Something interesting happened in October 2021: Queen Elizabeth II was mysteriously hospitalized overnight, and Buckingham Palace covered it up for days, only coming clean as they began to furiously cancel the Queen’s schedule for months at a time. That was the beginning of the end, as we can admit now. But back then, the palace was squirrelly about exactly what was going on with QEII’s health. What was also interesting was that then-Prince Charles was overseas at the time, and just after QEII’s hospitalization, Prince William and Kate were seen jetting off on some international holiday with their kids. QEII was basically abandoned by her two heirs, her two most important counsellors of state just as her health seemingly nosedived in a matter of days. I bring this up because apparently Prince William will “rush back” to the UK following his two-day trip to New York in three weeks.
Prince William will probably have to save his Big Apple sightseeing for another trip across the pond. The Prince of Wales, 41, is returning to New York City next month for two days, including a special event for a cause close to his heart: the second Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York City on Sept. 19. The event serves as a rev up to the 2023 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony, which will take place in Singapore on Nov. 7.
However, Prince William likely won’t linger in New York, most probably heading back to the U.K. shortly after his engagements in the United States wrap. That’s because King Charles and Queen Camilla are also heading overseas that week. Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that the royal couple will head to France from Sept. 20 to Sept. 22 for a state visit. King Charles, 74, and Queen Camilla, 76, were originally scheduled to visit the country in March, but they postponed the trip due to riots happening across France at the time.
While Prince William is not required to be in the U.K. when his father is traveling, he is one of the King’s Counsellors of State — one of the royals who can carry out constitutional duties for King Charles if he is abroad or unwell.
It’s a shame these weren’t the concerns in October 2021! But here we are – William is already making excuses for why he can’t stay in New York, he’s so big and important and he has to rush back because his father will be in France. I’m surprised Charles didn’t gently encourage William to just cancel his New York trip anyway, since the whole thing is just some expensive ego trip for William in his completely unhinged “competition” with Harry. I pity poor Mike Bloomberg, who probably had to call in some favors to ensure that Peg gets his ego stroked properly in New York. Dollars to donuts, there will be something held at the United Nations. Peg has been obsessed with going to the UN ever since Harry was invited to speak on Mandela Day.
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- Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony at the MGM Music Hall, Fenway Featuring: Prince William Where: Boston, Massachusetts, United States When: 03 Dec 2022 Credit: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Images/INSTAR/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony at the MGM Music Hall, Fenway Featuring: Prince William Where: Boston, Massachusetts, United States When: 03 Dec 2022 Credit: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Images/INSTAR/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William The Prince of Wales meeting The Earthshot Prize 2022 finalists, as he joins them at the Earthshot Prize Fellowship Retreat in Windsor. The event is a vital part of the new Earthshot Prize Fellowship Programme, a unique, 9-month accelerator designed to help Earthshot Prize Finalists grow their solutions by unlocking new routes to market, finance, and major partnerships Featuring: Prince William Where: London, England, United Kingdom When: 26 Jan 2023 Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- The Prince of Wales leaves after a visit to Earthshot Prize winner and sustainable packaging start-up, Notpla in London, to see how the business has scaled up its production since winning the Prize last November. Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 23 May 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
France is 3 hours away (if that) by train…. Hardly an emergency for him to be rushing back from anywhere. As said here, surely not a concern now as it wasn’t back two years ago.
Also, Singapore? Although the people of Singapore are lovely, the state itself is not particularly earth friendly in any stretch of the imagination… but sure. Singapore it is. I am sure they will fawn over Bulliam an appropriate amount.
Hmmm, sounds like some hoped-for events in NYC didn’t materialize and that ‘rushing back to Salt Isle’ story had to be deployed.
Hard pass. This is an incredibly clunky attempt to distract from Willnot claiming he couldn’t go to the World Cup because ENVIRONMENT.
@Christine, and it’s an incredibly poor attempt, because he’s STILL FLYING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND BACK and he’s not even staying long enough to make the trip “worth it?” These people are too stupid for words. It’s actually funny how they’re constantly shooting themselves in the foot.
@JenC, agreed. If William actually had a full schedule with plenty of people wanting to meet with him in NY, we all know he wouldn’t be “rushing back.”
My guess is the reception to this entire made-up shitshow was lukewarm at best, William wasn’t asked to do much in NY, and as a result we get this nonsense story.
