Here are some photos of the Princess of Wales today in Nuneaton, where she’s visiting a family drop-in clinic and posing with various babies. I have to admit, I actually love her outfit today? She’s wearing a new £450 dress from Cefinn. I love an animal print, and this leopard-print in green and white is really good. This is the first time Kate has stepped out an event in over a week, and it’s first public appearance since the Mail and the Times did their exclusive reporting on the scope of her mother Carole Middleton’s financial scams and bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, Kate’s visit to Nuneaton was packaged with the news about the Royal Foundation spending some of their funds to monitor babies. The Royal Foundation is using £50,000 to commission a trial study about babies and their happiness.
The Princess of Wales has commissioned her first NHS scientific study, designed to support the emotional development of babies. The Royal Foundation is funding the £50,000 trial, which was inspired by an official visit to Denmark. It will evaluate a special tool used by health visitors at the regular six to eight-week check to identify babies at risk as well as showing parents how to communicate with their babies.
The Princess saw the system, called the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), in action during an official visit to Copenhagen last February and was so impressed that she began exploring whether it could be introduced in this country. The pilot scheme will run until December at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, each of which was chosen because it has high volumes of face-to-face health visitor appointments and provides a variety of health visitor services.
The study, run in partnership with the Institute of Health Visiting (IHV) and the University of Oxford, is the first to be commissioned by the Royal Foundation’s Centre for Early Childhood.
It is considered a major step in the Princess’s lifelong commitment to improve the lives of young children and those who care for them. If successful, it is hoped that the trial will lead to a bigger study before the potential rollout of the tool to any NHS trust that wanted to use it.
So instead of spending money to improve the lives of parents and babies, Kate will spend foundation money to STUDY the happiness levels of babies? I’m sure there’s more to it – at least I hope there is – but as with all things Early Years, I can’t help but think of all of the time, money and resources which are being wasted on Kate’s endless need for busywork.
That Bump-It wiglet just slapped on the back of her head, my God. And I’ve had a closer look at this dress… that puffy shoulder is so unnecessary.
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The puffy shoulder is unnecessary. But then, so is Kate!
How can kate justify buying another new dress ? It beggars belief.
Especially as she has so many in this same style and even colour. She could have just pulled something out of her closet.
She’s copykeening Camzilla. God help us all.
I’m sure the people her mother screwed over are asking the same question.
Good question, Holly, and good response, Lizzie. Like, if your parents are in the news for owing lots of innocent people lots of money, maybe it’s time to recycle something from your wardrobe?!
Bee, personally, this seems more like Kate’s style lane than Camilla’s to me: I do think it’s amusing that they wore a similar style in today’s posts.
I had to look up Nuneaton: guess what? Keen was allowed to travel more than an hour (and a 12-mile radius) away from home! In a northerly direction.
As to ADBB— I had never heard of it, but they’re using it in France and Nepal. It’s a good idea to scope out vulnerable children as young as possible so they can be helped. What makes me nervous is that the help isn’t there and it’s disappearing in the UK. So essentially vulnerable people leads to poorer outcomes and the conservatives want businesses to set up programs to help out. And Keen will (sigh) keenly study the question (and later show up for the business that helps for the photo op).
This whole outfit is EXACTLY like one I used to dress up in as a child. From the chest of 80s clothes my mom kept specifically for costuming. In fact, most of her outfits could have been taken from it… I am not impressed nor inspired.
But they are. The puffed sleeves and squared shoulders in her garments, and the exaggerated side-darts in her blazers: all designed to give her “bulk” and boobs that she doesn’t have. All to detract from her zero body-fat frame.
If it is already used successfully in Denmark, why is a study to evaluate its success on babies in the UK necessary? Not really clear what it is, but why not just donate and train and let each individual center evaluate it informally? Sounds like money wasted to try to make Kate seem like some sort of researcher.
Agreed. It’s a pilot study (I’ve done many), but its likely highly reliable and valid in another population, meaning it should easily show significant results in the UK.
