00:00I also came away with an understanding of how maybe that degree in that famous degree of art
00:06in art history actually helped her to do that really why do you think that is
00:12it's so interesting because obviously there are all those stories about whether she
00:16only um she was that was the subject she was going to study anyway but that she only ended
00:22up at St Andrews because William was going there and you know um I met her very early
00:29after her marriage in the palace and I tried to talk to her about paintings and she absolutely
00:35very politely refused to engage and at the time I thought oh maybe she's not really that interested
00:41at all but then I saw the her own increasing mastery of imagery so it's not just that she's chosen
00:50things like you know being involved with the National Portrait Gallery uh or or you know her own
00:57photography um but that she is the one who has understood how they can use imagery to fulfill
01:08that royal role you know the the it's not clear whether Elizabeth II or Victoria said I have to
01:16be seen to be believed um Elizabeth II said she thought it was probably Victoria who said that
01:23um but it's nevertheless a very good description of of a a core function of of the non-defined job
01:31is to
01:32be seen to be believed and Kate has developed a way of doing it that doesn't actually involve her to
01:38be
01:38present at all and that showcases her family and herself in ways that when I first saw for example
01:48those videos she was putting out um I sort of thought but it looks so artificial why would you do
01:54that
01:54and then I realized no this is for the kind of Instagram TikTok age this is this is the content
02:00she is
02:01finding a way to to meet those those mass audiences and she also um is credited with the idea of
02:10giving out
02:11intimate intimate family pictures as a way not of um infringing her own privacy but protecting it
02:18because it stops paparazzi shots from having the same level of value well I think it's also for the
02:24children isn't it so they're not confronted with well exactly cameras exactly so it's quite it's very
02:29very considered yeah yeah but it's but it's really clever yeah it's really it's really clever stuff
02:35you
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