Prince William is out and about today, doing the second day of “events” related to the flop launch of Homewards, his homelessness project. Given that William’s office has blanketed the British media with out-of-touch quotes about how William is the savior of homeless people, I thought that Kensington Palace would have demanded that Kate stay home, to give William all the headlines. Turns out, not so much. Kate stepped out today to open a new charity office. Hilariously, King Charles and Queen Camilla are also out and about today – looks like no one got the memo that this week belongs to Pegwards!
To be fair, Kate’s event today seemed pretty low-key. She even repeated a dress from her closet – she previously wore this £1,335 Alessandra Rich dress to the Wimbledon men’s singles final last year. The dress is very Kate – polka dots (or fabric buttons!) and ruffles, something which was designed with a sense of whimsy but Kate wears with earnestness. Everything’s so matchy-matchy with Kate too – the navy-and-white heels with the white purse… I think the shoes should have been different, but that’s just me.
The event was opening One Small Thing’s new Hope Street center. One Small Thing provides housing and support to recently incarcerated women as they re-enter society. This new center will provide housing for five women (you read that correctly) who are re-entering society. So this is sort of like a half-way house too, which is sort of what William is trying to do.
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Hope Street residential community in Southampton, Hampshire, to officially open their pioneering community which will pilot a new approach to supporting women in the justice system. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Southampton, United Kingdom When: 27 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Hope Street residential community in Southampton, Hampshire, to officially open their pioneering community which will pilot a new approach to supporting women in the justice system. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Southampton, United Kingdom When: 27 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales reacts as she is welcomed by Edwina Grosvenor, founder of the charity One Small Thing during a visit to the Hope Street residential community in Southampton, Hampshire, to officially open their pioneering community which will pilot a new approach to supporting women in the justice system. Featuring: Edwina Grosvenor and Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Southampton, United Kingdom When: 27 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales (right) with Edwina Grosvenor (centre), founder of the charity One Small Thing during a visit to the Hope Street residential community in Southampton, Hampshire, to officially open their pioneering community which will pilot a new approach to supporting women in the justice system. Featuring: Edwina Grosvenor and Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Southampton, United Kingdom When: 27 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales (right) with Edwina Grosvenor (centre), founder of the charity One Small Thing during a visit to the Hope Street residential community in Southampton, Hampshire, to officially open their pioneering community which will pilot a new approach to supporting women in the justice system. Featuring: Edwina Grosvenor and Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Southampton, United Kingdom When: 27 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Per usual, she looks fussy and those wiglets look dry and raggedy.
Ugh. Kate is so basic. Everything is always so fussy and matchy. And what’s in that tiny little purse?!
Her EYES when greeting that poor woman. Take it down a notch dear gawd.
Lady Edwina Grosvenor is sister to the current Duke of Westminster, so Kate is turning it on, because she wants to still have access to that private jet.
Thank you Nic919, the whole ‘laying hands on a royal’ seemed a bit weird (never mind that Kate looks like she needs to be restrained). This explains a lot!
Honestly, Kaye, I wonder whether she’s able to take it down a notch. I was raised by an overbearing, profoundly insecure, social-climbing mother who expected me to appear and behave in a very certain, narrow way with her and out in the world, and I was severely penalized if I didn’t comply. And Mama Carole doesn’t come across as a warm, tolerant person and parent. I watch myself with people and see how incredibly reflexive, reactive, and canned my behavior is so much of the time with them compared to my private, far more subdued baseline. Sure, we’re all a little different depending upon who we’re with, but the contrast and energy difference in my own behaviors is huge and can be exhausting. It’s taken me years, immense work, a lot of self-awareness, and no small amount of pain and exhaustion to take it down a notch, as you say. Kate’s exaggerated facial expressions can be so jarring and incongruent with what you’d expect to see, and I wonder what kind of number her mother did on her with her social aspirations and pretensions. I can’t imagine that she ever saw and accepted Kate as the unique, beautiful little child she would have been.
Als much respect to Lady Edwina for her education, achievements, and her work in the world!
Crazy buggy eyes! Scary
I think a lot of the facial expressions come from her over use of Botox where she is trying to force her face to move and also due to the freeze framing she does for the camera – making sure they get her looking ‘engaged’ when everyone around her is reacting differently. She behaves this way when the cameras are on her.
She exaggerates her smile because it lifts her face.
You rarely see her relax her face muscles in public in case the pictures appear making her look droopy. It’s a shame she puts more effort in appearances than the causes she is supporting.
