There are two critical definitions here that need to be filled in:
Marriage:
Sham:
And, of course, any guy who hits his male menopause midlife crisis and starts shagging the younger women on the side obviously never meant to get married in the first place and never loved his wife? Oh well, I’m sure William ( or “Willy” - how prescient is that??) probably already has a red sports convertible in the Royal Garage next to the 5 Rolls Royces.
What a strange thread.
we spell capitalization with a z around here dude not an s
True that. But he’s slipped back into the emoticon world. We’re losing him, man!
He’s dead, Jim.
Oh goody. Now he’s joined the American Spelling Police.
Fail
sigh. Three to beam up, Mr Scott. 
Are you really fucking serious? And this is the dumbest premise for a thread in a long time.
Can I be the first to throw out the inevitable “Who gives a crap?”
Thanks.
We capitalize the first word in a sentence and end it with a period around here, dude.
Lots of people sleep in separate beds, some people have really incompatible sleep habits. I know one couple where the man is a very frequent “thrasher” when he enters REM sleep, to the point he basically starts kicking/swinging his fists. Some 20 years ago when he got married I think after the first few times of accidentally slamming his fist into his wife’s head while sleeping they decided to go the separate bed route and have been happy ever since.
My grandparents I believe shared a bed for many years, but by the time I was in the picture and they were elderly, they slept in separate bedrooms. Largely due to various medical issues and sleep pattern stuff going on that just made it less than ideal to sleep in the same bed. They were High School sweethearts and happily married from the age of 18 until my grandfather’s death at 89–I really doubt the separate beds indicated they were practicing a sham marriage.
There’s little evidence that Kate/William are in a sham marriage. They met in college and actually broke up once before getting back together. It doesn’t have the trappings of a sham marriage, like Charles/Diana. If William had been a complete social failure and unable to find a normal woman to date I highly suspect his father/grandparents would have found some daughter from the nobility that was wanting to be Queen and willing to basically do an arranged style marriage (similar to Charles/Diana) so that William would have heirs. I don’t think the Royal Family would even feel the need to do it in a counterfeit way, people would not have been all that shocked if William had married in that way, so why they would fake it with Katherine makes no sense.
The old ball and chain and I had them over for cheeseburgers and chili dogs last weekend and they seemed very happy together.
So I think maybe you’re wrong.
I think British people have a general understanding of the British monarchy.
To take a serious attempt at the question, I don’t think that traditionally marriages among royals was about love. It was about strengthening alliances or acquiring territory. That may explain the mistresses among previous Princes of wales; the official marriage was one of convenience so it was understood that one might have an unofficial relationship with someone one truly loved. But marriages of convenience are not important any more, given the few monarchies that are left and that these monarchs are figureheads for the most part.
At the same time, William grew up seeing the unhappy relationship between his parents. I suspect he deliberately choose not to emulate that example.
If Kate were royalty like Phillip, or an aristocrat like Diana, then maybe the OP would have some semblance of a point. But she’s middle-class, not super-rich, and quite pretty - in other words, like Camilla, except for the pretty part. It seem like Will skipped a stage and just married his mistress first.
What an odd thread. I notice the OP used the word “scam” towards the end.
To the OP:
For the sake of argument, let’s say this was a marriage of convenience (despite the mounds of evidence to the contrary), what scam are you suggesting is being perpetrated on the good citizens of the United Kingdom?
They’re officially married and have produced progeny. In terms of what the people are looking for, that’s about it. Whether or not they’re happy or faithful to each other is incredibly irrelevant to the larger picture (cite: Prince Charles), even if it makes for great tabloid fodder.
Say, that baby bears some resemblance to Harry, now that I think of it. :dubious:
Plus, maybe they’re cool with each other having mistresses and whatever Kate’s equivalent would be? Not everyone is strict with that whole monogamy thing.
My wife and I see other people, and we certainly do not have a sham marriage. She’s my best friend, the mother of my child, and I love her more than anything. But a lawyer friend of a friend once accused us of committing tax fraud by accepting marriage benefits without being monogamous. :rolleyes:
Is the OP insinuating that if someone’s relationship is unconventional, it’s actually a devious scam of some sort? Sounds kinda like the religious right re SSM.