During pre-Olympics outings alongside Princes William and Harry yesterday, Kate Middleton played table tennis (ping pong), wore a $55 (£35) dress with her $225+ (£144+) per week hairstyle, welcomed the Olympic torch to London, and made the ghastliest revelation of her royal life to date (1;2). As she helped launch Coach Core, an organization aimed at helping underprivileged athletes become sports coaches, it was apparent that regular stiletto wear has taken a horrible toll on the Duchess of Cambridge’s feet (3).
Brace yourself, these aren’t the pedicured beauties expected of the (usually) immaculately groomed future queen consort. From a distance, they’re not so bad. They just look unpolished and irritated from a day in too-tight heels. However, the close up is truly shocking (Thanks to “just a serf” at Royal Dish for revealing the close-up and to arlie for bringing it to light here at Enclave 24).
Was the Duchess Unprepared?
Two major elements define the public side of the Duchess of Cambridge: Her marriage, and her physical appearance. She is highly image conscious when it comes to her looks, so it is incredibly unlikely she would have forwent the extensive pedicure her feet needed if she knew there was a chance she’d be photographed barefoot. Was this mortifying display a consequence of Kate’s failure to research her potential activities ahead of time? It would not be surprising if it was. She has seemed unprepared for charity involvement before: not knowing what activities she might encounter, being relatively unfamiliar with the cause, and even sounding clueless about the purpose of her own participation (A major example: Missteps of 2011 Part II, the UNICEF interview). If she takes as much pride in her looks as she seems to, it only makes sense that she did not expect to be prompted to remove her shoes and participate in such an activity. There is a chance she had no way of foreseeing the need to kick off her wedges; but if she could (and should) have known, hopefully this humiliation has taught her once and for all how important it is to be ready for anything through cognizance.
Kate has company: Other heels-obsessed celebrities have feet in far worse shape than hers, as shown in this bunion-full article on the Mail Online (Warning: strong stomach needed!). Among the foul photos is an example of Kate’s dogs in pedicured form, along with a not-so-flattering shot of them in 2007.
Has Kate found her calling?
Aside from Kate’s barefoot bombshell, the visit to Coach Core appeared to be her best charity visit to date. She is known for her affinity for sports, and yesterday, it looked like she was in her element. She hasn’t seemed very enthusiastic or sincerely interested in other types of charity involvement, but she gave a different impression in this instance. For one thing, she was visibly comfortable and delighted and was abnormally hands-on. She kicked a ball around in a dress and wedge heels (not something expected from one of the UK’s most high-maintenance women), and despite the gnarly condition of her tootsies, did not flat out refuse to kick off her shoes and help judge a judo match from the mats (assuming she could have if she was desperate enough).
Perhaps it would be a good choice for Kate to make one or more of her next charity patronages sports-related. Athletics and fitness are genuine interests of hers, areas she is experienced and likely knowledgeable in, and potentially beneficial to children and adults from all walks of life. There are many possibilities like charities for promoting sport and active lifestyles for disadvantaged youth in the UK and abroad, supporting athleticism among those with special needs, and encouraging the involvement of women and girls in sports and fitness programs. Kate has been very hesitant to dive into charity work – presumably because it doesn’t interest her – but she doesn’t have to limit herself to helping the homeless, addicted, or terminally ill if those causes are not good fits for her. No one expects her to be a clone of Diana, and if following her own personal hobbies is what it takes to turn her on to charity work, then she should definitely run with it. -And leave the art gallery nonsense behind (Does anyone still honestly believe she studied art history for any reason but to cross paths with William?).
Kate’s skinny jeans revealed… too much information!
Following the Coach Core visit, William, Harry and Kate welcomed the arrival of the Olympic torch at Buckingham Palace. Through color-coordination, Kate attempted to blend in with the many present Team GB coaches and athletes, yet managed to stand out anyway because of her towering platform wedges and second-skin jeans. It was a new level of tacky and unflattering inappropriateness for the Duchess. The Zara “Satinhose“ were so tight that they vulgarly revealed every inch of her derriere - much like her nude hosiery in her “Marilyn Monroe moment” in Canada last year. Truthfully, it doesn’t matter whether her dress flew up over her head or her jeans were too tight, because the result has been the same: Kate’s body was revealed in an offensive amount of detail. The important difference is that the Canada incident was an accident, and these figure-clenching leggings were deliberate. What makes her think the world wants to be so well-acquainted with her rear or that this type of attire is even remotely appropriate for a future queen consort? And furthermore, why wear pants at all when all but a precious few lower body features can be seen anyway? The pants may as well have been opaque, footless tights. Overall, this woman-child has a lot of growing up to do before she becomes the Princess of Wales – and a higher level of taste to develop at that.
