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<ul><li>An app is in the works that will allow users to capture and relive their memories in <keyword id="6369781" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="virtual-reality" source="Orion">virtual reality</keyword>.</li><li>Using the virtual reality app, the recorded footage can be viewed through a VR headset, and the user can interact with the scene.</li><li>If interested, you can sign up for the beta or join the launch waiting list.</li></ul>It may resemble a plot from <keyword id="128682" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="netflix" source="Orion">Netflix</keyword>'s science fiction series <keyword id="2621395" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="black-mirror" source="Orion">Black Mirror</keyword>, but the ability to relive past moments of our lives will soon become possible using VR and new age smartphones. <a href="https://wistlabs.com">Wist labs</a> is currently developing a smartphone application that will enable users to record unforgettable experiences and upload them to a virtual reality headset, and watch it at any point in time. The technology captures the 3D information of the footage, transforming any recording into an immersive three dimensional world that users can interact with. Vivid, the VR application, is currently in its beta stage and available on iOS. It is designed to be paired with a Quest VR headset, allowing users to invite their friends to participate in their past experiences. <div type="twitter" handle="WistLabs" handlename="Wist: Immersive Memories" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1541426490759229440/nXQHd76g_normal.jpg" favoritecount="961" retweetcount="255" status="Your memories — how you remember them https://t.co/eRwIK6xYTF" createdat="1677011265000" id="1628129368760516609"></div> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Capture, save, and relive your memories" comment="subhead" text="Capture, save, and relive your memories">Capture, save, and relive your memories</cmsannotation> Similar to the plot of Black Mirror's 'The Entire History of You,' where people can access memories through an implanted device that records their every move, the VR app also allows users to access their past experiences. The technology enables them to rewind, zoom in, and examine the scenes of their daily lives. However, in Vivid's case, memories are captured through a smartphone, thanks to sensors and software with 3D capture technology. <keyword id="16652278" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="andrew-mchugh" source="Orion">Andrew McHugh</keyword>, the founder of <keyword id="16652277" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="wist" source="Orion">Wist</keyword>, revealed that the right combination of this technology could create spatial moments in time that one can step back into. To relive a memory, users must record an experience with the Vivid app, which collects the necessary information to transform 2D footage into a 3D world. The engineering and design of the app will make it as simple as capturing a video and bringing it to life. McHugh explained that the app saves colour, depth, device pose, audio, and scene information during the capture process. Depth is captured using LiDAR sensors on Pro model iPhones and iPads. The app and program are still in the early stages, and the videos produced may appear glitchy and lack certain portions of the scene. Wist aims to enhance the app's performance before its official release. Wist is in a private beta phase on iOS and Meta Quest 2. Wist plans to release a Meta Quest Pro version later this year. If interested, you can <a href="https://wistlabs.com/">sign up</a> for the beta or join the launch waiting list on the Wist: Immersive Memories website. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/scammers-are-cashing-in-with-fake-chatgpt-apps-heres-what-you-can-do-stay-safe/articleshow/98199424.cms">Scammers are cashing in with fake ChatGPT apps: Here’s what you can do stay safe</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/noninvasive-blood-glucose-testing-is-among-the-[%E2%80%A6]y-reaches-proof-of-concept-stage/articleshow/98198709.cms">Noninvasive blood glucose testing is among the new Apple Watch tech that reportedly reaches 'Proof-of Concept' stage</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The latest, and final, installment of "The Crown" is focused on Kate and William's relationship.</li><li>In the series, Kate's mother Carole Middleton is portrayed as a mastermind matchmaker. </li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-and-kate-middleton-love-story-anniversary-2017-4">Kate Middleton and Prince William's romance</a> is brought to the forefront in the final installment of Netflix's <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-crown-season-6-kate-middleton-seethrough-dress-real-life-2023-12">"The Crown."</a>Released on December 14, the episodes take viewers back to Kate and William's early courtship during their time at St Andrews University in Scotland.At times, the show takes a hard detour from reality for entertainment purposes — like the scene where a 15-year-old Kate and her mother Carole Middleton are shown having a chance encounter with Prince William and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/the-crown-season-6-princess-diana-funeral-vs-real-photos-2023-11">Princess Diana</a> on the streets of London. As Business Insider's Eve Crosbie reported, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/the-crown-season-6-accuracy-fact-check-fiction-2023-11">that never happened</a>.<div type="image" title="Kate Middleton (Meg Bellamy) and Prince William (Ed McVey) in &quot;The Crown&quot; season six, part two." height="2000" width="4000" msid="106161972" hostid="261" sizebytes="479244"></div>But a royal historian also says that's far from the only aspect of Kate and William's relationship that was invented for "The Crown."Clare McHugh, a royal historian and author of the upcoming novel <a target="_blank" href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-romanov-brides-clare-mchugh?variant=41072619814946">"The Romanov Brides,"</a> tells BI that a scene in episode seven where Kate (Meg Bellamy) confronts Carole (Eve Best) about her plan to get her daughter close to William (Ed McVey) is pure fiction.Not only that, McHugh said that Kate and Carole worked together to capture William's attention at university."What is interesting to me is that 'The Crown' did not shy away from showing Carole as insistent that Kate kept going," McHugh said. "I think the only part where they faltered was when they had Kate resisting a bit.""The two of them were as one all along," she added.<div type="image" title="Carole Middleton and Kate Middleton photographed on June 20, 2017 in Ascot, England." height="1511" width="1280" msid="106161973" hostid="261" sizebytes="166086"></div>Carole's plan is laid bare in the scene where Kate tells her mother that her relationship with another student Rupert Finch (Oli Green) is "serious.""If that's okay with you," Kate says, with a tone of irony. Carole responds by asking why it wouldn't be, to which Kate tells her: "Because you've always had your sights on someone else for me." She goes on to paint Carole as the instigator behind her ditching her original plans to study at Edinburgh University to attend St Andrews after a gap year — exactly like William.But McHugh said she is "quite sure" that "psychologically Kate did not resist.""They decided this together," McHugh, a former newspaper reporter and magazine editor, said.She also pointed to author and Vanity Fair royal correspondent Katie Nicholl's reporting on the topic as further evidence.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/film/509364/the-crown-carole-middleton-storyline-did-she-send-kate-middleton-to-meet-prince-william/">Hello! Magazine</a>, Nicholl wrote in her 2013 book, "Kate: The Future Queen" that: "It seemed every girl in America wanted to come to St. Andrews to search out the prince. Kate would have read the papers.""She would have known that William was going and that there was every chance they could be in the same program at the same time if she got a place to study there," Nicholl added.<div type="image" title="The beginnings of Kate Middleton and Prince William's romance is depicted in season six of &quot;The Crown&quot; — including their relationships with other people." height="1080" width="1440" msid="106161974" hostid="261" sizebytes="127378"></div>The theory has been bolstered in the years since by other royal authors, including Omid Scobie. According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/carole-middleton-master-plan/">Marie Claire</a>, Scobie claimed in his new book <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omid-scobie-book-endgame-reportedly-named-royals-racist-remarks-timeline-2023-12">"Endgame"</a> that Carole encouraged Kate to "turn down a spot at her dream school" after learning William was "slated" to attend St Andrews."Carole set things up, and Kate took it the rest of the way," Scobie added, painting a picture that the two were on the same page."When you read the accounts, the very good accounts by Katie Nicholl and other people, you see that Carole Middleton really urged her daughter to play the long game," McHugh said.However the relationship started, McHugh said that it doesn't detract from Kate and William's marriage nor Carole's love for her daughter.Speaking to BI, McHugh described Carole as "ambitious," and "a really devoted mother" with "a pretty keen sense of how human beings operate, especially young people."Kensington Palace did not respond to BI's request for comment. BI was unable to contact Carole Middleton for comment.

