So… arguably, there are three scenarios. Scenario #1: the Princess of Wales is too much of a lazy brat to keep senior staff, and so her inexperienced team of morons has been tasked with trying to make her look good and they keep failing miserably (and hilariously). Scenario #2: The knives are out for the Princess of Wales at a very high level, and there’s actually a campaign afoot to make Kate look like a racist a–hole. Scenario #3: both #1 and #2 are happening at the same time. Robert Jobson reported a week ago that Kate told a “senior royal” that walking with Meghan two days after QEII’s death was “one of the hardest things she’d ever had to do,” Jesus wept. Then Tom Bower and several other royal commentators made it so much worse by repeatedly claiming that Kate “banned” Meghan from coming to the coronation, and/or that Kate demanded that a Black woman be sent to the back of the church. The fact that Kate is being “blamed” with Meghan’s absence is kind of extraordinary because – for all of Kate’s many faults – I don’t think she had much to do with any of it.
All of that brings me to this Daily Mail story: “How Kate’s ancestor played a key role in abolishing slavery… after the Sussexes’ barbs about royals and racism.” As in, Kate can’t be a racist sh-thead because one of her ancestors was an abolitionist. Which begs the question: is that why Kate dressed up like a Confederate war widow for her 40th birthday portraits? Is that also why Abolitionist Crymonger Keen literally flinches when a Black person tries to touch her, or why she can only touch Black children when they’re behind chainlink fences? Food for thought.
Anyway, the crux of the Mail’s piece is that something something Prince William denounced slavery in Jamaica (soon after he was fired live on television) and that King Charles will be dealing with more serious calls for reparations in the years to come, especially given all of the historical-minded research projects into the crown’s links to the transatlantic slave trade. Someone, somewhere thought it was a good time to tell people about Kate’s “great-great-great-great-great-aunt, Norfolk-born Harriet Martineau,” who was the kind of aboltionist who wrote some letters and said sh-t like “slavery is bad.” Bizarrely, the Daily Mail published this with a straight face:
And, in a fascinating twist of history, it was her lobbying of U.S. Presidents James Madison and Andrew Jackson that ultimately set in motion Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — the declaration that freed the Duchess of Sussex’s great-great-great-great-grandfather Stephen Ragland from servitude.
Historian Michael Reed, who discovered the connection, said that although Harry and Meghan have been accused of inferring racism in the Royal Family, our future queen has an ancestor who nobly fought the battle to free slaves in America.
Don’t you get it, how dare Meghan talk about racism when she’s descended from a freed slave, a slave who was probably freed because one of Kate’s relatives wrote a letter! This is all such a huge mess – if this is coming from Kate’s office or Kate has approved of this messaging, she needs to f–king stop.
After this story came out, y’all started calling her Karriet Tubman and I CANNOT.
Royal Family: We really need an image on overhaul to beat these racism allegations 😢
Daily Mail: Say no more…#KarrietTubman pic.twitter.com/5T10JeUFLW— Boom The Brazen Hussy (@TheDuchessBoom) April 15, 2023
Top CEO, Kay Guevara, reincarnated freer of slaves Karriet Tubman, walked like 5 minutes beside the space beside her husband who was beside the husband of a biracial woman who was beside that biracial woman. Is there anything she can't do? pic.twitter.com/PuaTcjH3Bp
— Mercy Sussex (@KenyanSquadie) April 15, 2023
This hashtag lmao #KarrietTubman pic.twitter.com/RLx9ZpBYPO
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The dragging that resulted from this article on twitter was just *chefs kiss*.
#KarrietTubman was tending all weekend and rightfully so.
The implication that K’s family are M’s family’s saviors is so distasteful.
I think its both 1 and 2. Someone is out to put Khate in her place, but her PR attempts are freaking hysterical.
I have to say #Karriet Tubman had me howling with laughter.
Kate behaves like a racist and thoroughly deserves Karriet Tubman. However, it’s weird that this article is supposedly arguing for her white saviorship in regards to Meghan’s family. This does K no favors: my guess is that KC and QCC are reacting to the Guardian’s slavery and the royal family articles by focusing on another royal family member. Here they get to mention Meghan’s name for clicks, and throw K under to bus.
Exactly. History can’t save Can’t from what she is. Her actions speak to her being a loud and proud racist!
