The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were scheduled to appear together at the Tusk Trust’s Tusk Conservation Awards last night. Kate ended up pulling out of the appearance a few hours ahead of time though, which is curious for all kinds of reasons. While Kate isn’t usually a guest at Tusk Trust events, she has attended a few events in the past (once in 2018, once in 2013, a premiere on behalf of the trust in 2012). My point is that more often than not, William does attend Tusk Trust events by himself. He’s been involved with the charity since 2005. So it’s not completely weird that William attended last night’s event alone. The weirdness is about why Kate pulled out so suddenly.
Interestingly enough, Jecca Craig is also quite involved with elephant programs (her family lives in Kenya) and she’s worked with Tusk Trust in the past. There’s no reporting that Jecca was there last night. We don’t even know when William last saw Jecca – was it in 2016, when he went to Kenya solo to attend Jecca’s wedding, and he missed Charlotte’s first Easter? Or was it last year, when he had that “solo trip” to Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia? There have been rumors about Jecca for so long, I have no idea. Plus, we’ve been focusing so much on Rose Hanbury this year, it’s hard to keep up with all of William’s alleged sidepieces. My point here was that it’s probably pretty unlikely that Kate canceled on this appearance because of a fear of running into Jecca Craig. I don’t think that’s it.
People are still being tight-lipped and weird about Kate’s cancellation though. The official word on People Mag was that Kate pulled out “due to the children.” The Daily Mail had that excuse as well, but their source also said that “It is not believed the issue is to do with the health of the children and Kate did join William in meeting the finalists this afternoon.” Then there was this excuse from a Daily Mail reporter:
The Duchess of Cambridge pulled out of tonight's Tusk Awards because the couple couldn't find a babysitter, according to event sources
— Claire Ellicott (@ClaireEllicott1) November 21, 2019
The Cambridges literally have one live-in nanny (Nanny Maria) that we know about, and probably two or three other helpers/child-wrangler types on staff. Plus, Carole Middleton always wants to look after the kids! Plus Pippa is in that terribly rich mansion with her husband! Kate wants us to buy that she is but a mere peasant who could not find a babysitter with weeks of notice?
So, obviously, everyone thinks Kate is pregnant again. She usually only cancels appearances when she’s in the first trimester of a pregnancy and barfing her guts out. And I always said that Kate would go for a fourth! And if she’s pregnant and she announces it soon, then she gets a Get Out of Sandringham Jail Free card and she doesn’t have to do some chummy photo op with sleazy Prince Andrew. She can go to Bucklebury and gestate in peace and all of the tabloids will praise her for it. So yeah, she’s probably preg. Oh, and she’ll have an excuse as to why she’s not launching her Early Years initiative too! All roads lead to PREG.
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The babysitter excuse was so bad. SO BAD. It would have been better to have said that one of the children wasn’t feeling so hot, even if that wasn’t true, or that Kate herself wasn’t feeling well, or something. They have nannies, staff, family nearby – and they had plenty of notice for this. No one believes the babysitter excuse. It feels like a really pathetic attempt to show how “normal” they are.
I’m not sure if she’s pregnant but something is up.
If she had used the excuse that she was not feeling well the pregnancy rumors would have exploded greater than they are now. Best with young kiddos is to say one of them is not feeling well. Or not give any excuse at all since this was not an event she regularly attended.
First of all, this stuff is known well in advance. This wasn’t a last minute event. But then to say that she couldn’t find a babysitter like ordinary people is just paper tissue thin ridiculous as an excuse. So, let’s see . . . Carole, Mike, James, Pippa, Pippa’s husband, Nanny Maria, Kate’s so called friends or staff members weren’t available? That’s so incredibly hard to believe. What is believable is that Kate refused to go all in for a Jecca related event. She could have expressed that last minute or it was known earlier that morning that she was going to attend. Or perhaps her hairstylist wasn’t available or her stylist. Those are more believable and likely than is the excuse of a babysitter. Their communications person is so crappy.
It would have had to be Louis who ‘wasn’t feeling well’ or someone would have noticed the ‘ill’ child was at school.
Yep. Then the headlines would have read “doting mom, Kate, picks up sick children from school”.
hmmm, Kate actually was at the event in the afternoon when the finalists where presented and she didn’t look pregant at all. There are tons of pics on Insta.
So her cancelling last minute really is a bit weird…
Wow. 4 kids. That’s so odd these days. Not many women want to put their bodies through that anymore.
4 is more common among the aristos. Because they can afford the time for pregnancy and the financial cost of educating them.
Just not reliable babysitters.
Indeed. I’ve noticed that among the upper middle class in the US, a one-income home with a 4+ kids is a silently assumed status sign.
@Mumbles – yup. In my area/general circle, the third child is often referred to as the “status child” because it means you can afford it, and even more so with a fourth or fifth.
I can attest to this ‘status mindset’ in the area we live too. 5 kids for some families and it is expensiiiiive.
I’m one of 6 and thats because Irish catholics are crazy. We didn’t have a lot growing up so I laughed when kid at my school (way back in the day) said wow your parents must be rich to have such a big family… just, No.
On the flip side, it makes them (people at my little one’s school of the aforementioned mindset) look at us one-child peeps as if we stopped coz we couldn’t afford any more. Not the case; my uterus just gave up.
