Word on the Mean Girl Streets is that Prince William and Kate are worried that they are the “targets” of Omid Scobie’s Endgame, and that Kate is especially upset because Scobie’s Endgame excerpts came out the same day as her big “landmark speech” about Early Years. I can’t stop laughing, because I actually watched Kate’s two-minute speech and there was nothing landmark about it, nor was it anything other than another huge, overhyped embarrassment for the Princess of Wales. I said yesterday that it feels like people are setting her up to fail, but the truth might be even worse: the palace, Kate and the media all feel like Kate’s “speech” was genuinely groundbreaking or important. Meanwhile, at the symposium (lol) Kate talked about what Prince Louis’s “feelings wheel” taught her.
Kate Middleton says Prince Louis is learning to express himself with a cool tool. The Princess of Wales, 41, revealed that her 5-year-old son and his classmates are using a “feelings wheel” at school to help them describe their emotions. Princess Kate shared the update while making her way into the Shaping Us National Symposium at The Design Museum in London on Wednesday morning, where she delivered the keynote speech. Before she entered the auditorium, Princess Kate spoke to host and British radio and TV star Fearne Cotton about the project.
“Louis’ class, they came back with a feelings wheel — it’s really good. These are 5 or 6-year-olds and going with names or pictures of a color that represents how they feel that day, so there is a real keenness in school particularly to get involved in conversations. It’s actually helping continuity across the board and then how does that feed into you, with your mental health — it’s same conversation, so to be able to find a bit of framework to talk about this, is very important,” she continued.
The Princess of Wales then said she was ready for her key speech — but admitted to some jitters!
When Cotton asked how she was feeling ahead of the address, Kate replied, “Good but nervous, but excited too.”
“There is a real keenness in school particularly to get involved in conversations…” Lordy. For £20,997 a year, Lambrook should be doing more than a janky feelings wheel. Anyway, as many have pointed out, Kate constantly uses “feelings” and “mental health” as if they’re interchangeable. As if “feeling a bit down” is the same as clinical depression, or “feeling a bit nervous” is the same thing as clinical anxiety. While feelings wheels are great, I would have hoped that a self-styled early years and mental health expert would know how to speak about these subjects with more nuance and care.
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales laughs as she listens to Tony Blair and William Hague swap anecdotes as they speak at the “Shaping Us” National Symposium at the Design Museum in London, UK, 15 November 2023,Image: 822228587, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Richard Pohle / Avalon
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- The Princess of Wales arrives at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum in London, to co-host the event with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Nov 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales arrives at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum in London, to co-host the event with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Nov 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales arrives at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum in London, to co-host the event with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Nov 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales arriving at the Design Museum for The Shaping Us National Symposium. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Nov 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales arriving at the Design Museum for The Shaping Us National Symposium. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Nov 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Maybe keen herself should use the feelings wheel. I doubt it would help though.
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I think that’s how she picked out that outfit, spun the wheel & it landed on purple.
LOL we already know which one it is. The emoji she says she uses a lot “tears when everything has gone wrong” or something like that, when Willy said his most-used emoji was the eggplant/pegging emoji.
She’s cosplaying the eggplant.
This is such a first world problem.
There are millions of children around the world who would just wish to roof over their school or chairs and tables and books and pencils, and some people are babbling on about children having ‘feelings wheels’……
It may be coming from someone we don’t admire but a feelings wheel is a good basic tool to validate children’s experience. And further to your point there are families/ children across Kate’s home country struggling with the basics. She could be doing more concrete for those families
As a teacher a ‘feelings’ wheel or chart is used to teach students self regulation- something that was not a part of education until more recently. It’s exceedingly important in an inclusive classroom with a variety of needs ,ranging from autism to a student just having a difficult day, to help students identify the feeling as well as strategies to help support that feeling. Essential in our modern world for littles, Early Years, to help build more resilient, capable, and independent children.
That said this is a standard, or should be, in most classrooms where I live in Canada for kindergarten or daycares, even some older kids.