I still don’t understand why he has to step foot in the US at all. We have nothing to do with Singapore, if William wants to go to Singapore, let him. He doesn’t have to make a trip to the US first to announce it — unless he fears that there won’t be enough publicity about it if it’s only announced in his country. Either way, leave us alone, for God’s sake. They are so transparent.
@Lorelei: I’m afraid that a lot of talk about his “not staying long enough to make the trip worthwhile” will send a bad message that he should stay longer at a place he was never invited to come to. So, hush now.
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, William. You’re basically getting the bum’s rush out of New York. You have no business being here anyway and should stick to the CW countries or wherever else you think you can restore your tarnished image after the woman’s soccer final. Too bad, so sad.
@Debbie, lol, I live in NY, and although most people will be completely unaware that he’s even here (unless he fcks traffic up on some grand scale) and the ones who do actually follow this stuff, like me, most certainly don’t want him staying longer!
But it is just so insanely hypocritical for him to say he’s “rushing home” after he literally just said last week that he didn’t want to fly to the football match because of environmental concerns. He is such a tool.
Now that excuse about carbon footprint preventing him from going to the WWC final is really biting him in his rear. His “gold standard” PR team are really the most incompetent. The press won’t call him out but the comments sure will.
@pinkasaurus I can’t to say the same thing. Wasn’t his initial excuse for not going to the WWC bc of his carbon footprint for such a short trip? How is NYC any different? Really speaks to his ego, right? The environment is too important to support talented, hard working, female role models but not important enough to stop his lazy “look at me” campaign.
Right! Last year, the award winners stayed home while Pegs, Keen and the entertainment flew in a most environmentally unfriendly way to Boston. So now his environmental baby is going to have him fly back and forth in a most polluting way whereas his football baby does not. His incompetence is amazing.
Exactly! Turns out he CAN jet overseas for a short trip – if it’s something that’s important to him.
Oh, Pegs certainly wouldn’t pass up an opportunity if he IS the “star” of the event and he has his ass kissed by Americans. 🙄. Pegged will come back fluffed up from having his EGO stoked and everyone bows down to him.
This man-child couldn’t possible go to the Land of Oz since HE wasn’t the center of everyone’s attention as the kiwis wouldn’t give him a ten gun salute as well as a fly by……
@both sides now The irony is he’d receive more press in Australia than New York. Way more people were focused on the World Cup. Letitia got plenty of press even before the win and William is a much more recognizable figure internationally. And the British media would’ve fawningly covered it. Such an easy PR win.
@BQM, excellent point! He easily would have gotten a ton of positive press if he’d been there supporting the Lionesses, but no one will give a rat’s ass (or even notice) that he’s in NY. And it’s still so funny to me that they call EVERYTHING a “summit” now.
He needs to suck it up and apologize for not going to the World Cup. Just do all of us a favor and admit you were wrong, or every single time you leave England, you will be giving excuses.
It’s so his trip doesn’t step on his father’s trip and overshadow the important work Charles is doing of…walking around and looking at things.
It’s mushroom season in France now, isn’t it?
@eurydice – hahahaha fantastic!
LOL!
Thank you for this hilarious comment Eurydice! lol
LOL!!
I think it’s because his team is terrified of the crappy reception he’ll get in NYC. They probably could not arrange enough events with paid “fans” so they are going to get in and out as quickly as possible to cover up NYC’s utter lack of interest in this potato head.
Josephine, I agree with you. He knows what his reception was when he went to Boston–I’ll never forget WanK’s appearance at the game and what happened.
I think he’s going because he wants American donations to his foundation. I guess there are people who don’t have a problem throwing their money away. I’ve yet to hear anything that the foundation is actually doing. I wonder if Wont is still just using the funds any way he chooses?
Why pity Bloomberg? From what I can tell that man is a Republican (US not UK) masquerading as a Democrat to chase a nomination. He agreed to raise up EarthSh!t; he deserves all the trouble it causes him.
@nota Bloomberg is a lot of things. As a 39 yo life time resident of NYC, I know he is an evironmentalist and I’ve witnessed first hand his successful track record first hand when it comes to that. I really think he saw the potential (I think we all do if it was in any other hands) and hoped he could make it a success. I don’t necessarily pity Bloomberg but I’m disappointed that he won’t be able to do what he’s really good at here.
agreed. Bloomberg is many things (quite conservative, content to pit people against one another and call it “corporate culture”) but one thing he is good at is large scale environmental change. it sucks he chose to align with Willyboy bc we all know what a sad excuse for a “leader” he is but I too suspect Bbg thought ES would be a better vehicle for change than it’s turned out to be.
