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MAR
12
Prince William & Kate Middleton's Marvelous New Manor!
Added 11 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Prince William & Kate Middleton's Marvelous New Manor!
With their family expansion plans well underway, Prince William and Kate Middleton are looking to score some snazzy digs.

And the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have received approval for renovations to be done on their new country home, a Georgian mansion named Anmer Hall.

Additionally, Will and Kate?s London apartment at Kensington Place is also getting a makeover to create a more modern feel prior to the arrival of their Royal bun in the oven.

Meanwhile, Prince William has indicated that he?ll soon make an announcement regarding his future as part of the Royal Air Force?s Search and Rescue squadron.




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MAR
12
Duchess Kate 'critic' Hilary Mantel claims she didn't slam or shade Kate at all
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate 'critic' Hilary Mantel claims she didn't slam or shade Kate at all
Back in February, English author Hilary Mantel gave a speech about Duchess Kate which was widely covered and excerpted. Mantel seemed to be slamming Kate as ?a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung? with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore? painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character? She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.? Mantel compared Kate unfavorably to Anne Boleyn, saying that Boleyn had been ?a power player, a clever and determined woman? but at the end of the day, a royal wife is ?valued for her body parts, not her intellect or her soul; it was her womb that was central to her story? a royal lady is a royal vagina? at the most basic, they are breeding stock, collections of organs.?

Mantel?s comments were a big deal ? Mantel is a respected and award-winning historical novelist (specializing in royal historical fiction) and most media outlets reported Mantel?s speech as ?author slams poor Duchess Kate?. Even David Cameron chimed in. It was a big deal. But Hilary Mantel defended her comments last week, and now she?s claiming that she was merely shading the media and not Kate:

Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel has defended her comments on the Duchess of Cambridge after saying she was becoming “a shop-window mannequin” who was “designed to breed”. The author insisted she had nothing to apologise for. The double Booker Prize winner hit the headlines last month when she referred to the duchess during a lecture at the British Museum as having no personality and appearing to have been “glossed-varnished” with a perfect smile.

In an interview on BBC Radio 3?s Night Waves programme on Thursday night, she said her words had been taken out of context and had no regrets about her comments.

“My lecture and the subsequent essay was actually supportive of the royal family and when I used those words about the Duchess of Cambridge, I was describing the perception of her which has been set up in the tabloid press,” she told presenter Anne McElvoy. “My speech ended with a plea to the press and to the media in general. I said ‘back off and don’t be brutes. Don’t do to this young woman what you did to Diana’. My whole theme was the way we maltreat royal persons, making them one superhuman and yet less than human.”

Mantel, whose latest novels are set in the Tudor court, said she believed she had been set up. She told the radio programme: “I don’t believe for one moment that there was any lack of clarity, after all, I have been practising my trade for a number of years now. It was a matter of taking the words completely out of context ? twisting the context ? and setting me up as a hate figure. I have absolutely no regrets. What I said was crystal clear.”

During the controversial lecture, organised by London Review of Books a month after her latest novel Bring up the Bodies won the Costa prize, Mantel suggested that “painfully thin” Kate was selected for her role of princess because she posed no risk of showing any character.

But she said on Radio 3: “I do think that the Duchess of Cambridge is an intelligent young woman who, if she cares to read my essay, will see that I meant nothing but good to her.”

[From The Guardian]

While I don?t doubt that Mantel?s full speech was nuanced and media-bashing, I think she?s playing it too coy by half by claiming that her speech was completely supportive of Kate and the royal family. You know why? Because Kate and the royal family have a lot of control over their PR images, especially in the UK media. They are not mere celebrities angling for favorable coverage. They have a huge press machine promoting certain images, and Mantel was dead-on about Kate?s image: In the image they push of her, Kate is only a royal body, a clothes hanger lacking in personality. And that is how the royals want her to be seen. And that?s how they promote her ? like a second coming of Diana, only without the humanity, heart, work ethic, audacity, modernity or mess. Basically, Kate?s ?like Diana? because they both liked clothes.