I agree Darla! 4 is way too many in this day and age, especially for a family who is supposed to be a role model for the british. And idiot William has the audacity to lecture the world about popluaton control, like it doesn’t apply to him. Carbon footprints hurt mother nature no matter who they belong to, but the rich are the worst becuae they waste more.
There are financial limits now starting with child #3, which came into effect when W&K were expecting their third. That was part of the big blow-up along with his racist comments about the population in African nations.
@paleana, Are not social benefits in the UK limited to two children except in the case of rape or the second pregnancy resulting in twins?
@Bay – I believe due to public outcry the gov dropped it so am not sure it was ever implemented.
Third+ child policy still in place, with some changes (multiple births, some adoptions, non-parental caregivers of many children). Children born before 6 April 2017 vs. after.
There may not be laws around it like in China, but the UK government is definitely trying to dictate how many children people have via financial policies.
Well that makes me sad, particularly as a child cannot control how many kids the parents can have. I hate to see kids in poverty, I wish there was a better way to push this without the kids and family having to suffer financially, but for W&K, someone with ample amounts of money should really set a better example.
“someone with ample amounts of money should really set a better example.”
If social benefits or “family assistance” is limited in the UK to only children then the BRF should have only two children per couple (family).
Question: If a man has two children with wife #1 and two children with wife #2, does this count as two children or 4 children?
My best male friend has 4 kids at his wife’s insistence(he was happy with two but felt pressured then got snipped after the 4th) and she started cheating on him all over town after she lost weight via weight loss surgery. They are now split and she has financially ruined him for life (she racked up debt via credit cards and was in control of the finances so she could do so and hide it from him).
Things are really weird in the Cambridge house.
She’s definitely pregnant! She also pulled out of one of her own charity’s events so what else could it be? If she had the flu or something, they would have just said that and she wouldn’t have gone to the earlier reception.
Plus, I believe the original report did not mention needing a babysitter, that was only added later. And needing a babysitter? Really? Where’s Maria or MaMidds or Pippa? That excuse makes no kind of sense!
What else did she cancel, but still show up for the afternoon event? That doesn’t make sense to me. Cancel two out of three? Although why expect her magical version of HG to be consistent with actual HG symptoms.
@NOTA – Don’t you know, Kate had a super special and rare form of HG that only Duchess’s suffered from. She didn’t suffer from the same form of HG that the plebeians do.
Yes, but every time I write that, I am attacked. You only have to look at Amy Schumer to know Kate’s HG was fictional.
With regards to HG, is it true or speculated that Kate may not have had HG or may not have had HG with all three children as has been claimed?
@bay – it was the tabloids that started the HG rumour when she was admitted to hospital when pregnant with George (you know the hospital visit where she drove herself from her parents house to the hospital in London), it was never denied or confirmed by KP so the press keep running with it.
From my limited knowledge of HG it can happen for subsequent pregnancies.
I have a former work acquaintance who had HG and it was brutal, she ended up working from home for a lot of her pregnancy. She used to joke about carrying a stash of plastic baggies in her handbag for emergencies when she left the house.
And I agree Amy Schumer showed how brutal it is.
Hi Nota – I just saw it on twitter earlier. I can’t find it anymore on my TL since it was from this morning but I’m pretty sure it was a reception at the National Portrait Gallery.
I am sorry the babysitter excuse is just so lame. Nanny Maria has a ton of “previously vetted” (because you know) nanny friends who can “fill in in a pinch” They can do better on the excuses…..
All they had to say was one of the kids (they didn’t have to specify which kid) was ill and “needed Mummy” nobody would have batted an eye at that…and then no need to add words about a babysitter.
Except that in 6 years of being parents I don’t remember them ever pulling out of something last minute for the kids. It was only ever for pregnancies…
I don’t know why, but I had a viscerally angry reaction at the thought of her being pregnant with a fourth baby. Like I might have said “F-you, Kate!” our loud type of reaction. It’s a combination of a few things, I think:
1) another baby seems like the perfect way to get another 2+ years off to do nothing. It’s like she’s constantly postponing doing the grown up work of being a working Duchess by having kids. Her difficult pregnancies plus her long maternity leaves take her out of the picture for a loooong time and then she can only ever work sporadically “because she’s a mother.” Then she would have 4 different kids who could be sick at any given time, or who could have school plays or sports games, giving her plenty of reasons to cancel her commitments last minute. I’m thinking about how her Broken Britain Early Years initiative would get pushed back AT LEAST another 18 months even though it’s already been pushed back twice. The keen-baiting pisses me off already and I’m sick of hearing about how she’s so excited to launch this and commit to her charities and foundation and initiatives, and yet somehow she decides that getting pregnant is more important. It just shows that she doesn’t value her work. And it’s selfish.
2) I don’t want to even think about the difference in how she’ll be treated during a pregnancy and post-natal and how Meghan was treated. I also think if she gets pregnant and goes away for 2 years, the press is going to spend all of their time writing horrible crap about Meghan because Kate won’t be there to talk about. Right now, at least we get pieces about Kate, even if they are just embiggening pieces about how her new highlights make her the perfect future queen or how her waistline is so small.
