by ALICE MILES
She’s been accused of social climbing, of having no class and of being “boring”. But we are at fault here, not Kate Middleton.
If there is one person I wouldn’t want to be in 2011, it is Kate Middleton. She gets her face put on a coin and everyone says she looks like a pig; she spends Christmas with her family and there are suggestions Prince William has snubbed her. Even her invitation to join the royal family for a pre-Christmas lunch provoked comments such as this one, from “Seila” on the Daily Mail website: “I don’t like Kate Middleton one bit! She is a gold-digging hanger-on! Her wait certainly paid off for her! William could and should have been advised to choose someone better!” Beneath the message is an invitation to “report abuse” in any posted comments. In the circumstances, that seems unnecessary.
Or here is “j.c.k.” in New York: “Prince Harry is the only one with charisma, it was evident when he visited New York. Harry is a sweetheart, but I can’t warm to manipulative Kate. Kate chased William until she got him. I believe he simply got tired of being henpecked by her . . . Wait until after the wedding, when William finds out who the ‘real Kate’ is.”
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