Earlier this week, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince William was being sent to Italy for Pope Francis’s funeral, which is being held on Saturday. Some people remarked that the funeral meant that William was being forced to “go back to work” before his spring break was over. The man had done nothing but “go on vacation” and “go to two football matches” in a full month. I guess someone pointed that out to William, that his first work event in a month would be the pope’s funeral, so he agreed to step out in South London on Thursday. Bam, his first work event since March 27 (those football matches do not count).
William visited the Mentivity community center and “youth hub.” The center has mentoring programs, youth clubs and programs to help kids. Most of the photos from the event featured William playing video games with some kids, and as you can see, he really got into it. He also sat down with the founders and some community leaders. All in all, a nice photo-op which will hopefully raise the profile of Mentivity. I hope they get some money out of this, you know? I say this all the time on the rare times that William and Kate do these kinds of events – this is exactly what they should be doing. Highlighting actual youth centers and bringing attention to people who are working on the ground with young people.
I’m curious to see how much attention William will get tomorrow at Francis’s funeral. There will be so many VIPs in Rome and Vatican City, and several kings and queens will be in attendance too. I’m just saying, I think King Felipe and Queen Letizia will get more attention, but we’ll see.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- The Prince of Wales plays a computer game during a visit to the Mentivity community centre and youth hub in Southwark, south London, which helps young people by ensuring they have access to high-quality youth services and safe spaces. The organisation, founded in 2016, engages over 400 local young people weekly through mentoring programmes, school outreach and youth clubs. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 24 Apr 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales plays a computer game during a visit to the Mentivity community centre and youth hub in Southwark, south London, which helps young people by ensuring they have access to high-quality youth services and safe spaces. The organisation, founded in 2016, engages over 400 local young people weekly through mentoring programmes, school outreach and youth clubs. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 24 Apr 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales plays a computer game during a visit to the Mentivity community centre and youth hub in Southwark, south London, which helps young people by ensuring they have access to high-quality youth services and safe spaces. The organisation, founded in 2016, engages over 400 local young people weekly through mentoring programmes, school outreach and youth clubs. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 24 Apr 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales poses for a picture during a visit to the Mentivity community centre and youth hub in Southwark, south London, which helps young people by ensuring they have access to high-quality youth services and safe spaces. The organisation, founded in 2016, engages over 400 local young people weekly through mentoring programmes, school outreach and youth clubs. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 24 Apr 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales plays a computer game during a visit to the Mentivity community centre and youth hub in Southwark, south London, which helps young people by ensuring they have access to high-quality youth services and safe spaces. The organisation, founded in 2016, engages over 400 local young people weekly through mentoring programmes, school outreach and youth clubs. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 24 Apr 2025 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
William looks rather scary. I thought William did not like to be hugged according to those recent articles.
It’s very scary! Who is in charge of his efforts to emote via facial expression? Because we are veering to an extreme now that is alarming to look at and someone needs to pull him back from the ledge.
LMAO!!!
He looks like he shouldn’t be allowed to be near children because there is a risk that he could make them cry by being a scary bully.
This! I thought the same 😊
He’s copying Harry with the hugs, so now he makes sure to get an occasional picture of him hugging someone. Bonus points if they’re a POC.
Is there an Aston Villa match this weekend? Another twofer? 2 for 1?
Aston Villa is playing tomorrow in the FA cup semis against Crystal Palace, but its at CP so not sure William will attend.
(wait never mind as I’m typing that….hes at the funeral tomorrow. no AV game for him. Wonder if this was scheduled though bc he did plan to attend and then had to change plans?)
Well is he going to the funeral VS a footy match? He has no one to tell H what to do. He’s his own ‘man”
You know he’d be happier at the AV match. Don’t know what he’d do at the funeral really. It will be so boring for him.
Oh wow. I bet he was wishing Edward and Sophie were sent to the funeral instead but even then it would’ve looked bad if he went to the game during the funeral so either way the pope’s death messed with his FB schedule.
