The Princess of Wales has made her first public appearance since Remembrance Sunday. While Queen Camilla skipped out at the last minute, Kate joined Prince William today at the official greeting for Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and one of his three wives, Sheikha Jawaher. We also got a confirmation that Kate will linger at Buckingham Palace after the official welcome ceremony, and she’ll join her husband at the lunch. But she isn’t going to the state dinner at the palace this evening (Camilla is going though). Per the Mail, Kate is “carrying out even more royal duties than previously planned at today’s state visit in London amid what is being seen as a ‘positive sign’ in royal circles.”
For her first appearance in weeks, Kate wore a Sarah Burton-for-McQueen coat dress in burgundy. She paired it with a matching hat from Sahar Millinery. They also let Kate wear some Royal Collection jewels – she’s wearing QEII’s Bahrain pearl drop earrings and the Japanese Pearl choker (the infamous vadge necklace). She also managed to wrangle her sapphire engagement ring back, after the ring went missing for much of the year.
Obviously, Kate looks fine, although I also think she looks like she possibly took an early-morning valium to get through the day. It also feels like there was pressure exerted somewhere to get Kate to come out for this. Some say that Kate has the power and she negotiated much fewer public outings. Some say Kate has been benched, and that she’s being told that she can’t do this or that. It’s probably a little of column A, a little of column B.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales greet the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) in, London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess Of Wales with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales greet the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) in, London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess Of Wales with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales greet the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) in, London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess Of Wales with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (right) and his wife Sheikha Jawaher (left) Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales as they greet the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and his wife Sheikha Jawaher, in London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess Of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales (right) greets Sheikha Jawaher, the wife of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales and Sheikha Jawaher, the wife of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales (right) greets Sheikha Jawaher, the wife of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in London, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the UK. Featuring: Catherine, Princess Of Wales and Sheikha Jawaher, the wife of Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Where: London, United Kingdom When: 03 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I guess she was forbidden wearing those red dresses. William still looks awful with the beard
So no near naked leg to her lady parts show. Looks like someone made sure that couldn’t happen. Now let’s hope all jewelry gets put back to it’s proper place when she is done .
@SusanCollins
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I think she’s wearing that vulva necklace again. Also the big blue is back!
lol great description of that necklace which seems to be one of the only pieces she is allowed to use.
She is cosplaying the flag of Qatar. I guess to show respect, but find this habit very odd. If I were invited to visit the royals, I wouldn’t show up in a blue dress with red and white crisscrossing stripes.
Sure you should. Style it just like Ginger Spice. Then you’ll be paying touching tributes to so many areas at once (unlike her, I know you can multitask)
…that missing button is gonna drive me bananas. Did Kate pop if off as a keep sake?
Perfect😂
It’s just unbuttoned, not missing. In one of the pics, you can see the button.
If Kate was a “girl’s girl” she would have discreetly alerted the Sheikha so that she could rebutton!
I’m thinking the Sheikha may have wanted that unbuttoned. You can see at the bottom of her coat that it’s lined in red, or she’s wearing a red dress (or both), & she’s wearing red shoes. I bet when she walks there’s a hint of red with every step & leaving that one button open probably makes it easier to walk & easier to see the red. Now that’s how you do peekaboo red!
@NutellaToast LOL. Thank you, I needed this laugh today 🤣
Comment of the day, Nutella Toast. 😃
LMAO!!!
She looks appropriate. I like the dress color and the boots. Overall good. I don’t like the dumb little hat and I despise that vadge choker necklace. But maybe that’s just me. Wish someone had told the other woman to fix her missing button. She looks good though even with the button mishap.
I think she looks fine too. It’s better than what she wore at the South Korean welcome event last year obviously. And I do like the boots.
I do think that choker is a little blingy for daytime – I think simple pearls would have been better, but what do I know?
