William at Audi Polo Challenge with Kate

[Jayhawk]

http://www.celebmad.com/GossipGirl/photos/index.cfm/Princes-William-and-Harry/thumbs/

I feel sorry for KM. Even though she's smiling apparently at Thomas van Straubanzee in one photo, she doesn't look like her normal perky self anymore.

[Jayhawk]

Looks like this is already being discussed on New Kate Pictures. My bad.

http://theinternetforum.net/royalforum/index.php/topic,38563.125.html

[anita]

I think she looks pretty much the way she always looks. Can't see any major changes.  But most importantly: she was there!

[Satrine]

Jayhawk, I can't help but to agree. If you compare them to last years, Kate was smiling and this year she just does not. Why?

[wannabe]

I would too, totally affected after the worldwide media decides to publish her rollerdisco fall

Me thinks it will take her a while to get over it
Although I do think measures where taken after the cellphone incident.

[Satrine]

Wannabe, I hope so as she does not seem like the same person w/o her smile! Like you said who can blame her really? The press have really been horrible to her and her family, but atleast it seems like she is being protected from the media scrutiny. I really hope things work out for Kate and William.

[Jayhawk]

She smiles sometimes, but to me, she doesn't look like she smiles with her eyes anymore. There is an underlying bitterness or something.

There used to be a sparkle there, for instance when she went to the Boodles Boxing Ball most recently. She was still her previous, natural self. At the roller disco, she still was a little bit perky, although that was after PW had announced he would be going into the RAF, I believe, so I think she was a little bit off her game going into the event, but still perky. I think her attitude now is the result of the Roller Disco embarrassment, the talking on cell phone while possibly driving incident, miscellaneous criticism over the months, and the most recent James b-day incident, not to mention whatever other rejection she might have received behind the scenes if she and PW are "friends" these days, and nothing more.

In short, her face has hardened, after some hard life lessons IMO.

I watched the movie the Way We Were this weekend, and although the characters were very different than PW and KM, the sad yearning at the end made me think of KM.

[brittanylala]

Maybe she's having a bad day? Maybe as Wannabe and Satrine said she's been badly burned by the press and is insecure now. If I was in Kate's shoes I would tell the press to go to hell and never smile for them again. If W & K were over she wouldn't have bothered to attend the match...just like Chelsy isn't there.

[wannabe]

I don't think she's having a bad day, her Whisky Mist picture with William during Christmas gave the shut off look (her slanted eye look to the camaras and not amused) to the paps, the restaurant photos.  The rest of the candid pictures she looks fine (Sandringham, Heathrow with Wills returning from New Year Scotland holiday, Heathrow with family returning from ski trip).  I think she is aware the paps are at the polo and STILL feels uncomfortable of their presence after the RD fall.

I understand W&H will play polo for charity only.  Their next confirmed ?! match will be in July according to this Telegraph article written by Richard Eden.
And at Tiggy's (their ex nanny) parents place. The game will be for the Princes Trust.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5300719/Royal-nanny-has-sporting-chance-to-sell-family-seat.html

[Satrine]

Look at the pics Britt has for her sig, I think it changed after the wedding in Austria, then Disco and now she seems like someone who has experienced great loss. I am not saying it's because of William either. There is just no way of really knowing what has been going on behind the scenes.

[porsche]

Thanks.I will look now on snaps.Thank you all who post it.

[anita]

I didn't see anybody else was smiling that much either. Are they all bitter?  In most of the pictures she is by herself. Why should she walk around smiling? When she's with Tom she's smiling. Poor Kate, once she shows her face to the public, they start seeing all kinds of things. If she was laughing and smiling to the photographers, we know exactly what some people would say. And I personally think the roller disco pictures are veryfar from her mind. She is not reading this forum. And only here are they an issue.
I think it's such a good sign that she is out and about in the public with William. They have a plan that they stick to, that is obvious.

[porsche]

Before I popped again there, I peeked at polo club's website and they normally haven't this event in their event calendar.
http://www.thepolocentre.com/default.asp?contentID=19
Hazza looks like small child and the expression and look is really funny, but the best for smil is his new hairdo,similar to Mr Paparazzi's avatar on the right side.Both looked like younger looking now - for me and from my opinion.Wills looked shy on snap from RAF base.Back in childhood paradise.Katie Waitie hasn't grinning everywhere [thanks God not Jecca here or Kitty:]],but I don't understand her leather boots [not elastic black one] on heels on polo pitch.It is like stepping on golf course green.
http://www.celebmad.com/GossipGirl/photos/index.cfm/Princes-William-and-Harry/photo/105369

[kellyfan203]

I think Kate looks fine, I mean she wasn't smiling ALL the time last year. Here's some pics from last year where she's not smiling.

http://i39.tinypic.com/2moy0j5.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/2v0en2a.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/2q9fh90.jpg

[brittanylala]

If I'm going to be worried about anyone it's Harry. I swear that boy keeps getting skinnier with each passing month. Flying doesn't do much for his physique.

