Princess Kate
Did rhetoric courses “suppress their true selves”?
Alienated from her true self by royal drill? Princess Kate.
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Is Princess Kate being “infantilized” by the public? In Omid Scobie’s tell-all book, Prince William’s wife comes off badly.
The new book by royal expert Omid Scobie (42) will only be published on Tuesday (November 28th). But the “revelations” in “Endgame” are already keeping the royal family and the public on tenterhooks thanks to preliminary reports. Princess Kate (42) is also by Scobie According to British media reports, it has been critically examined. She is said to have been honed for her role as the next queen with several rhetoric courses. As a result, she now sounds more distinguished than her royal husband Prince William (41).
Through the training, she “suppressed her true self,” as the journalist writes. She became “an enigma to the public and perhaps even to herself.”
“Infantilization”: The bar is lowered for Kate
At the same time, Scobie criticizes the “infantilization” of Kate. When it comes to public appearances, the bar is set so low that she is celebrated for something that other royals take for granted.
“The little things we see with the Princess of Wales might not be noticed if they came from another member of the royal family,” Scobie said to the “Sunday Times” in an interview ahead of the book’s publication. According to the nobility expert, Kate herself is said to be afraid of any appearances that go beyond “grinning photo ops”.
Kate was “never a fan of Meghan”
There is said to be resentment within the royal family over Kate’s preferential treatment, says Scobie, who is said to be close to the renegade Prince Harry (39) and his wife Meghan (42). His book is of course also about Kate’s relationship with Harry and Meghan. The two princesses are said to have never been particularly close. Kate can be “cold when she doesn’t like someone,” he writes. And she is said to have “never been a fan” of Meghan.