Last week, royal commentator Jennie Bond shared some “new insight” about the Prince and Princess of Wales, and by that I mean, she repeated what had already been reported and widely insinuated following Queen Elizabeth II’s death last year. Bond claimed that William and Kate are going to step back from royal tours. Bond said:
“William and Catherine are really the stars of the royal family these days. They have youth on their side and a good dusting of glamour surrounds them. They are also extremely popular both here and abroad. So there is no doubt that the foreign office will be calling on them to carry out some high-profile royal tours. But I think the days of lengthy tours, leaving the children to be looked after by nannies, are over. Largely, I think the school holidays will be respected, and future tours will be short and extremely busy.”
LOL – William and Kate are just so dreadfully popular, that’s why they can’t go on royal tours anymore, they’re just too popular, you guys. Nevermind that their last big tour was to the Caribbean and it was an utter catastrophe of racism and colonialism, full of problematic imagery and Will and Kate staggering around, making asses of themselves. In the wake of the Caribbean Flop Tour, royal experts even said at the time “maybe we shouldn’t send any of these morons out into the world anymore.” All of which brings me to this story in the Mail – royal sources are pointing out that a third of Kate’s “events” nowadays are within a 12-mile radius of Adelaide Cottage.
As a mother of three young children, the Princess of Wales knows how hard it is to juggle the demands of family life with her duties as a senior Royal. So it is understandable that many of her public engagements since becoming Princess of Wales have been very close to her home in Windsor Castle.
An analysis by The Mail on Sunday can reveal that almost a third of her working days – 18 out of 61 – since assuming her title in September were within 12 miles of Adelaide Cottage. Last week, for instance, Kate, 41, visited the Windsor Family Hub on Tuesday and Maidenhead Rugby Club, seven miles away, on Wednesday.
One Royal watcher quipped: ‘Perhaps Kate ought to be retitled the Princess of Slough!’
Another source said: ‘It has been noted that there have been an awful lot of jobs for both Kate and William near their home. But they have always said that the kids come first so it stands to reason that they want one of them to be there for the school run.’
Dickie Arbiter, former press secretary to the Queen, said: ‘She is a working mother and the kids do come home. Like any mother she likes to be there for them. Diana did the same.’
Diana did not “do the same.” Diana worked constantly all over the UK and abroad. Diana was an incredibly popular royal and countries begged the Foreign Office for Diana to visit them. No one is begging Peg and Buttons to go anywhere. They’re not welcome abroad, and they’re too lazy to leave Windsor. It’s so funny, my god.
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61 working days since September of last year? That is a slightly more absurd number than I would have guessed.
No. 61 EVENTS. Sometimes they do multiple events a day. So my guess is the number of working days may be half that.
Oh no sorry, you’re right! 61 working days. I was reading too fast on my phone LOL. So 61 days since September.
In this case though, the articles says “days” not engagements. Either way, it’s shameful.
Think of all the days Keen had to “work” for Betty’s funeral, which was most of September. And this is The Fail where accuracy in reporting is optional. There is a good chance this was 61 events/appearances not days as someone at the Fail had to count to come up with this number and might easily have written days instead of events. For instance, the funeral day had the car processions, service at Westminster, then they stood outside at attention at a separate place, then the Windsor service. There is four right there.
These are not even “working days” as we would understand them. A couple of engagements at 30 minutes each is hardly a “working day”.
It’s a feeble amount of “work”.
Let’s also remember that 1) Working days is not the same for them as it is for us. An ‘event’ is usually 15 minutes to a half hour. 2) They count phone calls and zooms. So if they rolled out of bed and did 1 15 minute zoom at home, that’s a whole working day.
The other thing that astounds me is this ‘Kate’s a mother, she can’t do anything else’. The entire planet is in this position. If everyone who’s a parent used it as an excuse not to work, the planet would grind to halt. Not to mention she has all the help that most people don’t. And why is it that the ONLY thing they ever mention is the school run? I suspect that it’s the only thing she actually does for the children on a daily basis.
Sue E. Generis–seriously. She’s the “mother of three young children,”… and the employer of what, at least that many nannies and aides? Sheesh…
@SueEGeneris – right. We don’t hear about Kate volunteering at school, about how she and William support the teachers, or are involved with their kids extra curriculars etc. it’s just the school run, like that is all there is to raising children.
Now I think we all recognize that they are in a unique position with the press scrutiny and public interest etc, where they might feel more protective of their children and like this is their time to be super involved bc it will change when they’re older.
But “the kids are their priority” just sounds like an excuse at this point.
Yes and I saw the British media report that the Jordan wedding was a work event. The coronation activities were also probably work events and even the coronation rehearsals but I ‘m just speculating about that.
Other parents at the last school were complaining about the big cars arriving with the children, one carrying them, one carrying the security. I think they were complaining about them blocking the road? The parents who were quoted said Kate nor William were there. Them doing the school run is propaganda. Kate didn’t even show up for George’s first day at school.
Previous propaganda quotes from royal sources were (talking about them staying home at night instead of going to nightclubs) “William hardly ever goes out anymore and Kate never did”. That was after the British public had watched Kate leaving nightclubs, looking groggy, for years. And other articles saying she never let him go to nightclubs by himself, and made sure she was always there too (to keep an eye on her prize) and cried if he tried to go out by himself without her.
Royal “sources” invent fantasy versions of the royals that they want people to believe.
It’s insane. 61 “days” work in 9 months?!
How is THAT not an absolute scandal?!
