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Yesterday Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge showed off her huge baby bump at Queen Elizabeth II's garden tea party at Buckingham Palace. The 31-year-old royal wore a gorgeous yellow Emilia Wickstead dress and a Jane Corbett Hat. Despite getting her nation excited about the royal birth in two months, some people are still criticizing the Duchess' worth as a public figure.
In her new book The Public Woman, author Joan Alison Smith compares the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge to the late Prince Diana. Smith mainly talks about the two royal women's public life and how Middleton falls short in comparison to her mother-in-law. Smith writes:
"By the age of 30, the new Duchess of Cambridge had done little since leaving university except play a supporting role to her boyfriend, marry him with great pomp and ceremony and get pregnant. She had never really enjoyed an independent identity or income-even her clothes were paid for by her father-in-law-and didn't seem to aspire to either."
According to the author, Prince the former Kate Middleton is mostly known "not for her achievements but her willingness to play the most traditional feminine role of all: waiting for a husband, getting married and not long afterwards becoming pregnant."
She also writes that Princess Diana "made catastrophic choices about men and showed not a glimmer of insight into why her relationships kept going wrong. Diana exemplifies a species of female narcissism which is repeatedly misread in popular culture, glamorizing stunted ambition-wanting fame and admiration-and erasing any requirement for personal responsibility."
Kate Middleton shows off her royal baby bump at the Palace!
Kate's husband, Prince William was busy with official military duties for the second year in a row, leaving the Duchess to attend the tea party alone again. Despite being without her prince, Kate appeared happy and relaxed during the festivities as she talked with some of the 8,000 guests in attendance including her father-in-law Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.
