www.celebitchy.com/747033/the_cambridges_went_to_church_in_norfolk_with_carole_michael_middleton/Cele|bitchy
« Previous Post Next Post »
jump to comments
The Cambridges went to church in Norfolk with Carole & Michael Middleton
December 27, 2021
By Kaiser Carole Middleton, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Royals
cambridge christmas card 2021
SID
December 27, 2021 at 11:48 am
TeamAwesome, it does make one wonder of there is any truth to the rumors about him and Carole living separately. That said, he has always seemed to be the least thirsty Middleton, so I imagine he was happy to follow precautions and mask up, not caring about getting his face seen on camera.
LORELEI
December 27, 2021 at 4:19 pm
@teamawesome, Michael has always been such a mystery to me. From the little we know, he seems like a good, stand-up guy — I just get that vibe from him, that he’s a decent person — but clearly Carole calls the shots in that family, and he chose to marry her and chooses to remain as a doormat (unless he agrees with most of what she does, but is simply less vocal about it).
But for some reason I don’t think that’s the case…he always looks a tiny bit embarrassed to me, not like Carole, who always comes across as incredibly smug whenever we see them at events like Ascot. He appears to be happy enough tagging along, not like the cat that ate the canary. It’s puzzling.
It actually reminds me of something that happened last night; I was watching a Little House on the Prairie Christmas show with my son, and he asked why someone as nice as Mr. Oleson married someone as mean as Mrs. Oleson (something I’ve also wondered for my entire life, lol). I had no answer and kind of shrugged, like “who knows!”
Only the two people in a marriage will ever truly understand it.
Reply
SWIRLMAMAD
December 27, 2021 at 4:29 pm
I’ve said before (and I think others have also made the comparison here) that Michael is Mr. Bennett to Carole’s Mrs. Bennett. He also seems very laid back, maybe even “meek” — it might just be easier for him to go along to get along with Carole’s schemes rather than put his foot down. I do think it’s sad though if he doesn’t agree with the way Carole has influenced their kids but just let her call the shots, because look what they’ve grown into.
ABENA ASANTEWAA
December 27, 2021 at 8:46 am
It’s interesting that, the media expected the Sussexes to fly over for XMAS to be with the queen, there were articles shaming them, and portraying them as uncaring if they did not come to UK for Christmas, but radio silence, from the royal rodents about these two, abandoning the queen for the Middletons.
Reply
YVETTE
December 27, 2021 at 11:39 am
@abena Asantewaa … Agreed. I’ve been wondering why the Cambridges are so blatant with their choice–over and over again–of visiting the Middletons rather than his family on Holidays. I think William and Cate are preparing the British people for a ‘Carol Queen Mother’ once William gets the throne.
Reply
THE RECLUSE
December 27, 2021 at 3:02 pm
Kate and those children are Carol’s big investment.
HARPER
December 27, 2021 at 8:46 am
I’m surprised Kate pulled out the Jecca look for Christmas. And it seems she is wearing a very non-festive black turtleneck.
All I can think of is that on Christmas morning she was riding high from her piano performance publicity coup of the night before and had yet to get the dismal ratings report.
Reply
TESSA
December 27, 2021 at 9:12 am
It made me remember how Jecca and Kate attended the same wedding. Jecca who had set the “outback” hat style wore that but then Kate wore the same at at that very same wedding.
ATHENA
December 27, 2021 at 6:04 pm
She brings out that hat every year around this time, often for her birthday where she walks six feet ahead of her “friends” going to and from church.
TESSA
December 27, 2021 at 9:13 am
oh yes and all the cries for the Queen to see her great grandchildren and the sussexes didn’t. Not a sound of criticism about her not seeing the Cambridge great grandchildren.
BETTYROSE
December 27, 2021 at 8:55 am
She looks nervous and unsure of herself. There’s an expectation of royal protocol, Cambridge style, and we’ve all heard how difficult that is for married ins. She seems to be looking to Carol for guidance.
JADED
December 27, 2021 at 11:34 am
CarolE can’t be the easiest mother-in-law to get along with…in fact she’s probably the MIL from hell — bitchy and condescending.
CC
December 27, 2021 at 12:39 pm
She’s also probably not used to attending Church of England services.
JADED
December 27, 2021 at 1:14 pm
@cc – the Middletons are Anglican (C of E) so they’re familiar with the services. Not necessarily regular church-goers as such but comfortable with attending regularly now. Kate was baptized into the Anglican church and confirmed prior to marrying William.