I just enlarged the ‘googly eyed surprise’. photo, and it is quite clear she has had a lip lift. They do it at the base of curve of the nostril. Maybe why she has been ‘missing’ for a while. Like all procedures, healing takes time. I checked in a l’est side photo and it is quite red still. Just my opinion.
Please send them on tour to another Commonwealth country so they can be fired live on camera again. That honestly kept me going for about a month. And I see the kid excuse once again being brought up. They’re in school all day! She’s doing nothing but updating her burn book and look book while Willy prunes various roses.
Yeah, spare us the “it’s about the kids!” crap. Something tells me that the kids, who are well-accustomed to being tended to by nannies anyway, would probably love for their parents to go on a tour so that they (the kids) can have some time off from the rows we all know are happening behind closed doors.
The kids’ grandparents are retired/bankrupt, so they have plenty of time to babysit.
Nailed it. The “rows” behind closed doors are the subtext—Keen and Mean do not want to go on extended tours where Mean can’t bring his mistresses and Keen can’t avoid his contempt/wrath. The shortened tours are the most they could negotiate in terms of time together. I get it. Charles and Diana could barely stand to do them either towards the end. Everything points to that direction.
So keen has to juggle raising three children and work. Laugh of the day. The children are in school. She has lots of help and there is a full time nanny. She has low work numbers. How come will is not mentioned regarding the children. He vowed to do school runs. This glowing story of keen is patronizing to working parents who work to support the children and don’t have 4 mansions a d a huge bank account like will has now.
At this point, it is just insulting. She does not juggle anything. Parents with no grandparents or hired help and with full time jobs, cooking and cleaning themselves juggle work and taking care of children, not this lazy bum.
But don’t you remember that Tatler article a couple years back which accused the terrible Sussexes of “throwing the Cambridge children under the bus” because now poor William and Kate will be so busy working they won’t have time to do the school runs. Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth.
_What_ is this BM obsession with W&K’s school runs? Honest to Pete, is that really the hardest thing parents have to do? (The parents I know would heartily disagree. 🙄 Are the kids’ schools a gazillion miles away in Liverpool or Cornwall, or something? And these parents have chauffeurs/drivers galore, no??
I know, such a joke. I see young moms working at low paying jobs, no financial support from the fathers who are also working at low paying jobs. They would laugh at this , a princess, a nanny maybe more than one housekeepers who spend more on a wardrobe than they make in a month. Cry me a River.
Interesting that this comes from the Daily Fail – would love to see the tide turn on this turd and for her to finally be seen as she is. I feel like the “she’s so popular” is obviously disengenuous but maybe that’s just because the rest of us know what can’t be spoken there.
Maybe even the DF is finally realising that you can’t actually polish a turd.
The whole article is making an excuse for why she’s only seen locally.
They aren’t coming for her. The one critically comment was mild af.
Again imagine if this was Meghan..when they start acting like she’s Meghan then we can talk. For now they are bored but are still not critical.
What I find weird is the way this article see saws back and forth between over the top sycophancy and cutting shade. Do they think the Wails are so stupid that they won’t realise that they are outing Kate’s laziness disguised in the old and tired SAHM narrative?
Yeah, an article talking about Kate’s 61 events since SEPTEMBER is not flattering. Theyre just using the lines about the kids to make it seem like it’s more sycophantic than it actually is. This article is all about pointing out Kate’s laziness.
Give her a break, you guys! She’s “still learning!”
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Don’t forget the listening, Lorelei! It’s the one-two punch of listening AND learning that makes it a feat befitting the PoW. How does she do it?
Oh the tide is definitely turning.
We knew for years that W&K hardly do any engagements that are not near to Windsor or London.
Charles is clearly mad that they are not pulling their weight.
The BM are definitely going after the Middleton’s regarding the bankruptcy….l was really surprised how they laid into them.
Kate should stop the head tilting.
Another example of her imitating her late MIL.
All of these photos are hilarious. Who was she talking to when she did that crazy eyes clown face? I hope not a child.
It’s the same expression my dogs make when I shake their treat jar. I just assume that here, someone off to the side is dangling a little pouch of blood diamonds or something.
@Miranda omfg I choked on my coffee
I choked on my gummy! Quote of the day! Internet is done! Thank-you for your wit!
lmao it’s totally the dog head tilt!
😂😂😂
Hee. Damn…😈😂😈🤣
@Miranda LOL that was an epic mic drop.
Miranda, that ‘‘twas brilliant. Thank you for a really awesome visual 🙂
She isn’t doing it in any of these photos but I’ve noticed that she is always holding one hand in the palm of her other hand the same way that Claire Foy does in The Crown.
I don’t really remember Queen Elizabeth doing that.
She ain’t balancing anything, especially the demands of family life with “her duties as a senior royal.” Seriously. Does anyone swallow this garbage? They sure do get a lot of mileage out of that “school run” bs.
What new fairy tale is this? Sprinkled with glamour? Surely they are are not speaking of Won’t and Can’t. She is a mother of three with nannies and all sorts of other help. What they really need to say is she is a useless. She can’t speak. She has no charm or charisma. She only knows how to get her picture taken and she doesn’t do that well either.
@susanCollins, well Susan it’s been hot, and they must be aware that wiglet glue won’t travel well in this heat 😂isn’t this idiot one of the ones who took money to critisise the Ophra interview without people even seeing it, INCLUDING HIM. And Diana? Maybe dementia has set in with this idiot. Diana toured the world, who can forget her crusade against landmines and the pictures of her in that mine field. Kate has nannies, a cook and housekeeper, alongside a workshy husband. They take the Money, they should bloody well work for it. Not be excused for their lazy ass ways
Yes, Dickie Arbiter. He seems like the type to praise her as staying home with the kids. But 61 events, not days, in a year is not preventing her from being a mother. Please.
