her.
When I read the line “Kate is keen to avoid comparisons with Meghan” I immediately thought, “that’s the first smart thing Kate ever did.” Comparisons to a woman who is smarter, more fashionable, more popular, better educated, harder working, has a loyal husband, etc., will only make Kate look worse by comparison. This is why Kate will resent Meghan until the day she dies.
I thought that was odd to say that Kate was “keen” to avoid comparisons w/ Meghan – in an article where they are bringing Meghan’s name into it unnecessarily. How pathetic are these people that they are unable to talk about anything involving Kate without bringing Meghan’s name into it. Imagine, it’s her birthday but there’s not enough depth, substance, or accomplishments to this chick, so they feel the need to drag in Meghan who is just busy living her life.
P.S.: No matter how many times the try to describe Kate as “modest” and low-key, her multiple ass-flashings across the globe, and the picture of her dressing up as a sweaty disco ball still won’t go away. Sorry BM and KP. Keep trying.
The only thing that Keeny has going for her is that she loves her kids. Otherwise, she is about to turn 40 and has done absolutely nothing newsworthy since, other than marrying into the right family and birthing three kids.
Honestly who doesnt love their kids?
In my country we say, even the cat loves their kids and is a good mom. It really isnt some major feat it is what is expected of every normal mother on earth, to care for their kids.
I guess in her own way she loves them. She doesn’t work, doesn’t have to take care of any domestic duties like cleaning or cooking, or do any charity work. She has a team of nannies for her kids. I could get have someone to help you, I’d love that but if you have a nanny per kid plus a lead nanny, when do you do anything with them?
I do, however, question whether she (and William) are going to prepare all three of her children for public service. That would mean being a good role model, instilling a work ethic in them and also making sure the heir doesn’t get all the special treatment.
“He believes Kate will have “no fuss” around her birthday as she wants to focus on her responsibilities to the monarchy and family.”
She’s going to spend her day “focusing on her responsibilities to the monarchy?” LMAO, what does that even mean?
Absolutely nothing of course. Her “responsibilities to the monarchy” ended when she was done giving birth, and she made d-mn sure to stay as far away as possible from anything else that can even remotely be called a “responsibility.”
What’s funny is that “focusing on her responsibility to the royal family” or whatever, would actually mean doing something charitable! That’s her responsibility. That’s her duty. That’s why she’s there, besides baby making, and she’s done with baby making. So if she wants to focus on her duty to the royal family, some sort of big party (if we weren’t in a pandemic) where she tells people to donate to a charity rather than give her gifts, or launching some kind of new project, would be the number one ways of “focusing on her duty.”
Throwing herself a big party during a pandemic would be Boris Johnson-level stupid. No one gets a cookie for following the rules.
Meghan probably celebrated her birthday without a fuss as well. That “party” was never confirmed. Just gossip.
Also it’s a surge in the pandemic. Nobody is allowed to have a big birthday party right now anyways. Nobody would want to be seen out partying in London or going away on a huge international vacation right now in the middle of a really horrible surge.
And of course the best way to avoid comparisons to Meghan is to….remind everyone what Meghan did for her birthday and then tell them how what you’re going to do for your birthday is so much classier and Queenlier. An article about how Kate doesn’t want her birthday compared to Meghan’s probably included Meghan’s name more than Kate’s. Sounds legit…
This line was interesting:
“She’s unlikely to announce a new project on her birthday, unlike Meghan who launched a mentorship program….because of the obvious comparisons with Meghan and this awful continuation of one-upmanship that the palace is so keen to avoid.” Hmm, that sort of really makes it seem like the palace has noticed Kate’s constant game of attempted one-upmanship and has slapped her down and told her “No! No, you can’t launch pretend nonsense work just so you can have a flashy photo shoot for your birthday.” Especially when it’s framed like Kate isn’t going to copy Meghan because she doesn’t want to be accused of copying Megan in an attempted one-up, something the writer here says the palace has noticed, and which he also editorializes as “awful.” Sounds like this particular writer is telling Kate that she seems obvious and pathetic every time she tries to copyKate Meghan. It doesn’t make sense for this to be a dig at Meghan, referring to Meghan possibly copying whatever Kate might do and that’s why Kate won’t do anything, because Meghan has already had her 40th birthday. She did it first.
@ I’m sorry I didn’t see your comment but I agree!! The collective time Mumbles spends as on her responsibilities on the Monarch, could actually fit into a shot glass!!
