So what kind of King will Charles be?
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DP : And what an odd thing for the PP — that this PP is responding to — to list as an accomplishment. I’ve wondered about Kate’s actual interest in Art History. The British Royal Family has a truly stellar art collection, as well as quite a few historically and architecturally meaningful buildings and grounds. I’m surprised that, at least as far as I know, Kate hasn’t publicly taken these areas up as an interest. In her place, I would totally feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by centuries of paintings, furnishings, and significant interiors. As for Charles, I think he’s had some interesting and meaningful projects. I wonder if expanding them would be viewed as being too political for a monarch? |
Anonymous
Didn’t President Biden make a similar trip? What’s the difference? This is the kind of trip that government representatives make fairly regularly. I wouldn’t criticize any of them for it. |
Anonymous
I am also very impressed by the handling of her image but I'm not convinced it it because she is happy. She strikes me as dead inside and completely robotic. Like she is almost doing the core, very old school part of being a Monarch (ignore infidelity, soldier on, sit down and shut up) that was semi required by QE2, but how will this age? Most of the other European monarchies have modernized and she just seems like a paper doll. It's been 20 years and she can't even project passion for any one of her (limited projects). The way I think of her is she's perfectly nice, I assume, but if you offered her and William 3 billion dollars they'd happily take it and we would never see them again. Neither she nor him seem to want this job though they like the perks. And they'd live even more separately than hey do now. |
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NP. Lol, seriously! And that ridiculously defensive reply showed a total lack of reading comprehension. Like somehow critiquing a state visit to a war zone means anyone gives a sh** about some thirsty middle-class girl who never held a job in her life before becoming a professional princess. Having said that, I actually LIKE that Prince William visited the troops in Poland. It's a clear message to the world that the UK (and the West) still supports Ukraine. I'm sure the troops that received Prince William recognized that it's meant as a state visit, and appreciated a public show of support for their work. I actually don't hate Kate Middleton either, but her desperate fans drive me up the wall. Some of you need to get a life. |
Anonymous
It's because she never gave a crap about art history. She was exactly like the British equivalent of a sorority girl who took an easy major at college because she was really trying to get an MRS degree. There's a very old video, from like over a decade ago, of Kate Middleton timidly trotting behind the Queen when they went to look at a Faberge egg. And Miss Art History stuttered and looked on blankly throughout the viewing, with nothing interesting to say, no questions to ask, and certainly no real curiosity in the art piece. |
Anonymous
Are you really asking the difference between the leader of the free world/Commander in Chief of the US Military/President of the United States and a guy born into privilege and luxury who calls himself a Prince based on nothing earned? |
Anonymous
Brit here. Kate graduated with a 2:1 Honours degree. While perfectly good and respectable, I know that the mums of DCUM would expect more from their own children. Kate's 2:1 degree is an Upper Second-Class Honours degree. It is good, but it isn't a First. And with the grade inflation that was becoming more common even when Kate was a student, her 2:1 signals to me that she's a perfectly competent, intelligent girl who works hard, but isn't really gifted or passionate about her field of study. |
Anonymous
Middle class girl? Your rants are bizarre. Everyone should just stay in their place in life? You obviously care a lot about KM. What are you so upset about. |
Anonymous
Thank you. I rolled my eyes at the absurdity of that comparison. |
Anonymous
Yes. And she did nothing related to the subject after university. She spent like 10 years doing nothing while waiting for William to decide if he'd marry her. Not even a posh-kids's job at a high-end art gallery. Or humanitarian work with the UN, or support for causes that really mattered to her. Nope, she did nothing with her time as Waity Katie. I agree with you that she's actually very smart - does anybody believe they just happened to bump into each other at St. Andrews and just happen to randomly fall in love? - but I guess she used her above-average brain to basically get a ring on her finger. That's also why she's a perfectly inoffensive and polite royal, but she also has no causes that she's actually passionate about. She's handling her role as Princess with tact and intelligence, but no actual passion. She wants to ensure she gets to live in a palace, so she won't rock the boat and will do her duties politely. (Which makes her better than the nightmare woman from Montecito, I suppose.) |
Anonymous
Better that the late Queen's resume. Homeschooled, no degree. Brief stint as a jeep mechanic during WWII. Poor public speaker; very little natural charm or charisma. If she had any passions or hobbies beyond corgis and horses, we never learned of them. |
Anonymous
| Can all you harpies write a job description for Princess of Wales/Queen? Like what are you looking for? What is it going to take for you to say "hey shes doing a good job in her position"? |
Anonymous
DP: Although the Queen certainly should have been better prepared, she ended up with a job that she didn’t plan to apply for. We’re also looking at societal change over almost a century— when things changed significantly for white women, including aristocratic white women in England. If you’re going to pick at the Queen’s resume, compare it with those of other white British women born in the 1920’s — when university level educations were quite rare, as were careers in general. As to her passions, even if you just look at her interest in horses, I’d argue that riding, breeding and racing — with international interests, is a deep dive that counts more than, say, adding needlepoint and badminton to the mix. Riding sidesaddle surely adds a few points. I’d guess, too, that the Queen likely had interests that were not publicly known. |
Anonymous
A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved. |
Anonymous
Wow. You really hate Kate. This perfectly nice mom of three who has not made a misstep in a very high profile position somehow gets under your skin so much you rant over and over about her and the best you can come up with is that she *may* not be as interested in art history as you would like? She did work by the way, before she married wills and I seem to remember an interview where she described how hurtful it was to have the press call her names like lazy Katie or waity Katie. All the Windsor brides get roasted by the press, she just didn’t moan on and on about it and seems to be doing well going the stiff upper lip route |