Chinese Commercial Advertisement Portrays Kate Middleton as “Gold Digger”

Chinese Commercial Advertisement Portrays Kate Middleton as “Gold Digger”

A recent Chinese commercial tourism video portrays that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, only married Prince William for the sake of money. The video was created by the Chengu Association for Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries to promote Panda Cabs in Chengu City.

Prince William, Kate and Queen Elizabeth II, portrayed by actors Simon Watkinson, Colette Mularkey and Amanda Bellamy respectively, are standing out in the rain in London. William and Queen Elizabeth are trying to hail a cab while “gold digger” Kate Middleton complains that she didn’t marry the prince and into the royal family just to be taking taxi cabs.

The video is being taken down all over the internet as of this moment, but not before alert prying eyes got a copy of it.

Middleton: “I just don’t understand why we cannot take the royal limo. I didn’t marry into royalty to schlep around in a taxi.”

William: “But darling, granny is right. The commoners want to see us tightening our belts and all that.”

Middleton: “Rubbish, people want to see that they can be like us if they just work hard.”

Queen: “Like you did?”

This leaves everyone guessing as to what the city of Chengdu’s cab service has to do with the British Royal family.  Normally this kind of thing would be done as just an off the wall comedy sketch for a commercial, but this one is not funny in the least, but rather insulting. The lines are delivered so poorly, that it’s hard to even catch the joke, if there is. The actors, however, certainly look like and dress like, their counterparts, but that is the extent of their “success.”

The video is a clear criticism of the England monarchy, targeted specifically on the Duchess.  Writer Keith Harrison is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying “Hmm, the same nation that believes dried, ground tiger penis to be a medicine has the right to ridicule our monarchy?” If the commercial advertisement about taxi cabs had been done its job well, and made people laugh, perhaps Britons would have accepted the commercial as light hearted ribbing of their royal family. But it didn’t. In fact, the commercial comes off as an over critical and tasteless insult against the monarchs.

Posted by James Fried on Tuesday July 03 2012, 6:20 AM EST. Ref: Rueters. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Finance. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0