Kate Middleton didn't 'resist' her mom Carole's plans to get her close to Prince William like 'The Crown' depicts, a royal historian says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The final episodes of "The Crown" introduce viewers to Kate Middleton's mother, Carole Middleton.</li><li>It also fuels speculation Carole played a role in Kate and Prince William's early relationship. </li></ul>Fans of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-crown-season-6-kate-middleton-seethrough-dress-real-life-2023-12">"The Crown"</a> got introduced to the powerhouse that is Carole Middleton in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/the-crown-all-six-seasons-ranked-by-critics-rotten-tomatoes-2023-11">the final episodes of the series</a>.For some, the depiction isn't particularly positive. Carole (Eve Best) is made out to be the mastermind behind <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-and-kate-middleton-love-story-anniversary-2017-4">Kate and Prince William's relationship</a>. As Kate (Meg Bellamy) tells her mother in episode 7, she was the one who had her "sights" on William (Ed McVey) for her daughter."You've always loved the idea of me and William together," Kate says in the episode, before revealing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-didnt-resist-carole-plan-prince-william-royal-historian-2023-12">the extent of Carole's plan</a>. It includes suggesting that Kate give up on the idea of Edinburgh University for a gap year before attending St Andrews (the same as William) and signing up for courses in Italy and Chile (again, identical to William.) "Not for any sinister reason," Carole responds. "Do you know what I think? I think you're special."The momager-type depiction of Carole has resulted in British tabloids like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12876553/Carole-Middleton-dubbed-British-Kris-Jenner-Crown-fans-Netflix-series-showed-meddling-Kates-love-life.html">The Daily Mail</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/netflix-crown-fans-brand-carole-31699765">The Mirror</a> comparing her to another mother with successful children: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/kris-jenner-net-worth-kardashians">Kris Jenner.</a>But royal experts say that's not a bad thing.<h2>If she were in the US, Carole's success would be celebrated like Jenner's, a royal watcher says</h2>Like Jenner, Carole began her career as a flight attendant before later building a multimillion-dollar business, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/the-crown-carole-middleton-william-kate">Vanity Fair reported.</a>Carole made her fortune with a party-planning business called Party Pieces, which she launched from her kitchen table in 1987, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12176879/Carole-Middleton-deeply-upset-Party-Pieces-collapsing.html">the Daily Mail</a>. The outlet reported that it was the success of this business that helped Carole and her husband, Michael Middleton, send their three children to Marlborough College — where tuition fees were £42,930, or about $54,525 — and buy a £4.7 million, or about $5.9 million, Berkshire manor house.Carole's story is one of a woman who worked for her success, Kristen Meinzer, a royal watcher, told Business Insider."She didn't build that company on the backs of her children — she built that company," she said. "In America, we celebrate those stories.""If somebody started off working a retail job and then became the founder and president of a company worth millions of dollars, we love that in the US," Meinzer added.Meanwhile, she said, that story has been "seen as gauche" in the UK.<div type="image" title="Kate Middleton, Carole Middleton, and Pippa Middleton ahead of Kate and Prince William's wedding on April 28, 2011 in London, England." height="3000" width="2100" msid="106220567" hostid="261" sizebytes="447718"></div>According to Meinzer, the British tabloids have painted Carole as a meddlesome matchmaker since the start of Kate and William's relationship.She added that the new comparisons to Jenner just serve as proof that nothing has changed."It was very easy for a lot of the press, particularly the tabloid press, to say, 'Well, just look at Kate's mother. She's such a social climber. She refused to stay in her place, and now she's pushing her daughter to do the same thing.'""She had the audacity to try and make more money, to make better of herself, to follow her dreams, to tell her daughters to aim higher," Meinzer said.Depending on what side of the Atlantic you are on, that can make you a villain or a hero.<h2>If Carole was instrumental in Kate's relationship, that shouldn't make her a villain, a royal historian says</h2>According to Clare McHugh, a royal historian and author of the upcoming novel <a target="_blank" href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-romanov-brides-clare-mchugh?variant=41072619814946">"The Romanov Brides,"</a> it is well-documented that Carole encouraged Kate to pursue a relationship with William.But she doesn't see that as a bad thing."I think it's a tribute to modern Britain," McHugh told BI, referring to the fact that Kate was one the first people from a nonaristocratic background to join the royal family.Unlike the generations before him, William chose a partner who was outside the usual social strata, which helped the royal family come across as more modern and open.<div type="image" title="Carole Middleton and Kate Middleton photographed on June 20, 2017 in Ascot, England." height="1511" width="1280" msid="106220569" hostid="261" sizebytes="166086"></div>That's thanks to Carole, McHugh said."It took a very confident, very ambitious woman to see that there would be an opportunity for her daughter," she said, referring to Carole."It's a story of a dream that actually came true," she added. "And who doesn't dream for the best for one's children?"Ultimately, McHugh said Carole can be credited for influencing Kate and William into a successful, long-lasting marriage."It was beautifully managed by someone who is ambitious, a really devoted mother, and has a pretty keen sense of how human beings operate, especially young people," she said.And that doesn't sound too different from how others might describe Jenner.

British tabloids are comparing Carole Middleton to Kris Jenner. Royal experts say that's not a bad thing.

