King Charles will be crowned on May 6th, the fourth birthday of his grandson Prince Archie. April, May and June are full of royal birthdays – Prince Louis’s birthday is coming up on Sunday, Princess Lilibet’s birthday is in June, and Princess Charlotte’s eighth birthday is on May 2nd, just days before the coronation. Apparently, Prince William and Kate are already making plans to skip part of the pre-Chubbly festivities to properly celebrate Charlotte’s birthday. Of course, their choices are being promoted as wholesome and family-oriented by the same British media which has spent the past week in a full meltdown that the Duchess of Sussex is choosing to stay in California to celebrate Archie’s birthday.
King Charles III’s coronation is fast approaching and it’s all stations go over at Buckingham Palace. From the guest-list being drawn up to the dress code being sent out and the royal roles being divvied up, there’s so much to prep ahead of the big day. But, it turns out that said big day has clashed with another important event in Prince William and Kate Middleton’s diary: Princess Charlotte’s birthday on 2 May.
Although the coronation itself falls on 6 May 2023, rehearsals for the event are taking place between 2 May and 5 May in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace, with the Prince and Princess of Wales expected to attend, given their important roles. But one insider has told OK! that the couple plan to ‘cut short’ their rehearsals so that they can spend time with their daughter on her birthday.
“William and Kate are very aware that it’s Princess Charlotte’s birthday on 2 May and don’t want it to get buried in coronation hype,” the source claimed. “They have ensured that Charlotte’s birthday will be celebrated properly during [the] coronation week.”
The insider went on: “Charlotte will be at school at Lambrook on that Tuesday so the plan is to collect her at the usual time and drive back to Windsor for a small party with her friends at Adelaide Cottage. It might even be a surprise party because staff have been told to keep it quiet.”
And Charlotte isn’t the only royal whose birthday falls around the coronation celebrations, with the insider making it known that Charles’ other grandchildren will not miss out. “Prince Louis has his birthday on 23 April, but it doesn’t conflict with any coronation events so will be celebrated as usual. He’ll be turning 5 this year,” the source said.
“They have ensured that Charlotte’s birthday will be celebrated properly during [the] coronation week.” Qwhite. This just angers me all over again, and I’ve grown convinced that Charles and his staff purposefully chose Archie’s birthday for the coronation. Charles is literally beefing with a child over who gets more attention, and Charles is simultaneously acting spiteful towards the entire Sussex family, acting as if it’s some egregious act that Meghan and Harry would have qualms about missing their only son’s birthday. Anyway, I hope we get endless columns about how rude and pathetic Kate and William are for skipping out on Chubbly rehearsals to celebrate Charlotte’s b-day.
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“It might even be a surprise party because staff have been told to keep it quiet”
I leak all my surprise parties to the press too…
@Emma, thank you for a laugh first thing in the morning!
I am so exhausted about all this shit .
It’s so hard being a Sussex supporter,I really don’t know how Harry and Meghan stay sane with all this continued abuse and ill treatment .
You know who else birthday is during that week . Like literally on that day, ARCHIE.
Chucky can you hear me? It’s ARCHIES 4th birthday. For f sake , 365 days in a year and you could not find another one. Any other one for your look at me and my big hat parade day . I can’t with these people.
And Kate and willy will use any and everything to get out of work or obligations. So what a blessing Charlotte birthday is for them.
The amount of fuss over small children’s birthdays is mind blowing. Archie doesn’t know what day of the week his birthday is and Charlotte is old enough to understand her party may not fall on her exact birthday.
What’s new on the Royal Housewives of Windsor (RHOW) reality show? Surprise children’s birthday parties and missing coronation rehearsals. Tune in to the British morning shows (GMB, Lorraine, Loose Women, This Morning, Jeremy Vine) to hear about the latest drama around Windsor from the “royal experts”. Who will be on the party guest list? Will the Cholmondeley children be invited? Tune in to find out.
So much royal drama, is that what taxpayers pay for? Thankfully the Sussexes are far away from the drama in England.
@Tacky, that’s not the point
@Tacky You said this yesterday too, it’s not about them knowing or even celebrating on the exact day of their birthday. It’s not even about the location of the celebration when they do celebrate. It’s about the constant othering and hypocritical treatment between the two families. It’s great sunshine and rainbows for the Wales’ to do anything for their kids, and if Meghan even thinks of acknowledging her child’s birthday and not want to have to celebrate in a viper’s nest she’s wrong.
@cassie 100% with you
There is always a double standard between the Wales and the Sussexes because the media and the royal family are blatant racists. But to make the coronation about birthday party drama misses the real point.
