See Prince William belt out the Welsh national anthem at rugby match https://t.co/lEfc1LTSCg pic.twitter.com/hKTKgpwFhn
— People Magazine (@people) February 27, 2016
Last night, Prince William completed his third royal-work event of 2016. Yes, we’re at the end of February and William has completed all of three events. Plus, he’s done maybe 12 shifts at the EAAA, about 100 hours or 12 days of work. So… yeah, no one knows what he does with all of his free time. But here we are, at a point where the British press falls over themselves to talk about William being hard at work… by attending a rugby game. William is vice royal patron of the Welsh Rugby Union and patron of the Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust, which is how he gets to go to a rugby game and count it as work.
William apparently sang the Welsh national anthem, watched the fame and then attended a reception for injured players and their families. Kate was not there – last year, there was talk of Kate fighting against being a “rugby widow” and trying to learn more about the game to support her husband. I guess she’s given that up. Or, you know, she was just home with the kids or whatever. William went on the record saying many words about rugby, but it’s all in one ear and out the other for me. He also managed to slip in some words about his children, saying:
“No broken bones yet, but they’re trying. Running around, pushing things, jumping. Please tell me it gets easier… Charlotte is very easy, very sweet, but all the fathers say, ‘Just you wait, when you get to 9, 10, 11, they go crazy.’ I’m looking forward to it, there will be some drama.”
To be fair, how did you expect Will and Kate to organize a pap stroll with George and Charlotte in tow just to make this month’s work-shy kerfuffle blow over? That kind of effective baby-shilling takes time, so William just had to go with mentioning his daughter by name in public. I’m surprised he didn’t “accidentally” refer to his daughter as “Charlotte Elizabeth DIANA.”
Speaking of Diana, if you noticed a significant uptick in Diana-mentions at the tailend of the week, it was because the geniuses in Will and Kate’s press office decided to “confirm” that Will and Kate will be visiting the Taj Mahal during their April trip to India. If this doesn’t sound like news, it’s because it’s not. We already knew/suspected/theorized that they would be going to the Taj Mahal, because it’s their first state visit to India and of course they’ll visit the Taj Mahal. But it was “confirmed” by Will and Kate’s press office on Friday, and so the British papers dutifully trotted out the old photos of Diana sitting alone in front of the Taj Mahal, looking forlorn and lonely. I guess the point of the press office pushing the story is that people are supposed to say “at least Diana’s son ended up in a happy marriage.” But… did he?
Prince William travels to Wales; meets injured former rugby players & sings national anthem. https://t.co/KmzD0HUvyl pic.twitter.com/ZFIX8YlHw5
— Duchess News Files (@Duchess_Files) February 26, 2016
Photos courtesy of Getty, Twitter.
He always seems to be scowling and looks miserable no matter what he’s doing, like Ben Affleck.
I was just thinking that ! the whole thing reminds me of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. I can’t decide whether Jennifer was a doormat or not. I think maybe she stayed in it as long as she could and then the humiliation was just too much. She doesn’t sound like she even wants out now.
But yeah, Wills receives no criticism from anyone and certainly not his wife. That much is clear. Something is amiss.
Part of the whole Monarchy nonsense is the fact that princess Anne ” supports” Scottish rugby, this bloke ” supports” Wales, and CB fave Harry” supports” England. Utter BS.
Why is it BS to support another country’s team? When Australia’s not directly competing against them, I support teams other than ours. I go to cricket games between other countries and cheer one of the teams on. Why not?
It’s especially fitting that William supports Wales, considering he is the son of the Prince of Wales. It’s not like it was Wales v England, they were playing France.
They are all from the south of England, with only frequent holidays at mummy’s other residences in Celtic land. The whole supporting thing has obviously been divvied up, perhaps they drew straws. patronising claptrap. Prince Charles also has Scottish titles BTW.
For some reason I couldn’t edit the above for IT reasons so… Charles titles include Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland. So 21st century. And I think that they probably played rock paper sissors to decide on the support.
Well, it’s patronising in the sense that everything about the BRF is patronising, so I agree with Anne on that score. On the other hand, we are saddled with them and there are four nations in the Union, therefore you can’t have one member state more equal than the other in terms of royal support, so I also agree with Goodnight. WHAT ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND? The only ones who have it right! They buggered off to make an all-Ireland rugby affair with the republic. HERESY!
Look at it this way, Anne: EVERYTHING is better than #cleanforthequeen!
That’s true Sixer, don’t get me started on that…
So does William’s singing (anthem) count as another engagement?
I would guess if William’s already looking forward to the drama from his children, then he’s grown bored of Kate. He probably wishes he was married to Carole.