Her speaking about this tells me she has no experience in the Early Years a or England is behind on this type of stuff which I don’t believe.
Her goal should be focusing on the factors that impact kids during those Early Years such as social groups, food security, homes ect
I wonder what color is assigned to the stick your thumb on your nose at your mother feeling? I want to guess angry red.
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My goodness she sounds so uneducated when she talks. Does she really have a degree or did uncle Gary buy that too?
As per usual, WORD SALAD!!!
She doesn’t need a degree. Just read some books, studies and talk to tje real experts with genuine interest and a somwhat intelligent person could talk about the subject in general terms without sounding like a 7 yo. Again, she doesn’t have to do this. Just raise funds, give grants, give platform to the real researchers instead of hogging it for yourself. It would be easier and so much more impactful.
I agree, she doesn’t NEED to be a brilliant mind, but she DOES need to use her position and (relative) celebrity to draw attention to the real experts. But I don’t see her doing any fundraising for their work. Instead she play-acts as a subject-matter expert herself. It’s a stupid strategy.
I really wish they were able to adapt expectations to who each of these people actually are. If they could just let Kate visit daycares and children’s sporting events and say something mildly encouraging, it would be fine. The monarchists would go on about how magnificent she is. The same people would criticize her as do now. It would just dial the drama down immensely.
I mean….would it really help???
She’s on the third kid, and suddenly realizing that there are colors, and wheels, to express emotions to a really little kid.
This is what happens in every single preschool on the planet, where white people are enrolled.
I am white, and I am stunned that anyone thinks Kitty is revolutionary.
Does anyone really believe either she or #WillyWanker actually earned their degrees? Does anyone believe Kitty could write a well researched historical thesis? What professor would have flunked either the FK or his GF? I don’t believe either of them are capable of doing the work required to really earn a degree.
No, no, and none of them. Even if there was a principled professor who wanted to fail Will, I doubt they would have been allowed to.
Nope.
She went to St Andrew’s uni in Scotland. I am Scottish. In Scotland it is not possible to get degrees unless you pass the exams at the correct level. Do other countries not always work this way?
Reading a transcript of her words aloud has affected my feelings. Not my mental health, but definitely my feelings. Her convoluted words hurt my brain, but make me laugh. It’s like watching an SNL sketch.
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I think it’s good that someone is teaching Louis how to express his feelings with words. We all know his parents aren’t up to that job. Now we can all look forward to a “hot mic” moment from Louis the next time he’s frustrated with his mother.
It is good, but it’s hardly groundbreaking stuff. The colours she refers to are probably from famous children’s book ‘The Colour Monster’ which is used across the UK and probably beyond too. The people in the room with her will probably know all about it already.
For 20 grand a year, I’d want to know what else Louis’ school is doing above and beyond that.
Hey, at least a feelings wheel is a healthier way of expressing oneself than throwing pillows and screaming!
Finally figured out my reaction to the purple suit. It’s not bad but it really just makes me think of a grape popsicle.
It’s a really flat color. I don’t get how she misses constantly. It’s not rich enough. It looks like a crayon.
It’s a really flat color. I don’t get how she misses constantly. It’s not rich enough. It looks like a crayon. Or one of those smell markers.
Agree. I actually *really* like the cut and tailoring on her. It’s the color that’s an issue. It’s so bright and flat that it looks like a crayon. It’s very primary-school-esque.
It does! I generally like a “mulberry” purple color, but it has to have more depth and subtlety than this. She looks like Skinny Barney.
Barney the purple dinosaur.
She wore out so she would stand out in all the audience pictures, bc its all about her.
you guys. I know we mentioned this yesterday but I really think that’s her “notebook” notebook. It has some sort of gold writing on it. I think that’s the same one she brought to that meeting in WC that said “notebook.” Was that a spiral one?
ETA I JUST LOOKED IT UP AND YES IT WAS SPIRAL. OMG ITS THE SAME ONE. She also had it at Harvard, but its clearly never been used, spiral notebooks that have been in use for a year do not look that neat.