And Diana had the guts to go after the issues that no one in the Royal family would touch back then, like AIDS. With Kate, we’re always told that they have to center her work around things she enjoys. She’s taxpayer funded, who gives a shit if she “enjoys” it. Just tell her to get off her lazy ass and get to it already. And I swear, if I hear one more person talk about how how William and Kate are still “learning”, I’m going to firebomb something. They’re in their 40s and have been doing this for so long they should have at least 3 Ph.D’s between them. These people, sheesh. Just when I think I couldn’t despise them anymore than I already do, another article like this comes out.
Lazy, greedy, useless. What a combination this duo is.
What does princess of slough mean? Is slough a place? Either way, this seems like shade. Knives out.
Slough is apparently near Heathrow airport. It also means “mud or mire”, ” a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity” or “swamp”.
Very much. Slough is where the UK version of The Office was based.
Thanks for the clarification, Sarah.
There’s a terrific show called slow horses which is set in a place called slough house and its for mI5 officers who have screwed up and are being punished.
Previous Poet Laureate, Betjeman wrote, during WWII – “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough”.
It is MAJOR shade. Slough is (slightly unfairly) seen as a dump.
So did the Fail use the quote because they knew that the public would understand the shade, or were they oblivious enough to mistake it for genuine admiration?
@Miranda it is a total insult that most British people would pick up in a heartbeat. The Fail knew this and is definitely one of the newspapers that have taken the piss out of Slough.
Ohhh dang. Yeah, that’s some shade then. Princess of Slough is a cut.
@Jais, yes to both of your questions, slough is a place and yes the knives are being ever so gently sharpened
I also found the 2nd meaning
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slough1
noun
noun: slough; plural noun: sloughs
1.
a swamp.
NORTH AMERICAN
a side channel or inlet, or a natural channel that is only sporadically filled with water.
“Elkhorn Slough”
2.
a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity.
“the economic slough of the interwar years”
Pronunciation? Rhymes with cough? or rhymes with cow?
I used to live about half an hour away from Slough, some family still do. I even had a Saturday job there as a teenager for a while. I used to work opposite a Mars factory, the smell of chocolate all day was sicknening, especially in the summer!
But Slough is generally regarded as a concrete dump with a large industrial/commercial side to it. It was one of the cheapest places to live in the area, surrounded by nicer towns and villages of the commuter belt for London. It also was far more ethnical diverse than many of the surrounding areas that are still very white middle class.
Slough is next to Windsor. The latter, sharing a name with the royal house, and being the home of Windsor Castle, “the” official royal castle, is seen as posh.
Slough next door is working class and seen as awfully common. It’s not actually that bad compared to many places in the UK, but being next to Windsor, there is a sharp contrast between Royal and common, which makes slough seem worse than it is.
It does have a high number of Asian immigrant families, but it was common before they arrived. They probably moved there because it was cheap and newly arrived immigrants tend to be poor.
White Working class Londoners move there once they’re married with babies, living in a flat and can’t afford to buy a house in London.
Uncle Gary once told journalists he was going to be the Duke of Slough and have a wing at BP after Kate married William .
Diana did the same? Didn’t H&W go to a boarding school after a certain age? Where is all the outrage of doing nothing for Cambridge or Wales? The titles need to be taken away since they don’t do enough for those areas. That’s what all the whining about H&M’s titles included as a complaint.
Diana worked unlike keen. She was sent on tours and showed interest in charities. Kate has been excused by media for her laziness.
First thing Diana and Charles were sent to Wales in tour. Diana learned Welsh. Kate and will don’t bother much with wales.
They went to boarding school when they were 8. Charles wanted to keep them at home longer but Diana insisted.
Can Charles get the lazy ones to work.
He is afraid of William. So he walks around in the woods talking to mushrooms instead.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why Chuck is so afraid of Egg. What is Egg going to do if forced to work more days? Threaten to quit? Not likely. He’s not qualified to do anything and he’s not going to give up the treasures of the Crown. Chuck should call his bluff.
I don’t think anyone can get the lazy ones to work. It’s gone on too long now. If they didn’t pull their weight for QE2, they are certainly not going to do it for Charles. Willnot and Cannot are well-matched when it comes to their work ethics.
While Charles was PoW he could have given them less money and told them they could have more if they worked more.
Now William has the duchy money, it’s a lost cause.
I think he’s given up because he’s too old for this shit and is betting that William being lazy and incompetent EVEN BY ARISTOCRATIC STANDARDS will ultimately sour William’s reign more than his.
Like, “I’m too tired to fix this problem I had a major hand in making, and also history will vindicate me”.
I wonder how often the foreign office is trying to set up royal tours and the country says “no thanks”? Who wants to pay for the questionable honor of these yahoos using your citizens like a prop for the racists at home to feel superior to?
This is how the British do major shade. It’s wrapped up in praise, but is pretty damning if you look closely. Knives are being sharpened, hehe!
I remember when the bush fires were going on in Australia and they wanted to send the Wailes, but the Aussies said it’s not a good time to visit.
Now most countries are complaining that it’s too expansive for the royals to visit.
Agree! Please keep them at home and not make Canada pay for these welfare bums to have photo ops all across the country while we pay through the nose. Maybe we can hasten the end of monarchy by refusing to act as audience and not showing up to wave if they do insist on coming.
