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It’s no secret that the Duchess of Cambridge watches her weight carefully, especially following The Great Breakup of 2007. Since then, Kate has lost a lot of weight (excluding her pregnancies). Over the years, we’ve heard stories about how Kate and William are health-conscious to a somewhat extreme degree. Their requirements while traveling on royal business often involve ONLY salads and little-to-no carbs, protein, dairy, sugar or meat. So it’s interesting that while William and Kate were doing their charity event on Saturday, William told the kids that he was “not allowed” to eat the proffered cupcakes.

Her svelte figure is the envy of women everywhere. And it seems the Duchess of Cambridge may also be encouraging her husband to watch his waistline – after William revealed he has been banned from eating cake. William made the confession as he and Kate marked World Mental Health Day yesterday by visiting youngsters who have battled back from mental health problems to help others cope with similar issues.

As he walked past a trestle table holding a display of cupcakes at the event in Harrow College in North-West London, William said: ‘I’m not allowed cakes. Also it is very difficult to talk to people when I am eating cakes. I would cover all your tops with chocolate. It’s not very good.’

In a previous interview, Carolyn Robb, a former personal chef to Prince Charles, revealed the Prince’s boyhood love of cake: ‘Princess Diana was very keen that her boys should have a really healthy diet, but they had treats too.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Diana famously had a sweet tooth and she loved cakes and baked goods especially. It seems like William might have inherited that. So, does Kate “not allow” William to have cupcakes? That’s harsh. But I wonder if Carole might have more to do with how William’s diet is dictated. After all, she’s the one running Anmer Hall!

Speaking of Anmer Hall, as we discussed last week, the Cambridges now have a no-fly zone imposed on Anmer. The Daily Express’s Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) was discussing the situation on his Twitter and he basically made it sound like the no-fly zone was given not because of any particular security concern, but merely because of William’s privacy concerns. Palmer also believes that the no-fly zone indicates that the Cambridges really are at Anmer full-time and that the costly Kensington Palace renovation was money wasted because Will and Kate rarely use that space. As for the “privacy concerns, that’s what The Daily Beast said too, in a lengthy new piece about the Cambridges’ “privacy.” You can read the DB’s piece here. Here’s an interesting part:

Sources tell the Daily Beast that William is constantly furious at media intrusion into his family’s life. Diana’s eldest believes his mother’s death was caused by paparazzi. It’s no wonder that he was, apparently, the driving force behind the recent Kensington Palace letter regarding the children, just as he was behind the “legal action” taken against a still-unnamed photographer who snapped pictures of Kate sunbathing topless in France in 2012. Those efforts have now been quietly shelved and forgotten as the utter impossibility of pursuing the case to a successful conclusion became clear.

This latest Royal Family measure may be much more about William’s hatred of the press in general and the paparazzi in particular than anything else. Yes, of course, the desire to protect his children is utterly genuine, but is he really going about it the right way? The policy of “We won’t let anyone take their picture without our consent. Ever” is as ridiculous as it is doomed to failure. It is also an utterly self-defeating strategy in terms of the harassment levels the family endures. After all, the price publications will pay for a clear set of pictures of Charlotte and George will likely rise with each day that goes by without those photographs turning up in a picture editor’s inbox. A threat to “accidentally” shoot photographers pursuing the royals doesn’t appear to have stopped anyone either.

The key step in the Cambridges’ increasing isolation–or protection from paparazzi as Kate and William see it–has been their wholesale move from London to Norfolk, where the no-fly zone and the vast Sandringham estate of the Queen means protection officers can easily identify and remove photographers.

[From The Daily Beast]

Bam. It feels like the press is working through a national therapy session with William and it’s getting very, very interesting. William has struck me as petulant and immature for years now and the only thing fatherhood has given him is a built-in “excuse” to retreat even further from the media and public/royal life. And this is going to come to a head in our lifetimes, trust me. In fact, I think it’s going to come to a head in a big way in the next few years.

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