3) the audacity of making tax payers pay for 4 kids, and all their expensive clothing, and private school educations, (or in Britain don’t you call the expensive, elite schools “public schools”?), and extra nannies, and additional staff for a a family of 6, the possible renovations needed to make another nursery or turn a bedroom into another child’s room, the housing each one of them will need as adults, the staff each one of them will need as adults, etc, etc, etc. Especially during Brexit. Especially when people can’t get assistance for more than 2 children when they need it. Especially when people are going broke on daycare and schooling for their kids.
4) babies are not bandaids. Babies shouldn’t be born into marriages that suck. Babies shouldn’t be used to cover up cheating and separate-households rumors.
Agreed, Amy Too!!!
She pulls out, but William doesn’t.
Oh, snap!
I think I believe the excuse more that one of the kids is sick. It’s cold and flu season so one or more of their kids could be sick and passing germs lol.
Little dude at my house has the worst runny nose and now I’m carrying kleenex too! What do yall do to keep your kids from getting the germs!?
@cidy, lots of water and lots of sleep. When my kids don’t feel well I just let them laze and eat and move at their own pace. I figure their bodies are weak and need rest, and just indulge that until they feel better. Also sleeping with a vaporizer with a little VapoSteam (VapoRub in liquid form) in their rooms is magical for us. It cuts down on the night coughing considerably. Good luck – and keep resting yourself so you can fight off the germs!
I seriously bathe this child twice a day lol. Daycares are just term centers. There was a period in the early months – august and september of fall that this kid couldn’t catch a break. He had ear infections, sinus drainage, tummy troubles, everything. It’s always during cold and flu season I wish I could homeschool or something.
@cidy if it makes you feel better – my older one got sick a lot at daycare, but in elementary school its gotten a LOT better, he rarely even gets a cold these days.
My niece and nephew have been passing it back and forth and sharing it with the whole family! The Vicks vaporizer with the tabs are a godsend at night, and lots of fluids, especially tea and water. And so much handwashing with soap and water.
Hope your little one is on the mend!
washed my poor little guy’s hands and face constantly. early daycare years were awful, but by the time he was in grade school he got sick very rarely. Also, do away with anti-bacterial soaps…in and of itself, soap IS anti-bacterial, and some bacteria is healthy; it’s a marketing ploy for more of your hard earned $$. And when Jr. is sick, prop them up so the post-nasal drip doesn’t have them coughing through the night. and LOVE vicks! It has so many uses outside of being sick, as well. Good luck!
A little obsessive here because I’m due with a baby soon. My Toddler has to wash her hands every time we come in the house and I do it with her. It’s like a normal thing now: open the door, wash your hands.
I have sanitizer near the front door too, i Lysol or bleach the doorknobs, remotes, toilet flushers, and some light switches most nights as part of the kitchen cleanup.
I’m probably creating a superbug right now but my husband caught a terrible cold and nobody else in the house did.
I wish there were some magic spell that worked but I’ve never yet found one! Ugh. Hope y’all feel better soon.
Have to keep searching for that unicorn cure!
@Cidy—not all of her kids were sick.One went to an awards event.
Oh, I finally figured it out! So clever.
Cidy – I make sure they wash their hands before they eat, otherwise I do nothing. The immunity they (and we) build up during their daycare years makes them absolute rocks by Kinder. 😀
One of the major causes of life-threatening allergies in children for the past twenty years is a lack of exposure to germs. Anti-bacterial anything, unless used in a medical setting, kills off good germs, that help the immune systems. Keeping a too-clean house is not good. My children were quite healthy, as we always had dogs to bring in dirt! Too much indoor play is a link, too, to the tsunami of allergies in children today.
My thought about why Kate did not show up? There can be a thousand reasons. Who cares if she misses an event, as long as William was there? I had to cancel a dinner outing with friends the other evening when I lost a crown on a tooth. Last month I cancelled an outing because of a migraine headache. My father has dementia, and I cancel to see him if he starts weeping without stopping, calling out my name.
If she was pregnant her face would move as she wouldn’t be getting botox touchups, that forehead hasn’t moved in weeks so I think this was some sort of ham fisted PR stunt like the Flybe one. A PR stunt designed to take away from Andrew and continue to embiggen her as the most ‘normal earth mother’ that has ever mothered not just in the RF but the whole world. Plus its now been reported that one of the kids was ill and suddenly there was NO childcare; no childcare for someone who has 3 nannies with her mother practically living with them.
If one of the children was really ill and childcare was really the issue then she wouldn’t have attended the event in the afternoon – she was scheduled to attend both with him. If one of the kids was ill why leave them to attend an event in the afternoon? She’s not pregnant but something is up. I think a story about the Sussex’s and their childcare is about to drop.
This has William the press genius written all over it.
I still think they will have another but not until next year – I will be surprised if she is now.
The DM already crowed about Nanny Maria being employed since George was <1, and the Sussex’s being on their third nanny already. So ridiculous. It’s an old, incomplete story that keeps getting blatantly trotted out just to be jerks.
Plus if she were pregnant and suffering from HG, I don’t think she’d be magically fine to go to the earlier event but not the later one. I feel like when she is pregnant and sick, she vanishes from EVERYTHING for however long she suffers from it. So I agree that I don’t think pregnancy is the cause of her bailing.
Agree, HG isn’t something you can switch on and off, unfortunately.
Is it guaranteed with every pregnancy after diagnosis?
Can you not get Botox while pregnant because her eyebrows were sky high at the Remembrance concert.
No, my sister had HG in her first pregnancy, but not in her second.