I really hope that Crystal Palace wins because if Aston Villa goes to the finale William is going to be even more insufferable.
On a somewhat different subject, the English women rugby team is doing really well in the 6 Nations tournament and are off course being completely ignored by the royal family. These people are so predictable.
I don’t believe William went to yesterday’s engagement because he needed to do something before going to the Pope’s funeral. I think he did it because the Sussexes had events this week (they were announced last week). He is competing with the Sussexes, mainly Harry.
Bingo! This is absolutely why he had to pull another “very much not a racist family” gig and pose for photos with Black folks. Because people have been talking about Bulliam in reference to Meghan what with the Archewell project against cyberbullying that was unveiled this week…
BRF, both palaces, are so hair trigger reactionary. Every courtier working for them has a fidget spinner for a moral compass.
The problem with William is he doesn’t get front pages so him doing engagements like these get almost no attention for the charity. William is not going to get much attention at the Pope’s funeral tomorrow but the British press is going to be bleating about him being a global statesman.
Exactly. These events don’t matter if he doesn’t get coverage. How can you highlight an initiative when nobody knows that you did anything? Meg’s instagram reel about their work with the Parents network has over a million views. While thoughtful, William’s work with Mentivity will go nowhere because nobody knows what he’s doing.
How does he always manage to look so feral? I think he would benefit from some cosmetic orthodontic work, maybe something to even expand his palate.
He has already had a lot of work done on his front teeth. He wore braces as a child to straighten his teeth.
Ugh. Once again using black people for PROPS!
🤡🤡🤡
Look at me hugging a black woman!
Ikr?!? She’s hugging him. He looks like he’s facing a firing squad.
Exactly what went through my mind…
Yeah, first thing that came to mind. He’s been gone a whole month apart from two football matches. Youth centers need to be highlighted of course but interesting to see he went to one mostly serving black youth. Maybe he was hoping this could compete with Meghan’s Time 100 speech. She’s been everywhere lately with the Netflix show, As Ever launch, and podcast and the Waleses simply can’t compete with the amount of vacations they go on.
Yep. It’s shameful.
Omg! Wth is that? I mean he was with poc but he looks like a psycho! Is he OK?
🤣
Yeah, I hope the center gets attention and money. The kids look like they’re having fun playing video games. That’s all I got.
You’re right, he should really be doing more of this sort of thing. Mentivity have a great set-up and have secured some big company sponsors too. They have plans to expand. All PW has to do is show up at projects like this – it’s probably only a couple of hours out of his day. So easy, right? An easy win for him. And yet somehow he gives the absolute bare minimum.
Did go under the condition that they would play video games with him? And yes once again using people of color for his photo ops.
Yep, human props. I’m starting to think KP puts out casting calls for people of color to engage with him before these events.
And what the pictures don’t show is him beating the kids at the video games (because I’m sure he practices hours each day) then pumping his fist in the air and yelling “YES!! I RULE!!! YOU LOSE!” with spittle flying out the sides of his mouth.
Harry and Marghan were meeting with the families of children lost to social media bullying in NYC. Doing truly meaningful work — so it makes sense that Willy was out and about using Black bodies for attention and to gain imaginary points.
The way William tokenises black people disgusts me.
Must do my photo-op to show I’m not very much a racist!!
Very much not a racist family … :). Look at all the grinning faces
Funny though that with Lazy they don’t smile.
Those beautiful black children would be smiling regardless of who was there because they are playing video games in a community created for them. The sad black woman willing to be his token black person of the day, is unfortunately like too many who care more for being accepted and seen by those who oppress them. William has never cared to hug people of color who don’t help him improve his image, if he did, hugging people of color or anyone else wouldn’t have been a weapon the UK media used against Meghan when she was there. You can’t tell me that you have a conniption about your future SIL hugging you in private but suddenly in your forties you become a public social butterfly hugging black people every chance you get. It’s all PR.
