Readers may not be aware that a branch of the Goths ended up in Spain. The Goths were a Germanic people who originated in southern Sweden, left for warmer climes around 200 A.D., stopped off in the Ukraine for a while, then swept across Europe from East to West. Oh how I share Scott Murphree-Roberts' irritation over pronouns and diminishing personal stocks of bejeebers. Others, like my daughter and her friends, see no problem with the usage. The answer is so simple, I really can't see a difficulty.
Every issue is a treat.
We like your solution. Leaving Kate out of the equation simplifies matters greatly. She wouldn't have appreciated the circus, anyway. So more than one way to skin a cat means more than one way to trick the public out of their money. We admit that this might sound plausible but we'll need historical references before we buy that one.