Politically incorrect as it can now be, a lot of little girls want to be Kate Middleton—or any unspecified princess, really—when they grow up. Hell, I’m an adult, and personally, I still want to be Kate Middleton when I grow up. But the sweet irony is that Kate Middleton herself, veritable princess and world-famous former commoner, secretly dreams of returning to a simpler station in life.
On a trip to Cornwall, England, this week, Kate told a group of teenage farmers that “she’d secretly like to be a young farmer” herself, according to People, and that she scratches her agrarian itch by tilling the land—or at the very least taking constitutional post-crumpet walks with Prince George and Princess Charlotte at the family’s country estate in Norfolk.
“She s been teaching George the difference between barley and wheat and everything they grow on the farm there,” said 15-year-old Bea Hodge, of the Wadebridge Young Farmers, after visiting with Kate. “She wants the children to learn all about farming and the apples in their orchard.”
Picturing: a real-life adaptation of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s The Simple Life but with more Barbour jackets. Of course, Kate already has the down-to-earth (for a princess) schtick down, re-wearing her outfits numerous times like the rest of us. In fact, while in Cornwall, she shocked the nation by wearing $29 Gap printed trousers! And the draws of country life are clear: On one hand, for Kate, there’s no paparazzi, curtsying, or mandatory pantyhose if she entered royal witness protection and resurfaced as a common farmer. On the other: hard labor, ruined manicures, no more Mario Testino shoots. I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the Kensington Palace fence.