Exactly a week after <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-bombshells-revealed-prince-harry-meghan-markle-oprah-interview-2021-3">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey</a> catapulted the royal family into crisis in March 2021, Prince William and Kate Middleton released a photo on Mother's Day in the UK.The picture, posted to their joint <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZ0j2gF1x0/">Instagram</a> on March 14, 2021, was of a cake they said their three children made to remember Princess Diana. It was endearing and casual, far from Kate and William's typical social-media content.Fast-forward three years, and the royal family has found themselves surrounded by controversy yet again. But this time, Kate and William are at the center of it, igniting weeks of speculation with a match in the shape of a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-photo-editor-reacts-digital-manipulation-wire-removal-astonishing-2024-3">digitally altered Mother's Day photo</a>. The scandal has been breathtakingly swift, turning the once-golden Prince and Princess of Wales into joke fodder for American late-night hosts — not to mention <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-photo-drama-spurs-twitter-social-media-meme-frenzy-2024-3">all of social media</a>. The publicity has been so bad that even the British tabloids' loyalty is starting to crack.Where did it all go wrong? When Kate and William stopped acting like a united front.<h2>A comeback for the ages</h2><div type="image" title="prince william kate middleton" height="2000" width="3000" msid="108532017" hostid="261"></div>The royal family went on the charm offensive after Harry and Meghan's interview with Winfrey, and they knew Kate and William had to be on the starting lineup.As the world slowly emerged from lockdown, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-prince-williams-new-strategy-after-oprah-interview-photos-2021-6">William and Kate were suddenly everywhere</a>. They visited Westminster Abbey to mark their 10th wedding anniversary, hung out with children on a farm, launched a joint YouTube channel, played soccer with more kids, and hosted a drive-in movie night — all before June.The ensuing photos were a PR dream for the royal family: Kate with a goat! Kate laughing with a golf club! Kate holding a tarantula! Kate in sneakers!There were also plenty of snaps of the couple together, and many noticed that William and Kate were suddenly <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/public-affection-kate-middleton-prince-william-pda-photos-2019-2">more affectionate in public</a>. That May, they visited the University of St Andrews — where they first met — and an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.accessonline.com/videos/prince-william-kate-middleton-show-affection-while-returning-to-college-town-where-their-love-story-began">Access Hollywood</a> story noted that William "even affectionately put his hand on Kate's back in a tender moment we don't often see from the perfectly poised heir."It came just a month after the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-anniversary-photos-resemble-harry-meghan-markle-2021-4">couple released an anniversary portrait</a>, accompanied by a playful <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COQNwtPlLvH/">Instagram video</a> far more relaxed than their previous pictures. <h2>Taking a page from Meghan and Harry's playbook</h2><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-changed-image-after-harry-meghan-interview-2021-6">William and Kate's public appearances in 2021 were a huge PR shift</a> for the royal couple, celebrity brand management expert Eric Shiffer previously told Business Insider."They were manicured to the nth degree," he said, adding that they "played their public persona with a Buckingham Palace excellence, out of the playbook that's been mastered for centuries."Kate and William's formal and polished persona was opposite to Meghan and Harry's easygoing and affectionate demeanor, which didn't go unnoticed by the public or press. By <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meghan-markle-reveals-suicidal-thoughts-oprah-interview-2021-3">sharing their mental health struggles</a> during the Oprah interview, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex positioned themselves as the antithesis of the royal family's tight-lipped and stone-faced "never complain, never explain" mantra.<div type="image" title="Prince William, Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle, and Prince Harry visiting Sandringham in 2018." height="2269" width="3000" msid="108532019" hostid="261"></div>"Harry and Meghan successfully came off as more human, more approachable, and more affectionate with their subjects," royal commentator Kristen Meinzer recently told BI. "Meghan was doing these things that came off as her own heart's desires, rather than 'I am doing this because I have to cut another ribbon.'"Royal historian Clare McHugh previously told BI that Kate and William "really adjusted their style" after the Oprah interview."They realized if they don't, they'll be overshadowed by this couple living in California, so they have to show themselves," she said. "They have to reveal who they are more because that's the currency now. So they let the anniversary film out, and they have YouTube, and they make jokes. It's a new world."Until it wasn't.<h2>A shroud of secrecy</h2><div type="image" title="Kate Middleton at Queen Elizabeth II's funeral" height="1333" width="2000" msid="108532022" hostid="261"></div>In the weeks leading up to the Mother's Day photo fiasco, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-surgery-public-absence-what-to-know-2024-2">rumors swelled around the royal family,</a> who are underwritten by UK taxpayers and<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/true-cost-british-royal-family-2023-5"> cost about $300 million annually</a>. Kate's most recent royal appearance was on Christmas, and there have been minimal updates since Kensington Palace's announcement in January that she'd be undergoing a "planned abdominal surgery" and wouldn't resume her public duties "until after Easter."Eyebrows were raised when William released a rare solo statement in February regarding the conflict in Gaza and when he pulled out of his godfather King Constantine's memorial service "due to a personal matter" a week later.As speculation over Kate's whereabouts grew, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-absence-royal-family-what-we-know-2024-3">Kensington Palace told BI</a> on February 29 that she was "doing well" and that "we shall not be providing a running commentary or providing daily updates.""With Kate, there's been a shroud of secrecy," Meinzer told BI. "The vague language around Kate's health, William's absence from the funeral, and an update from Kensington Palace that sounds exasperated and very defensive.""It's so glaringly different from the messaging coming from Charles' office," she added. "Charles seems more human these days than William and Kate."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/king-charles-diagnosed-with-cancer-buckingham-palace-confirms-2024-2">King Charles' cancer diagnosis</a> was announced on February 5, a few weeks after Kate's hospitalization. And while the public still doesn't know exactly what type of cancer he has, nor how severe, Charles has been photographed multiple times since resuming public duties.<div type="image" title="King Charles reads get well cards following cancer diagnosis" height="1333" width="2000" msid="108532024" hostid="261"></div>"The Buckingham Palace team has been far more transparent than the Kensington Palace team," Meinzer said. "When we look at Charles' case, they were forthright about him having cancer, they did tell us he'd be having outpatient treatment, and they gave us photographic updates.""Less than a week after the announcement of his cancer, he was attending church with Camilla and waving at the camera people and his subjects," she added. "There are hundreds of witnesses to see that this is actually happening in real time while these photos are being taken."<h2>The (altered) photo seen around the world</h2>Unlike Charles, only three photos of Kate have been released since the January announcement from Kensington Palace.The first, a grainy paparazzi photo published by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/03/04/kate-middleton-seen-spotted-public-first-time-mystery-hospitalization/">TMZ</a> on March 4, showed Kate's face obscured by big sunglasses as she sat in the car with her mother, Carole Middleton. The third, published by the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13183233/Kate-leaving-Windsor-Castle-Prince-William-Westminster-Abbey.html?ico=topics_pagination_desktop">Daily Mail</a> on March 11, showed Kate in the car with William — but her face was turned away from the camera.The only recent clear photo of Kate's face was the picture she and William released on Mother's Day on March 10. The snap shows Kate smiling with the couple's three children, and the caption credits William with taking the picture this year. Within hours, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kate-middleton-photo-fake-photo-agencies-kill-notification-2024-3">announced they would no longer distribute the image</a> due to concerns it had been digitally altered. They sent kill notifications to media outlets worldwide with instructions to remove the picture from all platforms, including social media.