On Saturday, the Prince and Princess of Wales celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary, literally through gritted teeth. The Kensington Palace social media accounts posted this one photo, taken by photographer Matt Porteous, for the “happy day.” You don’t even have to be eagle-eyed to pick up on the fact that William and Kate organized one single day with a photographer last summer and they’ve been releasing photos from the shoot ever since. Their anniversary photo was taken the same day as the Mother’s Day photos, and the same day as their Christmas card photo.
It wouldn’t have been so bad if they were waiting to release a really good pic of themselves, but they were holding on to this photo for months and months and it’s just not flattering for either of them. Kate looks like she’s being held hostage by someone who just ripped a rancid fart. William…didn’t even bother to remove his sunglasses, and his smile looks insincere. The bikes are a convenient excuse for them to not get too close. It looks like they don’t even live together, idk.
Meanwhile, this news came out on their anniversary eve: apparently, William has decided that he’ll do a documentary about HIS life, just like Harry! It’s so clearly all about Harry and the fact that William is copying his younger brother, much like Kate constantly copies everything (superficial) about Meghan.
Prince William is to front a fly on the wall documentary following him as heir to the throne — in a landmark first and a major blow to his sulking brother. The future monarch has invited ITV’s cameras to join him as he travels the country on a homelessness initiative. It will give the public their most intimate and candid insight yet into Wills, 40, and his family.
The serious and responsible TV appearances will focus on life as a working senior royal — and be in stark contrast to Prince Harry’s countless bombshell interviews and documentary appearances, which he has used to devastate his family and the historic institution. ITV chiefs hope a successful first run this summer — highlighting William’s passionate work on a major new homelessness project — will lead to further instalments.
A TV source said: “This is pretty extraordinary — it’s never been done before. Generally access to senior royals is very limited and totally controlled, but William clearly wants to change that. He’s keen to highlight his work, particularly on a homeless project which was a subject very close to his mother’s heart, and to connect with the public on a new level. He knows all too well how important it is that the monarchy develops a more modern relationship with the British people. TV is a great way to do that, but this is a dramatic contrast to what Harry has been doing.
“William has invited cameras to follow him as he fulfils his duties, giving a proper insight into himself and his work as Prince of Wales — this isn’t anything like his brother’s TV appearances.”
“This isn’t anything like his brother’s TV appearances.” Harry and Meghan made a documentary about their African tour in 2019 and that was mostly focused on their work and events, but the headlines were about how William was incandescent with rage that Meghan and Harry spoke candidly about how vulnerable and abused they felt. Harry also did The Me You Can’t See, a wonderful docuseries about mental health. Additionally, this is not the first documentary William has attempted, although I’m not surprised that no one remembers Prince William: A Planet For Us All (terrible use of a colon) in 2020. That was a documentary where William wandered around various royal estates and spoke vaguely about his keenness for the environment. This new project will be in the same vein – William wandering around, saying sh-t like “yar, we’ve got to solve homelessness.” Anyway, William is a f–king embarrassment and he should probably use some of his Duchy money to buy himself a new personality instead of incessantly copying Harry.
Photos courtesy of Matt Porteous for Kensington Palace.
Every time he shoes himself, he shows himself to be awful. This will backfire. Mark my words.
Yes, it certainly will backfire; and I’m here for it. 🍿🍷Everything these two do to copyKeen the *real* royals backfires so hard, I’m surprised they can breathe. The fumes must be spectacular. 😉🤣
@ Serenity, I will join you as this entire scheme of W, whilst it crashes and explodes into a fireball of disaster!! This will burn for decades to come.
There is not enough film, time nor money into scheming the country, or the world, that W is an example of championing for anyone, or anything, that does not simply benefit himself.
And next year the royal reporters will claim Harry and Meghan copied William and Kate by doing a documentary. I wonder if any of them will ask if Kate and William will bring cameras to the coronation?
I’m begging someone to ask him on camera how he squares his five homes with this crusade to end homelessness.
He has zero self awareness. No doubt the rota will lap this up, but everytime he speaks about homelessness he looks worse to the general public. Polls consistently show the majority of people are not interested in the monarchy, despite what the derangers/boot lickers insist. Documentaries like this won’t help him, they’ll just continue to highlight his utter hypocrisy and uselessness.
Most of the Cornwall money is rental income, too. Apart from his own residences, he owns the homes of thousands of other people, some of whom have sued for and been denied the chance to buy.
Great point!
Bad speech
This dude. This dude that can barely manage three events in five weeks. He’s going to do a serious documentary that usually takes weeks/months of filming. Hil-ari-ous. How lame can you get?
Firstly, he does not have the charisma of Harry, and the sooner he realises this the better. He does not have the easy smile and just seems to sneer all the tim
Secondly, Jane up top, made the brilliant point regarding his five houses and homelessness. if he thinks the hoi polloi are going to be impressed by his empty words, he has got another think coming.
Thirdly, what is going to happen when the cameras are following him around and people are there protesting or calling out questions or yelling out insults on his walkabouts? Will they be moved along, arrested, ignored? Will the cameras actually film what is really going or will it be heavily edited in which case there’s not a fly on the Wall documentary.
Fourthly, even when he speaks, he sounds insincere. Is he going to go to some kind of Charm School before this to try and soften his image? Then again, charm and caring are two different things. And there’s no way he can learn caring.
What else? Is he going to be paid for this fly on the Wall documentary? I mean he is already paid as he is a Senior working Royal, so this should be considered part of his normal job since he does so very little anyway.
Does he honestly think that Harry is going to be bothered by or even interested in this?