Meanwhile, ?bashing Kate? is the new thing in England. A comedian named Sandi Toksvig recently did a bit in which she said Kate is so basic and meek, she?s like a character out of Jane Austen. She said: ?Kate Middleton is not enough for me. We used to admire women who got their place in life through marriage and having children, but I like to think we’ve grown up a bit. I can’t think of a single opinion she holds ? it’s very Jane Austen.? That?s an insult to Austen and her characters! Elizabeth Bennett is one of the great heroines of English literature, and Lizzie had more guts than Kate. Same for Marianne Dashwood and Emma Woodhouse and especially Anne Elliott. Austen wrote complicated, beautiful and flawed women. This woman doesn?t know what she?s talking about.

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MAR
7
Duchess Kate feels well enough to work: 'she wants to stay busy. She's feeling great'
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate feels well enough to work: 'she wants to stay busy. She's feeling great'
I guess we can start saying that Duchess Kate is officially out of the woods with her hyperemesis gravidarum (side-eye). She seems to have been feeling better for months now ? well enough for a Mystique vacation, well enough for a Switzerland vacation, well enough for a back-breaking TWO public appearances in two and a half months. Kate is putting on weight and she?s forgoing the sausage curls and everything is coming up rosy! So Us Weekly?s sources claim that Kate is ?absolutely fine? with the changes to her pregnant body because? of course. Women have to state that kind of thing nowadays. It can?t just be implicit.

Kate Middleton’s pregnancy may not have gotten off to the smoothest start, but the only bump in the road now is the one she’s been sporting under coats and dresses of late. With her morning sickness under control, the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, is looking and feeling lovely as she prepares for the July birth of her first child with Prince William.

The royal mom-to-be has been happily embracing her new curves in recent weeks and showing off her growing belly at engagements in England and Switzerland.

“She’s absolutely fine with the changes in her body,” a family friend revealed in the March 11 issue of Us Weekly.

Fortunately for the Duchess, those changes no longer include severe morning sickness, for which she was hospitalized in December. “She was saying she had been unwell but was feeling better now,” a patient at the Action on Addiction’s Hope House treatment facility in London told Us of Middleton, who visited the recovery program in February.

Added a source close to the pregnant royal: “She wants to stay busy. She’s feeling great.”

Middleton has indeed been busy. On Tuesday, March 5, she traveled to Grimbsy, England, to visit the National Fishing Heritage Centre, where she seemed to drop an unintentional hint about the sex of her baby-to-be. (Accepting a teddy bear from Grimbsy local Diane Burton, the Duchess said, “Thank you, I’ll take that for my d–” before tellingly cutting herself mid-sentence.)

Two days prior to that outing, Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Harry headed to Switzerland for Olympian Laura Bechtolsheimer’s wedding to Mark Tomlinson. And last week, the Duchess hit up a London Topshop to pick up some maternity clothes. One thing not on her shopping list? Outfits for her unborn child. “She’s not even bought any baby clothes yet!” a source told Us of how the first-time mother is trying to keep the little one’s gender under wraps.

[From Us Weekly]

This was my favorite quote: “She wants to stay busy. She’s feeling great.” That will play brilliantly into the theory that it?s Buckingham Palace who wants Kate to take a backseat lest she overshadow the Queen or Prince Charles. I think that theory is mostly crap, by the way. Maybe Charles is wary of Kate overshadowing him, but I believe the Queen is starting to get annoyed by William and Kate?s work-shy, vacation-happy ways. And I think the press officers at St. James Palace are tired of waging these ?Kate is so amazing, she works all the time? PR campaigns only to get taken off-message by Kate and William?s endless vacation schedule.

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MAR
6
Kate Middleton Slips She's Having a Girl
Added 11 years agoSource: The Blemish
Kate Middleton Slips She's Having a Girl
Kate Middleton visited Grimsby yesterday (stay with me here) and was greeting the crowd when one lady handed her a teddy bear. A person standing next to her heard Kate almost say she was having a daughter when she thanked her.

According to the person, “The lady next to me gave her a teddy bear and I distinctly heard her say ‘Thank you, I will take that for my d….’”

