Prince William & Kate are really ‘nervous’ about Harry’s breezy visit to London

Prince Harry will be at the WellChild Awards in London on September 7th. The 8th is the one-year anniversary of QEII’s passing and the 9th is the first day of the Invictus Games in Dusseldorf. On the 8th, Prince William and Kate are traveling to Wales, where they will go to church and make a few appearances to memorialize QEII. The rest of the family is unlikely to be seen whatsoever on the 8th – King Charles has made it clear that he’s not interested in doing a splashy memorial or even a private family event at Balmoral. Instead of just accepting that Charles and his two sons are all like ships passing in the night, there’s a lot of energy being put into How Dare Harry Come To England with a dash of How Dare Harry Not Beg The Windsors To Agree To See Him. Speaking of, the Daily Beast’s Royalist had a not-so-surprising piece on what William, Kate and Charles think about Harry’s breezy visit.

Friends of Prince William and Kate Middleton have said the couple will be irritated at Prince Harry’s decision to give a speech in London on the eve of the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death, while sources have also told The Daily Beast that Harry is not likely to see his father or brother, and will not be expected to attend any private or public family gatherings to mark the late queen’s passing.

William and Kate are due to make an as-yet unconfirmed public appearance outside of London on Sept. 8, at which they will remember the late queen—and there will inevitably now be questions as to whether Harry’s dramatic insertion of himself into the week’s events will overshadow their plans. A source in their office told The Daily Beast that the precise details of their engagement would be announced soon.

A friend of William and Kate’s said the couple would likely have no intention of meeting up with Harry or doing a joint engagement with him, unsurprisingly, some might say, given the parlous state of relations between the formerly very close brothers….Harry is reportedly going to still be in the U.K. on Sept. 8—and his decision to be in the country on the actual anniversary of the queen’s death will look to some like a calculated provocation.

A friend of Prince William’s told The Daily Beast, “It is increasingly hard to work out what Harry wants to be and do. He was appointed to be a patron of WellChild because he was a member of the royal family. Now this is something that he apparently wants to carry on doing in his capacity as a private individual. William and Kate will be irritated, especially by the date, but will just ignore it. What else can they do?”

They said that William and Kate would not extend an olive branch to Harry by inviting him to appear with them, or to meet for private conversations. Staff at Kensington Palace have already said that William and Kate will make a public appearance on the one-year anniversary of Elizabeth’s death. Given that this is the day after Harry makes his speech, there might yet be a possibility that the two camps can accommodate each other, if Harry avoids any public engagements on the actual anniversary. The real nervousness at the palace will be that Harry may choose to further disrupt the delicate choreography of the day by making some kind of surprise appearance on the 8th itself.

A friend of King Charles sought to shrug off the impact of Harry’s visit, telling The Daily Beast: “Harry is a private citizen. What he does on the anniversary of the queen’s death is entirely a matter for him. The king certainly won’t be changing his plans in reaction to what Harry is doing.”

Asked if the king would be concerned that an appearance by Harry at a marquee charity event could distract media focus, the friend said, “I don’t think anybody is under any illusions about the challenges that they face going forward with Harry. But the bigger picture here is that this is the anniversary of the monarch’s death, people will want to mark it in different ways.”

[From The Daily Beast]

While Charles remains a dogsh-t father, I think it’s interesting that Charles’s camp greeted Harry’s news with a shrug and a sigh, meanwhile William and Kate are neurotically briefing reporters about their fear that Harry will (gasp) make an appearance on the same day as them. Their events in Wales were supposed to be their big return to work and it will be the first time they’ve done any event in two months. And their big macabre thing is being ruined because Harry wants to spend time with sick kids and their families. Speaking of, “He was appointed to be a patron of WellChild because he was a member of the royal family. Now this is something that he apparently wants to carry on doing in his capacity as a private individual…” William truly can’t comprehend the fact that Harry would go out of his way to help people and honor these kids and their families. William can’t comprehend someone else’s service without it being attached to a title and “duty.”

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  1. Flowerlake says:

    Or maybe the Daily Beast could focus on the charity instead for once?

    • Geegee says:

      Even out of the family harry is still visibly outworking them. That should be the story.

      • Ameerah M says:

        Which is why they are ACTUALLY upset.

      • Sam says:

        Omg!!! We will see prince Harry live on September 9th at 11pm local time on German TV in the in the “sportstudio”!!!!