My take on this, is she’s going to be the face of a pilot study for an already effective tool, and then claim some great merit in the UK for this. Like, the headlines will be something about her getting full credit for finding an effective measure – in the UK. Hell, I could probably go into Google Scholar and find pilot results for this. It’s all about taking credit again.
Smoke and mirrors, jazz hands, exaggerated smiles, rictus grins, expensive dowdy clothes, and Big Blue.
So, similar to Willy stealing the name and idea for Earthshot then pretending he came up with it? Got it.
What’s going with her feet?
A friend of mine did this type of work in the US and had to do it in two different states to collect the data before being able to implement. There may be some underlying difference in the populations/measurement that requires a pilot before implementation. And 50K does sound fairly cheap for these.
But if this were like US grants, the money would go to the researchers and the data collected by them without having members of the NSF pose for photo ops with the babies.
This is exactly right
Because results vary across regions and you have to prove that the tool is applicable to the relevant society. And if you can do that you have evidence to support further funding and adoption into clinical practice.
And because this study, unlike the Danish one, will look at how jazz hands make babies happy.
Just an excuse for her to have more photo ops with babies. This study has the potential to be more meaningful, but it will probably again consist of obvious statements made to struggling parents without the means to implement them.
Babies happiness? Babies are happy when they are fed, clean, have some playtime and most of all they are loved. There now where is my money.
I am cryyyying….see what I did there?
@harleb. Nope don’t see it sorry.
@susanCollins, yes Susan, feed them, keep them clean, play with them and love them and a baby will thrive. But PLEASE don’t look at them with your mouth wide open and the whitest teeth outside of a commercial for toothpaste, that poor child in that picture will be petrified of dentists and sharks for life!!
@Mary Pester. And don’t forget the fear of wiglet bumps.
I suggest you read an article, the title of “happiness” is incorrect. It’s a screening tool for pediatricians & other caregivers to assess babies for psychologic distress–in other words potential abuse. It is validated & in use in other countries
Those ugly white pumps don’t even fit her. She also has what looks like a huge bunion on her left foot. Never saw that before. You could start a fire with the dry split ends of her hair. She needs a good 5 inches chopped off. Oh and the dress is ugly too.
The dress is matronly, the shoes… I don’t even know. The shoes are juvenile, like my daughters playing dress up. Her hair is a shapeless disaster. She needs a cut badly. Like 5 inches (and a wiglet) off. Is this how she wants to grab the narrative back in the press? Sad.
I don’t know if its the shoes or the camera angle but her feet look swollen compared to her boney ankle.
She is looking ROUGH – somethings up.
Strangely, as I scrolled through the pics, I stopped on her ankles. They stood out to me for some reason. I agree, something is up and it’s leaving its thumbprint on her appearance.
Her feet made me stop scrolling!! Swollen ankles and an awful bunion, those were not the shoes to wear!
One of my friends is/was anorexic. The fluid retention used to freak her out. This is what K’s ankles remind me of. My friend doesn’t have weird feet (or didn’t used to), but not eating does a number on your bones. So do high heels. Let’s put it this way: Kate is the only woman in long sleeves. Here I really do not want to criticize her, because it reminds me of people in my life that I care about and the sadness and frustration that disordered eating brings.
I noticed that too. That bunion looks painful
Chilldddd I didn’t even notice until you pointed it out. Yikes. Why not wear other shoes. That looks painful.
Now if this was Meghan how many tabloids would zoom in on the picture and plaster it everywhere. How many trolls would do the same? Nasty people
By the way I hate these shoes.
It’s giving “E. Coli Growing In A Petri Dish” vibes.
(Is that how the kids are using that phrase?)
Looks like she ran into the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz and snatched the straw from his waistline and plopped it on her head. That hair is rough–literally. One of the worst examples I’ve seen.
She needs a Black or Jewish friend so they can help her find a great weave, wig or,micolinks hairdresser.
Does she even have any Black or Jewish friends? I can’t imagine!
She has been wearing ridiculously high heels for years now and she is of an age where it starts to affect your feet.
that bunion! OMG. it won’t even fit in her shoe, looks like a tube of biscuits that just popped.
That’s the first thing I noticed & thought ouch! That’s gotta be painful! Get that taken care of, Kate!