It is bad-my sister was so sick, losing so much weight.
Girl, babies aren’t Band-Aids and something weird is going on…
If she’s pregnant, that could explain why Quinn quit too.
As for childcare, I’m sure Nanny Maria gets time off; legally, she’d be entitled to it. But the babysitting excuse is ridiculous.
Tin foil tiara theory: William and Kate had a fight over something… like Andy. Maybe Kate’s concerned about the kids being around him at Christmas? Or maybe they argued about attending Christmas at Sandringham?
Andy is a pedo, but he doesn’t go for the under 10 set. I think the kids are “safe” in that regard. However, even if always “knowing “ your uncle is a creeper, it’s another to be made to be part of his PR to make him look “better” (OOOH!’ FAMILY XMAS! KIDS! OOOH! LOOOK!!) on the zoo parade to and from church. I think this can be the setup to pull out of the family walk, at least by Kate. If ONE kid is sick now, they can play “pass the bug” around for weeks, with Kate and William being the final recipients by Xmas time .
(Ok, my tin foil tiara, complete with hand painted periwinkles is on the table now 😊. Anyone want to borrow it?)
From all I’ve heard of Sandringham Christmas the kids are pretty much kept in their own wing, so I don’t think worrying about the kids being around Andrew has anything to do with this
There is no way that they have only one child carer. Nanny Maria can’t work 24/7.
😬 Band-aid baby 😬
I think Louis was the band aid baby.
I think, like buttons, lace, wiglets, coat dresses, bottom liner, monochrome looks, and a man who treats her ‘eh’,Kate sticks with what she knows. And if Louie was the ‘new chapter baby’s and that worked for a bit shed do it again…
Also there’s the whole emulate the queen thing…barf
Louis was after William was caught partying with blonds in Switzerland. A fourth would be perceived as the band-aid after Rose.
Surely there must be an easier way to avoid P. Andrew? 🤔
Just stay at Anmer Hall and leave the kids there with a nanny or Carole Middleton when they travel to Sandringham for Christmas Day Celebrations.
Could one of the kids be sick? It’s that season and maybe they didn’t want to divulge private health info about their child.
They use the kids all the time for photo ops though. “The children are under the weather” isn’t really divulging private information, and Kate would be praised to high heaven for being a doting mother. Instead they go with the bizarre and stupid lie. They are so bad at this. Something is up.
Agreed, SRB. Their loosening up of photo access to the kids this year is blatant. The RRs get their money shots, W&K get good PR. After all their years of threatening lawsuits and getting injunctions, the new model is like whiplash.
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What a stupid excuse.
How do you know its not true?
It feels and sounds so juvenile, or hamfisted, or like a child trying to lie. The DM article mentioning a sick child was the third different headline in two hours for this story. It was almost like they were being told how to headline the article from someone.
Because I find it highly unlikely that there wouldn’t be some person somewhere who couldn’t step in to babysit royal children.
She’s the FUTURE FUTURE QUEEN, dagnammit!! These people have staff. A lot of staff. Not to mention ever present Royal Protection Officers, including for the kids. The idea that the FFQ wouldn’t be able to get a ‘babysitter’ for an event that had been in the diary for months is bloody laughable.
Kate didn’t make up the excuse (that we know of)…it was a tweet from a Daily Fail staffer.
I think she’s likely preggo.
I honestly don’t think she’s pregnant though.
I think one child has the flu or something similar. Probably Lou. She did the day event with kids at school and Maria could focus on Lou. But putting 2 kids to bed while dealing with a sick 3rd is hard, especially if you’re trying to keep them apart so the other two don’t get sick. Not impossible for Maria but hard. Kate’s priorities are never work. Maybe she wants to be with the sick kid while Maria tends to the others?
I also feel bad for Jecca. She’s married with kid(s) and lives in London but every time William goes to Africa it’s because of her even though she’s not there. I think the Craigs were his other Middletons. His other surrogate family. The Middletons gave him the cozy country family with upper class perks. The Craigs gave him the African colonial, I mean conversationalist, dream fantasy.
I agree. I think William was searching for his forever surrogate family because he was so tied up in his parents divorce he wanted to mimic some normalcy and he got that from other people.
I agree that it’s crappy to drag Jecca into the conversation every time. Let her live her life with her family.
That would be plausible except it was specifically said that it didn’t relate to the health of the children. I’m not sure why they went with the babysitting reason because had they said that one of the kids is sick, then this wouldn’t have become a thing at all.
They’ve used ‘sick kid’ as a reason for Kate to pull out of events before, so it wouldn’t be strange if they used it again. This back and forth on it from RRs is weird.
@nic – exactly. If the kids were sick, it would be perfectly reasonable to say that, and would play to Kate being the most hands on mother who ever mothered. Instead, we get the line “due to the children” then “no babysitter” then its that one of the kids was sick. they would have been better off just saying she wasn’t coming and leaving it at that lol.
I don’t think she’s pregnant, she canceled only her evening engagement but she still was at the afternoon tea. Probably her laziness is the real motivation.
@margarethReal motivation is pulling focus AWAY from P. Andrew 😳
New story in the Fail says one of the Cambridge kids was sick so that’s why Kate pulled out. Why didn’t they say that in the first place? They realized the first story made Kate look bad so this is clean up. House Cambridge uses the same brain trust that staffs Andrew’s team I see. I don’t think Kate’s pregnant.