        I’m from Germany and I’m looking forward to it!!

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        “William can’t comprehend someone else’s service without it being attached to a title and “duty”.”

        Service is Universal, Workshy McLazycakes…

  2. Lorelei says:

    A hearty “LOL” is all I’ve got for this one.

    • Kathleen Williams says:

      Much ado about the comings and goings of an irrelevant royal. Tells you who is really important doesn’t it?

  3. Blackfemmebot says:

    This just sounds like WanK knowing they can’t compete with Harry and while that is certainly true, how embarrassing by speaking and freaking about it so publicly.

    • Lorelei says:

      No, no, you’re getting it all wrong! They “never complain,” remember? /s

    • Kingston says:

      Can you imagine!

      If M was also going to be in Shidthole CUNTry with H at the WellChild event, there would literally be weeping wailing gnashing of teeth and throwing up. It would literally be what WanK’s mouthpieces would be telling us. OMG!

    • Christine says:

      Word. It’s extra embarrassing since everyone who was paying attention knows the queen stripped Harry of his ROYAL patronages. If WellChild wanted to shake him off, this would have been the moment, but they knew they had a patron that ACTUALLY wants to work.

      Cannot and Willnot are pissed that the people taking care of sick kids still want Harry. It’s so beyond pathetic, I don’t think there is a word for this.

  4. s808 says:

    “Harry’s dramatic insertion of himself into the week’s events”

    Um, WC AND IG’s events were planned WELL before W&K decided to work for a day.

    “He was appointed to be a patron of WellChild because he was a member of the royal family. Now this is something that he apparently wants to carry on doing in his capacity as a private individual…”

    They’re baffled by this because given the choice, they wouldn’t do it. They don’t like charity work and only barely do it now to create the illusion of working.

    • Ginger says:

      Imagine being mad that Harry wants to be there for terminally ill kids and their families. William truly is a horrible human being.

    • Jane says:

      Don’t Eugenie and Beatrice have patronages despite never being working royals? Why would w&k be surprised that Harry wants to carry on supporting charities when his cousins have been doing it for years?

      • Miranda says:

        What is this effort to cast Harry as a “private individual”? Harry is a Prince of England, and will always be a member of the royal family, just not a senior working royal. Harry has supported Wellchild for over 15 years! Willy hates that he can’t control Harry’s calendar anymore. H&M will secretly come to the UK when they want to for their own purposes and Willy can do nothing about it. And H&M don’t want to meet with the RF until they are ready to apologize for their racist actions against their family. They have washed their hands of that hateful family.

    • Lorelei says:

      @S808, seriously, that was such a ridiculous and insulting statement. We already know that the BRF believes that the world revolves around them, but stuff like this really brings it into focus. These morons truly cannot comprehend that everyone doesn’t plan their schedules around THEIR (mostly empty) calendar. Everything should come to a halt when one of them steps outside to actually do something! It’s actually quite embarrassing to watch.

    • tamsin says:

      Insert himself?!!

      Charles said there would be no events, well, until a couple announced they would be forcing themselves on the Welsh for a day.

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        The chutzpah of the Palace spin is a continual source of astonishment to me.

        Harry’s event: planned and scheduled months, if not nearly a year, in advance.

        W&K’s “let’s LARP being dutiful royals for a day”: laughably scrambled together by their perennially incompetent staff, the minute they (or their press blackmailers) realized the Wellchild Awards date and Invictus Dusseldorf would bookend the 1st anniversary of the death of the longest living monarch in English history…

        What they’re *not* saying: no “official working royal” was marking it because Chucklefrick is all about himself and Bride of Chucky these days and he’s far more concerned about his upcoming trip to France, where he previously promised to wine and dine his Old Grey Mare at Versailles with a diamond studded feedbag. I’d warrant no one in the Palaces thought it was a problem until the BM Blackmailers, eager for a drama-filled storyline for the deathiversary, started making noises to The Wasp about how heinous the optics were for the Palaces. If there isn’t a story, guaranteed Murdoch will order someone to invent one.

        The arrogance, and the shocking total lack of self-awareness it must take to try to focus pull from the only royal the Rota really wants to report on, and then spin that as blaming Harry for doing the focus pulling. The mind boggles.

        The British Media blackmailers, and these Palace toadies remain outgunned and outclassed by Team Sussex. Team KP and Team BP show their arses each and every time they run to the media, crying foul about Harry. Endless pathetic rounds of “look at me!” and “pick ME!” behaviour from a patently insecure King and heir, put on blast by the very royalist media supposedly concerned about their favourites’ popularity.

