So How Are Prince William and Kate Middleton Doing, As a Couple?
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]
Seeing this picture, I would say they are doing just fine.
That is her husband on her left. I am sure she is mortified by the whole thing, and all things being equal I would prefer for her sake that this didn’t happen, that the wind behaved itself. But how can I say this delicately? I think most married couples go through a stage where this sort of accident is very possible, because they are very daring in their new-found love. So there is something kind of real about this that is reassuring, suggesting that they are truly in love. Let’s hope for their sake it lasts.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
Prince William seems to be the answer to the royal family’s problems. There has been talk practically since his birth that the Queen and parliament would skip Charles and make William the heir. There has never been the connection between the people and Charles that there is with the Queen and Diana’s sons.
As for the shot, even though it is somewhat sensual, nothing has been revealed here that wouldn’t show at the beach in a bikini.
Comment by gahrie (c5a5ed) — 7/12/2011 @ 6:55 pm
Obviously I hope they are happy, and I think William is a pretty nice guy who did his duty. I just find the notion of monarchs, even diluted ones, so contrary to my political views.
Hopefully whenever they get the crown the throw it in the trash and announce the time for kings is long, long over.
Comment by Dustin (b7410e) — 7/12/2011 @ 7:00 pm
We have our aristocracy too….ours is worst. Our aristocracy tends to be focused on politics. The Brits have emasculated the House of Lords, and the Monarch is head of State, not the Head of Government. The position is almost exclusively ceremonial today. Not only do the British people truly love the royal family…it is a huge asset for the British economy.
Comment by gahrie (c5a5ed) — 7/12/2011 @ 7:58 pm
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
And monarchies aren’t cool just because they bring in tourists or money in some other way. They aren’t cool just because something in the world is worse (though no, the aristocracy in this country is not worse, at a fundamental level).
The monarch in that country has power. It’s not often exercised in a major way, but it’s there. It’s something I, as a small R republican, find wrong. Like head lice. Sure, head lice isn’t has bad as AIDS, and it makes a lot of money for medicinal shampoo companies, but it’s still pretty lame.
Comment by Dustin (b7410e) — 7/12/2011 @ 8:14 pm
Dustin
i do believe that their power is truly in name.
otoh, the inheritance is not.
Comment by Aaron Worthing (73a7ea) — 7/12/2011 @ 8:19 pm
I knew I should have married a duchess.
Comment by roy (f572a6) — 7/12/2011 @ 8:26 pm
As the great philosopher Mel Brooks said:
“It’s good to be the king.”
Even being the eldest son of the crown prince is pretty good.
Comment by Sam (8d527c) — 7/12/2011 @ 8:59 pm
i can’t understand why i am supposed to give a damn, one way or the other… i can find a dozen or two as hot or hotter women here in the Valley by just walking down the street.
who cares and why?
Comment by redc1c4 (fb8750) — 7/12/2011 @ 9:01 pm
Just goes to show you, commoners are hotter than blue bloods.
Comment by Arizona Bob (aa856e) — 7/12/2011 @ 9:11 pm
Furthermore, as best as I can tell, they are good people. Thankfully. Charles was not, and it was more annoying in that case.
At any rate, I can’t respect even a fake power, but I do believe they have some power beyond honorary devices, and it’s simply not employed. I have no idea what would happen if they attempted to exercise power.
I think they would do their country more honor by renouncing the concept of a monarchy.
Comment by Dustin (b7410e) — 7/12/2011 @ 9:21 pm
Greetings:
I still think that Prince William’s brother looks just a little too much like Princess Diana’s riding instructor and not enough like anyone else in the family.
Comment by 11B40 (77f703) — 7/12/2011 @ 10:09 pm
they’re not better than you and me just cause of they’re all inbred and royal and devoid of any marketable skills
Comment by happyfeet (3c92a1) — 7/12/2011 @ 10:10 pm
Charles is rather foolish, for reasons that were obvious before, but that expanded for environmentalist, dhimmi attitude toward Islam.
et al.
Comment by ian cormac (d380ce) — 7/12/2011 @ 10:12 pm
Willy would be a fool not to consider her a “Keeper”.
Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (7e41e8) — 7/12/2011 @ 11:20 pm
“…all things being equal I would prefer for her sake that this didn’t happen”
All things being equal, I would prefer, for my sake, that it did.