The very first thing I noticed was her left foot/big toe. Girl, get medical help with that and don’t wear shoes that exacerbate it!!!
I remember numerous articles written about a scar on Meghan toe and speculation of bunion surgery with an OMG can you believe she had bunion surgery tone. Well Kate might want to give it a try or buy shoes that fit .
Kate is being worked to the bone recently – lol
TBF to her these are the sort of events she should stick to that will endear her to Brexit middle England.
Mum and baby/ toddler events with her smiling at babies without the diversity black babies. It’s what she enjoys, so she should lean into it.
No big initiatives just lots of mum and baby events.
EDIT : The outfit is hideous and typical of British middle class fashion a la LK Bennet and Hobbs which Kate used to wear a lot of before their financial woes. Good luck Ceafinn – lol
Lightweight Kate needs to let the experts work on this and give them full credit. Kate needs to update her hair do and get a trim.
Karen is now a prominent research pondit in the field of early years. I am delighted to learn that Catherine Middleton is in possession of a groundbreaking tool – a baby happiness barometer. Philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel have failed to define the very concept happiness but Mumbles is on it!
How much baby food and clothing and utilities 50 000 pounds can buy, doesn’t actually matter. What counts is that history remembers the lanky mumbling social climber as an outstanding figure of academia.
Her left foot is literally about to pop out of the shoe LOL
Yikes. How can you be so so rich ( well.. how can you husband be so so rich) and you still buy the wrong size? It’s not like it’s was a sale and she got the last “fitting” pair you know..
It’s not due to wrong size, she choose too much of a heel. She can opt for a bigger size, but the heel will keeping out making walking awkward so she probably sticks to shoe size but the excessive heel (and gravity) jam her foot and toes forward causing that bunion. I too have that issue. I waved goodbye to my heels during Pandemic (and never looked back) and only wear sparingly.
When you look real close at that left foot it looks like she has a bunion and she has her foot out of the shoe probably because it hurts. Princess of bunion has a foot problem.
That looks really painful!!!
YUP. That’s a bunion. And those stilettos don’t help, they make them worse. Maybe that is why she looks so miserable. 5 inch heels and big bunions will make anyone look like that.
Certainly, if someone compared Kate’s feet squeezed into pumps one size too small vs. the other woman’ feet in her flat, comfortable sneakers without bulges, or unsightly lumps, it would sure convince more women to give up heels when they don’t have to wear them.
Anyone have links to videos of her in motion?
Lots of jazz hands and smirking
She needs to quit buying new expensive horrible looking frocks and use the money to pay back the money her mother swindled from those poor people she fleeced, period.
What’s going on with her feet? borrowed her mother’s shoes.
ah yes, baby-related events and “donating” money to fund a study – clearly a PR move to make people forget she and her grifter family are trash.
She looks a mess, her makeup and wiglet are particularly rough today. Her eye makeup is really bad. Why not just fundraise for pre-school and afterschool care instead of this nonsense research?
Because she doesn’t REALLY care, this is all busy work for her and photo ops. She will continue to “listen and learn” because she can get away with it. The press will continue to give her glowing coverage of her “early years work” even though it’s useless. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
Research for something that’s already been proven effective in Denmark. And I’m not really certain, but 50k doesn’t really sound like it would fund much.
How are these wiglets attached? Glue? Bobby pins? I just don’t get it. I wonder how thin her real hair is. Maybe the hair would be healthier and stronger if she had it cut and stopped trying to straighten it.
Hers is a comb attachment that comes out at the end of the day. You can tell by the bumps and where it’s placed.
Occasionally she also wears tracks which are attached in, although not sure how?
She is forever all about that jazz.
I don’t get it… so the study is to determine if an 8 week old baby is happy? That just sounds like another stressful indicator for a new parent to have to worry about.
Usually I am happy to criticize but this sounds like it could be a very helpful tool. It’s for screening babies at risk.
“….evaluate a special tool used by health visitors at the regular six to eight-week check to identify babies at risk as well as showing parents how to communicate with their babies.”
It seems like it has potential for producing better outcomes for infants.