It probably has Mrs William Wales doodled on the first ten pages.
10/10 for investigative skills there!
Of course it’s the same one, like she uses it beyond as a prop for these ‘important meetings’ (that should have been an email). 1/100th of a point for not buying a new one every time?
😄 Well-spotted! And yes, pristine as when first purchased!
The spiral on that thing looks as crisp as the day she bought it!
In fairness, the cover just says “notebook”, nothing about “writing”.
All I know is that the response she gave touched all the buttons on the Wales bingo. First, she made a reference to someone being “keen,” she said that one of her children is (coincidentally) doing something related to the event (as in Louis/Geo. likes airplanes/tennis too, Roger Federer), and the mention of mental health from people who regularly scoff at the thought of it. And, as bonuses, she’s wearing pants for a business engagement like she’s seen You-Know-Who wear, and she’s carrying the Notebook of Solemnity like a big girl. I think her work is done for now.
“In fairness, the cover just says “notebook”, nothing about “writing”.”
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Purple is the color of royalty. Perhaps we are supposed to be in awe of her. Isnt it about time they stop trying to make her seem intelligent. She is definitely not. Rewriting her history is treating everyone as being totally stupid. She was a trashy commoner, there are plenty of pictures to establish this. Her obvious skills are being a very accomplished mean girl, stalking and being a predator.. She is no doormat and definitely not meek and mild.
My kid’s not-fancy preschool is doing a lot to raise the children’s emotional awareness and give them tools to express and control feelings. It’s super useful…but also industry standard at this point.
Right, she’s supposed to be coming up with other tools like the feeling wheel, I would think. That’s the whole point of research, usually. Informing people about something that’s widely used isn’t much of an awareness campaign.
It would be really great if Kate spent time at daycares and kindergartens. She could work as a teaching assistant for the day. Just repeating the same buzzwords is boring and does nothing to highlight early childhood education.
My kids have had something like that in their classrooms since preschool. My youngest son’s class has had a whole area in the corner of his classroom that allows them to sit and process their feelings along with words and actions to help them. They can take as long as they want to deal with whatever it is they are feeling. Maybe I’m privileged with our public school education but I hardly think this is groundbreaking.
My children had a “feelings” chart in preschool they are currently in their mid to late thirties. This isn’t new or groundbreaking.
It’s really not but it seems to be new and groundbreaking to Kate.
Kate reminds me of my son— he thinks that if he’s learning something for the first time, *everyone* is also learning it for the first time. He asked me recently if I’d ever heard of inflation.
Let’s all be honest Karen most likely doesnt really want to do this stuff, its part of the reason she’s so bad at it. I always get the feeling that she would rather just be like an old school royal and just show up when they tell her to for 30 mintues or so smile, wave, learn about the charity and then go home. Its her dumb husband who keeps on insisting they be “social change” makers and she can’t just piggy back off his issues so here we are! If she were smart, she would just go to buckingham palace and say listen I’ll up my work level to 3 exhausting days a week, and take holidays whenever you go abroad. In exchange for you reigning in my balding dummy of a husband, letting me grab his ass whenever I want, and taking care of the Middelton clan. They most likely would accept her offer as she meets their criteria of being white, british, dumb, and someone who easily falls in line when told!
If Kate had committed to doing the bread and butter engagements from the beginning, she could have skated by a lot of the criticism she gets. I don’t think anyone even expected much from her when she originally joined the family, but they really shot themselves in the foot by claiming she was going to “hit the ground running”. Ten years on, and William blabbering about “impact” that never appears only worsens things for them both, I think.
