Catherine, Princess of Wales (Kate Middleton)

[LUXXX]

I can't believe there isn't pap pics of her almost everyday...she has to be one of the bigger gets for them in London.

It seems like she has been living at her parent's home though for awhile...

 

[Chewsteraghi]

I have a really hard time believing she would go to work dressed like that. Most likely she was doing some exercising.

Yeah, probably just exercising, unless she showers and changes at the work site. But I doubt it somehow. It's interesting to note things about how the paparazzi works. It has to be hard to photograph her on a moving bike, and add to that all the traffic that's around her. Not that I pity them or something. It's just ........ interesting, in an odd sort of way.

 

[julzangel]

^Especially as we have seen pics of her leaving work in her Audi, so the office must be a distance that is worth driving. Her normal 'wprk attire' also seems to be little tea dresses, and as she doesn't have a rucksac in these photos I don't think that she showered and changed on site.

Therefore, I reckon she was just exercising as well.

 

[McClaire]

maybe she came prepared to move boxes or something? my mom had her own business and my sisters and i always had to do multiple jobs- for free. my mom always joked it was in return for the room and board she provided for us.

 

[Chewsteraghi]

^Good mom, make the kids "earn their keep"!

 

[Ashcottmanor]

I thought this was interesting..

Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy fail to impress French photographer

July 12, 2008
From: The Telegraph

Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy may be the darlings of British photographers, but they have failed to win over the celebrated French snapper Michel Comte.

“William and Harry — they are good in their own skin, don’t you think?” he says of the Princes. “The girlfriends are not so pretty.”

Comte’s 1993 nude portrait of Carla Bruni, wife of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, was sold by Christie’s, in New York, this year for £45,000, more than 20 times the expected price.

At least our future Queen can keep her clothes on.

 

[McClaire]

They had another one comparing kate an diana. I will just post the section with Kate in it.

The death of elegance: Bruce Oldfield on how modern women are swopping effortless style for vulgar overkill

'I have duchesses who say: "I go to Topshop you know." I say: "And your point is, your grace?" They ask: 'Don't you like my Topshop skirt?" and I say: "No, I'm not sure I do. Take it off and give it to your daughter, who will be much happier with it." '
This forthright manner is what actually endears him to many of his customers, who know that, in general, he won't flannel them. It certainly worked with Princess Diana, who was a loyal client for nearly a decade after being introduced to him before her 1981 wedding as a shy 19-year-old.
'When she started she didn't have a clue,' he recalls. 'She was a little country bumpkin, a typical Sloane with cardigans and Laura Ashley see-through skirts. She wasn't at all sophisticated like, say, Kate Middleton is now.'

the daily mail

 

[Chewsteraghi]

Kate Middleton "sophisticated"? But she wears things from Topshop, and stores like it, which he just got through insulting.

 

[Ashcottmanor]

^Yeah I know it's strange.

 

[Harumi]

She isn't sophisticated at all.
However, she is very well groomed (to the point of obsession imo, but that's not like she has anything else to do). English women tend to be a bit more frumpy looking, not so manicured (no insult to English women).

 

[Chewsteraghi]

Well, in fairness, I suppose Kate has an older way about her than Diana had pre-marriage. Maybe Oldfield meant that Kate doesn't have Diana's rather baby face/schoolgirl look. For sure, Kate does look her age. And she doesn't seem at all like a coquettish "Shy Di Strikes Back."

 

[Chewsteraghi]

Kate walking away with parking ticket in January 2007


Source: Big Pictures via Metro.co.uk

 

[McClaire]

^like the skirt.i think it might be of a few black and white things she wears that i really like.

 

[Style-Addict]

^ I like the whole outfit.
She is so beautiful. At this point, it is pretty certain that her and William will marry, right?! I try to read Hello magazine (we always get the issues 1 to 2 weeks later), and they always run gorgeous shots of her. She is very well groomed, I've never seen her look frumpy.

 

[LUXXX]

She looks good like that...a big more edgey.

 

[McClaire]

yeah but she wears black and white all the time so i tend to get a little run down with her outfits. until she wears color and it's like WOW! i think brunettes are so pretty in color. and they tend to pullit off better, and i speak as a blonde

 

[Chewsteraghi]

^Yeah I like the stockings and the skirt on that outfit. As far as her being well groomed, I think so. Like someone else said (I think on the last page) she is very neat and clean, "groomed" if you will, rather than sophisticated. But she is on the right path to be sophisticated. A year after she marries William, a year of cutting ribbons, unveiling plaques, banquets with foreign officials, dancing with diplomats and doing the "royal wave" will refine her, I guess.

 

[Ashcottmanor]

Kate Middleton legs it at second Royal wedding without her Prince


By James Tapper
Last updated at 12:06 AM on 20th July 2008

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It was Kate Middleton's very own Marilyn Monroe moment. But unlike the Hollywood sex symbol, Prince William's girlfriend ensured that her modesty was preserved.
Miss Middleton's floaty knee-length dress caught the wind and defied gravity yesterday as she arrived for the wedding of Lady Rose Windsor.
It was reminiscent of the famous scene in Monroe's classic movie The Seven Year Itch, but Miss Middleton had had the foresight to wear a slip while braving the wind as she walked to Queen's Chapel, in St James's Palace in Central London.
Enlarge A serene Kate is unfazed as a gust of wind picks up her dress

Enlarge Prince William's girlfriend was all smiles at the Royal event



Miss Middleton, who also wore a black feather fascinator and a fitted jacket, arrived without her boyfriend Prince William, who is on operations with the Royal Navy in the Caribbean.
It was the second Royal wedding this year that Miss Middleton has attended without Prince William - in May she turned up alone at Peter Phillips's wedding to Autumn Kelly.

Enlarge Lady Rose arrives at the chapel with her father, the Duke of Glo
Mr Phillips, the Princess Royal's son, arrived at the church walking hand in hand with his new wife, and appeared to have been thriving on married life - his waistcoat fitting snugly to his midriff.
Miss Middleton was attending the wedding of Lady Rose, 28, the daughter of the Duke of Gloucester and a first cousin of the Queen, to George Gilman, 26, the son of Peter Gilman, a former director of Leeds United Football Club.
Enlarge Princess Anne appeared in a rather startling yellow flower print

Enlarge Sophie the Countess of Wessex was demure in a light blue-gray suit




Enlarge Newlyweds Peter and Autumn Phillips arrive for the wedding
The Countess of Wessex attended without her husband, Prince Edward, and Lady Gabriella Windsor and Lord Freddie Windsor arrived together.
Lady Rose, who became plain Mrs Gilman yesterday, is the great-granddaughter of George V and is 23rd in line to the throne.

Enlarge Freddie and Gabrella Windsor beam as they walk past onlookers for the wedding

 

[Ashcottmanor]

Here's a few more from Teamhighgrove.com

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I only like the jacket in this outfit. Hate the rest of it.

 

[Beena533]

The jacket is way too tight on her.