Then she stopped herself. I leant over and said to her: “You were going to say daughter, weren?t you?” She said: “No, we don?t know!” I said: “Oh, I think you do” to which she replied: “We?re not telling!”

Two possibilities. One, she was really going to say “daughter,” as in, “My daughter is going to love this.” Or, two, she was really going to say “dog” as in, “My dog is going to love tearing this thing up.”

Whatever the case, it was a good idea to stop before she finished her sentence because she would have either given it away or sounded like a mean b*tch.




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MAR
6
Duchess Kate drops a 'D?: did she accidentally hint that she's expecting a girl'
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate drops a 'D?: did she accidentally hint that she's expecting a girl'
In yesterday?s Duchess Kate post, I forgot to mention something that has gone uncommented-upon for a few months (mostly because yesterday was only Kate?s second ?public appearance? in 2013). Did you notice that she?s gotten a lot better about stroking her hair? She still does it, of course, because her hair (weave?) is her security blanket and she usually refuses to pull it back out of her face. But she?s gotten a lot better about fussing with it endlessly during her public appearances. A notable improvement! There, I said something nice.

Anyway, people are still dissecting Kate?s super-special visit to the town of Grimley, which St, James Palace wants you to know was definitely NOT Waity?s punishment for taking too many vacations. The biggest news? Kate DROPPED A D. In other words, Kate might have dropped a hint that she?s expecting a baby girl! Huh.

Get ready for another Queen of England? Kate Middleton dropped a major hint that she is pregnant with a baby girl during a visit to the National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby, England on Tuesday, March 5. During the engagement, the expectant Duchess of Cambridge, 31, was given a white teddy bear by a local, Diane Burton. “Thank you, I’ll take that for my d–” Prince William’s wife replied, tellingly cutting herself off mid-sentence.

When a well-wisher asked the royal if she was about to say “daughter,” Middleton smiled and replied coyly, “We’re not telling.” Another witness, Sandra Cook, overheard the exchange and told reporters: “I said to her: ‘You were going to say daughter weren’t you?’ and she said, ‘No, we don’t know.’” Remarked Cook, 67, to the Duchess: “I said, ‘Oh, I think you do’, to which she said: ‘We’re not telling.’” Middleton, meanwhile, happily clutched the teddy bear gift.

Privately, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge recently learned the sex of their baby, a source confirmed to Us Weekly, “but they’ve only told their parents.”

If it’s indeed a girl, that’s big, big news for the royal couple, who celebrate their second wedding anniversary next month — and even bigger news for the United Kingdom. Prince William’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II recently decreed that, should William and Kate’s firstborn be a daughter, she will be called “Princess,” and referred to as Her Royal Highness. In addition, the Succession the Crown Bill, overruling centuries of royal gender discrimination, decrees that William and Kate’s firstborn will be the heir to the throne regardless of gender.

The future British ruler is staying active before its big arrival, too. “I asked [Middleton] if [the baby] has been moving or kicking,” onlooker Bobbie Brown recalled. “She said: ‘Yes, it is. Very much so.’”

[From Us Weekly]

Is this a case of Kate?s pregnancy-brain (is that term offensive? I?ve heard loads of pregnant women say it!), where she forgot in the moment that everything she said was going to parsed endlessly? Or was Kate about to drop some other d-word besides ?daughter?? What other words could she have used? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my duke. The Duke of Cambridge!? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my d-bag husband.? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my dog, Lupo. He loves to play with stuffed animals.? ?Thank you, I’ll take that for my dude.? So, is Kate having a girl? Will they totally name her Diana Carole?

And if that wasn?t exciting enough, another well-wisher, an elderly woman, told Kate: ?I?m waiting for you to be Queen.? And Kate said dryly, ?You might be waiting a long time.? God help us all.