Earthshot is a drop in the bucket compared to Bloomberg Philanthropies – I think Mike Bloomberg’s environment work will be just fine. And I don’t think William is much of an issue for him, either – he’s handy for PR, but not essential to the work. This summit in NY is to introduce the Earthshot finalists and I’m sure that Bloomberg will be supporting some of them apart from what they might get through Earthshot.
I’m confused about the NYC conference, whether it’s true purpose is directly related to ES, or if it’s designed to be something more, and more valuable, only tangentially related to Will’s ego trip project. There was one held last year; I remember looking at information on the attendees and some of the videos on YouTube. IIRC, unlike ES Boston, people doing actual projects were an integral part of the NYC sessions.
ETA – @ Eurydice – is that true? Is that the only purpose? As I said, they had a similar conference in NYC last year, and as far as I recall the ES finalists weren’t part of it or they would have been in Boston? But again, I haven’t looked into it closely, you may know more than I do!
@windyriver – from the description on the Bloomberg Philanthropies website:
“The (Earthshot Prize) Innovation Summit will reveal this year’s 15 Finalists and introduce their groundbreaking climate and environmental solutions to repair our planet this decade. To help drive meaningful change, the Summit will convene the new and previous Earthshot Prize Finalists and Winners with forward-thinking business leaders, philanthropists, and governments already working to regenerate the planet. Prince William and Michael R. Bloomberg will address the assembled guests.”
I remember that last year there were several speakers, including a panel discussion with Bill Gates, but I don’t see any specific guest list for this year. If the finalists are doing innovative work, then it’s a good thing for Bloomberg to introduce them to other major philanthropists, even if it’s under the name of Earthshot. In general, I think the tangential person here is William. There’s a reason why Earthshot was separated from his foundation and became its own entity. If William were left alone to keep this thing going it would just limp along until it died.
This. Bloomberg (although I’m not a fan) is an extremely competent and effective administrator. He gets shit done. Aligning with William was a rare and unfortunate misstep. But given his daughter’s fairly recent nastiness toward Meghan, who she never met, I’m guessing he’s another deluded fan with stars in his eyes about the RF.
That was an obvious W&K PR move from the Bloombergs in the spring. Her telling the Fail her English mother hates Harry and Meghan and would never forgive her if she did charity work with them. That kind of uncalled for public nastiness at that level? Tells me what I really need to know about the Bloombergs and why they do what they do. Image only.
As for Gates? Please. That man is just out to make another killing while pretending to care. Buying up the majority of the farmland in the US is not for him to feed people. It is to destroy any kind of sustainable agriculture by doing rare earth mineral mining with monoculture GMO plants.
@Eurydice – thanks for checking into that. I seem to recall Jacinda Arden also talked at the Bloomberg event last year, and also recall as per @BrassyRebel below, there was a connection to goings on at the UN. There is in fact a significant summit taking place at the UN at the same time, on September 18 and 19 – the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, which includes (among many others) initiatives on climate, clean energy, and sustainability.
Last year, I did check out the somewhat confusing ES website; my general impression was the finalists had worthwhile projects. And what Bloomberg has planned for NYC this year seems like exactly what ES should be doing, providing additional potential resources to support and amplify work being done by all the finalists.
Which begs the question – why do they need to (spend the money and) hold a separate event in Singapore/rotating hosts? Why not set things up to combine the announcements with this apparently now annual Bloomberg event, and just have it in NYC every year? I know, William.
I do hope Bloomberg’s work here is the real deal, but as long as Jason Knauf is one of the trustees, I’ll always side eye anything with the ES name.
@Notasugarhere – I don’t think you can become a billionaire without having stepped off the moral pedestal at times. And I’m sure Gates’ and Bloomberg’s motivations aren’t 100% altruistic. But they’re still committing billions of their personal fortune to charitable causes and I’d rather see that money go back out into the world than sit in their pockets. If Bloomberg wants to kiss ass with William that doesn’t bother me.