I said it before. Harry is a free agent and he can sell his talent. Or thoughts or writings or interviews or anything else and name his price. Bill is going to get the Crown. That’s it. That’s the life of duty and service. One day he might be King but until then, even until then, he does not have the freedom to decide what he does with his life. Not like Harry. And whether he is Prince of Wales or king, he cannot throw his weight around with Harry anymore Oooooooooh, that would so sting. The rage bubbles up again.
Anyway, I’m going to stock up on popcorn and wine. 🍷 🍿
Of course this thing is going to be heavily edited. But what I want to know is. Are he and his handlers smart enough to get the raw footage. Because you know it will be leaked sooner or later. And probably won’t show him in a good light.
These two give me the Willies. Brrrrr
The shades bully’s wearing are a nice touch so we don’t have to look into the vast, empty, soulless, cold-blooded eyes behind them. Sometimes they can’t hide the vertical pupils 😎 😂
The willies! Lol
‘Every time he shoes himself’
I know it was a typo, but I got an image of William as a horse trying to do the work fitting horseshoes to his hooves.
Is he planning on editing out the protesters?
This photo looks like Will took an awkward photo with a random fan on the hiking trail.
Since we know this was part of a shoot, why this pose? Why not in front of or in any of their multiple houses? It’s astonishingly bad. Should be some funny memes though!
And as for William’s “life as a working senior royal”…good. it will quickly become obvious that he’s not a working royal in any way, nor is it likely to be compelling tv.
And what’s with the purse? A very unnecessary accessory.
The big purse jumped out at me, too. Why? Aren’t they on their own estate? She doesn’t even need keys. There’s someone to open the door for her. And if I was taking a photo, I’d put my purse down and out of the photo. Then again, the Queen (previous one) also kept her empty purse near her in all photos.
Of all the times she needlessly brings a small empty purse, she decides to wear a large one for a photo shoot. It’s silly.
Although part of me suspects she wore it to create more space and was told to move it to the other side.
The queen’s purse wasn’t empty! It had a marmalade sandwich, and the burner phone she talked to Harry on.
The purse thing also has me confused! Maybe because I bike with my kids all the time, but I don’t have a purse or shoulder bag, I have a backpack or sling bag for water bottles, snacks, band aids etc. If I get the chance to bike with my husband, I’m not taking a purse. Also, whenever we’ve done family photos, the purse/bag isn’t in the picture, it’s in the car or to the side. It’s so weird to me.
And it’s not a style she’s ever worn–a large canvas crossbody. She always carried Longchamp totes as a single woman, even managed to wear one as a backpack when riding her bike, so this bag is out of character. I was thinking, if this were a normal family outing, sure, she’d want to be prepared for a day with the kids–water, snacks, bandaids, etc.–but since there’s two parents they could split that up between them in backpacks or baskets on the bikes. This was window dressing, a for the ‘gram only kinda thing.
They are pretending these two are about to have a romantic picnic, hence the ridiculous bag.
@Dee love the marmalade sandwich and burner phone.
The purse was there because girlfriend was ready to high tail it out there until the photographer stopped her. Wait! We need a couple photo!
It does look like W with a random fan, Jay! This certainly doesn’t scream “loving marriage” anniversary photo at all.
I think they used this pose (touching each other though with lots of space between them) and setting (roadway without trees) because even though they wore the same clothing as in the other pictures, this is one without trees. I feel like these two probably think that the general public will not realize that all of their family photos have been taken on the same day.
And yes, W’s TV program has a lot to prove (to say the least) given what he’s been part of in the past.
Omg that’s exactly what it looks like. William pausing for a picture with a random fan on the side of the road.
From this picture you could never tell these two had three children.
Unless it’s a random blonde woman when he is secretly selling The Big Issue on the street with a camera crew. Then Burger King does a complete body hug and full chompers smile. The pic Tatler loved so much they posted it.
Kate’s hair looks so unkempt. It needs a trim.
One of the Twitter comments was that they left some room for the Holy Spirit and that’s hilarious and accurate. This is side hug territory for people who aren’t allowed to have much physical contact and this is from a married couple of 12 years.
Yep, it’s giving Duggar family arranged marriage ‘side-hug’ vibes.
She is a random fan. That’s why he hates Meghan. He married a fan.
“Their anniversary photo was taken the same day as the Mother’s Day photos, and the same day as their Christmas card photo.”
Didn’t even think about changing outfits for each shot. That’s how lazy they are. I mean, not even for the Christmas photo.
As far as the documentary highlighting his work. He actually needs to DO some work first.
Williams little doccie is set to release this summer… coincidentally like another documentary series: heart of Invictus. Williams jealousy of harry knows no bounds.
W’s doc will be entirely about him, not homelessness. It’s self serving PR. Huge contrast to Invictus which might feature Harry, but will be – I’m guessing- properly focused on the games, athletes and their stories.
It’s like they had a Groupon for a one hour session and had to get all the shots in quickly, like the normal peasants do.
LOL!
++LOL. Quite similar to Kate’s big 40th funkya$$ photos.
That’s why the documentary will be about five minutes long. 😏
So she has a clothing budget of 400 000 piunds a year according to DM, but she wears the same blouse for three official portraits in a row? All taken the same day to be sparsed out during a year. What is all that about?
To me, it says that they rarely see each other in informal situations. And that they can’t stand each other and want to get all possible photos over with with as little contact as possible. God knows it’s not because she doesn’t have the wardrobe for umpteen casual photo shoots.
