- A professional lip reader caught Kate Middleton and Prince William’s warnings to each other on a recent red carpet.
- The royals attended the BAFTAs over the weekend and looked deeply “tense.”
- It was their first appearance since the arrest of Prince William’s disgraced uncle, ex-Prince Andrew.
Prince William and Kate Middleton showed up at the BAFTAs over the weekend, their first appearance since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest. With lip readers and body language experts poised to analyze their every move, the couple pretty much didn’t talk to each other—except for when Kate issued an instruction to William and he responded with some advice.
According to lip reader Jeremy Freeman in The Mirror (like I said, they! were! ready!), Kate told her husband to “look at the people” while walking past crowds, and then William told her “watch your step.” Wild stuff.
As expected, body language experts also had a lot to say, with Judi James telling Hello Magazine that things between William and Kate were extremely tense.
“William and Kate delivered their usual, impeccable red carpet A-list glamour here, but there are a handful of tells that might reflect the undeniable tensions of the past week,” she said. “[The royals] walk side by side with their arms hanging loose at their sides, with a closeness of the dangling inner hands suggesting a desire to clasp hands here or perhaps to perform the kind of signature truncated touches, pats and strokes they often give each other to support each other at events like this. Instead of touching, though, we can see the fingers of William’s right hand slightly curled so that his index finger touches his thumb, hinting at a self-soothe ritual.”
So far, Kate and William haven’t said anything public about Andrew being arrested for “suspicion of misconduct in public office,” buuut there are calls for King Charles to abdicate, so guess we’ll see what happens.