Totally outrageous, and doesn’t that picture of her in white resemble the portraits of old plantation ladies in the ante-bellum south of the US? If she thinks we don’t know she’s a racist, she’s even stupider than I thought she was and I never thought she had any brains to start with.
And don’t forget the green Scarlett O’Hara dress in of all places, Jamaica.
If Harriet Martineau was my ancestor, I would be leaning in hard on what a badass feminist she was. Too bad Kate is the opposite of a badass feminist.
My favorite was someone saying they had to go that far back to find an ancestor who wasn’t racist 😂
I did notice that no one mentioned any research about the number of ancestors who were either slaveholders or involved in the slave trade.
That part hit me as particularly nasty, that Kate’s ancestor had a part in freeing Meghan’s ancestor. And a British writer living in the US for a couple of years in the 1830s had zero influence on Lincoln, nor did Madison & Jackson’s presidencies. And the writer herself had zero influence on Pres. James Madison, as he had been out of office a couple of DECADES by the time she even got to the US.
It’s 11:01 a.m., and #KarrietTubman is still trending. If this is still going strong at 5 p.m., “Wiglet” will definitely make this an engagement.
At bean. Whoever wrote that article should be fired. Im not a royalist but if i was i would think ” why are they bringing hate to kate so close to the coronation.” They say kate mom pays for press. Maybe she stopped paying? To put that kate great cousin or whatever saved megans relative by writing a mear letter is offensive.
The american smithsonian may chime in.
And it’s not just that Kate’s very distant “relative” (NOT “ancestor” as some people are saying, because Kate is not a direct descendant) was an abolitionist, the article tries to claim she was the GREATEST abolitionist. Direct quote: “the greatest American abolitionist” By erasing the work of real abolitionists, they are actually proving how racist they really are.
Conspiracy theory time: all of this is the Palace flexing it’s media reputation destruction machine. The very same machine the family churned out when it was time to excommunicated Diana, and then subsequently Harry.
The Middletons have gotten out of line lately, with Carole publicly whinging about how Poor Kate and children, living in this tiny home with NO LIVE IN STAFF. Poor lambs, Prince George plays at friends’ houses that are bigger than his. Kate *deserves* an upgrade, and we’re going to make sure it is well established.
The Firm may be aggressively reminding Carole that Kate garners no public sympathy, and therefore holds no cards in the housing negotiations. She’ll take what she’s given, and she’ll be grateful. Arrangements for children remain unchanged from the original separation documents.
Cue the impending articles about how kate never puts a foot wrong, how well she minds the Palace courtiers, how discreet, loyal and dependable she’s been.
White savioress.
Nah, like, wrong Harriets. Harriets Tubman and Beecher Stowe got Lincoln a-thinkin’.
And also, this is disgusting and such 1923 thinking—that Black people weren’t fighting to free themselves and often winning—by law or violence or non-violence—all fair game to me. And that it took some Karens to save the day. Not discounting the important role that Quakers and countless white people played in undoing what THEY THEMSELVES did, but come on.
Lobbying “trail of tears” Jackson? Really? Also, just because you were an abolitionist doesn’t mean you weren’t a virulent racist. In fact, many an abolitionist were terrible racists. A credible historian should be embarrassed to be associated with this article.
I was coming here to say exactly this, UNCDANCER! Andrew Jackson is right up there with some of the worst racists in history. He committed genocide against Native Americans on a massive scale and fought the abolition of slavery. These British historians who wade into American history are just embarrassing themselves. Jackson and Abraham Lincoln never met!
The DM knows how badly this PR is failing, though. Or someone does, somewhere.
The DM was countering these stories of Kate with stories about how “Hollywood is hating the Sussexes”, and, “Meghan couldn’t ‘face the music'” and “oh, btw, it’s actually Meghan who couldn’t handle ‘playing second fiddle’ to Kate” which is the most ridiculous story yet.
I think that the DM has already retracted this article after the backlash Kate received. Case in point, KP and the royal family can remove any articles that they don’t like but they refused to do anything to protect the pregnant biracial duchess..
Waity really thought she could prove she isn’t what she is…a racist troll by going ancestry.com and going on a deep dive. She really let them do a story about he AMERICAN abolitionist ancestors and thought this would reflect well on her.
Amazing. Just amazing.
She wasn’t American, she just lived in the U.S. for two years then scurried back home to England.
So we are relying on the actions of our ancestors? Is that right? Well well well.