@girlninja, yep, and it looks like that poor lady in pink is trying to restrain a manic Kate (god just look at those scary eyes) from going full batshit crazy
Princess Cathy’s body language is always so awkward. It’s cringy.
I’m sure that I would never live up to the standards and criticism imposed on Kate and Meghan – why is it okay to do this day after day? I seem to remember Meghan stating in the Oprah interview that Kate was a good person and you didn’t have to hate her because you supported Meghan…
LOL, don’t worry, we did this before Meghan came on the scene. This is a gossip blog, this is what we do here.
Meghan is kind and gracious. I’m a never forgot kind of person when it comes to the fact that all KP had to do was issue a statement saying that Meghan did not make Kate cry. They didn’t have to even say what really went down. But they didn’t. And watched as the press ran with the angry black woman made the white girl cry trope. Letting that story go on in the way it did quite literally fueled the racism even further. In addition, I believe Kate and her mom planted the story regardless of what they told Harry about it being Camilla. So again, never forgetting that.
@Jais AND, based on what Harry said in Spare……IF it was camilla and she leaked it, and that is actually what happened*, then my guess is W&K TOLD Camilla that story knowing 100% she was going to leak it. Like, they told her as a way to keep their hands clean while she got the blame for it, but still got the story out there.
*I think its more likely that W&K TOLD harry that’s what happened, while Kate leaked it herself, or her mom did…..but I don’t think my above scenario is impossible either. Except would Camilla go to Camilla Tominey with that story? I don’t think so.
Meghan said this before kate was a total bitch to her at the funeral and it was recorded prior to the bullying accusations.
She should have said I felt bad for Kate because her husband is a cheater who doesn’t respect her, but Meghan is a way better person than Kate deserves.
Yes, I can see that scenario too @becks1, which takes planting the false story to Camilla in the first place. But it’s the Camilla Tominey part that’s confusing. Unless, Camilla leaked it to Tominey bc she wanted the footprint to lead back to Kate and her mom. Hmmm.
That dress is her basic go to style I noticed and it looks fine on her but what was she thinking with the shoes choice and that purse. it runed the whole look. Your mind goes ‘Forget it!’ when it gets to the purse and shoes. One wonders if she even has a stylist at this point and if she does have one if the stylist hates her. So many bad style choices. Kate needs a glam up squad to modernize her look. She always looks like she belongs in a great expectations novel or a Jane austen remake. I could appreciate if that is ‘her jam’ and she wants to stay true to a style that she loves but modernize that look and still keep the style somewhat. And there is a way to do that. Look at younger Lana Del Rey — not a fan of hers, however, she has found a way to modernize a fashion style that is antiquated and it suits her well.
Oddly, I don’t see a wiglet line – I thought it was just her natural hair in need of deep conditioning 🙂 also, her hair looks ‘fuller’ when she wears wiglets – this just looks flat & limp.
What gets me is, the dress she is wearing is very pretty, but she takes styling so literally. Matchy-matchy purse/shoes, pearl earrings, etc. The drop earrings look like an extension of the polka dots. Why not smallish hoops or studs? And a woven handbag to make the outfit look summery? I wish she would get a good stylist.
At least she wore a repeat? From a whole year ago?
I think she is getting ready to just hang out at Wimbledon for a while and so was told she has to do some other work before the tennis starts. Or she is just trying to steal William’s thunder lol.
There are events in Holyrood coming up so I am sure she will break out new outfits then. That said, the frilly dress with baby purse to visit a halfway home for women who were incarcerated isn’t really reading the room.
Good point. This could have been a day for her to actually wear the pants and separates she invested in.
Ohhh hell! If she’s heading up to Edinburger (yes its my spelling mistake cos thats what I call Edinburgh) then that means one thing and one thing alone …. something tartan! Or at least some sort of check. Hope my fellow Scots give her an earful.
I think we will see alllll new outfits for Scotland. and probably new outfits for Wimbledon too.
Diana got oodles more done and was more welcomed wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.
Her dressing up for this halfway house visit is like the Queen Mum wearing furs and jewels to visit bombing victims in WWII. I always thought good old Mum would have done better in pants with a shovel.
I think Kate & Lady Edwina are dressed equivalently (is that a word?). They’re rich ladies doing charity work. I noticed the tight sleeves on Kate, and pretty close-fitting sleeves on Lady Edwina, and wonder what that would mean for the rest of us with normal sized arms. Could we even wear those brands, assuming we could afford them.
Well, one of them is a rich lady doing charity work. The other one is a rich lady visiting a rich lady doing charity work.