Sources
(1) English, Rebecca. “Cut-price Kate sports a £35 dress from Hobbs as she joins the country in countdown to Olympic games.” Daily Mail. 7/26/2012.
(2) Finlayson, Ariana. “Kate Middleton Gets Blowouts Three Times a Week!” US Magazine. 6/19/2012.
(3) Braswell, Molly. “Royal Trio William, Kate and Harry Launch “Coach Core” Program.” All Media NY. 7/26/2012.
these kind of polls have fast becoming “what media wants you to think” list
Long time lurker first time poster – have you all seen this article on the London Evening Standard? I can’t say whether it is a more reputable news source than Daily fail.
First of all Waity looks like she is stifling a yawn in this picture – “Sharing a laugh” indeed. Secondly, the comments below are PRICELESS.
http://www.standard.co.uk/olympics/olympic-news/royally-entertained-the-royal-family-get-swept-up-in-all-the-fun-of-the-games-7998629.html
the comments ARE priceless! Wow!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this, maybe there is hope after all??
DM is trying to sell the “love story of the century” to their readers all over the world. I can’t blame anyone but myself for checking DM pages regularly.
When I do, I try to balance it out with thought-provoking articles like this one:
http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2012/01/07/kate-middleton-popular-with-the-british-public-yeah-sure-and-tony-blair-was-very-popular-as-well/
@SGTM. I have tried to find his comment but can’t. Would you be able post it or give the gist of it
please? Many thanks.
@SGTM. StiringTroubleInternationally used to post some brilliant up to the minute scathing posts on Waity but sadly don’t any more which is very suspicious with all the material up for discussion out there.
Someone suggested that they had either been bought off by Uncle Gaz or were on the receiving end of Ma’s vitriol and threats. They were brilliant and many of us miss their sharp and clever deductions of Waity!
Eve and Miss 24
I have the shivers about all this silencing of the masses.
Yesterday there was a hilarious age enhancement of the young royals in the DM. It of course included Kate Middletons sister (what’s her name again?) which riled everyone up quite a bit but the comments were funny not grouchy like usual. By this morning it had been deleted. So how are sites such as royal dish and newspaper articles being hushed up? Do they get a visit from an on line lawyer? Men in Black? Will this happen to Enclave24? The Palace PR/Middleton PR people must be really freaked about something because the comments are more keen personal observations than political or conspiratorial. Everyone knows how astute women are about smelling a rat when it comes to other women. Why are they so freaked about pointy but spot on remarks about the Middleton crones?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172145/Kate-Middletons-raunchy-cousin-Katrina-Darling-pose-nude-Playboy.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Did we see these – I know that we discussed her forthcoming front page Playboy debut?
@Eve
You mean this? :)
This article is from January 2012.
Duchess Of Cambridge Popular With The Public? Yes, Sure, And Tony Blair Was Popular As Well
Ben Delicious writes from London: I hear Kate Middleton is supposedly enjoying huge popularity among the British public. So huge in fact that Buckingham Palace is even worried that she would overshadow her husband, Prince William, and the rest of the Royal Family any time soon. Who says so? Well, if you read any article about the Duchess of Cambridge, as she is now known, you’d find that hacks shower Katie with praise and call her a fashion icon who is as popular as Princess Diana was.
Where do scribblers get this from? From opinion polls allegedly although the last one was conducted last year in April if my memory serves me right. That one had supposedly confirmed that the Duchess of Cambridge had the approval of 66 per cent of the British people, the level of popularity that Diana had had before her marriage to Prince Charles. But since then I don’t really remember reading about any polls that would have confirmed that the Duchess was on a roll, if you know what I mean. And even if there were any polls, I doubt that they would have been accurate.
The problem with this whole ‘fairytale romance’, as some parts of the British media still portray it, is that it has nothing of a fairytale about it. Ms Middleton was quite determined in her quest to ‘bag her prince’ and used every trick in the book to get him to marry her. It was a cold, calculating operation on her part and if Prince Charles had had any sense he would have put an end to this relationship once and for all. The interests of the British monarchy had nothing to do with the ambitions of the Middleton family to become related to the royals. It’s not some Monaco, where the local royals marry actresses and stewardesses, seeing nothing wrong with it.
But my doubts about the Duchess go beyond her case. How is it, I would like to know, that so many opinion polls that have been conducted in the past have produced results that went against common sense? I remember very well how during the times of Tony Blair and New Labour’s disastrous rule opinion polls were giving him and his clique extraordinarily high ratings, even though it was crystal clear that the vast majority of the population saw through these opportunists and couldn’t stand the mere sight of them. Even after Blair had dragged the country into an illegal war in Iraq and was being investigated by the police for his role in the disgraceful cash for peerages affair, he and his party were still riding high in the polls, eventually winning the general election in 2005. This could have only meant that the polls were conducted in a biased and unfair way.