Comment by Dave Surls (6fa69a) — 7/12/2011 @ 11:42 pm
suggesting that they are truly in love.
Huh? Because she doesn’t bother wearing underwear? Oh, I get it. So William therefore has faster, easier access. LOL.
Comment by Mark (3e3a7c) — 7/12/2011 @ 11:54 pm
She’s wearing HOSE, you perverts.
Presumably she’s wearing something underneath them, too. Maybe a string, maybe nude-coloreds… but no one has sex through nylon.
Comment by Captain Obvious (c44c25) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:27 am
“She’s wearing HOSE, you perverts.”
Spoilsport.
And, quit knocking my hobbies.
Comment by Dave Surls (6fa69a) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:30 am
“I’m sorry, Katie; if I’d known you were a virgin, I would have taken more time.”
“I’m sorry, Wills; if I’d known you had more time, I’d have taken off my pantyhose!”
Dafydd
Comment by Dafydd the Rakehell (632d00) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:26 am
As my wife points out, the line near the top of the thigh is where her pantyhose transitions from panty to hose. In other words, Kate isn’t going commando.
Comment by Rhymes With Right (9aff97) — 7/13/2011 @ 3:57 am
“Come on baby, I know you liked it, you toes curled up”
“Of course my toes curled up, you didn’t take my pantyhose off first…”
Comment by Smarty (36e9cf) — 7/13/2011 @ 4:49 am
What about that perpetually scowling hagatha Ms.Parker-Bowles?
Comment by DohBiden (15aa57) — 7/13/2011 @ 6:07 am
BREAKING: Beautiful women are beautiful!
Seriously, with all that’s going on in the world, you spend time on trashy up-skirt photos?
Well done sir!
Comment by Pious Agnostic (89419f) — 7/13/2011 @ 6:33 am
pious
i will only refer you to rule 5….
Comment by Aaron Worthing (e7d72e) — 7/13/2011 @ 6:38 am
Who cares? We fought a war 220+ years ago to get rid of these people so that we could now be stuck with The Kennedys and their endless generations of depravities.
Comment by BT (74cbec) — 7/13/2011 @ 6:52 am
Breaking news Camilla Parker-Bowles looks more ugly than the worlds ugliest dog.
She must be the daughter of Helen Thomas.
Comment by DohBiden (15aa57) — 7/13/2011 @ 6:53 am
Comment by Rhymes With Right — 7/13/2011 @ 3:57 am
Au Contraire…
Though there is a “line” in the first photo (as above), she is walking and that could very well be a skin fold from the act of walking; especially when you compare it to one of the linked pix which shows about the same degree of exposure, but in a standing position, and … No Line.
Personally, I think she’s wearing “butt floss”.
Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (e05987) — 7/13/2011 @ 10:25 am
She must feel a great anxiety about how she will be compared to her late mother-in-law and I think she is striving to live up to Dianna’s reputation.
Comment by 087ujdngtfuklh6567 (7642c1) — 7/13/2011 @ 10:27 am
It’s a shame we haven’t been more effective at voting in the right people, or being consistent with our values as a country, but when I hear Prince Charles talk about how we should live, I know I’d take our way over their way.
Comment by Dustin (b7410e) — 7/13/2011 @ 10:30 am
I am going to refrain from commenting about those spectacular … Nevermind. Anything I have to say about this will result in Dana and MayBee hurling shoes at me.
Comment by JD (d56362) — 7/13/2011 @ 11:05 am
JD – I’ve seen you free balling under a kilt. You’ve got a better butt than Kate.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/13/2011 @ 11:12 am
“We fought a war 220+ years ago to get rid of these people…”
I don’t know about you guys, but I ain’t fighting no wars against gals that like to walk around practically nekkid.
Au contraire.
Comment by Dave Surls (1fb0af) — 7/13/2011 @ 11:18 am
Are we sure she’s not French? I seem to remember a rhyme from my boyhood….
“there’s a place in France….”
Comment by Pious Agnostic (89419f) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:00 pm
Well…this seems as good a thread as any to ask:
Anyone else suffering from Weiner withdrawal?
Comment by Crispian (70c05e) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:13 pm
Better Half whacked me in the head for making that photo my desktop background.
Daleyrocks – I read there is less chafing under the kilt when you get your nads waxed.
