Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have expressed their condolences to Princess Kate following her announcement of her cancer diagnosis. “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace,” a spokesperson for the Sussexes said.
The harkles use their titles, but refer to HRH Catherine, Princess of Wales as Kate. That's major shade. I didn't notice it since I don't read their crap, but saw it referenced in comments section.
Do you think they use their titles when they reach out privately to Willy and Kate? "Hello Kate, it is I, the Duchess of Sussex, but you may call me Mam." Click. Hello? Hello? Haz why is our cell coverage so bad?
I don't know about the UK, but to me they've rendered the titles meaningless with how they've overused them, especially where they are actually inappropriate. It's like calling everyone 'babe' or 'baby' (which I use too, sometimes sarcastically
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). Or like 'guys' - my boss was apologising in a recent meeting about calling us (women) 'guys', we told him we didn't even notice because we also talk the same way
Duke and Duchess, markled
William and Catherine are smart to put just their initials - I see a W or a C, my mind goes immediately to them.
In the film Zubeidaa (about the divorced daughter of a wealthy Muslim businessman, who marries a Hindu prince but struggles to be accepted by his family and people), there's a scene between the older first wife, Mandy, and Zubeida, who was renamed as Meenakshi as per Hindu traditions. Mandy wonders what nickname she should assign Zubeida, eventually settling on calling her 'M', as she calls all her sisters the same way.
As a child I saw it as a gesture of affection, growing up I realised that it was perhaps also a way of minimising her original identity. When Smegs first said that she called Sparry 'H', the way she said it felt minimising. To be followed by "this one".
It was as awkward as when William and Catherine went on a radio show (I don't remember which one), and were told that Sparry called her 'Cath' and she was bewildered because as she said, people called her Kate and a lot of other different names which she didn't mind, but she'd never heard Sparry call her 'Cath'. Guess he was doing the "my grandmother tells me things she doesn't share with anyone else" thing. Match made in hell, him and his Ho
Contrast with William and Catherine, who introduced their initials as a sign off in an organic way, and have maintained their use when appropriate. Unlike the other two who still haven't decided whether they want to be called "just ___" or any of the variants of their titles that they keep inventing
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