Ha! I’m sure the Carole thing has been dissected here countless times, but I wouldn’t doubt he was looking for a mother when he married into that family. And careful what you wish for with the kid drama, Billy! I’m interested to see how kids raised by his generation are gonna turn out.
Poor boy he must be exhausted.
Well it’s pretty much March.March is the third month .This is the third event, so that’s one event a month.Damn what do you people want ? ! He is doing an average of one event a month.
#sarcasm
In 2013 he had his first engagement in MARCH. That’s how commited he is.
That counts as 10 days of work since it’s weekend.
He suddenly looks bold. I don’t know why I never noticed it before..
The UK press have been valiantly photoshopping hair on him for years but it appears they’ve now given up.
They photoshopped his hair??? I did not know that. Wow.
Maybe while they’re over in India they’ll apologise on behalf of their family/government for how we basically ruined their country by making it part of the British empire and saying we helped them…. Or alternatively not. I wonder..
In the same PEOPLE link above, it reports that he took the helicopter to Cardiff for this rugby game. Because either he’s too busy to take any other form of transportation, tone deaf to the mini-scandal, or does he just wants to stick two fingers up in the air at the taxpayers?
Poor William. He can’t do what normal people do, like attend rugby games. Oh wait. He can! And on top of that he gets primo seats, gets to meet many of the important people in that sports, gets thanked for showing up, gets his picture in the papers as if he’s a hero, gets paid millions of pounds per year, and that’s only his third official work event of the year, not including the maybe 12 days he ‘worked’ as a co-pilot.
Same PEOPLE link has him saying about his EAAA job, ‘The medical side, I get involved in it, it’s fascinating.’
Um. He’s a co-pilot, whom a source said he’s ‘bored out of his skull,’ because his job is mostly to fly in with the pilot, then wait around for however long, then fly out with the pilot again. How is he involved in the medical side? He’s like a glorified and unnecessary seat-filler of basically a taxi service with no more medical involvement in his job than a useless joy-rider would have. Where has it been said that he gets out to administer to whomever they’re picking up in a medical emergency?
The (formerly sugar) press have labelled him as the Saviour of the Monarchy, so surely he can save plebs!
Yeah, he’s a Prince of Britain so of course he’s a superman and can do anything!
Instead of a cape, he has a helicopter.
iDr: Hand me that bandage will you?
iPW: Fascinating! By the way, I’m leaving now. Here’s my other copter.
Liberty 😀
Maybe aside from fueling the helicopter, his duties also include applying band aids/plasters to patients to help the EMTs?
@ Cricket
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Right on.
First of all, his new hair style does nothing for him, while I symphatise with him because of his balding, I think he truly looks aweful. Sorry Kate!
I have just read an article in the Telegraph, which is basically the worst kind of article I have read recently. The writer tries to justify his behaviour by his mother’s death. Saying he has the right to do what he wants. Seriously?
Also I love sports but he attented a rugby match as royal work, but fail to show up at the Bafta where he is a royal patron, whatever? Wow.
Of course throwing the name of the kids in any conversation will end up on front pages, so I really look forward to the spring edition of George and Charlotte pics.
It has been two decades. Time for this almost 34 year old to deal with life, as many other people who lose parents young have to do.
Waiting to see if this gets through. Yesterday none of my later comments posted on the site.
If the Telegraph writer thinks William is that damaged, then she should advocating his stepping aside in the line of succession. After nearly 20 years of still choosing not to get his act together as a grown man, then that’s a set pattern, not an extended learning period.
agreed and well said….how long does he get to be this lazy lad!
Don’t worry Kate didn’t marry him for his looks. Lol
@Anne_000 – From what I have learned about mental health from Kate he can’t be damaged. He was not poor and had good parents so it is impossible he is mentally ill. /s
The irony of those two being spokespeople for mental health. It is truly the blind leading the blind.
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Lindsay.. LOL! that comment made me giggle out loud about learning from Kate..
It seems to me that William is in a perpetual state of arrested development and everyone around him lets him be and just coddles him.
In regards to choosing Rugby over the BAFTAs one would think that William would be able to relate more to actors than Rugby players with all his pretending to be normal, etc..
@ Lindsay
😀
Oh that Bryony Gordon article was awful. The commenters rightly called her on it.
Wow, he is seriously rocking the unattractive potato head look there.
He is not aging well.
Oh god exactly a potato head.
My first thought too! Now his ugly outside matches his inside.
HRH Prince Potato Head!
I feel sad for C. The child has a dad talking her up as “ladylike”*groans* and his group of sugars who do strange Photoshop. Also, the sugars and the sugar press clearly want her to be Diana 3.0(her mother is already 2.0 who’s being said to be deserving of a Nobel*I’m not making this up*). I honestly wonder how someone can discern a baby’s personality.
