Welcome to Kate Middleton's Golden Age

All this was pleasantly surprising for a duchess who tends to prefer short-sleeved dresses and her loyal L.K. Bennett Sledges, known for being shy and sensitive.

"A few years ago, you might have seen it a little bit shy," Kelley said. "Now she seems to be in a more difficult position to assume. I'm starting to see who will become the queen. "

After seven years of marriage, three children, numerous royal tours and countless city tours, Kate is now a senior cabinet leader, no longer the "commoner" married to the family, but the future queen consort and the mother of the future king. . The role of princess-in-training was entrusted to Meghan – who, as a long-time former actress and humanitarian, is already perfectly at ease in the eyes of the public, but is just starting out with her own royal family and works with the causes that she has chosen, including girls' education. Kate has reached level two of the unsaid, where she is freer to pursue her own passions, including mental health issues, disadvantaged children and the arts, in a more focused manner.

"She found her role as an active member of the royal family by raising her own children and realizing what is important to her," said the royal commentator of ABC News. Omid Scobie, who has covered Kate and Prince William closely and is currently reporting on Meghan and Prince Harry's tour. "One of the things we will really be focusing on over the next few months is working to help disadvantaged kids in the UK. . . Kate has put this plan in place to actually work with a number of organizations, including the Royal Foundation. "

And even if she's far from a homemaker, Kate's priority for her future years will be her children …Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and wee Prince Louis. "She is a mother first and foremost. Her children will be her priority in their youth and she will juggle her professional commitments to children, "she said. Vanity FairRoyal Correspondent Katie Nicholl. "The Duchess of Cambridge has been called shy at work in the past. But in reality, she only made a few patronages, things where she really made the difference. His idea was early intervention with young children in primary schools, putting mental health on the map with Heads Together. She was very instrumental. "

Nicholl also rejects the tabloid rumors about a rivalry between Kate and Meghan, and thinks Kate is "very grateful" to Meghan for unloading some of the unrelenting looks she's been doing to avoid (see : spend long time at family-run country house, Anmer Hall).

"People who say often," Well, is she jealous of Meghan? "She really is not." Kate is happier in her life now than she has ever been in. She has everything she wants. She has William, she has three beautiful ones kids … she's where she always wanted to be, "said Nicholl." The fact that there's a new glamorous sister-in-law is not going to worry her. "I think Meghan has come at the right time for her, because that was at a time when Kate wanted to get out of the spotlight. "

And while the royal reporters say that the two women – a British sportswoman and a former American actress of Californian descent – have little in common, it will probably change now that Meghan is pregnant with her first child. "This baby will definitely bring Kate and Meghan closer," said Scobie. "With both of them raising children on the grounds of Kensington Palace, the children will undoubtedly become very close, as we have seen with William, Harry, Beatrice and Eugenie when they grew up. I can see that the two duchesses are associating their younger daughters to the date of the game. "Nicholl adds," If they are smart, they will both make sure that this relationship works. They could and should be great allies.

There is also a lot of potential power in their differences. Meghan is simply the princess hipper and edger, a royal princess who proudly identifies as a feminist in her official biography and whose name has been verified #MeToo during her very proud appearance "Fab Four" at the Foundation Forum Royal in February. In comparison, Kate may seem wise and conservative, from her clothing choices to her restraint in public speeches – two forces that combined in February, when she and William attended the BAFTA Awards at the height of the red carpet events # metoo. Most of the women on the carpet wore black; Kate wore dark green, but with a black belt that seemed to be a sign of the head.

"I think it was extremely disappointing – for me and for many other women in the world – when Kate did not wear black to BAFTA in February to show her solidarity with the movement. MeToo, like so many others, "said Menza. .

It's not hard to imagine that Meghan could have handled this night differently. But by virtue of their positions in the royal family, Kate and Meghan will always be different, and it is unfair for them to hope otherwise. Kate is married to the future king and is the mother of another future king, while Meghan is married to the famous sixth "online". Harry and Meghan "can have a lot more freedom," said Kelley. Throw in Amsterdam for the opening of a new Soho House – "do things that would probably not be appropriate for the future queen".

