Prince William did an interview with Radio Marsden this week. It was a light interview about Christmas, with questions submitted from the young patients of NHS Royal Marsden. These kinds of “events” are so easy, it’s a wonder he and Kate don’t do more of them. I mean, all he had to do was go somewhere and chat for about twenty minutes. It wasn’t even live! To be fair, William has actually been doing a few more of these kinds of things this year, these smaller appearances which don’t get tons of press. Kate has not.
On Thursday, Prince William sat down with Barry Alston of Radio Marsden, a charity run by volunteers, broadcasting to and supporting cancer patients at the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London, to answer some holiday-themed questions from young patients.
While Prince William, 39, admitted that food is “quite important” around Christmas and he always finds “a tiny bit of space left in my stomach somewhere for a bit of turkey or sausage or a bit of wine,” he most looks forward to the holidays as a time to get together with loved ones.
“For me, generally, bringing the family together at Christmastime is always lovely because we’re quite spread out doing our things a lot of time throughout the year. We get very few moments to actually come together,” he said. “When I see my children meet up with my cousin’s children, and they all have a wonderful time playing together, it’s very special. I look forward to that a lot. Obviously, Christmas is a new dynamic when you have children. Suddenly it’s a whole different ballgame of noise and excitement.”
William received one question about board games, and he shared that Monopoly and Risk are favorites in his household with Kate Middleton and their three children: Prince George, 8, Princess Charlotte, 6, and Prince Louis, 3. However, it’s something that “usually everyone gets very cross about because they lose.”
And while Elf on the Shelf is a popular Christmas tradition for lots of families, it doesn’t seem like the elf has visited the palace…at least not yet. “I don’t know what Elf on a Shelf is,” William admitted.
Prince William also shared his favorite Christmas film (he said he watches Elf every Christmas “and it still makes me laugh”) and named “Feliz Navidad” as a go-to Christmas song, although he shared that he finds it hard to decide and also gave a shout out to Mariah Carey.
As for what William wants for Christmas this year, he said that he hasn’t had much time to think about that question. But he does hope Aston Villa, his favorite soccer team wins their Boxing Day match.
Yeah, I’m a few years older than William and I think for both of us, “Elf on the Shelf” wasn’t really a thing for our generation. I didn’t know what it was until I was in my 30s, and even then I’m still sort of like “wait, what is it?” When William talks about music, I always realize just how uncool he is and how little he cares about cultural stuff. Like, I guess he thinks it would be gauche to have a favorite band or a go-to Christmas album or something like that. This is the part that made me think though: “When I see my children meet up with my cousin’s children, and they all have a wonderful time playing together, it’s very special…” Yeah, his cousin’s children. Not his own nieces and nephews (via Harry, or even Pippa). His cousin’s children. I guess he’s talking about Zara’s kids. Those Cambridge kids are going to grow up not knowing their first cousins.
HRH The Duke of Cambridge met with Radio Marsden to answer questions from young patients of the @royalmarsdenNHS Foundation Trust, celebrate the passion of RMH staff and share a favourite Christmas song.
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He thinks these are coy personal attacks, but he’s just showing us he’s a heartless, racist idiot.
Bingo! He thinks this will sadden or piss H off! He is an idiot. H and Megs are better off far away from these people.
Agreed!! Its a ugly jab at Harry. And poor Pippa, what a terrible zing. William is an idiot.
I really do not like this man. He is so obviously petty and bitchy.
Lol. Running out of potential scapegoats, William the Terrible? How special.
Merricat, you always have great zingers!! I always look forward to your comments!! I guess Pippas children are too peasan-ty for Baldingham.
As for his what he wants for Christmas, than probably involves rolling around in a Rose garden…..
Shame about that one big thorn in the garden, Keen Buttons Mutton
I think he tries to preserve some mystique,he doesnt want to seem too current like some commoner. Lol
Exactly I think their plan has always been to be as bland as possible because that one of the thing that worked for the queen. She’s so bland people can project whatever they want on her. But H&M put that plan into question because that’s their personnality that made them popular so now they are stuck trying to find the balance between showing enough to be liked/popular and keeping enough to preserve the mystique.
