Kate's New Picture

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Anonymous wrote:Why does Kate even have to bargain. Assuming this is divorce. They have enough money to ensure she will always be secure. They can amicably divorce and the kids will be fine. If this is all about custody that seems ridiculous- the kids are accustomed to parents traveling and being raised by nannies already. Not much will change. And Kate could even become more famous and wealthy after divorce so money cannot be the issue. I don’t understand what she needs a bargaining chip or leverage for ?

Bc she won’t have full custody of the kids. They will be shelled to boarding school and she’ll see them 6x a year.
Maybe 1 week in august.

They will likely go to boarding school even if no divorce. Perhaps return home on weekends, they have been looking at schools nearby.

I think that this whole thing is about boarding school. They finally came to an agreement in November last year. Kate is out of commission less than two months later. Those boarding schools messed up Will and Harry. She is a very good mother who loves her kids and I think that her kids well being is basically the only thing she would go against the firm for and she is clearly making a statement against the firm right now.

Kate went to boarding school. She wants them both to attend her boarding school, which is co-ed. William and Charles finally agreed, so that was hammered out in November.

Where did Charles and William want them to attend?

Eton - which is the alma mater of Charles and William (all boys school). It has a very toxic culture that produces spoiled narcissists. Which is exactly why Kate does not want George to attend - she wants him to attend her co-ed alma mater. And she's doing it by linking George and Charlotte, so they can overlap.

George not attending Eton certainly ruffles feathers. Lots of Etonian families take a lot of pride in having their boy attend school with the future King and/or brother of the future monarch. I'm betting that there is a lot of pressure coming from the Royal social circles for George to attend Eton. The school's prestige certainly takes a big hit if the BRF sends their sons elsewhere.

This. These kind of disagreements can end even the happiest of marriages and certainly marriages of convenience.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

Plenty of Americans send their kids to boarding schools.

I don't know anyone who went to boarding school.

I do, but they are all super wealthy -- not UMC, but generational wealth. Also know a couple who were scholarship kids with single moms.

By contrast my cousins in England with a doctor dad (so more UMC) did attend boarding school. So I think you are probably more likely to encounter boarding schoolers in England than in America, where you need to be upper crust to see that world.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

What makes you think you know how to raise kids properly? Or are you saying you had kids purely for the selfish reason of having them keep you company?

I’m a 35 year educator and raised the kids to be successful happy adults, all while attending the public schools in our hometown. They did go to college away from home, launched and never came back to live with us.
I guess it is cultural and societal.
And by the way, we’re multimillionaires but not “old money.”

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Boarding school in England is pretty standard. I don’t believe it would be a point of contention at all. My FIL went to boarding school at 5. He was raised in an UMC English immigrant household. Plus, Kate is not naive and she would not expect to demand such a big change and expect to get her way.

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Anonymous wrote:Boarding school in England is pretty standard. I don’t believe it would be a point of contention at all. My FIL went to boarding school at 5. He was raised in an UMC English immigrant household. Plus, Kate is not naive and she would not expect to demand such a big change and expect to get her way.

Or perhaps she found out Charles was ill and knowing that having a William coronation amid a divorce would be disastrous she decided to leverage her decades of good will with the public and the family at a time when they most need unity to extract a concession on the one thing most important to her.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the issue at hand? Where are the investigative journalists on this - I know UK media is heavily constrained, but US media have outlets in London and could certainly get to the bottom of this.

I actually think it is fascinating that the truth just hasn't leaked.

Yes. It can't be that hard. Leaks to TMZ, US Weekly, etc. would be easy.

"photogate" has sparked international frenzy. The truth will come out.

+1 There's a major story to be broken here. I don't know what that story is, but it's something bigger than Kate recovering from a medical procedure, and it's going to come out sooner than later.

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Anonymous wrote:On a more serious note- the press and internet sleuths set out to try and force Kate to share her medical information by coming up with crazier and crazier speculation. While many think this is a joke by going along with it and contributing to it all it’s doing is diminishing another woman’s autonomy for your entertainment. Congrats?