And yes this is another case of puffing up Kate but at least it possibly could benefit babies.
The dress is very eighties with the puffy sleeves and the tiny buttons. With the mass of horsehair on her head, it’s swallowing her whole.
I’m in favour of commissioning studies by actual experts – certainly better than her 5 questions poll about the early years. At least this indicator appears to have some research behind it. And maybe they have to test it in Britain first in order for it to be useful, given the different social and economic factors between Denmark and the U.K.
All of that, I’m on board with. But I hope she is going to let experts speak about the research they are doing and not pretend she’s doing all the work herself. That’s her M.O.
Kate pretends to be an expert which is an insult to real experts who spend years on study. Research and publishing. and she fakes things like piano playing. Kate ignored her own baby nephew Archie. And turned down the invite to Lily party. So much for her concern for babies.
Don’t you worry about the real experts in early childhood development, I’m sure they’ll be in the background authoring Kate’s work. No credit given, of course, but they’ll be there.
Oxford university is going to actually run this study because no one in the royal foundation should go near anything academic. They don’t have the intellectual or academic heft for it.
The results will also likely confirm what the Danish program already does, so unless English babies are particularly unhappy, they have a guaranteed result of being able to show that they can measure baby happiness.
Maybe – Denmark has significantly more social supports for families ( I’m thinking of the “baby boxes” that many other countries are implementing now) as well as generous parental leave. And they consistently do well in other indexes that measure “happiness”, so I would not be surprised if the findings were different in other countries.
I like the white pumps rather than nude pumps. It feels fresh. I’m not convinced this is an animal print dress as much as green dots. Idk maybe it is? I just can’t tell😂. I hope the study has meaningful results? That’s all I got.
It didn’t look like animal print to me, but maybe I’m just confused by the color?? The print looks more like algae on a slide under a microscope.
Hideous. And I can’t even with her dumb hair piece. With the money, time, and professionals she has access to… if she wants additional volume have a stylist add some extensions so we don’t need to look at this wiglet anymore.
Those shoes are tragic.
I hate the white pumps so much, they are hellaciously ugly and make the dress look old fashioned.
Seeing how the dress pulls at her waist and across her back, I’m reminded as ever by the commenter here who worked in retail and categorised Kate as a “stuffer”, i.e. would only buy the smallest size she could possibly squeeze into. Such poor style.
The amount of hair freaks me out as ever.
Excuse my language, but how many f’n studies do we need??? Didn’t she just do her powerpoint presentation a while ago? Suddenly, £50,000 is being withdrawn from the bank account, right around the time her parents need to start paying people to stop talking about how they weren’t paid??? Bloody useless.
How do you think any type of medical intervention or support programs are funded and implemented into clinical practice …. yep, you guessed it – research.
If the NHS was relying on Kate’s Aarly years to provide research for medical issues in the UK there would be dead babies lining the streets because she’s not busting her ass to do anything. She is dragging things out so she doesn’t ever have to do much of anything and can show up and do photo ops.
She went to Denmark last year so why did it take so long to start this? She’s not working so much that she didn’t have time to move this forward.
I would like one of those moms to ask princess baby Brains, how are her parents and their bankruptcy holding up? Do they ever plan to sell their house to repay the regular folks they screwed over?
My mother has a pair of pajamas just like that. And it looks like her feet hurt so she slipped her foot out of that shoe. I’ve done that at meetings when I’m like “ow, ow, ow.”
I don’t have a problem with the study. If the system is already in use in Denmark, there must be some validity to it. A study would show if it can be applied in the UK.
Nuneaton is 102.8 miles from Windsor. Just saying….Katie’s expanding her visits…
Also, it appears to have taken her over a year to actually implement anything from her Denmark visit and over 7 years to commission her “first NHS clinical study’ (wasn’t Aarly Yaars founded in 2016?)
On the other hand this is the first time I’ve seen anything suggesting money is being spent to do something as opposed to more listening and learning. So, baby steps. How appropriate.
Arly years was conceived a few days before Meghan launched her Grenfell cookbook in 2018. It was called broken Britain for about a year until the five question survey
Thank you @Nic919 – so over 5 years then.
