A critical blog about Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the rest of the British royal family
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall marked International Women’s Day yesterday, March 8, with a reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Women of the World Festival, of which Camilla is President.
Kate Middleton joined The Queen and Prince Philip for a reception yesterday, February 27, at Buckingham Palace to launch the UK-India 2017 Year of Culture. Prince William came out of hiding after a two week absence from royal duties to attend as well.
Here’s a quick post on a few no press events that Kate Middleton attended recently as Patron of the Royal Foundation.
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary were on an official business promotion trip to Washington D.C. and Boston from September 27-30.
Prince William and Kate Middleton traveled to Bella Bella yesterday, September 26, for Day 3 of their Royal Tour of Canada. The first part of their program, the aerial tour of Great Bear Rainforest, had to be cancelled due to bad weather, but the rest of the day’s program went ahead on schedule.
On July 14, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall held a reception at Clarence House for domestic abuse survivors and campaigners. The Duchess gave a speech saying that we need to “pull back that shroud of silence” in order to eradicate domestic abuse from our society.
Duchess Kate was back in black for the GREAT Reception at NeueHouse with Prince William. She wore another Seraphine Maternity dress, the Vanessa. I mean, she looks nice, and it’s much better than her black lace dresses, but damn I am just so sick of Kate wearing black. Oh, and let’s not forget the $80,000 elephant in the room. Kate brought back her Cartier Trinity necklace she previously wore in 2012.
Sigh. They dragged poor Hillary Clinton into this, didn’t they. And apparently Duchess Kate really wanted to meet the Former First Lady, because Kate made an appearance at the conservation reception that she wasn’t originally scheduled to be at. That’s the highlight of this rest-of-day-two post. The lowlight? Prince William and Kate Middleton meeting Beyonce and Jay Z at the NBA game. Ugh.
Tiara-mas came early, you guys! I was expecting to have to wait until December 10th to see some magnificent tiaras adorned atop royal heads, but Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall gave me an early present! Yay! Camilla is a girl after my own heart. She loves big jewelry and tiaras just like I do; so unlike some other royals, she doesn’t skimp on the jewelry. She always brings the jewelry. And unlike some other royals, Camilla can pull off some big jewelry without it overpowering her, or looking cheap or clownish.
William and Kate attended a reception at Government House—named Yarralumla—in Canberra, hosted by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove, to end Day 18—their last night in OZ. There were about 100 guests from the arts, business, charity, conservation, and sporting industries, as well as surviving recipients of the Victoria Cross. The Governor General gave a speech in which he paralleled the Cambridges to the former York’s trip of 1927—the then Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth—because they had a young child at the time and “accounts of their visit note the deafening cheers of the crowds, the fervent and spontaneous greetings of those they met and the Duchess won hearts from the start – all words that could describe the last couple of weeks.”