The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge posted this photo on New Year’s Eve with the message “Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!” Yes, it is Photoshopped, especially everything having to do with William. It’s very funny to me that they posed for this in the limo, and then as soon as they got out of the car, William completely ignored Kate at the premiere for No Time To Die. Even this posed photo has such a weird energy. Speaking of, this is Part 2 of our coverage of Becky English’s latest Keen Extravaganza. Part 1 was all about Kate being lazy and hating Meghan. Part 2 is all about Kate throwing her husband and father-in-law under the button bus. This is far from the first time that “sources close to Kate” have made William sound like a wrathful, hysterical moron who punches walls and screams. But it’s still an interesting strategy to use when the story is supposed to be about how Kate is amazing ahead of her 40th birthday. Some highlights from this Daily Mail story:
William wanted Kate to be lazy from the start: For his part, William had impressed on his bride the need for them to take their time. Another of the couple’s collaborators told me: ‘And that’s exactly what she has done — with William as her guide. He’s encouraged her to do things gradually, saying: ‘This is for you to work out how you want to do it. He may not shout from the roof-tops about equality, but theirs is a true partnership.’
Charles didn’t like Kate: That’s not to say royal life has always been plain sailing for Kate. Initially, there was a definite sense of ‘defensiveness’ towards the newcomer from the other royal households — particularly Clarence House. It is no secret that William didn’t enjoy the best of relationships with his father at the time. Charles and Camilla were clearly fond of their new daughter-in-law…but there was an element of professional envy within their household at Kate’s burgeoning popularity.
LMAO: The fact is there was no precedent for such a delicate dynamic. Charles was 62, still years from becoming king, and there was a fear in some quarters that the Cambridges’ glamour was starting to make him look irrelevant. A courtier told me: ‘The co-ordination required with three generations working alongside each other has been tricky.’ The situation was frustrating for the duchess, whose priority as a new member of the family was to contribute as part of the team. But tensions persisted. ‘It took a while to get the balance right,’ the courtier said. The situation is much more relaxed now. ‘Family relations are markedly better and everyone is really pulling in the same direction,’ a source says.
Kate is basically calling William hysterical, emotional & incandescent: A well-placed source says of her approach with the Sussexes: ‘She treated the whole issue in terms of supporting her husband who, while angry at some of what was being said and done, was largely just consumed with sadness about what was happening with his brother. Deeply aware how very, very upset William was, Catherine’s focus was on supporting him and making sure that they, as a couple, never did anything that was contrary to their values.’
This is very curious: Sources close to Meghan, however, have continued to indicate that she found Kate cold and unsupportive. ‘All I can say is that no one who has worked for her [Kate] has ever seen any evidence of that,’ my source contests. ‘But is it really so surprising that in the middle of such terrible family difficulties, she made her own husband her number-one priority?’
William’s biggest trigger? A source says: ‘He flies off the handle at any sign of Kate being patronised and stamps that out very quickly. It’s one of his triggers. Over the years, many people have come up with great ideas for her, but if they are put across in a dismissive way, they’ve got pretty short shrift from him.’ In private, they couldn’t be tighter, and rarely spend time apart aside from when working.
While sources close to Kate make William sound permanently engorged with rage and hyper-protective and controlling of Kate, I don’t even believe that’s their dynamic as a couple. I think William is an incredibly angry person, of course. But I just don’t buy that William feels protective of Kate or that he’s monitoring how people approach Kate or that people dismissing Kate is one of his triggers. I don’t think he gives a sh-t about any of that, especially Kate. Anyway, Kate’s big birthday PR is basically: William is hyper-controlling, he rages at everyone all the time, Charles is jealous of Kate and Kate is brilliant because she’s so lazy.
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I may agree with the article on how William hates when Kate is approached with new projects, but from another perspective. I think he’s trying to avoid another Princess Diana. He will do everything it takes to stop Kate’s popularity to soar and surpass him. In the 2017 Diana HBO Special, he mentioned something along those lines, and to this day Charles is eclipsed by Diana. Just yesterday I was reading on how she’s considered the 3rd best Briton of all time, and QEII is #24. That must sting, and he will never allow that to happen.
I see that patronizing stuff as an excuse- “it’s not that Kate doesn’t want to work, it’s just the way folks approach her about it, it’s offensive.”
And I can believe Will puts the kibosh on big projects using this excuse, because if Kate does big projects, it’s expected of him too.
Exactly! Like Kate would have worked if they asked her nicely enough. 🙄🙄
What big projects? What work? Who is beating down this woman’s door so hard with work that William has to shoo them away? I don’t believe that William had to put the kibosh on anything in relation to Kate because she’s been doing absolutely nothing for a decade. Besides, it wasn’t until Meghan came along that big projects were a concern at all and what they came up with was Broken Britain and look where that went.
It makes it sound like its not Kate’s fault she doesn’t work, its just how other people approach her, THEY’RE all wrong, if they were better than Kate would work more.
“I don’t do many projects because my husband thinks that many of them were presented in what he felt was a condescending manner”. That is an interesting excuse for being lazy. Seems like proper communication isn’t something that is practiced in KP’s offices. The sensible way would be to say “I don’t like the way you present this, can you formulate it another way?” instead of screaming “NO I won’t do this because I think you are patronizing”. It is such a weird narrative – but it is all about shifting blame for why Kate isn’t working onto William (and his apparently condescending staff who seemingly are disrespecting his wife on the regular” – according to this story. So this is basically a weird narrative about blaming Kate’s laziness on her husband protecting her from their own staff. This is just bonkers.
Ok, let’s pretend for one second that this is completely true (it’s not). Why are all these multitudes of people asking Kate to do things treating her in a patronizing manner? Tons of them, all patronizing.
That’s not how people generally approach others with whom they wish to work. What could be causing this universal, unusual attitude? Odd.
How does Kate want it to be presented to her exactly?
William is offended that Town Commissioner Stevens would insult “Catherine” by inviting her to the unveiling of the new city hall in Bumblefart, Shropshire. Why would HRH Catherine, the wife of the FFK and the mother of the FFFk, give up her precious time with her royal children to chopper over there? How insulting!
I remember on one episode of The Crown, Prince Philip’s schedule includes something like attending the annual dinner for the concrete workers association. Is that the episode where Philip actually seeks solace with a minister due to his ennui? Anyway, I do believe Burger King gets incandescent when the peasants send invitations to KP that aren’t highbrow enough.
“It’s not that Kate doesn’t want to work, it’s just the way folks approach her about it, it’s offensive.”