Is there some sort of nonsense protocol that dictates that Kate must dress up for these visits? She always looks so out of place, and if I were one of those much more casually dressed women, it might make me feel a bit self-conscious (but maybe that’s the actual goal?). It’s be nice to see her show up in like, a pair of dark-wash ankle jeans, a blazer, flats, and a ponytail.
It gives Khate an excuse to buy more clothes more accessories. She seems to believe dressing like a 1950’s stepford wife gives her importance. Meghans dressing style when visiting charities etc is always great, the European Royals are similar, casual but stylish unlike Khate who looks stuffy and stuck up. The others receive respect but they fit in and put the people they are visiting at ease. Wearing her 12 inch heels to a pre school, or to a disabled wheelchair sports function, I can only asume that it makes Kate feel superior to loom over everyone. Also wearing big blue to play sport, digging in soil with her hands, climbing is very disrespecttful and trashy.
I wonder if she shops to fill the hole in her soul. I know a number of people who are unhappy in their home situation, and their outlet is buying things. They seem to feel that the purchase of whatever will make them feel better, and perhaps it does but not for long. Perhaps a Celebitcher with a mental health background can comment?
It just occurred to me that if they divorce Kate will have to hand over big blue. I bet that would be the hardest part for her.
Every time I see her wearing Big Blue while digging in the dirt or going rock climbing, I can’t believe that William hasn’t told her to knock it off. I have a handful of (decidedly more modest) jewelry from my mom, who died when I was 5, and I would absolutely lose it if I entrusted a piece to someone who mistreated it like that. To me, it’s almost like my mom’s spirit is in each piece of jewelry, and they speak to her personality and sense of style.
I have had a feeling for a long time that the real Diana ring is in a vault somewhere. There’s no way Will gave her the real Big Blue and let her trash it like that. She’s worn her ring sailing and ziplining. One of her first engagements involved shoving her ringed hand into dough with the Scouts. Disgusting and rather cavalier to risk losing the ring and damaging it. And Kate can keep the copy in the separation/divorce.
It’s been claimed Diana had a copy. Don’t know if that’s true but if so kate will have it now.
Actually sapphires and diamonds are the perfect digging in the dirt gems, they have a hardness of 9 and 10 respectively. Sapphires can only be scratched by diamonds and other sapphires.
Quartz (hardness 7) is a component of dust, so you really want rings of hardness 7 or over so they won’t be easily scratched by dust.
My beloved opals are hardness 5.5-6.5 (hard as glass) and can be scratched by dust so they should definitely NOT be worn gardening, but I do it anyway (just very infrequently and very carefully)
It is nearly impossible to damage a sapphire and diamond ring by wearing it. The worst thing that wearing it on a zip line could do is get your finger ripped off if it gets caught in the line. The ring would be unscratched.
British people don’t really want to see royals in jeans. They want them to be dressed as royals, preferably wearing tiaras. Diana got away with jeans because she was Diana.
Nothing usefull, a fifty thousand pound study, does not provide imediate assistance except for the researchers. Shopping again, more new clothes, the poor dear might run out of something to wear. I guess she is planning how to dominate the balcony during trooping of the color, the bling will be out in force, new wiglets, new clothes and accessories and probably 24inch heels just to make sure she is taller and looms over everyone else. Her superior behavior will be in force. The media is probably being fed stories that all her families grifting behavior is just a misunderstanding. Possibly, Saint Khate also known as Mother Theresa the second will be given an humanitarian award to distract the public from Khate the stalker/mattress and all the Midds scamming and social climbing. Whatever happens Khate the poor victim, will make herself the centre of attention during the Kings birthday weekend.
I don’t think the Royal Foundation has enough money to provide immediate assistance. From their financial statement a few years ago, it looked like they only had a couple million pounds once the Earthshot money was transferred out. That’s not enough to do anything directly, even if Early Years was their only mission.
Interesting thing about this is that Nuneaton is about a 2/3 drive from Windsor but she likely used the heli and no one is saying that yet.
Interesting that after the story of her not going far from Windsor for engagements comes out there is this.