I see you visit Duchess Kate Blog too. Someone there suggested KATE should get a Nobel Peace Prize.:-)) No joke she/he did!
The Duchess Kate blog will only post positive comments – and/or the sugar fans will pile on anyone with opposing opinions.
I second your second part of the sentence. But I can’t agree with the first. She does publish – comments, believe me, there are loadsss of them.
Perhaps I should have said that she doesn’t publish my comments which wax on the philosophical downfall of the monarchy, because of being top dog and champion of the 1%-ers…
Someone said she should get the Nobel Peace Prize? hahaha
She’s doing so right now, wolfie, and she also agreed with Richard Palmer publicly.
The fans will pile on, though. Just like there are pile ons here when someone goes against the grain.
I must have been permanently banned – but I know that you are appreciated over there, bluhare. You have a lighthearted way of making your point… Occasionally (when I’m in a bad mood) I post anonymously – but it’s never put in print!
Oh The Duchess Kate Blog will remove any negative comments and then make sure that you cannot post again. I speak from experience and all I did was to give some facts. These people are very very delusional.
That is not true, Tanya. I’ve posted there for a long time, have posted negative comments and Charlotte publishes them all. Now, if you posted something about Waity and DoLittle that might not make the cut. She doesn’t do name calling.
Bluhare
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I might be talking about a different Blog Bluehare, I meant the Duchess of Cambridge News and Style files. They don’t like anything remotely negative. I will have to check out this other blog. This is what happens when I post early in the morning before my glasses are on!
Tanya
I meant hrhduchesskate.blogspot, I am sure Bluhare did too.
I have never seen that one, Tanya. Don’t think I will either. It’s probably like From Berkshire to Buckingham which doesn’t allow critical comments about Kate at all. I don’t read that one either. I was talking about HRHDuchessKate, the one that Charlotte runs.
Don’t get me wrong; Charlotte does moderate and if you post a critical comment you’ll get piled on by the ardent fans. They don’t like me and Anett, although I think they like her better than me. She’s nicer. 🙂
What are you talking about Bluhare? You are the fairest person whom I had the good luck to meet and chat. You also put your thoughts eloquently and I truly adore you for that!!! But it is true that Kate’s ardent fans don’t appreciate any negative comments which is totally, utterly RIDICULOUS!:-)
Thank you, Anett. I might be fair (and I do try to be) but I think you’re nicer. I get mad at some of those people.
I don’t like sport, except for rugby, and wish going to a game could be counted as work for me, too. These two were going to save the Royal Family, or at least spark them up for the new millennium, but they are just a pair of bludgers. Someone needs to give them a proper kick up the arse, figuratively or literally.
And here we have it – word of the week: “bludgers”. Brilliant! I must work that into a sentence this evening, as I watch the rugby….
Agree with previous posts about how unattractive William is looking. Didn’t he used to be a “heart-throb”?
I looked it up. “Bludger” is beyond perfect to describe the pair of them.
Barnacle applies, too! Latches on, feeds off its host, and doesn’t let go lol
I only knew the word ‘bludger’ from Quiddich, I didn’t know it was a real word!
I love learning new words from Celebitchy WK posts 🙂 … favorites being Faff, Slag, WAG, Parvenu and now Bludger! YEAH!!! my vocab just increases daily!! Thanks for sharing everyone!!
My faves were gobsmacked, (so many uses) learning what an ice lolly is and finally learning to pronounce treacle.
Gobsmacked is a great word! Other favorites of mine are nincompoop, ninnyhammer and numbskull.
Let’s not forget that classic, wanker. Although that’s practically common usage now. Bloody nodcocks, all of them! 🙂
I’m Scottish so we have quite a few lovely turn of phrases. My favourite is ‘bawbag’ (a Glaswegian term) aka the male scrotum.
Since his own family won’t, Parliament should. It should start taking away more money from the BRF and giving them less. That’s the way to hurt them. Maybe it should take back BP too, since the BRF refuses to take proper care of it and instead giving the renovation fund to W&K for their KP apartments. Even with BP having to close off one of its dining rooms because the ceiling was in danger of caving in, the BRF keep coddling W&K with more and more money but with less accountability for them and for its own self.
The CBS Evening News had a story last Wednesday stating that the servants at BP were being asked to take a cut in pay of 5,000 pounds. This newscast is national for the US, yet I haven’t seen any British tabs about this. Perhaps this looks bad for Will and Kate who are spending like they need to show us that they are “royal”. Everyone is accountable – except these two!