[Satrine]

She did look chipper in the older pics Britt. Like she had a skip in her step. I for one would not complain if she were smiling.

[porsche]

Guys said in Katie Waitie's part, she is looking nervous.I think, she is back to her older Kate before 2006,no fussy blow dry.Who made me smile, is Prince Harry, when you see him with his helmet down and his hair are thick as he has get it,but with sweat down and immediately after some time he has like some private hairdresser and blow dry job in the hospitality tent and volume on his head 3 times more:]]He looks cute and gentlier than he looked - rough and with drunken face like round faced moon,but his volume of hair, gee, a half is enough and it really looks like he used some hairdresser's service.Next stop Marge Simpson:]]
http://www.partyon-line.co.uk/products/high_style_blue_beehive_wig/1325/
Hazza will compete with his hair bump and height with his aunt Princess Anne.Hm, Windsor's men inherited a balded patch from George V - Charles, Wills and a little Andrew.Edward has a half of head balded, but look sometimes on quite thick hair of Andrew and there is it - monk's patch.
http://www.partyon-line.co.uk/products/monks_wig/435/
I wanted to buy this fun drag costume, thinking, what hubbie will tell in the morning after wake up, when I could slip away in the morning, wear this gorrila costume and go back and sleep.Shame, it could be good fun.Really Hazza's hair [and check it, he has huge volume in two snaps and in another ones sweated hair] made me laugh.He looks not very pleased with kissing gal pal, but I bet, he will bag Amy Winehouse very soon,cos he loves her hair style:]]and booze.
http://www.partyon-line.co.uk/products/deluxe_gorilla_costume/266/

[Alexandra123]

I am not fond of her fashion on both the older and the new set of pictures, however she did look better last year. In these new pictures she looks tired, unhappy and rougher than ever. I hope everything is fine with her.
Her sister, on the other hand, looks very pretty.

[RAB]

pippa looks better in issa then kate

[kellyfan203]

Maybe she was having an off day. Lord knows I've woken up before feeling absolutely miserable and just nothing seems to be going my way, maybe she was having one of those days.

[porsche]

It is looked there weren't too many people and quite ugly weather.What weather was in England?Cloudy?I don't know, it seems to me, she does another extreme, not smile, not grin.Gee, why aren't people natural.Wills is the same, stone and frost.I laughing of Hazza and his pinkie nails,but he sits min.in the car with his beehive hairdo to the top of vehicle and he eats like human being.Kate wanders with glass of champagne [always cover it at party when they snap you, not walking like boozing Keanu Reeves, when leaving Indian restaurant with bottle of wine and glasses].I don't know,last year they sit in the tent, sipping champagne - Katie Waitie and Chelsy Davy, OK, posh polo club, is it tradition, do it, if you can walk, hospitality is here and it is called hospitality tent, not blow dry for prince Harry.But walking with flute of champagne is maybe allowed at garden party.I haven't comment to her clothes, why?it is seems normal.Only Wills is like frozen.The best, Hazza's hairdo beehive:]]

[kellyfan203]

I don't think she's having a bad day, her Whisky Mist picture with William during Christmas gave the shut off look (her slanted eye look to the camaras and not amused) to the paps, the restaurant photos.  The rest of the candid pictures she looks fine (Sandringham, Heathrow with Wills returning from New Year Scotland holiday, Heathrow with family returning from ski trip).  I think she is aware the paps are at the polo and STILL feels uncomfortable of their presence after the RD fall.

I understand W&H will play polo for charity only.  Their next confirmed ?! match will be in July according to this Telegraph article written by Richard Eden.
And at Tiggy's (their ex nanny) parents place. The game will be for the Princes Trust.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5300719/Royal-nanny-has-sporting-chance-to-sell-family-seat.html

You know Wannabe you may be right about that, could be she's just not feeling the paparazzi anymore after what happened with disco fall. I mean I thought she's look fine in the other pics, at one point in the car during the Whisky Mist pictures she's laughing but they were all laughing at that point so I'm thinking they saw or heard something funny but ya whenever she's aware papz are around she looks not angry just not too fond of them but when they're hidden and she doesn't know they are there she seems fine, atleast from the pictures I've been checking out. Yes I'm aware at a point she did smile for the papz but I think alot of people do that in beginning but later it gets tiring especially if they write/say mean things about you.

[drezzle]

http://www.imageshugger.com/images/fcpb8o2s2f5ygsc315.jpg
Dang, I just had a beer there.  Where'd it go???

http://www.imageshugger.com/images/paxw1fv9dcjwz0heyp07.jpg
Well see coach, it's like this ya know.  If I had more hair up here, I'd be a better polo player.

[Lady_In_Waiting]

The paps have given Kate a hard time especially over the last year. I'm not surprised she's not smiling at them and looking nervous. Wouldn't you feel a bit paranoid if you were walking around in front of people who have spent the last year taking you to pieces? 

[brittanylala]

To all you haters - Check THIS:

http://picture.belga.be/belgapicture/picture/13777258.html