That said….I agree with the valium take. I can’t tell if its just these pictures, but she looks out of it. I was actually wondering in the Camilla post if she (Kate) is on some significant meds at this point (pain meds, meds to help her sleep, psych meds, IDK) and that limits her ability to be at nighttime events. I know she did the Remembrance event at Royal Albert, but that’s been about it for her and nighttime events in a while. She has her christmas event coming up but I think that starts at like 5 or 6. I dont know.
She is clueless about when and how to wear jewellery. Someone should have explained it to her by now. Totally wrong. So obvious she’s not from that class.
Outfit is nice.
I agree the necklace is too much for day time.
I wonder about it limiting her public-facing events. These are all very controlled events. There’s very little chance for off the cuff conversation.
I think Kate and the third wife have more in common than they want to admit. Also the issue of Kate and meds is likely much older of an issue than just post surgery. There were times in 2023 where it seems like she was off because of meds.
The outfit is fine, but is another burgundy coat dress needed? Wearing a repeat would not be offensive, especially since she hasn’t worked much all year. It might show some consideration to the economic issues the people of Britain who pay for her lifestyle have to face.
@Becks1, ITA she is on some pain meds or some kind of sedative because her facial expression is a bit dazed and I think softer somehow than usual? If she is in pain they ought not have made her come out, but I’m guessing it’s more likely she is taking something to deal with anxiety.
@Jais – Those are my thoughts too.
@Nic919 – She’s wife #1 of 3, not the third wife. Like all Middle Eastern rulers, the Emir of Qatar has multiple wives.
I agree, she has that “medicine eyes” look. Valium, Xanax, something to help her through today. I also think she was on something similar last year, but maybe they are getting better at dosing because she was able to get out of the car appropriately today.
It makes me wonder what is truly wrong with her.
The middle eastern elite (women) love some blings, but they do know when/on what occations to wear them. Kate obviously doesn’t know when/how to wear shiny/big jewels. She just throws them on at every opportunity/access given.
Those of you who think the necklace is too much for daytime need to remember who we are dealing with here. She was benched from the dinner so this is her big reveal. Hell, I half expected a makeshift daytime tiara.
Okay, I am laughing at a makeshift daytime tiara! Bc if she could’ve she would’ve.
She should have worn something high-necked to show respect for their visitors’ culture, the choker is inappropriate for indoor wear especially in December.
Sorry, meant outdoor not indoor …..
She should have worn something high-necked to show respect for their visitors’ culture, the choker is in any event inappropriate for outdoor wear especially in December.
You’re right about the choker. It’s evening jewelry and she rarely wears her jewelry appropriately. It was inappropriate to wear at Philip’s funeral, too. Becks1 is right, something simpler would’ve been more appropriate.
To me she looks very stale and dated. That look is dowdy and flat and a little cheap looking. I’m sure that neckplace is worth a fortune but it looks like a mall buy. Even her make-up is dated. It’s too harsh, Overall she looks brittle and bitter.
Yeah, Sheikha Jawaher’s makeup is so gorgeous in comparison, although I wish she (Jawaher) picked a lighter colour for her coatdress. Like dove gray or cream. Kate does look like some pill she took just kicked in.
I have weird sympathy on Kate for the makeup because I know I do my makeup the exact same way I did it in 2012, lol, so I need to update my look, but despite my best efforts, I go back to the heavy eyeliner and eyeshadow, lol. (and not even that heavy, just compared to what seems to be “in” right now.) And yes, her makeup ages her and makes her look dated and it does the same to me but what do you MEAN my Naked eyeshadow palette is no longer “the thing”?!?!?!?!?!?
but…..like with so many other things….she can hire someone to help her. She doesn’t need to spend time on youtube and tiktok trying to see what works.
Brittle and bitter is a tad harsh. I think the color is lovely and looks good on her. And the day McQueen looks dowdy is the day I start eating cheesecake for breakfast.