What kills me a out that anniversary picture is the fact that they did it all on 1 day when they clearly decided to have a photoshoot, and tried to pass it off as if it was taken on holiday or something
To try to convince the public they vacation together? 😂
If they had real jobs and were actually busy, it might be excusable to use different photos from the same shoot, but they work a total of maybe 30 days per year and they have photographers specifically assigned to follow them everyone of those times.
This only confirms that W and K limit the time they have to spend together, including their PR.
Exactly, Nic. The grimaced confirm it.
Interestingly, The Fail had an article on “where it all went wrong for Kate and Harry” and it felt like projection. I mean, it was worded like a story about a divorcing couple. It was like they substituted Harry for Will.
For “Kate and Harry” or Kate and William?
It is about ‘Kate and Harry’, harkening back to keen the peacemaker and the lying/crying story.
The one day photoshoot is not a terrible idea for their situation – one day that Kate and William agree to that will furnish some professional photos for every media occasion – first day of school, Christmas, children’s birthdays, and other special occasions. I think the fact that Kate was taking a lot of the photos by herself and William wasn’t in them was beginning to be a bit of a problem.
But if, say just for example’s sake, you negotiated a photo shoot once a year that he had to commit to in exchange for getting the photos you both need to keep up appearances, well, it’s just once a year, and if you can both grit your teeth and bear to be around each other, it’ll be over relatively painlessly. Knowing that once it’s all over, you can go back to your separate houses and not have to see each other again for another month until you’re due to appear (emptyhanded) at another staged event. It makes sense.
What’s dumb is that they didn’t change their outfits at all – I think William undid one button (ew) but the hair, the clothes – they didn’t even try! They didn’t even wear wintry clothes for the Xmas card. Like, we know England is not California – show us a cold weather picture! We know Keen is fine to wear multiple outfits based on her Victorian ghost birthday fashion shoots from a year ago. I dunno, maybe the same as the photoshopped and airbrushed photos they release, they think nobody notices, but we do!
If I can make a prediction, they’ll negotiate for multiple outfits next year. This is embarrassing.
They couldn’t even change clothes? I realize everything is color-coordinated. But they have countless servants, stylists, and dressers who would put together different looks for use in each photo. To do it even better, the location could feature different backgrounds.
England is full of little nooks and crannies like this. Kate and the kids are on the stairs to an old building. Will and Kate sitting on emerald green grass. The whole family walks across a small bridge over a brook. Different outfits each.
But no! W&K wanted to be done in less than an hour.
So yet another “rare” documentary? Charles did numerous ones as POW. TQ even had a reality show for a short time. PW did his mentioned environmental documentary. There was even one on Anne, I think. This is how boring they are that even those who follow them extensively think this is rare? Or they think everyone forgot the rest and the public is stupid?
This all started with the family documentary in the late sixties. Philip wanted to show them as just a regular family. It backfired spectacularly, and the queen banned the BBC from ever showing it again. One clip still in circulation shows them at dinner making fun of people. One unnamed diplomat was referred to by the queen as looking like an ape. 🫣
Are those photos we’ve seen–Philip manning the barbecue, kids & dogs on the grass–from that documentary? Because I keep thinking I’ve seen that doc, but maybe I’ve only ever seen the photos. But yes, you’re right, that’s the one of think of when they try to say William’s doing something new, never been done before. Hardly.
The queen should have never had the power to ban anything from the BBC in the first place. How and when was it decided that the Queen controls the BBC? Must have been an interesting conversation watching the Royals talk themselves into believing they have the right to control the press and TV.
I happened to see the entire thing on youtube a couple of years ago before it was taken down. It was extremely boring. I actually just googled and found it now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjLvUs7nYY
I tried to watch it on YouTube once but I got bored and couldn’t bring myself to watch more than a few minutes. Even though I felt I really should before it got taken down and I lost the chance forever.
Okay, so out of curiosity – and more for analysis than interest. From the link provided by Barb Mill, I looked at about half the documentary on the royal family.
It’s just the type of documentary I would expect from the royal family – banal and bland. Very similar to the banter W & K partake in in their “work” as royals. That’s what happens when you emphasize image over substance.
Documentaries are my favorite form of media at the moment so it’s interesting to contrast the 1969 royal family documentary with another fly-on-the wall documentary. Grey Gardens by the Maysles brothers (also available on Youtube). The Edies were eccentric but the documentary had an authentic feel. Quite a contrast with this carefully controlled and surface-y production.
exactly – they have made lots of them, but they just aren’t appealing or of any interest because they are boring, and not charming/interesting to watch. they could make a documentary following around the winners of the enviro prize thing he made – but of course, he wants to instead be the focus and would want to be framed as some type of savior because it is all about him. he is going to be so pissed when the invictus doc comes out this summer
Why the Sun says this has ‘never been done before’ had me shaking my head. I definitely remember Charles doing it as PoW. It might have been pre-Cardiff but I actually think it was when they were trying to sell him as Action Man! That didn’t work. Neither will Baldys.
I take it we’re also pretending ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’ never happened?
@SarahCS OMG I just searched “It’s a Royal Knockout” and I foresee a whole afternoon of cackling and schadenfreude to come. There are clips on YT!
Ah yes, Fergie running around yelling, ‘Meatie! Meatie!’ at Meatloaf in her scratchy voice.
It’s rather sad that William is unable to stand on his own merits. It speaks of an incomplete soul and a deep insecurity.
If it took his own merits to stand, William would be crawling indefinitely like a vermin. I am quite amazed at how he has shifted to homelessness in Britain. I guess the issue of racism in football has been solved of late?
This is what I found about mirroring / mimicking someone / stealing their identity
https://medium.com/psychology-self-healing/a-manipulation-tactic-mirroring-7ea98b66ffcf
Quote from the above link:
“If a narcissist is mirroring you by imitating your traits and values; know that you have something they wish they had.”