Charles is spending an enormous amount of money during an unprecedented cost of living crisis in the UK. All the will they/won’t they and birthday parties is a distraction from the fact that Charles’ gross display of excess shows his massive and unwarranted sense of entitlement.
@Tacky. I’ll be honest I hate that rationale. People can discuss more than one point at a time. This coverage of the birthday stuff is racist and hypocritical AND the focus should be on the complete waste of money this entire event is. Too often when there are multiple problematic issues people want the racism to take a back seat to money or classism. No this is racist and it deserves to be discussed. It also deserves to be discussed how much money is being wasted for something that is essentially a pointless endeavor.
@Tacky: Sensible adults like us – who value money as the result of the efforts and dedication we invest daily at work – are fully aware that kids’ birthdays are trivial and peripheral matters per se.
Nonetheless, it seems that you might be missing one of the layers at stake: Buckingham’s politicization and weaponization of innocent children’s birthday celebrations as a spin means to leverage the Wailses’s reputation of perfect patenthood. Now Charlotte’ s party is becoming critical in the Palace’s pinkwashing strategy.
(Just finishing my above post, sorry.)
The reason the royal kids’ birthdays suddenly matter, is that the child’s well-being is no longer paramount. The whole point is to scaffold 😂 Catherine’s Holy Madonna’s image in the public eye.
Da girl had never made much of her children’s birthdays, until the Duchess of Sussex decided to prioritize her son’s. The Palace is now contractually obligated to have Karen emulate doting motherhood and appear hands-on.
Therefore, everything is intertwined: racism, jealousy, rivalry, social mimicking, class exclusiveness, stupidity…
@Sugarhere — agree. It’s classic one-upmanship/passive aggressiveness using the kids’ birthdays as weapons and, as usual, it’s blowing up in the Wails’s faces. The more they ruffle their feathers and brief to the tabloid scum the more obvious it is. C&C chose that date deliberately to put the Sussexes between a rock and a hard place, to draw the most criticism of them whether they attended or not. Harry’s doing the right thing, showing up for the bare minimum then bouncing.
True that Archie might not know what day of the week his birthday is on at this young age, but at some point once he is older he will know that his worthless petty grandfather cared so little about him that he chose the day of his birthday, instead of the 364 other days of the year, to put a crooked crown on his racist head and that of the side piece next to him that helped to contribute to the torture of his dearly departed grandmother Diana. Interesting that people are so easily want to ignore the horrible treatment that these biracial children have been handed along with their parents all because of some immoral family that has decided that everyone should celebrate them for simply existing.
@Jaded: Agreed. One-upmanship perfectly illustrates Buckingham’s desperate attempt to control the narrative and shape public opinion around their conspiracy.
The narrative is expected to shift from “Meghan was objectively left with no choice but to excuse herself after they conspired to secure her absence” to “look at self-sacrificial, multi-tasking Kate who, unlike the American, will both throw a killer birthday party for her daughter AND fulfill her royal duty supporting her beloved father-in-law”.
Spot on comment! Thanks for the giggle.
That Easter (?) pic bothers me. Mom in a coat, dad & bros in jackets, & Charlotte with bare arms. Was it cold or not?
And why dress those darlings in toddler clothes? My overall thoughts on this is stop using the kids as show ponies. It’s a form of child abuse.
Charlotte had a thiiiiiick coat on the walk in. I imagine it just warmed up enough to be uncomfortable on the way out. But with Kate, looks are just more important than function
Charlotte had a coat walking in. Kate is carrying it over her arm in the photo above. Kids don’t always wear coats – but Kate does. LOL!
this is ENRAGING. I mean whatever, celebrate your daughter’s bday, good for you. But Meghan is the villain for not wanting to fly across a continent and an ocean on her son’s bday and remember that she has plenty of “helpers” according to whoever last week so she doesn’t even need to be with her son on his bday etc etc……but heaven forbid W&K not be there to collect Charlotte so they’ll miss rehearsals? William who does actually have a role in the coronation?
These people. SMDH.
Not to mention all the people in comments who said how a BD doesn’t have to be celebrated on the actual day of.
Also enraging – “Charles’ other grandchildren will not miss out” – yeah, the grandchildren other than Archie and Lili.
Eurydice, Yes as if William’s children are the only grandchildren he has. They are trying their best to erase Archie and Lili from the family tree.
Exactly. Meghan is terrible because she’s prioritising her son’s birthday which is actually ON the day of the coronation but wow look at William & Kate for being great parents because they’re prioritising their daughter’s birthday that is happening 2 days before.