Comment by JD (29e1cd) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:26 pm
JD wrote:
Not me, buddy; I think she looks good in a thong!
Hey, she’s 29 years old, they’re newlyweds — though they had apparently been shacking up for a while now — and it’s hardly unexpected that she’d wear something sexy for her husband. Her dress was reasonably long, and the only reason we got the sneak peek at the royal goods was that it was windier than she expected.
And, given that we now have pictures of Her Majesty the Queen’s knickers, I’d say that Her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus, has set a much better style for the royal family.
Comment by The male Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 12:52 pm
The male Dana — I am pleased by this important journalistic story and feel Patterico should make an effort to offer more such substantive content on this blog in the future.
I appreciate Aaron’s efforts to take the lead in this endeavor.
Comment by daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:03 pm
As for the concept of having a royal family in the first place, if that’s what our English forbears want, it’s fine with me. They really don’t seem to have done too badly, all in all.
Of course, if Dustin and happytoes believe that monarchy simply must go, and only republicanism is acceptable, allow me to point out that France has had a republican form of government for quite some time now; somehow, I don’t think that, present government excepted, they’ve been all that great recently.
And here you have thousands and thousands singing their devotion to the Queen.
Comment by The Anglophile Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:07 pm
God save the Queen! God save Prince William!
And God save Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge! Because God has surely already blessed Kate with stunning good looks in, and beneath, a skirt!
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:09 pm
The House of Hanover/Windsor muddles through, and the 1st through 5th Republics give new meaning to the term “comic opera”!
Comment by AD-RtR/OS! (e05987) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:14 pm
Oh, and as an Anglophile, I’ve this to say on the subject of the Windsors (f/k/a the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas) in general:
As a consequence of winning the Revolutionary War, ever since, Americans have been able to pay exactly as much, and exactly the kind of, attention to the British Crown as we each wish.
That is a rare and wonderful real-world example of having one’s cake, and eating it too.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:16 pm
And though Her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus, has set a much better style for the royal family, I’d rather not see something similar from Camilla, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay and Countess of Chester.
Comment by The Dana who barfed just a bit at the thought (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:21 pm
Per “The official website of the British Monarchy” — itself a delicious title that would have absolutely baffled the current Queen’s parents — the sequence is:
* English monarchs (and their corresponding Scottish monarchs) from AD 400-1603.
* United Kingdom monarchs from 1603 to the present, including, in sequence:
* The Stuarts;
* The Hanoverians;
* Saxe-Coburg-Gotha [sic, without definite article or plural on the Royal Website]; and
* The House of Windsor [by renaming, rather than succession].
It’s not hard to imagine William the Conquerer or Henry VIII taking a shine to a young woman like the former Miss Middleton.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:25 pm
(Oops, forgot the link.)
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:25 pm
The Royal Website also has this genealogical chart, which give me a profound new respect for Jan William, Prince of Orange, and his [cough] seed.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:31 pm
Beldar, I’d suggest that it would have been King Henry II who’d have gone after her the hardest, though tales of Fair Catherine would surely sadden us all.
Comment by The historian Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:32 pm
@Dana: I’m not bent in that direction, but if I ever were inclined to seek the favors of a dominatrix, I might ask her to call herself “Baroness Carrickfergus.” Because that’s kind of hot.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:33 pm
Hello, Princess!
Comment by Birdbath (19803d) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:35 pm
Beldar: Moreso than the Duchess of Rothesay?
Comment by The blind Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:35 pm
Her Royal Hiney!
Comment by Birdbath (19803d) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:37 pm
I’m thinking “Duchess of Rothesay” sounds more submissive and Canadian. Now, that could be fun too. But if, hypothetically, I were to imagine Kate in long lace-up black boots, that’s a Baroness outfit. And she could give orders in a Belfast brogue: that could be delicious.
Hypothetically.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:43 pm
She’s got a great smile.
Comment by stari_momak (d5f987) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:47 pm
Not Canadian; the Duke of Rothesay is the Heir Apparent to the throne of Scotland, and the Duchess is, of course, his wife.
I would have more trouble imagining either the current Duchess of Rothesay, or the Duchess of Cambridge, in long lace-up black boots.
Pippa, on the other hand . . . .
