Waity Katy Reminds Us How Far We Have Come — Will She Catch Up?
July 1, 2010 12 Comments
Her whole life has been leading to this moment, when her man gets down on his knee, proffers a ring, and asks her to be his.
While Kate Middleton waits to become the most high profile wife in the land we are reminded why it was so important the women before us demanded the rights that they did.
The Times of London devoted their Sunday magazine to Kate Middleton, Prince William’s long-time girlfriend (complete with look-a-like models). When June 3 and 4 of the official royal calendar were blocked out rumours swirled that she would finally have the proposal that was almost a decade in the making. When the date came and went without an official announcement the whole country seemed to tut with sympathy for the girl now known as “Waity Katy“.
- She’s done her training, stopped partying and cleared her diary. So how long must Kate Middleton wait in silence for William to propose?
We feel so bad about Kate because there is nothing she can do. She has devoted her entire existence to being the perfect companion to a man in power, and now she sits powerless, waiting on his whim.
- But like it or not, she was a professional wife from the start: happy to cook and make nice conversation, play tennis “but not in a frightening way”, tirelessly picking up his dirty shorts after games of rugby with “minor public-school rugger buggers who William played seven aside with, who referred to themselves as the Bratpack”.
In school she was an unfashionable jock until one summer when her mother whisked her away and turned her into a “Sloane swan.” Now a size six (American size 2) her friends attribute her figure to an unhealthy mixture of discipline and stress.
- “Unhappy to be living at home with the parents at 28, not with Will, having dated him for nine years. Actually, she’s f***ing skinny. Wedding-dress skinny.”
The Times piece strongly implies that she applied to St Andrews specifically to meet the prince. In 2002 she appeared in stage wearing only her underwear and a sheer dress, knowing that the prince would be in the audience. She also suspiciously dumped her boyfriend in time to be single for the show.
To cement their relationship she lived with him their second year and became his pseudo-wife.
- Moving into the “uber-Sloaney” Hope Street with William and Fergus Boyd for their second year, followed by a farmhouse on a nearby estate for their third and fourth, Kate “cooked William dinner every single evening”, says a friend. “He basically couldn’t live without her.”
And like a good wife she ignored his dalliances with other women. He might go off and cheat, but as long as he came home to her she was happy.
- [She ignored] Wills’s “other girls”, the seaweed blondes and “civilian snogs”, and girls like the 18-year-old Brazilian Ana Ferreira, who, meeting William away on manoeuvres (in a Bournemouth nightclub), breathily reported: “I was a bit drunk but felt something brush my breast… I thought it couldn’t be the future king — but now I’ve seen the picture it’s no wonder he has a smile on his face! He has big, manly hands and certainly knows what to do with them.” Kate coolly weaned him off Boujis and magnums of champagne in favour of dinners à deux and the odd premiere.
She also dresses the part, making sure that her sartorial choices are appropriate for his partner and lack any inappropriate flashes of personal style or creativity. Her fashion sense has been described as “occasion-appropriate.”
In 2007 the couple broke-up briefly but by the end of the year their relationship was firmly cemented — as least to the public who had begun to think of her as their future queen. She quit the job she got to stop rumours that she was just waiting around to be married and now helps out with the family business behind the scenes.
- Kate left Jigsaw at the end of 2007 to “focus on her relationship with William”. Really, she just retreated to Bucklebury, where she now keeps William’s “favourite sofa” warm.
While he pursues his military career she is only really able to see him on the weekends or holidays, and insiders (whoever they are) have said that being involved in a business venture or a career would be inappropriate for a girlfriend who might one day be queen.
Many woman would love to be in Kate’s position but all I feel for her is pity. She waits with baited breath, terrified that he’ll become sick of her before he proposes.
Everything is on the line. There are few men who would want Will’s royal cast-offs, especially one who has been linked with him so publicly and for so long. She has no career to fall back on, only family connections that will quickly dry up if the Middletons fall out of favour with the royal family.
So what choice does she have but to keep a stiff upper lip and make the best of things? In arguments he must be right. She must ignore his moods, his mess and his infidelities. She must dress how he likes, say what he wants and put him first.
Of course once she gets the proposal it is not over. Her position is not really secure until she does her duty and produces an heir and a spare.
This powerlessness and uncertainty was something that almost every women in history had to go through until the 20th century. Any freedom or power they had existed at the whim of a man and could be taken away suddenly and arbitrarily.
Now that women have won the ability to support ourselves we no longer need to rely on men to keep body and soul together. We can decide not to live with infidelities, or dirty shorts on the floor. We can have standards that we expect our husband to live up to. Marriage can be about love and not financial necessity.