I have no issues with W&K celebrating Charlotte’s birthday but I am tired and angry at the double standards that are applied to both couples.
That “helpers” thing still bothers me. As I said before, “helpers” can’t replace Mommy at your birthday.
Don’t hold your breath for articles about Khate and PWT missing events.
The hypocrisy. It burns.
Well didn’t William skip out on his own wedding rehearsal and Harry had to step in?
I also think he’s jealous of the news that Harry will fly home to Archie so he’s had to let the world know he’s a great father by celebrating his daughters birthday
The same William who didn’t attend his daughters first Easter because he was off to his exes wedding. By himself.
Yes i think you’re right. They are jealous because people have been praising Meghan for staying back to give priority to her child’s birthday and Harry for flying back immediately home.
Skipping out on rehearsals is Burger King’s brand. But it’s so boring!!! I don’t want to!!! Stomps feet. The coronation rehearsal probably starts at 10am but Burger King will be looking at his watch by 11 saying he has to go.
I have no problem with them cutting it short to be there for Charlotte on her birthday. But making a story about it just to be all nah nah nah nah my kid has a birthday that week too look at me!!! More feet stomping. William is such a big jealous baby.
The Sussexes absolutely live rent free in their heads, so much of what they do is responding to media narrative about the Sussexes and their actions. It must be exhausting. While it’s totally on brand for them to skip out on ‘work’, this feels 100% like retaliation to Archie’s birthday plans and the discussion around them.
LOOK WE ARE LOVING PARENTS TOO.
In reference to ange. William is crazy and hilarious. I did not know harry had to step in for william. So KATE KNEW that william didnt want to marry her. Its not like he was tired from working. I bet harry had fun.
Im surprised the bishop married them.
Not to actually defend W&K in any way, but my son will be 7 in August and we’ve hit the point of “why isn’t my party on my actual birthday?!” So maybe Charlotte is kicking up about having a big to-do for her birthday this year?
I mean, I do think it is 99% W&K being racist a-holes and jealous of Meghan and Harry and 1% Charlotte hitting that point of her birthday being a BIG DEAL to her. (And I write this as someone who just turned 36 and is still salty that her grandfather passed on her birthday 11 years ago and then last year my ex-husband’s girlfriend had the audacity to have their little boy on my birthday, haha. (And yes, babies come when they come and I’ve gotten over it; it was just a little overwhelming when I got the message on that day last year)).
Charles knew it was Archie’s bday by the time the coronation date was finalized. He chose the date for a purpose.
Of course that reprobate picked Archie’s birthday on purpose!!! Sorry. I’m so pissed off about this whole debacle. I hope it flops bigly. Harry winging in and out for a two-hour Clowning will make a huge story that should serve CIII a healthy dose of humiliation.
Imagine how utterly insufferable UpChuck is in person. It would be a struggle not to dopeslap him, good Gaia.
Hmmm, interesting that they are copying the Sussex’s and also taking a step back from the buildup.
Makes me think:
1) They’ve been told to
2) They are doing this in response to all the bad press they (esp kHate) has been getting
3) They are doing it as a sulky eff u to Chuck as they are not going to be allowed to make it about themselves
4) Due to lack of interest in the Chubbly in the UK in general they’ve pulled out of events etc.. to try and distance themselves
5) All of the above
Something is def afoot!
All of these 👆👆👆
@DigitalUnicorn, I strongly suspect that 4 is now in all their heads. I made a similar comment to the post about the media fighting for more control of the Con coverage. There’s such a visible lack of excitement even in the UK.
(But yes, I agree all the other factors you listed are in play).
“It might even be a surprise party because staff have been told to keep it quiet.”
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Yeah how is that working out? Nothing says surprise party like announcing it in the press
Love this for them! Love that the get to celebrate their white babies birthday without issues but Meghan is selfish for doing the same. Those leans that island are disgusting.
I am so exhausted about all this shit .
It’s so hard being a Sussex supporter,I really don’t know how Harry and Meghan stay sane with all this continued abuse and ill treatment .
It is exhausting…sadly I don’t visit this site as much because of it. I have accepted that every article about the Sussexes coming out of the UK will be negative.
So some of Charles’ other grandchildren also have a BD around that time, but no mention of Prince Archie at all?
It’s crazy making at its finest.
I hate this so so so much.
They chose Archie’s birthday for one reason. They knew Meghan would not be parted from Archie on his birthday. They knew that meant Meghan would not be able to attend. It initially angered me but I am happy they did it. That means she does not have to step foot on that salty a$$ island again. I didn’t want her there. I didn’t want her around those evil people.