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FEB
20
Duchess Kate, nervous about childbirth: 'It would be unnatural if I wasn't.'
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate, nervous about childbirth: 'It would be unnatural if I wasn't.'
As we discussed yesterday, Duchess Kate made her first public appearance in months when she visited Hope House, which is part of one of patronages, Action on Addiction. Kate wore a Max Mara Studio dress which costs 298 (roughly $460). But the real ?money? piece of Kate?s ensemble was her Asprey diamond button pendant necklace, which costs 2,800 (roughly $4330). I?m not complaining? I like jewelry, I like talking about jewelry, and Kate has some lovely pieces in her collection? and she will be getting even more throughout her life. Think of this $4300 diamond pendant necklace as a ?starter piece? for the crazy jewels she?s going to have in a decade or two.

While Kate was speaking to some ladies at Hope House, she ran into an expectant mother who is due around the same time. And Kate SPOKE!

Royal baby jitters! Pregnant Kate Middleton was frank with fellow expectant moms during a visit to London’s Hope House, Action on Addiction on Tuesday, Feb. 19. In her first official event following her babymoon in Mustique, the 31-year-old royal showcased her growing baby bump in a MaxMara outfit — and talked about her pregnancy with two recovering women in an art therapy class.

One woman, 28-year-old Natalie, is currently expecting her second child, which is due this July, just like Prince William’s wife. “She was saying she had been unwell but is feeling better now and I have been about the same. We were all talking about children,” Natalie of their chat.

Recovering alcoholic Lisa is a mother of three, and asked Middleton the obvious. “I asked her if she was nervous about having a child and she said ‘it would be unnatural if I wasn’t. It’s just human, isn’t it?’” Lisa told reporters of her chat with Middleton.

“I said congratulations and good luck and I hope it all goes okay. She smiled. It was that nice she just chatted to us.”

One topic not discussed during Middleton’s Action on Addiction visits? The insults leveled upon her by author Hilary Mantel, who called the royal a “shop window mannequin” with a “plastic smile” in a recent speech.

Countered Nick Barton, chief executive of Action on Addiction: “I can only speak of what I know, and having met the Duchess several times I find her to be engaging, natural and genuinely interested in the subject. You can tell a lot about someone from the questions they ask and she asks really good questions, the questions of someone who wants to learn. She is also an intelligent woman.”

Added Barton of the Duchess’ efforts: “She is doing an enormous amount to reduce the stigma of addiction and increase understanding of it.”

[From Us Weekly]

?It would be unnatural if I wasn’t. It’s just human, isn’t it?? That seems? oddly worded. Stilted. Like, ?One would feel nervous if one displayed human emotions, of course.? Maybe she just IS nervous. I?m nervous for her. But my fears of pregnancy and childbirth are well-documented on this blog ? do not even talk to me about childbirth because I will gag.

As for whether Kate is really doing much (or enough) to help Action on Addiction, or whether she really gives a crap about anything other than shopping and getting her hair done? actions speak louder than words. And what we keep seeing is very little action and very stilted words.

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FEB
6
Duchess Kate took a grueling 8-hour flight for her Mustique vacation, how brave!
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate took a grueling 8-hour flight for her Mustique vacation, how brave!
These are some photos from 2006, from a trip to Ibiza Prince William took with then Kate Middleton (his girlfriend of some-odd 3 or 4 years) and some friends. These are some of the rare photos we have of William and Kate?s many, many vacations of their on-and-off 11 years together. When they were just ?dating,? they averaged about six to eight major vacations a year (not including weekend getaways), often with Kate?s parents and sometimes with William?s father. Since getting married in 2011, Kate and William have managed to keep up with their pre-engagement vacation schedule, even lying about their commitments or pushing aside royal duties so they could maintain their lay-about lifestyle.

Why bring this up? Because Prince William and Duchess Kate are on vacation right now. SHOCKING. They are in Mustique with Kate?s parents ? this is one of the Middletons? annual traditions, going to Mustique in January or February when, like, no one else has time off. I don?t really get it.

MUM-to-be the Duchess of Cambridge has jetted to the Caribbean for a holiday with Prince William after recovering from her morning sickness, The Sun can reveal.

Kate, 31 ? who was hospitalised in December ? is staying at a 19,000-a-week villa on the island of Mustique.