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/kate-middleton-photo-controversy-new-details-show-photo/story?id=108123599">ABC News</a>, the Mother's Day photo was edited twice with Adobe Photoshop — once on the night of March 8 and once on the morning of March 9 — before it was released. During an appearance on <a target="_blank" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/is-seeing-still-believing/id292525828?i=1000649087388&amp;l=en-US">BBC Radio 4's "The Media Show,"</a> Phil Chetwynd, the global news director at Agence France-Presse, said Kensington Palace is no longer a trusted source."'Photogate' is a PR disaster, no matter how you look at it," royal historian Marlene Koenig told BI. "It's a major, major story, whether the fangirls like it or not. It's not about Kate being sick. It's not about Kate being a member of the royal family. It's about someone who manipulated a photograph to make it look better. Now there's definitely a lack of trust."Kate took responsibility for the photo on Monday, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1767135566645092616">writing on X</a>: "Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused."It was a move that only heightened confusion — and fuelled more rumors.<h2>Blame the princess</h2>Royal fans and pundits alike were shocked to see an explanation come from Kate rather than a joint statement by Kensington Palace."An organization of this size and this international level would normally put out a statement that does not throw one of its most esteemed members under the bus," Meinzer told BI. "I'm kind of surprised that they specifically chose to essentially hang Kate out to dry."Kate's post on X went against the PR strategy helping her and William for years. Where was the royal family's united front?But the Prince and Princess of Wales have been diverging from the tactics of their successful 2021 comeback tour for a while now. There's only a handful of photos and videos of the couple together in the past six months on their Instagram page, the most recent being <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/royal-family-holiday-cards-through-the-years">the official Christmas card</a>.<div type="image" title="The Prince and Princess of Wales 2023 family Christmas card." height="1707" width="1280" msid="108532026" hostid="261"></div>With the black-and-white color, matching outfits, and plain backdrop, it starkly contrasts the sunny, laid-back, and cheerful picture they had shared the year before. There's no denying Kate and William have reverted to the royal family's former strategy of stiff formality. It's led to increased speculation surrounding the stability of their marriage and a lack of connection to the public that's crucial to the monarchy's popularity and, in turn, its survival."I would have focused more on the realness of what Kate's going through. Not everything has to be elevated," Schiffer recently told BI. "People understand that when you're coming back from surgery, it can be difficult, and that's OK too. Part of Kate's charm has always been her ability to be fairly approachable and down to earth, so why move away dramatically from that strategy?""One thing that Kate and William should have learned from Harry and Meghan is to come across as more human," Meinzer added.It remains to be seen if the royal rota — the British tabloids that Harry said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/royal-family-complicated-relationship-british-tabloids-2021-3#:~:text=%22There's%20what's%20termed%20or%20referred,better%20press%2C%22%20Harry%20said.">have an "invisible contract" with the royal family</a> — will continue to support Kate and William. While stories with sympathetic spins have continued to run on the likes of the Daily Mail, The Mirror, and The Sun, there have also been several negative takes calling <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13191311/Kate-Middleton-Prince-William-Kensington-photo.html">Prince William "ungentlemanly"</a> or saying that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-13182845/LIZ-JONES-Palace-no-longer-trusted-think-stupid-thinking-did-Kate-write-message-ill.html">"the palace can no longer be trusted."</a>"We're starting to see some very, very loyal members of the royal rota who have always been in William and Kate's corner suddenly not 100% in their corner," Meinzer said."I'm surprised any of them are asking any questions right now," she added. "I usually expect them to be firmly in the pocket of the palace."While it's rare for the royal rota to go against the heir, or the crown for that matter, it's not unprecedented. One only needs to look at how the tabloids covered the <a target="_blank" href="https://hanfordsentinel.com/photos-looking-back-at-the-funeral-and-mourning-of-princess-diana-20-years-later/collection_a581dfc1-6958-5170-ab2c-501e5afa5216.html">Queen's response to Princess Diana's death</a>."Show us you care," one headline screamed."SPEAK TO US," another shouted.When it comes to being royal, that stiff upper-lipped silence can be your downfall.

Kate Middleton and Prince William's united front fell apart

<ul class="summary-list"><li>British writer Hilary Mantel told The Times that she believes <keyword id="12086222" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="prince-george" source="Orion">Prince George</keyword> may never be king. </li><li>The monarchy could be in danger because <keyword id="11893529" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="royals" source="Orion">royals</keyword> are now seen as "celebrities," Mantel said. </li><li>The monarchy's existence was recently questioned after Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview.</li></ul>The monarchy could be abolished within two generations, according to British writer Hilary Mantel. In an article in The Times of London, titled <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hilary-mantel-why-prince-george-wont-be-king-8lghmxbhb">"Hilary Mantel: why Prince George won't be king,"</a> the royal-historical novelist said that <keyword id="6427688" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="prince-william" source="Orion">Prince William</keyword>'s son - who is <a href="https://www.royal.uk/succession">third in the line of succession</a> - may not have the chance to inherit the throne because the royals are now seen as "celebrities.""I think it's a fair prediction, but let's say I wouldn't put money on it. It's very hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world when people are just seen as celebrities," Mantel told The Times' Bryan Appleyard. Charles, 72, is first in line to the British throne, followed by his eldest son William, 39. George, age 8, is the eldest of William and Kate Middleton's three children.While Mantel isn't an admirer of the monarchy, "she admires the devotion of Charles and the Queen," Appleyard writes."I think they do it as well as anyone possibly could, take it as seriously as anyone could," Mantel told Appleyard. <h2>This isn't the first time the monarchy's longevity has been questioned</h2>Speculation over the <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-would-happen-to-royal-family-if-britain-abolished-monarchy-2020-3">monarchy's survival</a> surfaced after <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-bbc-interview-reputation-crumbling-2019-11">Prince Andrew</a>'s involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal exit last year.More recently, the couple alleged that their son was <a href="https://www.insider.com/royal-familys-racist-discussions-about-archie-arent-surprising-2021-3">subjected to racism from within the royal household</a> during a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey back in March.Prince Charles has seen a drop in popularity in the UK after the interview - where it was revealed he stopped taking Harry's calls in 2020 - <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-charles-reputation-taken-a-hit-since-prince-harrys-interview-2021-3">Insider's Samantha Grindell previously reported.</a><a href="https://www.cityam.com/debate-should-the-monarchy-be-abolished/">Nadine Batchelor-Hunt</a>, political correspondent at Joe.co.uk, said that the royals are "becoming increasingly out of place in contemporary society" due to the family's past and present scandals. "The time has come: let's abolish the monarchy," she wrote in March. Mantel's argument that the royals are seen as "celebrities" could be a reference to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who have seemingly gone to great lengths to change their public persona in recent months.As <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-changed-image-after-harry-meghan-interview-2021-6">Insider's Anneta Konstantinides previously reported</a>, the couple's PR strategy appeared to change after Harry and Markle's Oprah interview. They launched a YouTube channel, released informal anniversary photos, and adapted their social media style to appear more current and relatable to the public."What they're doing now they've been doing since the 1840s," royal historian Clare McHugh <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-changed-image-after-harry-meghan-interview-2021-6">previously told Insider</a>. "That was a revolutionary moment in Europe when all sorts of monarchies were being overturned and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had to find a way to make the monarchy seem more appealing so that it would stick around." Buckingham Palace declined to comment when contacted by Insider.