@Steph, same, and ITA. Bloomberg is…complicated. I definitely would *not* say I’m a fan of his, but he has done at least some good things, and unlike William, he actually gets sh!t done.
As @Eurydice said, if William hadn’t attracted some big names to become affiliated with ES, it would have suffered the same fate as Heads Together, which has seemingly just…disappeared, never to be heard of ever again. After an enormous PR push — including merch! — to “launch” it 🙄
I actually didn’t know about his daughter’s comments until this thread today. She sounds just lovely.
/s
Billy the racist buddies up to Mike B the racist? Sure, go ahead and keep cheering that on. ‘Oh but he accomplishes things, let’s ignore the racism’? Agree with the Lola and the poster downthread. What site am I on?
As for Gates? Not an ethical bone in his body, no matter how much he donates as a tax write-off.
I am a native NYer and lived through three (3) Bloomberg administrations. Bloomberg was the first of now many Republican candidates that run on the Democratic Party line, both in NYC and in other major cities.
Bloomberg was not a “great administrator,” what he excelled at was making Bridge & Tunnel folks feel “safer” by being unrelentingly racist and harsh towards Black & brown residents of NYC.
Bloomberg was SO TERRIBLE & his policing policies were so racist that the federal government had to step in to stop his administration’s use of Stop & Frisk. The man has since doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on that policy.
As for being a great administrator, he wasn’t that either. He ran through $600 million putting in place a new payroll system, that was initially supposed to cost $80 million. It was such a boondoggle that the city had to file charges to try to claw back some of the money that had been embezzled.
I could write an essay or twelve about how garbage Michael Bloomberg is as a person. He’s as racist and terrible as both trump & giuliani, only difference is he doesn’t go on spittle-flecked screeds. But his policies and his actions when in office spoke very clearly.
I am not surprised that he saw how William was moving in regards to Harry & Meghan and moved to publicly align himself with William and the BRF. Racist birds of the feather flock together.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mayor-bloomberg-talks-payproll-project-scandal/
Very good points, @Lola. It’s also been said that the way a candidate runs their presidential campaign is a great window into their administrative skills. So, if the way Bloomberg ran his own campaign is any indication, then this balderdash that some are spreading here about his administrative skills is once again not borne out.
One of his early moves was to hire away a Kamala Harris staffer, pay her big, and in exchange she bashed Harris publicly.
‘When someone shows you who they really are, believe them. The first time. ‘ Dr Maya Angelou
This. Bloomberg, who would frequently take off to unknown locations (cough—his Caribbean island—cough) as an environmentalist is a laughable concept.
William needs to stop the ego trips to the USA
I’m still wondering how a summit in NY is connected to an award show in Singapore? And is the US going to be an annual thing that is roped into his vanity project?
They go on long extended trips all of the time when no one is in the UK making pretend important decisions. The Counselor of State BS is just another made up title because none of them are trained to take on the role of monarch. Charles has had the position for nearly a year and it’s been a hot mess the entire time. William wasn’t even prepared for his promotion to PoW so you know he’s totally unprepared to be monarch. There is no teaching or preparation. It’s just attending parties to introduce the next in line to all the corrupt people they will eventually work with to line their pockets or Hefty bags.
A note on the Counselor of State BS: when QE2 went into the hospital, the 2 non active CoSes were Harry and Paedrew. Those two have now been replaced by Anne and QCC, so at least one of them will be present. Clearly none have to be unless KC and W need an excuse.
Actually, they’ve been replaced by Anne and Edward. Camilla, as Charles’ wife, was always going to be a COS once he became king, as was Philip for QEII.
So why is it imperative that W race is back to the UK while Charles is in France? It’s not like they run the country – that is the job of the politicians. So what exactly do they do all day?
It has been years and years since I heard of anyone being visited and swiped by aliens on some starship, where they were interrogated, re,programmed anally probed. Where are they when you really need them to pay a visit to a palace or two??
According to the latest version of the official website? The CoS are: The Queen Consort, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Sussex, The Duke of York and Princess Beatrice.
As for ‘active vs non-active’ is completely made up.
IIRC, Anne and Edward were added as additional CoS, not replacements. As a work around to Harry and Andrew (so neither one would have to be called upon if needed).
@LuckyCharm – you’re right. Technically Anne and Edward are additions, not replacements (though effectively the purpose is to eliminate ever having to appoint Harry and Andrew). They were added in early December last year.