A lot of American politicians employ that tactic to be bland. Usually their party encourages it so their candidate won’t be caught on record saying something controversial and stupid. That’s exactly what the Royal Family team advises I’m sure.
:: However, it’s something that “usually everyone gets very cross about because they lose.” ::
Telling on himself.
His kids seem a little young for monopoly don’t they?
Either they play the childrens versions and help the kids A LOT, or this is bull. Monopoly is complex, and Risk even more so. Risk is literally a war strategy game! I think there’s a non-violent kids version for that, too, but even the kids versions are for 8 and up, generally. His kids are still in the Candyland and Hungry Hungry Hippos ages. Maybe Clue with George. I think this is just a lie, honestly.
Monopoly i could somewhat see, just the kids not fully understanding. But Risk? I mean I knew some kids who started playing that in maybe 5th grade. But there is no way a 6 and a 3 year old are playing Risk.
Signed, a mom of a 5 year old who barely has the attention span for Monopoly Junior and who also doesn’t even play it correctly. He’s a cheaty cheater, my boy.
He is not playing Monopoly with them–they are way too young!! And it’s kind of a boring game, IMO. If he was down on the floor playing games with them for the past few years he’d say Candyland or Life (with its great spinning wheel) or Mouse Trap or Operation or whatever kids games they have in Merry Olde England. Monopoly and Risk are older kids’ board games. Jeez.
LOL, maybe George is playing Monopoly Jr. but not Risk. My kids are 9 and 7 (so just a year or so older than George and Charlotte) and Monopoly Jr is a no go, Risk is laughable to even think about. They do play Stratego but the 7 year old doesn’t quite get it, and the older one loves Memoir 44 but I still always beat him at it (hey, its good for him to lose, lol.)
So yeah, I’m calling BS on Monopoly and Risk for the Cambridge children. honestly it sounds like those are the only board games William remembered from his childhood.
And neither of these games, along with most of his answers, seem like they would be things that children in the cancer ward would relate to. He always leaves room for wine? He likes the game Risk? He doesn’t know what elf on a shelf is? His favorite part of Xmas is seeing his kids play with other kids (kind of mean to say this to children cancer patients stuck in the hospital!) he doesn’t know what he wants for Xmas, and his favorite Xmas songs are “something by Mariah Carey?” Say something like jingle bells or frosty the snowman, something that kids will actually be able to immediately call up in their mind. I don’t know why they did the interview with him this way. Are little kids desperate to know things about a 40 year old Prince William? So this seems like a weird way to have him on the program to begin with, but if that’s the way they’re going to go anyways, then try to tailer your answers to actual children. You have children, so this shouldn’t be that hard for you! You should know that “Risk” and “wine” aren’t high on the list of things that excite kids or that they can relate to.
They certainly aren’t! Certainly the 3 and 6 year olds are not playing Risk, so either he is lying or Louis and Charlotte are being left out of the games.
THIS! how on EARTH are these children playing lengthy war strategy games? this is such a dumb, obvious lie
but i guess playing games that exemplify domination through capital and colonization are an excellent primer on the BRF
There is a kids’ version of Monopoly, I used to have it as a kid. It wasn’t that confusing from what I remember and simple enough for 5-12 year olds to follow. Around their age I was playing games like “Les Petits Chevaux” (the closest American boardgame I can think of is Sorry). Penguin Freeze Tag, Chutes and Ladders etc.
I first played monopoly when l was about seven.
It’s totally possible they are playing risk Jr. the game is super easy to understand and only somewhat similiar to the original Risk. It literally requires no reading and our little ones play it (5,7). I doubt his youngest are but I could totally see George or Charlotte playing it, even if not following it exactly.
Sounds like most of you need to play more board games regularly or your kids have zero attention span.
My kids were around Louis and Charlotte’s ages when they started with chess. The older one learned at school and the younger one wanted to be just like his big brother so we taught him too. It didn’t work that well since he got upset when his pieces were captured, but he often wanted to play nonetheless.