And yet, Kate has a discreet power, in part precisely because she is apolitical in a period of division of Brexit. "In a period of considerable instability, it exerts a very soothing influence, a very soothing image," said Peter York, co-author of The official Sloane Ranger manual. "The royal family is impeccable in its way of bringing people together by being above basic politics. They are terribly important symbolically. "

A bit like the Queen, Kate is a constant, who has actively entrusted many of her tasks to younger members of the royal family in recent years. In what is a remarkable achievement in the era of social media, she has barely made a misstep since she's become famous around the world as a student in St. Andrews in 2002, and certainly not since her wedding in the royal family in 2011. From sartorial diplomacy and brilliant smiles during her royal tours to Canada, India and Australia to conscientiously fulfill her commitments during her three pregnancies and present her miraculous way her babies outside the Lindo Wing Hospital of St. Mary's Hospital just hours after birth, Kate has always known how to remain a loyal royal, non-controversial touchstone for the women of the United Kingdom. United and around the world who have shared with them the important milestones of their lives: growing up, getting married, starting a family and trying to make an impact in their community. . . while wearing the same outfit again and again.

"It's a person who takes very, very seriously to raise his kids and do what's right and proper," Kelley said. "William and Kate, in many ways, represent stability, the future, in a very discreet and methodical way."

And in her constant presence and more and more confident, Kate seems to be preparing for the role that she will play for the coming decades. "If you look at Queen Elizabeth, she has that strength without really saying much, which has allowed our country to remain united during the most ferocious wars and times we have faced," said Scobie. "I think Kate has the ability to do the same thing."

Full screenpictures:Kate Middleton: The Ultimate Wedding Guest

June 2005

Kate was present when her boyfriend of the time Prince William's close friend Hugh Van Cutsem Jr. married Rose Astor; Kate wore a cream blazer and Karen Millen skirt. Wills was a bailiff at the wedding and now he is the godfather of the Grace (who was also the damsel at the weddings of Will and Kate, she made the faces and stole the hearts.)

Photo: By Alan Davidson / Silverhub / REX / Shutterstock.

May 2006

A year later, the budding couple were still weddings together, including William's wedding and Prince Harry & # 39; s stepsister Laura Parker-Bowles at Harry Lopes. She was wearing a DAY Birger and Mikkelsen brocade coat, which made its appearance a decade later, in 2016. Oh, if this coat had only known where it was going!

Photo: By David Fisher / REX / Shutterstock.

July 2008

Kate attended the wedding of Lady Rose Windsor (the first cousin of the queen once removed) to George Gilman. She went solo; Will practiced disaster relief in the Caribbean, poor thing. Kate wore a short blue powder jacket on a blue dress, with a very feathered fascinator.

Photo: By Tim Rooke / REX / Shutterstock.

October 2010

Just before William and Kate were engaged, she was wearing an Issa silk dress at their friend's wedding (Harry Meade at Rosie Bradford). A month later, when they announced their commitment to the world, Kate again chose a blue dress Issa.

Photo: by Mark Cuthbert / Getty Images.

May 2013

Here is Kate's frugal at its best: not only the polka dot number over a Topshop dress, but she had just worn it – to Harry Potter World. The hat was Vivien Sheriff and the wedding was William van Cutsem and Rosie Ruck Keene's.

Photo: by Max Mumby / Indigo.

March 2014

March is certainly a difficult time to get married, but Kate still manages to do it for her friend. Lucy Meade and his fiancee Charlie Budgett in a Missoni tweed coat topped with a Sylvia Fletcher hat.

Photo: by Max Mumby / Indigo.

May 2017

Kate, a bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Pippa, was in charge of quarrels. To guide the children, she wore an Alexander McQueen dress (the same house that had made her own wedding dress) with a bespoke Jane Taylor hat.

Photo: By Samir Hussein / Getty Images.

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