Can’t find anything wrong with a mother doing a third of her events near her home. As long as the work gets done, fine, no problem there. This story would be a non-starter of there wasn’t a longer conversation about the Wales’ work ethic.
In general terms, I wonder if it would be easier if Kate or her office had at some point defined what kind of part time model she subscribes to. Clearly, she neither does nor does she want to work full time. That’s okay, a lot of parents who can afford to don’t. But the expectation is that being that sort of royal in that sort of position is a full time job. Being honest and then sticking to a certain amount of hours would habe been so much better.
Kate’s hours even full time would still give her much down time. Real working.mothers need to earn money to help support or be some support for their families. Their hours could be 40 hours a week. Kate us workshy and always has been. I find kate the working mother spin odd. She never worked much and the familt will never have to worry about money or security.
Sole support
Her passport says that her occupation is “Princess of the United Kingdom” not “Princess of a 12 mile Radius from Her House”.
This
As we have said on here many times, Kate could do 2-3 engagements a day while the kids are in school and she would have really high numbers. If every school day she clocked in with 3 events? I don’t know about the UK calendar, but kids in the US go 180 days a year, so that would give her over 500 events a year. And she would still have her precious school breaks. Maybe she couldn’t make the school run every single day, but surely she and William could alternate.
Her not working is out of laziness and at this point everyone knows it. At first we were told she wasn’t working FT bc “Malta” (which was a lie), then we were told she wasn’t working FT bc of the kids, then they moved into KP and we’re going to be FT royals and look, she’s pregnant again. And then every year, late fall we get the Kate embiggening stories only for her to be her usual lazy self.
And now we’re hearing she won’t even leave Windsor for a third of her engagements.
@LM, yeah, except the work DOESN’T get done. That’s the whole problem.
@TheHench LMFAO!
The problem is that both William and Kate are pretending to be full time royals and have done so since 2017. Despite saying it, their engagement numbers have not reflected full time or even match those of Edward and Sophie, much less Anne or Charles.
What, won’t Willy let her use his helicopter?
Both the queen, Margaret and Anne were mothers who didn’t hide behind their children to shirk their duties.
By appearances, the Queen had no problem leaving her children behind for months at a time, on a regular basis.
Well as a mother myself, let’s just say they are not my role models for mothering. Didn’t the Queen leave Charles behind for half a year or so, when he was still quite a small child? There is not shirking your duties and then there is just not caring about your kid as much as you care about your job. I think the Queen was the latter. Diana found a balance
While the Queen was not the best example of balancing work and children, I don’t think Anne can be accused of the same. She still seems to have a close relationship with her children and grandchildren, unlike Charles. She also works the most engagements and when she shows up she has read the briefs.
Sophie also manages to raise kids and do significant engagement numbers as well as tours on her own that have more substance than going down slides.
It’s just kate who cannot handle any facet of being an adult.
They have “youth” on their side.!?!? 😂
This Jennie Bond sounds neither convinced nor convincing.
Kate is 41. Not 25.
They are younger than King Camzilla and Prince Chucky. That’s it.
On the rugby club story I commented that those not familiar with the local geography should check out the distance from Windsor the Maidenhead. I’m glad this is being noted even if it’s being done under the guise of ‘isn’t she a wonderful mother’.
The press can’t outright criticise Kate for doing most of her engagements in Windsor so they put out this piece about her being a mother. But how long will the press use this excuse?
The she’s a mother card was played for years Kate is lazy
Apparently she’s going to use this excuse through the end of Louis’ schooling, so 20+ years total? From George’s birth through Louis’ graduation?
So “school runs” will still be the excuse when the children are in university? These people…🙄🤣
lol yes Deering24. The early years are important, then they will need her for those troubled tween and teen years. During university she’ll say most children feel unmoored and lost so they will need her then.
After they graduate I’m not sure how she’s going to scam but as soon as an engagement is announced her kid will ‘need’ her to plan a wedding, early years of marriage, then pregnancy and birth and the whole cycle starts all over because she wants to be an involved grandmother because the early years are important etc..
Rinse and Repeat
Yup, at this rate, she’ll be sending Louis off to university after accompanying him on his gap year abroad (she’s “hands on” you know!) and then, finally, once the children are all moved out, maybe she’ll begin thinking about her role. Or at least starting to think about thinking about it.
But, lest you think she might be nearly ready by then, she’ll still be learning (even after so many decades) before she can truly come into her own. You can’t rush these things!
LOL!
On reflection, it’s also interesting to see these stories put together. The reference to ‘lengthy’ tours makes me think of the queen who went away for months when her kids were small so of course no-one is going to ask them to do that. But then there’s the pivot to but any mother wants to be there for her kids – not Liz!
The UK is not that big. I drive more than 12 miles to work every day! Ridiculous.
I do 80 miles a day and I live in a small State.
Shouldn’t the bigger story be that she’s only worked 61 days in NINE months?!? Was this whole thing a way to slip us that information? That’s an average of (less than) 7 days a month. How much has she spent in all that time? And if they are such hands on parents, why do they need 3 nannies? The absurdity of it all. Enjoy your royals, UK.
Also that this overlaps with her big (re-re-) launch of the Early Years?? I mean seriously she can’t even do sustained somewhat regular engagements on her supposed lifelong project within mere months of launching it? That’s totally ridiculous! The whole thing is obviously a ridiculous farce, but c’mon, anyone who has any experience in campaigns knows that you need to build momentum following a launch and hit a bunch of events with lots of activity at the start. She lasted all of a week before losing interest? And now nearly a year has gone by and what have they done since the launch? What has Kate done? No wonder this is a lifelong project, it’ll take 20 years at this rate for the next “launch” to happen….yeesh how lame is this
You’re forgetting the Business Suit Barbie meeting and photos in theCity. Those were such accomplishments! Tall glass buildings. Conference tables. Notepads.