Most people who have big celebrations on such milestone birthdays are people who feel they have achieved something great in their life(however big or small). I wouldnt want people on my 40th shindig scratching their heads and wondering ‘what does she do!?’ .
Well we know that’s a lie. Every article about Kate in the last 4 years has been comparing her to Meghan and she loves it. As I said yesterday, Meghan is in Kate’s head and there is no doubt that these articles bashing Meghan in praise of Kate are encouraged by her and KP.
And sadly ,the ‘greatest ‘ thing to ever happen to Kate is the arrival of Meghan. She used to get dragged in the press and now she can do no wrong. I wonder had Harry married a white woman if the press would have turned( not as severe as Meghan ofcourse) on her and given Kate the same pass or they would have continued to drag her like before.
Kate commissions an article for her milestone 40th birthday which is mostly about Meghan, but sure definitely don’t compare her to Meghan. How pathetic is that? If this article didn’t feature Meghan than there would be nothing to even talk about. She has no work accomplishments to speak of, she can’t have people looking to closely at what’s happening with William, and she has no friends to organize a party for her. If there was no Meg there couldn’t be a story about Kate, other than sheer laziness. Kate should be thanking Meghan.
Have you noticed how all Kate talks about is Meghan, meanwhile Meghan is like who’s Kate. So sad for Kate. Chicka is obsessed.
Kate is lucky that she is even being mentioned in the same breath as Meghan, an accomplished woman. It only benefits Kate to be seen on the same level as Meg because, in reality, Kate is just a woman who birthed some kids by the right man. Nothing more, nothing less. People only don’t want to “pit two women against each other” when they know Kate will come out the loser every time. It’s only because of the British media that she isn’t called out for being a waste of space on the taxpayer dime for the past 10 years.
I think Kate loved it at first–particularly in 2018 and 2019–but has grown more bitter as Meghan has become more popular and influential worldwide. It’s the way she’s been constantly copying Meghan over the past 2 years with below average results and reception outside of the usual sycophants. At this point all the ‘Kate is more regal/humble/better than Meghan’ PR is her and her people howling into the wind and preaching to the choir. Between that and the fixation on creating MORE lies about the crying story post-Oprah, I think Kate’s probably feeling very bitter and resentful. She has the adoration of royalists (as usual) and indifference to mildly positive sentiment from the general UK public, but she has nothing on the scale of admiration that Meghan has overall.
@Beach Dreams your wonderfully brief and spot-on analysis is harsh but I think you’ve successfully summed up the past few years and the consequences of the role Kate has played and is playing.
Over the holidays i read the newsletter that Celebitchy e-blasted about the early rumours of #PriinceWilliamAffair and started feeling really sorry for Kate. If one of her primary goals was to establish herself within the aristocratic set, then she must have placed premium value on the relationships she had with Turnip Toffs and her friendship with Rose Hanbury must have brought her great satisfaction/happiness. To have all of that collapse with confirmation of an affair must have been shattering for her and followed with the Tatler article and its suggestion that the Toffs felt contempt for her must have really rocked her world.
Who really knows the degree of complicity she had in the campaign smearing Meghan – even Meghan suggested that Kate might not have been allowed to correct the story – that suggestion by Meghan pretty clearly indicating that Kate does not have free will.
But when i saw a resurrection of the crying story, and the vile suggestion that Meghan acted inappropriately towards Charlotte, I lost my momentary compassion for her and returned to my usual state of regard (lack) for her. At worst, she is a scheming, vengeful and not-too-bright accomplice to William, and at best, she is a complicit coward.
The toll it all has/is taking on her is clear though. The photos of her from the Christmas concert show a shell of a woman – there is hardly any flesh on her, she looks really sad and devoid of hope. I started wondering if she has her family around her more at lengthy public events because she is on the verge of losing it and needs support. She was a beautiful woman but without a caped and sequinned gold gown, she no longer has any glow at all. For a woman who has only ever been lauded for her looks, and pretty much documented as being unable to do much else – this loss would be monumental.
Considering how competitive Buttons is there WILL be something around her birthday – am putting money on it. Esp given how badly her xmas carole service and piano playing was received and William’s twitter action.
This rotten rota, puts Kardashian name in there, to minimise Meghan, however, I will take The Kardashians over these backstabbing, jealous- filled royals any day. The Kardashians are even loyal to their exes.
