Kate Middleton is just like us: she shops at TJ Maxx and eats store pizza

Kaiser usually covers the stories about the royals, but I had to step in on this one as it involves one of my favorite stores. Kate Middleton is just like us! She supposedly loves TK Maxx, the European version of TJ Maxx, and even bought a ready made pizza from the supermarket – OMG I do that too!

“Believe it or not, Kate’s favorite shop in the U.K. is TK-Max [the UK version of TJ Maxx],” the source tells Us. “She loves to shop for bargains, mixing and matching high street clothes and designer. She has a great eye for that.”

The soon-to-be princess, who will walk down the aisle April 29 at Westminster Abbey, was even spotted picking up dinner at the Waitrose supermarket on the Isle of Anglesey Tuesday.

On the menu? A ready-made margherita pizza from Pizza Express, which cost a mere £3.99 ($6.28 in American money)!

“She was happy and going about her business. No one was bothering her,” an onlooker tells Us. “Her hair was down — she looked very pretty. And, yes, she was wearing the ring. It’s big!”

“She paid in cash from her purse at the checkout and politely said ‘thank you’ to the assistant,” the onlooker adds.

Though Middleton, 29, still roams about the streets as a commoner, she certainly isn’t treated like one: the future royal was widely criticized over the weekend for donning a “racy” sheer panel dress at a friend’s wedding.

“Kate doesn’t have a stylist, so she is making her own fashion decisions at the moment,” royal watcher Katie Nicoll explained to Us.

[From US Weekly]

We have TK Maxx here in Germany finally, and it’s just like the US TJ Maxx and is clearly run by the same company. I really love how they have the same checkout format as in the US, in that you have to wait in a clearly formed line. (Which are usually sorely lacking in Germany, the nation of budgers. Don’t flame me, Germans, and maybe it’s local to Berlin but I have never seen so many unapologetic line cutters in my entire life. England does not have this problem.) The housewares section is just the same as in America in that you get nice cookware, dishes and towels along with some books that are even in English. The clothes aren’t as good as in the US, though, and that’s probably because they’re picked over and all the good stuff is taken by the time I get there. It’s hard to find discount clothing in Germany that isn’t cheaply made and I end up buying the bulk of my clothing in the US and bringing it back with me.

Anyway I also love TJ/TK Maxx and I thought this story was cute. It endears me to Kate a little, but I doubt this little outing to buy a store pizza was just an average day out for the future princess. Everything she does is orchestrated now that she’s betrothed to Wills, and they’ve taken pains to paint themselves as average people who aren’t even going to use servants. This story plays nicely into the image they’re trying to cultivate.

Also, how is this whippet thin woman eating pizza? She probably shared it with Will anyway. Be warned – your metabolism changes in your mid thirties even with exercise. I doubt that Kate will ever balloon up, though, she’ll do what it takes to stay tiny while keeping up the facade that she’s anything but privileged. That must suck, though. If you have to take the pitfalls that go along with being in the spotlight, you may as well get the perks too. (Cooks, maids, people to yell at, people to make your gourmet pizzas at home in your own stone oven.)

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