{"id":339792,"date":"2025-08-13T00:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:27:14","slug":"princess-kate-under-an-enormous-amount-of-pressure-to-work-doesnt-want-to-let-king-charles-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339792\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate Under \u2018an Enormous Amount of Pressure\u2019 to Work, Doesn\u2019t Want to Let King Charles Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

They managed to sneak away for a few days. In late July, Prince William<\/strong>, Princess Kate<\/strong> and their kids were spotted sailing on a yacht off the coast of Kefalonia, Greece.<\/p>\n

The brief trip represented a much-needed respite from Kate\u2019s busy month, which had already included attending a state banquet with French President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, presenting the trophies at the Wimbledon finals and curating a special exhibition at London\u2019s Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/p>\n

Her schedule has been packed as cancer-stricken King Charles<\/strong> continues to unload more of his responsibilities on the future king and queen. After announcing her remission from cancer in January, \u201cKate has been easing back in and taking breaks when she needs to, but there\u2019s no getting away from the fact that the days are very long,\u201d says a source. \u201cShe\u2019s under an enormous amount of pressure to work even more, because she doesn\u2019t want to let Charles down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Kate recently admitted that it\u2019s been \u201cvery difficult\u201d returning to work full-time. The recovery journey is \u201ca roller coaster,\u201d she told a group of hospital patients during a visit to the RHS Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital on July 2. \u201cYou have to find your new normal, and that takes time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, she\u2019s now having to do that without her longtime right-hand woman to lean on. Natasha Archer<\/strong>, who had been Kate\u2019s trusted personal assistant since 2010 \u2014 and was largely credited with the princess\u2019 style evolution \u2014 made the surprising decision to quit in early July to open her own luxury consulting business.<\/p>\n

\u201cKate is supportive of Natasha\u2019s decision to leave, and there\u2019s no animosity, but this adds a huge new weight on her shoulders,\u201d says the source.<\/p>\n

It also means she will have to hire someone new and train them, which could be a nightmare. (In more shocking news, fans discovered that the aide had been following Kate\u2019s sister-in-law, Meghan Markle<\/strong>, and several of the duchess\u2019 friends on Instagram; Natasha later unfollowed most of them.)<\/p>\n

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The timing couldn\u2019t be worse, as Charles, who recently alarmed royal watchers when he appeared with a burst blood vessel in his eye, is only expected to pile on more work.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe simply can\u2019t do everything he used to, so Kate and William are being called on to step up in a big way,\u201d says the source. \u201cThey are now involved in big-picture discussions at the palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prince and princess, both 43, are \u201cexcited\u201d for a chance to shape the royal family\u2019s future but still have to tread carefully, says the source. While William told reporters last year that his plans for the monarchy involve putting \u201ca smaller R in royal,\u201d Charles, 76, is still very much in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything William and Kate do now has to be in line with his father\u2019s vision,\u201d says the source. \u201cSo things can get quite stressful, more than Kate lets on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They managed to sneak away for a few days. In late July, Prince William, Princess Kate and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,34,395,21896,533,1760,102744,2832,532,8606,2831,7710,519,7711,7712,13856],"class_list":{"0":"post-339792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-getty-images","13":"tag-kate-and-william","14":"tag-kate-middleton","15":"tag-king-charles","16":"tag-natasha-archer","17":"tag-prince-of-wales","18":"tag-prince-william","19":"tag-princess-kate","20":"tag-princess-of-wales","21":"tag-royal-families","22":"tag-royal-family","23":"tag-uk-royal-family","24":"tag-william","25":"tag-william-and-kate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115018625800683129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}