@ wolfie
That’s a shame that they’re cutting BP servants’ salaries. I heard that they already don’t make as much money as they could elsewhere but stay in the job for the distinction of working there. And that what they already get is very low.
£5,000 is like one copter ride for W&K to events occurring so far and few in between and for such short periods of visits that there’s plenty of time to arrive and leave on less inexpensive forms of travel on the same day of or including arriving a day ahead, since they don’t seem to have anything better to do with their time.
Agreed. The BRF is starting to look really sketchy.
Not quite the servants. It’s the employees of Historic Royal Palaces at KP, not BP, and the staff are kinda the equivalent of museum staff or something like that. They want to reduce hours and also reduce the London weighting (salary bump). To be fair, nowt to do with Normal Bill and the Billettes.
Not that this makes it any better, but y’know.
By the way, ladies, remember #cleanforthequeen? It’s reared its ugly head again today, with a couple of politicians wearing the t-shirts or something. I recommend the hashtag today – it is HILARIOUS. Safe to say, it hasn’t gone down well!
It does have something to do with W&K. Historic Royal Palaces are the ones who had completed their revamp, had their new larger exhibit space, and were then kicked out of Apartment 1A so the lazy duo could live there. Their ability to have exhibits and bring in money was directly impacted by these two in the last few years.
I found a link to the NBC news – it is so surprising when these kinds of facts about Will and Kate make the news in America! They even mention Will’s lack of effort –
http://www.today.com/video/will-and-kate-s-kensington-palace-staff-threaten-to-strike-628987971790
Does a family pap stroll really involve a lot of planning? After I pull my butt out of bed this am, we’re doing a family stroll to Starbucks …me, bf, the pup, in stylish jeans and sneakers. The pup perfectly coifed and leashed. If the paps want in on that, they’re more than welcome to snap a few pics of us.
Also they don’t do pap strolls really, especially with how piss Willnot gets with the press over pictures taken during their “private time.” If they do anything it will be Cannot took this amazing picture of her children and loved it so much she had to share it with her fans and supporters. She will copywriter it and generously share it with the newspapers. That is how they roll. You can’t control the final image of a pap stroll or make them Photoshop it.
@bettyrose I will alert the media. Don’t forget to put on your best pouty face 😀
😉 or rather 🙁
LOL……….be sure to have on a stupid looking hat and some beat up suede court shoes!
Bettyrose, I believe the so called pap shots of G and now C with the nanny are really call ins from Granny Carole to pay for the next family holiday.. They seem to coincide with the Midds family holidays.
He looks so bad in that picture.
What’s he supposed to do about his hair? Personally I think he has a very handsome face. He has a serious personality but I think in private one would see a different William. My niece worked at his best friends stables and met him a couple of times. She said he was very downt to earth and nice.
Maggie, I love you. But even you can’t think that a lantern jaw, a sulky expression, and a cotton fluff balding head come together and make a heart throb. You really would need some magic royal dust for that.
William was a cute young man. Alas, he’s gotten more jowly, and the way he’s balding is accentuating it, not helping it.
I think Harry’s also starting to get more jowly, and also losing his hair. But as Harry has the more attractive personality, those aren’t necessarily the first things you notice.
Take the title away from him and no one would give him a second look. Normal Bill the Accountant or Bill the Data systems manager or Bill the Pizza Delivery Guy would actually look kinda creepy and Kate/Carole wouldn’t have married him.
Handsome he is not. Probably most of it is attributed to his personality, though.
Amazing how much more attractive a person is perceived to be when they come with a royal title. Exhibition A: William AND Kate.
Lol! I have to agree. That photo is not his best.
It doesn’t help that he’s usually seen in stuffy and serious looking suits, too. That makes someone look older, too.
Prince Will’s left jaw looks swollen
Willy has now got a face like Scott Eastwood – smug and punchable. As for the Telegraph piece i read that as passive aggressive snark thats basically outting him as an manipulative twat who IS using his mothers death to get away with being a spoiled mega douche.
I really hope the press keep up the game of ‘ Where’s Willy?’ – its quite fun.
Actually this should count as 3 evets:
1) He sang the Welsh national anthem
2) He watched the WHOLE game
3) Met with some plebs afterwards
As of right now, it isn’t in the CC. Another way to try to fool us? Keeping the numbers hidden and saying later, “Not everything W&K do has appeared in the CC. They’ve done SO much more than people think”?
It might appear in tomorrows CC – i would be surprised if it doesn’t. Something’s brewing either way and its only a matter of time until we find out what.
Well, he travelled by helicopter so it must be official, right?
Can’t they do something different with his hair? Combined with the heavy jaw, he’s starting to look a bit pin-headed. And it isn’t a flattering look at all. I’m sure he could look better than this with a little effort!