Oh they’ll go on tours but for now they’ll call it a working trip like what they did in Boston and what they’ll do in Singapore.
With inflation and cost of living they aren’t comfortable doing tours because they know people will be pissed both home and abroad.
There’s too much turmoil in the country and government. Plus they just spent hundreds of millions on ceremonies the last few years. They have to lay low.
Next year if the economy is better (especially in the UK) we’ll be back to calling it tours and “charm offensive” again.
61 ‘engagements’ since September 2022; that is well under 10 per month, and most of them local. I am quite outraged by that actually and I think she should be embarrassed. There are mothers like me in the UK (and fathers too) bringing up children while working full time throughout with very little of the support she gets. Yet are supposed to think that this is acceptable for a so-called ‘senior royal’. Anyone in a genuine job would just be expected to sort out their childcare to enable them to do it.
It’s offensive to working mothers who do both and juggle without nannies and security and assistants and cooks. She sometimes worked just one event on each day. Give me a break.
It’s completely offensive and implies you aren’t a good mother if you aren’t doing the school run every single day. I can’t believe they get away with this BS.
Stopped short of calling her duchess dolittle, but frankly that never bothered Cathy before. All the years she was roasted as the laziest royal she never attempted to improve, it just rolled off her back so long as she can swan around in expensive clothes and wear a tiara once in a while.
Hmmm! The royal reporters and commenters are tip toeing around the elephant in the room regarding Kate and William. Following the coronation, they seem to have been making individual appearances instead of joint appearances at their local “work” events.
If their appearance at the crown Prince of Jordan wedding is any indication, there seems to be no chemistry and royal magic to showcase from the two of them on an international stage. They are probably already living the traditional royal/aristocrat marriage arrangement – separate quarters, separate lives and/or affairs. Any international tours or events together will likely be reminiscent of the previous Prince and Princess of Wales in the latter years of their marriage. Probably best to send the PM and his wife for the international tours (soft power events), which then begs the question – what is the purpose of the royal family if they cannot be relied on for soft power on the international stage? Hmmm
100% this.
Until a resolution is reached, this is how they will explain things away.
They moved to Surrey for privacy – which is exactly what H&M had previously tried to do.
LMAO – life comes at you fast.
I vaguely recall they reported that K&W would be making more individual appearances. When was that, for the new year 2023? After ‘their new titles’? (So absurd, these ‘new title’ references, as though anything in their lives or work description has actually changed.)
They reported on doing more separate engagements well before the Queen had died. But then I think the pandemic happened and so they didn’t do much of anything.
It is more than likely that behind the scenes the separation talk was picking up and the media wrote this to lay the ground work for not doing things together.
It kind of seems like William has dibs on the helicopter and Keen no longer has access to it so won’t drive/take the train further than her lazy bum deigns to. There were pics a few weeks ago of Eugenie and her family watching (presumably) William take off at KP.
The “no longer doing lengthy tours” thing is 100% because of the Caribbean embarrassment on the world stage. They had no problem leaving their kids behind before that to go on their tax-funded holidays. Good luck getting them to do future tours that are “short and extremely busy”. Short, yes but “extremely busy”?? HAHAHA.
So if we count the 61 “days”, she still worked a third of any other gainfully employed full time employee. And they need to stop with this ” working mom” stuff, she’s not rushing to drop the kids off so she can make it to the office in time for a presentation for the other department heads. She’s not rushing to pick up Charlotte to take her to the dentist on her lunch break, and get back in time for afternoon meetings. She sets the schedule, she’s the boss. She isn’t struggling to keep up with anything, she’s lazy and her staff are lazy.
ETA- this popularity stuff is embarrassing. Do they really think people have forgotten their reception in the Caribbean and Boston literally within the last year. Who are they popular with? People barely show up to see them in England.
Kate IS downright lazy. There is absolutely no excuse for working 61 days since the queen passed away. None. (Not to mention -how- she performs at her job.)
I’m not sure about how I feel about the 12-mile radius, though. It could be another sign that Kate is lazy. However Seaflower felt K was being isolated from her family and, well, her marriage is toxic. W is a rage monster and there were a bunch of articles earlier this year (including one in Marca), which makes me hesitant to judge her for not going the distance. At the moment.
Unpopular opinion here, I don’t think Kate, or Will, is one bit lazy although that is what I too call them most of the time. They both are too grand to do work and they expect less senior royals to do everything they feel is beneath them. Kate spends a lot of time working out/exercising, hair and face maintenance, shopping. Does she have any interests outside her family and her looks? IDK, never heard of her reading a book. It takes time and work to stay underweight and toned plus all the crazy hair extensions, face fillers and Botox. I’ll bet you we’ve only seen half or her wardrobe, so a lot of time probably goes into that. Also think Will is not lazy, and I think we all have an idea how he likes to spend his time.
I think William is both lazy and psychologically damaged, from his early childhood of being in a house where people were constantly screaming and shouting at each other. Plus harassment by Papparazzi, being recognised/stared at by the public every time he went outside which must have been hard for someone who was painfully shy and socially awkward. By the time he was 18, when most people go out into the world to pursue their ambitions, raring to go, he was already psychologically exhausted.
