The Windsors are so petty and unimaginative. I really wonder what it was like for the Duchess of Sussex in the first year of being in Harry’s life, their courtship and engagement. She must have had so many innovative plans and dreams of being a thoroughly modern voice in the monarchy. She probably believed that her new ideas would be embraced and recognized as a vital way to update the staid, stagnating business-as-usual of the dull monarchy.
One of Meghan’s first big projects was Together: Our Community Cookbook, benefiting the Hubb Community Kitchen and the families who survived the Grenfell Tower fire. The cookbook was enormously successful, and it came out just months after Meghan and Harry’s wedding. It was her idea to do a cookbook,she wrote the foreword and the royal commentators and the royal family were SICK about its success. It was whispered that Prince William was particularly unnerved by Meghan’s enthusiastic embrace of the Grenfell community because he fancied the issue for himself.
So, with unoriginality and racism, the Windsors continue to smear the Sussexes in one breath and copy them in another. Prince William has written a foreword to a cookbook called A Taste of Home. It’s a cookbook organized by one of his patronages, Passage, and all of the profits go back to Passage and homeless people.
To mark the 40th anniversary of @PassageCharity, Prince William has written the foreword to their upcoming cookbook 'A Taste of Home'.
The book commemorates four decades of charitable work, with all profits going directly towards supporting people who are street homeless. pic.twitter.com/G0kD8qWwXB
— The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (@KensingtonRoyal) October 2, 2020
I’ll be nice? It sounds to me like the cookbook was probably thought up and organized by Passage alone and William, per usual, had very little to do with anything. And as always, William will come galloping in to take credit for everything. He’s an environmentalist! He’s an expert on homelessness! He’s a Renaissance Man who signs his name to a cookbook’s foreword.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.
What will he write about? The people who prepare and serve his food?
They aren’t people, they are servants.
(It’s an irony.)
I agree with your statement. I mean why would the palace staff not want to miss the holidays with their family, as well as isolate for my health, when they could serve me!
William is a copy cat. Will it be a bestseller? A big fat no. People have forgotten about it already. Whatever the Sussexes touch turns to gold.
Literally years behind the Sussexes. Must suck to be the Cambridges, always trying to keep up and get noticed, despite having all the tools to shine.
They are missing the key ingredient: the will to do better in the world. And by will I don’t mean HRH PW. Hahahhaha.
The title of the cookbook is not very creative. I think I have a dozen cookbooks titled A Taste of Home.
I will say something nice!
William and his wife are totally incapable to start and follow a project, so the best thing can happen to the project itself, or to the sake of the association is to give them the smallest work to get attention and media coverage.
See? Something nice!
Of course he did – he and Unable have no new ideas of their own. Its like EL James waiting for new books/ideas from Stephanie Myers before she puts out her trash and claims its all her own work.
Sadly it won’t sell well – which is a shame as its a great cause.
Ahh the Meghanprint lmao! In all seriousness, her idea was genius and Luminary bakery ended up releasing their own cookbook as well. I’m not surprised a lot of similar charities are doing the same thing. It’s a great source of steady income. And yet I doubt William was involved much outside writing the forward.
They probably asked, he said yes. Meh.
Imitated but never duplicated.
Well I’m pleased with anything that will raise money for good causes but SERIOUSLY????
I’ll keep the bulk of my scorn to myself and just share that I am not looking forward to ‘Normal Bloke Will’ talking about his efforts in the kitchen. If he bothers to do anything to promote it of course.
Ugh. I’ve really soured on William. I bought in to his schtick of being a helicopter rescue pilot and thought that was great – he was working while he was still far off from the throne and would really delve into Royal work later. Hey – why rush! It’s a life sentence, may as well take it slow and have a nice happy family in a way he never had as a child. But he’s just proved that first of all his “job” was all for show and he was hardly there. And then once a full time Royal he has no issues he cares about or any substance to him. He’s an angry and controlling person who only cares about trimming rose bushes. He coasted on that Diana goodwill for far too long. The royal family let their true colors show with how they’ve dealt with Meghan and Andrew and there’s no going back now. Anyone who cares more about the protocol and appearances and the “perfect” Cambridges think this outdated inequitable institution is more important than actual people and that is increasingly indefensible to me. (/endrant)
It’s a really good rant! With you, 100%
I never bought into that copter job created just for him. He was avoiding full time royal work IMO. And nothing bad was said about him when after his grandmother renovated KP apartments for him and Kate (even giving Kate extra kitchens) he upped and said he wanted to be an air ambulance pilot. Apparently he was not qualified to pilot so he was co piloting and his security officer had to follow him on the copter. Then he gets photo ops and all the credit for “rescues” in the media. And it is so great to his stans that he “donated” the salary which amounted to pocket change for wealthy Will.
Yeah looking back it was all just a PR and avoidance tactic. I enjoyed following Will and Kate in the beginning – a fresh young couple! So much potential! – but it’s just been wasted potential. It’s so embarrassing seeing Kate talk about maybe being keen about textiles someday (remember that?!) and never releasing the results of her “groundbreaking” (🙄) survey while Will does his best impression of a normal dad.