Behold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Middleton
(To be fair they’re not sure there is a relation . . . but somehow, no one is doing the genealogy work. I wonder why??)
^^ lmao 🤣🤪 This Middleton ancestor, whether related to Khate’s line or not, seems more apropos to Khatie Keen’s views…
BTW, I’ve also previously read that Meg and Keen, via their paternal lines, indirectly share a very distant common ancestor. Small world, eh. 🙄
For more proof of non-impactful genealogy details no one cares about — WanK were years ago revealed to be 11th cousins, and H&M are definitely, factually 17th cousins. Very earth-shattering connectivity. 🤔
The show Corsage has Empress Sisi of Austria canoodling with a guy named Middleton, and apparently, he’s also an ancestor of Kates? I thought they were humble folk who worked hard to make their money? Were the Middletons rich before? Or just rich but not titled, thus out of the sphere they wanted to be in? If they’ve been adjacent to power before, having it so close, yet inaccessible could explain the psychology of why the Middleton matriarch was so hell bent on getting Kate into that lauded segment of society. Just a thought….
Khate’s father’s ancestors were educated, upper-class ministers, landowners, and politicians. Michael Middleton’s father, Peter, was a military pilot who once flew a plane during WWII carrying naval officer, Philip Mountbatten.
It’s CarolE’s side of the family who were not-so-humble, working class wannabes.
Thanks! I appreciate the info.
I have ancestors who were moonshiners. Should I have a still out back?
Yes. 😀
Me too! Maybe I’ll start making some dandelion wine like my father’s grandmother did during Prohibition, too.
^^^ LOL! 🤣🤣😂😆🍻
Kate, make your own history; don’t claim someone else’s.
When she’s working her keen fingers to the bone trying to wear other women’s skins as her own? Won’t you pity the poor delicate white flower.
She may have grown up in the semi-real world but the fact that all this nonsense is actively pushed shows that she 100% lives in the bubble of royal delusion now.
That’s what I was going to say. It’s always someone else talking for the 🧱. Always in a tabloid but never themselves saying this or that. You have everything that you want 😊 and you still aren’t satisfied. Why 🤯 🤔 would someone put this type of stuff referencing a woman who’s not going? Why did the telegraph state that there’s over 813 articles right now about CA in the UK. Why is everyone getting ready 🤬 to not speak to Harry and it’s still a month away. Focus on not upstaging Charles and having your own moment with Charlotte and Camilla. When we say that CA lives rent 🆓 in the minds of the UK. They always manages to prove it right
Dying. These ppl are doing toooooo much (unlike Kate).
^^ LOL. Omid Scobie tweeted a picture of this Khatie Keen ancestral story with the comment:
“No. We’re not doing this today.” 🤪
I cackled at Omid’s tweet.
I hope KP had nothing to do with because this is just tone deaf, racist and embarrassing. This just proves that Kate is a racist.
I fully believe this story was meant to get her dragged. We all know the media is pissed about Meghan not attending the coronation and the royals not holding up their end of the bargain but with Rose Hanbury stories popping up, Kate somehow being a bitch to Meghan and now this foolishness, I get the sense that someone is trying to embarrass her and put her in her place. I believe it’s either Charles or Camilla.
The simplest explanation is usually the best – as much as I wish someone at KP were cleverly dragging “Karriet Tubman” (lol), we’ve seen time and again that they are really just that stupid and racist. The white saviour complex, the whataboutism, the “link” between the two duchesses…this is classic and rather desperate tabloid fare. They really think their readers will read this as “That Meghan should be grateful for Kate’s ancestor for freeing her” and they just might.
I vote for “dumber than the bags of hair that live on the back of Kate’s head”.
Given the absolute lack in intellectual insight and complete delusion they regularly show I can absolutely see them thinking this is a good look for her. Critical thinking is not on any of the job descriptions at KP.
KP was behind the colonizer parade so it wouldn’t surprise me that they thought this was a good story.
God, they never stop, do they? And obviously they never learn. Why would anyone continue in this ridiculous way when you are dragged over & over & over again on various media? Or is it they don’t hear any of that? It can’t be that they haven’t learned about #KateMiddletonSuccessStory or #KarrietTubman! Just sit down and keep your mouth shut!
