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18.5.23

Catherine, the Princess of Wales stuns in emerald as she visits the Anna Freud Centre

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the duke and duchess of cambridge visited the way youth zone in wolverhampton today to learn more about organizations in the area!

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I can't believe it has been nine years :,) so so so so so happy for catherine & william <3

My favourite moments from the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton → As requested by anonymous

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The Duchess of Cambridge gave a speech as she attended the “Back to Nature” festival at RHS Garden Wisley on September 10, 2019 in Woking, England.♡

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Wow you really do applaud the bare minimum and basic stuff Kate does. What about Meghan who acturally has done shit? Like who had a careeer and did stuff for charity. This fandom loves white mediocrity. Kate hasn’t done shit. She hasn’t even done that much this year. She was gone for a whole month this year. But yeah white duchess is perfect. Bi racial duchess is BAD.

Wow, I am so fucking tired of hearing that Kate didn’t do anything before her marriage.  Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, it would have been very difficult for Ms. Catherine Middleton to get neck-deep into a career?  Think about it:

She falls in love with William Wales who just happens to be the future King when she is hardly 19 years old - still a child in a lot of ways.  They break up briefly when she is 25 - six years later.  I don’t know if you’ve ever dated someone for six years, but I have, and let me tell you - the marriage/”where is our future going” conversation comes up a lot.  Especially if marriage means one half of the couple giving up their right to privacy, their career, their home, just about everything while the other gets to keep everything he’s ever had.  In those six years, Kate probably knew that she couldn’t launch herself into a career the same way other 19-25 year olds do because she basically knew that someday it would be all for naught, that she’d have to abandon everything she worked so hard for for the sake of the man she loved and the institution into which he was born.  It’s not like she was strapped for cash.

Then, they famously, and briefly, break up.  Catherine Middleton’s entire life plan (one that she and William created together for six years) has been thrown for a loop because now she has to figure out something else to do instead of being a future Duchess of Cambridge, Princess of Wales, and Queen Consort.  So she launches herself into the Sisterhood Challenge, which was not only an extraordinary physical endeavor, but also raised money for the Babes in Arms charity - which focuses on combating birth defects in newborns - and The CHASE Ben Hollioake fund - which focuses on supporting children’s hospice care.  Do you know what two of Kate’s biggest causes are today, 12 years later?  You got it - early childhood healthcare and hospice care.

Then, they get back together, and I can imagine they had a conversation that “this time, it’s for the long haul.”  What was she supposed to do?  Start working in a museum in Florence?  Go on a mission trip?  Do you have any idea the kind of strain her presence - unprotected, as just a girlfriend, by the royal family - would have had on communities already suffering and struggling to maintain resources?  The presence of not only her, but the paparazzi that followed her endlessly, would have put immense pressure on struggling communities:

Why is it any concern to you what she did before her marriage?  She was a private citizen.  She could have lounged by the pool 365 days a year, margarita in hand, flipping through gossip magazines, and eating crepes for breakfast and that still wouldn’t, like, disqualify her or anything from being a Duchess.  Wanna know why?  Because the only qualification for somebody like Ms. Catherine Middleton to become a Duchess is to marry Prince William.  And that’s exactly what she did.  William fell in love with her and the rest is history - nearly twenty years later.  If it’s good enough for him, then it’s good enough for anyone else - including you.

Now, onto “Kate hasn’t done shit.”  Really?  In the past 18 months alone, Catherine has:

Received the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II

Been appointed as a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (the highest order given by HM)

Received a 67-year-long patronage from the Queen

Tons of other things I’m getting tired of repeating

She’s developed initiatives and attached her name, face, title, and presence to some of the UK’s best causes.  She’s by all accounts brilliant, compassionate, keen to learn, inquisitive, dedicated, and interested to her causes.  

A quote from Professor Peter Fonagy, the CEO of the Anna Freud Centre, one of Kate’s patronages:

“The Duchess has a serious and professional interest in children’s mental health which has been a game changer.  She has boosted our profile exponentially and has had a huge role in raising the national awareness in the mental health of children. As far as we are concerned she’s the most important woman doing this in the world right now. To the millions of children who have been suffering in silence, she is their voice.”

Catherine has three young children and likely several years before she will be married to the heir.  What good is being a princess if she’s not afforded the simple luxury of being able to parent her children while they’re still small?  If it’s good with the Queen (it is, or else it wouldn’t be happening), then it’s good with me, and once again, it should be good with you.

This fandom loves Kate because she’s sweet, smart, strong, caring, and compassionate.  She is a wonderful wife, mother, sister, daughter, and ambassador to the Royal Family.  The world is exceptionally lucky to have her.  That’s why we love her.  Black, white, purple, doesn’t matter - that’s why we love her.

Now, onto Meghan.  First of all, fuck you for those comments.  I spend hours and hours of my life defending Meghan from the vile things people say about her online.  I have an entire tag devoted to defending both her and Kate.  Meghan is incredible in her own right.  She’s sweet, kind, dedicated, compassionate, interested, and determined.  She has a backbone of steel - in the face of prejudice worldwide, she stood loudly and proudly in front of the world’s audience and dedicated the rest of her life in love to a British prince as a biracial divorced American actress.  That takes strength unlike anything I could probably imagine.  

She has done incredible, incredible things in her life, both before becoming a royal and after.  I had high expectations for her going into her marriage to Prince Harry and she has exceeded every last one of them.  As a woman who is attacked daily for the skin and circumstances into which she was born, whose new life is nothing if not foreign to her, she is excelling, thriving, even - in the face of the millions of people rooting for her to fail.  The Duchess of Sussex is incredible.  Anyone with eyes can see that.

Catherine’s successes do not have to supercede Meghan’s and Meghan’s successes do not have to supercede Kate’s.  They are each wonderful, successful, beautiful, and brilliant in their own rights.  You call yourself an ally?  You call yourself a fan?  Then do not come here and tear down one of them to bring the other up.  You think Meghan would like how you’re speaking about the only sister she truly has?  I don’t.  Not at all.

Never, ever come back here again with this attitude.  Never.  Those are my girls - I’d go to battle for both of them.  Get the fuck out of here.  Not in my house.

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Prince Louis makes his debut on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with an enthusiastic royal wave! 

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the fact that both meghan and catherine have worn high heels while pregnant makes them superhuman, prove me wrong. i'll wait.

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Catherine looking like an actual goddess as she takes her seat at the BAFTAS

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Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1957

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The Duchess of Sussex meets some of the residents at Brinsworth House. The nursing and care home looks after those who’ve worked in the entertainment industry.

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Infographic of British Royal Wedding Dresses Throughout Modern History / by Leah Zhao

Prints available on Etsy

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The Duchess of Cambridge visits the Imperial War Museum || 31 October 2018