LOL seriously? First they said it didn’t involve the children’s health and now they’re saying it does? Either this was a stunt to distract from Randy Andy or Kate simply didn’t care to go (horrifically lazy as usual, but they should’ve just said one of the kids was sick at the start).
Yeah everyone and I mean everyone, even a royal reporter sycophant lije Rupert Myers was laughing and mocking the babysitter excuse. And they are obsessed with their image and can’t handle it being less than, so the DF have conjured up another reason and using their default pr props – the kiddies.
The RF have the worst instincts with PR and what people relate to. They just dont know how to and they are increasingly losing the people but dont realise it yet. No amount of waving the Sussexes around as sacrificial lsmbs cant hide it any longer.
I mentioned this above, but this article had 3 headlines last night before they settled on the sick child one.
Or maybe Will and Kate had a stand-up row and she didn’t want to spend the evening anywhere near him? We’ve talked on here before that there are signs that they could be leading largely separate lives. They definitely wouldn’t want rumours of a row to leak hence the fumbled attempts to come up with an excuse that would be ‘acceptable’
Looks like their PR skills aren’t much better than the other palaces. Just say it’s the kids being sick from the outset instead of the hundred different reasons and vagueness.
It is like the Irish Guards all over again. Doesn’t want to set up expectations, no wait event at the kids school, no spending time with kids before a tour. Turned out she was at the salon.
A week ago, a video posted on SM of the two of the kids cycling. No protest or demand to remove it yet that I’ve seen, which is curious.
I have kids Charlotte and Louis’s ages and I actually don’t think it’s a stupid excuse, especially during cold and flu season. I’ve had it happen before where last minute our sitter is sick and all of our other sitters / family by then have plans or are also sick. And I’m just a pleb willing to ask new sitters who my friends’ recommend in a pinch,
Which I would imagine is not an option when your kid is the future king. Just sayin..
Don’t be the voice of reason 😉
So it just happened that all nannies were sick (bc there is definitely more than one) Carole wasn’t available, and because they are the royals, they probably DO have backups in place. No way there isn’t a process to deal with it if the full time nannies are sick and the Cambridges have an event.
Or her kid was sick and wanted mommy. I don’t think that’s so hard to believe.
If that was the case, Erin, they would have said it. They’ve used ‘sick kid’ as a reason for her to cancel last minute before, so why three different excuses now?
If it was a sick kid they would have just come out and said that at the outset. The “no babysitter” excuse is laughable and I think once they realized that, they went with the sick kid line.
I don’t think most people actually care that Kate skipped the event, she doesn’t always go and Tusk Trust is William’s thing anyway. The fact that most people don’t care if she attended is what makes the shifting narrative so strange.
The Jecca Craig thing is tired. Him attending her wedding to someone else is not the stuff of some clandestine affair. I believe when he was in east Africa more recently, Jecca was in the UK. People sometimes stay friends with exes. I know I have. Maybe once upon a time she was a side-piece; but I don’t think that’s been the case for a very long time.
I agree with you. I do not think Jecca Craig is a sidepiece for anyone. However, I do believe that Jecca Craig was Normal Bill’s Meghan. I also believe that Bill Cambridge may still be close with Jecca’s parents-family.
Of all the women he wanted but couldn’t get to marry him, all the times he cheated with Kate to chase another woman? Jecca was the one who got away. If he’d been willing to be a better man, there’d be a very different future Queen consort in the UK.
Jecca and the Craig family were his respite, his escape at the time of Diana’s death and have been ever since. Escape from royal duties, escape from the public eye, escape from Kate.
Whatever their physical relationship, it is clear she’s the non-negotiable and always will be. He puts her and her family above the royal family, he puts her above the Middletons and his family with Kate. His commitment to Tusk and conservation isn’t because he cares about it, he cares about it because it matters to Jecca. Tusk is the one thing he never bails on because it matters to her. If anyone is his possible conscience, she’s it.
@nota, Do you think (if she was asked) Jecca said “no” because she wanted no part of BRF or because she wanted no part of Normal Bill Cambridge?
Agree. Jecca strikes me as being a fine woman. Can’t say I blame William wanting her.
No to Normal Bill not no to the BRF. Look at the man she married. A self-made man of substance with an international conservation career.
Ohh, so you would like another horse faced, upper class, aristo toff for the Future Queen? The type who’s family owns stolen African Land. Of course you would love that.. of course. White women on here would love to vicariously live through the skinny, upper class women they will never be, ha. Middle Class Kate made them relatable because her mother literally comes from a council estate.
Kate was sold as a champion for the commoners but she never lived that life. She’s lived a lazier life than most aristos who are least do charity work when they don’t need to have careers. There is also sometimes a sense of noblesse oblige that aristos have which means helping those with less. Again Kate never did that. So really Kate is the worst of both worlds because she doesn’t have the family pedigree nor does she have the ability to connect with the common folk. The RRs are still working hard to prop up the minimal work she does and pretend it means something. If she had a philanthropic bent they wouldn’t have to act like a garden for the few is going to save the world. Kate’s family background is pretty irrelevant when she remains just as shallow as the typical aristo girl is presumed to be.
I attended my ex boyfriend’s wedding in August. I was arguably the one who got away for I dumped him. We have remained good friends. Isn’t it possible that Boring Bill actually has some female friends he doesn’t sleep with?