@Rapunzel it’s actually a pretty smart strategy on Kate’s part. Puts the responsibility for her low numbers right under William’s control, and framed in a way that nobody will really want to press William on.
It reminds me of that phrase you’re supposed to say if you get caught at a book club meeting without having read the book— just say, no matter what the context, “I see what the author was *going* for here….” and then sort of trail off, lol.
She’s blaming william for being lazy because he was a guide and also blames Charles for being jealous so she couldn’t do what shevwanted. She didnt want to be a Diana#2, because how could she but also dudnt want to create friction-which I find could be truth. And william being so angry and controlling, she probably just went along with whatever william wants because he would flip. Seriously, this sounds somewhat abusive and as usual so toxic for an environment
DuchessL, Kate is no victim. She is lazy to the core, which is why she’s happy to throw all these lies at the wall. She’ll blame anyone but herself for her laziness and unprofessionalism, and you’ve fallen for it.
Kate can never ever be another Diana. She never had any work ethic.
Or any charisma or empathy. Diana was an emotional wreck her entire life, but at least she used that to get some work done.
Of course everybody has emotions and gets hurt from time to time and things can be hard to take. She had come from a broken home and all that. ANd went into a dysfunctional place and marriage. But she was remarkably resilient. She could have stayed home and not wanted to leave to do work but she did and excelled. Kate could break a nail and would not venture out of the house because it would be “too difficult.”Unlike Kate, she was interested in causes and learning things. Work was Diana’s salvation. Diana was anxious to discover new things and thought out of the box. Unlike Kate who is just a Stepford Wife I think Diana would have been very savvy and would have made sure William did not run roughshod over his brother and sister in law. The Queen and Charles just let it happen.
I think they tried to find a solution, with letting Harry and Meghan rent that private farmhouse to get them away from W&K at KP. Moving them to BP for the Household, to get them out from under William’s control. Giving them the option of Frogmore Cottage instead of Apartment 1 directly next to W&K in London. But ultimately, both of them are afraid of temperamental William and choose to support the heir/monarchy above all else.
Y’all are missing the BEST PART of this…the VERY LAST SENTENCE:
“In private, they couldn’t be tighter, and rarely spend time apart aside from when working”.
If your bullshyte detector hasn’t flown off the wall dinging, then I don’t know what will make it ever happen 😄 😄 😄
Yes I enjoyed that sentence too especially as William has been implementing his own 2 metre rule whenever they appear in public ” as very much NOT an unhappy couple!” How we laughed!
@ Jan90067, this entire article needs to be converted into a comedy sketch!!! I can already see SNL creating this atmosphere of the Bitter Brother holding “Catherine’s” hand, implies Mumbles narrated this entire BS story, as he strokes her hair as he brings her a cocktail!! Baldingham implored Mumbles McMutton to take her time with regards to her work ethic as she needed to allow herself time to become familiar with what was to be expected of her in 30 years!!! All while Chaz, and Camilla obviously, are taking solemn walks at the Duchy castle discussing their sorrows as to how brilliant, smart and popular Mumbles McMutton is with the people across the world!!
Just because you are in an enclosure with a wild animal that has been around humans his entire life doesn’t mean that wild animal will NOT attack you!!! It’s STILL a wild animal!!
(I laughed so hard I peed a little.)
^^ Yes @BothSidesNow, I can see that sketch happening, as you described, especially the part about Chaz and Cam concern walking around the ‘duchy castle’ kvetching over Keen Guevara’s so-called ‘enormous popularity.’ LOL for days!!! 😂🤣🤣😄
I suppose there are some royalists who lap up this drivel. But seriously, they’ve got to be kidding. They must be writing all this for entertainment purposes. It’s all off-the-wall insane. Not believable for one second!
Know what is patronising? Telling people what to call your wife (as cited in part one ‘Catherine [as William likes her to be known]’ or sth along those lines). If my husband tried to tell people to refer to me a certain way, I’d tell him to shove it. If I were Kate, I’d consider renaming myself (Princess Lazypants) just to spite him
^^ Ha ha ha! You are so right. I’m in stitches… William prefers for Kate to be called ‘Catherine.’ Yeah right. I doubt William gives an F. I think it was busybody grey men who thought that one up, as a much more future, future Queenie-like name. LOL! 😂😋
You’re on to something though! Princess Lazypants is so apt for Keen do-nothing ‘What Else’ Waity Katie.
This photo is weird indeed. They want us to believe this is a happy, close couple but nothing in this photo says that. Only Kate is leaning towards William and it feels like he doesn’t want to be close to her. The smiles are so forced… there is no warmth and they don’t look comfortable around each other. If you separate them, it looks like they are posing for two different pictures.
Its the most “nothing to see here” strategy ever
Look at how she clenches his hand, her knuckles white, and leans into him! But suuuure – no trouble in Paradise there…
And no matter what, Big Blue is ALWAYS featured prominently.
LOL Big Blue
Ok seriously…is he incandescent with rage /physically abusive with her behind closed palace gates? Sometimes she looks … scared of him.
It’s weird bc it wouldn’t be necessary if there were cute pictures of them from the red carpet, pictures where they were actually interacting with each other or something. But there aren’t, so instead we get this super-posed picture from the car.
This is really forcing through a narrative of love and commitment. But really now… every time these two are together it is very palpable that there is no love in the room. That’s why this photo is cringe-worthy and fake.
@Bea I noticed the exact same things you did about this photo. If you drew a line down the middle you could look at William’s side and think he is posing for a picture alone. Looking at Kate’s side she’s clearly leaning in towards him to evoke some type of connection. I read a while ago that this is typical of controlling narcissists. The body self centeredness and the controlling personality. I also noticed the same thing while watching the news about the Maxwell trial. They showed a bunch of pictures of her with Epstein and they all have this same dynamic, him smiling towards the camera with her leaning in towards him trying to show affection. It’s uncanny.
That dress she wore was not that great. She was no Bond GIrl if that was what she was trying to depict.
Well, I will be the one to say I think it’s a nice, joyful photograph . . .
Even though William appears to be prompted to say “cheese” .?
William probably got up quickly after the photo was taken.
Nothing says “twue wuv” like pasted on cheezy smiles.
Rebecca, you actually look at this picture and it says joyful to you? Seriously? That’s not even close to the vibe I’m getting. This makes me think of a business photo. That’s it.
Me too, Rebecca. 🙂
Can someone tell me what’s photoshopped about the picture? I can’t figure it out.