So not only is this a very facile example of early childhood social emotional teaching at this point, it’s also not even a good one. The whole color match with feeling strategy is very limited because it only helps children identify feelings in themselves and not others. Too be actually effective children also need to be emotionally literate enough to also identify feelings in others as well, which is a huge component of developing empathy and social forecasting (the ability to project cause and effect in social settings). It’s actually a pretty nuanced and emerging area of developmental psychology, but even so widely used curriculum’s such as Second Step do a pretty thorough job of teaching in a skill building approach through out an entire school year. It’s been adopted by many publicly funded preschools so if Kate had talked to most Head Start teachers she could have come up with a more sophisticated explanation of the topic.
@Anna, the thing is, that’s basically what she (and W, to a slightly lesser extent) does— she shows up for 30-45 minutes, shakes some hands, poses for some photos, and goes on her way, never to be seen again. (In rare exceptions, like yesterday, Kate will make a two-minute speech, but as Kaiser said, it’s not like that’s particularly groundbreaking.)
But the difference between W&K and someone like Anne is that their ENORMOUS egos require that they create these huge, far-reaching “initiatives,” and then proceed to spend far more time and money branding and promoting them than they do actually working.
So when they show up for their half hour photo op, they feel super important because it falls under the umbrella of [insert whatever initiative they’re currently pimping]. And sometimes there’s even a special backdrop with “Shaping Us” (or whatever) in the background for said photo ops, so they think they’re doing something hugely important and influential, and the RRs can talk about it like it’s hugely important and influential, but it’s all BS.
At the end of the day, they’re basically still just doing traditional royal work, but they’ve insisted on wrapping it up with a big (and very expensive) bow and trying to pretend it’s something that it’s not.
I totally agree with you that never shutting up about the “impact” that never happens makes them look ridiculous, but I guess as long as the press is willing to play along and write about them as if they’re curing cancer, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, Kate and William are hellbent on outdoing the Sussexes–which is why they are drowning because they don’t know how to swim.
We used something similar in my class when I was teaching 1st grade. What’s concerning is that I think any of my 6- or 7-year-old students would probably have been able to explain it more coherently than Kate just did. If she were just stumbling over a few words while trying to simplify the concept for a lay audience, that would be one thing, but it seems far more likely that she just doesn’t really know what she’s trying to say.
It seems she thinks she discovered the importance of childhood mental health via her children/their school and now she’s letting society know…without realizing that the importance of childhood mental health was well established, then made its way into education, and then her children’s school. She’s sort of the last to know.
Exactly, this is only new to her in that room.
So she’s basically in the same space as those ‘as a father of daughters’ guys who realise women should maybe be treated well.
It’s great that schools are teaching kids to recognize their feelings, but I don’t think this is as groundbreaking as she thinks it is. My kids’ school has a “calm down corner” where kids go (by their own choice, they are never sent) to have a few minutes to calm down (every room has this, it usually has a bean bag chair, a few fidget toys, etc.) and in K they had a feelings chart I think.
I dont know, just something when she talks makes it sound like everything her kids do is so unique and groundbreaking and privileged, and sometimes its not – but its a mark of privilege to me because she is in such a bubble that she thinks everything they have is unique.
that makes little sense, I know, lol.
And these things have been in place for decades. Things like a quiet room have existed in some Canadian schools since the 80s.
But Kate wouldn’t have a clue because she is ignorant in pedagogy. Had she taken any psych courses in the early 2000s she would have learned about these things over 20 years ago.
This is a make work project to pretend that she isn’t a useless empty headed mannequin. But her own words or lack thereof consistently confirm that she really has nothing of value to say.
I am all for helping kids be able to express how they are feeling but my 1st grader came home the other day telling me how he feels claustrophobic. I obviously think my 7 year old doesn’t know what the word means but he goes on to tell me that it is because the other kids stand too close to him. Actually, come to think about it, he saw an ad for Better Help and said I need to call them and get him an appointment scheduled because of this claustrophobia.
So many thoughts. First, why is she still, after 20 years and 10 campaigning for the role, taken aback and nervous about addressing the public? Second, it’s really sad that it all falls flat when this is a really good subject to explore and bring attention to. It seems that she really loves this, but it’s constantly and consistently underwater. How is it that she can’t harness more… I don’t know what she’s lacking, but it’s something.