Harry will always do his duty. His father is not his commander in chief. He will attend the actual coronation, then he will bounce. They will never get what they want. They will never have Harry.
I wouldn’t say they choose 6th May because its Archie’s birthday – that week is already known in the UK as a bank holiday week as the 1st May is a public holiday as its May Day (that celebrates the start of Summer). Monday the 8th is also a bank holiday in the UK as part of his coronation celebrations. There is also another bank holiday on the 28th May so its a month full of public holidays for the UK and some other European nations.
That’s true @DIGITAL UNICORN however, there’s also 11 whole other months.
Wouldn’t that make the con much less of a big deal then? If the people aren’t even getting an extra holiday and KC is just taking over an already existing one and expecting them to throw over their normal plans and have days of service, etc, what benefit are people getting besides being allowed to fund his big party?
That and if the Sussexes attended they would have brought the children to eventually have a pic with the entire family for future optics…..
@digital unicorn I totally agree with you. I was not even aware of the bank holiday (I am living some place else in Europe) but it is borderline insane to think that one of the biggest events of the monarchy in the last 100 years – crowning a fu*%#-ing king – is scheduled with birthdays of children in mind.
I am really not a fan of monarchy and this whole family are grifters and need to be abolished. But seeing everything through this little lens is not helpful to get rid of them or fighting the insane nationalism (Brexit!) or the hateful but also powerful yellow press.
Well. When she didn’t RSVP no fast enough they took away the only place the susses’s have a guaranteed degree of safety – the home they paid for and had a lease on. So she wouldn’t bring the kiddos and have a party and celebration at frogmore and sneak away quick for the sparkly hat party.
Staff? What staff? Weren’t we told that AC is so small that there could be no nanny and dear Khate had to shoulder her kids alone? Now they have plenty of staff that are even preparing for the celebration and have to keep quiet?!
“William and Kate are very aware that it’s Princess Charlotte’s birthday on 2 May”
Such a strange statement that they have their proxy/source announce that yes they know when their child’s birthday is.
I know – did somebody accuse them of not knowing when was their daughter’s birthday?
Perhaps some people were anxious about them whether they remember or not Charlotte’s birthday seeing their very busy schedules, constant projects etc. The vast amount of their causes and engagements could make them forget about it..you know… it could slip their mind. /s
This completely cracked me up! It’s like they suddenly remembered on Sunday that their kid ALSO had a birthday Chubbly week. I’m dead.
What an awful family, the coronation is going to be a total sh**tshow.
We won’t get any press outrage. Kate and William will be praised for their commitment to their family.
Hmm. I don’t even know what to say. It’s hard to tell if they’re just making this up, or if W and K want this out there. Either way it’s another stick to beat Meghan with that people will miraculously not find hypocritical. Somehow though Meghan will still be a monster if she has a birthday party for Archie, even if we never know the guest list or see a single photo like they did for Lili’s christening.
I’m not even surprised at this point. Of COURSE Keen and Mean are going to leak to the press that they’re doing something the Sussexes are doing. And of COURSE they’ll being praised as great parents and dedicated royals while Meghan gets 20k nasty articles written about her FOR THE EXACT SAME THING. This is straight out of the Wailses Copykeening playbook!
And, bahahaha, of course they’re skipping out on the preparation and rehearsals part. Of COURSE! They are the most underprepared, DGAF, refuse to read my briefings because I’m a big spoiled baby yet also the smartest person in the room, royals ever. That’s been Peggington‘s MO since forever. Bunch of clowns.
Charles could not possibly have scheduled the con a nation on a wales child’s birthday but it does not matter if it’s Archie birthday. An awful person Charles is.
Look at Kate’s manicure! Why aren’t the press all over that shocking lack of decorum? Hmmm….
I hate these people — whom I don’t know! — so much, I’m spitless. Charlotte DOES deserve to have her birthday celebrated, and SO DOES ARCHIE!!!
Attending all the coronation events will be too exhausting for the Doolittles so Charlotte’s birthday will be a good excuse for them to hide away. There has been a few Twitter posts in recent days about their laziness. I live in hope that the media will turn on them soon.
There was no need to leak this. CopyKate strikes again.
Of course there was a need: the need to be praised as perfect parents … they seriously don’t have anything else to be praised for (I doubt they deserve praise even for this, but that’s the story they sell to the public). Not to mention the need to “justify ” their further absence. It’s been almost a month since we last saw them because, you know, school break, but, judging by their very light schedule till struggly, we won’t see them often … because, you know, Charlotte’s birthday party 🤷♀️🤷♀️
So they never mention Archie’s b’day on the actual con-a-nation day? This whole article is a deliberate swipe at Archie and his parents. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah! We have birthday parties whenever we want! “Charlotte’s birthday will be celebrated properly.” So there!