Kate’s face is. Look at the other pictures in this post from the same event – her skin looks a lot better, eyes are brighter, etc, in the limo picture.
His teeth look very white – which they aren’t in real life.
And the hair, her hair is not the same style and the color is also not the same
There is also something odd about her more distant arm. It is wider where it meets the dress than the closer up arm, which does not make sense. Maybe they just fed Will a few cocktails to get him to pose for this with that “smile”.
Kate looks like she was perspiring in the pictures at the Bond Premiere.
Too much botox can give that sweaty appearance, Tessa.
Her right arm looks weird, her hair is neat & tidy (whereas it looked to be falling down on the red carpet), his teeth are white (white they are not in real life), the skin on both is super-smooth.
This is the nothing to see and judge here people picture, this is the response to Willy rose bush affair,see we are happy together. I am not preening elsewhere, we totally live together and are in love. Only all I see is try hard desperation of fakeness, even a fake photo . Like Becks said. If there were indeed happy together, a red carpet picture would have worked and not a photoshopped car one
She looks like a woman posing to prove the ’10 full years of marriage’ bit for a California divorce settlement. (Yes, I know the 10 year thing isn’t legally real.)
The 10 year rule kinda, sorta does exist. The court retains jurisdiction over marriages of “long duration” which is defined as 10 years. Typically, that does affect spousal support.
But legally it doesn’t have to be exactly 10 years. The court does an assessment about many things, but the marriage lasting at least 10 years isn’t a requirement. It can be less or require more, depending on the situation.
Dear goddess, his eyes are crazy-looking in that photo.
They had to post *something* to take away the stench from #princewillianaffair, especially with Kate’s big birthday coming up. I expect daily confirmations of their “love” and more Kate embiggening for the next week.
Ding ding ding! #PrinceWilliamsAffair triggered …something. I read the DM excerpts without caffeine and couldn’t get over the wtf-ery of it all. Kate makes sure that “their values” are upheld? You mean running the royal POC out of the country? The value of do nothing and show up for sporting events and a movie premiere? And their partnership is tight? This isn’t even good fiction, what the hell did I just read?
Sadly, she looks like she’s clinging on for dear life…….
Yep, she clamping down on his hand so he won’t reach over to the door handle for a hasty exit.
^^ LOL @Killfanora, I think KKKhatie is actually trying desperately, without success, to cosplay Meghan’s natural and spontaneously authentic PDA with Harry. 🤣
^^ Exactly @Feeshalori! 1000% W&K are so fake and worthless.
So basically her big achievement is (checks notes) turning 40. Got it.
Exactly. I don’t think William even recognizes when she is truly being patronized with all the “Kate is such a big girl now that she is 40! She’s finally maturing into her role after having more than a decade to practice!” stories.
I’m just shocked that “you can tie little bows on a Christmas tree, be photographed “working” at your sofa table which we’ll pretend is a desk and it will have a bunch of really prettily bound novels on it, and you can play the piano like a big girl and we’ll edit it to pretend that you did it live but we’ll also have another pianist there in case you screw up!” all got through as being somehow *not* patronizing???
“Consumed with sadness over what was happening with his brother”? Like, literally nothing happened to his brother except he fell in love and got married. And created his own life and family of his own.
That is not something to be consumed by sadness over! This basically proves that Will is a self absorbed racist. Because the only reasons to get sad over Harry and Meghan’s love is narcissism and bigotry.
@Rapunzel
Consumed with sadness because she didn’t get Harry, maybe…
Consumed with sadness over losing control of Harry
It was none of William’s business. The Queen failed when she did not tell William he is not in charge and to stop interfering.
Yeah, that part stood out to me too. It’s interesting that they never address why Harry needs space between himself and William.
@Rapunzel quoted:
“’Consumed with sadness over what was happening with his brother’”?
More like William was/is consumed with jealousy and ‘incandescent rage’ over Harry getting to live a ‘normal’ life. Both brothers used to riff in interviews about wanting to be ‘normal.’ LOL! Harry got his wish, and then some! Willileaks OTOH remains mired in a mess of his own making, in addition to being eternally trapped within the toxic Windsor monarchy. 😛
Well, I’m glad their true partnership and her making sure they don’t do anything that is contrary to their values is confirmed. It supports both of their active participation in the smear campaign and racist attitudes against Meghan , throwing Meghan/Harry under the bus and giving Jason Knauf the thumbs up for all his malfeasance. They were in on it together. Such family values.
There’s a category of women who play the submissive wife so well the husband think he has all the power and control over his wife. Obviously here it’s a little different since William has indeed power and control over her but Kate has control and power over him too and much more than he thinks due to her playig the submissive part so well. The articles about her are always about throwing other people under the bus and coming up with different excuses for why she has done so little in 10 years.
Not only william but also charles and camilla need to be very careful with kate. Or they will have their diana 2.0
THey have nothing to worry about. Kate is no Diana. She is a Stepford Wife. Diana also was not a “problem” she was an asset to the family and was tossed out. Same with Meghan and Harry. Maybe Charles and Camilla wanted THEM out because they were charismatic and worked hard. Kate is a “success” when she hits some chords on a piano with a back up piano. ANd Camilla at twice her age works more.
I believe the same. People want to believe that Kate is some damsel in distress who is controlled by everyone around her, when it is clear that she is the driving her own actions. The cry story is back with Kate blaming Meghan once again, she’s calling her husband a raging asshole, and calling her laziness regal. Kate is a very calculating, most likely manipulative, person who hides behind her perceived submissiveness, as you’ve said @Woke. I think there have been many moments where William has thought he was in charge and Kate pulled the rug from under him. “Queen Kate and her husband” anyone? Their competing PR is just the both of them fighting for control.
Obviously Kkkate is manipulative and calculating, she got him to marry her. She stalked, planned, and plotted to get him and she’s going to keep him dammit! Because that is what makes her different from everyone else. She’s a horrible human being and he’s a moron. Literally, the Windsors are not smart people, and all it takes is flattery to get them to do whatever someone else says. She’s going to be queen in her mind, no matter what.
Kate ‘plays’ at being submissive because she has moulded herself to being exactly what Willie wants. Willie thinks he’s in control because kate is so desperate to be with him. But Kate doesn’t really want ‘Willie’ she just wants to be royal and most importantly ‘queen’. She will do anything to ensure she gets that, including stepping on her own husband. If things reach the point where she’s actively making him look bad, so she can prop herself up as his ‘saviour’, then so be it. In fact she’s already do in it.
