Prince William and Kate Middleton current events 6: August-November 2008

[Florencia]

Kate joins Dynasty's Fallon for charity work | Mail Online

[ghost_night554]

Good on Kate for doing more charity work!

[Odette]

I have a feeling she is reading the R F posts...........Most suggested she does charity works and charity works she does.........Bravo!

[Mermaid1962]

It's a false assumption that Prince William can't/won't get married when he's in the RAF. The papers are making a problem out of thin air IMO.

Originally Posted by avrilo

I still don't get why his job interferes with his life. Is ANYONE in the RAF married or in a relationship???

[ghost_night554]

Originally Posted by Odette

I have a feeling she is reading the R F posts...........Most suggested she does charity works and charity works she does.........Bravo!

Well , I say bravo on her for listening to us then!

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Florencia

Kate joins Dynasty's Fallon for charity work | Mail Online

This from the article -

As Kate Middleton struggles to improve her work reputation, she has unexpectedly come under fire from another quarter - old university pals who accuse her of 'turning her back' on them.
Jules Knight, who studied art history alongside Kate at St Andrews University and lived next door to Prince William, claims several people are 'upset' the 26-year-old appears to have 'made a conscious decision' not to stay in touch.-- Snipped-- 'It's not like they want to be friends with Kate because of her position, the fact that she's going out with Prince William. I don't want this to sound like sour grapes.

One way for him to get extra publicity for his boy band I suppose, after all, any one of them could have telephoned or written to Catherine.

Originally Posted by Odette

I have a feeling she is reading the R F posts...........

Everyone else does, so why not Catherine?

[Ccile]

It's great that she's taking part to that sort of activities!!!

[MARG]

I think it's lovely that we can actually say the "Catherine is doing this", but that's all we can say because we really don't have a clue what she does from day to day.

[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

I was so disappointed when I read the family call her Kate, it sounds so ... downmarket to me. If she marries William, lets hope that she is called Princess Catherine.

Wonderful that the Middletons have been able to show the story about call me Catherine was a total fabrication, I wonder which rag it started in?

Well, her family called Diana "Duch" even when she was already a prince's wife. So let the family call Catherine Elizabeth Middleton "Kate" or whatever while we stay with the much more beutiful (IMHO at least) Catherine. She is still so young: at her age my friends still called me "Josi" and only changed to Josephine much later...

[Menarue]

Well as far as nicknames go the grandchildren of Queen Victoria used to call her Gan Gan and she didn´t mind so if she minds or not I am going to continue to call Kate, Kate. That is how she was first mentioned in the newspapers which is how we all got to know she was Prince William´s girlfriend.... if she gets to Princess well let us hope she is luckier than Sarah who remained Fergie despite all protests - and it seems no one in her family ever called her that.

[Incas]

Instead of everyone claiming credit, I think credit should be given to Kate alone for both the work she does for her parents' company and for connecting with Starlight Foundation. She has always come across as a lady with an independent mind. I doubt she has been swayed by the silly pieces from Daily Mail and co.

As to that so called friend, it's amazing he was able to quote Kate verbatim, couched in such thoughtfulness as "everyone just wants you to be happy". Really! Have he seen the papers lately? In fact, I have said the exact same things as Kate to people I haven't kept in touch, intensionally or not. It's so convenient his gets to put his face in the article and promote his new album. With friends like that, I'd avoid him with a ten foot pole too.

[Isana]

Blabbing to the DM he has proven exactly why he is not a friend of Kate's anymore. How desperate to basically beg her to be his friend via national papers. I'd be so embarrassed to do that just to plug my band...

[ysbel]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

This from the article -

Jules Knight, who studied art history alongside Kate at St Andrews University and lived next door to Prince William, claims several people are 'upset' the 26-year-old appears to have 'made a conscious decision' not to stay in touch.-- Snipped-- 'It's not like they want to be friends with Kate because of her position, the fact that she's going out with Prince William. I don't want this to sound like sour grapes.

One way for him to get extra publicity for his boy band I suppose, after all, any one of them could have telephoned or written to Catherine. Everyone else does, so why not Catherine?

This really bugs me, does Jules really keep in touch with all the friends he made at the University? People grow up and move on. You keep some friends but not others.

[Ella Kay]

Originally Posted by Incas

As to that so called friend, it's amazing he was able to quote Kate verbatim, couched in such thoughtfulness as "everyone just wants you to be happy". Really! Have he seen the papers lately? In fact, I have said the exact same things as Kate to people I haven't kept in touch, intensionally or not. It's so convenient his gets to put his face in the article and promote his new album. With friends like that, I'd avoid him with a ten foot pole too.

No kidding ... a guy who's willing to disparage a former friend so that he can get his own name in the papers and earn a little publicity for himself? Gee, I wonder why Kate may have decided not to keep in touch with that one...

[Elspeth]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

I was so disappointed when I read the family call her Kate, it sounds so ... downmarket to me. If she marries William, lets hope that she is called Princess Catherine.

Wonderful that the Middletons have been able to show the story about call me Catherine was a total fabrication, I wonder which rag it started in?

Didn't the Duchess of Kent's family call her Kate, or am I misremembering?

[putski]

I think it's wonderful that Kate and Party Pieces have "come out" a bit to clarify Kate's involvement in the business in the past year. Of course naysayers will continue to scream PR, which it probably is, but that doesn't take away the fact that Kate has likely been contributing to Party Pieces by organizing their website and catalogues, introducing new lines and products, and inspiring charity involvement. And as much as I admire the RF's "no comment" policy on almost anything and everything, sometimes one has to set things straight, especially for someone as hunted and bullied as Kate for keeping silent all these years. I imagine it to be terrifying to have the free world talk about you and not being able to talk back. Besides, I don't consider these touches in the PP website vulgar... it's not like Kate has her face plastered in every single page. I actually think it's quite tasteful.

[Isana]

And then one has to keep in mind that unless one knows what to look for (thanks to those who provided the links ), one wouldn't come across that information in the first place. I mean how many people would have visited the Party Pieces website to find information about Kate? This is pretty much the only mouthpiece they have since they are not supposed to talk to the press. If you google Kate Middleton you won't even find that site. So it certainly is an attempt to put the record straight (and who can blame them? Who would want to be called names because people have a completely wrong perception?) but it is far from being over the top PR.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by Elspeth

Didn't the Duchess of Kent's family call her Kate, or am I misremembering?

Not sure, I always thought when she married it was the more formal Katherine besides would anyone have felt the same respect for Princess or Queen Liz? Family always seems to have their own name alterations.

[Menarue]

It really doesn´t matter what the family call a child in private, the problem here is the Press that pick up a name and use it until it becomes a household word. Does anyone think that Di was the name that her family called her? Shy Di? The very first name we heard in relation to Miss Middleton was Kate, so far she isn´t anything more than a Prince´s girlfriend, perhaps later on she can request the more formal Catherine (beautiful name BTW) but I think she won´t have much luck. Marry or not as far as the Press is concerned she is Kate.

[Charlotte1]

Originally Posted by Skydragon

Not sure, I always thought when she married it was the more formal Katherine besides would anyone have felt the same respect for Princess or Queen Liz? Family always seems to have their own name alterations.

Among the family ( royals too) the Duke and Duchess of Kent are known as Eddie and Kate.