NOTASUGARHERE
December 27, 2021 at 2:49 pm
The Midds are not regular church goers. They only started attending church once the engagement with William was announced. It became annual pap strolls at Easter and Christmas, the only two days they attend, when they hadn’t been to church in years before that. Kate was only confirmed a few months before the wedding; it isn’t like she was a commited follower.
SARAH11
December 28, 2021 at 5:24 am
@ notasugarhere : I regularly attended a Catholic Church downtown when I lived in Toronto, Canada. I am familiar with the experience of having to sit somewhere else on Easter & Christmas because the dilettantes were attending church on holiday Sunday. I would think well, where the heck were you the other fifty Sundays of the year? It was all for show.
AURORA
December 27, 2021 at 8:48 am
People magazine prints more royal content than the Rota. It’s
MRS.KRABAPPLE
December 27, 2021 at 1:53 pm
I guess “People” is the Cambridges’ go-to American mouthpiece?
Reply
SWIRLMAMAD
December 27, 2021 at 4:33 pm
Probably because they were the publication who printed Meghan’s friends’ rebuttal as well — the Cambridges can’t let that stand.
NIC919
December 27, 2021 at 5:55 pm
Simon Perry is now at People and he’s the one who decided that they need a special royals edition. So he likely made sure to connect with the Middletons so he would have some content.
EQUALITY
December 27, 2021 at 8:49 am
Are the writers too lazy to come up with new content? This People article had their previous lovely quote: “The Cambridge kids are “all very polite children,” a family friend told PEOPLE, “but they have a little twinkle in their eyes. They have all the right ingredients.”"
Reply
LORELEI
December 27, 2021 at 4:04 pm
@equality, “All the right ingredients!?” That…really rubbed me the wrong way. If Harry had never met or married Meghan, I probably just would have rolled my eyes at how ridiculous People is, but imo it comes across as far worse considering the circumstances.
Reply
E
December 27, 2021 at 8:41 pm
@lorelei Same thought here! Such awful wording that gives off eugenics-vibes
BETTYROSE
December 27, 2021 at 8:50 am
Is this the Mids … Cambridges establishing the new royal Christmas tradition?
Reply
DENISE
December 27, 2021 at 9:21 am
I agree. Once QEII has passed I can’t see Charles having the whole gang around at Sandringham and the Cambridges know it.
Reply
SERAPHINA
December 27, 2021 at 9:36 am
@bettyrose, I agree Ma Middleton may be trying to establish this tradition. I think Wills could care less and is of the notion once in charge he can do as he pleases.
On a side note, that pic where Pa Middleton is masked – they all look so tired and haggard. Maybe it’s just me.
Reply
MISSMARIROSE
December 27, 2021 at 8:52 am
Good for Michael Middleton for wearing a mask indoors, as people are supposed to.
Reply
DENISE
December 27, 2021 at 9:20 am
+1
Reply
JAN
December 27, 2021 at 8:52 am
The Milli Vanilli of piano playing.
Reply
CHRISSY
December 27, 2021 at 9:03 am
LOL! It got her the spotlight though, which was the goal, I guess. The bar is so low with this lazy woman that even her mediocrity is celebrated by the press.
OVER IT
December 27, 2021 at 9:31 am
Everything you just said Harla. Unfortunate we know why that is, Doria and her daughter aren’t white , so all bets are off in regards to what they get attacked for.
Reply
NICK G
December 27, 2021 at 9:37 am
@harla same. It is frustrating and anger making, but anyone with eyes and ears can see and hear what is being done, and more and more people are aware every day.
Reply
SOFIA
December 27, 2021 at 8:56 am
Yeah I’m surprised too that they didn’t go to Bucklebury. W&K could have spent some time with HM, get a photo in of meeting the queen like the other royals did and then drove off to spend Christmas with the Midds but I guess they didn’t want to change plans.
Reply
A
December 27, 2021 at 9:02 am
Honestly ,this is the one case where Baldingham deserves all the blame!!!! The queen is his Grandmother and she’s 95, he could have at any point said to Keen Karen and her family “hey my grandmother’s 95 and she’s only got so many christmas’s left, so lets try to make an effort and go and see her( Also, we can add it to our event numbers).” And, after she’s gone we can spend all the time you want with your mother/pr rep. Carole. Hell, he could have pitched it to Kate that she would still get to grab the spotlight with a chruch walk to Windsor,…. with the children,…. and that mean Meghan and Harry wont be there!
