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

[zembla]

Originally Posted by Menarue

I think Kate is waiting!

Her usual routine.

[CasiraghiTrio]

Are people still going on about that waity katie stuff? I think it might be time for a new "issue", lol.

[MARG]

Originally Posted by CasiraghiTrio

Are people still going on about that waity katie stuff? I think it might be time for a new "issue", lol.

Unfortunately that seems to be the case. However, it brings to mind a humerous exchange I witnessed.

Two bright young things surveying the display window of a Bridal Boutique. One looked at the dresses, then at her friend, and said "I don't know about you, but I think I lack the killer instinct!"

What can you say? The mental picture of these brave young things stalking their grooms like a lion surveying a gazelle . . . .

[ghost_night554]

I'm sure she's probably just busy. Actually I didn't think much of the fact she didn't go to the going away party before they went on their trek, I just figured she had other things to do, it's happened to me lots of times.

[Menarue]

I am sure that any reference to waiting will stop the minute she has an engagement ring on her finger.

[Mermaid1962]

Ah yes, and then I'm sure other things will arise for people to gripe about. I don't think that she'll get the all-out adoration from the press that Diana got.

Originally Posted by Menarue

I am sure that any reference to waiting will stop the minute she has an engagement ring on her finger.

[kbear]

I did think it was strange she wasnt at the going away party but maybe after the phone thingy she decided to keep a low profile for a while.

[muriel]

Originally Posted by kbear

I did think it was strange she wasnt at the going away party but maybe after the phone thingy she decided to keep a low profile for a while.

..... or maybe she was just suffering from the flu, and tucked up in bed, as a lot of people in the UK!

[Menarue]

If she has the `flu then poor thing.

[muriel]

Originally Posted by Menarue

If she has the `flu then poor thing.

Who knows? Its just a possibility....... with all that waiting in the cold!

[Menarue]

I suppose people always have to gripe about something. Marg that was funny about the brides, perhaps Kate can wait outside the store that has the New Year´s wedding dress sale, the blushing brides go in their ready to kill by the looks on their faces. It is one of the most amazing sights of the New Year.
Diana, for some reason seemed to be adored by the people from the first second, perhaps because that time it was the peope who were tired of waiting for a royal bride.

[kbear]

Originally Posted by Menarue

Diana, for some reason seemed to be adored by the people from the first second, perhaps because that time it was the peope who were tired of waiting for a royal bride.

The relationship wasnt as long in that instance as well. I remember a year or two ago when you never read much bad about Kate at all she was the media darling. Maybe the media ran out of nice things to say.

[rmay286]

Originally Posted by kbear

The relationship wasnt as long in that instance as well. I remember a year or two ago when you never read much bad about Kate at all she was the media darling. Maybe the media ran out of nice things to say.

I thought Charles' marriage to Diana was very rushed (as well as ill-advised) but I don't understand the argument that William and Kate are young and they shouldn't rush into marriage, either. I'm in my early twenties, and most people my age that I know are engaged or married. Not that I mean to use my experience as a representative sample, but 26 is in no way too young to get married, if you ask me. William and Kate have been dating for at least four years, right? (Correct me if I'm wrong). I think the royals erred on the side of too fast with Charles and Diana's marriage, but now I think they're erring on the side of too much caution. I'm sure the tabloids would find something nasty to say about Kate and William eventually anyway, but it's easy to call a couple indecisive if they've been dating for several years and haven't shown any sign of an engagement.

It's interesting that the tabloids are acting sick of Kate before there's even been an engagement; most royal brides are at least married before the fall to earth. I wonder whether the media will change their stance before the (presumably eventual) wedding, or if they'll just drum up negative publicity and rumours of doom in the run-up to the wedding.

[Menarue]

Could be .

[zembla]

A journalist who covered Kate for Vanity Fair gives her thoughts on Ms. Middleton and what she learned...

Kate Middleton's British Conquest: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

[Sonjapearl]

Originally Posted by zembla

A journalist who covered Kate for Vanity Fair gives her thoughts on Ms. Middleton and what she learned...

Kate Middleton's British Conquest: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

I doubt William rekindled his relationship with Kate after seeing pics of her in papers. Does he not read the papers, because he doesn't trust them?

Also, I just want to give my thoughts and say that I think Kate is overrated. She's been built up by the press so much, I think its overdone. No one knows what's she like. She could be very sweet, very phony, very mean or very airheaded. No one knows! And these media people talk about her as if they're in her inner circle. Its ridiculous.

[zembla]

Originally Posted by Sonjapearl

I doubt William rekindled his relationship with Kate after seeing pics of her in papers. Does he not read the papers, because he doesn't trust them?

I'd be willing to bet they are all fairly obsessed with what is printed about them and people they know on a daily basis. If not then I'm sure someone at least makes them aware...

[Mermaid1962]

Thank you for this link, zembla. It's not one that I would have found for myself. This journalist had good words for Kate after having seen her at a function during the "break-up" days. I can believe her opinion that it was the courtiers who perhaps leaked the negative comments about Kate to the media during that time. They seem to have the reputation of being "more royal than the Royals."

Originally Posted by zembla

A journalist who covered Kate for Vanity Fair gives her thoughts on Ms. Middleton and what she learned...

Kate Middleton's British Conquest: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

[rmay286]

I totally feel the same way. I know absolutely nothing about Kate. But the papers seem to drag her into almost ever royal story conceivable, complete with insinuations of an impending break-up or engagement. That's why I wish William would hurry up and actually get engaged to her...at least then there'd be something substantive for the media to report on (and the public to judge!)

[zembla]

There's a lot of video footage of Kate I've never seen in this youtube video, although the overall message seems to be tongue-and-cheek sarcastic:

YouTube - True story of Kate Middleton and Prince William