        Every single time we get another round of this hand wringing nonsense in the press, they prove by their words and actions that EVERY. SINGLE. THING. Harry said about the media, and his family, in Spare and in the Courts, is 100% true. This royal clown car of petty denigraters literally cannot stop telling on themselves.

        Honestly, it’s no wonder the greater part of the residents on Salt Island truly dgaf about the BRF. There’s nothing to admire or look up to in them. Which is what the BRF really want – fawning admiration; and it is precisely this, that will continue to elude them.

        Harry does good work, honestly and humbly, without fanfare or complaint, and has by that earned the unfiltered respect of millions. *That’s* the source of the star power he possesses, that his mother possessed as well. On some level Chuckles and Workshy (and their media blackmailers) all know this; but the Palace residents can’t be arsed to ever meet the moment. They’d rather drag their feet, then phone it in, and then get publicly cross and petty when it inevitably blows up in their faces. They’re absolutely ridiculous.

    • aftershocks says:

      “He was appointed to be a patron of WellChild because he was a member of the royal family.”

      Hmm, Harry may have been asked years ago by WellChild operatives to become involved. Or, as a senior working royal, Harry met people involved with WellChild, and he initiated becoming a patron due to his love for children, and his passion for helping people in need. If Harry’s involvement with WellChild had anything to do with the royal mafia, Chuck, Will & their gnarly courtiers would have tried to strip Harry of this patronage. Maybe they did try to take the WellChild patronage away from Harry, but they didn’t succeed.

      Harry, and later Meghan, became deeply involved with the charity. There are apparently deep, beneficial bonds between the Sussexes and WellChild that neither the rota clowns nor the royal mafia can ever succeed in breaking.

    • Christine says:

      They haven’t even worked for a day, they are just getting it out there that they are pissed that Harry is in the atmosphere, if they actually decide to “work” that day.

  5. Brassy Rebel says:

    Media having it both ways about the anniversary of the queen’s death: the family won’t be marking it publicly except for W&K who will be in Wales. And Harry might overshadow the anniversary of the queen’s death merely by breathing in Britain.

    • Where'sMyTiara says:

      Media knows darn well that Harry can’t overshadow a thing if they don’t report about it.
      They’re literally making Harry the story again, deliberately, and they know it. They’re doing it to goad the BRF and to continue to beat the drum for a feud which doesn’t truly exist because Harry refuses to play. This is why the media and the palaces scorn Harry & Meghan now and keep trying to up the ante to elict a response from Team Sussex; because the Sussexes refuse to play these stupid gotcha games with these people anymore, and the narcissists in the Firm and in the media CANNOT stand to be ignored, blanked, and cut out. For them that is the worst punishment of all.

      They keep pulling these stunts because all the public interest lies with H&M; and the BRF and the media are utterly DESPERATE to be part of that narrative.

  6. No they are afraid that Harry will make them look bad without him trying. He comes and does his charity activities and actually engages and helps the charity. This is what makes them look bad. If they want that to stop then they should ACTUALLY DO THE WORK!!!

    • Lorelei says:

      @Susan, well, that means that for once they’ll actually be right about something, because Harry WILL (and already does, for that matter) make them look bad without even trying!

  7. Jan says:

    Well Child’s fundraiser is held at this time every year, except during the Covid pandemic.

    • Lucy says:

      Yes, they’re acting like Harry set the schedule. He and Meghan were only in England when the Queen died because they were going to this event last year. And here it is, an annual event happening on the same day as last year 🙄

  8. Brit says:

    They need to stop worrying about the Sussexes and worry about their jobs and commonwealth, that is slowly disappearing before their eyes. The press in Britain barely cover William as it is. Don’t be mad at Harry, be mad about the fact you have no charisma and charm. William can’t even see that he’s being played and that his insecurity and jealously will be used against him by the same press that props him up. A whole loser.

    • The Old Chick says:

      Someone was in here last week saying neither M or H had worn rings for ‘9 months’ which was super specific to attempt credibility. M wears her wedding ring which is the one that matters, but if people don’t wear a ring, so what? She doesn’t always wear her engagement ring, neither do loads of people. It was a lot of efforting on this posters part to claim they’re separated. We’ve never seen H or M without their wedding rings. This story is being promoted because of the Wails separation.

