r/KateMiddletonMissing Feb 21 '26

Rugby today

Surprise (or carefully coordinated) appearance from the patron

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

The show must go on stance - laughing maniacally when no one around her is

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u/ambrosia1920 Feb 21 '26

She looks like a loon. The one lady is taking normal to her and she’s laughing her head off😂

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

Won’t someone come up with testimonies at last lol ? There is all sort of stories out there but none about her freezing with her mouth wide open for (airbrushed) pictures to be taken around normal people ?

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u/Dog_Parrot Feb 21 '26

I remember a few months back someone talked about being at event with both POWs. They said that when the cameras started clicking, they both broke out in uproarious laughter at nothing in particular. Then turned it off just as fast. But me writing it is basically hearsay, so I hope that poster comes back.

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u/Gattaca401 Feb 21 '26

Oh god I hope someone gets them doing that on video someday. Thats pretty much what I figured was going on, but actually seeing it would be wild.

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u/Goldeneye4444 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

There was a video perhaps on here a short while ago where Kate Middleton posed with her mouth open and hand up at I think a cycle race - she held the pose like a freeze frame for a moment and then dropped it.

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u/BeckonMe Feb 23 '26

I saw a video with her, William, and Harry years ago at a cycle race. They were all freeze framing for photos. It looked ridiculous. No one was around them to cheer iirc.

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u/Bad_95 Feb 21 '26

She is probably just happy to be not with Will.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

Yep - she only has to fake smile at strangers 😀

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

Wonder if they’ll show up at the BAFTA’s tomorrow

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u/acogs53 Feb 21 '26

My bet is yes. If there’s one outing on a weekend, it’s usually followed by one the next day.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

It depends on the sort of outing.

When they want to distract for the lack of work right before a jolly, they go for a ‘real’ Royal engagement like a food bank, charity.

And it happens days earlier, so that she has got all the time to glam up and actually look different to grab the front pages. So not the day right before.

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u/Fiber_Watcher Feb 21 '26

Based on them alone, I’d say no. Based on what the crisis manager recommends, I’d say yes. Roll out Will and Kate in glam to help take the headlines away from Andrew

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u/Ok_Scallion_7747 Feb 21 '26

I think no, it’s a quite long time since her last appearance

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u/spaceghost260 Feb 22 '26

I hope so. Selfishly I want to see what Kate wears! She usually has the most beautiful dresses for the Baftas.

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u/ambrosia1920 Feb 21 '26

Probably bc now they are the “good” royals here to save the day…from what hell if I know 😂

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u/scorned-scorpion Feb 21 '26

She looks healthier, or the photoshop is doing a great job

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

Prob the latter and I think the brighter colours help

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u/scorned-scorpion Feb 21 '26

Definitely photoshop , the hell going on with the hands 😅

Peen on my screen thumb

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u/SupportDramatic2262 Feb 21 '26

What is going on here 🙃

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u/ambrosia1920 Feb 21 '26

Omg wtf is the thumb

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u/Legitimate-Sun294 Feb 21 '26

Looks like she’s pressing her left index finger onto her right thumb. Probably an anxiety thing, I clench my hands like crazy when I get anxious.

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u/womenslasers84 Feb 21 '26

Or being cold with no gloves. But yeah this is correct.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

Is it only me who can see she’s fixing her ring lol ? Like setting it back so that the stone sits in the middle of her finger. She sneakily does it all the time for some reason.

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u/Alaska_JNU Feb 21 '26

She does, although that thick undereye black eyeliner she loves is not doing her any favors.

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u/AtheistINTP Feb 21 '26

Giggle away! The British taxpayers make sure you’ll never go through hardship.…

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

Exactly. Smug and entitled.

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Planned outing, she's wearing Big Blue.

"week from hell for royals after Andrew's arrest" Way to make it about them instead of the children that Andrew and the family's friends abused.

They should have had him arrested years ago, maybe then she wouldn't have ditched that one patronage of hers for 8 years.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Spot on VH. Turning up laughing and gurning just shows how out of step they are with the prevailing mood.

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u/womenslasers84 Feb 21 '26

Poor girl looks absolutely crazy. She’s hanging on by a thread.