“Destructive admiration […]. The narcissist thinks, how can they have something that I don’t? They don’t want to see the people who happen to be smarter or more talented than them. Their biggest goal is to sabotage your success.”
In other words, what Karen is doing to Meghan and Bully to Harry is akin to symbolical cannibalism: imitating them is a magic means of depleting them, of sucking their souls abd identities out of them, in order to transfer the coveted qualities onto themselves. This is a murder wish not punishable by law.
Beyond excellent link @Sugarhere. Thank you.
The royal pr technique is to have the royals speak out against whatever they’re criticised for
Ie
Grumbling over William having too many homes, send him out to promote the homeless newspaper the big issue or speak out about homelessness.
Courtiers knew William was racist so had him speak out against racism in sport.
They were accused of ignoring Meghans mental health whilst pregnant so courtiers sent them out to support maternal mental health.
It’s a primitive pr technique and so is making one royal look bad to benefit “their” royal, and so is always casting the spare as bad, the heir as the good one.
All three backfire. The royal pr system sucks. It’s not just the present team, it’s been like this for generations.
To put it in a nutshell, the monarshit is not the trend-setting institution the 21st century needs. It’s a damage control quagmire abusing PR stunts and loopholes to outlive its own irrelevance. 😉
Interesting points @Cairidh!! We can add the Queen Consort’s interest domestic violence of women, as a person that emotionally tortured a young woman for years.
That’s what happens when you’ve been told you’re great and special all your life..but why? Not because of your achievements, but because of your birth order in some random family (basically nothing you had any control over).
@Harla
A good observation, love your grace, It shone through.
@Surly Gale: Thank you for being appreciative. So gracious of you 🌻!
First question: Why bring Harry’s name into this? Surely being the next in line to the throne should be enough to gain attention from his future subjects? All he’s done is remind people that he really is TOB who is unable to attract interest on his own merits.
I’m sure his documentary will get reasonable viewing figures in the UK but, I very much doubt it get anywhere near the figures of the Oprah interview. I will watch it to:
1. have a drink everytime a POC comes on the screen;
2. to see if he talks about why his palaces haven’t yet reached their diversity quota
3. why he hasn’t appointed a “Diversity Tzar?”
This documentary is “shutting the door after the horse has bolted.” The world know he is a snake in the grass who got into bed with the devil to save his own skin. This is the low-life who made sure it was headlines that he missed a little girl’s birthday party. Like I said I will watch the documentary but, in truth I’ll be watching to see what he DOESN’T say rather than the other way around.
“Why bring Harry’s name into this”
Because that’s the only way the article will get clicks and getting clicks is the only way these leeches get paid.
That; and William wants to be Harry when he grows up, never-mind being the next constitutional Head of State, conferred by accident of birth.
They have to bring up Harry for two reasons – the first being the most obvious, that Harry’s name is needed to get clicks.
The second reason is that Harry IS the reason for this documentary. This is all about William trying to outdo Harry. They’re not even trying to hide it at this point.
Had a diversity tzar been appointed as promised, we would never have heard of Susan Hussey’s shenanigans.
I suspect it will be even worse than Uncle Andrews. You can’t tell him anything he only deals with yes men so this will be some explosive ( in a very bad way) entertainment.
I was just thinking that this feels like Andrew’s Emily Maitlis interview. No one around William has the courage to tell him that this is a bad idea. He has not done nearly enough to warrant this type of documentary, plus these pieces almost always come off as performative and sycophantic. In William’s case, it also makes him look like he is competing with H&M, which of course he is in his one-sided way. Nothing good will come from this.
We’re going to get more footage of him selling the Big Issue and visiting Passage and Centrepoint. The reality is William is jealous of Harry having a Netflix deal.
The Big Issue North is closing as of it’s final issue in May 8. After 30 years!
So there goes a major source of income for the vendors, most of whom are homeless and depended on selling The Big Issue for their subsistence.
And instead of saying anything g in the wake of such major news affecting his newly discovered area of interest, what has Bullybilly done? Oh……just moved on and announced another project to take even greater advantage of the homeless.
I tell you, that sick twisted freak is an empty, soul-less void.
Maybe Bill’s crack team of dozens of idiots will decide, after a year or two of ‘intense research’ that they should launch a newspaper for the homeless to sell. That’s how little he and his team know about anything.
Recalling EarthSh!t stealing someone else’s existing prize and prize name, even the nickname about being the Gr33n Nobel. Because Bill & Co don’t do any research.
The vendors will switch to selling the big issue UK version so they won’t lose their income. However the fact it’s closing shows they haven’t been selling enough copies to support it, which means the vendors have already been affected by lack of sales. That’s not likely to improve when they sell the uk big issue, perhaps they’ll sell even less as articles will be less relevant to northerners.
So it’s a problem that needs solutions.
I used to be friends with the deputy editor and was upset to read its closing. I kept thinking I wish I was in Williams shoes and could do something to save it. Perhaps if a royal asked the public to subscribe to the paper – and if they got 80,000 people to sign up, which is how many buy the big issue uk – maybe it could be saved. I’m not sure William has that sort of influence, but maybe Diana could have.
It’s sad the journalists are losing their jobs. Its the only newspaper that covers the whole of the north, and like the uk version, it attracted journalists who actually cared about issues affecting the poor, and about trying to improve things.
This has the potential to be an iconically awful trainwreck in a Patrick Bateman helps the homeless sort of way. Or just terribly dull. I bet on dull, sadly.
