Kate Middleton, perfection at forty

It was a new “Kate moment.” She at the piano, to the surprise of the spectators of the Christmas concert broadcast by ITV, turning into notes all the qualities that make her the most popular woman in the United Kingdom after Queen Elizabeth: sweetness, sympathy, elegance, talent.

They will not find a praiseworthy adjective that was not used in the media after that television Christmas Eve with the Duchess of Cambridge as a happy guest in all monarchical homes.

A her 40 years, the future royal consort meets today seems to culminate an arduous task that began a decade ago, after her marriage to Prince William, when many skeptics looked at the newlywed as a bland and dark reinterpretation of Lady Di.

But Kate had a plan. And she has executed it without a single shock. In a first phase, she made the low profile of her public appearances acquire that faculty that palace experts know as professionalism and that they value so much when it comes to wearing a smile, elegance and, above all, a lot of discretion.

Naturally, she was a perfect fit for the role she was assigned. It was explained by Mr. Nicholls, her first piano teacher, who was interviewed after the television concert, who summed up her character as follows:

«She was absolutely lovely, a wonder of person to teach piano. I don’t think anyone could say that she would become the most virtuous, but she was good and did what was asked of her.»

The tables achieved that her protagonism was getting rid of the shyness of the beginner to begin to build a much more personal Kate that ended up being outlined with motherhood.

Her three children (George, Charlotte and Louis) have led her to identify with other mothers who suffer reconciling work with family, but who fulfill every task that is required of them.

After any of her innumerable official acts, she may escape to do the shopping in Waitrose, her usual supermarket, the preferred one by middle-class urbanites and a taste for healthy food.

Or maybe take a look at Zara to add to a not fancy, but well-stocked wardrobe: in 2021 around one hundred thousand euros was spent on clothes, according to UFO No More, a website specializing in royal outfits.

The impeccable duchess is at the same time the woman who is moved to tears in an act for the fallen; who kisses on the cheek and consoles her father-in-law, the Prince of Wales, during the funeral of Philippe of Edinburgh; the unconditional support of William and the queen; the only one without blemish among so much family affront.

Definitely, a glimmer of hope in the future of the crown.