Yeah either the people that stay and work for them are comically out of touch, or they are out of touch but they have enough sense to realize this stuff plays terribly and get overruled by William and Kate. I can definitely see why that woman that worked for Jamie Oliver decided thanks but no thanks. If I was in PR there’s no way in hell I would have this type of stuff as evidence of my “work”.
These PR works seems ridiculous. For sure, keen will never become queen. I truly believe in nostradamus predictions nowaday. As i have seen, not even white British like her. British media just trying to convince people and failed. Younger generations are wise enough to ignore monacy.
But wait…. karma is real. She tried to belittle Sussex. But it backfired. This is going to continue. Hee Dream of crown will be a dream forever.
This was kkkate trying to one up Rose’s PR. It’s terrible. Lololol 🥚 is letting kkkate flounder and fall so he can divorce her and use her hatred of meg as the reason. Lolol you love to see it.
Actually, I firmly believe Kate WILL become queen when Charles dies. William has no incentive to divorce, since he gets to live his life however he wants and Kate will put up with it. Plus, divorce is admitting you made a mistake and William will NEVER admit that.
But, I also don’t see what “being queen” matters. She is already wealthy and has the use of loaned royal jewels. She already has access to media to spin her public relations however she wants (and it’s laughingly bad, but again, that won’t change just because she’s queen). Being queen won’t make her husband love her, or stop yelling at her, or stop cheating on her. Being queen won’t bring Kate *real* friends either, only sycophants, and she’ll be as alone as she is now. She’ll be older by then too, and the plastic surgery and botox will be even more noticeable, and she will be jealous of her son’s girlfriends and the attention they get. She will continue to be marginalized by her husband, and the few public statements she makes will be cringe worthy. So really, what will change?
Both one and two. Last week when Kate said that being around Meghan was the hardest thing she’d ever done, plenty of commenters at the DM tore her to shreds. Now there are several stories circulating that Kate prevented Meghan from coming. It’s all a step or two away from Kate being blamed for Harry’s estrangement.
Bunny, been saying it for a few years now. Mrs. Wails is too stupid to see how she is being set up. One very telling moment was the pre-funeral walkabout. Willileaks was smart enough to keep it cute and pretend to be nice to the Sussexes. Meanwhile Mrs. Wails lumbered about with that nasty look on her face, and even acted as if she were going to pull up on Meghan towards the end. If Willileaks ever decides he wants out, there will be a deluxe triple decker bus coming for Mrs. Wails, and she stupidly has given them the fuel for it.
??? The royal foundation should finance a study whether reading the Daily Mail , Daily Express etc lowers one’s IQ. They thought this article makes Kate looks good,
I don’t know if the media are angry at Kate and William or the palace because they couldn’t deliver Meghan but You can tell both KP and BP are fighting each other. With All these stories about Kate, I think Charles and Camilla are trying to embarrass and put her in her place and signaling that Kate and William are one of the biggest reasons for all this drama. Then you have BP cheerleaders saying Kate and William need to do more work…hmm…
Oh there is no doubt that BP is briefing against the Wails but in the past weeks there has been quite a few articles basically slamming kHate and centring her as the villain in the narrative. I think that who ever is behind those stories also has the support of Peggy – esp as the stories about him and not as frequent. I think some of these stories have def been leaked by Cams in an attempt to ensure that kHate doesn’t try and steal her limelight during the coronation weekend. We all know kHate loves to upstage everyone else.
Also don’t underestimate how badly the Middletons can overplay their media hand – they are very short sighted when it comes to playing the media game and have shot themselves in the head many times with their attempts to embiggen kHate.
I can’t tell what’s going on recently, but its a mess PR wise where Kate is concerned. I think there are some leaks (or approvals) from Camilla for some of these stories and I also think you’re right, the Middletons tend to overplay their media hand, and if they’re desperate and scrambling right now, this could be from them.
It does feel like a shift has happened. Now it is Charles/Camilla/William vs. Kate/Midds. William and Charles will still brief against each other but first things first – they’ll band together to brief against Sussex Family and Kate.
Jobson saying Kate couldn’t handle a walk was direct from BP/ Camilla. The Karriet Tubman story is not as obvious and before we assume that it’s so tone deaf that it must be from Camilla, let’s not forget the entire tone deaf nature of the Caribbean tour, which was organized by KP.
@nic919, I’m guessing this story came from Carole Middleton. We know she has the tabloids on speed dial!
