I feel Charlotte would fit just fine into the British royal family. The girl has class, elegance and she most of all has BRAINS. She knows what is excepts of a roy, now to act and when not to stick her foot in her mouth. She also know just how far to push and not get pushed over a cliff, by the old guard.

I think the difference is that Emma and CP have remained friends, while that would be neigh impossible for William and Miss Middleton. It's uhm…difficult. The relationship dynamics are different and also, Emma isn't one to cash in. She has money of her own, she's friends with CP's sisters… No reason for her to do anything of it.

Rumour is Kate has signed an agreement she won't sell her story. Dunno how much of it is true.

Give me an email address and I'll zap it over.
The public is a strange thing. It can be easily influenced with the right words, the right action. Unfortunately, royal families don't always have the best PR people in the world, it seems (look at the mess that was Princess Madeleine's split with Jonas Bergström, she knew FOR A YEAR what had happened and this on again off again handling was terrible).

One of the problems with Wills and Miss Middleton is that they got together so early in life. I don't usually agree with most of what Prince Charles says, but it's true that it would gave done William good not to bind himself in school already. How many relationships break up once the people in question have their degree? I keep thinking they only stayed together because Miss Middleton was hanging on to it and for William is convenient, and she had proven to be trustworthy, at the very least.

Charles and Diana… Didn't work on so many levels, I don't even know where to start. That was a marriage that was over before William was born and it only slid from bad to worse from there.

Hasn't Harry tried to get his brother to listen? I was reading something along those lines a while back, I think it was concerning the break up from three years ago. About how Harry was less than thrilled about her in general and William being with her in particular or something.

I've read an interesting article a couple of weeks ago, actually my friend sent it to me via email, I'll have to dig it up… It mainly focused on Miss Middleton and on her way from where she was to who she is now. Actually, it doesn't seem to be online anymore, too bad (ran in the Calgary Herald, if you want to track it down). Anyway, I certainly didn't agree with all they said (as it was very pro-Kate anyway) but it was interesting nonetheless and made obvious, how hard it would be for either of them to terminate the relationship at this point.

It's just so sad, in a way. Not that their lives personally touch me on a more than remote basis, but the chemistry is simply not there. There's waiting and hoping, but ultimately I just don't see it. Look at other couples (royal, to get a comparison) who've been together that long or longer, I can to this day see more chemistry between Konstantin and Anne Marie (or beware, the newlyweds Victoria and Daniel) than there seems to be between William and Miss Middleton.

I've made a blogpost a while ago, and I still stand by that:
Fact is, as far as seems to be true at least: William is not currently interested in marriage. And I can’t even blame him for that, quite aside from the small matter of me not being fond of his current girlfriend-slash-bedwarmer. Once he marries he will be under the obligation to produce an heir (and spare), and he can forget his flying career even before the first three years are up, let’s not even talk about an additional three years he’s been talking about before. The RAF is his priority in life at the moment and why not? Once he’s Prince of Wales, there will be enough stress and obligations in his life then so he won’t have to burden himself with that now.

I just don't know what the right solution would be. Of course, he can wait until they're both way over thirty and then argument that putting her through two pregnancies would be a risk but… I'm not sure how thrilled everyone will be with that solution.