I don’t think Kate’s lazy in the literal sense of the word. One of her school teachers said she was a 90mph girl – put a lot of effort into something, gave it all she’d got. Which is what she did when set out to seduce William and get the Ring. Journalists said they’d never seen anything like it, the way she pursued him, devoted her whole life to trying to marry him. She puts a lot of effort into something when she wants to. With regards to work, she just doesn’t want to. She’s not interested in other people. So she has no wish to go out and talk to the public. She’s only interested in herself, William, Diana, her Puppet master/Narcissistic Mother and to a lesser extent her nuclear family.
She’s a textbook GC of a NM and they usually grow up to be entitled, expecting to be given special treatment without doing anything to earn it. So she doesn’t see why she should work – it’s quite right she should be given status, and titles, and money just for existing. They also grow up to be only interested in themselves, their NM, their romantic partner and to a lesser degree their nuclear family.
“good dusting of glamour surrounds them” hahahaha I laughed so hard. A dusting surrounds them is not exactly they are stars. It’s like there is dust around them that glitters sometimes. It’s not fair but they are too old to be glamorous solely due to looks, at this age they need star power and charisma and they don’t have either.
“good dusting of fake hair extensions surrounds them”
I can’t understand how British people are ok with their laziness and their ridiculous excuses! There millions of parents who combine work and family without the help they have. Everyone wants to prioritize their children, but most of times, it’s not possible. Anyway, the fact that the 1/3of her engagements are done locally shows two things for me: first, they’re definitely living apart, she in Windsor, he in London or Norfolk judging by his engagements (lol) and secondly, it shows that something is definitely wrong with her and she can’t handle anything more strenuous.. i watched a video with her and the rugby players and I couldn’t make any sense of what she was saying, it was just a word salad without any meaning …and she seemed high on…
Louis is how old now – 4? So, potentially, Kate’s got another 14 years of “staying near home for the children.”
Eurydice, Louis is 5. Archie is 4. I did the math, too. Eighteen years until Louis is 18. That’s really not the long from now. I suggest she figure out what she’s going to do then and start getting prepared for it. I don’t think she’ll do that, but that’s what she should do. Once the kids are teenagers, she’s not going to be able to use this excuse all of the time. Aren’t they sending the kids to boarding school at some point? If so, she’s got a lot less time than we thought.
Thirteen years until he’s 18.
He just turned 5, so school age….she has no babies at home. This is just excuses for her damn laziness. And as for not going on foreign tours, nobody is asking for this boring duo period. Meghan was almost 7 months pregnant & Morocco asked for her & Harry. The star power of the RF have left and reside in Montecito.
The article is putting all the agencies in the area on notice that they could be next! Get your “Royal Visit” plans in order now.
Well Uncle Gary always wanted to be known as the Duke of Slough LOLz.
This and the Middleton money stories – ooooh the knives are flying. She’s being called lazy again and her family are being called lying grifters, karma has come knocking.
There will be a separation or divorce announcement coming soon – they will wait till after Holyrood Week in Scotland.
I wonder what the final nail was – lategate and fake tiara gate?!?!? The coronation is clearly the last time I thin we will see the Middleton mob at any royal event – that was there last crumb.
They’re ‘look at us!’ video of their prepping for the coronation & then their late arrival I think was the nail in the coffin. That was so disrespectful. And I don’t care one whit for what Charles thinks or feels, but that was so very disrespectful.
A “good dusting of glamour”?!? Will and Kkkhate??? Where?
Surely it’s Opposite Day again!
Devil’s advocate here, but maybe the men in grey are freezing her out and not giving her engagements because William wants out of the marriage. She’s always been lazy, but it’s come back to bite her. Banished to the Tower of Adelaide, they are throwing breadcrumbs to toss a football and fold a baby onesie event she could WALK to if need be. I wouldn’t be surprised if she wanted to do more to save her married in status, wanted to be important, but the writing is on the wall. William does less but the press won’t touch him. I wish they would.
Kate’s laziness is legendary but this does feel like she’s being ring-fenced here. Maybe it’s “for her own good” as in that’s all she can handle atm but then again, maybe they’re keeping her confined to a small area so they can tightly control her.
I could definitely see the latter being done by William/the men in gray. Especially the way they are only providing thirty minutes notice for these events? Maybe she doesn’t even get that much notice ahead of time. Maybe they just splash a bucket of cold water on her, hand her a wiglet and a Xanax and shove her out the door? The clock is counting down to a separation announcement and she may be in a position where she just has to do what she is told.
Everything about the way the this family treats women is detestable. Yes, kate had always been terrible. The RF as an institution is still worse.
I’m leaning toward all of this too. The number of articles criticizing Kate/The Midds in a short period of time is definitely interesting.
“….hand her a wiglet and a Xanax and shove her out the door” needs a standing ovation.
@MipMip * WELL PLAYED*
I think the lack of a private secretary is part of this issue.
A little warning about the jump scare photo would have been nice! EEK she looks possessed.
That top picture never fails to amuse me. She looks like a malfunctioning fem-bot. I half expect to see bullets start flying out of her tits.
🤣😂🤣😂😂😂
@Kristin – I laughed so hard the cat’s giving me a Look.
This seems like more shade for Kate, right? Mentioning her paltry 61 “working” days since September, with a third of them in her backyard seems like a veiled criticism to me. I also note that although Kate and William are noted in the article, it’s Kate who receives the brunt of it. Nobody is calling TOB the “Prince of Slough” or suggesting that he has to juggle being a working parent. I think it’s subtly throwing Kate under the bus yet again.
