Poor Kate! She’ll soon be going two months without her royal hubby as he finishes his helicopter pilot training.
As if Kate Middleton didn’t have enough to deal with as the newly crowned Duchess of Cambridge, she’ll soon be facing a whole new obstacle in her marriage — an extended separation from Prince William. It’s been reported that William has to finish his helicopter pilot training in the Falkland Isles, a process could take up to two months. “I don’t know how you manage,” Kate recently told the wife of a Marine Corps. pilot during the Royal Tour. “I miss William so much when he goes away.”
“He went once for four weeks and I missed him so much,” she admitted.
Well, Kate better get those tissues ready. William’s training in the Falkland Isles is rumored to be happening next year, and she’s fully aware she won’t be able to accompany him on his travels.
We guess even a princess — or duchess — isn’t immune to heartache.
HollywoodLifers, do you have any helpful tips for Kate as she prepares for her extended separation from William?
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lynda biz
Posted at 1:18 AM on July 21, 2011
Amy Roberts
Posted at 4:37 PM on July 20, 2011
Kate is really pretty and i will feel so bad for her when william goes away!
Savannah
Posted at 1:09 AM on July 14, 2011
I, too am fed up with the media calling her “Kate Middleton.” That was her name prior to getting married!!!! She is just as deserving as every royal past & present to be called by her appropriate title/name. No one called princess Diana “Diana Spencer” after she and Prince Charles got married! STOP doing it with Princess Catherine! Prince William made it known that although he was given another title…Duke of Cambridge…he was born “Prince William” and preferred to continue to be called “Prince William.” That would give his wife the matching title of “Princess Catherine!” “Commoner” or not, like her or hate her, the fact is Catherine WILL some day be the Queen of England. Ok so really she will be officially titled “Queen Consort” but do you think Prince William will allow anyone to call his queen “Kate Middleton” when he becomes King? Are they still going to call her Kate Middleton then? People who continue to call her “middleton” are just showing how ignorant and how disrespectul they truly are. I think Prince William should make a very public announcement about this. I think if he put it to them…”how would you & your wife feel if everyone called her by her maiden name?” He or Clarence House should make an official announcement telling everyone what Catherine should be called.
Sarah
Posted at 3:17 AM on July 16, 2011
Oh stop! no one is being disrespectful only because she is being called by her first name. In the eyes of God, we all are the same. I rather paid much attention of those millions of children starving in the other parts of the world. Vanity, is a sin!
wen
Posted at 12:56 AM on July 19, 2011
Well actually she’s not called ”princess”. its duchess which the queen thinks catherine should be called. also, u sound like u dont even like them and mind into other people’s business!some people also think kate is a nice name. on t.v, they specifically said they would like to be treated like normal people. wouldnt you get tired if they called you lady or princess or duchess for your whole life?
Maddy
Posted at 2:55 PM on July 12, 2011
Please have respect and call her by her proper title now she is married – Her Royal Highness Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Kate was born Catherine not Kate,the media uses Kate as it is easier for them but really is disrespectful.
Is the media going to call her KM for the rest of her royal life?
If so, how arrogant & ignorant of them
That is why the British have protocols in addressing their royal family with the correct titles as fitting to their status
catharineA
Posted at 10:25 AM on July 15, 2011
wrong kate is not a princess ,consort is only her title….then soon duchess will be remove.kate is not princess,her birth certificate states katherine middleton …..
wen
Posted at 1:02 AM on July 19, 2011
she was 1st a commoner and c/katherine now its duchess soon itll be princeess then queen
Sarah
Posted at 3:23 AM on July 16, 2011
not our fault
Posted at 1:00 AM on July 19, 2011
we are calling her bt her title. just that the media is calling her kate. some medias call her duchess
Terry
Posted at 8:33 AM on July 31, 2011
And wouldn’t you just love it if we were all still tugging our forelocks in the presence of said royaly, aristocracy and the landed gentry. The “respect” they should be accorded isn’t meritocratic. And respect for what – an accident of birth? Get real. Royalty is the new soap opera. I don’t like soaps.
Nuff said.
Terry
Posted at 8:37 AM on July 31, 2011
I might add that my previous comment was in reply to Maddy’s post of 12 July.
Isobel
Posted at 1:02 AM on August 15, 2011
Some people seem rather confused about Kate’s title and status. She isn’t Princess Catherine and never will be, because she wasn’t born a royal, she has no royal blood. Diana was never Princess Diana, it was the media and public who called her that – her official title when married was Her Royal Highness The Princess Charles Philip Arthur George, Princess of Wales & Countess of Chester, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles, Princess of Scotland. (Some title!). No mention of her own name Diana in there anywhere. After her divorce she was Diana, Princess of Wales, but NOT Princess Diana.
Kate’s official title is Her Royal Highness Princess William Arthur Philip Louis, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus. Again, no mention of her own name Catherine. If William eventually becomes Prince of Wales, Kate will have the same title as Diana had, with only a name change from Charles’s names to William’s. This is how it is until she is queen, when she will be Queen Catherine, although only a queen consort, ie because married to the reigning king, not a queen regnant (reigning queen) as the present Queen Elizabeth II who is queen in her own right.
It’s all a bit mystifying but that’s just the way it is. No one is being disrespectful when they refer to Kate as ‘Kate’ or even as ‘Kate Middleton’. She was going out with William for almost 10 years before they got married and so the public had learned to call her by her own name. After 10 years of referring to someone by their maiden name it’s hard to start calling them something completely different! Many people referred to Diana as Lady Diana until the day she died; there was no disrespect intended, it was more an affectionate thing, really. They first knew her as Lady Diana Spencer and they liked using her own name rather than her grander royal title. In any case, royal family members have to earn the respect of the public, something they do through their work. It isn’t automatically given just because they have a title, you know! Kate will earn respect as she takes on royal duties and gets involved in charities, these being the expected duties that come with being royal.