Roslyn
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Sullivan said:In addition to what's been said above, I think it is likely that there is a feeling among her advisors and Prince William's that she needs to obtain some experience of public life, prior to her engagement, so she's not completely at sea when the time comes. Never mind a need to prove to certain people whose opinion actually matters (i.e. not us and not the media!) that she will, in fact, be able to handle herself in the spotlight. And she and they think she has the right to gain that experience will still maintaining a semblance of a private life. Not an unreasonable position, IMO.
I think what Kate has been undergoing is very different from what she would have to do as a Royal bride, and therefore is not a fair test of public life. As soon as an engagement were announced, she would be whisked away from "real" life and protected behind palace doors, lilterally and metaphorically, and only let out on carefully managed excursions where she was well protected both physically and by reason of her Royal status from having cameras thrust in her face and over-familiar questions.
She might handle the controlled type of press interest which is an incident of Royal life very well but cope badly with the sort of "interest" from the press which she has been receiving.