Also at least the kardashians work for their money and have a work ethic. Love them or hate them, they work more in a day than Kate does in 365
I say neither, since the Kardashians are also white girl exploitative colonizers, just the American version. Look how they steal Black women’s work for their businesses. If that’s hard work, I don’t want it.
Will never understand why people are so determined to see any good in this selfish, materialistic family. Loyalty to a cheating man isn’t a virtue.
I can’t remember in the run up to Meghan’s 40th were there loads of articles speculating how she would celebrate ? I’m not sure there were. Is this plea to Meghan not to upstage Kate by posting anything, or is the Media trying to drum up a public swell of birthday wishes to let Kate know how popular she is ?
I remember a few that were pretty obviously blatant lies, but that’s what the royal reporters do, they just print lies and say it often enough that people assume its true. Like even in this story where they mention that Meghan had her bday party planned by a planner to the stars, and I distinctly remember another story from right before her bday talking about a “grazing table” and what would be served at her big bash etc. then like a day before her bday it was “oh bc of the pandemic Meghan’s party has been cancelled” and then she released the 40×40. (my interpretation of that was that the RRs somehow learned there wasn’t going to be a party and were trying to cover their butts.)
I don’t care if Kate has a big splashy do or a quiet birthday for her 40’s. The biggest issue with Kate and that entire family is the fact that they’re just not interesting. Who actually cares?
Also: if she doesn’t want comparisons to Meghan it would be helpful if all these articles in the daily mail stopped mentioning her. Lol.
Yeah, I can’t tell if this article is about Kate or Meghan? Unfortunately, that’s the deal with most articles about Kate. She encouraged the comparisons when Meghan was getting smeared in the UK so now her present is to be forever compared. Happy Birthday! 🎈
Then she failed.
Haha exactly. Button Mutton will never escape being compared to Meghan for the rest of her life—and likely, even longer. Better wish for something else!
Not even being 100% bitchy, but does she have any friends to invite to a birthday party? She only ever talks about family: Middletons, Will & the kids.
No, she doesn’t have friends. The few she did have were dumped for William’s friends ( and they don’t like her)
So there are 2 people who get mentioned as being Kate’s friends: Sophie Carter and Emilia D’Erlanger/Jardine-Patterson. There’s also a third but not mentioned so frequently and it’s Trinny Foyle (friend at Marlborough). The rest are William’s friends or the wives of William’s friends.
Those first two are the only ones who popped into my head, both are godparents of Cambridge children, and I think one of them has been photographed attending church with Kate around her bday (can’t remember which one though.)
@Becks1: I think that might be Sophie. She apparently lives in Norfolk and I think Kate tends to be in Norfolk for her birthday so that would make sense.
Who are Billy’s friends?
I think there are a few from her Marlborough days but she lost a lot of friends due to her treating them badly in the great Prince hunt. There was one story that she was a bridesmaid for one friend, involved in the wedding planning – dropping out at the last min to go on holiday with William.
Sophie Carter Snuggs is the daughter of a Norfolk builder and grew up there and lives there. She’s the one Kate has been pictured with the most. Foyle is suppose to be some great friend of Kate’s but Kate was never photographed at her wedding and the speculation at the time was that Kate and William broke up or were on the outs and Kate snuck in and out from a holiday/convalescence. It was pre engagement.
I think for Kate’s 40th it’s just gonna be her, her mother and camilla Tominey sharing a bottle of Prosecco.
What they really are saying is the Kate doesn’t have the range to pull off a 40×40, genuine friends and will continue to live in Meghan’s shadow. We barely knew what Meghan did for her birthday at home, but Keen McButtons is the “low-key” Duchess smh
That’s what I was thinking. Why are they claiming Meghan had a party planner? Then they throw in something about not going out to eat either. It’s pretty sad if Will can’t even take her out for a nice dinner to celebrate her birthday. I bet the truth is they are taking a trip somewhere and the BM is keeping it quiet.
You are exactly right, What Else. There is no member of the BRF that we know LESS about than Meghan, as far as her daily life. Say it like it is, Kate doesn’t remotely have the friends or clout to pull off a 40 x 40, and “low-key” is bullshit for utterly lazy.
She’s going to have a low-key birthday with just her family, because what friends does she even have to celebrate with? How is it that in the last 10 years there have never been any photos snapped of her going out to lunch, shopping, SOMETHING with a girlfriend? She’s supposed to be so normal and down-to-earth, isn’t she? She can get papped at a bookstore or school supply shopping for the kids, but never a girls’ day out (forget girls’ night, I get that would probably never happen at least publically)? It’s not normal, nor is it healthy to spend 100% of your time with your kids and spouse. But I suspect it’s because she doesn’t have any real friends to speak of.