My bet is that he is not sleeping Jecca as she does not seem the type to as such.
She is not a baby making machine……….I don’t think she is pregnant; she might have pulled out because one of the kids is sick and they might not have wanted to admit it
What if Meghan had used such an excuse? we would have had all trashy British TVs talking and analyzing her decisions to pull out of an event……..this is more proof that no one really care about what the Cambridges do
Except… we *are* all sitting here analyzing her decision to pull out of this event…
You do realize you are on a gossip site now commenting on Kate pulling out of an event and speculating on pregnancy, sick children, affairs and babysitters. This story is obviously out there or is celebitchy the only one covering it? Don’t think so. I think people including you care about them at least enough to criticize about something pretty insignificant.
As far as crazy British TV analyzing the Sussexes every move, pretty sure that’s not their main complaint with the media. It seems to be the British tabloid online and print, which Meghan even mentioned on their interview. How we don’t really have those in the US her comment not mine by the way. Plus a dead giveaway they are suing those tabloids.
Very strange. I’m not sure if she’s pregnant because she’s been looking very botoxed up for the last few events. They could’ve easily claimed Louis was sick and no one would be the wiser. The babysitter excuse is embarrassingly bad. With all the help they have, they couldn’t find one person to look after the kids for an hour or two???
I think the kids were just sick. The babysitting excuse is a bit weak. These events are planned weeks if not months in advance. Surely that’s enough time to find a babysitter and have backup plans in place in case the original plan falls through?
Or she was just feeling lazy, didn’t want to go and the excuse of the kids was given so it didn’t look bad on her
Or she’s pregnant/trying to get pregnant/creating fake buzz either for herself or to distract from Pedo
Do you really think the Cambridge’s care enough to distract from Pedo Andy? I cannot see them caring and it seems to me the Cambridge’s benefit from Pedo’s problems.
Sure but think of it this way as well: the Andrew-Epstein connection is basically the biggest scandal since Edward. This is actually something that could destroy the monarchy depending on how things continue. Will and Kate have an interest in keeping the monarchy intact since they’ll be future king and queen (consort), as the media and their fans love to remind everyone. I don’t think it’s beyond reason to think that this was done as a quick distraction while the idiots at BP try to figure out what to do next.
Bad excuse that no one in the world will buy. She’s probably pregnant
That babysitting excuse is weak. They knew weeks in advance of this event and have live in staff. So they would have arranged for that well in Advance. In addition We all know they will not have one nanny for three children.
So yea, something is up. My instinct was she was extremely pissed with William for something he did or said and decided to hell with it she can’t fake it anymore.
Alternatively if she is pregnant I say wow, she took one for the team. She knows people love royal babies and She will do anything to save the dying monarchy.
Yup, I think they had a big fight before the event also, and that’s why she didn’t go.
I agree, I think that’s the likeliest scenario (that they had a fight). She didn’t go because she didn’t want to, which, whatever, Kate’s gonna Kate, but the last minute excuse is probably to cover a fight.
I hope Kate told Normal Bill where to go and what he could do when he got there!
I agree with all you!!!
I feel like one of the kids were just sick. Who said they needed a babysitter? Is it the same source who gives them their info on Harry and Meghan? There are a hundreds of reasons why she might pull out. Maybe one of the kids had a really bad day at school? I am not a huge Kate fun but I am not a fan of trying to create something out of nothing either.
If one of her kids had the flu maybe she didn’t feel comfortable leaving. Not only would he infect any other caregivers, but if he was miserable she probably wanted to be there by his side.
But she did an event earlier that day, so clearly DID feel comfortable leaving.
But the child could be worse. Or vomiting/high fever. I am sure there are times even rich royal moms with help don’t feel comfortable leaving a sick child.
Sure, but again, it was said she didn’t have a babysitter and that it had nothing to do with the health of the children. If one of them was sick, just saying that (not even saying which child) from the outset would have made a lot more sense than these changing s
My first thought is maybe nanny Maria fell ill and got worse as the day progressed. Which could explain why she went to the earlier event but not the evening one. They may have other nannies but that doesn’t mean that they are there 24/7. They could be on holiday/annual leave and be unavailable to cover at the last minute.
She has pulled out of events using a sick child as an excuse before. The notion that people with three nannies cannot find a babysitter is laughable.
@Nota – right? I cant believe people believe that. And besides, according to the latest update, that wasn’t even the reason, it was that a kid was sick. (which would have been understandable, but I don’t believe it, bc they would have just said that.)
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes it’s hard arranging things with kids, caregivers, illnesses, school stuff….even the most professional person has to bow out of some things. Especially as here Tusk is William’s patronage not hers. It’s called life. I wonder how many castigating her over this on here are parents, TBH
No one is castigating her over actually missing the event. Like I’ve said elsewhere on this post I dont think most people actually cared that she had to cancel at the last minute.
We’re “castigating” the changing story from KP – was it the lack of a babysitter, or sick child, or what? She just didn’t want to go? (I think the latter is the real reason.) The no babysitter thing makes zero sense. Zero. They do not have a normal lifestyle and the issues that other working parents have re: childcare are not their issues.
And yes, I’m a parent with small children around the ages of George and Charlotte.