Around the same time we also started playing Junior Monopoly and Settlers of Catan. At that age, kids need adult facilitators who not only play the game with them but also guide them in what to do next, how to make strategic choices, etc. You might only play two or three rounds, but it is all part of socialising them (taking turns, following rules, etc) and paving the way for future enjoyment.
I think a lot also depends on the kids and their temperaments. Mine like to strategize and they’re also fairly quiet, so board games are a natural fit. By contrast, their cousin can’t sit still for more than a few minutes.
I feel like William and the whole RF is really trying to push the happy united family image going into the New Year. They really want us to forget that M & H exposed that ‘family’ for the toxic vipers nest it truly is.
Except william just admitted that they don’t see each other much. So not a close family at all
This is it. They are desperately trying to change the narrative but they need to realize that it’s a fruitless task with the folks like us who see right through their sh*t.
Really vanilla. Reminds me of the bland answers Katherine Schwartzenegger gave on that magazine survey thing.
Omg my heart breaks for Archie and Lili. Those two innocent kids are gonna be treated like complete outsiders aren’t they?
F*ck this guy! I hope all his endeavours fail and he ALWAYS falls in the shadow of his more successful brother for the rest of his life.
(oh and I hope AV lose their Boxing Day match #pettyaf)
It’s for their best interest. They will be scapegoats like their dad if they associate with those people
They’re better off being apart from those people, please. My heart is filled with happiness for them! They get to grow up, free! They won’t be anyone’s scapegoats. Plus, we know Meghan and Harry have great friends who are also parents so Arch and Lili are in no way isolated. Praise God for them!
I don’t think the Sussexes are crying over Archie and Lili not playing with the Cambridge kids. Lol. I think the Sussexes are relieved.
They are better off as outsiders. If they were on the inside they’d be treated as the ethnic American scapegoats the way their mom was/is.
Well, they are. Even if the royal family weren’t awful snobbish racists, it’s difficult to maintain close links with people who live on a different continent. Easier for people in their income bracket who can afford to travel internationally regularly, to be sure, but certainly not the same as living locally. And there’s the age difference to take into account as well. George and Charlotte are 8 and 6, closer in age to Mia and Lena, than they are to Archie and Lili. Harry’s kids will probably be closer to Eugenie and Beatrice’s kids.
There’s the geographic difference and the cultural difference. The Cambridge children and the Sussex children are going to grow up in different worlds. Both very privileged worlds, but different.
Is it possible for cousins who live on different continents to still have a relationship and be close? Yes, especially these days with facetime and zoom and texting and email etc – but even if everything was A-OK between Harry and William, the Sussex kids would still be outsiders relatively compared to the British cousins.
But, I think H&M knew that and I think that was part of the appeal of moving to California.
@Layla: My heart is not breaking. Harry’s children are better off not knowing any of the Windsors.
My heart is fine knowing Archie and Lili are growing up away from people who wish them harm. They are safe, happy and sorrounded by goodwill by God’s grace. When William was first asked about how he feels about becoming uncle now that Harry was having a child, his response was I am already an uncle. He doesn’t consider Meghan as human who deserves to be treated with dignity and kindness and he extends it to Archie and Lili as well. He doesn’t consider them part of his extended family, he doesn’t care for their well being and certainly has no love as an uncle for them. Harry is different, he loved his nephews and nieces. So, its good that he keeps showing the world how ugly and rotten he is from inside because that is what it takes to have animosity towards innocent children.
They aren’t in the same country any more thanks to their smart parents that won’t happen. They will have plenty of friends so I don’t think it will affect them that much not being closed with their cousins I mean lots of people are like that..
I’m not sad for them at all; they’re far away from those vultures. It’s much better this way because the way W&K talk about and treat Meghan is exactly how Archie and Lili were going to be treated. Their cousins are going to be raised to look at them as less than because they are part black.
Kate would have that fake smile around them and William would be super cold.
There is no way William and Kate would be crouching down, playing and rolling around with Archie and Lili the way a good uncle and aunt (read: Harry and Meghan) would do. They would be super stiff and standoffish with those kids. A and L are much, much better off without them.
Wish someone would ask him when he’ll go meet Archie and Lilibeth.
