Kate Middleton's viral shuffle towards Queen Margrethe II could also be an indication she was 'daunted' by the Danish monarch, a royal commentator says

• A clip displaying Kate Middleton discreetly shuffling towards Queen Margrethe goes viral on TikTok.
• The video, which has over 1.9 million views, was taken throughout Kate’s go to to Denmark in 2022. 
• Royal commentator Amanda Matta mentioned Kate seemed like she was “barely nervous” in the course of the assembly.

Not even the royals are proof against a clumsy encounter, as a viral clip of Kate Middleton exhibits.

On Tuesday, a video taken of Kate, 41, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, 82, and Princess Mary of Denmark, 51, was shared by a person named The Royal Watcher on TikTok. The clip, which has over 1.9 million views as of Wednesday, seems to indicate Kate shuffling her method nearer to Margrethe at a photocall throughout her viewers at Copenhagen’s Christian IX’s Palace in February 2022. 

From the seems of it, Kate was making an attempt her finest to get near Margrethe with out calling an excessive amount of consideration to herself. The creator of the TikTok dubbed her transfer the “princess shuffle” in a caption overlaying the clip. 

However in line with Amanda Matta, who is understood for her royal-themed movies on Twitter and on TikTok, the place she has greater than 1.2 million followers, Kate’s shuffle could have proven a crack in her normally collected public look. 

“I can actually say that I have never seen Kate do that transfer earlier than. To me, it demonstrates the excessive stage of consideration (to the purpose of overthinking) that she places into her appearances. On that photocall with Queen Margarethe and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, she appeared barely nervous,” Matta mentioned. 

“Whereas a bolder transfer would have been to easily take a step to the appropriate, Kate as an alternative selected to attempt to make the shift in direction of the Queen as surreptitious as potential,” she added. “She was in a position to maintain her eyes on the digital camera always because of this.”

Matta went on to say that Kate’s concentrate on getting nearer to Margrethe, who inherited the unofficial title of Europe’s longest-serving dwelling monarch upon the demise of Queen Elizabeth II, could possibly be an indication of her being intimidated by the Danish royal. 

“Usually I do not like so-called ‘body-language evaluation,’ however the alerts that Kate could have been feeling a bit daunted by the Queen’s presence have been overwhelming on this present day! And who would not be?” Matta added. 

On the time, Kate was on her first abroad royal go to since 2019, City & Nation reported. A tweet shared by Kensington Palace a month earlier than the journey mentioned she could be centered on “studying from specialists, dad and mom & practitioners about Denmark’s strategy to early childhood.”

And though Margrethe is just not anticipated to attend King Charles’ upcoming coronation, as a consequence of her restoration from a again surgical procedure, Kate can be reunited with Mary on the royal occasion. The Danish princess is confirmed to be attending alongside her husband, Crown Prince Frederik, 54.

The couple can be amongst 10 worldwide royals represented on the British coronation for the primary time in over 900 years.

Kensington Palace didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.