Agreed. It’ll be boring AF. If it isn’t, he’ll shut it down.
Agree this will be mega flop. Just like Earthshite award ceremony, no one is going to bother to watch it
But he’ll still pressure the BAFTA tv awards to hand him an award for it.
Will we get behind the scenes access of him encouraging his staff to keep up with his genius by shouting at them and then apologising if he also shoves them out of his way and then complains about non working pens? Perhaps finger wagging at Dolittle as they drive to another event? Perhaps his love of rose gardens can be explored and all that delicious plotting and planting stories with the BM : just who has time for charity work?
If they are promising fly on the wall then I’m going to need some lamp throwing and vase crashing and foot stomping and steam coming out of his nostrils. They’ve spent the last three years telling us Burger King is raging, incandescent and catatonic, so show me the money shots. Otherwise, I’m going to think the show is all just staged for publicity because Burger King was big mad when he found out about Netflix’s Harry and Meghan series.
@harper I feel like this too. A lot of things are staged for attention. Another reason why I’m skeptical of rose. It just seems contrived. The press want to give him a story.
Yeah, people struggling with the cost of living themselves will be delighted to hear what a ludicrously wealthy and privileged asshole, with multiple homes which sit empty for the vast majority of the time, has to say about…homelessness.
Just paint a target right on your ass, Peggy.
Yeah they really dont have anything to gain from showcasing their wealth and money and privilege in peoples faces, along with their shallow and unsympatic personalities, at this point in time. Out of touch and tonedeaf as usual. Either bad advisors consisting of yesmen or they just refuse to listen to advice.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out on social media..
Exactly right! Hypocrisy, thy name is Willnot!
I think the photo is perfectly fine. You can only take a picture of what you have to work with after all. As for this documentary nice of William to give all the insomniacs something to put them to sleep.
So is this why there were cameras present when William did his homeless stunt passing out flyers or something? And sounds like he will be invoking Diana’s name at every turn. “She was my mom too Harry!” Can’t have Harry seen as exclusively carrying on Diana’s legacy. AND WHY do these tabloids constantly invoke the Sussexes names when writing fan fiction about the Wails?
Even though Harry IS exclusively carrying on Diana’s legacy!
Willy lost the right to that claim when he called her paranoid. Naw, dawg.
Bee, you said what I was thinking. Fails is going to be taking up a cause that his “paranoid” mother had? Yeah, that plays well.
This will keep him busy once in a while at least. That’s the upside. It’ll probably be quite boring, but since I’m in the US this won’t affect me. I have a feeling this isn’t going to go as well as Fails thinks it will. He truly has a very high opinion of himself.
Can will get speech lessons first. He is so bad at this.
William will walk around, point at homeless people and say what a shame it is they don’t have any of his homes, and then walk on. He won’t explore the reasons for homelessness, any fixes for it, and he surely will not offer up any of his properties or stolen wealth to help toward the problem. More empty words from a hollow soul.
He will talk about the plight and talk about how he spent one night sleeping outdoors to try to relate to the homeless.
That’s a fake smile if I ever saw one.
His? His face is screaming insincerity. Her face just wants to scream.
Uh huh, so the takeaway from this piece isn’t that William cares about the homeless; it’s that he wants to show he’s better than Harry. I can’t decide if Will has terrible PR people or if the tabloids ignore them and just write whatever they want – probably both.
I think it’s also to counter the bad publicity from Harry’s revelations about Will making the million dollar secret backroom deal with the Sun (it was the Sun? I’m losing track). To emphasize Will’s so caring and so devoted to doing his duty – much more really truly deeply “serious” than his brother Harry. Not the selfish jerk he shows himself to be, over and over again. On the few occasions when he does publicly show himself. Does Will know he has to physically appear somewhere, more than once, for things to be filmed? I wonder how recently KP came up with this idea, whether it’s something real, or just Kate style keen PR to look better for the moment.
Unless he proves that he used the tabloid settlement to help build a homeless shelter, I don’t see how this documentary will change anything for him.
Oh, I’m not thinking it’ll do anything for him, I’m not convinced it’ll be made. Clearly homelessness is Will’s signature project equivalent to Kate’s Early Years, and if Will remains “interested”, will track the same – nothing concrete accomplished over an extended period except for the occasional fancy PR op.
In fact, this announcement reminds me of when KP announced Early Years (was it Broken Britain then?) a couple of days before Meghan launched Together. That was geared to hype Kate, and take the shine off Meghan’s project. Will’s announcement is to distract from Harry’s news this week, while painting Will as the serious one, vs. Harry, who’s just interested in blowing things up. And IMO, it is meant to give the vague impression that Will did use the settlement money for some charitable purpose.
In the long run, CB’ers could be the only ones who remember it was ever mentioned.
It should have been a non-starter that any money that he received from the secret settlement would be donated to charity. This is an extremely rich man, who also receives welfare, the very least he should have done is donate the money.
Windy river, I agree: this is the equivalent of Kate’s Early Years hype machine.
I think you’re right, Eurydice, the tone of the article was about William besting Harry, not that he cares about his ‘subjects-to-be’ in any meaningful way.
Did anyone else’s mind take them directly
to Ricky Gervais’ character in the office? This should be entertaining. Follow me as I work really hard to tackle homelessness for one hour of one week a month from my myriad castles.
Gee, thanks, but I’ll just keep using Bob Ross’s dulcet tones to help with my insomnia.
12 years❤️ is sending me. Simple and sweet? Or the bare minimum from a staffer who knows things? 😂
It’s pretty bizarre to do a documentary about homelessness in the UK when your own family is literally part of the reason why the problem exists in the first place. Until that’s acknowledged anything he does on the topic is ridiculous.