They are no doubt pre approving any questions and only sitting down with journalists that wont go rogue in the interviews. They are cowards and thats why they wont ever be able to sit down with a respectable interviewer that is free to ask anything.
Serena no one in the U.K. media has the balls to do that. But just wait until he goes to the US.
Looking forward people asking “Have you met your brother” every damn time he’s seen in US
When your own brother has kids it looks really bad to talk about your cousin’s children.
@Nic919: But can you blame him he’s never met his brother’s children, that was his choice.
I still remember the nasty reply he made when someone asked him if he was looking forward to becoming an uncle, after Meghan’s pregnancy with Archie was announced. He replied that he was already an uncle and said nothing more. This guy is trash. I hope all those astrologers who pointed out that his natal chart was missing the “king-ship” sign that QEII, Charles, and George all have are correct and he never gets that throne. Let whatever it is that the tabloids have on him be exposed so that he is forced to step out of the line of succession.
From your lips to gods ears…..
He added that tidbit about his cousin’s children as a barb to Harry but it’s make him look like a childish, heartless brother. Archie and lili are better off not being around the Cambridges or their children before in a few years time we will hear Archie made Kate and Charlotte cry.
He 100% said that to try to hurt Harry, which just shows how MUCH William doesn’t get it. Harry is never going back to the Firm, and I seriously doubt he cares who the Cambridge children play with, as long as it’s not his own children.
BOOM!
William is such a loser.
Whichever kid they peg as the “sensitive” one will be centerpoint to bash the Sussexes later. “Cambridge kid X is so sad he’s never had the chance to get to know his cousins because Uncle Harry, who he adored, and his wife forced an estrangement from the family. Cambridge kid X is very very sad and heart broken to not share childhood memories and activities to his cousins who are being denied blah blah blah because of Meghan of course.”
William is exhausting. Even in a “cute little interview” he can’t let go of his hatred of his brother and has to take a dig at the baby and toddler children he will refuse to ever meet. Like most of you I never wondered for a second why Harry and Meghan felt they had to escape from the damn country and reduce the relationship with William to “space.” Harry got therapy and he UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT
Yup, he just can’t help himself in any situation! Even when everyone was paying tribute to Philip, William *still* couldn’t help being passive aggressive in his message. Total trash.
William is a miserable, bitter man who wants to make everyone else miserable too because he will never be happy within himself. You’re right — he’s the epitome of “mentally exhausting”. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…dude is toxic.
Which cousins? It is all fake, they don’t mix with them much.
I’m going on the record – he might be able to beat his primary school aged children, but I could totally take him at Risk!
“For me, generally, bringing the family together at Christmastime is always lovely because we’re quite spread out doing our things a lot of time throughout the year.” William just inadvertently revealed that the windsor clan is in fact not close at all.
I would think Monopoly was too old for his children but anyway…
His statement makes Louis look like an afterthought yet again because a 3 year old is definitely too young for monopoly or risk. I feel for that poor kid.
My thought as well and those games are from his generation. I live in America, not the UK but those aren’t the popular games here for children that age. It doesn’t sound like an actual anecdote.
@equality: At their ages, at least the two older ones, would be playing snakes and ladders and ludo. Louis is not playing board games.
There is the kids Monopoly game. Maybe they play that one.
The fact is, all those kids are varying degrees of cousins, so if he’d said the catchall “cousins,” it would have been fine. But he wanted to call attention to the fact that he’s keeping his kids from knowing their first cousins, which is so grotesque and creepy. That, or he doesn’t understand lineage and thought he was being smart, when in fact he’s stupid. I could see that too.
He also TOTALLY dissed his own niece and nephew of HIS WIFE’S SISTER. I guess they don’t see Pippa, James and their two kids at all? Only his COUSIN’S kids??
You get the feeling that his relationship with the Middletons is kinda strained these days, so that oversight very well may have been intentional, too.
dupe
Elf on the shelf is nasty, harmful & just plain creepy & disturbing to even look at.
Any parent who thinks it’s “cute” needs to give their head a firm shake.
Don’t @ me, I said what I said.
