Kate Middleton looks really happy lately

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone see the picture Kate took of Camilla? I think Camilla looks great!

https://people.com/royals/kate-middleton-photographs-camilla-duchess-of-cornwall-country-life-magazine/

Agree, best pic of C I've ever seen! Kate has a very good eye for photography.

It is a nice photograph. I wonder how involved Kate is in the styling of the shot. I don’t generally follow the royals but I am fond of Kate approaches the role - all business; she understands how people want to see her and plays the part to perfection.

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If you look at photos over the past 8 years she has a very authentic huge smile and laugh.

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I don't get why people hate Kate and Meghan so much! Is it because they are commoners who gained height of privilege by marrying up or is there something else? Its not like royals themselves earned it, they just gained it by genes at their birth.

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I have noticed a subtle change in the public presentation of Kate Middleton (funny how she will always be Kate Middleton). I'm sure some of it is intentional, but it's hard not to see that she is taking up the role while also coming into her own. She's also developing her own unique style of dress. Someone once commented to me that the Queen had her own dress style that was traditional, classic, appropriate for the role, and yet no one else ever dressed like the queen. And Kate Middleton seems to be doing the same here, too.

As Princess of Wales, Kate is developing her own "power" as a figurehead for the monarchy. It's almost as if she was the queen instead of Camilla. And I imagine it's exactly what the monarchy wants. Kate has a limelight and role that she does seem to enjoy and Camilla takes up a more low key role that is also exactly what she wants. In years to come, the photos of Kate at the coronation is what people will remember, not Camilla, nor even Charles, when you think about it.

I also don't doubt that she and Will have a happy family life and Kate also has a fiercely supportive and protective family and circle of friends.

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Everyone gets happier once they're out of the toddler stage!

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Anonymous wrote:I have noticed a subtle change in the public presentation of Kate Middleton (funny how she will always be Kate Middleton). I'm sure some of it is intentional, but it's hard not to see that she is taking up the role while also coming into her own. She's also developing her own unique style of dress. Someone once commented to me that the Queen had her own dress style that was traditional, classic, appropriate for the role, and yet no one else ever dressed like the queen. And Kate Middleton seems to be doing the same here, too.

As Princess of Wales, Kate is developing her own "power" as a figurehead for the monarchy. It's almost as if she was the queen instead of Camilla. And I imagine it's exactly what the monarchy wants. Kate has a limelight and role that she does seem to enjoy and Camilla takes up a more low key role that is also exactly what she wants. In years to come, the photos of Kate at the coronation is what people will remember, not Camilla, nor even Charles, when you think about it.

I also don't doubt that she and Will have a happy family life and Kate also has a fiercely supportive and protective family and circle of friends.

FWIW, she had terrible social anxiety, as did I and my mother. My mother and I came into our own later, in our 30s and 40s, and I see Kate doing the same. Finally shedding the social anxiety as a mature adult. I don't think this is that uncommon.

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For any woman, going into a joint family and having children is tough, more so if royalty, media and public is involved. She manages it pretty well. Diana, Sarah and Meghan failed.

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Eh, every marriage ebbs and flows based on stress, kids, and life in general. Royalty is it's own beast with the Crowns "expectations " and image.

Looks normal. She's always been likable and down to earth .

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She has the same maniacal opened mouth laugh for years. So I wouldn’t say she looks happier lately. I’d like to think she is following William’s lead and getting a little side dude.

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Anonymous wrote:For any woman, going into a joint family and having children is tough, more so if royalty, media and public is involved. She manages it pretty well. Diana, Sarah and Meghan failed.

I never thought about it this way.

Sophie seems to be doing ok too now after a rough start.

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Anonymous wrote:For any woman, going into a joint family and having children is tough, more so if royalty, media and public is involved. She manages it pretty well. Diana, Sarah and Meghan failed.

I never thought about it this way.

Sophie seems to be doing ok too now after a rough start.

The key was to get into the Queen’s good books.

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Anonymous wrote:For any woman, going into a joint family and having children is tough, more so if royalty, media and public is involved. She manages it pretty well. Diana, Sarah and Meghan failed.

I never thought about it this way.

Sophie seems to be doing ok too now after a rough start.

Yes. Kate did have a very long period of time to remain in the background and acclimate, which certainly helped. Several DCUMers have observed Meghan, in particular, experienced too many big life changes in the public eye without a realistic sense of how tough it would be to acclimate. But some of it is temperament as well. Kate is pragmatic and low-key, well suited to this life.

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Anonymous wrote:She has the same maniacal opened mouth laugh for years. So I wouldn’t say she looks happier lately. I’d like to think she is following William’s lead and getting a little side dude.

Makes sense to me. Since we know she’s in the firm for life, there’s no reason she shouldn’t get some strange like her beloved. 😆😆

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Anonymous wrote:For any woman, going into a joint family and having children is tough, more so if royalty, media and public is involved. She manages it pretty well. Diana, Sarah and Meghan failed.

I never thought about it this way.

Sophie seems to be doing ok too now after a rough start.

Sophie has a much lower profile. She and Edward don't get anything close to the scrutiny that Diana, Kate, and Meghan have received. Sarah Ferguson also got a lot more leeway from the press back in the day, but she was such an over-the-top personality (and a HUGE partier back then) that she still became tabloid fodder. You can't go on vacation with your side piece and show off about it the way she did, especially not when married to the queen's favorite son. But she still didn't get as much negative press as Diana or either of her son's wives, all of whom were hounded by the press as soon as it was known they were dating a prince.

I do think Kate handles it all exceptionally well, but I also think a primary difference between her and Diana/Meghan is that she really wants the public side of the job. She really seems to care about putting on a show a a "royal" for people and being a figurehead who represents something meaningful to people simply for existing. Diana did care about using her fame to help others, but didn't like being a symbol or figurehead. And Meghan I think expected being royal to be like a slightly more formal version of being a celebrity, and didn't understand the degree to which people would impose these very high and specific expectations on her. But Kate not only gets that, I think she likes it. I think being married to and then mother to the future kinds of England is basically her calling, which is sort of wild.

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Her Royal nemesis wont be around much longer. Loud rumors of Harry and Megan divorce.