I think that might be some people's goal but I actually don't need her to share her medical information. I am curious about the frankly insane behavior from the Kensington Palace press office, and to me that's where the drama is. If this were really just about a medical issue and recovery, and nothing more, I don't think we'd be getting weird contradictory messages from KP, and they wouldn't have tried to doctor a 5 month old photo and pass it off as new (and no, I don't believe that Catherine randomly decided to change all the colors/patterns in the photo for fun before posting it herself to their official Instagram page and distributing a copy to news agencies on her own).

This is not about invading the privacy of a woman having a medical issue. It's about a powerful, wealthy institution behaving in an erratic and suspicious way that raises questions.

This! I’m not a royal watcher but this is was makes it so intriguing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

What makes you think you know how to raise kids properly? Or are you saying you had kids purely for the selfish reason of having them keep you company?

I’m a 35 year educator and raised the kids to be successful happy adults, all while attending the public schools in our hometown. They did go to college away from home, launched and never came back to live with us.
I guess it is cultural and societal.
And by the way, we’re multimillionaires but not “old money.”

Boarding schools are more typical of old money vs new money. That is likely why you don't understand the benefit.

However what does this have to do with Kate's disappearance?

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I swear this is all about something Crohn's-like, and the hullabaloo stems from royal poop shame.

Thus we find ourselves in the midst of conspiracy central, when they could have just come out with the truth and be done with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get back to the issue at hand? Where are the investigative journalists on this - I know UK media is heavily constrained, but US media have outlets in London and could certainly get to the bottom of this.

I actually think it is fascinating that the truth just hasn't leaked.

Yes. It can't be that hard. Leaks to TMZ, US Weekly, etc. would be easy.

"photogate" has sparked international frenzy. The truth will come out.

+1 There's a major story to be broken here. I don't know what that story is, but it's something bigger than Kate recovering from a medical procedure, and it's going to come out sooner than later.

Exactly. It will be broken by the American press IMO and not the British Press because they cannot divulge too much.

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Anonymous wrote:I swear this is all about something Crohn's-like, and the hullabaloo stems from royal poop shame.

Thus we find ourselves in the midst of conspiracy central, when they could have just come out with the truth and be done with it.

Just like the press and the public "were done with it" once it was public knowledge that Diana had an eating disorder, depression, and at least one suicide attempt? Ah, yes. Once those issues were out in the open, everyone left Diana alone and left her to deal with her physical and mental health in privacy, totally respecting her boundaries.

Get real.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

What makes you think you know how to raise kids properly? Or are you saying you had kids purely for the selfish reason of having them keep you company?

I’m a 35 year educator and raised the kids to be successful happy adults, all while attending the public schools in our hometown. They did go to college away from home, launched and never came back to live with us.
I guess it is cultural and societal.
And by the way, we’re multimillionaires but not “old money.”

Were you a teenage parent?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

What makes you think you know how to raise kids properly? Or are you saying you had kids purely for the selfish reason of having them keep you company?

I’m a 35 year educator and raised the kids to be successful happy adults, all while attending the public schools in our hometown. They did go to college away from home, launched and never came back to live with us.
I guess it is cultural and societal.
And by the way, we’re multimillionaires but not “old money.”

Were you a teenage parent?

35 years as an educator, not 35 years on earth.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American. I don’t understand the boarding school business. Don’t you have kids to raise them and be with them?

What makes you think you know how to raise kids properly? Or are you saying you had kids purely for the selfish reason of having them keep you company?

I’m a 35 year educator and raised the kids to be successful happy adults, all while attending the public schools in our hometown. They did go to college away from home, launched and never came back to live with us.
I guess it is cultural and societal.
And by the way, we’re multimillionaires but not “old money.”

Were you a teenage parent?

No. Age 21

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Anonymous wrote:I should add that I have done some incredibly embarrassing things on post-surgical pain medication. I was definitely not at my best.

Kate did not edit that photo or make the statement. Get real.

This. KP is being directed by William alone. I think Catherine has been shut out and they are speaking on her behalf, but without her input. That would explain her lack of cooperation for the brief ride with William in the Land Rover - she's pissed off that they assigned the blame to her and then forced her while in recovery to take part of a staged photo op.

Agreed. William was pressuring the staff to get the picture done causing it to be so shaddy. I do think she plays around with photoshop for fun but these pictures that are being posted in a professional capacity are passed to a team first for actual touch ups/caption writing first.