Burton has made McQueen dull and boring and mostly because she designs for Kate who brings nothing to an outfit. Kate’s wedding dress was a boring copy of grace Kelly with pointy boob darts. The rest of her stuff is ok but it isn’t fashion forward which is what McQueen used to mean. It’s country marm trying to be stylish stuff now.
The colour is fine but the pointy shoulders have just been done and that seems to be the only thing Burton has taken from the McQueen aesthetic.
Grace Kelly’s dress was actually quite interesting with some unique features. Kate’s was a total ripoff of Princess Margaret’s wedding dress, including the boob darts. Margaret’s was beautiful. Kate added all that expensive white on white embroidery that didn’t read on TV, and she had lace sleeves. It’s pretty easy to please Betty when it’s a copy of her sister’s dress.
She looks that way because she is. Look at how she reacted to Meg needing some lip gloss. She’s an arrogant snob.
That is a beautiful burgundy but I’ve never been fond of the monochrome look. I like a bit of contrast. Plus I think although Kate looks OK she looks really, really thin, more than ever before. And looking really, really thin while wearing a wool coat is some kind of feat. And not a good one.
Ok, and now having read the above comments about Kate not knowing how to wear daytime jewelry, did none of y’all clock the Sheika’s earrings???? Those are some mighty big diamonds!!
Someone on here once said, “I hate those constipated little hats,” and I agree with that person!
Omg, I am so glad someone else thinks that choker looks a bit anatomical. 😂
Are we sure they didn’t just pull the wax statue of KKKate from Madam Tussaud’s this morning and popped her in those pictures?
I was wondering if they booted up the Kate-bot from storage and the look is her version of the blue screen of death or ‘installing update 7 of 36,386’.
Something went down for sure. Kate doesn’t have those mean girl smile anymore and William is smiling and looks happy. She didn’t get the best deal lamo. Whatever Kate got , she doesn’t look happy today and she looks drugged.
I don’t think she’s happy either. I think if this was her choice – attending this event and not the state dinner, not the diplomatic reception – she would look a lot smugger than she looks here.
Kate doesn’t like to work but she does like to be the center of attention so being benched so publicly must be killing her. As others have pointed out, Diana was never benched this way. I wonder if its due to some sort of mental health issue or if its part of her phasing out.
I almost wonder if she said “I’m not doing any event I don’t want to and you cant make me” and William and Charles shrugged and said fine, have fun at Wimbledon. But the flip side of that is that she can’t force herself into any event where they don’t want her. I almost wonder if she wasn’t supposed to attend Trooping.
Trooping is the one where she dropped the picture of herself in the woods to announce that she was in fact going to Trooping right? The idea of her dropping that announcement and surprising Charles and Camilla with her attendance would be bold. And kind of funny. I can actually see that. It would’ve thrown Charles and Camilla and the planners for a last minute loop. She did say she was only doing things that would bring her joy and one would think that a tiara event would bring her joy but maybe she’s changed. She did say she’s taking a break from life’s pressures. But that could also be her cover for being benched so idk?
@Jais, yes, that’s the one! If I am remembering correctly, there was some reporting around the time that C&C were surprised about the announcement and the photo, and then some pushback that she released the photo so she wasn’t the focus of the event on the actual day (which is why she wore bright white with a big bow and big hat?)
I think at the time some of us speculated that C&C didn’t know about the announcement – I think they would have had to have known about her attendance but maybe she thought she was pulling a fast one on them.
I dont know. There is so much going on here and its so weird. Like Kaiser said, I think there is a little of column A and a little of Column B – Kate is only doing what brings her joy (so not working) but she’s also being benched.
I think she’s doing her own version of H&M’s “half-in.” Life in the RF isn’t a bed of roses, even for mean girls. The thing is that she can choose “half-in” but she can’t choose which “half” – that’s why we’re seeing columns A nd B.
Only the British media can pretend that kate doing a photoshoot to announce her “return” for Tropping wasn’t an exercise in extreme narcissism. A statement would have been fine and that’s probably what Charles was expecting as it would match what other royals would have done.