I agree completely!! I used to manage a toy store and NO ONE heard about this dumb elf thing until the book and doll set were released. Maybe…….15 years ago? 10? I’ll have to look it up. I heard one customer mention she remembered it as a kid, but she was a boomer and absolutely an outlier in recognizing it.
The elf itself was pretty ubiquitous in the 60s and 70s, but it was just an ornament. We had bunches of them. It wasn’t used for surveillance back then.
First time I heard of it was on “Shark Tank”. I forget which Shark took it, but I think it was Laurie (‘cos they sell it in BB&B) or maybe it was Barbara ¯_(ツ)_/¯ …one of them.
Eh…it’s harmless.
I’m a boomer and hadn’t heard of elf on the shelf until fairly recent years. We didn’t have that as kids, just the usual stockings and decorations around the house.
My grandma had a bunch of the elves, but yeah, the whole “it is watching you” thing is much more recent and due to the book. AND CREEPY!
We definitely didn’t have one growing up, so I do think the whole “the elf is watching you” is a pretty new phenomenon. We do have one and I like it, the boys get a huge kick out of finding it each morning, but I also don’t go overboard with it (like, the elf moves from the table to the christmas tree to the kitchen counter and back, lol.)
Same here. We have an elf (named Mr. Pickle Pants) and my two boys love it. We don’t do anything crazy with it and I certainly don’t threaten them with it and make them feel like the elf is watching their every move. They just enjoy trying to figure out where he moved every morning when they wake up. He’s usually in the tree, or in a vase, or on a shelf–I’m super imaginative like that. 😉
We had three of the elves growing up, but they weren’t Santa’s snitches back then. They hung out with Barbie, Ken and Skipper and pretty much minded their own business until they were packed away with the Christmas ornaments.
One of the reasons that Bill is not asked about Harry and Meghan and their children is that he only does interviews/press where he can control who is around and has the questions ahead of time. Bill talked about his cousin’s children (i.e. Zara’s kids) b/c he knew if he mentioned Pippa’s there would be headlines and talk about his other niece and nephew that he has yet to meet. It’s a safe response that won’t invite too many questions/headlines. It will be interesting how his and Kate’s tour of the US will play out next year b/c its inevitable a “rogue” reporter/pap will scream about Harry and Meghan and will no doubt have to answer.
Except he could have just said “to see my kids play with their cousins is really special” because zara and eugenies kids are also the Cambridges cousins.
But he just had to go their and make it “MY cousins children”. To purposely exclude harry and meghan.
Truth be told: im extremely happy archie and lili won’t see much of the Cambridge kids. Because everybody knows that they were supposed to be their scapegoats. I want better for archie and lili and now they are free.
I don’t even think his children have much interaction with Pippa’s children either. At the Christmas concert, he did not acknowledge the Middletons at all, unless I missed it. And let’s not forget that the Cambridge kids weren’t pictures at James’ wedding either, despite being heavily featured for Pippa’s wedding. I think he might be in the outs with them too, probably after the whole “Carole was a better mother than Diana” fiasco, which resulted in the great Benching of 2021.
@JT: although i wholeheartedly believe that the Cambridge marriage is dead, i don’t believe that they’ll ever get a divorce. But i do think that the whole middleton pr pissed him of greatly. Which makes me wonder how he is looking at an article like “william gets kate a gin tonic” and the other article where is was made clear that william about apparently needs kate to lean on after sussexit.
Whether they’ll divorce or not really depends on how beneficial it would be to William to divorce her and time will tell on that front. I personally think, with the right spin, he could actually come out in an even better position as an engaged, hardworking, single dad. With that being said, the Middleton business does not bode well for Kate because they’ve always been the Keen’s number one cheerleaders. William went from “I already have a nephew” when Archie was born to “how great is that my kids can play with their cousins at Christmas,” presumably the royal cousins. Add in her family’s tasteless interview about Meg and you’ve got yourself a scapegoat for the whole Sussexit situation with a heaping dose of “what else.”
JT, I have to wonder about whether his kids see Pippa’s kids, too. He did say “my cousins’ children”. In the way he worded this, it sounds like he doesn’t see his kids play with other children. I doubt he does.
