Kate Middleton Criticized for Working Just 90 Engagements This Year
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00:00 Kate Middleton, Britain's new Princess of Wales, is facing criticism as new data claims
00:05 she has been the ninth hardest-working royal of 2022, behind elderly royal relations such
00:10 as the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
00:19 Data compiled by marketing analyser Reboot SEO Company, which assessed entries in the
00:24 court circular, the official published list of royal engagements, shows that Princess
00:28 Anne undertook the most work in 2022, with 214 engagements, followed by her brother,
00:34 King Charles III, who undertook 181.
00:45 Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, ranked in third and fourth positions
00:50 with 143 and 138 respective engagements, while Prince William sits in fifth place having
00:56 undertaken 126.
01:06 The data set lists Kate as having undertaken 90 public engagements, which when compared
01:11 to the annual data published by the Times of London in 2021, would have her down 33
01:17 engagements from last year.
01:25 The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, working royals who are first cousins to Queen Elizabeth
01:29 II, undertook 194 engagements, respectively, over the course of the year, despite both
01:36 being in their 70s.
01:44 Data compiled by Reboot spanned January to December 2022, though it isn't known exactly
01:49 how entries from the court circular were collated or what was included.
02:00 Online discourse about the Reboot figures began when royal biographer Omid Skabi shared
02:05 them on Twitter, writing, "According to @RebootDigitalPer, who analysed entries on the court circular,
02:11 this is how many official engagements each working member of the royal family carried
02:15 out in 2022."
02:24 A number of commenters picked out the Prince and Princess of Wales figures as noticeably
02:28 lower than expected.
02:32 "It's just funny to me, not really, how the British press will keep on bashing #HarryandMeghan,
02:42 while portraying Prince William and Kate as the hard-working dutiful royals, when they
02:46 barely work at all," posted one Twitter user.
02:52 "Does this include #Zoom and #FuneralCuz #KateMiddleton90 engagements in one year for a future Queen
03:02 is funny," wrote another, with a further adding, "365 days in a year."
03:14 "Sigh dying anyone with less than 100 besides the two elderly part-time working royals,
03:23 Kate."
03:25 "Also, sigh dying those with below 150 if they're full-time working royals, William,
03:32 Camilla, Edward Sophie."
03:41 Pandemic restrictions excuse can't be use anymore, despite the figures shown, 2022 has
03:47 been a year of prominent royal events for Kate, William and the rest of the royal family.
03:58 In March, while still Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and Kate undertook a seven-day
04:03 tour of the Caribbean, which included visits to Belize, Jamaica, and the Bahamas.
04:15 Though the tour was met with protests and a number of PR blunders, the couple maintained
04:19 a schedule of engagements celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.
04:31 When they returned from their tour, the couple attended the memorial service for Prince Philip
04:35 at Westminster Abbey, before leaving the nation in a number of celebrations for the Platinum
04:40 Jubilee in June, which included their first family visit to Wales.
04:51 In September, as their children started a new school following a move to the Windsor
04:55 Castle estate, the death of Queen Elizabeth II saw the couple undertake a number of engagements
05:00 connected with the national mourning period, including the state funeral.
05:11 One of the last engagements of 2022 for the princess took place on Dec. 15 with her together
05:16 at Christmas Carol service, which will be broadcast in the U.
05:20 K. on Christmas Eve and will pay tribute to the late queen.
05:30 "