Kate Middleton was ‘nervous,’ ‘stoic’ at Trooping the Colour parade: body language expert

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2024 Trooping the Colour parade, according to a body language expert. “Looking at the first photograph of Kate Middleton and Prince William heading to the ceremony together, Kate is using a masking smile.

It’s her game face,” Darren Stanton said on behalf of Slingo, according to Business Insider.The Princess of Wales, 42, made her first public appearance at the annual ceremony in London on Saturday since revealing her cancer diagnosis.“She’s using this as a way to power through and do the best she can,” Stanton said about Middleton, adding that “her composure appears calm and collected on the outside.”He also said that her “smile isn’t completely engaged.”“Internally, she’s feeling a sense of wanting to make people proud, but she is also feeling nervous – which is understandable,” Stanton continued.

Middleton rode in a car alongside her husband Prince William and their three children entering Buckingham Palace before the parade.

She only waved to the crowd a few times during the ceremony — which Stanton said is “significant.”“It makes her come across as quite stoic,” he said. “It appears she’s trying to avoid attention with quite a bit of distance,” he noted.Middleton stood in between William, 41, and her father-in-law, King Charles, who also has cancer, as they watched the traditional military flyover at Buckingham Palace.