There was plenty of upset from Buckingham Palace’s side when the photographs were published.
Boy, were they wrong!
Catherine graduated with him, and while William went off to military training, Catherine moved back to London.
All bets were off, and suddenly, Catherine had to ward off photographers wherever she went.
Not exactly a great way to start your adult life.
That doesn’t mean she wasn’t affected by the onslaught.
Stop it," to no avail.
“Kate, the coal miner’s girl,” one of theDaily Mail’s 2006 headlines blared.
Some of William’s friends also reportedly joked about Mrs. Middleton’s former job as a flight attendant.
As most people say with couples, it’s all about timing."
Catherine simply couldn’t catch a break.
Even after she married William, photographers continued to enjoy capturing all of Catherine’s fashion mishaps.
“c’mon learn to keep covered up, Kate!”
One article published by theDaily Mailin 2012 pointed out that Catherine was due for a haircut.
“Forgive me your Royal Hairness but it’s time for the chop!”
“At one point she looked like Cousin It from the Addams Family all hair, no person.
It was so distracting.”
We beg to differ, sir.
This raised plenty of eyebrows and sparked some criticism.
This was never confirmed or denied.
The outlet pointed out that Charles attended 404 royal engagements in 1985 while Diana attended 299 that same year.
In comparison, William had shown up at 188 engagements in 2016, while Catherine had only attended 140.
“The Cambridges are the reluctant royals,” a palace insider reportedly told the outlet.
“They would much rather be at home with the children but so would most British parents.
Unfortunately, ordinary people don’t get the choice.”
This made Catherine’s numbers look even worse.
To add insult to injury, Queen Elizabeth’s numbers were also published, along with Prince Philip’s.
The former attended 332 royal engagements while the latter attended 219.
In 2017, theDaily Mailstill referred to Catherine and William as “Prince Workshy and Duchess Do Little.”
This was quite the leap from previous pieces it published that painted her as a lazy royal.
It also dove into her very human struggles, and suddenly, many saw another side of the princess.
In a 2019 article thatThe Sunran about the royal, it dubbed her “Catherine the Great.”
Most people don’t, but Kate does," Seldon added.
“It’s a two-way scenario,” Morgan explained.
Again, this keeps them from poking around.
By posting these Instagram snaps, she’s managed to control the narrative when it comes to her family.
When Prince Philip died, Catherine played the press like an expert,The Standardreports.
Well played, Catherine, well played.
Prince Harry painted the system as a farce in his and Meghan’s Netflix docuseries.
It all comes down to control.
It’s like, ‘This family is ours to exploit.
Their trauma is our story and our narrative to control.'"
The prince added that the system has survived for three decades.