TBQH I (personally) think this was directed at Harry. Not Pippa. I’m sure Ma Middleton makes every attempt to make sure Pippa’s children are as ‘royal adjacent’ i.e. exposed to the FFFK & the spare as possible. Lining up their future prospects before they’re even out of nappies. But that’s just my 2p 🤷🏼♀️
It was 100% directed at Harry.
And Meghan. Notice how they brought the cousins out of the woodworks to parade them around at Kate’s caroling. When was the last time you saw that? But jealousy is the name of the game and he and Kate are jealous about hearing Eugenie and her husband are good friends with Harry and Meghan and how Meghan mentions she and Harry are friends with them as a couple. Now all of a sudden William is rolling them out. The future, future king cannot be outdone.
I’m assuming the cousins mentioned are Peter’s children, those are the ones we’ve seen publicly interacting with the Cambridge children the most, although I guess Zara’s children also fit the bill obviously, but I think they typically go to Australia for christmas (not always, and maybe not this year.)
and yeah it was a catty, ahole comment that just draws attention to the fact that he has no relationship with his brother’s children.
Archie at his nursery school having a blast, Lili is being waited on hand and foot, hoping her teeth broke the surface, then she will going through it again.
Hahahaha…exactly
I hope William’s cousins protect their kids because with Harry out of the picture it will be the cousins children who will be scapegoats to prop up the Cambridge’s kids. I sincerely hope that the Sussexes keep their children away because given the way the Sussexes have been treated those children will be considered fair game for abuse. I can see the awful headlines in my mind now. Charlotte cried. Louis ignored. And George will be portrayed as the leader who guided the Sussexes children. Just recently People magazine credited George for Archie wearing peppa pig wellie’s. Sources will claim the children are too American. They don’t understand BRF protocol. Etc. There is no doubt W was directing this comment at Harry. He clearly is obsessed with wanting to best Harry. The hilarious part of this is he is leaving out the Middleton kids. Carole won’t like that. I’ll never forget when asked how he felt about being an uncle he emphasized he was already an uncle. Completely dismissing the special nature of your only sibling having his first child. Now the Middleton kids don’t get any acknowledgment.
C’mon, man….Elf on a Shelf is a “new” thing, yes, but every parent at least knows what it is. (I actually refused to buy into it with my kids — ain’t nobody got time to be moving a doll around every night into even more convoluted positions and setups — but I absolutely know what it is and what it’s all about!) But then again, this is Bill we’re talking about…who I strongly suspect has no clue about the day-to-day operations of raising those kids. If Kate is not as hands-on as she would like us to believe….he’s even more checked out, trust that.
im a 30yo millenial and have no idea what tf elf on the shelf is. it sounds like a breakfast cereal
Oh, it is a breakfast cereal too, don’t worry, LOL.
I don’t have kids but from what I know it’s a toy elf that is supposed to be moved to different parts of the house so the kids have to find it in its new location every day. If that’s not what it is then I have no idea.
He was stating facts about his children playing with his cousins’s children, I don’t think it was a shade to Harry. We’ve seeing pictures of George and Charlotte with Peter’s kids and Zara’s kids, children closer to his kids in age. That’s probably what he was thinking about.
I was just about to write this. Pippa’s children are way too young to play with the Cambridge kids and Will has only met Archie probably one time and Lilli never so it would make sense to mention his kids hanging out with Zara and more than likely Peter’s children since they are all kind of around the same age.
I don’t think they see that much of the cousins’ children.
My God, he’s unlikable. Looks like he got an A in all his Petty Betty coursework.
I can totally see that rage monster tipping over the board game in a fit of anger after losing to his 8 year old son.
Let’s face it Willie doesn’t see his own nephew or niece as family probably because he thinks their skin colour is too dark. But of course he loves watching his kids playing with his cousins white kids. This guy is the worst.
Wait I don’t understand. When Archie was born, burger King said he was already an uncle through Pippa. But now talking about his cousins who all have the same right children. Why is pip excluded now? Commoner 😏😏
He is not only the worst brother, he is also a shit racist uncle because Harry children having color makes him purposely dismiss their existence. He is just the biggest A——hole ever .