What creeps.
I think it’s called trolling. This is clearly WanK having a childish dig at H&M. This is what they are reduced to now. Willy has no power to ban Harry from being at his dad’s shindig as he would like to.
The last crazed headline I saw about him was that he would ‘tolerate’ Harry’s presence lol. Basically that translates to, he’s been told by his dad that, after discussions that didn’t include him, Harry is attending whether he likes it or not, so suck it up buttercup.
I do hope Charlotte and Archie both have lovely birthdays & parties, as I would wish for any child. I also really hope the former isn’t negatively influenced by the petty vindictive natures of her parents as she grows older.
1. Its telling that no one has brought up charlottes birthday until now.
2. Harsh take. If anyone can take one for the team it should be charlotte. A coronation is a celebration anyway. She is older and will benefit from being a princess more. This should be a teaching moment. She can have a proper party after or before the chubbly. I say make her go to the rehearsal for a few hours. Earn the title. Unless
3. Kate and william arent wanted at the rehersals. Or william doesnt want to rehearse with camilla.
4. Look at those pictures. Are we sure william isnt the primary parent. They both dont want to be around kate.
4. We all know Nanny Maria is the primary parent. William is probably the “fun*” dad who pops in on the weekends or whenever
*by fun I mean unexpected. Maybe they do fun things, IDK. But he’s the divorced dad with weekend visitation rights in that family already.
It might’ve been a surprise party but NOT ANYMORE
“William and Kate are very aware that it’s Princess Charlotte’s birthday on 2 May…”
Whoa, talk about your hands on parenting! Check out these two apparently knowing the date of their child’s birth (even though she’s not the heir AND she’s a girl). My goodness, William and Kate should throw themselves a little party just for being such great parents.
🤣🤣
This is the BM griping because it knows Charlotte’s birthday news and birthday photos will not make them money. The Wales children are overexposed so it’s this is a meh but part of the invisible contract. The Sussex children are the money shots and these media clowns are slagging Meghan for robbing them of a fresh stream of revenue. If pictures do get out about Archie’s birthday American media would get dibs, another reason the BM is salty. For the most part US media does not operate an extortion racket to force people to do interviews.
Makes me wonder how much pent-up anger the BM have at the BRF for any actions the BRF take that diminish Sussex journalism money. (Even though the BM have a lot of, or even most of, the responsibility for Sussexit in the first place.)
Ahh… the princely privilege. Cut short rehearsal due to daughter’s birthday while the foot soldiers had to carry on without excuse. Would any working parents dare to do this do this when duty calls.
I dunno, I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say “Charles chose Archie’s birthday on purpose for spite.” Do I think Charles et al. are exactly that petty? Absolutely. Do I also think there are at least 50 family members among just his brothers & sisters and their kids, plus his own kids and stepkids and grandkids, so it was going to have to fall close to somebody’s birthday regardless? Also yes. Are we as readers of this website prone to be more upset about this because BUT THIS IS AGAINST MEGHAN, Y’ALL? Also yes. Somebody above pointed out the thing about it being a bank holiday or something already. Maybe it’s because my own birthday isn’t a big deal to me, but how big a deal is it to a 4-year-old? How does he even know it’s his birthday unless you tell him? Just say it’s some other day, he won’t know. I’ll probably get trampled by all the moms and dads telling me how it’s THEIR special day TOO, but I’m the same with all holidays and such (since I usually have to work)- if you can’t do it THAT day, do it another day. The point is to celebrate something with people you care about, not the calendar date. [BTW I don’t think either of the Sussexes should grace it with their presence at all, in any time or space, period.]
Y’all need to stop.
Archie goes to some sort of morning school program. That means there is a calendar in the room marking everyone’s birthday.
Birthdays are a HUGE deal to children. They can be the source of stress as well. Children can and do have existential crises about getting older while also being super excited for presents and cake etc.
we aren’t rich or Royal. But the days our children were born has immense meaning because we are a family and the day that they were born and came into our family officially is one of such deep joy and thankfulness for them. Of course we want to celebrate it! We take off of work, we have whatever dinner they choose – their special birthday dinner – we decorate the house with streamers and such after they go to sleep so they wake up to a colorful celebration.
It’s not about the party and the friends and the blah blah blah – esp for kids who had multiple birthdays during Covid. It’s about showing they are loved and valued and that we are so happy they are a part of our family and that they are a completely necessary and important part of our family. So much so that for that one day – it’s all about them. Not to a spoiled degree. But in the way we come together to do the simple things they want. Play tag. Ride bikes. Anyway.