I meant to say ‘2/3 hour’ drive.
I have my doubts that Kate learned anything on that trip to Denmark but her team was the one writing down notes and who approached the NHS about this pilot project.
Wasn’t this the visit where the most notable thing she did was go down a slide?
I’m not quite understanding this- she is duplicating a study already being done in Denmark?
Because Denmark is vastly different from the UK in terms of social support programs and focus on maternal health, and you would need to prove a tool like this is effective (by funding a study) in the relevant region and society before implementing it into practice.
The Early Years board is stocked with academics. Give us money or attention, and we’ll do research. It’s how we roll!
And just in case, someone wonders if it’s wasteful to do research on a program that was implemented in another country, England’s social support net has changed so much so quickly the last decade that just trying to apply results from a different country (with different circumstances) would be pretty risky, and would likely fail.
I was wondering about that, it seemed duplicative to me, but I guess not. Thanks!
She looks ok to me, but yikes, the one shot with her mouth open so wide she is going to take a big bite out of that poor sweet baby!
I totally agree my god she needs to close her mouth! We joke that the staff are reading celebitchy. Is there any way to get that feedback to Kate?
Omg I didn’t even read the post yet but they bunion is killing me! I have b unions too. But damn, wear shoes that fit around it! That looks so bad!
Look at that lovely baby!
I don’t have anything to say about Kate. Bored with her.
The Aaaarly Years – The Return of the Jazz Hands coming soon a town near you to guffaw at your baby.
The dress is fine. I actually like it. I like the puffy shoulders because it’s subtle and not overly done (ducks and runs)
Those shoes looks so painful. The white shoes make the dress look a little dated. She looks rough – they have stopped photoshopping her and I think that’s a sign she’s on her way out.
She is cramming 2 years worth of “work” in a couple of weeks! Something is up for sure. Time for a vacation! She must be exhausted.
While Meghan still wears her gorgeous hair long, Kkkhate will refuse to cut hers…no matter how gnarly Kkkhate’s may look. God forbid that Duchess Meghan be the British royal with the longest flowing tresses! Kkkhate will always try to outshine Meghan, long after it becomes clear that she just doesn’t have what it takes.
Kate listens, learns, studies, explores, surveys, questions, investigates, consults – whew. She has not provided leadership for the creation of anything tangible to directly benefit young children now. There are decades of evidence-based research into early child ed. Existing centers could be funded -now- with current researched-based content and strategies for the very young child and parents – especially those from working class families with few resources. That would take an energy and drive which K does not appear to have.
The only thing she is good at is making sure she dresses to the point of being unapproachable at these events. Who wears a dress and 6 inch heels to meet with children and their parents.
She will always remind those poor people in her photo ops that they are indeed poor themselves.
£490 dress; £690 earrings?
Instead of spending money on a study from Denmark, another new dress and more over priced Kiki earrings you know what would make new Mums and their babies happy? How about donating some practical goods to a food bank? Like nappies? Or formula? Bottles? Clothing? Prams? It would show up at a health check as a positive if the mum isn’t stressed about the basics of life for her little one. The nurses doing these checks don’t need a Kate lead study to tell them if a Mum and baby are happy. The nurses have the real life experience.
But Kate needs to dress up in yet another new outfit and put on her sky high bogan white heels so she can tower over the little ones she’s going to visit. Or was it all just a set up so a DM photographer could get a photo of her legs through her dress? (Shame with all the money Kate spends on clothes that she can’t afford to buy a petticoat or even a half slip?)
(Meanwhile back at Adelaide Cottage is Kate flipping through her mood board and has she stopped at that photo of Diana pre marriage holding the 2 kiddies and the sun shining from behind her so her legs are outlined. Is Kate reaching for a Sharpie from her makeup bag and ticking that famous photo of Diana and saying to herself… “nailed it!”?)
Cathy, I saw the photo you are referencing and my first thought was “she’s doing a Diana”. Not bad legs but….no butt.
I had been wondering about the dresses material because it looked light and airy. Guess its too light and airy.
