Why doesnt Katharine, Duchess of Kent present the wimbledon trophy anymore?

Question

i havent seen her around for years

Answer 1

she only does it when the winner is German.

Answer 2

She is one of the few decent royals and has decided to opt out of all that stupidity.

Answer 3

The Duchess of Kent decided to concentrate on her private life;she is more interested in serving her charities than social events.She even converted to Roman Catholocism. I miss her,too,at Wimbledon.As a Catholic,I see no reason  for her to shun Wimbledon,but that is her choice. Wikipedia.org says:

"The Duchess of Kent was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1994. This was a personal decision, and she received the approval of the Queen. As she explained in an interview on BBC, "I do love guidelines and the Catholic Church offers you guidelines. I have always wanted that in my life. I like to know what's expected of me. I like being told: You shall go to church on Sunday and if you don't you're in for it!" Basil Cardinal Hume, then Archbishop of Westminster and thus spiritual leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, warned the Church against triumphalism over the Duchess' conversion.

Although the Act of Settlement 1701 means a member of the Royal Family marrying a Catholic relinquishes their right of succession to the British throne, the Act does not include marriage to an Anglican who subsequently becomes a Catholic. Therefore, the Duke of Kent did not lose his place in the line of succession to the British throne.

Since then her younger son, Lord Nicholas Windsor, her grandson, Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, and her granddaughter Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor have also become Catholics. Her older son, the Earl of St. Andrews, father of Lord Downpatrick, is married to a Catholic and thus has been excluded from the succession.

[edit] Recent years

The Duchess of Kent decided not to personally use the style Her Royal Highness in 2002 and reduce her royal duties. Since then she has been informally known as Katharine Kent, although her formal style (e.g. in the Court Circular) remains HRH The Duchess of Kent. By way of example, when she made a formal appearance to confer awards at the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition in 2002, she asked the organizers to introduce her as "Katharine, Duchess of Kent."

In keeping with her withdrawal from full royal duties, the Duchess took a position as a music teacher in Wansbeck Primary School in Kingston upon Hull. In 2005 the Duchess spoke in an interview on BBC Radio 3 of her liking of rap music and of the singer/songwriter, Dido, whose record, Thank You, she chose as one of her favourite pieces of music.

The Duchess has been dogged by unsubstantiated press reports that she and her husband have lived apart for many years and that they intend to divorce. Her absences, not only from state occasions, but also from family celebrations such as the Queen's diamond wedding dinner at Clarence House and Peter Phillips's wedding at Windsor, now go largely unnoticed.

Reports by the BBC have stated that the Duchess suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, while the Mail on Sunday reported that she suffers from depression. By 1999 she had apparently completely recovered from chronic ill-health, and when asked by the Daily Mail what had suddenly changed, she answered, without elaboration, that she had been suffering unknowingly from Coeliac Disease (a serious and potentially debilitating auto-immune disease in which a variety of diverse symptoms can be triggered by the ingestion of the protein Gluten). She stepped down from her role as head of the M.E. Society in the UK after this new diagnosis, and has since energetically worked with various charities and schools. When asked by the Daily Mail in 1999 about her long history of illness, her reply was simply that "none of us goes through life unscathed."

The effects of her undiagnosed disease gained her the reputation among Royalist circles as a "malingerer" who was routinely unwilling to perform basic public duties either owing to laziness or to benign mental illness. The eventual proof that she was in fact, suffering a legitimate physical illness and her subsequent full recovery has apparently done little to mitigate this negative perception. The Royal Family's rejection of her is thought to be a major reason she has in turn distanced herself from them (including her own husband) over the years, and is possibly why she insists on being called "Katharine Kent" or even "Katharine Worsley" in private life. It is also believed that it was her (unjustly assessed) example which especially hardened the Royals against Diana, Princess of Wales when the latter began to have emotional difficulties. The Queen Mother reportedly expressed a sentiment akin to "Not again!" (referring to Katharine Kent) when faced with Diana's inability to live up to the Royal Family's expectations.

Though now fully recovered through following a Gluten-free diet, she reportedly still suffers bouts of depression. As she told the BBC in 2004, when asked to comment on rumours about her having been depressed, "Aren't we all? We all get slightly low periods in our lives, don't we?" In 1998, she told an interviewer about her lack of confidence. "I can still be very shy walking into a room full of strangers," she said. "I know how to do it, but I have never gained confidence. It is one of the reasons I am always trying to boost other people's self-esteem; because I know what it's like not to have it."

[edit] Titles, styles, honours and arms

[edit] Titles and styles

22 February 1933 – 8 June 1961: Miss Katharine Worsley

8 June 1961 –: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent

[edit] Honours

GCVO: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 9 June 1977

Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II

[edit] Honorary military appointments

Honorary Major-General, British Army

Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, of Adjutant General's Corps

Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, of Royal Dragoon Guards

Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, of Royal Logistic Corps

[edit] Organisations named after the Duchess

The Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital at Sandy Bay, Hong Kong (1970)

[edit] External links

Royal.gov.uk- The Duke and Duchess of Kent

BBC News- Duchess of Kent joins the Catholic Church "

http://www.royal.gov/uk has even less to say about her retirement from public life.

Answer 4

Although I support the monarchy in Britain,it can and has been,extraordinarily heartless,to some of it's members.I have always liked the Duchess of Kent.There are some people that I have always really,wanted to meet,not because they are royalty or famous but,because they care and she has always come across as someone who genuinely does care.I too,miss her.