The British monarchy could be abolished before Prince George has the chance to be king, according to British writer Hilary Mantel

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6422869" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="kate-middleton">Kate Middleton</keyword> and <keyword id="6427688" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prince-William">Prince William</keyword> were always more formal in public than <keyword id="2959098" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Meghan-Markle">Meghan Markle</keyword> and <keyword id="17995" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Prince-Harry">Prince Harry</keyword>. </li><li>But their PR strategy changed after Markle and Harry's explosive Oprah interview. </li><li>The couple have been more affectionate in public, and have changed their social-media style.</li></ul>Prince William <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOOllhlPcW/">flirting with elderly women in Edinburgh</a>. Kate Middleton letting a young girl teach her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0VeQelQr1/">how to shoot a bow and arrow</a>. The parents making <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COQNwtPlLvH/">s'mores with their three kids</a>. It's been a busy few months for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who've made dozens of public appearances as the world slowly reemerges from the pandemic. But the timing of Prince William and Middleton's recent Scotland trip, as well as their <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-launch-youtube-channel-2021-5">newly launched YouTube channel</a>, is likely no accident. The <keyword id="72980" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="royal-family">royal family</keyword> was shaken to its core in March following <a href="https://www.insider.com/biggest-bombshells-revealed-prince-harry-meghan-markle-oprah-interview-2021-3">Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's explosive Oprah Winfrey interview</a>. Now it seems Middleton and Prince William are determined to breathe new life into the monarchy, rather than just fulfill their duties.And it seems they're taking a page from Harry and Markle's playbook to do it. <h2>Prince William and Kate Middleton had always been far more formal than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle</h2><div type="image" title="kate william march 2020" height="4074" width="2000" msid="83260407" hostid="261"></div>As the future King and Queen consort of England, the Cambridges will alway have a different set of rules and expectations than Harry and Markle ever did as senior <keyword id="6418563" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Royals">royals</keyword>. But royal historian Clare McHugh told Insider that, by nature, William and Middleton are also far more cautious."Kate defines cautiousness," said McHugh, who authored the novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Most-English-Princess-Victorias-Daughter/dp/0062997602">"A Most English Princess."</a> "You can tell from the way she dresses, the way she talks.""And William is so suspicious of the media," she added. "He's really battle-scarred by childhood experiences with the press." <div type="image" title="Fab four" height="770" width="1200" msid="83260408" hostid="261"></div><keyword id="6355064" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Celebrity">Celebrity</keyword> brand management expert Eric Schiffer told Insider that, when it came to the couple's PR strategy, Middleton and William took "little risk" before the Oprah interview. "They were manicured to the nth degree," he said. "And played their public persona with a Buckingham Palace excellence, out of the playbook that's been mastered for centuries." Before the pandemic, William and Middleton rarely posted videos on their official Instagram page. If they did, it was usually a slideshow of photos or a clip played over one of the prince's formal speeches. The Cambridges were also known for <a href="https://www.insider.com/public-affection-kate-middleton-prince-william-pda-photos-2019-2">rarely showing public displays of affection toward each other</a>, believed to be in line with royal etiquette. In past official anniversary photos, there's often been an air of formality between the couple. <h2>Harry and Markle's Oprah interview put a dent in the royals' reputation </h2><div type="image" title="Harry Meghan interview 2" height="1078" width="1902" msid="83260409" hostid="261"></div>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-oprah-interview-revealed-misconceptions-2021-3">dropped a number of bombshells during the two-hour interview</a>. Markle said <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-tells-oprah-kate-middleton-made-her-cry-wedding-2021-3">Middleton made her cry</a> over bridesmaid dresses (and not the other way around, as some publications had reported), while Harry told Winfrey that <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-and-harry-oprah-interview-prince-william-on-different-paths-2021-3">he and William were "on different paths."</a>Markle and Harry also said they received no support from the royal family when <a href="https://www.insider.com/meghan-markle-reveals-suicidal-thoughts-oprah-interview-2021-3">Markle began experiencing suicidal thoughts</a>, and that some royals had "concerns" over their <a href="https://www.insider.com/royals-concerns-over-archie-skin-tone-meghan-harry-oprah-interview-2021-3">son Archie's skin color</a>. The interview was "very damaging for the monarchy," royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told Insider.<div type="image" title="Oprah Winfrey interview Meghan and Harry" height="1200" width="1600" msid="83260410" hostid="261"></div>Schiffer told Insider that the interview released a "giant smoke bomb" that impacted the royal family's reputation while boosting Markle and Harry's global image, and helped them connect "with people's humanity and their own struggles.""It created this contrast, and Harry and Meghan's PR strategy, in essence, is to be the unanointed modern-day royals of the populace. This is a populist strategy," he said. <h2>Following the interview, William and Middleton seem determined to change their public image </h2>Many were shocked when the Cambridges announced in May that they were launching a YouTube channel to share a glimpse inside royal life. The couple announced their new channel with a 30-second clip that featured upbeat music and the duke and duchess bantering with each other. A source close to the prince told <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/05/kate-william-youtube-channel">Vanity Fair</a> that William is now "more relaxed" about the press, and more willing to embrace social media. "It has been a blessing in many ways for the royals in general, because it means they are more in control of their public image than ever before," the source added. Middleton and William also released <a href="https://www.insider.com/william-kate-release-video-celebrating-10th-anniversary-2021-4">a video celebrating their 10th anniversary</a>, which showed the couple being affectionate with each other and doting on their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis as they played on the beach, climbed trees, and made s'mores over a campfire. The couple released new anniversary portraits that were far less formal than years past, too. In fact, their poses seemed partially <a href="https://www.insider.com/prince-william-kate-middleton-anniversary-photos-resemble-harry-meghan-markle-2021-4">inspired by Markle and Prince Harry's own intimate engagement photos</a> from 2017.<div type="image" title="Kate Middleton and Prince William anniversary" height="800" width="600" msid="83260411" hostid="261"></div>In one of the photographs, Middleton is seen with her elbow resting on William's leg as they hold hands. As Insider's Talia Lakritz pointed out, the pose is nearly identical to one of Markle and Harry's engagement pictures. <div type="image" title="meghan markle prince harry official engagement photo" height="1618" width="1200" msid="83260412" hostid="261"></div>These public displays of affection continued during Middleton and William's recent Scotland tour. The couple paid a visit to the University of St. Andrews - where they met - and competed against each other on a land-yachting course. One Yahoo! story noted that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/prince-william-kate-middleton-show-143000054.html">the couple were "smiling lovingly and laughing" together</a> during the course, and that William "even affectionately put his hand on Kate's back in a tender moment we don't often see from the perfectly poised heir."The Cambridges also frequently met with the public throughout their tour, hosting a <a href="https://www.insider.com/photos-kate-middleton-tartan-coat-prince-philip-land-rover-2021-5">drive-in movie night for National Health Service workers</a> at the Queen's Edinburgh palace and taking an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPNPfeMlz57/">electric race car for a spin</a>. And this time around, William and Middleton shared videos of these moments on their social-media page. Gone are the overly formal slideshows with William's speeches. Now we're seeing the duke and duchess laughing with each other and the public in their Instagram clips."It's very interesting to me that in the wake of the Oprah interview they have really adjusted their style," McHugh said. "They realized if they don't, they'll be overshadowed by this couple living in California, so they have to show themselves. They have to reveal who they are more, because that's the currency now. So they let the anniversary film out and they have YouTube and they make jokes, it's a new world."<h2>William and Middleton's current strategy is similar to what the royal family has done during past PR crises</h2>"What they're doing now they've been doing since the 1840s," McHugh said. "That was a revolutionary moment in Europe when all sorts of monarchies were being overturned and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had to find a way to make the monarchy seem more appealing so that it would stick around." "So they fought back by showing, oh no, the monarchy is just like you," she added. "They showcased their children much more than any monarch had done before, they took the families on expeditions to Scotland."Evidence of this pattern can be seen in two of the first Instagram posts that Middleton and William shared following the Oprah interview. To mark Mother's Day in the UK, the couple shared a photo of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZY0vPFTBm/">cards that their children had drawn</a> to remember Princess Diana, as well as a cake that they had baked. Two images that any family, no matter their status or income, could relate to. But Middleton and William have also taken notes from Markle and Harry.<div type="image" title="meghan harry invictus games" height="2159" width="2987" msid="83260415" hostid="261"></div>Schiffer believes that this is how Middleton and William will keep the monarchy going in the long run. "Right now, Harry and Meghan have an advantage because they're tuned in and understand the minds and hearts of Gen Z and Millenials," he said. "They're unmasking what it's like to be a royal and allowing the public to feel like you're now friends with a royal. So the challenge for Kate and William will be finding ways to connect emotionally, without losing the majesty and decorum of the Crown."