Comment by The Scottish Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:48 pm
I’ve misplaced my Rothesay again. Hate it when that happens. Thanks Dana.
Comment by Beldar (3895f0) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:50 pm
When I was young my sister had a princess phone. Not many people have had a phone named after them. Congratulations, Kate!
Comment by Birdbath (19803d) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:50 pm
There once was a princess named Kate
Who thought about a slip too late
She left it behind
She paid it no mind
And the wind soon sealed her fate!
Comment by The Limerick Avenger (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:51 pm
The Prince said, Kate, let’s unwind
The Canucks, they sure won’t mind
A visit from us
They’ll make a fuss
But we’ll leave all our worries behind
Comment by The Limerick Avenger (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:54 pm
Insured by Lloyd’s of London.
Comment by Birdbath (19803d) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:55 pm
Wills said, that wedding was long!
But you sure look cute in a thong
Let’s hop on a plane
And see our domain
Nothing could possibly go wrong
Comment by The Limerick Avenger (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 1:57 pm
Wills and Kate left their room far too soon
Gave the paparazzi a really big boon
The weather was hot
And her dress was caught
By the wind giving us a half moon.
Comment by The Limerick Avenger (5a4fb2) — 7/13/2011 @ 2:00 pm
Considering the effects of a brisk breeze, I’d purely love to see Kate in a hurricane.
Comment by Dave Surls (c762d2) — 7/13/2011 @ 2:13 pm
A bunch of old men lusting after a girl young enough to be your daughters … (shaking my head)
Comment by Anita Busch (a025dd) — 7/13/2011 @ 4:09 pm
Anita, what was your beat again,
Comment by ian cormac (d380ce) — 7/13/2011 @ 4:17 pm
Good Allah.
Comment by JD (3dfbdf) — 7/13/2011 @ 4:20 pm
Kate meeting a 6 year old cancer patient (same pretty dress BTW)
Comment by no one you know (325a59) — 7/13/2011 @ 4:28 pm
NOYK, lovely clip… (I was cringing the entire way through just waiting for her dress to blow up.)
I am waiting for new mandate from the Queen requiring all female royals to wear only white utilitarian granny-panties. In the name of national security.
Comment by Dana (4eca6e) — 7/13/2011 @ 5:35 pm
I curse even th idea of that, Dana. The Royal Gams deserve much better.
Comment by JD (3dfbdf) — 7/13/2011 @ 5:36 pm
Heh. I suspect the Duchess will never again make the mistake of forgetting her slip, if not her full-sized knickers.
Comment by Dana (4eca6e) — 7/13/2011 @ 5:41 pm
Anita, how do you know how old we all are? In any case, I’m certainly not lusting after Kate. Or William, for that matter; Harry on the other hand…
Comment by Milhouse (ea66e3) — 7/13/2011 @ 8:41 pm
“A bunch of old men lusting after a girl young enough to be your daughters…”
Just enjoying the view, that’s all.
Comment by Dave Surls (b8759c) — 7/13/2011 @ 10:14 pm
Anita is a douschebag………..as usual.
Comment by DohBiden (15aa57) — 7/13/2011 @ 10:34 pm
You’re right, Anita. I’m ashamed. It wasn’t your scold specifically that did it. It was the parenthetical shaking of your head. That’s how I knew you meant business. I feel dirty now and I’m putting my pants back on. From this moment forward I vow to live up to your standards.
Comment by Birdbath (19803d) — 7/14/2011 @ 5:32 am
Would three no one you knows constitute one Stooge?
NOYK, NOYK, NOYK!
Comment by The punny Dana (5a4fb2) — 7/14/2011 @ 5:39 am
Would three no one you knows constitute one Stooge?
NOYK, NOYK, NOYK!
Comment by The punny Dana — 7/14/2011 @ 5:39 am
Heh – that is pretty punny.
Heywaitaminnit….
Comment by the no one you know who just found out she's 1/3 of a stooge (325a59) — 7/14/2011 @ 6:42 am
Name calling again and hiding like a coward behind fake names. Lots of integrity and character there.
Comment by Anita Busch (a025dd) — 7/14/2011 @ 1:01 pm
“Name calling again and hiding like a COWARD…”
Hypocrisy cleanup needed on aisle 75!
Comment by Dave Surls (3ea380) — 7/15/2011 @ 5:18 am