      I haven’t worn a wedding or engagement ring for 20 years.

  9. Snuffles says:

    “Harry is reportedly going to still be in the U.K. on Sept. 8—and his decision to be in the country on the actual anniversary of the queen’s death will look to some like a calculated provocation.”

    Only the Windsors would think a man honoring his grandmother and Queen on the anniversary of her death as a “calculated provocation.”

    Do these people not HEAR themselves!?

    • Eurydice says:

      How about – only the Windsors would think a man getting a good night’s sleep before flying off to his next obligation would be “calculated provocation.”

    • Dee(2) says:

      Right?! Awards were literally on September 8th last year they canceled their appearance because the queen died. Why would it be shocking and some sort of provocation that he attends the award show this year. It really is something that him simply being in the same country makes these people so apoplectic that he is” overshadowing” them. Do other people not do anything on the days that the royals have events? Like other celebrities, charitable organizations, large scale philanthropists? Because I’ve never heard of them being angry that an actor or musician or football player is also doing an event the same day that they are. It’s just Harry and Meghan all the time.

    • Lorelei says:

      IMO, “calculated provocation” is one of the most unintentionally funniest things that they’ve ever said because it is so unbelievably demented.

    • Afken says:

      Lol see how they lie? “Reportedly still going to be on the country on the 8th” except that hasn’t been reported anywhere and Harry’s certainly not going to tell people his travel plans. They made that up. No matter what he’s leaving the country before the 9th whether that’s a late night flight on the 7th or early morning the 8th doesn’t matter. It’s not a provocation at all. It’s logistics. Look at the monarchy tremble at this one man. Harry look how powerful you are.

  10. Catherine says:

    Charles is a sh*t but he realizes that William’s pathological response to anything related to Harry is out of control and strategically bad. Charles desperately wants to try to sell the l love my son narrative even though his actions say otherwise. William wants to do everything to emphasize how hated Harry is.

  11. Eurydice says:

    They should be nervous. They should be quaking in their boots and never getting a good night’s sleep. Maybe if they had actually planned an actual memorial event and actually announced it, then they’d have the advance PR so that Harry just setting foot in the country wouldn’t over shadow them. But this is more incoherent mumbling about maybe and something something might happen and they might appear or they might speak or a video message or something something in a church in Wales, maybe…

    And it’s no wonder William can’t comprehend that Harry can live a life of service as a private individual – Elizabeth couldn’t comprehend it, either.

    • Jay says:

      So true, @Eurydice. They could have done a day of service to a charity connected to QEII. They could have made a splashy donation or funded a scholarship or used the day to break ground on a playground/garden/early years centre etc. They are so worried that Harry makes them look small in comparison, but then they never really do anything about it.

      Instead, best I can tell, they are going back to Wales as a sort of victory lap for that glorious day that they came into their titles?

      • Dee says:

        It will be a Mourning Day of Wearing Buttons and Jewelry for Kate. And Normal Bill will meet her there and look constipated as usual in an attempt to appear solemn while Kate attempts to touch him inappropriately in a playful but somber manner.

      • Eurydice says:

        Of course, they’ll make to trip to Wales all about themselves. Just like they did in Scotland when William made a speech about how much he loved shooting at Balmoral and hoped his son could enjoy that too someday.

        @Dee – love the “playful but somber.”

  12. Jais says:

    Wellchild has made it clear that they want Harry to remain as patron. If it was up to William, that patronage would be yanked. It’s beyond reprehensible that William is petulantly leaking to the Daily Beast about how dare Harry think he can still be a part of this event. Omg. This is a meaningful event for families and children that they look forward to all year. Harry donated money from his book. The biggest regret they have is they cannot actually exile Harry from setting foot in the UK.

    • Lorelei says:

      You’re right. It’s a particularly great look coming from someone whose wife is committed (lol) to the Arly Years of all of Britain’s children.

  13. MsIam says:

    The people behind the Daily Beast sound as terrible as the people at the palace. Maybe if they all focused on something besides their own navels, like maybe the charity or the anniversary of the queen’s death they would feel much better. Instead they spend time whining and moaning about what Harry does while calling him a whiner and moaner.

  14. Noor says:

    They fear that Prince Harry may include references to the late queen in his speech.

  15. Brit says:

    I think he’s also nervous because comparisons will likely be made because of his stupid and foolish decision not to attend the women’s World Cup compared to Harry who is flying to help a charity and the Invictus games. Harry shows Williams laziness and inadequacies.