Is it terrible of me to immediately think that was her goal? She does like to show off her body and she appears to like to reference Diana as much as she can? She did dress in that see through skirt/ dress to get William’s attention at university. I’m also thinking of the time they were on a break and Kate made sure she was photographed wearing revealing clothing. “To remind William what he was missing out on”. Could this be a sign that William’s gone and she’s trying the same moves again?
£490 dress
£690 earrings
Plus
£550 shoes (jimmy choo)
£850 handbag (mulberry)
Diana had no idea that the photographers were aiming to get that shot when they directed her where to pose. She found out when the photo appeared in newspapers. Kate poses that way on purpose
Wishing that there is a Committee overseeing how money is spend by royals. In times of cost of living crisis, do we need money for food banks and baby banks rather than another early year study.
How is £50K going to provide enough money to do a decent trial? This will only pay two newly quaified graduates for a year, if that.
Which just proves there isn’t gonna be a trail and one of their friends is pocketing that money after returning a cut.
It’s not a trial, it’s a study.
I scrolled back up to look at the shoes, and let me tell you, those shoes looks two sizes small for Kitty’s feet
Did she coordinate her outfit with Camilla’s so they’d be twinning in green? I think overall the Early Years is a make work busy project of Kate’s that doesn’t have much resonance tbh, more optics than substance but let’s see how they follow up with this current initiative and if it has real results.
The weird way she uses her hands makes me think of The Boston Strangler…
Years ago my Mom told me to wear heels a half size larger than my normal shoe size. No foot issues. Doesn’t it take months to recover from bunion surgery? Kate’s going to be out of commission for a while and the longer she waits the worst it gets. The Firm really is working her to the bone.
I have sheets from Target in almost this exact print. I had to do a double-take. Also, jazz hands 😬
I hurt my right foot with sports, which may have been how Kate hurt hers. My injury wasn’t as bad as Kate’s, but it still took two-three years to completely heal. She shouldn’t be wearing heels, at all.
I guess Cathy found a place for a photo op where no one is going to call out questions about her grifting parents. Also, PLEASE wear flat or athletic shoes. NO ONE wants to see that foot and I cringe at how painful it must be.
I’m sorry but I do not love this dress. It looks like someone 30 years older should be wearing it and could have gotten that frock from Walmart. Also these white shoes… Sorry, but Auntie Sophie looked more stylish and youthful than this when she stepped out with Kate’s husband this week.
Kate is a wackadoodle or she needs a new photographer. She always look crazy in photos. What’s with all the hand acting, manic smiling or laughing? She is completely unnatural.
Catherine’s face is getting so lumpy. WTF is she doing? It can’t end well and it causes her right eye to look wonky.
And don’t get me started on her hair. My hair is super fine so I have always kept it long because it is either that or a pixie. You have to get it trimmed every 6 weeks FCOL.
Interesting that she no longer is copykeening Meghan. What happened there.
I despise white shoes!
Me too. And white leather handbags too.
Also, the photo of Kate leaning hunchbacked into those white kids reminds me of Kate during the Carribean tour where she greeted the kids in the Commonwealth through a wire fence. Very different vibe.
I’ve noticed her extreme weightloss but these pictures are very disturbing to see. Normally I can find some photos in a group of photos where I can convince myself that her weight isn’t as bad as it seems to be. In these photos each photo seems to just get worse than the previous one. She looks almost skeletal and seems to be disappearing in this ugly Camilla-ish dress. Her poor posture, especially when bending over to greet the kids, is almost painful to see, and that’s coming from someone who has never been a fan. I’m genuinely concerned that there are young girls who will see her and think that her appearance is something to achieve, which is a very dangerous thing to strive for. Her shoes are horrible. High heals have never looked good on her for some reason. They always look cheap, even though they are likely not, and they make her feet looked crammed in the shoes.
Kate is SO much more relaxed without William. He definitely brings out the mean girl in her, nesting in her bones. Alone she’s fine and, shall I say it, normal (or almost). How she shines next to a white baby! Let Sophie and William do events together and Kate do hers alone. That’s a real working premise.
Archetypes canceled by Spotify, wtf Spotify, it was not the worst, there are worse ones remaining on air.