@nota – if that’s what the official site still says, it just hasn’t been updated. You’d think it was something they would’ve rushed to do, since it further minimizes Harry’s role, which the RF seems to live for, but who knows.
Please ignore what I wrote—NotASugarHere is correct. Why I thought Anne and completely whiffed on Beatrice, I really don’t know. And I also misremembered Paedrew and Harry still being official. Probably because KC pared down the working royals and I erroneously believed he would have done the same with the CoSes.
I wonder if this isn’t a part of Charles’ “summit” plans. Like, “You better be here to represent.”
Did KP give this story to People Magazine? Because I can’t believe that People would take it upon themselves to write this nonsense.
The US is not a Commonwealth country and this is not a state visit. William has no business here. He has just opened himself up for questions about the Sussexes; and it’s probably why the quick return story is out there. The Windsors know Harry’s not coming back and Harry and Meghan will not go to NYC to bring the kids to see Uncle Willie. But everytime Charles or William steps on US soil the family feud and its circumstances will be brought up. Your fault Billy.
Maybe some will call out to will and ask if he saw his brother and his family. That would bring on Williams incandescence. Will probably believes he has charisma. He doesnt.
@TESSA, What about some nice BIG SIGNS saying “NOT OUR PRINCE” 😂😂
That’s what we want, but I don’t recall that happening last year. Neither the NYC nor the Boston press got to grill him on anything.
Excellent idea, Mary, I hope they show up where William appears.
The dates of anything WandK schedule is ALWAYS interesting because there’s always definitely events around key Sussex dates #obsessedmuch
💯 same with Charles. State visit right after the Invictus Games end, Coronation on Archie’s birthday, etc..
I’ve noticed that too. It’s so pathetic and obvious.
September is the month all the world leaders convene for the general assembly at the UN, although I think it’s usually towards the end of the month. William would love to be part of that I’m sure. But it sounds like they’re not going to let him hang around to play self important statesman. Maybe he can get in on the preliminary activities.
Brassy Rebel, the UN website states that the general assembly will be held September 18-22. Does anyone else believe that as much as Wont wanted to speak there, he never got an invitation?
So he is still going to NY. What happened to that carbon footprint talk that kept him home from Australia? Did he stop taking helicopter rides from one end of the garden to the next? NO he does what he wants when he wants.
@ Susan Collins, TOB is still seething in anger and jealousy that Harry was chosen to speak at the UN for Nelson Mandela and HE can’t get over it!!!
TOB lives in the land of delulu thinking that he is a greater man than Harry who refuses to he see, or accept, himself as he is. TOB is lazy, incompetent, racist, arrogant, selfish and incandescent with anger!!! You can bet that TOB has been trying to persuade Bloomberg to get him an impactful speaking gig at the UN since Harry did.
TOB doesn’t give a second thought to the environmental impact that he commits everyday. What TOB wants to do he does and he simply doesn’t care.
@Bothsidesnow.💯
I wonder if he will give a,speech about how he will solve the plight of the homeless in 5 years.
In addition to the reasons already put out there, I think the “quick trip” is building in a pre-excuse for a Very short visit — in case the public isn’t as welcoming and as fawning as William might like. If he stays for more than a day or so, the expectation would be that he’d visit a few programs or tourist spots. That would open him up to questions, potential jeering, and adorable school kids asking him if he’s “ever been to California” and if “he’ll eat at Melba’s like Princess Meghan did”. Many of the people he encounters will have read Spare — and Have Questions. I think the trip is planned as a short one because he’s justifiably scared about his reception. I bet nothing will be spontaneous about this trip. Prat.
@blithe BINGO BINGO!! William doesn’t want that FAFO moment.
@blithe – My thoughts exactly. He needs a built-in excuse to leave in case he gets booed (please oh please let him get booed so loudly they can hear it in Montecito).
This way, he can say, I had to urgently leave anyway. Remember? I said that before my trip.
That would be so lovely if Baldimort was boooooo’ed into so loud that it could be heard in Montecito!!!
If any of the CB’s in NYC could possibly have the time and chance to boo him,
please, please do!!!! I’ll buy every single one of you two drinks via Venmo otherwise I would be there in a second!!!
New Yorkers are not shy about booing
It’s all so predictable.
