Duchess Kate of Cambridge News and Gossip

I think the real truth is out at long last and at some point Kate might state through her PR that she will no longer do duties. Thing is, that if she had wanted to be taken care of, I am quite certain that she should have set her sights on some rich athlete or financier. Thing is, that if she steps back from public life for good, she will lose all standing in the court leaving her with no leverage and the press will move on to the next ‘it’ ‘girl leaving her in the dust. The press might also turn on her once the readership gives the signal that praise and fawning will no longer sell.

A titled guy with his own estate would be inclined to marry one of his own, not someone like Kate who is just out to be taken care of in style and wouldn’t be interested in running the household, much less making sure that the estate will be enabled to remain sustainable. Neither Pippa or Kate had any kind of a chance with someone like Henry Percy or even a genuine member of the gentry. Even with all the riches that the Percy family has, there is always the strain of having to end up supporting a spouse and with the way the Midds like to live, it is clear that if Pippa or Kate married into those aristocratic families, they would be blowing the family fortune on all sorts of noveau junk that would to the world that they “MADE IT BITCHES!” and it would cause a ton of resentment.

One thing that Hilary Mantel got wrong about Kate, is that Kate was NOT like consorts of the 1500′s.

I’m an EXTENSIVE reader of history and consorts of the 1500′s were not stay at home mothers in the sense that they didn’t do much. Consorts were expected to run households, be out and about as much as possible, raise funds for schools and charities and also make sure that protocol was respected and adhered to. Greeting ambassadors, working to impress needed allies, and also at the same time, they were not raised to be kept women. Only mistresses were allowed to get away with being idle and brainless and consorts would NEVER pull anything like shirk appearances or have family members mooching.

Kate, for a lack of a better way of putting it, was raised by her mother to go after all she would be able to get out of a man instead of going out into the world and making something of her own. She was not raised to create her own security and lifestyle that she wanted for herself. She was raised to be a kind of kept woman with the gloss of a wedding ceremony and ring to make her ‘respectable.’ She is a kept woman with a ring, that has been her upbringing and that has been her mentality.
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I believe that Kate has made one horrifically bad decision after another in regards to refusing to work. Let’s not pretend that she has work as an ‘option.’ Despite the title, she has nothing to back it up. No powerful family, no regal lineage, and she has no powerful allies that are going to be more than happy to look out for her and her interests. The title is essentially empty, much like her degree since it has been unused. She is someone who has nothing to back her up. each year that goes by that she wastes in the countryside, is another year that she loses ground and loses respect and patience. I am quite certain that when HM joins her ancestors, it will not get easier for her, it will in fact get harder. She has nothing to stand on. Each empty day is another day that should have been filled with appearances or meetings or office work, not quaffing fine wines and smoking while watching TOWIE. William might put up with it, the BRF might let her get away with it in exchange for compliance, but I am quite certain that the reality is, that each empty day is another day where she loses more ground and loses more to stand on. She loses leverage by the hour that she refuses to work and I do have the belief that the BRF has quietly given up on her and has decided to just let her drift and at some point there will be either a quiet divorce or William will just ignore her and leave her to her own devices. I am sure that he will end up just living his own life and not caring if she is embarrassed or not and at some point she will be viewed and treated as a kind of odd addendum that is kind of like an old pair of pants that are still there, but don’t really belong anymore. She might make it to Princess of Wales, but I believe that she will have little leverage to get things for her family or maybe even for herself.