Plus, the excuse of “but the children!” as reasons why they are not going on tour make even less sense as their children get older! And didn’t we just hear that the Wales are going to be stepping up their travel now? And didn’t they just attend the Jordan royal wedding? Seems like they are happy to show up for certain events.
She’s on her way out. It seems clear.
She really wants to be a stay at home wife. Even stepping out of area is too much, she believes she deserves this she’s doing it for england.
Mumbles cares nothing for the day to day engagements that she’s been doing – all she cares are big state/family occasions where she can wear bling and tiaras, standing on the balcony waving at the poors who pay for her wiglets, botox and designer clothes she makes look sh!t.
She is a double whammy of lazy and uninterested in any issues, not even Arly Years now that Louis is 5 and either already ruined or set to marry a fellow princess. She is single-handedly making the role of British princess obsolete. Chased out Meghan and doesn’t want to do her job.
She should really get out of the family and her official role. As the mother of the future King, she will always be in the limelight somewhat, which should satisfy her need for attention. But she’d be better off with a rich second husband (someone European with piles of cash) and in fifteen years we can read profiles of her empty life in Vanity Fair.
Where is William in all of this? If Kate wants to be there when the kids come home, where is he? In this media fiction, is he also running the kids to school with her and doing the pickup? His work numbers aren’t very different from hers. Shouldn’t they be trading off days with the kids?
Good question. Is he off with a gf or in therapy? Or both? I would love to read that he’s been quietly volunteering somewhere a few hours each week, but that’ll never happen.
Gives a little more credence to Adelaide cottage being the separation home. He doesn’t live there.
Lol yes the Sussexes stepping back really caused a crushing amount of work to fall upon the Wales. Truly unforgivable of them to resign.
Very good point.
They seem to be doing even less.
There was a time when the British media were criticising Kate for using her pregnancies to have very long breaks.
Reading between the lines I wonder if, since gaining control of the Cornwall purse strings, Will has cut off much of Kate’s funding. We’ve heard she doesn’t have a private secretary anymore, and now this. It fits with what Harry said in Spare about how Charles controlled their engagements through funding. Plus, clearly, something has changed in the Middleton’s finances as well.
Perhaps because he wants a divorce or perhaps because he wants to sideline her. He’s clearly very controlling, as we learned from Spare, and he also clearly resents his childhood and wants his children raised differently. I honestly can’t blame him on that one. Boarding school at age 7?? Largely in the care of nannies and other surrogates while his parents worked, esp. after his mother died. No support for his mental health during his parents divorce or after his mother died. And I hear everyone on the criticism for using the kids as an excuse, as we all have to balance child-rearing with other responsibilities, but who knows what goes on in Will’s mind to justify why they shouldn’t be working.
One thing Harry has done with Spare and his recent court testimony, surprisingly, is actually help me to see Will in a more human light. Like most commenters on this blog, I was and am just aghast and disgusted by Will’s behavior and his treatment of the Sussex family. But Harry helped me see that Will suffered much of the same trauma, abuse, neglect, and illegal invasions of privacy as Harry, but he didn’t come through the other side like Harry did. And I find that really sad. I don’t forget or excuse his abusive or wrong-headed actions as an adult, but I understand them better. One of the most inhumane things you can do to a child is force them into a position they know they are unworthy of. There is no greater cause of unhappiness than living in discord to your true nature. William has never wanted to be king, and deep down knows how unworthy he is. Everything else is what he does to hide and survive that fact.
I also think there’s space to see and regret that William grew up in a deeply messed up situation, but also be able to condemn his actions toward Harry. This is why I want more info about whether Carole was manipulative toward William in ways that specifically activated his trauma around Diana. If the press has been told to loose the hounds on the Middletons, this is where they should go.
The fact that he has spent his life wanting whatever Harry had makes his actions unsurprising. It appears to me, he was always a handful and as he got older the people around him just let him do what he wanted because it was easier. Put those together and you’ve got a problem. If he doesn’t want to be King, then he needs to abdicate when his father dies. It’s that simple.
I do agree. He seems like a deeply unhappy person.
@LKS Cut off funding for private secretaries but kept the essentials like cosmetic fillers and wardrobe
@LKZ very true. Also William has had it drummed into him from an early age that he is going to be King and must above all toe the line.
The photo where she is wearing the green dress, the gold earrings, and her eyes are popping? Is she on a study drug like Ritalin that makes you more attentive and causes drastic weight loss?
Just wondering, because nothing about that photo looks even remotely normal. (The Christmas lights have been flashing 24 / 7 and nobody’s been home for months).
I’m going to offer an unpopular opinion. I see nothing wrong in Kate or william trying todo much of their work near their home base. They are doing their best to be there for their youngchildren while serving their country. This is no easy task.
As we have seen the royal family has failed miserably in bring up well adjusted children. Liz andPhil barely qualified as parents, and though I admired Diana greatly she was volatile and a diva. Charles was remote and selfish.
Clearly Kate and William , and I’m sure Harry and Meghan as well as all the cousins want to change the paradigm. Good.
The tricky part for William and Kate is that there are not many able senior royals to travel to the hinterlands. I feel for them.
When children dare small,they want
Their mom and dad around— even if there is a nanny. Who comes to book fair, plays,special events at school? Not the nanny.
Also, this was a year of upheaval for the kids.they lost their great grandmother soon after their great grandfather, swiched schools and homes and were called upon to be more in the public eye. That’s a lot of upheaval to adjust to. Yes, those kids need their parents around.