These two deserve each other, but Willie is more openly an a**hole, he’ll happily stab in the the front. Kate is sly, sneaky and manipulative, she’ll smile to your face, then stab you from behind.
Kate is vapid but learned to play games. She would see off other women around William even before she started dating William. William settled for her. He wanted that sort of person and the aristos he wanted to Date wanted nothing to do with him.
I agree. I actually think Kate & the Middletons have played William & the Windsors like a fiddle & I would totally be here for it if they hadn’t taken part in a racist smear campaign.
This article plays up William’s rage & control issues & has Kate as innocent bystander in Sussexit who just supported her husband so William is main contender for blame for what happened. It also pins her lack of work on William & throws Charles & Camilla under the bus for being jealous of Kate.
Given that Kate probably has the most media appeal of the current working royals outside of the queen, not much that the firm can do to put Kate in her place apart from occasional things like being benched for Diana unveiling etc. So Kate, who was the biggest beneficiary of the Meghan smear campaign, gets to do very little but be hailed as the second coming just because she’s NotMeghan & gets monthly hype pieces as the great hope for the royal family. her family also gets more visibility & are more at the forefront of her events and get praised in the media.
As for all the PDA stuff- they protest too much. It’s pretty obvious turnaround from when even their biggest mouthpieces used to claim that they don’t do PDA except once a year at Christmas lol. And William doesn’t give off a protective vibe about Kate (but again copying characteristics attributed to Harry) & didn’t even mention her in his Apple walk thing so the line about being a great partnership doesn’t ring true. But their marriage is not our business so no idea why they are forcing it so much
+1
Exactly! If he was so protective and loving towards his wife, wouldn’t he have at least MENTIONED her in that Apple thing rather than Jecca Craig/her father? I mean it’s almost comical how bad these people are at this.
Then KKKate and the Middletons are really poking the bear with this story aren’t they? How could this not further anger TOB, Chuck and Cam?
He’s sick of her & her family in that Carol concert he didn’t come near the Middletons
I am not sure that Kate has appeal for all to put it mildly. She is not relatable to women who have careers and don’t consider big achievements pounding out a few chords or one chord on a piano. There were charismatic royals and Kate is not one of them. Princess Margaret was followed by the media but she had real charisma. ANd she worked.
Yup. Tatler’s article made this point clearly and even called out her deliberate “aura of blandness”. Funny how Anna Pasternak brought up that line again in the BBC documentary when defending her story.
That line sums up Kate perfectly
I’ve known a few people in real life who had a “deliberate aura of blandness” and they were all manipulative control freaks just below the mask.
One was almost my sister in law, she and my brother were together for four years (two in high school), and she almost never spoke directly to anyone in my family in group settings. I know now she knew she wouldn’t be able to keep her issues in check if she spoke freely (her issues being extremely controlling).
Anyway, deliberate blandness is almost always a lie and a trap.
Woke, this is when I miss the thumbs up button CB used to have. You nailed Kate perfectly.
CB used to have a thumbs up button?
Reminds me of Lainie Kazan’s great line in My Big Fat Greek Wedding – anyone remember? “The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she wants.”
I saw so many backhand “compliments” in the article, I had a hard time figuring out if this was another Tatler article. From the constant referencing of the Middleton ways to William not shouting about equality from the rooftops to Philip reminding her that royal service is what you make of it (meaning: do more!), was this article a good thing for K?
I agree. Not-so-secret shade pervades many (if not most) of these puff pieces. She never really comes off looking good—liked, respected, admired—none of it. But she still has access to more money than God, and maybe a little influence, too. Nice work if you can get it.
“In private, they couldn’t be tighter, and rarely spend time apart aside from when working.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Someone trying to gaslight the #princewilliamaffair crowd.
Working? Right 😀
They rarely spend time apart ? Isn’t William visiting Rose lassie at least 3 times a week? And that he hides his identity and wears a mask but everybody knows who he is. Such hypocritical piece of SH__t.
Except for the time he secretly got Covid and didn’t tell anyone and she never did. But sure real close.
He’s there watching those makeup tutorials on YouTube with her apparently. And going to the gym, and going with her to get her hair and makeup done, and going shopping with her, and going to dress fittings. Funny that we never see him in the pap shots of her out shopping, funny that we’ve seen vacation photos of just her and the children and her family while he was elsewhere, funny how she used to go stay with her mommy at Middleton Manor without him quite a bit, funny that he didn’t accompany her and his daughter to the bridesmaid dress fittings then, especially if he’s so protective of her when she’s around meany Meghan and the patronizing staff. They’ve never even shared an umbrella together, but sure, *always* around each other, *rarely* apart. Except for when he’s in Norfolk having dinners with Rose while Kate and the children are in London for the school week. And Kate is swimming alone in pearls with the kids at the country club.
And these are just the things we have been made aware of and/or observed. It’s still astonishing to me how much and how blatantly they lie….but it seems like no one really and truly calls them out on it, so it will continue on, I guess.
His smile is so forced and creepy lol
I have never seen the face of someone change so much from one picture to the next! she ages and rejuvenates from one day to another…..amazing! that’s her true talent
Those second and third photos. His profile is startling. That must’ve taken a moment to get used to mentally. No wonder he’s angry all the time.
If William gets enraged about anything to do with Kate, I’m guessing it has less to do with him being protective of her and more to do with him worrying about how it reflects on HIM.
Yep. I can buy that he’s controlling-in the first part of the article it said that HE wants her to be called Catherine, not that it was her preference. The protective part I don’t buy. This is the guy who has left her to follow behind him down steps without concern and who left her behind without an umbrella at least once.
He ignores her when they’re in public and cringes when she speaks. There is nothing protective about him.
I thought the part about him wanting her to be called Catherine was interesting too. It’s clear that he thinks that’s going to sound better than Queen Kate, but I feel like if Catherine hasn’t stuck after 11 years, its not going to.
I read this as : William is violent and controlling, Kate has to run everything past him and ‘family difficulties ‘ were William’s own making. Harry slipped from his right wing leash
Kate signed up for this and waited for years. I would be sympathetic if she had not behaved so horribly to Meghan.
“ they couldn’t be tighter, and rarely spend time apart aside from when working.”
That was a curious tidbit. Methinks the palaces are starting to take note of the online discourse about the Cambridges living separately.
I have my doubts that photo was done on the night of the Bond Premiere. When the premiere started it was still daylight so if they took that picture before they left home, how come in the photo it looks like it’s dark outside? Another thing Kate’s hair seems different to the night of the premiere. I think they did a photoshoot on another day with the purpose of releasing it on NYE. Lame but this is where we are with the Cambridges who are trying to be Harry and Meghan.