Prince William and Kate Middleton are turning on the charm after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's devastating interview

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Investigative reporter Jean Guerrero spoke with Business Insider about her new book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hatemonger-Stephen-Miller-Donald-White-Nationalist/dp/0062986716">Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda."</a></li><li>She describes Miller's style of policy-making — which includes zero tolerance border enforcement and the deliberate separation of families as "the performance of cruelty."</li><li>Guerrero also talks about how <keyword id="646841" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Stephen-Miller">Stephen Miller</keyword>'s Southern California upbringing in the 1990s was fertile ground for his radicalization into white nationalist ideas that he's been instrumental in bringing to reality as an influential advisor in the <keyword id="3798493" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump-administration">Trump administration</keyword>. </li></ul>In the new book "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hatemonger-Stephen-Miller-Donald-White-Nationalist/dp/0062986716">Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda</a>," investigative reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/jeanguerre">Jean Guerrero</a> takes a deep dive into the life and mind of Trump's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-stephen-miller-trump-speechwriter-immigration-adviser-2018-1">highly influential</a> senior advisor, widely credited (and reviled) as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-only-cares-about-immigration-not-family-2020-2">architect of the administration's immigration agenda</a>. From the "Muslim ban," to <keyword id="6638572" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="family-separation">family separation</keyword> to zero tolerance for misdemeanors at the border, the "performative cruelty" — as Guerrero calls it — has Stephen Miller's fingerprints all over it. Guerrero spoke with Business Insider Columnist <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/anthony-l-fisher">Anthony L. Fisher</a> about how Miller was radicalized at a young age (and how he has radicalized other young people), how he couches his disdain for the poor while posturing as a champion for the working class, and how the white nationalist agenda has been laundered through the Trump administration's policies. This <keyword id="28970" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="interview">interview</keyword> has been edited for length and clarity.<div type="image" title="stephen miller" height="1000" width="2000" msid="77466464" hostid="261"></div>Fisher: What inspired you to write about Stephen Miller?Guerrero: I was covering the family separation crisis [in 2018]. I was interviewing parents whose children had been taken away from them after presenting legally at ports of entry and asking for asylum. People with no criminal record and people who had not crossed illegally. And I was listening to the [Department of Homeland Security] Kirsten Nielsen at the time and Trump and just various people in DC saying that family separation [and] zero tolerance policy was about law and order and about national security and that they were only separating people who broke the law. I was on the ground and I knew that that wasn't the case. They were also separating families who had broken no laws. For me that raised the question, if this isn't about national security, then what is it about?That's what led me to turn to Stephen Miller and trying to understand the man who is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-convinced-trump-enact-zero-tolerance-policy-2018-6">crafting these policies</a>. And then when I realized Stephen Miller had <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-stephen-miller-trump-speechwriter-immigration-adviser-2018-1">grown up in Southern California</a> during the same time period that I grew up here during the nineties, when there was a lot of <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-california-politics-20141123-story.html">anti-immigrant hostility</a> and unprecedented attacks on <a href="https://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-california-bilingual-education-state-ballot-measure.html">bilingual education</a> and affirmative action and social services for children of the undocumented. I felt I could bring a unique perspective as someone who had also grown up in that environment. And then learning that Stephen Miller is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephen-miller-immigration-hardliner-is-the-descendent-of-refugees-2018-6">the descendant of [Jewish] refugees</a>. I just really became fascinated with his story and trying to understand — how does someone who's descended from refugees, a Jewish-American, become the person crafting Trump's rhetoric and policies, targeting people fleeing violence and persecution, like his great grandparents?<h2>"A case study in indoctrination"</h2>Fisher: What do you make of Miller and other Jewish Trump allies pushing stuff that has such obvious roots in <keyword id="3833174" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-nationalism">white nationalism</keyword> and antisemitism?Guerrero: It's a case study in radicalization. One of the principal figures who helped <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/stephen-miller-david-horowitz-mentor-389933">indoctrinate Stephen Miller in this ideology</a>, David Horowitz, is also a Jewish-American man. When I look at the through-line of what white supremacists are saying and what David Horowitz taught Stephen Miller to believe, it's this idea that the United States currently faces existential threats. For David Horowitz, [it's] this idea that liberals pose an existential threat to America because of their allyship with Muslims and other people who, according to Horowitz, want to bring America down. And for Miller, it's manifested in the idea that immigrants pose a threat as does the entire Democratic Party because of their allyship with immigrants.Stephen Miller is a case study in indoctrination. It's what happens when someone is exposed to this idea that they faced an existential threat during a very difficult period in their lives. Stephen Miller starts being exposed to these ideas during a period of difficulty in his own family. His father was tangled up in various legal disputes and bankruptcies and ended up losing a lot of money. And the family has to move to a slightly less-affluent part of town.Miller at the time was looking for somebody to blame. From my conversations with his classmates and his family members, Miller was trying to find an explanation for the difficulties that he was experiencing as a young man. And he chose immigrants in the same way that the state had sort of scapegoated immigrants for all of the state's fiscal problems at the time.Fisher: The neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist">said he basically loves everything</a> that Stephen Miller does on immigration. It seems like word of that must have gotten back to Miller. Do you think he's aware of that and bothered by that in any way?Guerrero: I'm sure he's aware of it. I think it bothers him to the extent that people more explicitly start to associate Stephen Miller with white nationalism and white supremacy, which he likes to say is a heinous and libelous accusation. At the end of the day, when you look at what Stephen Miller is doing with the rhetoric that we see out of Trump, and then the policies — he's been laundering white nationalist policy goals and talking points through the language of heritage and through the language of economics and the language of national security. I don't think he's been doing it accidentally or without awareness of what he's doing. I mean, he's been reading white supremacist literature and websites for years, possibly as far back as 2002, when he was still in high school, when his mentor David Horowitz exposed him to American Renaissance, the white supremacist website.Stephen Miller understands, as do many people who advocate for white nationalist policies, if you sell it as being about race or about skin color, it's not very palatable to people in the mainstream. But if you launder these ideas through the language of America's prosperity and America's safety, then you can see a lot of support around it.