For this particular story, I don’t know either whether it’s coming from Camilla to drag Kate or Kate’s team bc their idiots. What I do think is that the papers are choosing chaos. Meghan’s not coming so they’re indulging in some wild clickbait articles. And at the end of the day, Camilla has forged such connections in the BM that they’re much more willing to sacrifice Kate to this chaos. The articles calling out the wales for being workshy I think are def from Csquared and trying to put both Kate and Will in their place. The wales are in the crossfire for sure.
They are indeed and I couldn’t think of two more deserving scroungers.
I think we’re seeing BP vs. KP (William) vs. Kate/Midds. More often than not, William is now siding with Charles and Camilla.
I find it difficult to believe that one of the dozens of lazy staff at KP took the time to research Kate’s ancestry. That makes it more likely this came from the Midds. One of their putting-every-foot-wrong PR leaks trying to embiggen Kate AGAINST William’s attempts to set her aside.
If the ‘seat her at the back’ story came from Charles/Camilla/William? This article is an attempt by Kate/Carol(E) to show they’ll fight back – and lose.
Looking past the absolute insanity of all of these claims (that Kate has any power is laughable, that her abolitionist ancestor means she isn’t racist), the British obsession of centering themselves everywhere, all the time is tired. The empire is over, clowns. Some rando Brit lady did not bring about the emancipation proclamation. Joe Biden being Irish and enjoying Ireland is Not About Salt Island. No One Cares. They Aren’t Important.
Ugh, so true. I’m laughing at the Brits trying to claim they and theirs somehow brought about the end of slavery in the United States. They were the ones who brought it here on in the first place, back when we were their colonies, and funneled the wealth it generated back to their island!
So Harriet Martineau traveled across what was then the United States, met a lot of abolitionists and some Presidents, and then went back home to England and wrote an article about abolition. Therefore her distant descendant can’t possibly be racist. I’m going to guess that Kate had never even heard of Harriet Martineau until this article.
Actually I’m not sure she’s even a distant descendant of Harriet Martineau. Some internet sleuth claims that Martineau died childless – sounds as believable as this abolitionist DailyFail joke.
^^ Not that this matters, but if Harriet Martineau is Khate’s great-great-great-great (yadda yadda) auntie, then it was one of Harriet M’s siblings who spawned the Middleton line. Thus, Harriet dying childless is not evidence of no connection. But again, who cares? So what? 🤭
Harriett Martineau is considered the first woman sociologist – definitely more impactful than just writing an article on abolition – but I’m sure Kate missed that day in Intro to Sociology.
Twitter really is alive with those Kate photos. Kate also channeled scarlett when she wore that green gown on that disaster tour.
Yesss, wall to wall Caribbean flop tour revival photos please!! Hilarious.
Lolz all day – always knew that black and white photo of her looking like she ran away from a Gone with the Wind audition would come back and bite her on the ass.
The trolling she got on Twitter esp was quite something – the meme’s were truly wonderful. My personal fave is the one where she’s in a white dress wearing those fug wedges running with a group of black slaves behind her. There was a caption about her leading them to freedom.
I still think this was a plant by Ma to deflect from the racism backlash the whole family is getting (rightfully so) – not the first time the Middletons have pushed a story like this to embiggen kHate and only kHate that has then blown up in their faces.
Something has Ma spooked – I suspect we will be getting more stories like this about kHate in the next few weeks as they will want her to be front and centre for the coronation. This is what they did for Phil’s funeral, the Jubilee and QE2’s funeral. This has Ma hand prints all over it.
I should have read down further before commenting.
This is how it feels to me too. This was a Kate/Carol(E) attempt to counter the ‘seat Meghan at the back’ story. lt is now Charles/Camilla/William vs. Kate/Carole(E).
This ancestor story isn’t much different from the stories of Kate’s great aunt working at Bletchley Park during WWII and Kate getting credit for that as somehow supporting the military.
Both stories show her relatives were way more interesting and accomplished women. She should try emulating them.
Karriet Tubman? I don’t even know what to say. The Daily Fail seems to be on Team Crocmilla so I could see them trying to sabotage Kate but this had to be beyond their wildest dreams.
The Mids also have an in with the Fail – I am beginning to think that Ma briefed the story in and Cams contacts then used it to write a hit piece which SM ran with.
There is NO coming back from this for her – esp as SM has the receipts.
The Midds have had a connection to the Fail for 20 years. Carol(E) hired two former Fail on Sunday editors as the family’s PR consultants when Kate first started dating William (ie. being his ‘sex waiting’).