And then a few months later the idiotic video announcing she was cancer free, but then immediately briefing it didn’t really mean she could go back to doing more engagements, just showed that kate is obsessed with her own image and doesn’t care to overshadow the monarch. The public backlash to that video provided Charles and Camilla leverage to keep her hidden because despite the Uk media working hard to pretend the video was great, the social media backlash was large enough to be heard above the sycophancy.
There were issues ongoing well before the surgery in January and I think what we are seeing is a return to that norm.
Now if her fake piano playing is now not acceptable that would be great.
Perhaps because Rose Hanbury will attend the State Dinner. I always felt that Camilla and Rose were in cahoots somehow.
The sidelining of the Middleton family is telling. From Camilla’s viewpoint, after Chuck passes, she and the Parker-Bowles are at Will’s mercy. Having a friendly Queen helps enormously.
Moreover, Charles and Camilla living in Clarence House (not Buck Palace) make it more difficult to later move Camilla out. She’ll die there.
Maybe the one that lost was Kate. The two years in Adelaide were up and the divorce was imminent. Charles was kind to make her Princess of Wales immediately, so she didn’t remain Duchess of Cambridge at divorce time. Probably a Camilla thing – Rose may be the Duchess of Cornwall while Kate is still around.
Kate’s illness, whatever it was, likely saved her position. There’s no way William can abandon his critically ill wife and their three children. Perhaps his troubles arise from pressures on all sides: Rose, now dubbed “Waity Rosie,” Camilla, who wants to push the Middletons out, and a settled arrangement for her family’s standing. Additionally, the children are older and beginning to understand the situation better. The Middletons, who invested so much time in his life when he was young, motherless, and dealing with a distant father, also want a role to play.
It’s like she’s wearing a uniform that she’s had and worn consistently for YEARS! That same silhouette…that same hat…
Those………………boots
As for Prince William? No comment
All those coat dresses and she couldn’t chose an appropriate color for day time events. Along with that jewelry.
She looks macabre.
Take off the fancy jewelry and the outfit gives strong Flight Attendant vibes.
Yes. If you google Qatar Airways Flight Attendant uniform, it looks similar.
Theme dressing as their guests’ national airline’s flight attendants is a new one, I’ll give her that.
@Miranda 🎯
Miranda, she probably has no clue about what national flight attendants wear. IMO it’s the new boots she wanted to showcase.
That’s because everything is the same color : dresscoat, boots, hat, purse. Like a Christmas special edition flight attendant burgundy Barbie.
Head to toe color is only for black IMO.
Fashion influence from Ma “doors to manual” Middleton, perhaps?
I think William is preening for the cameras because he believes the beard stubble looks good.
Ick! That beard resembles a gnarly mold I inadvertently cultivated in high school biology class in a petri dish.
Okay, bear with me here lol. I am kind of loving the beard because I think it exposes so many of william’s weaknesses. First, he’s clearly surround by yes men, from his family to everyone in his orbit, because no one will tell him that it looks bad. And that explains so much of what KP does wrong, because its clear everyone just smiles and nods and goes along with his tantrums.
Second, it shows how much random comments on social media mean to him and how much he is paying attention to social media. I think a lot of the “William is so hot” comments are from his bot army but not all. And even if they’re all bots – that tells me that KP wants to spend money on enforcing the idea that William is hot with his beard. so now we know that when there is something trending like “Prince William’s Affair” or other rumors, he is 100% aware and it enrages him.
His beard looks stupid. But it amuses me because it highlights his entitlement, his arrogance, his privilege, his enormous bubble. nothing is wrong with trying out something to see if it suits you. But this doesnt suit him, and it cracks me that no one will tell him that. Its like the Emperor’s New Clothes or something.
His beard reminds me of lichen
Okay but how funny is it that William and the Emir are dressed exactly the same???
The Emir has great presence, he knows how to wear clothes and is clearly confident and charming. Like Felipe of Spain, he is a very impressive ambassador for his country.
