Social media users were quick to take sides on the Carole Middleton-Kris Jenner debate. Some even ranked her abilities higher than Kris Jenner’s, highlighting that she and Michael Middleton ended up with a $7-million home that Prince William bought using the money he inherited from Princess Diana and that she left the taxpayers to cover the debt of her once-successful business, Party Pieces. “Kris Jenner who?” he user wrote on X, previously known as Twitter.
Others argued Carole continued to implement her social-climbing skills even amid Kate Middleton and William’s wedding. “Carole Middleton has planned everything. She wanted to use her daughter’s big day to promote her other daughter. Then payed [sic] the tabloids to write all those lies about the butt,” one user tweeted, referring to how Pippa Middleton shot to recognition partly thanks to her flattering bridesmaid dress and false bum rumors. “This fake Kris Jenner is the definition of opportunist,” the user continued.
However, not all agree that comparisons should be taken negatively. For one royal expert, Carole’s social ascension is a lot more honorable than Jenner’s in a major way. “She didn’t build that company on the backs of her children,” Kristen Meinzer told Business Insider in December 2023, in an apparent jab at Jenner. Meinzer also argued that the difference in treatment Jenner and Carole receive stem from cultural perspectives. A woman who rose the ranks through hard work? “In America, we celebrate those stories,” she said.
