Here are some photos of Prince William out and about yesterday, doing a solo event at Kensington Memorial Park ahead of Remembrance Day (which is today). He was there to dedicate the park on behalf of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to the Centenary Fields programme. It seems like the kind of somber yet lovely event which Kate should have done with William, but she’s probably still tired from attending a movie premiere last week.

Speaking of “no one knows what the Cambridges do with their time,” it seems like William refused to attend a friend’s wedding last weekend. This is somewhat unusual in that Kate is the one who is always canceling on friends’ weddings. In the summer of 2015, the British press was almost in revolt about Kate’s utter absence not just from royal work and charity work, but also from personal engagements like friends’ weddings. She had RSVP’d to a wedding and then she didn’t even bother showing up, sending William and Pippa instead. Much was made about how Kate watches William like a hawk, and won’t let William “out of her sight.” And now this:

The Duchess of Cambridge’s absence from a string of social events last year left some friends bemused. Now they have reason to be even more bewildered, as I hear that Kate and William failed to attend the wedding last weekend of one of the Prince’s closest chums, Oliver Hicks.

Adventurer Olly, 34, tied the knot with Rose Kingscote — who works for Sir Richard Branson’s space programme, Virgin Galactic — at a ceremony in Somerset where the congregation read like a reunion of Royal Wedding guests because so many of William’s closest friends were present. Princess Charlotte’s godfathers James Meade and Thomas Van Straubenzee helped create a ‘guard of honour’ using rowing oars as the couple left the church in Kingston St Mary. ‘Court jester’ Guy Pelly and Charlie Morshead, who was once spotted taking Kate to Mahiki nightclub in London’s Mayfair, were among the other royal pals who held up oars.

‘It was a real surprise that William and Kate were not there,’ says one of those present at the ceremony on Saturday. ‘William does seem to be drifting away from his old friends.’

At the age of 23, Olly became the youngest person to row solo from America to Britain in 2005, when he was greeted by William on the quayside at Falmouth, Cornwall. Solicitor’s son Olly, a former pupil at £37,350-a-year Harrow School, met the Old Etonian Prince through a mutual friend several years earlier.

‘One of my best friends was at Eton,’ Olly said at the time. ‘He is a great friend of Willy’s. We had holidays together, things like that.’

Kate hit the headlines last year when she and William missed the wedding of the Prince’s friends, estate agent Bear Maclean and socialite Daisy Dickson, in Devon. The hosts on that occasion appeared to have been informed so late that Kate’s name was still on the seating plan at the reception, according to a wedding guest. But William turned up with his sister-in-law, Pippa Middleton. William and Kate attended dozens of weddings in the run-up to their own nuptials in 2011, but Kate went to none in the two years after the ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Royal watchers noted that William had been to at least five weddings on his own. A Kensington Palace spokesman declined to comment.

[From The Daily Mail]

On some level, I do think that William and Kate understand that if they’re going to be so thoroughly work-shy, they shouldn’t be seen socializing in lieu of working. That being said, I keep coming back to their question: WTF do they do with their time? William, by all accounts, averages one or two shifts a week at East Anglian Air Ambulance, and even then – we don’t know for sure. They just sit around Anmer Hall, not spending time with friends, not working, not being engaged with charities, not reading briefing papers, not doing much of anything.

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