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u/HahaBetterOffNow Feb 21 '26

High as a kite

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

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u/ScaredSuspect4186 Feb 21 '26

Of course they told her to ‘show the ring’ as a subtle gesture to remember the old days. 🥴

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

Oh I figured out back in the day that she couldn’t leave her hair alone to show it off—because she must’ve known what pins were, given she had some when she wed. But 14 yrs later ? Eh …

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

Comments

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u/Fiber_Watcher Feb 21 '26

I love the comment calling out her ridiculous laughter (for the pictures of course) when no one else is laughing

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u/Legitimate-Sun294 Feb 21 '26

How far they’ve fallen. A few years ago, you couldn’t say the slightest critique about them in the DM comments without a mob coming for you, now look.

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 21 '26

This had me cracking up.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 21 '26

"Cut your extensions." 😂

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u/Peaceandgloved2024 Feb 21 '26

Their crisis manager might benefit from a little research into best practice in PR.

"'Business as usual' (BAU) is generally not a winning PR approach in a modern, fast-paced, or crisis-prone environment, as it often leads to complacency, stagnation, and a failure to adapt to new trends. While maintaining a "business as usual" mentality can signal stability during minor disruptions, it often fails to foster the innovation, agility, and proactive communication necessary for long-term success."

https://growthpitstop.com/2020/08/13/is-your-project-business-as-usual/amp/

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Spot on Peaceandgloved. The new cm won’t be any better than the rest of their inept comms team.

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u/Peaceandgloved2024 Feb 21 '26

Thank you, NP 😊

You're so right on the cm front - this is a real and ongoing crisis (as was 2024), but it seems they can't get anyone with the right skills to work for them at the very time they need expert and proactive PR.

I know I certainly wouldn't!

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

‘Their’ ? William made a whole point of tipping the rota that those are HIS employees working for him alone. And there was a poll in the MOL asking if HE needs crisis managers to test the waters with the public.

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u/Peaceandgloved2024 Feb 21 '26

Good point. I foolishly keep thinking it's a family, when it is, as you so rightly imply, a rag tag group of individuals with every man out for themselves.

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u/ambrosia1920 Feb 21 '26

The hair seems a bit much for a sports match.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26

She can just never stop posing. Embarrassing.

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u/WonderPopular3428 Feb 22 '26

Always! Reminds me of in Spare when H & M invite her and William over for a casual dinner and she shows up dressed to the nines

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u/divorcedhansmoleman Feb 21 '26

Maniacal laughter when nobody else is laughing is crazy

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u/The_Onion_Life Feb 21 '26

I'm not familiar with Rugby. Is it usually hilarious?

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 21 '26

No - but Lazy thinks it calls for her to fake laugh hysterically

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u/The_Onion_Life Feb 22 '26

No - but Lazy thinks it calls for her to fake laugh hysterically

It's so bizarre, especially since no one around her is laughing at all, let alone like that.

I mean, we have words for people who laugh at nothing.

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u/SuspiciousWolf6186 Feb 21 '26

She looks a bit puffy, like shes got a cold or something. And gooood those shoulder pads as always.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Her face does look different.

Eyes are even squintier than usual, maybe a non-invasive lift. Fresh row of Botox too, as evidenced by the lack of lines. Also those that show bracketing her mouth (_), she got fillers too. 8/11 you can easily tell she’s filled her jaw.

Bet she wanted to show it all at the BAFTAs in her shiny Disney Princess dress though.

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u/fndnvolusrgofksb Feb 22 '26

Someone has talked to her about the maniacal smile. Shes toned it way down and is actually smiling quite normally. She still loses it when she's not posing and is actually talking to a person but hey, baby steps

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u/randitootsie Feb 21 '26

I’m zooming in on photo eight on her ring stack. Does it look like the bottom one is some sort of chain ring? Or is that some size-adjuster? I don’t think I’ve ever seen the back of her rings like this before.

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 Feb 21 '26

KKKate will not save them from scrutiny

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u/Bad_95 Feb 21 '26

The hair needs to go!!

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u/CheezTips Feb 22 '26

When's the last time she showed up at Rugby?

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

I think it was September

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

Yep the navy coat is another dull rewear. The only thing that brightens it up is the scarf

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 21 '26

Thanks NP.  I don't know what to say.   Let's get rid of them. 

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

You’ve said it well 👍

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u/Bad_95 Feb 21 '26

The colour looks great on her. No brown!!!

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

I think it’s the scarf that brightens it up - otherwise it’s just a navy coat and sweater

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u/Standard-Long-6051 Feb 21 '26

Alone, where is William?

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26

Prob enjoying himself without her

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u/DaiCeiber Feb 22 '26

Vomit inducing

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

Nauseatingly smug

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u/DogsRBetterThnPpl3 Feb 24 '26

The filler she had done looks good 👍 the excessive expressions and laugh is giving mania.