I’m sick of people acting like children have no idea or concept of time or their birthdays.
You meet a three year old and they tell you their name and their birthday. Because it’s important to them.
Exactly this. I always knew about my birthday.
This is so true. How many kids tell you they’re 4 1/2 or 4 3/4? They love birthdays. They knew what they were doing when they set the date on Archie’s birthday. Maybe they did think the whole family would come, but evicting them from Frogmore changed that. The Cambridge’s have every right to celebrate Charlotte’s birthday, but there is a whiff of wanting attention and one up the Sussexes with this sudden news. Also it’s weird saying they’re going to cut short theri rehearsal days when they only need to do that for the actual birthday day, not the entire time. It’s distasteful how they’re trying to use these kids as pawns in their one-sided competition.
Same. From when I was little and in nursery school days, I always knew my birthday. Having a birthday taken away to be celebrated on a later date, however mindful the explanation, still felt hurtful. The reasons are more understandable as an adult, but as a child, it’s a loss of trust and an instance of something feeling untrue. Take away a birthday, they don’t feel okay.
Nah. Charles had a whole damn year to pick one day for his coronation and this is the one he came up with? It’s not about bank holidays. Why are we even pretending that Charles isn’t a spiteful man? He evicted his grandchildren from their home. Gaslighted the mother of his kids as paranoid crazy. Please.
At 3 I don’t know if my kids could have said their exact birthday. And my husband, because he’s always traveled a lot for work, missed their birthdays, my birthday, his own birthday, our anniversary, many times. I would still have a special birthday dinner the night of their birthday, and then a family celebration and a kids’ party on a weekend around the day-and my husband never missed those. I never made that a big deal. So I agree, I don’t think it was necessarily a slight. And I’m sure, had things been different with this awful family, Meghan would still go to the coronation, they would have brought the kids, and done a party for Archie over that weekend, and then a party with his friends back in CA when they returned. But alas, the BRF is the worst, and Meghan has a great reason to skip. Also-it’s not as though Charles was raised to ever think that a personal family obligation would take precedence over the monarchy. I’m sure his mother would have done this in a heartbeat.
Given that Charles yanked Frogmore in deliberate retaliation for the release of Spare, yes, I think he did it on purpose. He might have done so to try to ensure Meghan and the kids wouldn’t be there (and thus not outshine him), or it might have just been petty revenge, but either way, it was deliberate.
Agree with @Moxylady. As a kid, I would have been SO hurt and angry if my parents made me celebrate my birthday on a different date. And my 3-year-old can’t be lied to; he understands the calendar and knows his birth date. (I get frustrated when people give me parenting “advice” that hinges on deception! It happens so much more often than I ever would have thought.)
LOL @the different lives here! I always had to share my birthday party with a cousin whose birthday was 3 weeks before mine, held on a random day in between, and if I had acted “SO hurt and angry” I would have gotten nothing instead! My childhood was full of terrible deceptions like Santa Claus and the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairies too, how ever did I manage to survive. Sweet Prince Archie is going to be absolutely drowning in birthday attention, I am not worried about him one bit.
Seems like you rather resent your birthday not having really been your birthday.
Then you completely missed the point: I am grateful for whatever my family is willing to do for me, rather than throwing a fit about it not being the “right” day. I hope you grew out of that, for your own family’s sake.
I think that maybe you missed the point. This isn’t about Archie’s birthday being impacted because his birthday fell on a weekday which makes it impossible to adequately celebrate with family, friends, school mates, balloons, bounce houses and a birthday cake. His birthday is being impacted PUBLICLY not because of decisions the people who love him the most made or because of something that was completely unavoidable. No his birthday is being impacted because his racist selfish a**hole grandfather decided to PUBLICLY make the day of Archie’s birthday into a historic event that will forever be logged in history books likely before Archie’s own birthday. He may or may not understand now how he and his sister have both been treated differently on their birthdays from their white cousins, but one day they will definitely grow up and see how they have both been unfairly treated, along with their mother, because of their black DNA. We know this because never once have they been defended from racist rhetoric hurled at them from the very beginning, while all types of defense was given to protect their white cousins. The refusing to even acknowledge them in his first speech as king. His failure to give them the titles they were entitled to the moment he became king, while he did the opposite for their white cousins. The despicable move of taking their only home in the UK away from them, while their white cousins enjoy the comfort of four or five homes. The point is that their lives are impacted because racists are angry at their parents for protecting them and their own mental health from this public hate that their white family have participated in.