Tessa
Fun fact on how will donated his copilot salary. He donated it months later to his own foundation. Which is shady in itself how it raises for several charities and redistributes as And when it chooses. After all those salaries and overhead are paid, of course.
Whoa that is super shady!!
IN THE SECOND TO LAST PIC WILLILEAKS FACE SHOWS HIS TRUE SELF. EVIL
He looks like Stephen Miller. Yikes!
They hate her with one hand, and then on the other hand shamelessly copies what she does because they know it resonates and have seen it be successful. How sickening it must have been and still must be for Meghan to watch it all.
It’s one thing to have done all this if it was just about their way being superior, but no, it all happened because they resented her way being successful. They just wanted to be the ones doing them but never had the forethought/imagination to think of it first.
No wonder she had to leave, they hated her very being because from what can see everything she does is who she is. To her core. Love it or hate it. She could no more turn it off, you might as well as her not to breathe. She did try though, to be less than, but it still eclipsed them.
I am telling you, they are embiggening him this year and pushing Unable aside, so the future king can shine.
So their modus operandi is to copy and paste anything the Sussexes do. Next up, Wilieleaks says structural racism must be dismantled.
I actually wouldn’t mind that, tbh.
Difficult to take him seriously on it, when he and his wife are some of the key racists in that structure, Bella.
Another win for Meghan. Meghan the black american actress traces the road ahead and the future king is right behind her. Keep going Willie!
The Meghan effect strikes again 😂 these people are pathetic. Yesterday we saw how keenbridges are still taking notes of what sussexs do by how they set up new zoom setting. I’m still waiting for when KeenKueen kate wears leather skirt/pants
I feel bad for the charity. Seeing how little help their involvement gets them
Isn’t it great the foreword was printed on KP’s/Won’t official stationary?
What a way to remind us peasants that he *really* doesn’t care about coming across as tone-deaf!
And has anyone read the foreword? PwT should have had someone look over the text before publishing it, he’s so much more edumacated than the rest of us that he doesn’t even know how to spell spaghetti bolognese correctly. So sad!
I know that Bolognaise is the French way to write it, but I’m not sure why they would write it this way since it’s bolognese in English and Italian…
What strikes me most about the foreword is how it doesn’t feel very…connected. There’s not a real knowledge of the organization or the people. A real connection with his patronage. Even the story about bolognese is about him rather than those around him. An editor needs to help him with this.
Either way, I’m glad this shines a bigger light on homelessness during the pandemic. Hopefully, he follows up with an event with Passage.
@Lomons…you picked up on the same thing I did…too many “I’s” in the foreword, making it more about him and less about the patronage. Miss Pease (RIP) taught us in high school business class (1971) the more “I’s” in a letter, the more it was about the writer, not the person or product one is writing to (or about). Her lesson has had me edit a LOT of letters. She also taught one NEVER starts a letter with “I” because the moment the reader realizes it’s all about the writer, they lose interest. When raising kids or in a marriage, ‘I’ statements are important. When writing a foreword or a letter, it needs to be neutral language, or more about the product/person being written about. Wm made this all about him (and he’s pretending to be modest and self-deprecating, which is really bugging me)
A bench is just a bench, they say. The Duchess of Sussex is the blueprint. I’m so proud of her.
They are choking on Meghan’s dust lmao
Royals have been writing forewards or ages and this would have gone noticed if William hadn’t turned everything into a competition. This idiot born into his privilege thought he could compete with someone that spent over a decade developing skills because she was competing with thousands of other people for acting roles. It’s like the classic case of a mediocre white guy that played high school basketball insisting he could beat professional women’s basketball player only to get schooled when they finally play. And it’s not even a competition the woman wanted in the first place because it is just a waste of energy.
Exactly this!
Yes.
100%. William is such a sad, pathetic man. If he keeps going on like this, he’s going to be deservedly miserable for the rest of his life.
I’m sure the charity is wonderful and does lots of good work. I am a bit taken aback, however, that the book is called “A Taste of Home”, and its proceeds will help fund a homelessness charity. I realize the book probably isn’t targeting the people they serve, but “A Taste of Home”? Benefiting the homeless?
Taste of Home is also an American food blog and magazine.
Noodle, I think that’s the point. Recipes and foods they remember from home, years ago.
The way KP constructed this tweet shows this is more about promoting William rather than the cookbook. There’s nothing about when the cookbook is coming out or where people can pre-order it. The foreword could have touted Passage more.
Yeah, this misses the mark of promotion for the patronage. They are still focused on their personal PR instead of their charitable actions.
It’s the same thing with the trailer for his upcoming environmental “documentary.” It looks like it is all about promoting himself.
Because it IS all about promoting him. William’s ‘care’ for the environment is entirely about 1) Jecca and 2) his colonial view of ‘Africa’ as a great hunting ground.