The luxury pad boasts an infinity pool, games room and stunning views of the Caribbean Sea. And the royal couple also have Kate?s parents Michael and Carole staying nearby.

Last night a source revealed: ?The Duke and Duchess have joined the Middletons for a winter break. Both William and Kate were hoping her condition would not stop her from making the eight-hour flight to Barbados and the connection to Mustique. A month ago such a journey would have been unthinkable for her, so this is a clear sign she has made a virtual recovery.?

Kate and Wills, 30, have enjoyed more than six holidays on Mustique since they started dating. It was a favourite hideaway for his great aunt Princess Margaret.

[From The Sun]

At first I was like, ?Oh, it?s The Sun, it?s probably BS.? But Us Weekly & People Mag confirmed it. It?s happening. They are staying at a $30,000-a-week villa, and Poor Brave Kate needs to be applauded for being so BRAVE as to undertake a grueling 8-hour flight? so that she could take a vacation. Again. The poor thing!

Hilariously, St. James Palace had to do some quick counter-programming because they knew the vacation story was going to break, so they released information yesterday that Kate (the poor, delicate, brave little sausage) was going to undertake her second public appearance on February 19th. That will be her second official public appearance in three months, I believe.

Kate Middleton isn’t scaling back her royal responsibilities. The pregnant Duchess of Cambridge will visit Hope House, Action on Addiction, in London on Tuesday, Feb. 19, St. James’ Palace announced on Tuesday, Feb. 5. This will be the 31-year-old’s second official appearance since announcing her pregnancy in December 2012.

Middleton will meet clients and staff at the 23-bed residential treatment center. Action on Addiction offers a safe place for women to recover from substance abuse; they are also given additional support for other compulsive disorders. Prince William’s pregnant wife became a patron of Action on Addiction in January 2012.

The mom-to-be has been seen in public only a handful of times since revealing her baby news late last year. She attended the unveiling of her first official portrait at the National Portrait Gallery on Jan. 11. “I thought it was brilliant,” Middleton told curators of the painting, created by Glasgow-born, South African-raised artist Paul Emsley.

In the following weeks, Middleton was spotted purchasing maternity clothes at JoJo Maman Bebe and browsing the racks at Reiss. Due in July, the duchess also emerged from Kensington Palace to order a drink from Starbucks and take her dog Lupo for a walk.

While royal parents have historically hired full-time teams to assist with newborns, Middleton and her 30-year-old husband want to handle the bulk of the childrearing, a source recently told Us Weekly: “They want to be as hands-on as possible.”

[From Us Weekly]

So Kate is so brave, so resilient, so tough, so amazing, so admirable to be shopping until she drops all over London, then jetting off for a tropical vacation, and then we have to be super-grateful that she deigns to make one public appearance every eight weeks or so? Seriously ? what in the world is up with William and Kate?s publicity team? They are really crappy at their jobs. They wouldn?t have to work this hard if just one of them would sit down with William and Kate and tell them directly: ?Stop taking so many vacations. Do some actual work. People will like you more if you stop looking so damn lazy.?

Photos courtesy of PR Photos.

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JAN
11
This Is the Kate Middleton Portrait
Added 11 years agoSource: The Blemish
This Is the Kate Middleton Portrait
Kate Middleton posed for her first portrait which was unveiled today. It looked like that thing above. Apparently, Kate is really 45-years-old with two kids and a minivan if the painting is to be believed. [via Guardian]

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JAN
11
Prince William & Kate Middleton: Royal Portrait Pals
Added 11 years agoSource: Celebrity Gossip
Prince William & Kate Middleton: Royal Portrait Pals
Kicking off their day with a swanky event, Prince William and Kate Middleton showed up at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England this morning (January 11).

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were in the house for the official unveiling of a new portrait of Kate that was painted by artist Paul Emsley.

And while there has been widespread criticism of the painting, Middleton is said to be a big fan of how things turned out. She told press, 'I thought it was brilliant. It's just amazing. Absolutely brilliant.?