In fairness to William (and I can’t believe I’m saying this), Peter Phillips’ daughters Savannah and Isla are closer in age to George and Charlotte, and have famously been their playmates for longer. Savannah even covered George’s mouth in that funny Trooping the Colour picture. So I wouldn’t immediately think this is a dig at the Sussexes. Zara Tindall’s daughters Mia and Lena, are closer in age to Louis so they would be natural playmates. Although Louis and Archie are just a year apart.
It would be Beatrice and Eugenie’s children and Zara’s youngest who would be playmates for Lili.
Hopping off the ‘William Benefit of the Doubt’ train now… Considering that William didn’t even have joy to share about his nephew when he was born (that horrible ‘I already have a nephew’ quote comes to mind), he probably doesn’t even consider Archie and Lili family. He certainly didn’t treat their mother like family.
In the abstract the comment is benign–the kids closest in age to the Cambridge kids are Zara’s. But, as we all know, William is a complete jerk who is pissed off at Harry. Given William’s past behavior this most likely was meant to be an insult.
I’m Diana’s age and Jewish and I’M familiar with Elf on a Shelf so William’s Elf comment seems odd to me. Furthermore, this seems like something the kids would have learned about via their friends and classmates.
I mean, what’s weird is, if their kids actually are playmates, then the fact is that they should have met up over the course of the year to hang out together right? William would have seen his and his cousins’ kids playing together enough times that this wouldn’t necessarily need to be a special thing for him to witness–unless he’s not actually around for the most part for the child rearing, and especially not for the playdates and things like that that the nanny has to set up and co-ordinate. I dunno if it’s just me, but the little comments in this interview are really pinging me. I’m probably grasping at straws for the most part, but still.
They live 3+ hour drive apart. I don’t see W&K hoping in to a helo to fly over for playdates. If anything, they’d send the kids with the nannies in a helo to Berkshire to see the Middletons.
These constant snarky, pointed insults are obnoxious.
This man needs to move on with his life, and possibly seek counseling. This obsession with his brother is… a problem.
He’s put CarolE in her place! Lol . He and his kids are too close to the throne to play with Pippa’s Common kids. CarolE’s delusions of being adjacent to and part of the Royal Family have just been shown to be that … delusions!
“For me, generally, bringing the family together at Christmastime is always lovely because we’re quite spread out doing our things a lot of time throughout the year.”
Is it just me, or did this comment, at first glance, seem to apply more to the fact that he’s allegedly not really living with Kate + the kids any more, and they’re both off doing their own thing in their own separate lives for the most part. Like, the way he said that him, Kate + the kids love to play Monopoly and Risk. I don’t think he knows what board games his kids like at all. I think he just pulled those two titles out of his ass, and then added a generic comment on how his family doesn’t like to lose–which, if people remember, has been said multiple times before in various anecdotes, about Will and Kate themselves, and how they’re competitive with each other and don’t like to lose. These might be little things, but I really do think they’re a sign of a larger fact that him and Kate don’t actually spend a lot of time together, or as a family, at all. Esp not recently, particularly after Louis was born.
And the “cousins’ children” comment seemed, for the most part, like a calculated attempt to head off the press from speculating on whether or not they’d be seeing Harry and Meghan for Christmas, bc they won’t. Baldy knows exactly what he’s saying with that comment, and he’s leaving no room for interpretation here. He’s not on good terms with his brother, still. In fact he’s not on any terms with his brother. So good of you, Baldy, to state that outright for all of us to know. F-cking eyeroll.
That ping pong photo 😂
Cousins through the York Princesses are still babies. The Cambridge children would not be able to play with them now. I doubt they see much of the Phillips children or the Tindalls.
I wouldnt trust my children with that stupid rugby guy.
He might try to smack them just to prove a point.
I got married in the early 6os. That first Christmas I was given a box of unneeded Christmas decorations by my mother-in-law. Included were 5 or 6 of those elves. In those days they were just hung on the tree along with the colored balls, etc. and had no special meaning.
There was no elf on a shelf watching anybody. I never heard of this until just a few years ago.
That ratchet ping pong paddle is perfect for him.