<h2>Laundering white nationalist goals through Trump's immigration policies</h2>Fisher: In your book, there's an exchange where Horowitz is telling the white nationalist Jared Taylor in 2002 that the multiculturalists have won and we are all prisoners of identity <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> now. What did he mean by that?Guerrero: That was to paint himself as being colorblind. He pushes back against any accusation that he is a white nationalist or that he's racist, insisting that he's colorblind and that the right path for America is a colorblind framework. But when you examine a lot of the things that David Horowitz says, it's very much steeped in race and skin color. He talks about how the greatest threat facing America today is — I mean, he's always sort of changing what the threat is — but he talks about how anti-white racism is the biggest social problem in America today. And that Black people are racist too, because they think white people are racist. So this idea that he is colorblind is just a way of deliberately, intelligently trying to sell this as something other than being about race or skin color. I think that's how he was able to appeal to someone like Stephen Miller, who at a young age expressed hostility in a very laser-focused way towards people of color, telling his classmates to speak English and going to school board meetings to argue against racial equity and telling his classmates to go back to their countries.But at the same time he didn't want to be seen as a racist. David Horowitz gave him a framework in which to validate his hostility towards these people while being able to tell himself that he wasn't racist. And I think (conservative radio host) Larry Elder, the Black man who insists that systemic racism is no longer a problem except if you're talking about anti-white racism [was a mentor]. <div type="image" title="stephen miller with steve bannon" height="1054" width="1405" msid="77466468" hostid="261"></div>Fisher: Another one of his mentors was Steve Bannon, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-wanted-trump-to-sign-travel-ban-when-it-would-cause-chaos-2018-1">who openly said the institution</a> of the so-called Muslim ban, without any warning, was a provocation to rile up the "snowflakes" and make them "riot." This was using policy and people's lives to try to create unrest for political optical purposes. What part did Stephen Miller have in that?Guerrero: From the time [Miller] entered the White House, he was finding ways to bypass hierarchies and find ways around regular operating procedure. And as strategic as Stephen Miller is, he has that weakness of being involved in writing executive orders that have repeatedly been challenged in the courts and had many problems with them. But it goes back to what Bannon said about wanting to trigger the snowflakes. I don't think Stephen Miller is that bothered by his executive orders being tangled up in the courts, because it simply provides another way for him to dial up the base because he can point to what he calls "left-wing activist judges: and just, just rally people around demonization and around these wedge issues.So even when something gets stopped, like family separation, it had its intended effect at least for a time. But when you look at his policies, they disproportionately affect people of color and people who've broken no laws — with the exception in some cases the misdemeanor of illegal entry. People told me again and again that in his policies, the one through-line is cruelty for cruelty's sake. I see it more as the performance of cruelty.<h2>Kicking the poor</h2>Fisher: He's also shown a real hostility to the poor and people in professions that he deems beneath his station. He'd go out of his way to be a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/15/stephen-millers-cringeworthy-campaign-speech-for-student-government/">rude slob to the janitors</a> at his school, and make them wait on him hand and foot. How does that tie into the rest of his philosophy?Guerrero: It's rooted in elitism and a sense of superiority and entitlement that I believe is the root of his hate-mongering. We were initially thinking about calling this book "Fearmonger," but I was really thinking about how fear is an emotion that's rooted in a sense of vulnerability, and it makes you want to run or hide or escape, whereas hate is an emotion that is rooted in a sense of superiority and a sense of entitlement. It doesn't make you want to run, it makes you want to harm.And that explains everything from Stephen Miller throwing his trash on the floor as a teenager, to the rhetoric that he inserts into Trump's speeches, to his performatively cruel policies — from systematically separating families at the border to systematically turning away anyone fleeing violence at the US-Mexico border.One of the interesting things about Stephen Miller, despite his very apparent contempt for the poor which he hasn't tried to hide, is he's able to paint the people that he worked for as champions for the poor and really convey this idea that he cares about the marginalized. [That] Trump is a champion for the poor, and Democrats or moderate Republicans who are pushing for immigration reform are actually part of a donor class looking to decimate America through the limitless importation of cheap labor through mass migration.When in reality, if you look at the reform that they were pushing for, it was a lot more nuanced and would have actually legitimized some of the immigrant workforce, and would have required a more fair wage. support for us. But he's able to invert these arguments and then deflect in an extremely effective way.Fisher: Speaking of deflecting arguments, I found this nugget in your book interesting: Trump so enjoys watching Stephen Miller argue that he has set up debates in the Oval Office between Miller and other opponents for his own amusement. Guerrero: Stephen Miller, from the time he was a teenager had been on talk radio and very experienced with debating people and talking over people. It's one of the reasons Trump loves Miller, the killer instincts that Trump really appreciates. Miller is the only advisor Trump has who consistently pushes him in the harshest direction. And it's something that Trump really appreciates.Whenever he has an advisor who pushes him in a more moderate direction, he ends up getting pummeled by his base as weak. And weakness is one of the criticisms that Trump can't stand. Miller and Trump really have in common this idea of what it means to be a man and what it means to have power and to flex it.