If you look at most polling organisations their whole purpose is to manipulate public opinion, imposing ridiculous views and ideas on people that would stand a chance of surviving in a properly conducted survey. Practically all of the pollsters are left-wingers or even ultra left-wingers and obviously have their own nasty agendas to plug. They don’t care that they come up with contradictory results that go against the logic of events and they unashamedly promote the candidates they like before elections. Labour had managed to cling to power for 13 year in Britain not because it was good at what it did but because it had the publicly funded BBC on its side and the slimy pollsters, who invented figures about its huge popularity. When historians study that period in Britain’s history they would be amazed to find out how the Left had manipulated public opinion at the time and rigged the vote, especially in the 2005 general election.
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OMG so funny! also check out: http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2011/09/22/duchess-of-cambridge-to-be-coached-how-to-come-across-as-a-bit-of-a-royal/
I love the bit where they write KM is doing what Princess Di, Fergie, Camilla couldn’t do and turn the RF into one big joke. The RF will end up just as amusement for tourists, it’s true!
@SGTM. Thanks for above too but was looking for Robin’s response to your DM Waity praise
@Eve DebbieB posted it above! :) See 143.1.1
Sorry I got confused because you posted a reply under 153
This Stirring Trouble Internationally site is hilarious! Thanks, whoever posted it. I wish there were more articles on Waity and the Meddletons. Such wonderfully sarcastic satire! Here’s one on Pipples: http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2011/11/29/pippa-breaks-the-family-agreement-and-succumbs-to-a-publishing-deal/
Go to this link and look for Wandering the World in Rose Colored Glasses commenter, she will sound familiar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185602/Kate-Middleton-loses-golden-touch-Team-GBs-women-lose-crunch-hockey-semi-final.html
OOTP
Was that your comment? I thought it was in your style and was thinking of copying it and pasting it on here as I thought it was so hilarious I nearly spilt my tea over my laptop when I read it. Hahaha very well done! I think Robin, London, UK will have a turn when he sees this comment.
Hi Cameron
Just read your comment underneath about the comment been scrubbed. It is 08.45 here in Britain and I have just read the comment and nearly spilt my tea over my laptop as I was laughing so much!!! Not sure what is going on in DM lala land.
Kate looks absolutely beautiful today. The people who are sitting with her must be thrilled to be in her company, I would be. She seems to be progressing beautifully in her royal duties. A splendid example of what a Duchess should be, you in the UK must be very proud. For those who are still having issues with her, give her a chance, she is still a newbie.
- Wandering the World in Rose Colored Glasses, USA, 09/8/2012 01:26
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185602/Kate-Middleton-loses-golden-touch-Team-GBs-women-lose-crunch-hockey-semi-final.html#ixzz232C5Vn2v
For OOTP: Wandering the World’s comments have been SCRUBBED. Like so many others cited here. The Daily Fail is indeed deleting comments, I think. I read the US version of the site, and I’ve noticed that many comments appear and quickly disappear in Waity-related pieces. Can’t call them articles because they are such cloying bits of inept and ridiculously inane PR.
Stirring Trouble Internationally is a fun site. It’s too bad they’ve muzzled their coverage of The Waitress.
Well I am speechless, unless they are on to me, but still I wrote only glowing review. Weird. You can almost call them thugs
I’m afraid the Daily Fail is on par with Royal Dish at this point……
Willy/Waity are off limits.
NOT HERE, THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Hi Cameron
Just read your comment underneath about the comment been scrubbed. It is 08.45 here in Britain and I have just read the comment and nearly spilt my tea over my laptop as I was laughing so much!!! Not sure what is going on in DM lala land.
Kate looks absolutely beautiful today. The people who are sitting with her must be thrilled to be in her company, I would be. She seems to be progressing beautifully in her royal duties. A splendid example of what a Duchess should be, you in the UK must be very proud. For those who are still having issues with her, give her a chance, she is still a newbie.
- Wandering the World in Rose Colored Glasses, USA, 09/8/2012 01:26
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185602/Kate-Middleton-loses-golden-touch-Team-GBs-women-lose-crunch-hockey-semi-final.html#ixzz232C5Vn2v
Some of the comments sound like they would have been written by Kate herself, I mean she usually has a lot of time on her hands with PW always elsewhere, and employees to take care of all the mundane stuff, so when shes not exercising, getting a bee venom mask, or shopping she is probably patrolling the net to check on her media representation, the Middletons probably spend a big chunk of their Party Pieces income on tweaking their image.