As for piece, there was nothing to praise Kate for so Becky resorted to bashing the people around her including Meghan.
They had to do something to counteract Twitter’s Festival of #princewilliamaffair. They know the gold dress was a big win moment for Kate, so I think they quickly made her put it back on and they hopped into the car and CarolE snapped the pic. Kate’s hair does not look as teased and as birds-nesty as it did at the premiere and Burger King’s teeth were not that white.
I am reluctant to think that they would go to all the trouble to recreate the outfits just to stage a photo, except that Kate’s hair looks very smooth in the pic, lol. On the red carpet it looked a lot messier than it looks in the pic, so maybe it makes sense that it was taken before they got out of the car, or maybe that was photoshopped? I don’t know. I don’t think it was a recreation but I also know we can’t put anything past them, lol.
Tbh, it does get dark quickly around October in the UK. Plus they could have been inside a garage or something when it was taken. As Becks says, I doubt they would have gone through the trouble of recreating Kate’s hair/outfit/makeup (especially in an outfit like this) just to stage a photo.
Edit: and before anyone mentions the piano stuff, yeah you’ve got a point but the thing is that outfit is a whole lot simpler to recreate both hair and makeup wise than this the gold outfit was.
Eh, I think it’s from the same night. I think it’s just the lighting and the typical overuse of photoshop that’s throwing people off.
While Kate’s capacity for deception knows no bounds, I think it’s just a photo taken the same night and held back, which is something they do often. I don’t think William would have agreed to restage a photo like this weeks later nor do I think he was anywhere near kate on New Year’s Eve to be able to do that. It was likely saved for another time like their next anniversary but it was called up a bit earlier when the #princewilliamaffair hashtag came up on Dec 30th.
Also interesting to note that a photo in the back of a limo to a movie premiere doesn’t get called too Hollywood when it’s those two.
I agree with Amy Bee and thought the same thing. In addition to the hair being very different (even looks to be a different colour), the energy in the pic is VERY different than what TOB showed during the premiere. It doesn’t seem possible that he was so smiley and cooperative for a posed pic inside the limo, right before being so obviously cool and distant towards Keen on the Red Carpet.
Hmm, maybe he didn’t want his latest squeeze to see that he was too affectionate with his wife in public, hence the distance and coolness. Or perhaps he just dropped the required facade after the photo was taken and reverted back to his usual boorish behavior with Kate. Maybe that’s the dichotomy of his personality. Pure speculation on my part.🤷♀️
Of course Wee Willy flies off the handle whenever anyone patronizes Kate, that is his job.
That really is such an odd comment in the article. People are giving her great ideas to do and somehow they’re giving her great ideas while being dismissive? I’m guessing it’s because she/they didn’t think of said great idea themselves and it was glaringly obvious they should have. Very odd comment.
Instead of ‘flying off the handle’, Will should work on not being emotionally reactive. Instead of ‘flying off the handle’ Will should stop sitting on the handle bars of his tricycle and sit on the seat & get himself one of these.
https://pranko.com/products/bicycle-seat-belt
(btw, the Roto Wipe box went over very well at Christmas)
Maybe it’s time for Kate(and Will), who has supposedly been coming into her own, becoming more confident, prepping for her Queenery for the last million years, to learn how to take in great ideas from others and think about things intellectually. Great CEO’s do not feel patronized by great ideas presented to them.imo
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This article was so weird (I gave them a click, I couldn’t wait for prinstcreens/archived links).
Did y’all see how Kate’s secret weapon is her family? Wonder where that nugget came from.
God bless Doria, she’s so classy and removed from the spotlight.
As for the rest of it… Kate is turning 40 and her big accomplishment is playing the long lazy game to trick us all into thinking she’s lazy when really she’s a mastermind. Got it.
The comments on the Fail are hilarious. Bar the odd few KP and Middleton plants, BTLers have resoundingly called Buttoned Mutton out for her laziness, her Waitying, her lack of ambition and her refusal to work. Can we hope against hope that the tide is turning?
The Sun had an insane body language break down of the photo. If that isn’t an indication it’s a plant I don’t know what is. The broke down there ‘mirrored body language’ , ‘ hand grasp’ the lot.
The real body language in that photo is that William looks like he’s grimacing from having to make contact with her and she’s leaning in and grasping his hand very tight like her life depends on it. Nothing about that photo suggests a decade long married couple comfortable with each other.
He’s been giving major “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” energy in pretty much all of their appearances together. The anniversary pics and commercial, the backstage Earthshot photo shoot where he couldn’t even smile at her, this mess of a photo…
Lmao @Beach Dreams, Will’s “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” energy is exactly right. 🤣
These two in my opinion have been desperately trying for a viral umbrella picture but it just doesn’t work. Harry and Meghan just have that palpable chemistry these 2 can’t even fake.
Nothing will ever top that umbrella photo. I’m not even sure H&M could top it! 🙂
One of the things about the umbrella picture that was just so perfect, too, was the context – given everything going on at the time, it had a real “we’re united against the world” vibe. Like all the rain in the world can’t stop them from being together and being happy. William and Kate will never have that picture because there is never a sense that they are united.
His head looks like he has a giant eyebrow on the side facing the camera. 🤡
The thing that KP keeps missing is that you don’t need these embiggening articles if the work or behavior would just speak for itself. Like its not like the article is saying “Kate is such a hard worker, look at XYZ initiatives, look at how she was involved with fundraising for this charity or that one, look at how her numbers have steadily increased so now, even during a pandemic, she is doing 300 public engagements a year.”
Likewise, you don’t need articles that emphasize how tight Kate and William are and how supportive and protective he is etc if we could tell that from their public events. Instead we have a husband who ignores her on the red carpet, walks ahead of her and doesn’t even bother to help her into the car at their own wedding, grimaces when she gives a public speech, and can’t be bothered to fake a friendly smile at a christmas event that she “hosted.”
Yup. If Kate and William worked as hard on actual charity work as they do their PR, they’d have good PR.
This.
The article is a puff piece but also full of snark. PA to Kate “you have philanthropic world at your feet and can do anything you want, where do you want to start?” Ohh I don’t want to do anything vulgar or flashy or limelight seeking so I shall take my time listening and learning , somewhere over there, gestures vaguely. The entire article is fairy tale nonsense to counter internet speculation on the state of that marriage and none of it convincing other than Will is controlling and very bad tempered. He seems to hold his nose around her so the laughable description of him being protective of him is just projection.