    • Lorelei says:

      I love how William creates these controversies himself by being a lazy pr!ck, then STILL tries to blame Harry, somehow. (And apparently thinks that people can’t see exactly what he’s doing.)

      William knew full well that Invictus was coming up, and *he made the choice* not to go to the match. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together could have predicted the comparisons.

      It’s his own fault, but he thinks he’s faultless 100% of the time, so he needs his old scapegoat back. He’s a sad excuse for a man and he’s certainly not cut out to be a leader of anything.

      After the backlash over his absence at the match, it’s going to be even funnier every time they refer to him as “statesmanlike” from now on. William doesn’t have one diplomatic bone in his body.

      • Layla says:

        @lorelei lmao was he “statesman” like when he kept looking for Harry’s approval and permission to decide to wave to the crowds at the end of the Windsor walkabout? If you watch the video, he kept looking at H and saying “shall we just wave? shall we just wave? let’s just wave”

  16. tamsin says:

    What a petulant article. What really irritates me is the disrespect this writer shows toward the charity in their goal to dis Harry. It seems to me that Harry is so important to the charity as its patron that they make a point of arranging their awards evening to fit into when he is in Europe since he was forced to relocate his whole family. The IG date was announced long ago-William and Kate’s event strikes me as a last minute thing to give themselves some PR and the RR something to write about. Harry is in London to support his patronage. This attitude in this article reveals how insular the royal family is and really how useless they are. They can’t even give a very important charity its due, and I thought service was their mantra. Furthermore, if WellChild were indeed a royal appointment, it would already have been taken away from him. Harry is living a life of service- William and Kate merely play at it. If Harry is not in the UK on the 8th, it will be how dare he show such disrespect and if he there it will be how dare he have the nerve to be there. I wouldn’t be surprised if Harry visited his mother’s grave and of course his grandmother would be on his mind as well. That would all just be normal. Clearly the Windsors are not normal.

  17. Jay says:

    I’m here for KP’s obvious bafflement about why Wellchild still wants Harry to represent their organization (Hint: it’s because he shows up for them) and why he would still want to work with them. It just tells us so much about the Wales: Without the titles, neither of them would be anyone’s choice to lead any organization of worth. And without their titles (and the taxpayer funding), they wouldn’t do anything at all.

    And the best part guys? This is going to happen every year, because Wellchild always has an event around this time. Every year, the Wales are going to have to deal with Harry showing what actual service looks like.

    • Lorelei says:

      And every year, they’ll bitch about how it makes Harry disrespectful to the late Queen, somehow. Even though, as you said, WellChild has *always* had their event at this time.

  18. Becks1 says:

    I just feel like I’m laughing more and more at KP these days. they are SO incompetent. Charles is telling you how to react! Charles is telling you what to say! Follow his lead!!

    I mean, compare this:
    “Harry is a private citizen. What he does on the anniversary of the queen’s death is entirely a matter for him.”

    To this:
    ” will inevitably now be questions as to whether Harry’s dramatic insertion of himself into the week’s events will overshadow their plans……a calculated provocation…..”

    Like, one of those is a much more reasonable and rational response to Harry being at Wellchild than the other. DRAMATIC! CALCULATED!!

    KP is just completely off the rails with their PR and its hilarious in a way to watch.

  19. Amy Bee says:

    William and Kate are pathetic and stupid.

  20. Rapunzel says:

    “Harry may choose to further disrupt the delicate choreography of the day by making some kind of surprise appearance on the 8th itself.”

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

    He is a PRIVATE CITIZEN! You don’t get to choreography anything for him anymore. If you wanted him to dance to your tune, you should treated him right…and Meghan.

    • Eurydice says:

      So far as I can tell, there’s no “choreography of the day” to disrupt. All that’s been announced is that W&K are going to church in Wales and Charles is going to stay home.

      • Rapunzel says:

        Right? I think this is tactic admission that the others are nothing but PR photo ops and they probably have a surprise photo op up their sleeves. They don’t want Harry making their disingenuousness obvious.

      • Gabby says:

        If the WanKs want to really make a splash that day, they should bring Andrew to the church service with them and of course let him sit shotgun.

  21. ThatsNotOkay says:

    Imagine, being upstaged by the thought of someone else being around. Being upstaged by the shadow of someone else’s work ethic. It’s a rough life. Poor William and even poorer middle class Kate.