If someone from her side didn’t factor in Black Twitter, that’s not surprising.
Sussex Squad come with the receipts, Black Twitter come for the kneecaps.
It amazes me, still after being on Al Gore’s internet for decades, this family still acts like newspapers twice a day are the only thing that matter.
Between Karriet Tubman and @Tiffany’s: “Sussex Squad come with the receipts, Black Twitter come for the kneecaps.” I can’t stop 😂😂😂😂
My goodness, the knives are out and the RF is looking and sounding like the Roman Empire. Kind of nice since it allows H&M to keep on doing their things in Montecito after this farce of a chubbly is over. Boy, they got out at the right time justt as the Monarchy begins to self destruct. Going to enjoy watching this spectacle.
So she’s relying on a distant ancestor to show she is in fact isn’t racist? Having one abolitionist ancestor doesn’t mean you can’t be racist. This reminds me of those who take dna tests and find out they are say 4% Native American and then claim it, with no connection to that specific culture or nation (dna tests can’t prove what nation someone’s dna is from). This backfired on her badly. Her and Ma Middleton just need to stop. They digging themselves deeper and deeper. Interestingly on my mothers side Kate is a distant cousin of mine (I believe 12th) I would have to check. Happy to say I am nothing like her or her lot.
I know we’ve talked about this to death, but that Ghost Bride picture! Did no one try and talk her out of doing that one? I guess it came in handy for this story though, lol.
It’s almost as if someone planned this… hmmmm…
LMAOO oh what a mess the British media is!
Kate could have denied the crying story. She didn’t and watched the media to after Meghan for something she did not do. She could have been civil to Meghan on appearances. She wasn’t. Now she has to resort to this nonsense about a relative from the 19th century. Kate is clueless and rude.
Not only did Kate not deny it? She, mummy, and Uncle Gary quadrupled down on it after the Oprah interview.
I am definitely in the camp of point 2 – ie the BP crew throwing Kate under the bus. There are only 4 “senior royals” now, and Kate is one of them. So either Peg or C2 is briefing on her.
It will be pretty interesting to see what baubles they loan Kate for the coronation.
The article is arguing that the abolitionism of one of Kate’s non-direct ancestors somehow genetically inoculates her from being a racist no matter what her actions are. By this logic, since my great-grandparents ran a funeral parlor, no one can call me a necrophiliac even if someone catches me having sex with a corpse.
Since you’re a direct descendant, I think your case would be pretty strong lol
Oh boy!! They went there…
Kate needs to employ someone with proper communication skills pronto.
A first year student in the field would’ve recommend against this ?? article.
She has been dragged and ‘memed’ , I will not add to that, but if I were her, I would worry about the silent one’s.
I am one of the silent ones in this respect.
Abolitionist Barbie CANNOT be racist, doncha know? She has a distant relative who stopped slavery everywhere for all time. Just like I cannot be a lousy cook because my great-great uncle was an acclaimed chef.
Too bad I can’t cook, and Karriet Tubman can’t be anywhere near Black people without flinching and grimacing.
#KarrietTubman
#KarensWillStayKarens
#RoyalFamilyRacists
A massive, HUGE thanks for this article, it has proved beyond doubt that ONE the DM employs uneducated idiots that have no idea how to do proper research as in dates and actual family history and TWO that Camzilla is still circling Khate on her low flying broom stick and every so often swoops low over the paper to drop another bit of poison for them to publish. Yep operation get rid of keen is in full swing. William is getting closer and closer to having his side peice on the throne. Oh and by the way Khate, you in that dress, “frankly, I don’t give a damn” 🤣🤣,
The media is not your friend, Kate. You haven’t done a thing in more than a dozen years to earn anyone’s respect, and you have none. I expect we’ll get a lot more anti-Kate media in the near future, and she doesn’t have anyone willing to push back against it–especially if Will-di Amin is looking elsewhere for wife #2. Side pieces can become wives and queens. Or her hisband could get his own “carriage riding companion” who lives in Royal Lodge while she’s in Adelaide. What’s stopping him?
So, what are you trying to say DM (DF)? America has always had some whiteAmericans willing to put their lives on the line to abolish slavery. But they still had a slew of family members who remained and wereracist…mfs; like Khate and Willie are.
