‘Regal poise’: Kate Middleton’s speech techniques show ‘performer’ who was once ‘hiding’
Kate Middleton and Prince William met at university and married in 2011 before having three royal children. They are now both senior working members of the Royal Family and will regularly undertake engagements together.
Judi analysed the Duchess’ first ever speech back in 2012 while speaking at the official opening of the Treehouse, a new building for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, and a more recent clip where Kate is speaking about her Early Years campaign.
The expert said: “It is possible to coach someone into using body language that will make them look more confident externally than they feel inside but, as a comparison of these two clips of Kate making speeches shows, most of the vital work starts internally if a performance is going to look authentically confident and congruent.
“When we are passionate about our message and when our inner levels of confidence and self-esteem are at a healthy level we usually project in a compelling way.
“When we’re anxious or dreading negative feedback, as Kate appeared to be as she delivered her first speech, all the training in the world will do little to help, in fact it can make a speaker look worse if it suppresses authentic personality and communication skills, and it’s this sense of over-training that Kate seems to be suffering from here.”
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