She was once papped with her mother and sister at lunch. Given what we know about the Cambridges’ control of the media and “the Middleton rules,” I believe she has been papped shopping and eating lunch for years and the papers don’t print the photos as part of this silent agreement they have with the Cambridges. The true lie is the media then taking that lack of published photos and claiming that she really doesn’t do these things. I also think the Cambridges have benefitted greatly from lockdown and COVID – the media can print things like “they’re rarely apart” straight faced because thanks to COVID they’re rarely apart by their standards, etc. I would love someone to ask the press that. For the last 2 years, or before that?
What is she going to do when her children age? Jackie Kennedy described people’s expectations as you watching the raindrops travel down the windowsill. But Jackie raised independent children. Perhaps Kate will just turn hers into codependent creatures of learns helplessness and make them a lifelong project
‘Perhaps Kate will just turn hers into codependent creatures of learns helplessness and make them a lifelong project’
Then she’d be following Mummy Carole’s lead in how to raise children poorly.
I mean, her aristo “friends” made it clear that they never have and never will embrace her, so there’s not much pickings for Kate outside of that…which is completely her fault in the first place. Seriously, it seems like the Middletons are the only ones who can stand her at this point.
Yeah I’m willing to bet Kate & Will will both announce some charitable thing on their birthdays this year. Most of their moves over the last few years have been copying Harry and Meghan.
Rebecca English’s claim that Kate didn’t want the carol concert to be all about Kate blew up in her face and my guess is this claim from Duncan (alleged phone hacker) Larcombe about a low key birthday will too. I’ve seen on social media her fans (and some bots according to bot sentinel) are even organising using same hashtag used by Meghan’s fans.
KP and the press have been the ones driving comparisons between Kate & Meghan. I remember after her mat leave for Louis, there was a vanity fair article about ‘ the golden age of KATE’ & on the cover was ‘no she’s not jealous of Meghan’. Looking back now I realise that the lady doth protest too much.
Meghan literally said on Oprah that you don’t have to hate her if you like me but Kate has never said anything similar. Since Meghan married in most Kate fluff pieces have included a put down on Meghan & we know since the princes and the press & Meghan’s court case that KP would likely oversee such fluff pieces. Anna Pasternak confirmed working with KP for the Tatler piece which was later edited to remove comments about the Middletons & William etc that Kate & William didn’t like but all nasty comments about Meghan including claims she made Kate cry, were kept in.
Also Duncan claims a party planner organised a birthday party for Meghan but there’s been no reports or confirmation how Meghan celebrated her birthday. It must kill the rota and royal experts that H&M’s circle is tight and they don’t have access.
My guess is that Meghan had only family for her birthday and Kate is copying or K&W are actually taking a trip somewhere that the media are keeping quiet, like with the Jordan trip.
Hmm, you might be right. @abritguest-some project or something could still be announced on her birthday as she does take her cues from the sussexes. Guess we’ll see.
They’re not “keen to end the one-upmanship”, they’re desperate to end the fabricated one-upmanship in which Kate regularly loses, even with the tabloids doing all the heavy-lifting for her.
Christ I can’t imagine reaching 40 without any accomplishments, and no friends to celebrate them with. Her life is pitiful.
I saw the headlines and thought “well yes because she doesn’t want to do any work” but the reasoning being because she doesn’t want to be compared to Meghan is laughable. Being compared to Meghan means she and the media can continue upholding her image as the perfect white royal as well as someone who represents the “perfect” woman especially in a patriarchal system like the aristocracy as well as the wider society, especially towards those who idolise the 50s housewives – submissive, keeps her head down, doesn’t work much, “just” looks after the kids etc etc.
First off Kate is way too b—-chy to have friends, second, she wishes she could come up with something, anything but she just has zero interest in anything outside buttons, Botox and wiglets. Third, I don’t consider a ski trip to an exclusive area to be low key. We don’t have a clue what Meghan did for her birthday because unlike Duchess mutton button, she isn’t asking the tabloids to print her plans.
