Not only did the piece suggest that Kate Middleton was complaining about being overworked behind the scenes, but it also took jabs at her mother Carole by suggesting that she came from a middle-class background (which apparently hasn’t done Kate any favors in London’s elite social circles) and that Prince William is strangely ‘obsessed’ with his mother-in-law. Here’s what you need to know.
In the Tatler Magazine, writer Anna Pasternak had this to say about Kate Middleton, her background and her family, “She suffered the indignity of the ‘doors to manual’ jibe (a reference to her mother Carole’s former role as an air hostess) and needles about her ‘common’ family background – Carole being ‘NQOCD’ (Not Quite Our Class, Darling) for having been born in a council flat in Southall and descended from Durham coal-mining stock… Plus, horror of horrors, Carole allegedly ‘chewed gum’ during William’s passing-out ceremony at the Sandhurst military academy.”
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Royal expert Dan Wootton says that this paragraph was especially insulting to Kate Middleton and her mother Carole, who he says “hasn’t put a foot wrong despite being in the envious position of being the future queen’s mother.”
He also wrote in Britain’s The Sun, “As a working-class lad whose paternal relatives were miners in Newcastle, it sickens me that the elite in this country still think it’s appropriate to talk about us like this. Have these stuck-up snobs learnt nothing about the dangers of judging someone because of their social background?”
Of course, it didn’t take long for royal critics to respond to Dan’s piece. Many critics wrote comments such as, “Dan has some nerve to complain about the article being classist (I mean it is) when he and his colleagues constantly made jabs towards Meghan Markle being middle/working class (along with jabs about her race).”
Another fan wrote, “It’s TATLER. Of course it’s going to perpetuate a class system and encourage the toffs to keep talking that way about people. The people reading it are the ones who benefit from the class system. This reads like Wootton is taking that part really personally, and also like the barbs aimed at Carole hit home, reminding her of where she stands in the class hierarchy.”
So far Carole Middleton has not said anything publicly about the comments made about her in the Tatler profile of her daughter. In the meantime, let us know what you think by dropping us a line with your thoughts in our comments section below. Are you a fan of the British Royal Family?
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