Of his creative process, Emsley explained, ?The Duchess explained to me that she would like to be portrayed naturally ? her natural self as opposed to her official self. She struck me as enormously open and generous and a very warm person. After initially feeling it was going to be an unsmiling portrait, I think it was the right choice in the end to have her smiling ? that is really who she is.?




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Duchess Kate donated a baby hamper for one of her charity's annual auctions
Added 11 years agoSource: CeleBitchy
Duchess Kate donated a baby hamper for one of her charity's annual auctions
If she?s not careful, Duchess Kate will just work her little fingers to the bone! Haha. No, just kidding. Kate did something nice for one of her (few) charities, and Kate?s press office dutifully pushed a press release about it. What was the ?nice? thing? Kate ?managed to donate a baby hamper? for a charity auction for EACH (East Anglia?s Children?s Hospices). It?s nice. It?s not, like, the most groundbreaking and amazing charitable gift anyone has ever offered, but that?s fine. My problem is not that Kate donated something nice for a charity. My problem is with how the press and the band of royal sycophants treats her nice deed.

Kate Middleton hasn’t had an easy pregnancy, but she knows other parents have it far worse. And as a mother-to-be herself, she wants to help.

After announcing on Dec. 3 that she and husband Prince William, both 30, were expecting their first child, the Duchess quietly reached out to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), a charity that offers assistance for the loved ones of young people with serious, life-threatening diseases. (Her Royal Highness became a patron of the organization in January 2011.)

Despite being hospitalized at the time with hyperemesis gravidarum — a rare condition that can cause severe morning sickness, weight loss, dehydration, and fainting — Middleton managed to donate a baby hamper for EACH’s annual charity auction. According to the foundation’s website, EACH needs to raise more than 5.75 million pounds in public donations to deliver its services.

“EACH is invaluable to hundreds of families. In the past year there has been an unprecedented amount of care and support delivered to children and young people with life-threatening illnesses, and their families,” the mom-to-be says in a statement on the auction’s page online.

“I have been fortunate enough to meet some of those who have been supported by EACH, and seen firsthand the positive impact this organization has on their lives,” she continues. “For both families accessing care, and those who have been bereaved, EACH is a lifeline at an unimaginably difficult time.”

The pregnant Duchess has her own lifelines in her husband and in the couple’s families, who supported her through her recent illness and hospitalization.

Since returning home in early December, the first-time mom-to-be has been taking it relatively easy. On Christmas day, she and William skipped Queen Elizabeth’s annual gathering at Sandringham in favor of a more low-key celebration with Middleton’s parents and siblings in Bucklebury. They later joined the royal family for the traditional Boxing Day festivities on Dec. 26.

[From Us Weekly]

I?m sure there will be a lot of bids and the hamper will probably bring in a lot of money, and more people will become aware of the charity auction, which is a great thing. This made me wonder though? I wonder how much baby stuff is being sent to Will & Kate these days? Kate has always made it a priority that she doesn?t accept freebies or discounts, but I do wonder if they aren?t making an exception for all of the free baby stuff they?re getting from companies who want the newborn prince or princess to be seen wearing their products. It would be interesting if Kate and Will decide to donate all of that stuff too.

Two more stories for you? one, The Mail says that the Queen is making it clear that Will and Kate will have their own little (?little?) cottage on her Sandringham estate ? you can see photos of ?the cottage? here. It looks very much like an eight-bedroom mansion to me, but sure, a ?cottage?. The cottage is called Anmer Hall, and it?s part of the Queen?s extensive Sandringham estate, which means that Will and Kate will have absolutely no excuse to NOT come to Sandringham for future Christmases. So this will probably be one of Kate and Will?s many ?country estates? outside of London. Word is that the Queen and/or Charles will be getting them a Scottish estate too.

And the other story ? Kate?s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, are being criticized yet again for seeming to ?profit? from their royal connection. The Middleton company, Party Pieces, is currently selling ?Little Princess? and ?Little Prince? birthday party supplies and kits. Eh. It doesn?t offend me because? Party Pieces has always sold tacky knickknacks which often have some kind of royal flair. The Middletons profit from their daughter?s marriage in many, many ways, and in this particular case, I think people are making a mountain out of a molehill.

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