The worst was watching the gutless coward hide in his palace while his newborn grandson was compared to a chimpanzee. I have felt only contempt for him since that day. Ditto his equally gutless heir.
I never had a party on my actual birthday, but that was only because it’s a couple of days before Christmas, and on the official day school had broken up and everybody was off on holidays and unavailable, every year. It did kind of take the special out of both my birthday and xmas.
Kaiser! That top photo is everything! Kate fake guffawing, Will rolling his eyes and grimacing. Charlotte looking bemused by her crazy parents. And peak theme dressing, do you suppose they added the bright red blanket to be more British flag-like? Thank-you!
Firstly, how original
Secondly, and this may be just me but it’s a tad unusual to have a surprise birthday party for someone so young. They know it’s their birthday coming up. It’s pretty important at that age. My kids would have all been asking about what they’d be allowed to do for their birthday. Who can they invite for cake? So what are they telling her? “Oh we’ll do it another day” in order to surprise?
So true! I didn’t think about how bizarre this is. I always wanted to be a part of the celebration planning and be able to look forward to it.
Surprise birthday for a kid is just cruel, for it to be a surprise they’d have to pretend that they’ve forgotten or they’re not doing anything, which would be mean as hell.
ALL HAIL PRINCE INCANDESCENT AND PRINCESS POINTLESS, THEY HAVE REMEMBERED THEIR DAUGHTERS BIRTHDAY. FFS were they not there when she was born? Charlie, you are not a grandfather, your not a father, your a selfish self centered moron. AND IT SHOWS. Do you honestly not understand the optics of this WORLD WIDE.? YOU chose the date of your money pit, vanity project, YOU have chosen to not only ignore two of your grandchildren, but have allowed your wank son and pathetic daughter in law to pose and preen, supposedly to show that they are wonderful parents, well their not, the are just ensuring their next photo op. Your blind and stupid if you can’t see this. Charlotte I hope you have a lovely birthday and remember it’s YOUR DAY, not theirs.
The only point of this is for them to be able to cut out of more work obligations. In the real world, you’d throw a party for her with her friends the weekend before, and then a family dinner the night of. These people are so ridiculous. How are they not called out more for living so above and beyond? “They’re so normal” except when they get to miss out on work events that are the same week as one of their kid’s birthdays, and that they have staff to plan and execute a birthday dinner for a kid.
That “properly” is really grating on my mind. As if Prince Archie’s birthday won’t be celebrated “properly.” This is another one of those truly poisonous acts of revenge, turning it around on H&M that Chuck decided to put on a hat on Archie’s birthday.
So it ok for Charlotte to celebrate her birthday have a good time With presents and her friends but but Archie a 4 year old how dare he have a birthday party. The Racism and the double standard Kate parenting is being held up as wonderful and empathy and good but Meghan parenting is always constantly under criticism she also criticized her kids are constantly being othering by the white wing and the royal reporter. Meghan making her kids a center of attention . Now Karen and William wanted to look like good parents by copying Meghan and Harry after their weeks of bad press it’s the same playbook used their kids for publicity and good press .
I’m sure they will save the photos for a most certainly needed popularity boost. Charlotte is older than five so she’s fallen off Kate’s radar,
Now that she’s beyond the Arly Yahrs, she’s now a workhorse for the Crown….
Exactly
Those flat-topped hats do nothing for Kate, nor does the manic grin featuring overall botox shine to the max!
It’s not just the botox shine. It’s like she’s trying to repliKate Meghan’s dewy complexion by rubbing Vaseline all over her dehydrated skin.
Here’s a prediction: it’s going to be portrayed as the Battle of the Mummies? Both have children having birthdays in the Coronation week. Will Kate draft in CarolE for the birthday party to end all birthday parties, featuring product from Party Pieces of course. A last hurrah for the company or an excellent promo to help push the sale of the business? Kate will invite Chris and his camera. Maybe Tasha and their 2 kids will get an invite too? And Kate will have her hand superglued to Charlotte… one must get ones photo ops where one can, right?
Meanwhile on the other side of the world and a couple of days later… there is another celebration, under a tree, with Mom, Grandma Doria, some friends and maybe Daddy might get there. It will be peaceful but maybe a bit noisy at times as it’s a party for a 4 year old.
Hopefully Charlotte’s parents will stop screaming and throwing things at each other on her birthday. A break from an abusive family would make for a nice present!