I worked full time when my kids were small ( and through college), had a nanny and had to do some traveling. To make it work my husband and I lived near our work, which made commuting easier(more time with the kids), but was really expensive. I was lucky: I had a high enough position that I could sneak out for an hour or so to see my kids in a play, tecital or sport special. My kids loved our nanny but wanted me there for those ocassions, and doctor visits too.
I can’t fault anybody for trying to do the best Job possible in their profession and for their kids. It’s not easy. I wish people would be a little kinder to working parents.
LMAO. I’m sorry but this is…something. Neither of these two are “working parents”. Even after getting the PPOW titles, they STILL hardly work. William already publicly admitted to barely spending time with his children pre-pandemic, and KP-approved articles from People strongly implied that Kate doesn’t either. If you really think those children spent much time with Elizabeth and Philip, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. It’s obvious you’re a Wales stan pretending to be neutral, because everything you’ve claimed about Will and Kate is blatantly false.
But they don’t work…..unless you call doing 61 engagements (some on the same day) since last September work. Lets set the bar somewhat higher.
I agree there has to be more leeway for fulltime working parents. But Will and Kate wouldn’t know a 40 hour work week if it hit them in the face
Doing their best, their benchmark seems to be very low or non existent. Maybe it takes her staff 4 hours to get her ready and this is called work. Keeping the wiglets and hair extensions in place and slathering makeup on, to look “natural” cannot be done in a short time. Neither of them have ever done anything other than part time jobs and full time self indulgence, so how can they call what they do work ?
There is a huge difference between a regular person working full time, which is roughly 40 hours a week and these two who have worked about 61 hours in 9 months.
If kate did engagements Monday to Friday within a close radius that is one thing, but she does nothing of the sort.
The same laziness comments have been said since 2011. The only difference is that the media is pointing it out now.
Montys girl Diana was not volatile nor a diva. That is direct spin that charles sympathizers use. Diana was no doormat and she did complain about Camilla from the get go which is not being a diva. If william and kate had behaved better to harry and meghan They would have another couple to help out. Kate and William were always lazy and the children should not be used as their excuses not to work. They barely work as it is.
How many families are able to have BOTH parents take two weeks off every time it’s half term and every school holiday.
Montysgirl–seriously?!?! Since when do most working parents have an army of servants to help with their kids? And can take time off whenever they feel like it? And never have to worry about money? And can get away with doing even less than the minimum work required? And can write off weddings/screenings/any public appearances as “work.” You picked one peculiar hill to die on, to say the least.
That top picture! My God! It looks like she could just shoot her eyeballs at you as if they were cannonballs.
JMO, I am fine with Kate staying close to home so she can be available for her children.
I’d take that vs. another generation of cold, heartless, uninvolved parents like Charles was to W and H.
Better she is around vs. shipping the kids of to boarding school at 8-10 year olds.
That is barbaric to me.
Plus, the less events she works the less time she spends putting her foot in her mouth or buying new wardrobes.
She and Will may be improved over Charles in some ways but they still obviously treat the children unequally. Lots of parents work full time and manage to be available to their children. What warps the royal children is the whole concept of royalty and one being more special because of the simple accident of being firstborn. Then there are all the adults around them willing to throw each other and their children under the bus to make themselves look good.
William and Harry were raised with parents who hated each other and that was the dysfunction, not either of them working too much.
Kate and William have created a volatile environment for their kids and so no different than what William’s parents did. They are just lazy on top of it.
Diana was treated badly by the media and by Charles before and after the marriage ended. The marriage was on Charles terms
Kates marriage to William was on his terms. Kate is hanging on to the marriage for all its worth
The children are in school now. Kate was always workshy even before the children were born.
Taxpayers should expect working senior totals not to be workshy. Kate signed up to be a working royal not sitting home . Kate has four mansions and has lots of help. The children are in school
Working r o y a l s
Depends on the mother in regard to boarding school being a plus or minus. I would have welcomed the break from my mentally unstable, overbearing mother.
That green dress photo needs a warning label before viewing.
A young couple with a young family, this excuse is wearing very thin. Young is in your 20’s. In their 40’s and still strugling to manage their children, either means they dont care, or they are total morons. Multiple servants, assistants and nannies to manage their every moment, does not constitute struggling. Wealth and privlidge surrounds her. How do Royal mothers in other countries manage to do 1,000% more than Khate and yet do not endlessly complain about how busy that they are.
I’m a working mom, earning enough to live in a very small house with garden and affording a cleaning help once a week. I would never in my life say I am struggling, I consider my live a privileged one. By Kate’s standards I must be at rock bottom…. This “normal family” game must end because they are insulting people with those stories.
No one likes to say it anymore but forties still are middle aged.
She probably uses those women protesters that were after her to justify it
61 engagements? So that’s 61 new outfits, right?
Where does she store them all?
I’m sure she has a warehouse somewhere on the Windsor grounds and staff to catalogue every item…such good use of taxpayer money.
It’s giving “working, but not really”. Working mother my ass. My mom worked 5 days a week not 61 events/year. But sure DM. Keep making excuses for a princess doing the BARE minimum because you couldn’t handle a working princess because she is a biracial American.
I remember a valid criticism once of the royals that they do too many events in southern England/London and not enough in the middle and northern parts of the country.
I am sure the nanny can pick up the kids a couple of days a month so that William and Catherine can visit the middle and north of the country. The kids will be fine.
As for rewriting Diana’s history, I almost choked on my coffee. William and Harry were boarding at age eight. Before then, Diana was working a lot harder than William and Catherine. I don’t think she even did school runs.
Catherine had a weak work record as a single woman. So she needs to be seen working outside of the home.