TIME Magazine's Person of the Year for 2011 is The Protester. Perhaps more surprisingly, Kate Middleton is one of only four runners-up.
TIME writer Catherine Mayer says:
As a role model, Kate may prove no Diana. But that's not necessarily a bad thing, for Kate or for the young women tempted to emulate her. Reinvesting celebrity with restraint, preserving silence in a confessional age, making a marriage work, making a royal marriage work — these would be the actions of a true revolutionary.