Sereta
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I don't think she will, no. Kate has too many negative labels already and too much criticism. It would take a major PR overhaul at this point.
Will Kate be more popular than Diana?
Let's get back on topic.......remember.....Will Kate be more popular than Diana?
Get to know her better? Maybe not, but we'll never hear the end of it. From the engagement announcement on, the circus will start and the more colour and movement up front the more the real Kate/Catherine Middleton will tend to withdraw to protect her sense of private self while learning to greet the public with the expected princess poise and practiced warmth. She'll have the Windsor minders and advisers and PR ops at every turn and she'll be careful not to let her guard down too much or let slip anything too revealing. Her copy of the Princess Handbook will highlight discretion and be quite clear that neither public exuberance nor media-tarting are approved activities in the twenty-teens.If she marries Williams, perhaps we will get to know her better.
IMHO the question should not be if she becomes as or more popular than Diana. We should wonder if she earns the respect HM and the QM earned throughout their service to their country. William will after all become King and the question is, if Kate would be a worthwhile Queen consort. This is a lifelong career and perhaps not too many commoners can live up to its standards.
Unless those who were alive during Diana's lifetime are wiped out I'm sure there will still be a majority of people who have memories of her alive and there will be a large group of others who do not.
I like it too as it will end the whole concept of monarchy sooner rather than later. If they keep marrying commoners then they are simply becoming commoners themselves and then their whole reason for been seen as different goes.
I think that is a valid comparison actually as I was within the age range we are talking about and JFK wasn't on the radar (or anything to do with it). The first international happening I remember was the 1968 Olympics and I was 11 that year but with 24 hour TV and multiple channels and the internet now I do thinks that kids now about far more in the world at younger ages but there is still the fact that we don't remember much stuff from when we are younger than about 4 or 5.
well, my mother was five when JFK died and I can remember her telling me that they announced it in the schools and they had to stop everything.
As for me I was about Five when Diana married and I can remember everything.. Before 5 I don't remember much about worldly things but I surely remember personal stuff that happened when I was about 4.
Sure there will still be people who remember her personally in say 30 years when William would be becoming King (assuming Charles only lives into his early 90s and he could possibly go for longer than that of course) but increasinly they will be fewer and fewer in number so that in 30 years time she will have been dead for 43 years and therefore the majority of people won't remember her as a living person.
People will be curious about her sure - but actual first hand remembrance - no the majority of people won't have that.
The only place Kate is "popular" is on MBs and usually then it's amongst people who aren't British (JMO). From what I can tell most Brits seem to have quite a low opinion of her, her lifestyle and her family and if she and William do marry then there will need to be a massive PR offensive to clean up her image. IMO.
Looks like Monarchy Boards to Moi. However! I CAN be wrong!What are "MBs"? Is that a British slang or am I out of touch with Internet abbreviations?