I don’t think Charles is beefing with baby Archie over who gets more attention on that day but I think he chose this as coronation day specifically to not allow Meghan to “make it work” somehow for both events. I think he wanted harry only this entire time and he figured (quite accurately) that Meghan would never not celebrate Archie and would probably not want to travel with him. I think he thinks he’s clever to have found a way to use the motherhood card to keep Meghan away.
I can’t get a read on it. I think part of chose archie birthday is to get in on his shine. Archie is “the first”. Now you cant talk about archie without mentioning the coronation. It seems so sinister. Hopefully he did it as a kind nod to his grandson who will get basically no royal perks.
I guess a “proper” birthday party will include all those paper decorations from Party Pieces, right, Carole?
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Oh, pulllllleeeaaaaaassse: As if William and Kate ever prioritize Charlotte.
That poor child is growing up as much a spare as Harry was. W&K just want another excuse to get out of work.
As for the racist double standard in the media treatment of the two birthday celebrations and more, particularly, of their mothers, it’s infuriating. I’m just glad Meghan is a world away from this infuriating crap. We all know which set of parents prioritizes their children, and it’s not the Wailses.
Final thought: Black women always get criticized for things that white women get praised for (like staying home to care for children). Always. It’s enraging.
Cam shutting this down in 3……2……1.
So the white princess’s birthday gets priority over the son of the biracial duchess? Ok then.
A toddler’s birthday is rather peripheral to most things and Archie wouldn’t even know it was his birthday unless his parents told him. But this has been a media talking point ever since the coronation date was announced. Now Kate and William get to leak that Charlotte’s birthday will be a priority and not lost among Coronation ceremony rehearsals? And Archie’s birthday on the exact day of the coronation doesn’t even get mentioned in this article when it’s been parroted a million times since the date was announced? Alrighty then.
My cousins from out of the country will be visiting my family that weekend so I can tell you I will be spending my time with them and not watching this coronation sheetshow!
The official coronation program doesn’t even have pictures of Harry’s children in it. All three of Prince Live-Action-Wallace-and-Grommit’s white kids are in there, but they chose a 5 year old photo of Harry and Meghan so they could avoid the inconvenient fact that Archie and Lili , y’know … EXIST.
Small observation. Did anyone screech over Kate’s dark nail polish? Or is that just “protocol” for Meghan to follow?
And this is where Harry’s loyalty to King and Country, even if it’s just service-oriented patriotism, starts to grate on me a bit.
His wife and kids are being constantly othered and bullied in the press, the palace could stop it if they wanted yet choose not to, and he’s actually going to show up for these people? This despicable institution that targeted his own mother with YEARS of relentless abuse has aimed both cruel barrels at his own kids and he still gives enough of a single tiny turd to SHOW UP?
Eff that. These people are awful and the sooner they’re permanently canceled, the better.
Nokitty! Nail patrol is only for the Black Duchess, thank you very much.
Ye gods, is there nothing that William and Kate won’t copy from Meghan!? They are pathetic , also not very bright (because we all.know what they’re doing with the birthday schtick,)and certainly, they’re not the least bit clever, unable to come up with something just the littlest bit different and unique. For heavens sake,Granny Middleton supposedly made a fortune from party goods.
It’s rather sad to think these fools might someday be king and queen, but I’m seriously doubting that now because Charles and his side piece will have destroyed the monarchy before then. I so hope Diana is enjoying this as much as I am.
rCharlotte’s birthday fall on the 2nd of May every year, but this is the first year the celebration is newsworthy. Usually, when a child’s birthday falls on a weekday, it is celebrated with friends and family or the previous Saturday or Sunday. Also, during their primary school years, children celebrate their birthdays in school with peers.
Once again, the media and its cohorts attempt to make WandK caring parents, and they’re working hard to make fetch happen. They can skip rehearsal for this multi-million ￡ event, but Meghan, who is not in the program, can’t. William missed his wedding rehearsal (a red flag for Kate and not mentioned in SPARE), so why would this be any different?
I’m glad the big day is almost over because if they barked because Meghan didn’t come to the UK for Charles’s party, imagine the howling when they see her appear at both events (New York and California) to accept her award, the announcement of Spotify season 2 (fingers crossed), the Invictus docuseries on Netflix, and promotions leading to IG23 Dusseldorf.
Party Pieces is looking for a buyer. In the meantime, what are they up to? May 2, 2023?
“It might even be a surprise party [for Charlotte] because staff have been told to keep it quiet.”
‘staff have been told to keep it quiet’
These would be the staff W&K keep insisting they don’t have, when they have a housekeeper, cook, cleaners — a separate set of full staff for each home. They don’t move the staff around, they have full sets of staff that remain in place.