Kate doesn't excite us..yet

[Lila the Flirt]

"She hasn't really put a foot out of place," she said.

Yeah. We haven't seen a foot too. It's always covered in boots.

[Elisevonblah]

"She hasn't really put a foot out of place," she said.

Well hot damn then, you're right random British royal "expert", she does deserve to be queen! Hell, why not make her sovereign too, after all Charles, William and Harry have all made their fair share of mistakes. Kate is clearly the most deserving person on the planet earth to become royalty and to handle all of its responsibilities cause for the last four years she has been able to keep her mouth shut and her nose clean. Yeah, until now she's never had a real job that we can tell, and yeah she spent the last for years following a boy around hoping to a ring, a tiara and a title, but dang nabbit, she did it all while being "perfect princess" material. Give this girl her crown, she's earned it!

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[fawbert]

Wills is more like his father as far as his personality goes and Charles didn't really pick Diana. The press and the RF chose her.

I disagree here. The Press were in the dark about Diana until Sept 1980 when Charles had already decided that she was to be his Princess.

[Jupiter]

not true. when press caught on to them charles simply saw her as a girlfriend, an amusing younger sister of sarah spencer. he did not consider her as marriage material until everyone else had

[fawbert]

I disagree. The timetable was far too quick for the public to force anything. The autumn of 1980 saw Diana emerge, and by Feb '81 they were engaged.

[Jupiter]

during the time of diana's emergence into public eye and her engagement the press and public fell in love with her and decided she would be perfect future queen. after diana posed in that see-through dress with her nursery school charges the papers started calling on charles to make di future bride and the public loved lady diana. after charles did not propose when they expected him to, the papers were headlined 'charles don't DI-ther' and chided him. charles later made it clear he felt under pressure to marry her. when he started dating diana he did not see it as a long-term relationship; the woman he wanted to spend his life with.

press was not kept in the dark until charles had decided he wanted to marry diana, he was very indecisive. right up to the last minute he had doubts about proposing to her; he later told dimbleby his biographer that he did it after his father bullied him into it. whether or not phillip really  bullied his son into marrying her or was simply telling him to make up his mind, the impression charles got was that he was being forced into the whole thing. before he proposed and was on some trip he wrote to his friends spelling out his doubts and indecision and unhappiness about it all but concluded in his letters that it was the right thing to do his duty for his country.   

even after he had proposed he was indecisive about the matter and went to see his sister for her advice and she told him to stop being so gumless,to just close his eyes and think of england. after he told camilla that he did not want to marry diana - he expressed his concern that she was so young and they had little in common - camilla was so angry with him that she stoppped speaking to him for a short while. his friend and equerry nicholas soames later berated phillip (or a member of his staff)  for putting pressure on charles to marry someone he had little in common with.

given his indecision and the way he was agonizing about it all it is clear that charles did not choose diana: his family, the press and public did, they were more crazy about her than he was. one gets the stark impression that marrying diana was not something charles wanted; it was others who chose her not him. had there been no pressure on him to marry her there would have been no wedding.

[Nighthawk]

This is about Kate and she doesn't excite me in the least.  If anything she's annoys me.

[Jayne]

Yeah. We haven't seen a foot too. It's always covered in boots.