The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s big summer event takes place this week. The King’s Cup regatta race was supposed to take place on Friday on the Isle of Wight, but as the date fast approaches, someone at Kensington Palace looked at the weather report and saw that their big fancy boat race was about to be rained out. So they switched the date!
Due to adverse weather conditions forecasted for Friday in Cowes, The King’s Cup hosted by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will now take place on Thursday 8th August at 1400hrs. pic.twitter.com/zxhDtwjLMq
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) August 7, 2019
Pushing it ahead a day? What is this witchcraft? My guess is that the Isle of Wight was supposed to get rain starting on Friday and going throughout the weekend, but Thursday probably looks bright and sunny. The must have the ideal conditions for their big keen event!
Keeping on brand, the Cambridges launched this event three months ago and there’s been periodic reminders of how keen the Cambridges are to do this one event. King’s Cup is basically the only thing on their schedule between Wimbledon and their fall schedule. William and Kate still plan to individually skipper two of the sailboats in the eight-boat regatta race. The King’s Cup has been dormant for years – there was last a King’s Cup race in 1920. So, it’s historical, but modernized by the Cambridges. They actually hope this will become one of their new “things.” Also: the King’s Cup trophy looks so much like the Wimbledon men’s trophy, right?
Members of the public are invited to watch the race and prize giving ceremony from the SailGP Race Village, which will be free to access and includes a 500-seater grandstand ⛵🏁
Find out more about The King's Cup: https://t.co/zDzAZCnLDb
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) August 7, 2019
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
If the weather forecast is that bad, then pushing it up a day (if logistically possible, which it seems like it is) makes sense.
I want to see Bear Grylls, lol.
I agree – I know that it is fashionable here to interpret absolutely everything they do in the worst possible light but it is a bit odd to be so negative about a decision that was taken on safety grounds. As I understand it Will and Kate will be skippering a couple of the racing yachts. Can you imagine the fall out if anything happened and the organisers had knowingly sent out inexperienced skippers in bad weather?
This event is a charity fundraiser so it makes sense to maximize the numbers that will attend. One of the charities is the Air Ambulance Service so it makes more sense to raise money rather than be forced to utilize their service – especially when the UK emergency services are pretty stretched after previous bad weather/flooding emergencies.
It’s also completely standard for any sailing race to keep a close eye on weather forecasts and adjust the schedule as necessary, with plenty of contingency plans. Mother Nature doesn’t mess around.
Nice that everyones schedules are free enough to more it a day.
My thought, too.
Meh, they’re trying.
Yep, they are. They should be doing tons more, but here’s one bigger thing.
Well they should stop trying and do – they’ve been trying for 8 years, time to just DO IT!
It’s time they do something, they’re trying since 2011.
When will the bar ever get off the floor?
It won’t!
Apparently never, lol.
Heads Together FA collaboration seems like a big deal, no?
They are cancelling a whole music festival in Newquay due to bad weather so things are looking bad.
Rain is also forecast for Thursday but it the conditions are too severe boats just can’t race.
Makes sense to move it, no?
The actual Regatta at Cowes starts on the 10th to 17th August so pushing it back isn’t an option. Bringing it forward is the only option they have.
Ignorant me had no idea this would be the starter event for Cowes Week. Our son is already there, he’s one of our club’s crew members. I’ve just appointed him the keenest spy of all, which he didn’t like, but he’s looking forward to it anyway. He can go places the public can’t, just because of his being a part of the subsequent regatta!
Cool! I hope you report back interesting tidbits!
What a life – sit in a front row box at Wimbledon, yacht races where dates are flexible for your convenience.
And to think there are people defending this schedule and calling it hard work. They are glorified socialites. The younger royals love doing the big and flashy events: red carpets, sport matches, tours, etc. The older royals do way more engagements in smaller communities. Prince Charles, Camilla, and Princess Anne have been working nonstop with hardly any press. I think the royal reporters do a disservice to the public by not reporting on the older royals and just focusing on gossip about the “Fab Four”.
Princess Anne has been known to race at Cowes – was that work?
I mean moving it due to weather seems pretty sensible.
There’s a yellow weather warning all week so it would be total madness to not change the date. Not sure why this is a thing?
I was thinking the same thing. Outdoor UK sporting events usually have a contingency plan for terrible and unpredictable weather even in the summer. Changing the date would be part of that contingency plan. Everybody involved in the planning of this event would have know this would be a possibility from the very beginning. So i’m not sure why it’s a ‘thing’ either.
Wouldn’t the alternative to rescheduling be canceling? So…it’s not canceled.
I mean, its not a “thing” in that people are criticizing the change. It’s a “thing” in that its an update to this event.
There are comments from people snarking about how lucky that their schedules are so free that they could just change this. It’s definitely been changed due to public safety so I just dont know any commenters would even bother being snarky, do the cambridges annoy them that much that the great British summer weather is their fault too?
Everything is the Cambridges’ fault for many on here!!!
What’s wrong with being snarky?
I have to reschedule a ton of things over and over and over.
It’s nice that William and Kate dont have that issue but it shoes how out of touch they are from middle class reality.
My August resolution is to stop snarking on Kate. So while I wish she’d work more, I wanna see more of her and I wanna see more jewelry on her. <3
The best way not to snark on Cathy Cambridge is to convince yourself that she is being controlled and held back by Bill. That’s what I did.
I could not figure her out! Being controlled by Bill was the only plausible reason I could come up with for her reluctance to get involve and perform her job properly.