Which is why I find Kate’s choice so baffling.
In ten years time, with the next little princes tucked in their royal bed chambers, Kate will suddenly realise that she has the freedom she has not had since she was 20. Short of a public affair (its officially treason to cuckold a king) there is nothing she could do to be stripped of her position.
But will she be able to stretch her wings after so many years spent in a guilded cage?
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I do not think she will have to worry about these topics because I do not think he will marry her.
Waitey Katie is a disappointing role model for girls. Let’s hope she turns it around and surprises us.
Finally people are starting to see WK for what she is ( gold-digger) and what she will never be (a princess). She has single-handly undone hundreds of years of progress women have fought for to gain in less than 6 years. It does not help her case that her mother is actually encouraging her to behave like this (as a doormat). The only part you go wrong is about how she has dressed over the years. Do you not know about the times she has stumbled out of pubs drunk as a skunk and while gracelessly getting into a cab has shown off parts that should never be seen in public? Instead of asking why she is still waiting, why not ask why would he marry someone like this? She has not done anything but be his unpaid maid and royal booty-call!
Kate Middleton is an adult. She is not a helpless, waiting for her Prince girl. If she is, that is her CHOICE.
She’s made her choice and she can also choose to leave him. But not really knowing William, you make it sound like he’s got her waiting on his every whim….if so…that’s her choice, not his “power”.
It is disappointing that not only did she never really work hard at a job, but that she didn’t even work hard at a charity. Or pick one to really help with consistently.
All this shows me is a lazy girl who’s used to getting things handed to her. Good Luck Wills…you’ll need it when she finds out she finally has to actually work hard without 5 or 6 vacations a year. I mean…just look at your Dad and the whining he has to hear now he’s married “the love of his life” (who btw also doesn’t like to work without throwing a fit).
Kate Middleton is disgraceful IMO. She doesn’t seem to have any work ethics, hangs on endlessly for that “ring”, and doesn’t seem to show the slightest inclination to really appreciate exactly what being “royal” entails. I was explaining to my son about the thousand year institution of Royalty in my country (I’m an expat in the U.S, but British by birth and upbringing). They ARE England. As Kate Blanchett (playing Queen Elizabeth I says in the movie “Elizabeth”: I AM ENGLAND. And so when a silly little WAG like Kate Middleton thinks that all she has to do is look cute, flash a silly smile, and then be given endless vacations and luxury for this, it makes me very sad. Our present Queen Elizabeth II has given us her whole life dedicated to duty, and hardwork, and has my complete admiration. I feel that Kate Middleton will bring down the Royals to a Z list celeb embarrasment if she marries Prince William. And as for her parents encouraging her to be a mistress, well shame on them as well.
The idea that with the RF knowing so much more about Ms Middleton, and still allowing her to marry their Golden Prince, when virtually the future of monarchy will depend on him is amazing. My information is that he has tried to break it off with her for quite some time, but she just won’t go. There will only be so much time allowed for him to take this softly softly approach before the couriers step in with a vengeance. I wouldn’t like to even contemplate being her when that happens.
She’s had a good innings, time to pack up and go home. She won’t win against the combined forces of the House of Windsor.
As Lola said, you should read the You Tubes, all of them. They are not pretty, and eventually, one way or another they will find their way totally into the public domain.
Julia Carr,
Colchester
I could not agree more with so many of the comments here. Kate Middleton is so undeserving and LAZY !! Why does Prince William not walk away? She is a z list celebrity or at least appears to want to be. Her scanty clothes are an embarrassment and not to mention her lingerie modeling. What has she EVER acomplished in life that we should look up to her? I for one never shall.
The Windsors aren’t even legitimate. They are only the top Protestant candidates; there are actually thousands of people with more of a right than drunken Wills and his crazy dysfunctional family.
Middletons are such royal wannabes it’s laughable. Kate Middleton is such a lazy, conniving joke.
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I can’t believe this girl is actually going to be our queen. What right does she have? Why should anyone – let alone Beatrice and Eugenie, the real princesses – curtsy to her? She has what she wants now: designer clothes, Jaguars, jewels, and fame. Yet all she’s done is strutted around wearing practically nothing on a catwalk and fallen out of Boujis at 3am flashing her knickers. How can we take her seriously after doing nothing but party and holiday all her life? Her accent is just a cover-up for a wannabe Sloane. She’ll never be loved like Diana was. I wish the newspapers would stop comparing them. A lot of her outfits are remarkably similar to Diana’s, which suggests that she’s been subliminally trying to lure William into proposing to her for years. Kate middleton is a parasite.
A lot of jealous ladies here.