IKR? The hypocrisy is glaringly bad. Unless he puts his money where his mouth is, it’s going to be another massive fail and will likely garner a LOT of negative feedback. Keep on shooting yourself in the foot there Peggy boy, if it speeds up the end of the monarchy so be it.
You’ve got this right: UK’s greatest landlord and castle owner is generously consenting to spare time to raise awareness about homelessness. The idea alone is an affront to common sense.
The provocation and humbug won’t go unnoticed. That flop to-be documentary is a win for the republican cause, though. I’m even expecting Bullyiam to gratify us with a condescending class gaffe like, “Dear homeless fellow, your cupcake and dog food meat soufflé suck.”
“It was the hardest thing she’d ever had to do…” Kate Middleton told a friend “…I had to pretend that I was on a bike ride with William”
OMG, too funny!
😂😂😂 Nice one @Cathy.
“Serious and responsible” tv series made me laugh.
Has nobody told him the reason Harry’s show did so well internationally is because people LOVE GOSSIP?! My god man, nobody wants to watch a boring ass show following you around visiting people actually working. You need to do something interesting (like remove yourself from the show and showcase people who actually do interesting work) or bring out the goods.
Every night after a hard day’s work, the hubby and I always first search the streaming sites for good shows about homelessness. There’s a big hole in the market.
Ha!
That was the best part!! “ The serious and responsible TV appearances…”
I laughed and laughed 🤣 The Other Brother is such a joke. He’s like a bad book – always telling instead of showing. Except in his case, even the telling isn’t even real.
This documentary will be a complete failure. Not only because he thinks he can go against Heart of Invictus (timing-wise) but because everything he does is a failure. Earthshit, the other doc with Attenborough, his role with the Baftas, his marriage. All failed.
“This is pretty extraordinary — it’s never been done before. The Swedish Royal family does this every year. There is a one hour documentary with BTS footage and interviews from their work events throughout the year. It usually airs around christmas and new years.
I look forward to hate-watching the first episode only!
And yeah, the number of times they’ve used these photos is embarrassing.
Bold of you to assume there will be more than one episode. My guess is it will be one and done. What’s-his-bucket will get bored and move on. Plus, given his work ethic and boundless charisma, (or lack of both) chances are they will struggle to have enough footage to fill just 30-45 minutes to begin with.
I’m hoping Kaiser will recap each episode with stills, TWOP style. We’ll use a codename if necessary so as to avoid accidentally boosting their name recognition and it will be glorious!
I miss TWoP so much!!
I am going to watch his first minute speaking.(mumbling) A grown man that still cannot speak intelligibly! Then I am turning the channel!
I just can’t believe they released that picture thinking it screamed “happy married couple.” It screams “don’t make us stand closer to each other than we have to.”
It was likely the best photo they has to pick from too, which is 😬
The article states the doc is a more intimate and candid look into William and his family. That suggests that beyond the homelessness campaign members of the family will show up. The kids? I think there’s a good chance that William saw how the Harry and Meghan Netflix doc did include vids and pics of their kids but shot in a way that wasn’t exposing their faces. He knows which parts to copy-keen now to get more viewers.
I don’t even think his kids sell anymore, do they? The RRs are too busy stalking and ranting everything related to Meghan so seem to have slipped in their duty of selling the Wailses (or their offspring). Was there any excitement about Louis’s recent birthday?
The family photo bday pictures definitely don’t. But candid interactions and glimpses would have more of a draw. A huge one? No, but they’re grasping at this point. I just think it’s interesting that it literally says candid glimpses of his family for a documentary about homelessness. Not saying it’s a bad thing but it does suggest it’s not supposed to be just about the campaign. It’ll be interesting when it comes out to see if they copy any of Liz garbus’ style.
Probably George will be shown dressed in a suit going to sports events
Yeah they do something like this almost every year. Harry and Meghan the previous years, William the last couple years.
It won’t be any different except they might add bringing George to official events.
It sounds like they’ve already filmed most of it considering they had cameras following him around for his homeless engagements. It will get the same ratings as any other royal documentary in the UK.
What must be embarrassing is constantly being in the shadow of your younger brother and constantly trying to one up him yet you’re local and Harry is global.
This picture could have two titles, first Here’s one I screwed over earlier, second, no that’s not a clamp on her bike to stop her escaping. Have they forgotten (ignored that a fly on the wall documentary was made on the whole Royal family when Charles was a young drip (as opposed to the old one he is now. It was made at the insistence of prince Phillip, so that people would think they were just a normal family (asif), and who can forget “it’s a royal knockout, (wish I could). It will just be a badly scripted monologue saying how he hates homelessness, but he can’t do anything about it as he and Kate are still learning 🤣
Quote: Prince William is to front a fly on the wall documentary following him as heir to the throne — in a landmark first and a major blow to his sulking brother.
WITHOUT Harry and Meghan doing things the Wails would never do anything.
Quote: “The serious and responsible” TV appearances will focus on life as a working senior royal — and be in stark contrast to Prince Harry’s “countless” bombshell interviews and documentary appearances, which he has used to devastate his family and the historic institution.
I Think they have offered younger primary school students to write their copy.
“serious and responsible” –saying so, doesn’t make it so.
countless” bombshell interviews — so they can’t count beyond 20.
Unless William announces that he’s turning over one of his houses to a homeless organization or reducing rents for his duchy tenants, this is going to backfire.
Willy is such a charmless dolt. I hope Harry is laughing at this blatant and doomed attempt at oneupmanship.