Diana listened and learned too, and then she spoke Welsh live and in person in her first public speech when she was twenty years younger than Kate, earning her a standing ovation from the gathered. Kate can’t even give a speech in English without shaking and mumbling. It’s obvious that Kate doesn’t like the work, has no desire to serve the British people, and is in it for the free stuff and the fame.
And unlike Kate, Diana had humility. She went through that speech and did not after throw back her head and grin inanely (look at me) like Kate did after playing chords.
Diana was a remarkable woman, and she loved people. For all her faults, she had real charisma and people could tell she wanted to help and she felt compassion. It was just undeniable. She was always doing big projects like the land mines or AIDS.
Kate, by contrast, is so cold and artificial and does so little. No one could ever say Kate felt consumed by compassion for the suffering of the world. And which one does the royal family want? Which do they prefer? Ugh, it’s sad.
Kate went to more movie premieres and concerts this year than she did hospitals and hospices. Which is a disgrace when there is a pandemic going on.
Not to mention those tennis matches.
LMAO about the Cambridge “”glamour” making Charles look irrelevant. If anything, those two buffoons make Charles look pretty good even though he’s a complete disaster.
His first marriage may have been a disaster, and there’s the whole cash for access thing. But as Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, he’s accomplished the most work ‘for the people’ of any of them.
That photo is weird because she is putting forth ALL the effort as per usual — she’s grasping at his hand and leaning into him, while he sits there slack-handed guffawing for the camera. No interlaced fingers or any sense of intimacy. Just a woman clinging for dear life is all I see. Fake-ass fakers. So sick of these two and 2022 better be the year we see them get their comeuppance.
Richard Kay wrote a piece about William and Kate before they got engaged. Can’t find that piece now l’m afraid, but anyway he said that there was an agreement between the Middleton’s, Kate and himself where he could be himself, fly solo, whilst Kate and family would be a front for his ‘other activities’ that is de exact quote he used ! Shortly afterwards they got engaged ……. l believe William is prob very angry at how his life has turned out now esp since Harry married his successful intelligent wife and now his anger has sadly consumed him !!!!
Maybe he blames Kate for where he is now, he hears his friends laughing at her, ‘ In fairness she brings it on herself’ he knows his crowd have no respect or regard for Kate, now l don’t think he cares about Kate l used too but not anymore but he cares about how it reflects on him and his choice of bride !!!
This marriage has turned out not as a arrangement but an embarrassment for William, we know he hates that ! She should stop been his embarrassment , get out and live her life.
Kate doesn’t want out. She’s as lazy, controlling, manipulative, racist, and hateful as he is. The only time she protests the cheating is when it goes public, otherwise she accepted it from the start. She knows he’ll always cheat, she even started out as his secret bedpiece while he publicly dated someone else at Uni.
I think the tattler piece really shook him. He’s a racist entitled fool, so seeing someone like MM, who is in his mind, beneath him, make his wife and him look like the lazy buffoons they are had to sting. He thought by getting people to hate MM Kate would be lauded by his people, but the tattler showed they still view her as social climbing trash and that they did seem to admire MM for being naturally glamorous. He’s more embarrassed of her now bc she and her grasping family are still trashy and she doesn’t bring anything for him to show off. She’s not well dressed compared to Jecca or Rose. She’s not bright or well spoken like MM, she’s dull and ignorant and lazy like he is and he hates that she is the reflection of him. He saw happy Harry with a wife that brought Harry up and empowered him. Even Camilla has really helped Charles and is an arosto and has friends and peers. Will hates Kate because she is just as grasping, inept, lazy, and useless as he is and he hates himself for that.
Considering he’s the one who patronizes her the most….
Also, I need these fools to pick a narrative. Is glamour good or bad?
Her hair here is different to the actual night. So either they’ve photoshopped her head or it was shot as a publicity shot on another day after the fact because they noted the comments on their body language
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I think the only big difference is that the hair is smoother here, and it’s only the back that looked frizzy when she was on the red carpet. I think it’s just photoshop making the difference.
They might have just photoshopped it in this shot after hearing all the mocking and criticism of her hairdo in the original photos.
I think this is purely reaction to Bill and Rose affair blowing up in Twitter last week. See, they are devoted and rarely spend time apart plus look at how protective he is. Sure Jan.
A reaction to both the affair trending and Meghan’s successful 40X40 initiative. They have to work hard to try to embiggen Kate ahead of her own 40th birthday next week.
I don’t understand this whole Charles is afraid of the Cambridges and Kate in particular’s popularity It doesn’t matter. If he outlives his mother, he’s going to be king. Period. Just like it doesn’t matter if Harry is the better person and better suited, if William outlives his father and grandmother, he’s going to be king. Hereditary succession doesn’t allow for popularity contests. Just their egos, which is pathetic.
I think they are all very petty and want to think of themselves as the most “popular” one. I can believe that, AT FIRST, Charles may have been worried that super-skinny, heavily made-up, hair-extensioned, shopaholic Kate may take the spotlight away from him and be another Diana because Kate wanted to be photographed in designer clothes. However, I think after the wedding and W & K’s laziness became apparent, and K failed dismally at everything she tried, Charles was placated and NOW their relationship is fine. But after the Queen dies and they start jockeying for their new positions, the competition will start again, and Charles and William will throw each other under the bus.
I’m sorry, but this all reads like fan-fiction to me. It’s a cute picture. I’m sure, like most married couples, they have their ups and downs but the DM? Seriously? All of this over-the-top stuff about a family as boring as the BRF is just cringe.
Are we happy yet? seems to be underlying that photo It is way way too forced. William showing his teeth.
I am reading Finding Freedom now and I believe that Kate didn’t life a finger to help or reach out to Meghan in any way. She treated her shabbily and is a jealous, hateful, lazy racist.
“Charles was 62, still years from becoming king, and there was a fear in some quarters that the Cambridges’ glamour was starting to make him look irrelevant.” Lololololol…anyone with eyes can see that there is and WAS nothing to be jealous of regarding Kate or Will. Lolololol!!
Hmm, well Jason Knauf probably had talking points from the Cambridges that he gave Scobie as well so it’s not surprising that it’s in that book. I don’t know much about that time period. Was Clarence House jealous of Kate? It wouldn’t surprise me but it’s really interesting to me that Kate wants this point out out there.
I dunno. Something in her eyes…There’s nothing there. We are one and all fairly sure HE pretty much loathes her, but I also believe SHE has reached the same point and really doesn’t GAF anymore, but goes along because she wants what she wants and doesn’t care who’s miserable in the process. Including her own self.