@BTB, I don’t know. I hear ya about not being able to figure her out and maybe it’s control. I think it’s a mix of: 1) don’t upset Will (drilled into her head to keep him) 2) she really doesn’t care about doing good and is just interested in sitting around living the posh life. Problem is she is a Princess of the United Kingdom and needs to earn her keep. 3) there are times where I think maybe Ma Middleton has put so much pressure on her, she feels that she is carrying the family and all their hopes so she lays low so not to rock the boat and cause problems.
BUT, She certainly showed justo and a desire to come out on top when chasing after William. And put forth energy into clubbing and yachting. So I don’t have much sympathy for her.
I’m not going to snark per se, but I think she just doesn’t want to do anything.
Not going to lie, I would love to just sit around like her, and day drink nonstop. But sadly you don’t get to do that in her position (well, not as much as I’d like). It’s a job, one she needs to do.
I’m hoping she’ll do more.
I wonder if George will be as lazy as his parents. If so they I dont see the British monarchy lasting.
Or if Charlotte will take after Anne.
And if Louis becomes like Andrew.
It’s good to see The Cambridges taking part in a non elitist and non snobbish event like a sailing regatta.
I guess it’s no different to Harry playing that non elitist, non snobbish and accessible sport called Polo to raise money for his chosen charities so why not?
Sure, but Harry gets called out for that. And Meghan gets called out for Vogue. etc. That’s the point Jane is making.
The ONLY time I have seen Harry being called out for that was when this Regatta was announced and people were calling it elitist and the Cambridge’s tone-deaf etc..while forgetting Harry’s preferred sport for raising money for charity these days is also an elitist sport lol. Prior to that there was next to nothing.
Oh I saw a good deal of snark on twitter about it (for Harry), which was funny (from the big Cambridge fans, so it was funny because they seemed to be overlooking that William plays polo too?)
Its mostly Harry these days. Harry has definitely played more than William in the last 2-3 years.
Harry just got called out for getting a pedicure so let’s not pretend the media is ignoring what he does.
As opposed to Harry attending the oh so open and not at all elite Google Camp?
Lol. Celebrities attached to this? I hope we get 20 think pieces about how elitist this is.
It’s just so Hollywood and unroyal.
The RRs will be tying themselves in knots explaining how Kate is so royal and elegant and queen-like for recruiting celebrities.
Disappointed not to see Ben Ainslie. I want Kate to enjoy doing these things so she does it more.
Good idea. Little ones need encouragement, and make sure she gets a cookie when the race is over. (maybe Ben is her cookie:)
WHAT? No, Sir Ben? That is my whole raison d’etre for wanting to see pictures from this race.
I love the Duchess Kate and Sir Ben pics. She nearly swoons in his presence.
I bet she wishes he were her side piece–show dear Wills he’s not the only one who can get a little somethin’ somethin’ extra.
Weather happens and everyone will have prepared for that possibility with contingency plans. Better to move it than cancel it.
I do wonder though whether hearing about one event a hundred times makes the general public who may not be paying attention think they’re doing more than they are. (See also, garden).
Heads Together? FA collaboration? No? Mental health not important enough to cover? What William is doing with FA is ground breaking.
I agree, I haven’t seen anything on here about the the male mental health programme William was a part of a few months back called A Royal Team Talk. Groundbreaking stuff indeed and from the comments that i’ve seen on social media they were very positive.
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK. It’s an appalling statistic so i’m glad that William is using the popularity of football, and his role as President of The FA , to encourage men to talk about their mental health.
Similar to the America’s cup which is an extremely elitist sport sponsored by oracle, bmw and such, they hope the Kings cup will raise lots of money for their charities and raise their profile higher than Harry’s fundraising abilities with Sentebale and Invictus. Thank God Meghan came along or else these lazy two would never have done this. They never had plans to hit the ground running but now they are.
Every event they attend isn’t always a competition between the two couples – Cowes Week has been going on for over 100 years, long before Meghan was a twinkle in her great-great-grandfather’s eyes,
and has always had strong associations with the Royal Family
Oh but it is to the lazy Bill. Hence his extremely jealous and competitive nature. Exhibit one is the smear campaign.
Evidence or opinion?
Kate looks very pretty in these pictures.
I’ll leave you guys to the rest lol
Eager to see how the Daily Mail will blame the adverse weather on Meghan.
Haha
This is seriously a story?
They look like a fun couple when they do the sporting events when they compete against each other so sure there will be great pics tomorrow.
Mental health is a huge topic and I like this this hosting discussions approach giving the floor to experts in the field. Whilst their talks on mental health sometimes make me cringe, I will give props to the Cambridges and Harry for helping to lead the charge in discussing mental health more openly and sensitively in the UK in recent years.
With the Royal Team Talk wish they had touched on racist abuse at football grounds on the program. There’s been high profile racial abuse incidents at football matches recently& could have been opportunity to highlight the toll that takes on a players mental health. But I appreciate limited time for such a heavy topic so perhaps one for another day
@Rogue
“With the Royal Team Talk wish they had touched on racist abuse at football grounds on the program. There’s been high profile racial abuse incidents at football matches recently& could have been opportunity to highlight the toll that takes on a players mental health. ”
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They did. Thierry Henry spoke about how the racist abuse affected his mental health and a think a couple of other players who were part of the discussion also touched on it as well.
@ChunkyLa did they?I rarely sit still all the way through a show so may have missed it. Happy to stand corrected. I think it’s still on iPlayer so may check out Henry’s etc comments
She looks so tiny in these pictures. She’s always been skinny but man she’s tiny now.
Kate has been super skinny between pregnancies.