LOL @twitter
“Queen Camilla given hope to sidepieces” 😂
This is both stupid and incredibly insulting. It is patronizing and racist. Kate’s team are idiots and she needs to stop trying to center herself in Meghan and Harry’s lives. They don’t think about her. This is a desperate attempt to stay on the front pages.
I really don’t think the palace is savvy enough to have engineered this debacle. But I do think the Middletons are dumb enough to have done so.
#KarrietTubman will make me laugh forever.
I imagine someone at BP is having a quiet word in Ma Middleton’s ear that she had best be neither seen nor heard in the next few weeks or they won’t even be invited to the Lionel Richie concert.
This coupled with the “rollout of the mistress” (Rose Hanbury) is delicious. I can’t imagine Kate agreed to publish this about her ancestor. Are KC and COWmilla trying to fire KKKhate before the coronation? Or is this Williams doing? Im trying to understand why.
I’m just so happy you resurrected her Confederate bride photo for this article. I’m surprised she didn’t have the blue of Big Blue colorized, though. Just so it stands out more.
Kate has shown herself to be Vile racist snobby woman who has no problem Dangerous and gleefully using her whiteness to harm Meghan . She had no problem when the press were calling her classy demeaning Meghan at any chance she got . I don’t think Camilla and Charles are the ones behind this Kate articles lately I think kate and her equal disgusting mother think articles like this one and the other two where Kate is complaining about having to be near black Meghan will make Kate look good. They are pandering to the racist Karen’s of the world and instead it has blown up in their faces big time like the Tatler article now their backpedaling fast . I’m sure the next time we see Kate she will be photographed next to black person trying to prove how she not racist .
Kate also has an ancestor that owned 100s of slaves and practiced hereditary chattel slavery in the USofA.
His farms were failing until a slave taught him how to grow rice.
Where have we heard this before.
For those who are interested here is a great video about Crown Princes Victoria of Sweden who is everything you could actually want in a princess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOfwDKROLI
She is about 5 years older than Will and Kate, I think, got married in the same year and their kids are around the same age. Its amazing how lacking the BRF and its members seem when compared with contemporaries
CP Victoria has had to put up with so much. Both of her parents are on record stating it would be easier/better if their son was heir. No doubt those two were main causes in her anorexia. King C-G keeps son and his trashy wife on the public dole in a kind of shadow court, instead of publicly supporting Victoria and making the spare earn a living.
Victoria has dyslexia AND face blindness (the inability to recognize even herself in a photo or in the mirror). She struggled to complete her undergrad, but also completed military training, diplomatic training, and interned at an embassy. She keeps herself above it all. If you’re going to have a royal family, she’s the one to have.
Every time I learn something new about her I’m just more impressed. With her as the main representative its hardly surprising that support for the Monarchy has increased in Sweden.
Her presence at the coronation is pretty much the only thing I am looking forward to
Lol, they really do come up with the maddest sh*t to embiggen this woman. This is up there with Kate as che Guevara and William being the ‘sexiest bald man’ in the world. They couldn’t find Kate’s ‘one black friend’ so they had to go back 6 generations. The tweets on this are giving me life 😂😂😂
Either kate is around some of the most stupid sheltered people on earth or someone is actively trying to make her have guffaws. That jamaica trip was terrible. But kate tried. You can see she practiced and everything. She was placed in stituations. We can say her laziness causes everything to be done last minute to cause these problems but….. i think kate is mean and people pay her back.
This is so colossally dumb of them…just because she had a great-great-grand that did the right thing doesn’t mean that SHE is. This would be like someone judging me based on one of my relatives who famously once stated at a family event that he really didn’t think “women needed to necessarily finish high school.” For the record, I was a child and couldn’t really respond as someone would have punished me for “being rude to elders.” Thankfully, it doesn’t look like people are buying the load of twaddle Kate’s people are trying to peddle.
Don’t know what they’re trying to do here in regards to Kate but this is tedious and boring, just like her. Is it attention she wants? Is this to deflect from the mistress queen’s ascendency? Whatever the reason, it’s pathetic.
My great-great-great grandfather fought on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War. That doesn’t mean I’m pro-slavery. I mean, I didn’t know him and he didn’t know me. My grandfather barely knew him and I, in turn, barely knew my grandfather. Kate and her distant Aunt have almost nothing in common. Contrary to what some Brit Toffs believe. distant ancestry doesn’t really shape you or determine who you become.