Kate Middleton, 40 and the best is yet to come

And all this, it seems clear, cannot be “only at the hands of Mama Carole”. It’s thanks to him, to Kate, to this woman we know everything about and we don’t know anything about until January 9th turns 40, officially becoming an adult. In the last eleven since (future) queen consort Kate has not missed a shot, nor a coat. She is always the best, the most beautiful, the most loved. She has chosen her battles (mental health, children’s education and well-being), we know her passions (sports, photography and the Norfolk country house), her tastes for fashion (coordinated suits and heels high) and the beauty choices (very long hair, often loose and shiny).

But what else do we know about her? Very little, or rather what he wants us to know. Why Kate, the ex commoner shy (if she ever was), she knows how to manage the media. Unlike Diana and Meghan, she never went to war there. Except for a couple of stolen topless shots, it was 2012 and she was sunbathing on a private terrace in the south of France, and an article by Tatler 2020. A profile that, among other things, called her “enriched, dangerously thin and kitsch”. Either way, Kate went to court and won.

And then she and her husband form a united front. The latest example? The BBC aired an unwelcome documentary in early December, bringing the misunderstandings between the brothers back to the fore – The Princes and the press – and the Cambridge in response made a historic decision: to move their Christmas concert from public television to private broadcaster Itv. And then they raised the bar. Kate during the special – Royal Carols: Together at Christmas – she sat at the piano, accompanied by Tom Walker, showing the audience for the first time her skills as a pianist. “I practiced during the lockdown,” he said, scoring another point.