Not at all interested.
W&K would do better to stay quiet.
Look how badly Andrew came off in that disastrous interview.
W&K are getting to be a low rent reality show, not good.
12 years married? It feels like 20 to me, they’ve been pushing their spin forever.
Who goes bike riding in jeans, smart shirts and a big handbag 🤣 In the countryside 🤣🤣🙈
This doc won’t be candid because any outburst of Louis will be edited out.
So William has signed up to do a Kardashian celebrity style reality show. Wow!!! I recall a great number of royal reporters said Royals don’t do reality tv shows.
William doesn’t seem to have an original idea 💡 for causes he pursues. He is again latching on to his mother’s (Princess Diana’s) homelessness cause for clout. I’ll consider him as William the clout chaser. He is going to stay latched on to his mother’s name so tightly going forward. Shame on him after he publicly said his mother was paranoid when he made his statement that criticized the BBC panorama interview his mother did which in my opinion was for him to support Rupert Murdoch’s push to own BBC. The methods employed to secure the interview were nefarious and wrong and should have been condemned. However, Princess Diana wanted to get her story out and thankfully she did (in her own voice and words) so that those who try to rewrite her story in history can be challenged by Prince Harry, all the way to court. She was not insane. She was being harassed by the media. And William took £1,000,000 secret settlement from Rupert Murdoch’s company that contributed to his mother’s press harassment; SECRET SETTLEMENT…shame on him to then turn around and use her name and homelessness cause for clout.
William announced ideas as life missions and hasn’t yet demonstrated he has put in the work to make a memorable impact at 40+ years old with a massive royal platform at his disposal. What impact has he made in the following reported life missions of his?
Middle East Peace (said he’d bring peace to Middle East?)
Conservation (said he’d destroy royal ivory?)
Rescuing the earth (Earthshot Prize?)
William’s brother will continue to outshine him because Harry’s purpose is driven by his heart like his mother’s purpose was driven by her heart. Harry is the People’s Prince like Diana was the People’s Princess. I pray for Harry’s and his family’s (Meghan, Archie, Lilibet, Doria) continued mental and physical well-being as well as their continued financial independence and success.
Let’s not forget that the BASHER also attacked Diana!
Will Pegs be talking to parliament about the homeless issue? Or will this be another useless photo op? I think we know the answer.
It’s must be frustrating to actual homeless people in Britain, to watch this clown make a mockery of their plight. ‘Tis cruel.
They’ve only been married 12 years? Gawd, it feels like 25.
Bet’cha $20 there’s no bicycle seat on W’s bike. 😉
Too much, LOL.
You made me spit my drink out 😂. I wasn’t ready for your comment 🤣.
The TV source with “This is pretty extraordinary,” made me laugh. It just stuck out as unintentionally funny and try hard. Plus a source who won’t associate their name with what they probably think will be a flop.
They’ll probably hire fake homeless people for this “fly on the wall” nonsense because the real homeless people would probably tear him a new one for being a fake-concerned rich wanker. “Go back to your 5 lavish homes you gormless twat!”
I bet sometimes W and K compare their causes:
W: Hamelssnss. My people tell me that some people are hamelss. I find it rather shocking, what? So I shall put an end to hamelssnss. So impohtant.
K: No no, what’s impohtant is Ahhly Yahhs.
W: Hamelssnss.
K: Ahhly Yahhs.
W: Mine is bettah.
K: (throws vase at W)
W: I wish you would not do that. Ouch.
K: Ahhhhly Yahhhhs.
W: Oh very well then. But stay — praps they ah connected.
K: (looks blank)
W: Ahhly Yahhhs and Hamelssnss.
K: (looks blank)
W: You know, not enough attention to Ahhly Yahhs can lead to Hamelssnss.
K: (looks blank)
W: Anyway I don’t see what all the fuss is about, what? Get a hame. Live in it. Hamelssnss sorted. I’ve done it five times myself.
K: (looks blank)
W: Praps we could go in together on this. Ahhly Yahhs causes Hamelssnss. Just so long as mine is first and most important and you are standing behind me. Or could you be crouching? Just crouching a little behind me.
K: Willy.
W: What.
K: I don’t cahh. I just don’t cahh. The only thing I cahh about is my hahh.
W: Well I win then.
K: (removes hair and throws at W)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh, I had a good chuckle at that! Thanks!
Buying a ticket for that absurd play. Great piece of art!
Will Rose be in the documentary? For the candid behind the scenes part? Or is that a little too candid? For that matter will he allow Kate to be in it?
So, random aside:
My husband and I went to Universal Orlando last week and we’re queued in line for a ride with a British family behind us. It was a long wait, I was bored…I turned around and introduced myself and said I was a nosy American who wanted to know what public consensus was in the UK about King Charles and the whole debacle.
Lovely family from Brighton…they said they LOVED Charles as king, took a few digs at Meghan and Harry, asked us about Trump (lol Omgggg) and then gave the only negative remark about the royal situation – Camilla. A lot of love for Diana is still quite present.
I was definitely expecting them to be like “yeah Charles sucks” so the whole thing surprised me.
Huh. Interesting. On a slightly separate side note, that’s one of the things I’ve always liked about places like Disneyland & Universal, you get to meet people from around the world.
Huh. I was at Universal, Orlando a few weeks ago with my sister and niece , met a British family at the pool, and had the opposite experience. They were not into the coronation and they had nothing bad to say about Meghan. They had an indifference to all parties but did say Meghan got a bad go of it in the press.
At Kate. Trump isn’t even our president anymore. If that’s all they got that explains their poorly ran parliament.