Yeah…if I were Kate, I would be keen to avoid comparisons with Meghan too. On one hand, we have an intelligent, self-made, driven and deeply altruistic woman. On the other, we have a 40-yea-old ‘girl’ who’s never had a job in her life (outside her kids, of course), who’s idea of charity is showing up to an event for 40 minutes with the entire Royal Rota in tow, whilst smiling maniacally, flipping her Texas Beauty Queen extensions and mumbling incoherently.
Also, why so shy on comparisons all of a sudden? Wasn’t it the Middleton media machine who kept pumping out stories comparing the two women since Meghan came on the scene? Now the British media and public can see that they god the bum end of the deal all of a sudden it’s “don’t compare us! Don’t look over there at what you could have had! You still love meeee” I mean, LOL. Really.
My usual preface. Not a fan of either. But if you don’t want comparisons quit having media you deal with brings her/ them up! It is obvious. Also stop doing things that copy M, think up original things to do.
LOL, of course she isn’t going to do anything for her bday like Meghan did. Meghan planned her initiative, reached out to her connections, made a really funny video, and the 40×40 initiative was a social media success. Kate doesn’t have the mental bandwidth to plan something like that.
I can see KP trying to put something together, a charity drive or something (copying the Sussexes by listing favorite charities to donate to or something) but that’s about it. And like everything else KP does, it will fall flat.
I also think that the palace is probably trying to keep focus on the blood royals, so the “big” fuss about turning 40 is being reserved for William, not Kate. I don’t remember anything significant happening when Camilla turned 70, and isn’t she 75 this year? But with Charles obviously there were some cover stories, wasn’t there a documentary, a new biography, things like that? I think anything like that will be reserved for William.
Well she could do a wig drive, then donate the money to a button factory
Lolololololol!!’ Thanks for my morning chuckle!!
If she did anything it would be a photo of the recycled gold dress she wore for bond and NYE(photo) she could truly show her thrifty side to appear to be wearing it for a third time at home having a low key birthday as a FFQC.
Camilla had a lot of PR for her 70th, including a book by Penny Junor and she gave an interview. I expect her 75th will get attention and later, Charles 75th. I think William when he’s 40 will get cover stories in the magazines.
Ha, if she did, I completely missed it, so I’m assuming a lot of people did as well lol, so it seems it probably fell pretty flat.
Considering how Keen events mirror Sussex events I’m banking on a magazine cover release on Kate’s BD to copy the Sussexes Time cover release on Harry’s BD that overshadowed Kate’s return to “work”.
She is probably a low key (low key and lazy) person and i can see her only wanting to do something simple for her birthday, a dinner maybe with william if he’ll have her and maybe lunch/dinner with her kids and or family.
Low key? Did you not see that gold dress? This woman wants to be the center of the universe and she’ll run over anyone who gets in her way. Just ask her sister-in-law.
Actually I think what Kate is keen to avoid is working period.. Meghan =work. So yes, Kate won’t want that
Kate doesn’t want a “big fuss” about her birthday but there have been how many articles, magazine covers, etc. on both sides of the pond? Sure sister, tell us anything we’ll believe it.
Also, it’s okay to want a big fuss for a milestone birthday. Sometimes it’s fun to celebrate. The false modesty display to make some sort of statement about Meghan is gross as usual. The story could very well be just larcombe’s fantasy guesses, who knows? But what isn’t made up is the KP pr machine using Meghan as a prop for Kate for years so that now it’s the template for the these RR loonies.
I want the Sussexs to release an episode of the podcast on January 9!! I think it would be perfect timing
It really would. They get criticized for overshadowing no matter what they do, so why not *really* go for it? Oh man, it would be perfect revenge for mentioning the someone-cried-someone-lied wedding bridesmaid BS story AGAIN last weekend. Sadly for us, Meghan is too classy and zen. We can hope though…
They could make it about bullying. Wouldn’t that be a poke in the eye.
Breaking news: woman who does absolutely nothing meaningful 364 days of the year, will also do nothing meaningful on her birthday. Shocking.
Lol like she could compare herself to our queen Meg! lol . This woman will be 40 in a few days and the media continues treating her like a damn child.
She did make that concert about her hitting the same chords on the piano. It is cringeworthy to me when I hear commentators talking about someone being in “Kate’s concert.”
Yeah after taking jabs at her all year. Kate is a clear narcissist, I’m related to someone like this, I can tell you they never change and it never stops, they’ll steal from a poor blind person and kick him too. Normal people in disagreements, agree to disagree, call it a truce and put it behind them, not narcs, the thrill of winning gives them a high and they’ll leave you with nothing if you’re not careful.