It was promoted on twitter as his “2 year personal mission to protect nature.” So why only 2 years? Is that all he’s giving it? Sounds like self-promotion to me. It will be interesting to see if he actually does anything and isn’t just about other people doing something.
Meh. this is meh. I’m not up in arms over him copying Meghan – but it is funny to compare, because she was actively involved with the women from the Hubb community kitchen and had a relationship with them, this just feels like William has stopped by a time or two and they asked him to write the forward and he said yes, no real involvement. However, if this forward gets a few more people to buy the cookbook and gets more money for Passage, then that’s a good thing.
And that goes to something that we say all the time. William doesn’t HAVE to come up with the big ideas and create special projects etc. He can follow the blueprint laid out before him and do these kinds of things, that require little effort on his part but get him lots of praise, and bring lots of attention to the charity with tangible results. This IS the kind of thing he should be doing more.
Also, remember when it seemed like reducing homelessness was going to be one of his causes? I feel like this is the first we’ve heard from him about the topic in YEARS.
I’m curious though – and this is a real question – are there any tangible benefits for these organizations? That’s not to say this isn’t what W&K should be doing; it is, along with showing up for events to attract donors (e.g., something other than Wimbledon and BAFTA). But, given the years of neglect of many of their patronages, the short visits and obvious posing for PR pictures while at a location, the lack of knowledge about the organizations and banal interaction when visiting, plus the silly public posturing about how they’ve been “learning” and are now “calling attention to” the obvious – I suspect the people actually on the ground in these organizations have a very different attitude about a royal visit than what’s spun in the media. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s considered more of a disruption than anything else.
These organizations must see what benefits, particularly financial, an association with H&M can bring, even via being noticed by their supporters in a campaign. So the bar is raised for W&K. Realistically, at least at this point, do they bring any value with these visits, other than PR for themselves?
There was a breakdown on twitter a few months ago about how being associated with a royal patron actually did NOT help a charitable organization in terms of more fundraising etc.
But my comment about tangible results was related to this particular project – if KP promoting this cookbook because William wrote the foreward helps to sell more copies, that will bring more revenue to the charity. And that would be a good thing. But as someone noted above, they didn’t even link to a preorder site for the book or say when it was going to be on sale, although they made sure to print his foreward. So maybe not such a good thing in terms of results.
Interesting about the supposed non-impact of a royal patron. I wonder if that’s equally true for all of them.
I agree, it’s a good thing if this helps the charity sell more books. The cynic in me wonders if the charity approached him, or his people looked for an opportunity to do this, given their current streak of mimicking H&M…
But, KR Twitter didn’t link to order/publication info. There’s a separate post about Passage itself, you can pre-order from their site. But you won’t know, if you don’t go there. Maybe add a line to the original post, “visit the website for more information”. And the @PassageCharity sites don’t have a post about the cookbook. So, not as effective as it could be, by either party. (Omid has a link, the book is being published October 15).
W&K are so clearly about acting, rather than engaging, it’s no wonder they trip themselves up so often lately. No one thinks past how the media/Twitter/Instagram will look. No, Will doesn’t have work for months with Passage to write an intro. But is this about the book, the charity, and results, or just Will as statesman? Trying to look cool, hence the Watermelon Sugar issue. Pushing environmental cred, while posing by a familiar bench (and director’s chairs), while not thinking through about the fossil gift, and worse, that it seems only one child got a gift.
If this is as much effort as they want to make, W&K would be better off sticking to ribbon cutting and the like; no disgrace in that, it still matters to people and local contact is important. But if they’re going to continue to pattern themselves after what H&M are doing, without any real thought or interest in the equation, what they try will continue to fall flat.
I agree. But it does back up the question of if the monarchy are just following blue prints with no impact, then what is their function in 2020.
These people appear to be effectively meaningless.
They aren’t even being subtle about it, are they?
Eagerly awaiting Kate new clothing capsule collection KeenWorks.
A collaboration with Sister Wives’ Closet.
A capsule wardrobe consisting of a granny dress, a skeet shooting vest, a pair of jeggings and some wedges.
Don’t forget the wiglets!
I was giddy when I saw this headline and couldn’t wait to read your write-up. I’m also kind of surprised that they named it The Taste of Home, since that is already the name of a popular southern magazine.
My problem with Cambridge projects has always been their failure to be thoughtful and thorough, not to mention the lack of follow-through.
IDK, PW seems dangerously overconfident about this.
When you copy someone’s homework your suppose to atleast change it a little bit. No doubt he will be praised to the heavens by the ratchet rota for this ‘innovative idea’.
Keep him away from the petty cash box Passages.
I repeat, keep him away from the petty cash box.
It’s kind of gross that William “fancied the Grenfell community issue for himself.” That’s like someone of note in America claiming the 9/11 community or something for themselves.
Like no, a national tragedy is not your personal “issue” weirdo.
A Taste of Home definitely sounds uninspired, but when you consider the fact that it’s meant to benefit an org that helps homeless people, it sounds, well, tone deaf. Shocking. I know.
Spotlight on mediocrity, dull as usual.