  22. MSTJ says:

    I think the entire royal mafia institution expected Harry to go and live under a rock, desperate for help after they denied him the half in/half out arrangement. They expected him to run back to them for help within a year which is why the Queen allowed a 1 year grace period after they stepped back from royal work. That is why the royal mafia institution issued a statement that the Sussexes were stepping back from a life of service and they were upset when the Sussexes responded in their public statement that “service is universal” and they will continue to serve outside the royal mafia institution.

    They still haven’t comprehended that service is beyond “royal duty “. Princess Diana had the same issue with their understanding of service versus what service actually is. The royal mafia family service is performative. It is to shroud their mafia activities in an image of charity and duty. Many British subjects accept that dynamic of service from them but the rest of the world is not blind to the performance. The performance is entertaining – costumes, photos, videos, etc. – for many people and unimportant to many others outside Britain. Oh Well🤷‍♀️, Will and Kate, the future of a “modern” British monarchy, will have to step up since William wants to compete with Harry or remain lazy and incandescent with rage every day. Why is he even competing with Harry boggles me to no end. He’s 42 years old for goodness sake.

  23. bisynaptic says:

    I’m confused: Harry is not allowed to do anything “on the eve of” (ie, the day before) the Queen’s deathiversary? How many days before is Harry not allowed to do anything? Should there be a whole month-long window, before and after, where Harry isn’t allowed to do anything?

  24. Patricia says:

    Really, what can you say about a family that chooses a sexual pedophile over a war hero humanitarian?!!
    Ye gods, they are without shame or morality. I didn’t think it could get worse but they always surprise me. I feel great sympathy for the decent British citizens, and I know they must be out their somewhere., who have to live under such disgusting. governance. I keep thinking Trump will stick his repulsive face out somewhere in
    a picture. Same type of sickos.

    • Mary Pester says:

      @Patricia, I’m a Brit and if I had my way, the monarchy would be abolished! But your right about the Royals and Trump, same dogs same bark. Along with the same lack of morals
      Scrapping over every bone the media throws their way

  25. Mary Pester says:

    AHHH fk this family, and the British rags just fk them all to hell. Can’t they see how stupid they sound. WHEN Harry became patron is irellevant. The FACTS are that Harry is STILL patron and uses his own time and money to support it. Unlike his scummy prk with teeth brother who couldn’t be botherd to do HIS job as the head of the FA
    Yeah Charlie couldn’t care less about the anniversary, he will most probably do what he did as his mother lay dying and go pick mushrooms. Kate and William don’t have to worry or be nervous. They should have learned by now, that if Harry sneezes, they catch a cold 🤣🤣because no one in the media will care what they are doing as long as Harry’s in the UK, maybe they will act as driver for the paedophile again, just to get a headline, or keen will turn up in Wales wrapped in the Queen’s jewellery

  26. Eliora says:

    Oh please. As if these jokers (I mean British press) don’t already have some days old or weeks old pap shots of Harry and Meghan that they will (not so strategically) release on 9/8. The British media creates stories, they do not report them.

    I think we all know the game by now. The British media will release never before seen pictures of Harry and Meghan on 9/8, that were not taken on 9/8, and claim that the pictures were taken on 9/8. Just so that the BP can continue in their delusional reporting that Harry and Meghan go out on “key dates” to provoke the RF. It’s such an obvious “strategy” now that it is shocking that the UK public continues to fall for it.

  27. Ameerah M says:

    The WellChild awards are held around the same time every year. If they were so concerned about being outshined (which is what this is all about) they shouldn’t have planned a last minute event during that time so they could “pretend” to be busy. Their offices are inept and so are they.

  28. Over it says:

    Wank and buttons are sad little horse flies.Imagine being angry that Harry wants to spend his time with sick children and their families and bring attention and affection and devotion to them . Willy and Katie really are the worst kind of humans

  29. BeanieBean says:

    Harry’s insertion of himself into the week’s events???? Are they serious with this? Wellchild & Invictus have been on the books for at least a year, while K&Ws ‘event’ has yet to be confirmed!!