Edwina didn’t show up in ruffles and a baby purse. That’s the difference, along with actual experience in the area.
At least the shoes look wide enough for her bunions.
That’s what I said too. At least, there’s room for those bunions.
What’s with the stupid little purse? It’s not like she’s got to carry her car keys or wallet.
Her cigs and tranqs?
Ha, love it!
A micky of vodka.
She would love to live in a Betty Draper world, do nothing, look pretty, smoke ciggies with neighbors all day and look the other way when the husband stays in the city for the night for the “work thing”. Ahh, poor cookie born a bit too late.
Both of the other women are wearing more modern, appropriate and interesting outfits. Kkkate really needs to cut that hair – I’m beginning to think she has things growing it in, it’s such a mop.
The other women didn’t time travel from the 20th century. LOL
I’m obsessed with Lady Edwina Grosvenor here. She’s wearing flats and is the same height as Kate, who is used to towering over everyone. She looks happy, relaxed, and normal – and she’s the sister of the Duke of Westminster so very old school aristocracy. She’s 2 months older than Kate but she comes off as a Woman – someone who has done things, and has experience and knowledge to share – compared to Kate’s juvenile comportment.
They’re clearly family friends, so it helps with the easy interaction, but man – what a comparison.
I didn’t realize she was a criminologist but she’s really the example of what someone with money and privilege can do and not just be a mannequin.
She looks gorgeous that peach pink dress is to die for on her.
Honestly, I think that is what throws me off so much about Kate at appearances like this. She’s 41. She’s not a child, she’s not someone lacking experience at this point (or shouldn’t be.) She’s a middle-aged woman who has been doing this now for 12 years.
and yet at events like this, with people her same age, she still comes across as so child-like, so out of her depth and inexperienced. I think its a combination of her clothing choices, her expressions, and honestly the extreme photoshop as an attempt to make her look younger than she is.
But theres always this lack of interest, this sense of playacting or something, IDK.
The Queen did not come off like this in public. Anne, Camilla, Sophie – for all their faults – do not come off like this in public.
The Grosvenor ladies are 6’ tall.
She’s also Diana’s goddaughter and her mother is William’s godmother. There’s a picture of Diana holding Edwina when she was a baby.
Hope Street is a really fantastic and innovative project for women who leave prison and their children. As someone who has done work with the prison population it’s been amazing to see the careful work behind it as it’s been built. The UK has a pretty small female prison population BUT little in the way of post release support.
One Small Thing and it’s founder are doing some really innovative work to bring attention to the reasons women end up in prison and the after effects for them and their children. If you are interested they have a podcast ‘JUSTICE’ which explores the issues faced by women leaving prison.
I am (until the end of the month) the chair of my county’s Affordable Housing Board, which is responsible for making recommendations for our housing bond and the county housing budget, and one of the biggest things I’ve championed is more money to the recently-released social programs. One thing stateside we keep seeing is 4-8 people work best, both in terms of finding houses and also for a single social worker to handle it all.
I was literally typing this and messaging one of the main contacts for the halt-recidivism work here to see about donating my recently-deceased father’s clothes for post-release job interviews.
I’ll also say my county, with a population of 150,000, needs $2M minimum to drastically reduce homelessness, so I’m sorely disappointed by that $3M number for heavily urbanized pockets of a whole country.
I’d be so embarrassed meeting professionals dressed like an American Girl doll.
Nailed it!
Lol perfect description
Oh, noes! The first comment is about what a woman is wearing!
Anyway, the peplum is terrible. They are trying to make it look like she has a shorter waist, but instead it accentuates how long her torso is. No more peplums, Kate! A simple belt at your faux waist will do the trick!
As for the charity visit, what’s it like, Kate, visiting a place that hopes to reintroduce women into society who’ve previously been incarcerated, when so much of your family and in-laws should be incarcerated but escape accountability by being wealthy?
I love the charity’s mandate.
She needs a brightly coloured shoe with this dress. Red would be classic but hot pink or yellow would be amazing.
Kate’s shoes are awful! I wear a fuschia shoe with navy and white. That’s my go to pop of color for that combo.
My go-to neutral shoe was always red.
Sarah, that’s what I immediately thought, too. She should have gone with a color that pops. I would have matched the purse with the shoes, too. Just GO FOR IT. It would have worked if she wore it like she owned it.
You can see in the profile pic that the wiglet isn’t blended. Does she just plop it on her head & call it a day? Why doesn’t she cut that mop?