This is an interesting comment on that thread
The bottom line is Kate is lazy, vain and full of herself. She thinks everything is about her. Funny that William didn’t even bother to tell Charles and HM Queen that he was going to propose. That’s why he did it out of the country allegedly. The royals found out 48 hours before the announcement by which time Kate family already knew. Charles advised William not to marry her as they obviously weren’t impressed by the idle party girl with a penchant for going out sans underwear. The Royals it seems bend over backwards to keep petulant William happy but I think they will rue the day they let this silly girl and her family near the crown.
- Suzannah, Surrey, 9/8/2012 11:53
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185602/Kate-Middleton-loses-golden-touch-Team-GBs-women-lose-crunch-hockey-semi-final.html#ixzz2337G1EKv
Kate is just embarrassing, if you look here – scroll to the bottom for video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186360/Kate-Middleton-brother-law-Prince-Harry-Royal-outing-congratulate-Britains-athletes.html
She seems only interested in looking closely at the gold medal, what about talking to the athlete and asking her questions?? sheesh! Gold digger habits die hard. Also what is with her crooked smile, it’s annoying, I think she may have had botox injected in the arch of her eyebrow. It’s like a car crash watching her talk to people, she behaves as if she is superior, *I married Prince William and I am towering above you and speaking in a faux posh accent* cringe
Re: Royal Dish discussion from a few pages back
To second what others mentioned. It seemed like certain posters (and maybe some of the mods) felt it was okay to dish on royals they disliked, but you weren’t really welcome to dish on royals that they *did* like. It seemed to vary from mod to mod. And maybe it was also, as I think Vava wrote, that some mods and posters didn’t really welcome new folks into what they’d built. That’s fine, it is their site, they can limit membership and direct discussion however they like. At least I hope that is why they closed the BRF section, rather than censorship requests from outside.
I was a new poster on there too. I shared my opinions and felt immediately attacked by one of the long-time posters who seemed to think I had to prove my opinion, or that it was less valid than hers. I have an opinion, you have an opinion, and neither of us has to prove our opinion. It is just an opinion. It seemed less like a place to dish on royals, and more like a place where some posters go after other posters for fun. I definitely felt unwelcome and won’t go back.
Re: Daily Mail
A few months ago, I read an interesting comment from someone who suggested that the arrows really weren’t showing the whole story. Right now, whichever has more clicks gets a number (ex. If lots of people click on green, it will show X number next to green but it does not show how many people clicked on red). The poster suggested that they should really have totals next to both arrows, to show how many people really thought what. Seems like a great idea to me.
I also wish they’d just *hide* comments that receive complaints, rather than completely removing them. My local paper hides them, with a tag line like “This comment has been flagged for complaints. Click here to read it.”
Maybe if we all suggest those ideas to the DM, there might be some hope of them changing their tactics? Okay, eternal optimist here …
KATE SLIPS ON BANANA SKIN go the headlines in today’s Corriere Della Sera of Italy refering to Kate’s hasty exit at the beginning of the Irish national anthem at the Olympics yesterday.What banana skin? And what nanas do they take us for? That was a very deliberate move so as not to offend the man who foots the bill for her wardrobe and whose favourite uncle was blown to smitherines by the IRA. A fact the Queen may have forgiven but I’m sure HE HAS NOT.Kate CANNOT, MUST NOT and WILL NOT risk offending the sensibilities of either of the 2 potential kings of England.That seeming slip was all about The Lion(England) The Witch(who could that be?;-) ) and THE WARDROBE. Which I also believe is one of Kate’s favourite shows!http://www.graziadaily.co.uk/fashion/archive/2012/06/16/kate-middleton-wears-zara-and-whistles-to-the-lion–the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-Read more: http://www.enclave24.com/2012/08/08/kate-middleton-combats-criticism-at-the-olympics/#ixzz238cTtGjf
The skinny jeans make her look like someone not to be taken seriously, the shoes were so high, she kind of has a Minnie Mouse look going on. How old is she now 30? 31? I’m a big believer in age appropriate clothing. But in her case even role appropriate clothing. I can’t believe the RF seem to be sitting back and doing nothing, hmm but now that I think about it *seem* might be the operative word. I wonder what their thinking was, 8 years of a gf PW needed to ditch, and now 2 years of a wife that is supposed to represent the RF, but instead no matter how much of Prince Charles (Tax payers) money she spends she still looks like a cheap tart with a clown face.
Hello – I tried to log onto Enclave 24 and was informed that ‘Comments are closed’. What does this mean? Has Miss 24 been virtually beheaded? Seriously please add a comment Miss 24 I am worried about the freedom of the British media. I am a Brit.