<h2>A cycle of radicalization</h2>Fisher: I want to talk a little bit about [former Breitbart editor] <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/politics/katie-mchugh-stephen-miller/index.html">Katie McHugh</a>. She says Stephen Miller radicalized her into white nationalism. You spoke with her for the book, how does she say this happened?Guerrero: The radicalization of Stephen Miller kind of mirrors the radicalization of Katie McHugh, except in Katie's case, Stephen was the one doing the radicalization.Katie tells me he was constantly sending her articles that highlighted the crimes of people of color, and that made people of color seem like they were more innately violent than white people, and that they posed a very serious, essential threat to America. [Miller was] pumping her at all hours of the day that America was in danger of being destroyed or overrun by the third world. What's interesting to me is it very much mirrors the rhetoric that Stephen Miller was exposed to as a young man when white people became a minority in California in the nineties. There was a lot of white fear and white resentment and this white backlash against people of color, but it was really centered around this idea that California was going to turn into a third world state as a result of whites becoming a minority.Because of the mentors that Stephen Miller had and the white supremacist content that he was being exposed to, he also at a very young age came to believe that the third world was coming to America. Very early on, he was exposed to misleading Black and brown crime statistics through [the white nationalist website] American Renaissance. One of the things that Katie McHugh said was most radicalizing for her was looking at those stats, because American Renaissance really sells itself as a serious intellectual publication. And so for young or impressionable people who don't know better, they really believe that these statistics are solid.When you look at the immigration policies that Miller is implementing in the Trump administration, they are all taken from these think tanks that were propped up by a eugenicist named John Tanton who believed in population control for people of color and believed in race-based pseudoscience about the genetic superiority of whites. For him, helping to create these think tanks was really about making white supremacy palatable to the mainstream. And Stephen Miller turned their policy goals into a reality under the Trump administration. 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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Natalie Behring</div></div></div>Goldman Sachs has promoted 425 people to managing director."Our new Managing Directors represent the best of our firm's dedication to excellence, leadership and client service, and we wish them continued success in their careers," Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.It's a big deal to be named a managing director. The title is just one step below "partner," which is one of the most highly-coveted titles in investment banking. The next class of MDs won't be selected until 2017. In 2013, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-managing-director-selection-2013-3">Goldman changed its managing director selection process</a> from every year to every two years. That year, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-managing-director-class-2013-11">280 people</a> made the cut.The following individuals have been promoted:Catherine Addona-Peña Alokik Advani Sam Agnew Daniel Ahern Murtaza Ahmed Fusae Akamatsu Phil Almond Ana Alonso Roy Appelman Juliano Arruda Alex Ashwal Daniel Avery Misty Bailey Tom Barkes Jose Barreto Sushil Bathija Gregoire Baudot Olivier Belaich Sharon Bell Allison Beller Christine Benson Schwartzstein Sam Berberian Todd Berger Sandy Bernhardt Greg Berube Shashi Bhushan (Bengaluru) Lyla Bibi Julie Billings Alexander Blanchard Tristan Blood Katherine Bloom Alexander Blostein John Blythe Andrea Bonini Vijay Borkar Jean-Pierre Boudrias Dyson Bowditch Rhett Brewer Sean Brewer Cameron Brien Tyler Brooke Marios Broustas Melissa Brown Jacob Buitelaar Jason Burgess Manuel Camacho Tim Campbell Eliot Camplisson Susana Cao Miranda Nicholas Chan Sorubh Chandani Amy Chang Dennis Chang Scott Chastain Scott Chen (IBD) Yu Chikami Vikram Chima Sung Cho Caroline Chu Simon Clarke Ray Clifford Jorge Combe William Connolly Ron Cortina Daniela Costa Yasmine Coupal Patricia Creedon Brian Culang Michelle Daly Ranga Dattatreya Christopher Daur Brian DeCenzo Alexis Deladerriere Robert Devens Devanshu Dhyani Scott Dias Johanna Diaz Simon Dickinson Andrew DiMaria Darren Dixon Terence Donnelly Christopher Droege Lindsay Drucker Mann Frank Drury Caroline Dunne Steven Edwards (Internal Audit) Jeffrey Egee Naoko Ehara Inna Elyashkevich Jason English Andrew Erekson Joris Esch Ana Estrada Cristina Estrada Owain Evans Julia Feldman Jing Feng Albert Ferng Val Feygin Dan Fishman Dennis Fleck Terence Flynn Ian Foster (IBD) Kelly Galanis Ilya Gaysinskiy Libardo Gerardino Said Ghusayni Michael Gillott Arvind Giridhar Mark Glotfelty Chloe Goddard Lakshya Goel Peter Goertzen Andres Gonzalez Clara Gonzalez-Martin Claire Goodeve Anton Gorshkov Simon Gosling Jessica Binder Graham Michael Graham (Securities) Glenn Greilsamer Fabrizio Grena Alain Griveau Pierre-Yves Guerber Renaud Guidée Renu Gupta Christoph Haenschel Simon Hale Jay Handfield Deirdre Harding Nada Hassan Frances Hawkins Tobias Heilmaier Christoph Heuer Kenneth Ho Luke Hodges Jennie Holloway Matthew Hostasa Henry Howell Soomin Hu Victor Hu Andrew Huang Lee Hughes Michael Hui Shinichiro Ichiki George Ingram Francesca Innocenti Karen Ip Yuichiro Isayama Shubha Iyer Kristy Jago Matt Jahansouz Lear Janiv Jessica Janowitz Franklin Jarman Jabe Jerram Lei Jin Moritz Jobke Charles Johnston Ganesh Jois Katherine Jollon Colsher John Jonke Shrut Kalra Emiko Kamoda Markus Kant Yugandhar Karna Lotfi Karoui Vanya Kasanof Ting Ke Kyle Kendall Richard Kendrick Corey Kenyon Anthony Kim Seong Eun Kim Sean Kingston Teresa Kingswood David Kirschner Michael Klym Jared Klyman Andrew Knight Timur Kocaoglu Kevin Kochar Christina Kopec David Korpi Caroline Kraus Jennifer Krevitt Ajay Kumar Raj Kumar Kosuke Kurosawa Marc Kurz Takashi Kuwano Loredana La Pace Phil Labbe Marco Laicini Vidya Lakshmi Lia Larson Kinger Lau Max Layton Jerome Lebuchoux Andrew Lee (GIR) David Lee (IMD) Jay Hyun Lee (MBD) Jerry Lee Shane Lee Valerie Leeder Panayiotis Lemonidis Joe Lenehan Daniel Levy Yael Levy Olga Lewis Christina Sun Li Chuan Li James Li Edmund Lim Stephen Little David Liu Daniel Lochner Michael Loetzsch Donald Lu Rochelle Lucas Matthias Ludemann Christopher Lvoff Andrew Lyons Kristen Macleod Manju Madhavan Lynn Magnus Thomas Malafronte Sajith Maliakel Rakesh Manani Elizabeth Mann Jim Mannoia John Manzi Jia Mao Guillaume Marinacce Jeremie Marrache Matthew Mason Gaurav Mathur Yuji Matsumoto Tom McAndrew Scott McHugh Andrew McIlroy Jenny Meng Shahmil Merchant Joann Mercurio Maryline Mertz Marco Messeri Hideo Michiba Jared Miller Stacey Miller Elizabeth Milonopoulos Pascal Mischler Pooja Mishra Prahlad Doretta Mistras Matthew Mizrahi Hillel Moerman Soren Moller-Rasmussen Fausto Monacelli Q Montazeri Leonie Morel Owen Morris Daniel Motta Ricardo Mourao Christian Mueller-Glissmann Niladri Mukhopadhyay Mathieu Munuera Francis Murphy Thomas Murray Charles Myers Harsh Nanda Asad Naqvi Ryan Nash David Naulty Toh Ne Win Shapour Neshatfar Billy Newport Anya Newton Katrina Niehaus Christos Nifadopoulos Ryan Nolan Brian Nordahl Steven Nowak Matthew O'Callaghan John Olivo Oscar Ostlund Marco Paesotto Kanak Palanisamy Sundaram Pandiarajan Mrudang Pandya Francesco Paolicelli Dhaval Parekh Keyur Parekh Akash Patel Himin Patel Jatin Patel Cristina Patron Nicholas Peach Agostina Pechi Xi Pei Shlomit Perry Joseph Persky Carlos Prieto Ricardo Puggina Tim Quandt Stephanie Rader Emilie Railhac Amit Raje Sudarshan Ramakrishnan Akila Raman Vishaal Rana Robert Rancitelli Zeeshan Razzaqui Paolo Re David Reis Kevin Relihan Ben Reuter Matt Rhodes Clare Richards Brian Richardson Richard Rivero Duane Robinson Fabiano Romeiro Agustin Romo Calvo Karen Rossi Matias Rotella Anne Russ C. 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