I don’t think the babysitter excuse sounds completely implausible (maybe only 80% implausible, hah!). No matter how many options you usually have, not many people want to deal with something contagious, especially if bodily fluids are involved, or even something simple like a case of head lice brought home from school. Maybe KP didn’t want the extra scrutiny of saying one of the children is sick (but they’re getting it now!), or maybe the little prince/princess just wanted their mommy! If I had to choose between sick kid or pregnant Kate, I think sick kid is more likely but I don’t doubt that Kate wants a fourth baby.
Well said
Maybe the kids were passing a stomach bug around and Nanny Maria got the barfs. Maybe they just don’t want to tell the world about their kids’ health. Maybe she hates William.
If she were pregnant, she wouldn’t have been at the afternoon reception.
I hope all the Cambridge sweat glands are functioning!
You made me spit out my coffee! Of all the stupid things any royal has said that just takes the cake.
I don’t think she’s pregnant, since she showed up in the afternoon at the event looking happy and normal. She usually goes totally dark when she’s pregnant. Which, with HG, I don’t blame her one bit. No way she’d risk getting pukey in front of people.
All I can think of when I read this is how awful it would be to have sex with Willie after everything she knows.
I doubt she’s pregnant, they’ve never had a problem announcing it and cancelling engagements before. All of her pregnancies have been announced before 12 weeks.
And she had no problem doing an event a couple of hours before this gala. And didn’t look peaky in any of them.
It’s definitely weird, somethings up. The fact they’re saying they had no one to mind the kids, well it’s just not believable is it? That none of the nannies, carole pips mike or James or any of their friends could come over for an hour or so and look after them . Yeah throwing the side eye at the one
I got pregnancy vibes when I first saw these photos on this post that were released earlier in the week. She just looked like she had possibly been barfing and didn’t feel well. Just a hunch I had.
Looking at it from a different angle, assuming that one of the kids is sick, why did SHE had to stay with them and not normal chap Bill?
a. at this time and age fathers can stay at home and let the mothers work (this is how it goes at my household)
b. I thought that Bill wants to spend as much time as possible with his kids (my eyes rolled while writing this down) .
or that feminism is a gouche notion that is reserved to that pesky American actress
Yeah but Tusk is Bill’s thing, Kate’s not taking his link to Jecca (only in his mind) away
Exactly I think William ALWAYS goes to Tusk events as patron. Kate has gone some times, not gone other times
makes sense! thanks!
however, I do still think that he is a mega douche and she spends more time with their kids
@Kaiser, Jecca and her husband live much of the time in London.
No they don’t. They both work in DC and have a big house in Virginia.
In London with her academic work and his public work with NatGeo, which both Eliza and I mentioned. He gives lectures and both attend events in London much of the time, regardless of whether or not they may have multiple homes. At that level, he gets to work from wherever he wants.
Jecca Craig and her husband live in DC. Her husband is an editor at National Geographic. Her husband previously worked for the Tusk trust for many years. He appears to be quite a bit older than Jecca. But I could be wrong.
Edit: just double checked and he’s actually the executive vice president and chief scientist at the National Geographic Society.
The fact this is being reported at all is the Press’s way of letting Royal watchers know that all is not well in the land of Cambridge.
If I had to guess, I would say they had a bust up and it was decided that Bill go it alone to avoid any further speculation / body language analysis. Kate is an old pro at over-grinning but I can imagine that if the shit really hit the fan that she might struggle to contain it. She’s a nervous wreck at the best of times.
I suspect this would have been better handled under Catherine Quinn’s watch.
She’s still there. She wasn’t leaving until after Christmas, that was in the story announcing she was leaving.
It seems she’s already checked out mentally then because this was sloppy and she tended to have things much more organized.
Oh, that’s an interesting point. The reporting around this has been very weird, especially with some RRs like Russell Myers (one of the biggest Cambridge shills) outright mocking the babysitter excuse. William is playing an extremely risky game with the media here. He obviously thinks he’ll be able to come out of this unscathed, unlike his mother. Foolish assumptions on his part…
Her forehead hasn’t moved in months and she’s uber-skinny. She’s not pregnant. Who knows why she dropped out of the event. Tusk isn’t important to her. It’s William’s baby.
I still can’t get over just how awful that lace dress is – especially with all these new angles the close-up.
The design and placement of the lace is particularly bad. I’m rarely a fan of lace though. One of the few I like is Letizia’s black, short-sleeve, off-the-shoulder cocktail dress from a few years ago.
Yes, it looks even worse close up. And she needed still another black lace formal dress to go with the other dozen or so. What a snooze.
ArtHistorian… that’s all I could see, no matter what the article was about. Tried to keep my opinion to myself though. Lol!
The royal family long held tradition is to hunt for sport. The Queen has family trophys of lions, tigers, elephant tusks and endangered animals. Tired of these baffoons getting awarded for things us regular people have been doing for decades. Down with Crown!
Enough with the excuses! She’s not attending because lazy Kate is being lazy.
Without reading, I’m going to say it is Jecca. Kate is sending out signals Jecca is indeed one of Willy’s rose bushes in need of bald boring ugly trimming. Or she got stress diarrhea from all the BS was with UnPrince Andrew….and her embittering project is probably putting stress on the poor Button🤣
@Dorothy
You do realize Jecca is married right?
So is Rose. So was Camilla. So were all the married men with whom Diana had affairs.
so many people here seem to think jecca is frozen in time from years ago, still single and living in kenya. she’s moved on with her life!