Just my opinion
That’s the way she has been from the start of this relationship. In it for the title, money, shopping, jewelry, and pampering. It has never been about William the person, it has been about The Prince and Kate wanting that life.
I agree 100 %! She’s as bad as he is. I feel for the kids. They have everything materialistic, but no good role models.
So when William feels Kate is being mistreated, he gets incandescent with rage and super angry and everyone just thinks “oh what a great husband!” but when Harry was (rightly) feeling that Meghan was being mistreated and got angry, he gets hit with the “he’s being emasculated” and “Meghan is controlling him”.
Got it.
Oh no , I just wrote this before I read yours because it was eating away at me after I read Kaiser post. But everything you said Sofia, I agree with
Great minds think alike it seems 😉
I find it annoying that everyone is allowed to be protective and supportive of their husband and wife but not Harry . No he shouldn’t stand by and with his wife . Kate and Willy can , Charles and Camilla can. The dog and the horse can but not Harry and Meghan. These racist D make me mad beyond words.
Is this the same Kate who never wanted to be famous nor seeks the limelight who released this pic? To what purpose? Did she think ,
‘Hmm, I haven’t seen my glorious face in the fail for a few hours’.
The two are grinning inanely in that photo.
Funny headline — could be read as William is furious whenever she is asked to be a patron, because it means more work. Ha!
My favorite part of this insane article is “it’s one of his triggers.” As in, W has multiple rage triggers in which he “flies off the handle.”
I for one found it strange that, the conversation of willys’ affair, and marriage troubles with kate, attempting to be projected to harry and meghan. These people are so predictable.
Whew – if Charles is more threatened by Meg and Harry than Kate and William….I don’t even know what to say. Also, I think William married Kate because he saw her ambition and thought it was a good thing because she made him look better – better watch your back because she might be lazy, but not with manipulation.
Kate also is an enabler and was from the first. She seemed to enable WIll’s enjoyment of going nightclubbing and lots of vacations. She had no real work in the run up to the proposal. She more or less was Forced to work after the Queen reportedly asked what she did. and it was for Jigsaw where she rarely showed up. William did not want a woman who had a career, who was smart and savvy and had initiative and drive.
What idiot aide at KP signed off on this article? It makes the boss, the FFK, look like a rage monster who will have war powers as CinC of the British armed forces. And he is behind Sussexit? No doubt, but it out there doesn’t secure Kate’s position. I call Middleton/Boleyn shenanigans. Willie must be letting his scepter wander again.
This being Royal Mutton (is where it’s at) business sounds so ridiculous. Is she really happy with her lot in life? Does shopping and working out excessively really fulfill her?
This makes no sense. If something’s a great idea for Kate, how can it be ‘put forward dismissively’? Why would it be stated dismissively? And why does everything have to be run by William first? That’s super-controlling & a terrible dynamic.
I’m not understanding the point of this article. Are they saying that the reason Kate is not charismatic, brilliant, and effective is because William is a rage monster and the courtiers are patronizing towards her? Aside from making no sense, what tortured “aguments” trying to make.
I think it’s some unpleasant truths about the Cambridges masquerading as a puff piece. It seems clear that none of the family are close with them, other than Sophie, who’s still trying to make herself relevant. And this highlights the Cambridges’ laziness again, as well as Kate’s coldness & William’s rage.
As for William “flying off the handle” when Kate is “patronized,” that bit is so odd that I think it refers to something very specific. I believe William feels strongly that his presence is a reward in & of itself (same for Kate, since she’s an extension of him). He really just wants to be asked to walk red carpets & be feted by important people. So I think courtiers have tried to get him & Kate to do bread & butter engagements, only for William to be furious the events are beneath them. And I suspect William’s presence is much less coveted than he realizes, which must be difficult for the courtiers to navigate. I can’t imagine what it was like to be around him after Harry & Meghan inked deals with people who have no interest in the Future Future King.
It’s very similar in some ways to the Tatler article from two years ago. That too was envisioned as an embiggening piece, but it wound up becoming the total opposite, simply bc the truth couldn’t be hidden at all. Same here. The truth comes out in one way or another, even with their best attempts to put a shine on things. I imagine that the sources for this article thought they were being measured in their comments, but in reality, they’re just revealing much more than they ever intended to, again bc the truth can’t be hidden.
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William married her because no one else would have him. She must know that she was never his first, second or third choice. She earned the participation trophy by just waiting it out. The look on her face as she’s smiling at him, “please look at me, smile at me, pay attention to me pleeease” is sad. I would not for one day want to be in her shoes. She’s grown hard and manipulative and controlling because she is in survival mode. Everything and everyone is a threat. He has used her all these years. Does this excuse her behavior? No, but I still feel a little sad for her. Someone close to me lived out this scenario and it almost destroyed her.
I think they used each other. Kate, together with Royal-Obsessed Carole, targeted “poor William, the Motherless FFK”, love-bombed him and provide “the normal family he never had”. In exchange, he raised the Midds into being Royal adjacent of and apparently promised Carole a title as the grandmother of the FFFK. Of course, all of this depends on keeping Willnot dependent and happy. Which is currently is not.
” Kate’s burgeoning popularity”.. I have to laugh, this is so funny.
She is soooo popular, that they have to PURCHASE “likes” and positive comments on their social media posts. Imagine having to pay people to pretend to like you? LOL.
lol. It’s as bad as when ‘engorged/incandescent with rage’ was written.
I kind of believe kate does whatever she is told.
“Many people” = Charles/Queen courtiers and Catherine Quinn.
“dismissive/patronizing” = presenting it openly as something she could handle within the bounds of her real and perceived limitations, whether that is the lack of public speaking skill, “need” to stay home with the children, etc. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
This article is classic Middleton propaganda, with interesting little digs for both William and Charles. Several things made me either raise my eyebrows or guffaw loudly.
Notice how it’s Kate’s husband who is described as being angry and hurt by the Sussexes leaving – not her. Kate’s just standing by her man!
And that Limo photo is an almost exact copy of their anniversary photo – he’s looking directly at the camera with a frozen grin, she’s leaning in and doing all the work of engaging and selling it as best she can. We talk a lot about her taking public speaking classes, but he definitely needs a body language coach or something, cuz this ain’t fooling anyone, least of all #princewilliamaffordablehoeing.
The reference back to “senior family members” (so, Charles) that were “jealous” and unaccepting of Catherine at first and made it so hard for the poor sausage to do any work even though she so so totally wanted to contribute to the team.