Critical thinking skills? Work ethic? Credentials?
Every time Kate shows up for something like this, she acts it’s like it’s the first time she’s ever done it. Probably because she gave it ~zero~ thought after the last one was finished. It’s like every day is Groundhog Day for her.
The nerves are so palpable it’s actually overwhelming and I found it impossible to watch. It must have been dreadful for the audience.
She has no social poise, no confidence, and any improvement is always knocked back by her daft pronunciation. Focusing on such an unnatural form of speech creates fear, and the strain on her face and in her eyes is just awful.
It’s time they stopped her public speaking, thirteenth year in the job…….
Perhaps Incandescent Bill and manic Kate could have their own Wheel of Feelings to help both cope with everyday life?
William’s feelings wheel:
Rage at Harry = Black
Rage at Meghan = Midnight black
Rage at CRex = Purple
Rage at a football loss = Dark Red
Rage at Kate = Royal blue
Warm fuzzies = Rose
@Harper LOL!!
Does Keen listen to her speeches afterwards? That might help her speak better, if she were serious about her job.
Shoot, that pre-speech convo was meaningless! She’d need to re-think every single thing she says in order to speak better. She’s apparently not good at small-talk or speech-presentation.
VaKate has a lot of empty space in her head. Considering her family’s very common and council housing background and relatives still there, it is unbelievable how she pretends she is totally clueless about life outside of the royals and the upper classes. A monotone drone, mumbled, barely understandable was the groundbreaking speech, inspiring nothing other than pure boredom. Plus the fake upper class accent that constantly seems to get worse need to go. It is a joke. Someone please teach her how to speak. Everything is still only about her and finding more personal photo opportunities, not about helping others. . The feelings/emotions wheel was invented by American psychologist Dr. Robert Plutchik who died in 2006, it is used in many places including Betterup the company where Harry is chief impact officer in USA.
I never had a feelings wheel in school and wish we’d had one!
And I dunno, I lived in the UK and people… never talked about their feelings (broad generalization, obviously). It was all banter, and taking the piss, and just talking around subjects. I was constantly being told I was “very straightforward” or blunt” or “honest”, which I guess looking back was thinly veiled criticism. So maybe for British people this is a big deal? *shrugs*
But Kkkate always sounds so superficial while talking about ANYTHING.
Considering the state of Early Years education in the UK (lack of funding, lack of workers, fees through the roof), focusing on this issue could really be life-changing for loads of children. But that would need actual commitment, practical solutions and well-directed funding… the kind of money that was spent on this symposium, for instance.
This is a very good point. This work is not within the remit of a royal. 1. Because she is no good at it. 2. She can’t start talking about funding allocation because it’s not her job – it’s a government dept’s job which crosses over into politics because its natural home is as part of a manifesto/budget manifesto. Charles understood this – his own work with youngsters was an adjunct to education, as was his father’s; the Prince’s Trust and Edinburgh schemes are add-ons and development programmes, they aren’t fundamental funding initiatives for pre schoolers/early years. She really doesn’t understand this, which means she can skirt around the issue and talk nonsense. Someone in govt needs to get some money back into proper pre school and early years and it has to be part of a manifesto re general education funding. It’s not up to Kate Middleton. She can bang on about feeling wheels all she likes, but this isn’t injecting money into our education system. This woman is a princess playing around not a politician working out budgets. She can’t even get her thick head around this.
Replying to myself here! What she could do is an initiative to buy toys and room equipment for preschooler settings. She couldn’t go too far into educational materials, because this is dictated by the national curriculum not royals. She has got herself into a right hot potato of an issue – early years is a huge area that requires state funding and therefore political bias as to budget allocation. She can talk all she wants but her practical ability is limited. What she’s picked is however such an easy talking opportunity. What she says is SO obvious; people on the DM are saying, we know all this already. She’d have been better highlighting a cause that is blighting our society, which is the isolation and loneliness of the elderly. The charities associated with this area would really benefit from simply getting the word out. This would be news, not early years are important. No. Really?!!
