What did Kate Middleton do wrong this weekend?

Remember when you gave birth to your second child and were made stand in front of the world’s media, smile graciously and attempt to ignore the discomfort you undoubtedly felt following the childbirth you experienced mere hours before?

Yeah, me neither.

And that’s not just because I’m not a member of the Royal family, but it’s also because I didn’t give myself a chance to conceive again after the agonising experience I went through delivering my first and only child.

For weeks after I gave birth to Ella, I could barely look people in the eye I felt so traumatised by what I had endured, so the thought of standing on the front steps of the hospital, cradling my daughter while blinking in paparazzi lightbulbs makes my blood run cold.

But while I felt sympathy for Kate Middleton as she stood on the steps of St. Mary’s Hospital last weekend, it seems many felt irked by the Duchess’s poise and composure.

How dare she look like she’s spent the morning enjoying a leisurely brunch instead of enduring childbirth?

Who does she think she is wearing a light-coloured dress? Doesn’t she know the possibly embarrassing implications such a choice may have?

Why weren’t her eyes bloodshot, her hair standing on end and her legs crossed at the knee as she attempted to ignore post-birth discomfort?

What a cheek.

By the sounds of things, many members of the public wanted to see Kate wheeled out on a gurney, quietly weeping in a cheap hospital gown while Will trailed behind her awkwardly carrying his newborn daughter, like a real family.

Well, here’s the thing, they’re not a real family- they’re a royal family and Kate doesn’t get that option.

I’m sure the young mum-of-two would have happily stayed in her dressing gown, doted over her daughter and ate toast had she been given half the chance, but she wasn’t, so she did what anyone in that situation would do.

She made the best of herself and did a damn good job of it too.

She smiled, she waved and she behaved accordingly during a momentous moment in British history.

It is her job, after all- just check out her daughter’s birth cert.