William needs taking in hand, urgently. He must have been aware of the unfavourable contrast between them.
I think Kate was ordered to come out for the welcoming ceremony. The marriage rumors would crank up more if she didn’t show for that and the state dinner. I think she was told to wear something more modest this time (out of consideration for the guests?), but certainly not to grab more headlines for flashing the world when stepping out of a car. The coat dress looks like a recycle.
I think she was ordered to store away the glittery and bright red outfits after her appearing in that bright red dress last year.
I think it’s another Camilla demand so Kate doesn’t take attention away from her. Remember when Camilla and Chuck asked Harry and Meghan to leave a garden because the guests were paying them more attention than Camilla?
Many years ago, while Diana lived, an insider mentioned that whenever anything happened in the royal BRF, Camilla was always in the background. I thought it was an exaggeration because, at the time,e she seemed invisible. Now I believe it.
A weak king always brings these types out.
It still looks awful for the future queen to look completely healthy (apart from the sedative-just-kicked-in-face) when shaking hands in the afternoon, and then the heir appears stag for the state dinner. It’s also offensive to the guests, even if the current queen consort is there.
If we believe what KP has told us, and that Kate has been done with chemo since the summer (August-ish?) then it does start to seem very offensive to foreign guests. Like she can come here for a half hour and shake hands but can’t be at the dinner. There is definitely something going on and the longer KP tries to hide it, the weirder it looks.
If Kate’s face got any tighter, the corners of her eyes would meet in the back of her head.
LOL!
My pet theory is that the Sheikh preferred and requested a photo op with Kate and Will over Chuckles and the Rottweiler.
+1
Maybe it’s the coat or the photo angle but she actually looks even thinner here. Always nice to see some of the bling on display! The problem (one of) with fewer working royal women is the horde of jewels stays hidden.
And maybe that Charles could probably solve the UKs cost of living crisis by simply selling one of them off to its country of origin.
That beard is doing William no favors. Perhaps it’s the lighting or some other technical issue, but his beard is making his mouth area seem swollen and somewhat misshapened. It’s probably just the photography, but it isn’t flattering. Someone at KP should be aware. But I guess with Will, this is the best he can possibly look.
I think the beard makes him look older and his chin looks more pointy.
Seems strange to only wear your engagement ring occasionally.
I do just that usually, but she is the one who kept showing it off wherever she went. Even if it meant posing in a weird angle, she would show off Big Blue at every turn. Until recently, there was never an occasion or photo where she didn’t wear it. Even in paparazzi photos.
@Smart&Messy – Yes, my thoughts too. It used to make me cringe the way Kate would show off that ring at every opportunity. She would pose her hands in photos so that the ring was always front and centre.
She wore it for scuba diving and sailing and other activities where most normal people would have removed it. That she wore it all the time for a decade and then suddenly stopped is what’s weird.
Maybe the ring was sent out to be re-sized. Weight changes affect ring size too.
The occasional wearing of Big Blue is one of two things: She simply does not want to wear it because she may feel she paid too high a price for it, or she returned it and gets it back for photo ops.
As for the jewelry, I have not seen her wear an important piece in a long time. It may be that some minor pieces on long-term loan are what she’s keeping in case of divorce. Unlike Diana, she doesn’t have that much juice in divorce proceedings. I wonder if she’ll even keep her wedding presents or those will “revert to the crown.”
The Royals are so petty that even a woman they are callously casting aside will be given the absolute minimum. As a divorcee, she’ll be more Fergie than Diana.
Oof, that beard is still looking patchy af. Grow it out properly and take care of it or shave that sucker off, dude. My complaint isn’t about anyone’s specific outfit choices, but this photo just looks odd to me. Why is everyone wearing their overcoats indoors? Take the photos outside if you insist on wearing your best woolens! I also notice that they are lined up super awkwardly in a dim corner, and poor Sheikha Jawaher has to stand off of the carpet while the other three are on it. I assume a professional reporter/photographer was involved, but it looks like my father taking a photo of my mom and her friends where he just sort of points and clicks once, never bothering to frame things or make sure everyone is looking at the camera. And before everyone has taken off their coats, lol.