Kate likes having the convenience of Meghan to throw under the bus anytime things call for accountability. She likes having the grey suits take her fall or write glowing vomit inducing cushy annoying articles about her. She likes spinning ‘get out of work’ as “confidence’ in saying no and she’s a family woman, from what I’ve seen her only life’s concern is shopping and having the latest Botox fillers nips tuck technology at her fingertips, anytime anyone brings up financial accountability it’s ‘what about meghan’. Anytime anyone paints her as a villian it’s ‘what about rose’ anytime anyone paints or she paints herself dumb its ‘saves the monarchy.’ anytime anyone paints her as a snob she’s “middle-class”, anytime anyone paints her as an upstart it’s ‘always been regal’. She really set herself up. We’re seeing a pattern here. And we can’t unsee it, it’s annoying as hell.
I could never let someone print such shamelessly surgary articles about me at the expense of another woman or all women, for that matter, as she’s done.
Kate is keen to avoid comparison to Meghan? Bull. She loves it because every time she copies Meg, she gets praise, whereas Meg would get raked over the coals.
This article is so blatantly untrue that I wonder if the point isn’t to mock Kate as copycat.
If Kate “holds a pen or a phone,” does that qualify as two events to add to her workload? I think William used that strategy too when he was pictured holding a phone (I think) and there was a printer in the room at the same time. Clearly, two events for William. Laziest mofos on the planet.
Would it be so awful if she did something charitable for her 40th? People do the same types of charity things in general anyway because they work. It would at least be doing something good and making an effort. It’s more impressive than doing nothing. If the RF had actually managed to be kind and share the spotlight, she and Meghan could have worked on 40th BD initiatives together.
So Meghan and her team could do all the work and Kate could take credit for it? Yikes.
I think it would come across as disingenuous for her to do anything charitable for her birthday because she doesn’t do anything generous and charitable in her life. You really have to work hard to work so very little.
This article is so stupid. It’s supposed to say that Kate doesn’t want to be compared to Meghan but all it does is compare them. Kate the modest, Meghan the lavish.
The thing that shocks me the most is that people buy this narrative. A woman that spends hundreds of thousands of pounds in clothes, hair appointments, makeup, luxury vacations, house renovations… I mean… she costs the British tax payers A LOT OF MONEY and the tabloids still have the courage to say she’s thrifty and modest… it is mind blowing.
Meghan earns her own money by working and she still has no peace. It is truly annoying.
Kate cannot compare to Meghan in any form or way at all, so no worries about said comparison.
I’m just thinking what is the point of even being a royal if you can’t throw a gigantic, glittery ball every now and then? This low-key business is crap. Nobody’s fooling anyone.
To quote the great philosopher C.Horowitz, “Ugh, as if”.
Love this!
“wants to avoid comparison to Megan” 🤣🤣🤣 yeah, I’ll bet!!! 🤣
For years both Kate and Carole celebrated birthdays with the January family holiday in Mustique. W&K have gotten so much better at hiding their holidays, haven’t they? There’s no way they’ve stopped skiing, but not a peep since the diastrous photo shoot at the luxury French chalet in 2016.
Gotten better at, and used lawyers to silence the media and/or made deals with the media to report on other things.
The amount of leaks, made up stories, and private information on Meghan and Harry out of KP from 2016 onward to cover up the Cambridges’ activities all in service to this “just normal people” nonsense – staggering.
Nota- no family vacays have been caught since that one obvious pap trip in 2016, but Willyboy got caught on the dad dancing trip.
And the hunting trip where Jecca was the only girl too.
Coincidence, or conspiracy?
The fact they told everyone they were no longer traveling abroad for holidays, and then secretly went to Jordan a few weeks later, is just a sign of how they straight up lie and think they can get away with.
No one would begrudge them a holiday, even broke people go on holiday. But it’s the fact they can so confidently lie and get away with it. Why bother?
So they’re really pretending Kate isn’t going to release a 40th birthday photoshoot, with a video montage of never before seen family photos?
She’s hiring Kim Kardashian’s party planner to organize a quiet “at home” birthday party?
Meg Stan- you don’t know if Kate is the driving force behind the tabloids.
But the facts are since Meg left in 2020 will and Kate have made it there mission to be the next h&m with failed results. Hand holding, more pics of the kids, more exclusive interviews and more initiatives. Earthshot, this new center that hasn’t seen the light of day.