Where has anyone said she is standing still? The point remains, she is the non-negotiable in William’s life. Kate and the Middletons know that.
Hey boss, I know I only work two days a week but I won’t be able to attend that event in three weeks as I will be sick lolol.
A pregnancy could also distract if it comes out in the trial that Will and Kate (or a high level staffer of theirs) is behind the Sussex smears.
@Jen, Do you know when this suit is going to trial?
She was talking about being ‘broody’ all of last year. Of course William caved to have another child to make up for the Rose affair. Also, he was seen rubbing her back at the last event they attended…he’s rarely every affectionate. They were also looking into each others eyes with Kat grinnig like a hyena at him.So defo preggers..
I hope from now on this tool STFU about his population control. Of course by that he means, ‘hey people of colour, we don’t need anymore of you’. Kate has turned into a literal brood mare.
Gross
Maybe she’s pregnant but she was out and about at another event that afternoon so not sure about that. Maybe she knows she can get away with a lot more with Andrew in the headlines and Meghan getting all the flak for wearing pink Hollywood lipstick and abandoning her so- called duty to spend time with her own mother. We all know if it was Harry’s wife doing this, hell, even if she was actually pregnant, there would be pissy stories for days. Short of a coma or bubonic plague, they wouldn’t give Meghan any slack or sympathy, then they’d say she brought it on herself to get out of her obligations. That was a total lame excuse. Doesn’t Nanny Maria come from a sterling agency, sure they could have arranged a back up. IF she is pregnant, does she have hubby’s blessing?
Meghan did get shit when she had to cancel a few engagements on her Australia tour, when she was in the early stages of pregnancy and had flown across the other side of the world. Harry still went to them solo, but that didn’t stop the haters.
I don’t think she’s pregnant but I do think there is a distinct rift taking place between the Cambridges and Kate is only doing the absolute necessary stuff before running back to Bucklebury or London. I can’t imagine what living with that prickly, petulant little wanker must be like, always walking on eggshells, and I’m sure there are times when she loses her sh*t with him and disappears with the kids. Which Wm probably likes because then he can play around.
I wonder if Kate is purposely isolating the kids from William, so in case there is a divorce (because William wants one) she’ll keep sole custody of the kids.
@yinyang, there’s no way that can happen. Those kids are in the line for the throne. There’s no way that Kate will ever get anything except shared custody in the case of a divorce.
She is starting to remind me of my ex when he was doing pills. The extreme weight loss indicating lack of appetite, lack of sleep or nourishing sleep, pulling out of work at the last minute, child like excuses/lies for why they aren’t going to work, and the secretive lifestyle. Maybe she has picked up a habit that started out as stress release over her demanding and sometimes scary (death threats) job, throw in 3 children that I do believe she cares for, and a cheating husband and just maybe she went to the dr. for some help that has now gotten away from her. I say these things because I lived with an addict for 3 years and her behaviour is ringing bells for me.
I might also be way off on my assumptions, the weight loss, lack of sleep, last minute bailing on obligations may all be because she had children, she might also be crying herself to sleep every night over the man she loves loving another, but her actions are starting to seem familiar. She might even get William’s attention again.
Your take on this is really interesting and I had not thought of her getting some pharmaceutical help to deal with her situation. Maybe she thought that once they were married with children his infidelities would stop but she does look like she’s under a tremendous amount of emotional stress. She married a real tosser IMHO and I think she was groomed and manipulated into it by her momager. She’s clearly not capable of being a fully engaged, working duchess and that stress combined with a tempermental toddler of a husband must be awful.
The kids might be sick, and she might want to stay with them for that reason, that seems totally understandable. However with Kate she is the girl who has cried wolf too many times. She always seems to do things like this and uses the kids as an excuse. I have a friend who is like that, always has an excuse for why she late, or can’t meet up, literally there is always some ‘emergency’.
The Irish guards in 2015 was a prime example. That was the one time she got called out, like she couldn’t tear herself away from her kids for an hour or two to do her duty. Thing is she won’t change this habit because the ‘kids’ excuse only generates priase for how dedicated she is as a mother. She has no reason to turn up to anything if she gets even better press for flaking.
It’s more likely that the hairdresser called in sick, meaning she had to cancel.
SHE’S PREGNANT! Cant believe they’re going for 4th after Wills African population speech+Brexit!!!
If she isn’t there must be some issue becasue that ridiculous EXCUSES aren’t fooling anyone. I mean nevermind how Carole practically lives with them,her own sister lives nearby in Chelsea!!! Who are they trying to fool??
Oh good. Another Cambridge baby. Meanwhile, the rest of us poors have to tie our tubes because it’s *our* responsibility to keep the population low, not the responsibility of the obscenely rich who can have as many children as they want on public money.
F-ck this. I hope she’s not pregnant.
Between kates lace and shoulder pads, 80s ring & the hat and clothes on the woman in front of her -that top picture is too many dated things in one
I haven’t read all of the comments but she went to the tea reception in the afternoon for the finalist, I’ve seen photos plaster all over Instagram. She just didn’t go the awards at night.
Well…in light of all the other drama, maybe Kate’s seeing a chance for a turning point. No playing happy families at any events with any alleged side pieces ever again. If that’s what’s up I’m rooting for her.
Maybe she’s been informed that the boom is about to be lowered on her.
Hmmmm