{"id":308512,"date":"2026-03-01T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:56:08","slug":"prince-william-kate-middleton-kind-gesture-backfires-not-doing-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308512\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William, Kate Middleton kind gesture backfires: &#8216;Not doing enough&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/653539_47925_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Prince William, Kate Middleton kind gesture backfires: Not doing enough\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prince William, Kate Middleton kind gesture backfires: &#8216;Not doing enough&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Prince William and Princess Kate&#8217;s kind interactions with the public have been dubbed as not enough in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>For the unversed, the future King and Queen recently stepped out in Newtown, Wales, to &#8220;see how the Hand in Hand project is using art to support the wellbeing of children and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The couple was photographed meeting children and the community of the town in the rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Holding umbrellas and wearing bright smiles, Kate and William posed for photos with the young ones, waved and hugged.<\/p>\n<p>But, a royal expert believes that it is &#8220;not enough&#8221;, especially at times when Andrew and Fergie cast a negative shadow on the firm.<\/p>\n<p>As per GB, royal historian David Starkey, on one hand, praised the couple for being &#8220;attractive, youngish&#8221;, which is &#8220;a very important symbol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He dubbed Catherine &#8220;impressive&#8221; and &#8220;well-educated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, side by side, David said that &#8220;just going around the country being nice to people wearing Wellingtons or turning up in the rain isn&#8217;t enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the Andrew-Epstein saga, Kate and William released a statement after public pressure, expressing their concerns about the shocking revelations and standing with the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William, Kate Middleton kind gesture backfires: &#8216;Not doing enough&#8217; Prince William and Princess Kate&#8217;s kind interactions with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-308512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}