Don’t have a clue as to what’s happening behind these scenes before he’s making public appearances, whatever it is, it’s having a negative effect on this man.
He seems very animated (forced) whenever he’s engaged with an activity that requires him to look interested or aggressive if his competitive nature is brought into play during the encounter.
I honestly don’t think he’ll be able to cope with being monarch until the hidden issues are addressed and, even then, there’s going to be extensive coercion to make him do the daily work required in order to fulfill the constitutional duties of the monarch i.e. red boxes with government documents etc.
William’s got all the allure of a wet fart in an elevator.
It’s another obvious use of POC for good PR. It’s conveniently always POC who are used to show how suddenly hugging people in public is no longer going against royal protocol. The black woman looking at the camera he brought to this event instead of at the camera that is directly in front of them shows that she is happy to appease someone who is an obvious racist towards the only people of color in his family. Their own UK media protected him when he made those racist remarks about black and brown countries being the only ones known for war and war being a foreign concept for countries that aren’t black or brown countries. He’s the one that thought he had the right to criticize the number of children people in Africa have while his wife was pregnant with their third tax payer funded child. Those children would be smiling and happy regardless of him going there or not because he never brings anything to the table. He’s the ultimate in a colonizer descendent because even though he has shown who he really is, those who are too consumed with being accepted will fall in line to those who look down to them.
To me he always looks like a donkey in full bray mode. You know hee-haw, hee-haw.
You said it 😂
What did a donkey ever do to you?
Poor donkey 😂
Gawd, he is so gross. Trying to be Harry again. I feel nauseous.
I saw the thumbnail and I saw the headline. Somehow I STILL wasn’t ready for multiple photos of William using black kids as props. The future king.
I shouldn’t complain, our president uses props and lies like there’s no tomorrow.
Hopefully we can rectify our presidential situation in 3.5 years then spend generations undoing all his evil.
The UK is stuck with him until he dies. He will do the bare minimum for maximum payment and benefits and probably pass this lack of work ethic and compassion onto his poor kids.
When Diana commented in Panorama about Charles and his ability to adapt to being King she got it wrong. It’s actually William. The author Tina Brown suspects Charles only has two to three years due to his illness…..can you imagine how bad it’ll be when William would rather fly to Mustique than perform the most basic Kingly duties.
Diana thought William would adapt at the time of the interview. She would be horrified at the way he turned out
He did call her paranoid
Reminds me of Edward viii when he took that summer cruise with Wallis and their friends. And he was king will would have many resort vacations
I can’t stand the use of black people to improve their image
by these royal racists. They treat these people like props for rent. It makes me want to vomit.
Before Meghan I thought that RF actually did something for others, for the organization, and these were ONLY show sessions based on a fixed script, which one of the “experts” inadvertently revealed, wanting to criticize HM’s visit to Nigeria.
“Red carpet, greeting dignitaries, meeting black children, invalids, hospital visits – this is a permanent look for the royal family. How dare THEY (HM) do this…”
I was shocked because I realized that every seemingly caring gesture is planned and directed, and is ONLY aimed at the image of the royals.
In fact, after watching the video of Karol and his sons posing for a photo in the mountains, deciding where, who will lay their hands on whom, whether he should rest his head on his father’s shoulder, and doing a few rehearsals, I shouldn’t be so surprised by this statement, but still…
Good for him for doing royal work for youth. More of this, please.
Clearly FK is only going to do STATUTORY duties that he has to perform not optional like hosting extended family at Xmas/ Easter/ Summer at Balmoral. He will continue to ignore wife/tenants/ charity work but he’ll be okaying Knauf reputational hits of his brother. He can’t be sacked so he is going to continue to coast. I suspect tabs will continue to cover for him until he becomes king and up until the Coronation. Once he’s been anointed and is expected to deliver after spending 18 months planning his Coronation then the tabs will expose him as lack lustre especially if he lets the nation down on a global stage as he inevitably will.