Reply
HARPER
December 27, 2021 at 9:11 am
Omicron is no joke. It is highly contagious and William seems like he is out and about and not an enthusiastic mask wearer. I wouldn’t have him anywhere near the Queen right now.
Reply
DIGITAL UNICORN
December 27, 2021 at 9:05 am
Of course the shadow court headed by the Middletons is all over TQ not going to church. Great PR for them. Wonder if they did a cut price hunting game shoot on Boxing Day.
Reply
AMY BEE
December 27, 2021 at 9:07 am
Thanks to the invisible contract there was no outrage from the press about the Cambridges not spending Christmas with the Queen.
Reply
TEMPEST PROGNOSTICATOR
December 27, 2021 at 9:10 am
What a beautiful church.
Reply
SHIRLEY
December 27, 2021 at 9:20 am
I am wondering if they didn’t want the take the children to see the Queen because they are too young to be vaccinated. They must see other children, parents and teachers at school and maybe there was a concern for her health? Idk
Reply
NOTASUGARHERE
December 27, 2021 at 9:41 am
So they spend weeks of the holiday around the Middletons, unmasked, spreading whatever anyone brings to the household. Thereby making sure they cannot take the kids to see the Queen for at least two weeks after Carole finally leaves Anmer.
This was not done to protect QEII. It was done to give Kate/Carole a pap parade. Must been more affair rumours coming up.
Reply
ROYALBLUE
December 27, 2021 at 1:13 pm
Of course. Thinking of those who isolate at Christmas while happily trotting off to celebrate with three other households.
BIKNY
December 27, 2021 at 9:22 am
Shouldn’t they have been with the queen this year? She lost her husband and is in poor health. Suck it up and act like you enjoy it. Spend Boxing Day with Kates parents.
Reply
BARBIE1
December 27, 2021 at 11:15 am
So rude and heartless of them. She had a rough year and needs her family for support.
Reply
MSLOVE
December 27, 2021 at 9:30 am
When William becomes king one day, it appears the Middleton family will be front and center, with the Wessexes and Yorks relegated to obscurity. If Will & Kate stay married.
Reply
LIZZIE
December 27, 2021 at 10:35 am
Considering how old they all will be by that time I think the future rf will only be George, Charlotte and Louis.
Reply
EQUALITY
December 27, 2021 at 1:12 pm
If Louis is smart he will do like H and run. Charlotte will be the new Princess Royal eventually and, of course, the only girl and George will be a future. Louis will be the spare used as a distraction for anything Will or George do.
NOTASUGARHERE
December 27, 2021 at 2:31 pm
Charlotte is the spare and will be the one used to deflect from anything negative George does.
Harry has shown only the heir line should be working royals. It may be the Princess Royal title dies out. No need to give it to Charlotte if she isn’t a working royal.
EQUALITY
December 27, 2021 at 3:15 pm
Charlotte may be the actual next in line after George but I think Louis will be the one thrown under the bus. I’m sure W will want the Princess Royal title for Charlotte and Louis already seems like kind of an afterthought with Will.
SID
December 27, 2021 at 11:54 am
I hope Charles lives as long as his father. Keep Willileaks and the Middletons away from the throne as long as possible.
Reply
LORELEI
December 27, 2021 at 4:13 pm
@equality, ITA that it will be Louis thrown under the bus (for the most part). It’s hard to know since William only had one brother so the press had no other option, but for some reason I see poor Louis being used as cover for George (if George even needs it…who knows how any of them will turn out). In any case, I hope Louis bounces off to the US the moment he turns 18.
@nota, I think the Cambridges have shown us that they don’t associate the titles with work, lol, only status. I guess Charles could be the one to make the decision, but I have a hard time imagining Charles doing anything that would anger William *so* much unless there was a very good reason for it.
MODERATELYWEALTHY
December 27, 2021 at 9:33 am
The Middletons believe it is just a matter of time for them to become the Royal Family.
Remember Charles wants to streamline the Monarchy? I bet William says he agrees until he becomes King, by that time he will make all his children to be working royals, Carole will be made Duchess etc….
For all the ” Megah w ill destroy the Monarchy” and ” Kate is saving them all.” it will be the grasping Middletons that will enrage the brits.
Reply
HARLA
December 27, 2021 at 10:08 am
I don’t know @moderatelyweathly, william might have to wait another 20-30 years before ascending the throne so the likelihood of Carole and Mike living long enough to enjoy those perks is pretty slim.
Reply