In the second and third photos, it looks like one of the wiglet extensions is trying to sneak away behind her back.
@Dee I thought the exact same thing! 😂 It looks like it’s trying to make a run for it while she’s distracted talking to someone.
Kate should have worked full time pre marriage and also gotten a degree in early childhood psychology. She lacks credibility since her post university life she did little more than wait for williams calls lest he choose someone else. She has not used that art history degree.
He tried to choose others and no one wanted him. And Kate just would not go away. Nor would her mother.
I work in a state primary school in London and we have been using a system like this called The Zones of Regulation, which is a complete social-emotional learning curriculum, created to teach children self-regulation and emotional control. The Zones of Regulation organizes feelings, states of alertness, and energy levels into four colored Zones – Blue, Green, Yellow, and Red. The simple, common language and visual structure helps make the complex skill of regulation of emotions more concrete for children and those who support them.
I’m sure if Twiglet or her speech writer looked at any of the parent’s literature provided by the school or even the school’s website, she would be able to put to a better statement than ‘keenness to be involved in feelings’! As someone has just posted-she can’t even be bothered to understand the pedagogy.
Louis is also her third child and not her first. So she hasn’t bothered to pay attention to what schools were doing for George or Charlotte?
Those poor men forced to sit next to her while she gurns and guffaws over nothing. I’m sure they are wondering how they got sucked into this farce.
Feelings charts/wheels- with colors to denote emotions. Hardly groundbreaking. My now 28 YO step son’s Kinder used that and it wasn’t new then.
Kate has an art history degree. It would have made more sense for her to focus on how art therapy can help children and adults who have mental health issues such as trauma, depression, etc. It would have been in her wheelhouse, mainly since one of her charities (the one that closed) focused on this issue. Instead, we get Kate running around trying to reinvent the wheel.
Wouldn’t it be more logical for her program to advocate for the presence of mental health professionals in schools ? But yeah more feelings wheels I guess.
That notebook doesn’t look like it’s ever been opened. Probably the pages are blank.
Oh Kate, SIT DOWN AND STFU. LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS! She really has no bloody idea and no word salad is going to hide that, my son had a mood board as school many years ago. You went to the board, picked a colour and a picture and put it under your picture . It’s NOT a new idea, just because it’s in Louis school, no matter what how much you pay! You come, you speak and then you sod of and forget, until you want a few more headlines, your as pathetic as your husband, now please go home and feed your wiglets, your boring us
What happened to her right eye??
I had to run back up the page! It’s more what happened to her left, I think? Her right eye seems to be at a normal level, whereas the left eye has a lifted eyebrow, thru botox I believe, that has never come down. I think her left eye is extra drooped and they tried to lift the whole appearance.
Wait, her left or ours?
Her left. I had to think for a bit! Definitely her left not ours.
It happened after the noticeable facedroop photo at the state banquet on the Caribbean tour. Photos have been photoshopped since then and it may have lasted only a few seconds. It was when she was wearing the green gown. This site still has an unphotoshopped image. The whole left side of her face dropped or froze when the right side was smiling.
The wider left eye and higher eyebrow could be the result of surgery to prevent this happening again.
I read that quotation several times & still can’t figure it out. That’s not a word salad, that’s a word bowl of grits, just full of meaningless mush.
I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who contorts their face so much, see in the audience photo (where again the droop is back). Also, the man on her right. He looks like he’s falling asleep. And the young woman behind her, who looks like she’s laughing as in FFS.
I want so badly to feel sorry for her, because I *cannot begin to imagine* what living with that level of scrutiny must feel like. Cameras clicking away getting hundreds of high-res shots that people like us will study, that some people will search for flaws with a freaking magnifying glass, not only appearing in supermarket magazines, like in Diana’s day, but that will live forever all over the internet and SM now, too. It must be hellish.