They do stuff after California which shows how desperate they are to keep up. Look at the articles out now about Afghan refugees, which when he went-didnt provide no assistance to the ones in Britain. The articles addresses how he’s frustrated that nothing is being done in Britain to relocate them. Isn’t he the future of the monarchy with resources to assist or ask the public to? Harry and Meghan provided supplies to the refugees that are in NJ.
So your point is moot even if they’re not the driving force-the way there trying to keep up falls flat.
I agree with your point of salty island but people of color has always had a generalized term projected on them when most people of color are accomplished like Meghan.
But she and her son are still referenced as animals, she’s still perceived as a angry, black woman, she’s still referred to as coming from a ghetto-where that’s where she started but she ended somewhere far better, she’s still referenced as loving chickens in a derogatory manner. So if Britain Media can still reference her family in this manner we’ll reference Britain as a salty island. Where they’re own future king and queen is trying to take up shop next year – in the country that won it’s independance in 1776- with they’re failed initiatives.
“But that was then, and it’s just not Kate’s style to want to throw a lavish party for friends and family.”
That’s because Kate doesn’t have any friends.
Expect two more stories about the birthday. One talking about how much more modest her birthday party will be than Meghan’s and another how much grander and adored than Meghan’s birthday, that should cover all bases, than see what sticks better and go with that, smdh. Imagine adult Brits writing these stories wow.
I don’t even know who all of the performers were at the Carole service or what songs were sung because kate got all the attention. That’s sad. Also, did she do anything between the Carole service and being seen in the car xmas morning? And has she done anything since? I can definitely see them going off on holiday in a private jet. They really don’t care about the environment. That’s all for show.
“his awful continuation of one-upmanship that the palace is so keen to avoid.” LOL please, how hilarious and fake. As if the palace hasn’t done its best to put Keen and Meghan against each other since the start, putting Lazy Keen on a pedestal made of lies.
If they want to avoid comparisons to Meghan, maybe try not putting her name in every article about Kate, every time. It’s just gross how they do this, always with a nasty quote. It does not make the Keen camp look good in any way.
So many rating results for 2021have Meghan ahead of Kate. The ratings were based on number of mentions/clicks/searches generated. By linking Meghan’s name in every article about Kate, she is sure to keep pace with Meghan. That their PR strategy going forward.
Kate is very insecure and so desperately wants to be the biggest star in the world, to be admired, to shine and adored. however she just isn’t good at it, she’s not a natural. Some people were born to be in the spotlight and Kate isn’t one of them, but she so desperately wants to be.
Kate thought by marrying Willie and automatically becoming Diana’s successor, she wouldn’t have to actually put in any effort whatsoever to actually earn her admiration. She thought Diana’s star status would automatically be handed to her, whilst sitting around doing absolutely nothing in Norfolk.
Meghan changed everything for her, and she knows she can’t compete. And when you can’t compete, you tear down and then photo copy.
Kate’s 40th Birthday Celebration Sensation Reveals the TRUTH about her lies regarding Duchess Meghan! Kate owns up about her failings as a woman of integrity and commits herself to becoming a better human being!
Says no one ever!
Kate made Meghan cry and allowed the lie to fester for nearly four years. With the help of the pirates with a press pass, KP staff tried unsuccessfully to rewrite the narrative. The only thing Kate can do to make her birthday a notable event she removes the mask, stand up, be a woman and admit the story is not valid. Okay, I know I’m dreaming, but that’s her only salvation in my book.
My brother’s birthday is January 9th, so I’ll be celebrating his life instead.
Kate made Meghan cry and allowed the lie to fester for nearly four years. With the help of the pirates with a press pass, KP staff tried unsuccessfully to rewrite the narrative. The only thing Kate can do to make her birthday a notable event she removes the mask, stand up, be a woman and admit the story is not valid. Okay, I know I’m dreaming, but that’s her only salvation in my book.
My brother’s birthday is January 9th, so I’ll be celebrating his life instead.
Kate is keen to avoid comparisons with Meghan bc she knows that if she were compared with Meghan on the basis of what they actually do, Kate would come off looking far worse. The only thing Kate has that she uses in her favour is the fact that she’s a white British woman and a commoner, and Meghan is a black, biracial American actress. She fully uses the racist presumptions that people will make to build herself up. She’s an ashy racist b-tch, and the fact that she doesn’t speak out openly or put an end to this sort of PR speaks for itself on what her actual ideology is.