May 31, 2025

Kate is Wonderful - or is she?

Kate is Wonderful - or is she?

Often on Saturday we took at all the glowing press coverage of the Wonderful Princess of Wales, and her husband "the Quiet Disruptor" - but this week there was a rare article that wasn't 100% "Kate is Wonderful"

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm

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your host, Mark Francis. As we often do on Saturday,

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let's check in on just how wonderful the Whales family is,

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at least according to the friendly tabloids. Sure of, the

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Whales family try to come across as regular folks. Kate

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the supermarket shopping mum, William the socker loving dad who's

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down for a pint with the common folk. And just

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like in your family, the Whales chauffeurs have to follow

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a strict dress code. For William and Kate's drivers, It's

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all about looking sharp in navy blue double breasted suits,

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white shirts, black ties and black hats with a patent

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leather peak. Veterans of the armed forces might even add

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metal ribbons to their attire, showing off a bit of

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extra respect and service. Rhiannon Mills, Sky News Royal correspondent

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spent the week shadowing Prince William, which naturally resulted in

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quite the fluff piece under the head line My week

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with Prince William, the quiet disruptor, Mills tells us when

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Pallace sources telling me he'd be more than happy to

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be acknowledged as a quiet disruptor, despite the criticism his

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new ways of working might bring. Those who've known him

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for a long time will tell you this compulsion to

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do things differently has been there for some time. We're

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told of. Last Wednesday, William walked into a sweaty but

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infectiously positive community hall in Leith in Edinburgh. No ribbon

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cutting here, but this is the kind of visit the

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Prince now sees is a big deal impact the buzzword

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ahead of any engagement. Now a very lively game of football,

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launching what they hope will be a long term tie

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up between the Royal Foundation, their charitable trust, Leath Community

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Center and Street Soccer Scotland. On Thursday, the sight of

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the Guard of Honor saluting the Prince and Princesses of

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the National Anthem was played alongside HMS Glasgow. Just emphasize

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the irregular handbreak turns they face from the more relaxed

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to the formal, as they want to make the monarchy

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feel connected and irrelevant. Then there is family to conceal

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in a way that past generations just haven't. Their working

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diaries are now arranged around their children. They've made no

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secret of that. On paper, it means fewer engagements compared

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to other members of the family, and it has led

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to mutterings of that word no one within the Palace

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wants to hear. Workshi. As the Prince and Princess of

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Wales stood on the steps of Buckingham Palace at the

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Garden Party on Tuesday, pausing for the national anthem, you

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can't help but wonder whether those traditional elements of royal

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life could face a shakeup when one day he leads

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the firm full time. According to etiquette expert William Hansen,

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the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate continue

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to modernize royal traditions, especially when it comes to making

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the monarchy more relatable to a younger generation. They balance

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their casual approach, taking selfies and hugging with respect for tradition. Hanson,

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who released his book Just Good Manners on May twenty seventh,

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points out that while Kate was initially criticized as a commoner,

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she now exudes a regal presence. He also believes that

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Prince William has a common time, which allows him to

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connect with people from all walks of life, a trait

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reminiscent of Princess Diana. Though there have been changes in

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royal events like state banquets, Hansen doesn't expect drastic shifts

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any time soon. King Charles, for example, has yet to

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reduce the formality of these occasions. As for royal customs

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like bowing and curtseying, handsome predicts they may fade out

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for most occasions, especially as Prince William's reign approaches. The

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royal family has also become more touchy feely, with King

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Charles and Queen Camilla embracing hugs and physical affection in public,

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a departure from the more reserved behavior of precious monarchs. However,

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handsOn stresses that certain traditions, like maintaining a stiff upper lip,

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should be preserved as a valuable cultural trait In a

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world where everyone has an opinion, he believes the monarchy

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still serves as an example of restraint and dignity. During

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the King's visit to Canada, one woman in the crowd

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held up a sign which read I met your daughter

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in law. In case wondering which daughter in law, there

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were three pictures of Kate. As far as we know,

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there were no signs depicting Megan shockingly as a rare

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shot fired in Kate's direction. Kate stirred mixed reactions with

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her new Mother Nature video series, aimed at encouraging people

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to reconnect with nature. In the first video, she urges

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Britain's to reconnect with nature and celebrate a new dawn

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within our hearts. However, the video has drawn criticism from some,

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including Royal commentator Tom Sykes, who caught her delivery patronizing

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and compared it to him an enthusiastic kindergarten a hippie teacher.

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He further criticized the language as sounding like something an

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AI chatbot would produce, citing phrases like the natural world's

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capacity to inspire us as cliche aden overly sentimental. Sikes

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also took issue with the irony of Kate's video, pointing

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out the contrast between her privileged life on extensive landholdings

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and her portrayal of a relatable middle class persona. He

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added that the performative happiness of Kate and William, often

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seen as hiking enthusiasts, felt inauthentic, especially given the ongoing

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tension between the couple and Prince Harry more powercing just

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teen Period features such as stone hearth's, arched entryways and

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hand finished doors have been lovingly preserved. According to the

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the agency notes throughout the house, while artifacts from the

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