Then I remind myself how she acted toward Meghan, and, meh. 99.9% of my sympathy evaporates pretty quickly.
But it really must suck so hard, especially since the world is so much tougher on and more demanding of women. The Windsor men can show up with their suits wrinkled and wearing tattered shoes, and there won’t be a peep about it in the press. Yet if Kate has a hair out of place, someone will say she looks sloppy. All of us here, myself included, are totally guilty of doing this kind of thing.
But anyway, to your point, yes, she really does contort her face in SUCH unnatural ways, and it’s definitely gotten worse over the past year or so. She must see the pictures and see how insane it looks (right? I mean??), so my only guess is that she hates the pictures that show her jowls more, so she continues to go with the contortions because she thinks it’s the lesser of two evils?
It helps if you remember how very many pictures we’ve seen of her where she’s looking directly at the camera (usually when everyone else around is looking elsewhere, at whatever event is going on); how often she’s dressed to obviously pull focus; the fashion shoot she arranged at Philip’s funeral; how long she went on allowing her skirts to fly up, leaving her undercarriage on full display. Loving the cameras and the attention is her natural state.
And how she looks is the only thing into which she’s put any effort. There’s been no work in 10+ years that truly aids, assists, or shows compassion for anyone, anything, or any organization. So if this is what she chooses to present to the world, this is what will be judged, because she hasn’t cared to provide anything else. I have no problem with that. And maybe I missed it, but when has the press (specifically, the BM) commented negatively on anything to do with her appearance?
So not only is this a very facile example of early childhood social emotional teaching at this point, it’s also not even a good one. The whole color match with feeling strategy is very limited because it only helps children identify feelings in themselves and not others. Too be actually effective children also need to be emotionally literate enough to also identify feelings in others as well, which is a huge component of developing empathy and social forecasting (the ability to project cause and effect in social settings). It’s actually a pretty nuanced and emerging area of developmental psychology, but even so widely used curriculum’s such as Second Step do a pretty thorough job of teaching in a skill building approach through out an entire school year. It’s been adopted by many publicly funded preschools so if Kate had talked to most Head Start teachers she could have come up with a more sophisticated explanation of the topic.
Why does she smile like that? Her face looks contorted. It reminds me of a puppet face. It’s so strange looking! Oh I see someone else thinks the same thing! So wierd!
She was nervous about giving a two-minute speech? It can take longer to order food at a drive-thru window.
Also, my feelings wheel is set permanently to disdain for this lazy woman.
why the hate for the feeling wheel? it’s actually a very nice thing to teach children to name emotions so they can better handle them and communicate how they’re feeling. sure, we can criticize kate…but i don’t find this concept terrible for a private school to do? and if this can be adopted in public schools with resources, i don’t see why not. Kate won’t be leading that but bringing what schools with resources are able to do can help open the room for improvement at other institutions.
My god, the word salad again, after how many years of supposed research and “becoming an expert?”
The soft bigotry of low expectations for pretty white princesses is really something to behold
Honestly, I think Kate would spend more time at these events if she wore more comfortable shoes. I once bought her exact shoes from Aldo for a wedding, in the first 20 min of arriving I was about to cry. People shouldn’t wear 7 inch heels, all 120 pounds of me on 10 toes, I donated mine.
I guess they couldn’t photoshop the top picture. Too many other people in the frame?
It was mentioned on the Celebitchy podcast – when you have so many injectables in your face you have no idea what the muscles in your face are doing. I think the crazy faces Kate makes are because of that.
The nerves are so palpable it’s actually overwhelming and I found it impossible to watch. It must have been dreadful for the audience.
She has no social poise, no confidence, and any improvement is always knocked back by her daft pronunciation. Focusing on such an unnatural form of speech creates fear, and the strain on her face and in her eyes is just awful.
It’s time they stopped her public speaking, thirteenth year in the job…….
I’m sure there will be more about this in due course. In the meantime I will say that many in the UK agree. The response to her public speaking is overwhelmingly negative.