I love the pink dress. Anyone know who makes it?
It’s a British brand, Me & ‘Em.
Me too I can’t stop staring at it!
I think WanK as well as KFC&C attending public events today is designed to divert attention from closing arguments in H’s case against MGN.
I thought royals were not to be touched yet here we are with the lady in pink grasping Kate by the shoulders. She did not get the memo ” You don’t know me well enough “.
Au contraire! It’s only the Black folks who get the obvious recoil and withering stare. If you’re whyte, it’s all right.
It looks as though the woman in pink is trying in vain to shake some sense into Kate.
She needs to shake harder.
The woman in pink is Lady Edwina Grosvenor, the sister to the current Duke of Westminster. I didn’t know who she was until I did a quick search but she is a criminologist (got her masters in it as well) and uses her money and connections to help with prison reform. She is was a true philanthropist does and not the nonsense that William and Kate pretend to do.
Also the grosvenor family is mega rich and so kate wants access to their private jets and money.
(She is also the same age as kate and dresses professionally without the little girl look)
The Dowager Duchess of Westminster is William’s godmother, and I think the current Duke of Westminster is godfather to one of William’s kids. Lady Edwina is also married to historian Dan Snow.
Lady Edwina then is of the aristocracy, “to the manor born”. Thank you for this info. Very interesting that Kates’ response to her seems quite welcoming.
Wiki tells me that Diana was her godmother too.
The last Duke RIP was close friends with Charles. So they’re like family to William.
I like and appreciate Lady Edwina and her partner. Her grandfather, Harold “Bunny” Phillips was very intimate with the Mountbatten family. Her mother is descended from the Romanoff family (the Tsars), I believe, and also from the poet, Pushkin.
Lady Edwina clearly “trumps” the Keene one on all those aristocratic values of old name, lineage, historical importance, old money, practical hair-styles.
@Gubbinal – that’s her grandfather? The Bunny Phillips Pamela Hicks wrote about in Daughter of Empire, her mother Edwina Mountbatten’s lover she and her sister liked so much, who for quite a while basically lived with them like a member of the family? (Mountbatten himself had a female lover at the same time, Yola Letellier, who also was part of the family mix.) Wow.
I wonder then who this Lady Edwina is named for. As for Edwina Mountbatten, at the end of her life (she died in her 50’s) she was involved in a relationship with Nehru, Prime Minister of India.
Aristocrats are, of course, exempt from ALL rules (sarcasm with a smattering of truth). However, she’s one of the, relatively, nicer Aristos and is likely trying to put middle class Kate at ease and help minimise her massive inferiority complex.
Almost the same dress (and I would argue that the lack of a peplum is actually an improvement), but ~$1500 cheaper. Come on.
https://stopstaring.com/collections/polka-dots/products/raileen-fitted-dress-in-black-with-white-dot
Kate is likely carrying the little purse so she has something to do with her hands.
Perhaps the jazz hands critique is finally getting through.
But carrying a purse is a good way to alleviate anxiety in social situations.
She always so anxious, that’s why the faces & over compensation hands & enthusiastic manner.
Whatever. She has absolutely unlimited resources to help her, she just doesn’t care to try.
And her penchant for polka dots is alarming.
Kokiri, that’s what I see, too. She is anything but relaxed. You can really tell when the other woman has her hands on her shoulders. Quite the difference between the two. I cannot fathom why a person who has been married for 12 years to an heir to the throne is incapable of engaging with people. The look on her face is puzzling. It’s the same look whether she’s with children or adults that she knows or doesn’t know.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that I think there is something wrong with Wails. I mean over and above of a possible/probable ED.
Kate doesn’t know how to dress. She could have changed the bag and shoes so that she doesn’t look exactly how she looked at Wimbledon last year.
Alessandra Rich has somehow pulled off making the worst of 80s style something that today’s rich women buy. Her styles, particularly the fabric choice, always look so cheap.
I think the 80s cosplay is Kate’s idea of a Diana homage. And even if years later Diana’s look and are, of course, very 80s/90s she still looks amazing because she had style, grace and personality. .
A while back, I was watching a slideshow of Diana’s “most iconic looks” (or something to that effect), and what really struck me was that most of those looks, despite being very ’80s/’90s, didn’t look as dated as they might have if anyone else was wearing them. I think it was because Diana brought a sense of fun or playfulness to whatever she wore. It was obvious that she just loved fashion and didn’t take it too seriously.
I agree Miranda, Diana just always looked present and glamorous.
Kate looks like a teen standing next to two professionally dressed women!
