Kate Middleton

May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month and last week, Kate Middleton marked the occasion by issuing a statement about the importance of ensuring that pregnant women have access to proper psychiatric care.

Kate noted that this care must be supplemented by support from friends, family, and community.

There was a time when Kate Middleton might have been the most famous and fawned-over woman on the planet.

These days, Kate's popularity in the UK remains unmatched, but globally, she's taken a backseat to her sister-in-law by marriage, Meghan Markle.

Generally speaking, powerful people with royal titles tend to get what they want out of life.

In most cases, these dukes, duchesses, lords, and ladies simply make their desires known, and an army of minions begins scrambling about with the goal of making their wish come true.

Most of the recent news surrounding the British Royal Family has been decidedly not good.

Whether you're talking about the Queen's Covid diagnosis or the nauseating Prince Andrew sex scandal, there's no denying that these are very dark times for the Windsor clan.

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior members of the royal family, they lost a lot of supporters in the UK.

But then they moved to Los Angeles, began living more openly, and gained a ton of new fans in America!

Prior to the start of Meghan Markle's relationship with Prince Harry, you had probably never heard her name.

Don't get us wrong, she created a rather successful acting career for herself, but the TV landscape is vast these days, and it's easy for a single basic cable legal drama and its attractive cast to escape your notice.

It seems like only yesterday that Kate Middleton was the fresh-faced youngster who first cropped up in tabloids as a potential love match for the world's most eligible bachelor, Prince William.

But believe it or not, Kate hit the big 4-0 on Sunday.

As you've likely heard, there's been a great deal of concern over Queen Elizabeth's health in recent weeks.

The sovereign has canceled several engagements and scaled back her public presence to the point where many are concerned that the situation could be more serious than palace officials are letting on.

Obviously the royal marriage that makes the most headlines these days is that of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

(Some say the Sussexes' global popularity was the primary reason that they attracted so much enmity in London, but that's a conversation for another time.)

In one of her many duties as a Duchess, Kate Middleton engages with the public on important topics.

While many aspects of royal life are onerous, it can be a true privilege to help make the world a better place.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.

But in the almost two years that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been living 5,500 miles away from London in a peaceful coastal subdivision near Santa Barbara, CA, it's often seemed as though their rift with the royal family has been progressively getting worse.

Earlier this week, Time Magazine released its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people.

Few readers on this side of the pond were surprised to see Meghan Markle and Prince Harry cover the issue, but apparently the news came as much more of a shock overseas.

Earlier this week, Time Magazine released its list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The magazine released several editions of this week's issue, each featuring one -- or, in this case, two -- of the movers and shakers who make an appearance on the prestigious list.

Well, this is a refreshing change of pace.

For years now, we've been hearing endless rumors about the feud between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton.

They say the best revenge is living well.

And it seems that Prince William and Kate Middleton have accepted that maxim as their guiding principle in their ongoing war with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

The people of England are in a state of mourning today.

But this time, their grief has nothing to do with Covid variants, or their Muppet-resembling prime minister, or the fact that even in mid-July, their weather sucks out loud.

Two Duchesses having to postpone a royal reconciliation because of a plague sounds like historical fiction.

Instead, it's basically what's happening to Duchess Kate Middleton.

While the bad blood between Prince William and Prince Harry might generate more tabloid headlines, the feud between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle appears to be just as intense, if not more so.

The sisters-in-law by marriage made an effort in the early days of Meghan's courtship with Harry, but before long, the tensions between them became insurmountable.

Even before her controversial interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle was one of the most heavily-scrutinized people on the planet.

But amazingly, the focus of the global microscope has only intensified in recent months.

Now that the dust has settled, we can see Meghan Markle's Oprah Winfrey interview for what it was.

For millions of viewers, it was the television event of the year, but for Meghan it was nothing more than an opportunity to tell her story on her own terms and without interruptions.

And they said it would never last!

Okay, fine.