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Anonymous
| I always respect Tina Brown's perspective on the royal family, she gets the psychology right. She makes a great point. One taped appearance by Kate, perhaps thanking well wishers or even a picture of her reading the cards from well wishers (a common move they have employed before ) would make a lot of it go away...and yet it's not happening. |
Anonymous
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13187897/amp/Kate-photoshop-William-palace-fake-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html Hightlighting this part below because she's right.
'I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused,' she continued. Note that 'we'. She didn't do this alone. A release such as this goes through many layers, through aides and private secretaries, and perhaps even the King. |
Anonymous
Yes they do. They have money, access to people at high levels of government/business/NGO world, titles that enable them to influence people at these levels (at least the king and prince of Wales do, other titles matter much less), etc. The idea that the BRF is powerless is ridiculous. If they were actually powerless, people would just take their money and properties and jewels and titles away. And also they would never be able to get that "deal" with the press. Sure they, and you, can call it "tradition." That's a code word the BRF uses to justify their existence. But it's power. And they know it, too. They'll pretend they don't have it because that is in their interest (many, many powerless people will claim they have no power as a way of shielding themselves from being held accountable, it happens all the time), but they do. |
Anonymous
It feels like classy human trafficking, tbh. She has a striking look....and then she's next to this old dude who looks like her uncle. Blech. 
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Anonymous
Carole Middleton is a modern day Mrs. Bennett. Kate and pippa “married well” because carole was strategic in where her daughters went to school and in whom they socialized with. Pippa in particular married well because she did so on Kate’s coattails. In fact, pippa arguably married better than Kate. A never before married billionaire who’s a private citizen. They live in a 30 million pound mansion and his parents own a resort in st Barths. Pippa doesn’t work and writes the occasional op Ed in a woman’s health magazine on the benefits of swimming daily in pregnancy (the luxury.) while kate lives in 400 year old houses, has to never upstage her husband, and has to live an extremely public life. Kate chose this and made her bed for status, but pippa benefited more than she did. |
Anonymous
The sudden cancelation of her scheduled events plus footage of ambulance on 12/28 have made many suspect hers was not planned but was possibly an emergency. Complications or mental health or marital issues may have been a factor in extending her time off. Several things can be happening at once and based on the level of cover up and vaguesness....I would argue that's probably more likely. Several simultaneous issues...medical, marital, mental health, extended familial coukd be happening. The Queen, the stabilizing force, is gone. And it shows. |
Anonymous
That’s what Charles did—a short video of him reading Get Well Soon cards. There’s much, much less speculation about Charles, yet he’s the current king and has cancer. His team handled things much better. |
Anonymous
The Hanbury sisters both had a choice in the matter. So did Kate, for that matter. |
Anonymous
I agree. However, people like Kate more than William or Charles. |
Anonymous
They could pretend to ignore the speculation by doing a video for one of her charities - congratulating them for a specific milestone or something. But nope nothing. |
Anonymous
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He seems to see all this as an opportunity to cape for MM. |
Anonymous
This is an excellent point. Throw on some make-up, get the hair done, sit behind a desk, and say thank you for the well wishes. I know any number of women who had mastectomies, started chemo, and managed to return to work in less time than Kate has taken to date. Without make-up artists and hair stylists. Yes Kate doesn’t have to keep a job to put food on the table, but she could do the bare minimum of walking downstairs to the home office, utter a few words, and have put much of this to rest by know. |
Anonymous
The old dude she married is worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, mostly in real estate holdings. That's who paid for the coat. |
Anonymous
The confusion here is with the word "class" which in the US has come to mostly refer to economic factors -- how much money your family has. The "upper class" in the US, at this point, just refers to people with money. Traditionally, "class" referred to your social class, and it was possible for someone to be upper class but not have money. Likewise the French word "bourgeois" refers to people who are socially middle class (not aristocracy) but have money (and thus are perceived as being crass because they have money but don't have the manners or traditions of the upper class). All of this is confusing to most Americans beyond a small population of WASP and immigrant "elites" who still subscribe to these ideas. But the system is still alive and well in the UK. Rose Hanbury's family is "upper class" in that they had historical connections to the aristocracy. But they were generations removed from when their family held actual land and titles, and thus economically more middle class (by US standards, they would actually have been considered more UMC or even UC, as they are white collar and artistic professionals, not school teachers and firefighters). Rose and her sister were considered pretty and well-mannered but poor (again, by British aristocracy standards) and thus good candidates for marriage by wealthy, titled men who wanted attractive, artistic wives and didn't care so much as marrying into money. |
Anonymous
Sorry, “now” |