That dress is crying out for some ridiculously large costume earrings and yellow pumps.
That dress belongs onstage singing and dancing with Nathan Detroit.
She’s so boring. And seemingly incapable of change. No authenticity or humor to leaven all this dullness. She’s cemented herself with motherhood into the royal family… she should just take that win and call it a day
Kate ought to ask Lady Grosvenor ASAP for some style advice, but she’s too insecure clearly to ask for help with anything (public speaking, fashion, etc.).
This is 100% Kate style and I love that for her.
Whilst we may not like it, this is what she feels most comfortable in and I think that is important i.e. that she wears the clothes rather than the clothes wearing her.
I hope she stops cosplaying her SIL and MIL and finally does her.
Wearing polka dots is Diana cosplay.
Yesterday I was told that ‘sporty’ is 100% Kate’s style and what she is most comfortable in.
Good lord, what is she on? Her eyes are about to bug out of her head, it’s so uncomfortable to look at. She’s either taking too much or not enough of *something*. Yikes.
This is my special Kate day! Yesterday or the day before I begged her to wear drop pearls, and here she is and they look so good on her. They fit her style, they’re classic, and they look professional and pretty.
But I do agree with someone above who said fascia shoes would have been ideal with this outfit. But still. A non fussy earring that is appropriate for the outfit and occasion is a big win for Kate.
As others have said Edwina Grosvenor is brother to the Duke of Wedtminster who is one of George’s godfathers and her mother was a godmother to William. Edwina is also the wife of the historian / broadcaster Dan Snow. This is a terrific woman who does proper charity work and was greatly involved with prison reform. She manages to work despite having 2 or 3 children. Her family are loaded but great philanthropists. Kate would do well to follow Edwina’s example.
Just to add on her sister is married to one of the Van Cutsems and had a huge society wedding. Edwina and Dan Snow were married in a registrars wearing anoraks.
Lady Edwina also started a restaurant to teach women in prison employment skills called The Clink. Her work with women in prison goes way back. Her brother seems focused on children’s charities.
Wait a minute. I thought good old Katie visited a women’s prison years ago. One visit and done. Nothing came of the visit.. everyone just talked about her clothes. Anybody else remember?
The Grosvenor family has a tall gene. Lady Edwina is wearing flats and is the same height as Catherine. All of the women in that family are 6’ tall.
One Small Thing, eh? What a perfect metaphor for Waity’s “career”. One small thing, indeed.
Hard as she tries, Kkkhate just doesn’t have that *It* factor. No style, no substance. Uninspiring.
Bland and blah – with the exception of her terrifying cavernous tonsils-displaying grins and her mildly disturbing jazz hands.
I really like the retro style of spectator pumps but somehow the proportions of the shoe and the show strap placement isn’t flattering.
Kate is not insecure, her ego would not be so massive if she was. There is no poor Kate, just the poor people who have to put up with her on her waste of space visits. She is 41, stop blaming everyone else for her lack of personality and her arrogance. Unlike the other royals, her personality is deadly dull and boring, I dont believe that she cares, its always all about her. What was she doing there other than to grin like a maniac and pose for more photos. She spends an absolute fortune on clothes, has no sense of style, does nothing and achieves nothing.
But she’s working, don’cha know!
I think Kate expression is “how dare you touch me like this, as if we are equals”. Kate looks mortified. I also don’t like to be touched so maybe that’s why I recognize the look.
How is it that the woman in question ink is allowed to touch a Royal like that?
Slow news day eh?
Re: That last picture. Why does she always look like a maniac?
My first thought was fussy. I was a teacher for many years and had a blue polka dot dress, too, and it does make her look school marmish. But her dress no doubt cost thousands of more dollars than mine did at maybe 30 dollars? And at least I earned my living in it. I worked.
Hmm, I thought Kate naturally recoils when someone touches her. That’s what we were fed after Jamaica when she shrank back from the woman who was reaching gently to her. Hands on shoulders, basically forcing Kate to look at her. It will be billed as a “warm greeting” in the tabs.
I think if she would just start by wearing comfortable yet fashionable shoes and ditch the high heels it would make a huge difference. It’s a starting point. She really needs to stop wearing ‘floaty’ dresses. You know what I mean… anything that has no color or weight to it. When she wears floaty dresses its like she is saying, ‘I’m just floating in and out. I have no substance and am an empty vessel just tapping in on my high heels and tapping out to my chauffeured car.’
Are those poor people still wearing pantyhose? Are pantyhose not dead over there?