Why Is Kate Middleton so Silent?

QUIET, PLEASE

No TV interviews, and few public speeches…is the media is so obsessed by how the Duchess of Cambridge looks, because we rarely hear what she says?

European Editor at Large

Published Oct. 31 2015 12:01AM EDT

articles/2015/10/31/why-is-kate-middleton-so-silent/151030-sykes-kate-quiet-tease_wqdgji — Chris Jackson/Pool/Reuters

Kate Middleton has a fear of public speaking, sources say, which may go some way to explain why she has not made so much as a squeak in public since the birth of her baby

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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Why Is Kate Middleton so Silent?

No TV interviews, and few public speeches…is the media is so obsessed by how the Duchess of Cambridge looks, because we rarely hear what she says?

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Tom Sykes