Why is Kate dressing like a celebrity at a photo op lately all the while taking risque fashion moves? The answer is simple. William asked her to. He knows, just as well as any media outlet out there, that if Kate steps out of a car wearing a dress with a thigh high slit that gets more media attention than Angelina Jolie at the Oscars, then he has dominated the media and internet articles for the next week at least. When Kate steps out wearing a low cut dress with no bra on, as she has done this evening, that could easily rival Sharon Stone’s most famous movie scene, then William and Kate garuntee their pictures in every media outlet for their weekend edition.

Why would William, a supposedly respectable Duke who is 2nd in line to the throne, use his wife this way when just this week the public has been bombarded by articles of how ashamed he felt when his mother gave intimate details about her marriage, and how he was unsure about Kate only to be won by her wearing a sexy dress? That is baffling to me. For someone who is supposedly so discrete as to merit the trust of a manchild who has trust issues and feels the need to test others, she sure is taking it up a notch to ensure the media attention and spotlight is on them.

But hold on, doesn’t William have a problem with how much attention is on him and his wife? Doesn’t he claim privacy and harassment? Oh wait that goes out the window when any news media gives too much attention to Harry. Harry, on the other hand, has been in the media for exemplary reasons this week—his humanitarian award and his newly appointed patronage. In addition to the fact that most men can agree that Harry has spoiled their women with the way he carries himself—like a true royal instead of the celebrity that William pretends to be.

I suppose what I am trying to get at is the following: there are only two things that William abhors. Having the direct spotlight on him when he doesn’t want it and having his younger brother outshine him, at which point William attempts to direct the spotlight back on himself. The problem then becomes when he tries to manipulate the media and the public to satisfy his ego. The thing is, William for all his years in the spotlight has not yet learned to play the media game. Harry is learning, and has gotten quite good at it in the past year and a half or so, but still has a way to go. William, I fear, has little diplomacy and attempts to get his way through passive-agressive means of control.