LOL that’s a hilarious scenario with your dad. My husband does the same with people who ask to have their photo taken at tourist spots. He is awful.
I had the same thoughts about the photo, too. They really didn’t even try to be professional, but that’s K&Ws style.
Oh look! The emir is copying Peg’s crotch-clutching fig leaf pose. But he’s less awkward and more like a normal human. It must be the three wives that makes the difference.
I see she didn’t return the choker after wearing it at queen Elizabeth’s funeral. Also why does she have multiple similar coats in the same color, it’s actually wasteful
I was expecting something similar to the South Korea event last year…..did I miss that? Where is the big welcome event? This looks like a photo from a random hallway. Where is the pomp and circumstance? I’ll say something nice for a chanfge – The outfit is appropriate and I like the colour.
This is just the first round of pictures.
Gosh, you’re right about the Valium. Super-relaxed face and glassy, 1000-yard stare. Even the way she’s turned to Jawaher seems a tad medicated. Everyone else seems sharp and alert, while K…does not. She looks nice though.
@Mrs. Smith – ITA that there’s something “off” with her. There’s a picture on Twitter that looks as if she’s curtseying when everyone is walking away.
https://x.com/Mu_Ri_Elle/status/1863924839255265377
That’s…..really weird. Either everyone else there is phenomenally rude and turned their backs to her before she was done or she is just completely out of it.
Even if this angle is weird and we’re seeing Charles’ arrival, so the others turn to him and Kate curtseys, why isn’t she standing next to william? She’s completely blocked off by the group.
ETA okay I saw the video of it. She and william walk up to where the Emir and his wife are talking to Charles, William moves next to the wife and Kate is kind of cut out and curtseys anyway to Charles who doesn’t even acknowledge her or seem to look in her direction and then they all walk off while Kate is still curtseying. Its very weird.
Charles not acknowledging her curtsey is very interesting. Normally he would.
Wonder if Camilla avoiding recent events with Kate present is related.
Before this past year, part of Charles’ pr was talking about his beloved daughter in law Catherine. He said it a few times. So blanking her is strange. Maybe he didn’t notice. But i always felt like his praise for Kate was overkill. Kind of like how he’s an amazing grandparent, basically covering it up that he doesn’t care about his grandchildren and that Kate is not as beloved as he says. I mean she ambushed his Chelsea garden show!!! It always seemed like if any surprising news ever dropped, he wanted it to be publicly known that he had treated Kate kindly. Regardless of whether that is the truth. But yeah imagine if Camilla is avoiding Kate. Lordy.
When I saw the emir at the 2022 World Cup finale, I thought he was a lot older than he actually is! He’s only 44.
The DM comments about “our beautiful future queen and how wonderful that she is knocking the Montecito gritters off the front page”. Why is every mention of Kate paired with a slur against the Sussexes. The syrupy, sappy comments sound suspiciously alike.
The support for them in the Daily Fail comment sections are always sappy and robotic. I always laugh when their first claim for fame is that she is a “future queen consort” as if that is an accomplishment that anyone should attain, especially since her predecessor is old Rottweiler ice mistress Camilla. The mattress queen consort who gave a BJ to the MadTV Tampon king before his wedding to the beautiful and elegant Diana.
And there are all the praise comments of Kate and/or Huevo that get over a million likes. Must be a bot machine, that automatically gets the likes. And it shows insincerity that Kate is praised and accompanied by a nasty post about Meghan. Sometimes the DM lets comments in like those downvote and criticize the “Kate never puts a foot wrong” remarks.
what’s up with huevo’s thumb?
Kate is “carrying out even more royal duties than previously planned”.
Please alert me when she does 543 engagements instead of the agreed upon 490 per year. Then we can actually talk about *more*.
