Neither space nor time nor intimacy. How can Kate Middleton expect anyone to understand the basic needs of her family after what she has set up? Middleton is a very intelligent and vivid woman, so she cannot seriously expect to be granted that gallantry that not even her executioners deny to the prisoners at the foot of her scaffold.
The restraint, clarity and dignity of Middleton in that plane that is so simple and British at the same time, are flowers thrown to a herd that will chew them in seconds.