  30. Jaded says:

    “Harry’s dramatic insertion of himself into the week’s events…” What kind of asinine hyperbole is this? First, there’s nothing dramatic about it. Harry is deeply devoted to the kids, parents and amazing staff at WellChild and who wouldn’t be? Take a moment and read the bios on this year’s award recipients (https://www.wellchild.org.uk/), you’ll tear up. Second, he’s not *inserting* himself into anything like some clout-hungry interloper (we see you Keen…), he’s showing up for an awards ceremony, then onto Invictus, so what *events* is Harry allegedly pushing his way into? There are none other than the 2 he’s a huge part of. How sh!tty of a human being must Tom Sykes be to write mendacious drivel like this about Harry’s passion for WellChild and Invictus – helping little kids deal with life-altering illnesses and war vets with life-altering injuries, physical and emotional. SMH…

    • MelodyM says:

      Oh my gosh, reading about this year’s Wellchild award winners made me cry. How someone could begrudge anything for these children and their familes is beyond me, it’s just evil! Thank you, Prince Harry, for shining the light to show the world how brave, loving and kind all of these children, their families and their caregivers are!

    • bisynaptic says:

      Royal sycophants are a character-disordered lot.

  31. Saucy&Sassy says:

    If this was such a ‘thing’ for WanK, why did they schedule something on the 8th? It isn’t like that’s something that was planned in advance. It seems that once they knew Invictus and Well Child was looming, they decided to do something on the 8th hoping to get some of Harry’s shine. IMO, that’s what these articles are all about. It’s to connect Harry with WanK so that more people will pay attention to WanK. Good luck with that.

  32. olliesmom says:

    The word “breezy” in the headline – whenever I see or hear that word it always reminds me of that Friends episode when Monica wanted to appear all breezy and unaffected on Richard’s answering machine and she actually ended up saying “I’m breezy”.

  33. Isabella says:

    Harry’s interest in children comes naturally. He lost his mom at an early age. He gets it.

  34. Well Wisher says:

    ” William truly can’t comprehend the fact that Harry would go out of his way to help people and honor these kids and their families. William can’t comprehend someone else’s service without it being attached to a title and “duty.”

    Excellent observation…..
    Charity begins at home, but should not end there…….

    Using transference as an observational tool, Why does William and Kate continue to behave that that Harry’s life and choices have anything to do with them?
    Well Child awards are always done around this time of the year, why should the date be moved because Look-at-Me(s) are ‘irritated’?

    They maybe the future monarch and consort but the rest of the UK do not live in their ‘world’…..

    They have the world stage for 365 days in the year, not the attention of its population……

    When are they going to seek help and learn to bond over love of instead??

  35. QuiteContrary says:

    The British royals are beyond redemption. Just abolish the monarchy.

    • Lady Digby says:

      I think the Royals are busy abolishing themselves. I can easily see Charles the Third becoming Charles the Last.

      Unlike Sue Townsend I don’t see the RF suddenly retiring to a council estate en masse. I see them quietly fading away. And as some in the press have already noticed the process is well underway.

  36. GTWiecz says:

    The worst decision the RF has made is to get rid of Harry and Meghan. Bulliam’s jealousy and Charles’ weakness and little love for his son (with probably some edging by Concubine who wants to alienate Charles from any remnants of Diana, nor let Meghan outshine her) didn’t help the RF and is biting them in the azz. Now it’s too late, so the only strategy left is to destroy H&M using their considerable resources, paying journalists and publications (shame on you Daily Beast, I used to like you). It’s not going to work though. They’ve never looked so bad. #AbolishTheMonarchy is growing as a movement.

  37. Chelsea says:

    “his decision to be in the country on the actual anniversary of the queen’s death will look to some like a calculated provocation”

    This has to be one of the most unhinged things ive ever read. A man being in his country of birth on the anniversary of his grandmother’s death is a provocation?? Bffr. I mean his brother and father won’t even be in the country(William will be in Wales and Charles in Scotland); this is insane. They are so unprepared for how to deal with the upcoming Invictus Games; their heads are going to explode. Also: how hilarious would it be if H&M stopped by the UN on the way back from Germany? It was revealed after the Queen died last year that Meghan was supposed to attend an event during the UN General Assembly that was canceled because of QEIi’a death(as was William’s previously disclosed NY visit).

  38. ChattyCath says:

    Wish the BM could suddenly ‘have the scales fall from their eyes’ . WnK and allies really sound unhinged now. The End

  39. Sunny O says:

    Tom Sykes from the Daily Beast has an irrational hatred for, and an irrational bias against, the Sussexes.

    He is extra venomous toward Duchess Meghan.