Do they want a cookie for appearing, strung out, for a photo opp? Do basic, banal things like this justify a pay rise of £ 45 million per year while millions of very old pensioners need to use food banks to survive?
I’m too lazy to go back, but I thought they told us beforehand that she’d do the meet & greet, the reception & lunch. How is this more? More would be the evening banquet, right?
I’m not a fan of mustaches, but the Sheikh is very handsome and he looks so much younger than William! I wonder how he decides which wife will go with him for this state visit.
Yeah, that’s what I’m wondering. Which wife gets to go on these trips?
He is SO HANDSOME!! I think he looks great for 44. He may be my new favorite, although I still adore Felipe!
Cute dimples. A little bit of the young Ernest Hemingway about him.
I do wonder why Kate wasn’t wearing some Qatari bling as they’ve given the BRF lots of jewellery over the years.
I bet William was thinking “Why can’t I have three wives?”
I’m betting he can’t satisfy one wife.
(Not that satisfying women is the concern of the sheikh, either.)
It’s like Charles’ infamous comment that he needed two wives, and he did this in front of Diana and people at a banquet they attended.
Meanwhile in Qatar — “There is a new level of global scrutiny to the serious abuses that migrant workers face in [Qatar] the country. Authorities have introduced several labor reforms, especially since 2018, yet the benefits of these reforms were limited by their narrow scope, late introduction, and poor enforcement. Qatari laws continue to discriminate against women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals.”
Why is the BaRF entertaining these people?
@jaded, come January, our future MAGA laws will also discriminate against women and LGBT individuals. Vance made this one of his talking points.
@Jaded: like minds & all that?
Thank you for saying it.
@Jaded. Is it necessary to parrot the same tired anti-Qatar propaganda on every post related to the country? The messaging you keep posting was part of the campaign against Qatar following award of the WC2022. Do you really expect the UK to cut off diplomatic relations with any country that doesn’t have a perfect human rights record? The US has a pretty shit record and is backsliding rapidly; should they be cut off also?
Wait why did she change into a different (repeat) burgundy coat dress for the luncheon? It’s too heavy to have been under the McQueen but is very similar (without the ruffle).
She looks lovely in burgundy as she cosplays a Qatar Air hostess.
Now, look at this photo, as a photo. Of William the Statesman (in his head only, but stay with me) greeting a head of state & his wife. They’re standing in the corner of a nondescript room; the men have barely walked into the room far enough to allow the women enough room to stand–one of the women has to stand on the bare flooring at the edge of the room while the other three people are on the carpet. Beige walls back the beige people, beige with white wainscoting & apparently white framed art?? Does anything say we’re happy to greet you? We’re glad you’ve come such a long way to visit? Is there anything remotely ‘newsy’ about this photo? Anything artistic in lieu of news?
She looks dated: very elderly. I’ll give her late 50s early 60s. The gaudy necklace is not it.
Why on earth did they line them up by height? And stick them in an awkward corner?
I like that the Sheikh is taller than William and much healthier looking.
The way they were lined up in height was kind of funny. Wouldn’t be my choice but it was funny.
Kate’s gone back to her old lips. That’s all I got.
Eat something Cathy will you
All she thinks about is her “ beautiful slim figure”.as well as keeping the DM readers worshipping her
She looks like a Qatar Airways flight attendant. Is that on purpose? They really wear almost identical hats (and frozen smiles)
When she’s not copykeening she’s theme dressing so yes it would make a lot of sense.
Kate is wearing the colour of the Qatari flag. And she changed out of her boots into pumps indoors.
BM full of stories how Kate is wonderful and back to royal duties. Also at the evening event David Beckham and his wife brown nosing.God that man wants a knighthood so bad. It must be great to have the nation applaud you when you step out in a news outfit and jewels and grin into a camera. Wouldn’t be great if we all had lives like that.
Greetings,
Yet another predictable, colour matching, PR stunt. The shallowness of the Toxic Two is on full display. That is it from me.