This is not the first inside look at a day in the life of a royal! They’re saying it doesn’t make it so!! Gaslighters, the lot of them. Or more plainly, liars, the whole flippin’ bunch! I bet this goes over like a lead balloon. And we’ll probably see William in this same outfit, because that truly was some economy of effort: Mother’s Day photo shoot, Christmas card photo shoot, Prince Louis birthday photo shoot, wedding anniversary photo shoot. And we’ll never get somebody on camera–or we’ll never see the footage–of somebody asking William about his five homes. It’s nice to dream, but these are pure propaganda efforts.
Bad mistake. Williams mystique is that he is a patriotic, compassionate, and thoughtful family man who takes his duties to his country very seriously. An illusion he ruins every time he opens his mouth.
My impression of hearing him mock everything from COVID to Catherine’s cooking is that he is the pompous ass Charles would have been if he had been permitted to go to Eton instead of a class inclusive military academy.
Doesn’t matter. People won’t watch it.
Every time I see that photo of Kate with her child I’m just alarmed. The kid’s head is bigger than her waist.
Since stalker romances are pretty popular these days, I wonder if anyone has written one based on their “love story” but with a happy ending 🌚
So after 20 years together all he can manage is to grit his teeth and put his arm around her? And it took two seconds to snap the photo? Now this is king material for sure. NOT. So we know two things for sure are true: he really, really, really, really HATES Harry. And this is the whisper part: he hates his wife too (shhhhhh). Don’t say it too loud. William, you clod, we know it and have known it across the pond, in New York City, for years and years. You don’t have a poker face/game face, though you think you do. You overestimate yourself by about 99 percent. Sorry, but your “royal” genes are pretty god- amn dumb. Yes, it’s the inbreeding but it’s also you personally and you’re spoiled and rotten attitude.
Was this the same bike trip last year where William acted like no one else was allowed on the public path, and screamed at someone taking their picture in a public place?
No, William was wearing a jacket & hat that day. This is total photo op on what looks like their private property somewhere, not a public path.
I’d suggest that we have a “terrible move watch party” and live blog that because I think this movie sounds so bad it will be funny but I also don’t want to put any money in his pocket. Maybe on the release date we can all donate some money to charity organizations in the UK (if in your respective budgets of course)?
That bicycle photo clearly shows Willy’s crossbite – a classic sign of long term bruxism (grinding teeth). It’s really bad if you can see it at a distance in a photo.
It’s also why his head looks more and more egg -shaped – grinding overworks the jaw muscles which begin to enlarge disproportionately.
One more question for the mystery books: with all the resources at his disposal etc. why not get help? A mouth guard would have prevented the cross bite. Some (medically necessary) Botox might have helped the jaws (idk much about this one as it could be dangerous to inject in chewing) swallowing areas). I bet he gets headaches and his jaws hurt all the time.
It’s… Pathetic. He’s literally a prince and clearly loathes his life.
They cannot touch homelessness as a topic because of all the cottages, castles and palaces they own. The folks they collect rent from cannot buy their homes enabling them to build generational wealth. Someone didn’t think this through at all.
I just wanted to mention love the comment above regarding WK using Groupon to take their photos all at once . It gave me a good laugh haha . Well I guess they have to be budget conscious these days, but yes they could have changed outfits for each occasion. Also Agree with another comment above that England is not California where it’s sunny during all 4 seasons, so their Christmas photo looked odd. Christmas in CA can be warm and sometimes people do wear shorts, that’s not the case in the UK. Having visited the UK during winter, as a Californian, it was freezing.
With that, I have my cousin visiting us from New Zealand this week. She mentioned to us that Charles is definitely not popular there . They do though prefer William as king. They’ve been hearing rumors that Charles will prob be king for 2-3 years then pass it on to William. I just told her the BRF really lost out when they made HM leave. Could have been a powerful team to enhance the status of the BRF and would have been in-line with diversity, but instead had their jealousies, biases and insecurities get to them. And they just don’t want someone else to be more successful(esp they think an American will overshadow them (rolling eyes) instead of trying to be an asset for them).
William our Prince of Wales and heir to the thrown should this and MORE projects like this.
DON’T let anyone discourage you William.
DON’T let anyone talk you out of it.
DON’T let anyone stop you or try to change your vision even one bit.
Wear your air plain slippers, bring in a homeless person or two for background, show us your palaces while you speak about homelessness and been keen. Please please please mention Harry as much as possible. Maybe it be written may it be done!
William our Prince of Wales and heir to the thrown should this and MORE projects like this.
DON’T let anyone discourage you William.
DON’T let anyone talk you out of it.
DON’T let anyone stop you or try to change your vision even one bit.
Wear you air plain slippers, bring in a homeless person or two for background, show us your palaces while you speak about homelessness and learning and please please please mention Harry as much as possible. Maybe it be written may it be done!
The Sun must be kidding us all with this article. The truth which The Sun glides over is –
1. William whose gilded life is paid by the taxpayers, is doing a TV programme for PR and to feed his ego and image .
2. Harry is doing it to pay for his security and raise a family.
“To compete with Harry”?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
😂🤣😆🤣😂🤣😆🤣😂🤣😆😆🤣😂
Why doesn’t he just offer up the many homes and estates he has access to or his clan outright owns to help alleviate the houseless folks. Bet a castle could shelter a lot of people. In case any of their idiot people are reading this….. Definitely would up the ante in the “I’m better than my kid brother” optics war and would make for ratings gold for his documentary.
There it is William wants to be Harry when he grows up.
Never-mind the little thing of being the next constitutional Head of State.
He’ll settle to be a third-rate Harry.