This makes it sound like William married her after one date, but she wasn’t a newcomer to the fold. Did she not build any relationships with her future family during that decade of courtship? Wasn’t that supposedly the point of Kate’s long waiting period, that she was training up for the job of FFQ so she could hit the ground running when it was finally time for William to settle? Girl, you’ve now had TWENTY years to prepare for this, you don’t get to pretend otherwise.
And then…it took a decade of marriage, but now the family are all finally getting along? Whew, I wonder what could possibly have made them unite so suddenly?
wasn;t she photographed giving him a bj? It’s kinda the same thing. you know that’s all he wants from her. there’s no mutual affection at all.
“Flies off the handle,” and “one of his triggers,” are not positive descriptions. It makes William sound unhinged and Kate also doesn’t come off well for seeming to be okay with this. Sounds like William is a bully and Kate likes that. It makes her feel protected that William fights with other people for her.
Kate is a golden child who went from her narcissistic mother to her narcissistic husband. It’s not that she can’t speak up for herself. She likes William’s aggression as long as she can steer it where she likes.
So William is obsessed wigh her, and her father in law, prince Charles, and Camilla are soo jealous of her, and everybody loves her because she is lazy on purpose. Except their staff, who constantly are condescending and disrespectful of her and her husband??? Haha this is some new kind of PR, never seen anything quite like it actually lol.
In the Limo picture, William appears to be gritting his teeth, and the hand holding looks like power struggle. Kate is trying to hold his entire hand between hers, and his knuckles look almost white. Very awkward. William’s upper body is turned towards Kate but his hips and legs are turned away from her. Kate is completely turned towards William, and her smile is one of the nicest and most natural offered to a photographer. I think Kate looks beautiful in the photo.
Reading the title, I was confused. Isn’t HE the chief patronisizer of his wife? I cannot believe he cares one iota UNLESS as a reflection on him: You shall respect my wife. But he clearly doesn’t.
“‘This is for you to work out how you want to do it.” — This just reads to me like he said, “You’re on your own, I’m not helping you.” I think that is probably what happened. For years this was explained as the Queen not choosing to interfere or micromanage. But the reality is that newcomers are not given any help or support, at all, bc they are simply not a priority.
“He may not shout from the roof-tops about equality, but theirs is a true partnership.” — If you need to say it, it’s not a partnership, and he doesn’t think of her as an equal partner.
“Initially, there was a definite sense of ‘defensiveness’ towards the newcomer from the other royal households[…]but there was an element of professional envy within their household at Kate’s burgeoning popularity.” — I mean, this is the closest thing you’ll ever get to the truth, and I don’t think they were intending to be so revealing about the state of things at all. We’ve known that Charles is a deeply insecure person, about so many things, including his rank and position in the line of succession. But this is kind of the first time we’ve heard of him being jealous of Kate, as opposed to jealous and wary of the Cambridges’ popularity.
“Catherine’s focus was on supporting him and making sure that they, as a couple, never did anything that was contrary to their values.” — I’m gonna issue a correction to this statement and say that her focus wasn’t to never DO anything contrary to their values. It was to never be SEEN or HEARD doing anything contrary to their projected values, which is quite a different thing. The projection of being squeaky clean “never put a foot wrong” is more important to Kate than actually being squeaky clean and never putting a foot wrong.
“But is it really so surprising that in the middle of such terrible family difficulties, she made her own husband her number-one priority?” — No, not surprising at all. Kate knows on which side her bread is buttered. I doubt she’d risk William’s wrath by even trying to be a decent person, bc it’s much more important for her to preserve her rank and position than to do the right thing. That’s her overriding priority.
“He flies off the handle at any sign of Kate being patronised and stamps that out very quickly.” — Hah. Two things. One, this is what Kate WISHES William would do in the face of the rampant snobbery that she deals with as a result of being with him. I imagine that she thinks she’s making her husband seem like her big strong protector or something, who cares sooooo much about his wife. I wonder if she’s trying to compare herself to how Harry goes to bat for Meghan in these instances.
Two, does Kate realize how this makes William sound? It’s not even that it makes him sound like an incandescent control freak. It makes him sound like one of those awful, masochistic, jealous and overprotective boyfriends who threaten to beat people up for looking at their girlfriend wrong. In short, it makes him look bad. Unhinged. But I imagine that Kate, in a f-cked up way, really thinks this type of thing is romantic? I don’t imagine she has a really great outlook on what a healthy relationship between equal partners actually looks like. But whatever she got ain’t it.
Is Will protective of Kate, no. However, he see’s Kate as an extention of himself and as such at times will appear to be protective in cases where it directly or even indirectly has an impact on him.
Their photos always look tense, with or without children. William’s trauma relating to Diana’s untimely death is just as severe as Harry’s. The exception is Harry wasn’t afraid to let his feelings known whereas, William was conditioned to mask his feelings and act like the FFK. I may have missed the article, but I don’t recall reports that he had therapy.
They’re not holding hands; her hands are cupped over his fists. Kate is approaching 40 and looks every bit of 50. Some may be genetics because Carole and Pippa are not looking very youthful either. Still, I believe William plays a significant role in Kate’s rapid aging process. I don’t see him as a romantic, but I see him as demanding and incredibly snobbish like his father. Personally, PDA is healthy for a relationship, and behind closed doors is what happens between a man and his mistress.
So I think part of the issue with processing their mother’s death is that I don’t see how either one can fully process it without acknowledging the events that led to her being in that tunnel, that led her being hounded to her death by paparazzi, and then the events around her funeral, including Charles wanting the boys to walk in the procession so the crowd wouldn’t boo him.
I think that’s part of why Harry finally said “nope, not doing this again” and stepped back – because he knows that so much damage was done to his mother before that night in Paris, by the Firm. For William to acknowledge that is trickier IMO, because right now he is so invested in the Firm and for the most part, he seems to like how it operates as long as it benefits him (which it does, as the second in line.) So why would he want to look critically at the press treatment of Diana, or how the Firm treated her, or how she has basically just been written off as crazy in the past 20 years in order to pave the way for Queen Camilla and her great love story with Charles? Harry has processed all that IMO. William can’t really without making some big changes to the Firm and their relationship with the press, and I don’t think he’s going to do that.
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I enjoyed reading this piece on that photo:
https://gmarlowe.medium.com/shot-about-that-iconic-meghan-harry-under-the-umbrella-photo-1385046a210d
Why do they both look like they’ve been yassified in that header photo hahaha