1. Prince William goes to New York, makes some bland, forgettable speech and returns to England so that his Dad won’t feel “overshadowed” in France.
2. The tabloids will have front-page coverage of Prince William vs. the Sussexes for no reason. They will compare paparazzi interest, outfits, charity work, “royal protocol” etc.
3. King Charles will feel overshadowed in France. His photo op will be back on page 12. Camilla will be cropped out.
4. The tabloids will declare this some sort of crisis for the monarchy.
The royal family desperately needs better pr management. The only press they get is bad press, even for their charity work.
This should be a zoom meeting and not a flight to NYC. The failure to go to the final for environmental reasons blows up with this nonsense.
As for the counsellor of state issues, I mean it’s amazing how canada, Australia, New Zealand, and all the other countries with Charles as head of state manage to run their country without them being there. Besides there is nothing so urgent that would require William to do anything if Charles is simply out of the country. The Uk govt runs the country for all the important things and if a bill needs Royal assent to be made law, it usually can wait until Charles returns. The entire counsellor of state discussion is a big joke for the other countries that only have the head of state show up in person once every multiple years.
September is generally UN month as that’s when the General Assembly meets and reps and heads of state of all member nations are in New York. It’s also when all matters of concern to the UN are also discussed and the Environment is one of them. Specific days are dedicated to areas of concern. It just so happens that the Invictus Games are happening during UN week. Invictus has happened at different times. I believe the next Games after Dusseldorf will be in February. I’m sure William would like to be a big mover and shaker on the Environment, but he just doesn’t have the creds to be thought of in that way. I think there are some very good projects that have come out of EarthShot and ones that can be implemented in various places but that does not seem to be an end goal the organization is working hard to achieve.
None of those projects came out of EarthSh!t, William deserves absolutely no credit for the hard work by other people.
William took other people’s money, paid staff to find movers-and-shakers. Now he’s trying to claim credit for what those people had already accomplished before William ever heard of them.
All without giving them their prize money in any reasonable time frame OR allowing them to attend their own GD award ceremony. He’d rather fly Beckham in from the Middle East for a couple of hours than socialize with the people doing the actual work related to the environment.
@notasugarhere 200000000 times THIS ☝️
@ notasugarhere, THIS!!!!! It’s All of THIS and MORE!!!!!
Brava @ notasugarhere!! 👏👏👏👏
This.
Pardon, but I’m confused by all the Mine Bloomberg fawning in the comments. Stop and Frisk Mike Bloomberg? It’s cool to be racist towards black people as long as you like the environment (and turn a blind eye to corporatist anti-environmental policies). Embarrassing.
^This. They’re praising this man?
‘Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. That’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed.’
No wonder Billy the Basher likes Bloomberg.
He’s got the “they are all male” part right.
I would like to see the “minority” breakdown, does he mean “not white”?
Agreed—Bloomberg was Giuliani-lite, and made no secret of it. Same policies, just covered by a “he’s a good businessman” gloss.
It’s not fawning to acknowledge a fact. Nobody said he was a good human being.
Stop worrying about the planet people, Williams plane is fuelled by hot air and jealousy “dontcha know” lol. We know, William knows, Kate knows and Camilla knows, and HARRY for sure knows, that this New York trip is all about William’s vanity and wanting a bit of what Harry has. He HAS to conquer the US, he HAS to appear at the UN, he HAS to get the spotlight and wealthy people fawning over him, because he is such a massive failure in the UK. Prince of lazy town, prince pointless, prince of holidays are just some of the names he’s being called, including prince and princess doaslittle as possible. Yep William can’t afford to be out of the country for too long, because if he doesn’t hurry back, and doesn’t let people know he’s been busily busy, more questions about why we even bother with a monarchy will be asked, as it is, people were asking about his carbon footprint allowing him to fly to the US for nothing more than a posh jolly, but not fulfill his obligations to the FA and the lionesses
He and Waity were also just clocked driving Andrew to Church in Scotland. Might as well cozy up to the family rapist, seeing as they don’t think he did anything wrong.
Charles extended the olive branch and the keens get pictures with Andrew. No surprises. What an awful family.
@notasugarhere omg these people make me sick to my stomach, what’s the matter with them all, hey William, does Andrew know where all your pegs are and have been buried? And keen, does he hold receipts for all your botox! Christ almighty the whole family are devoid of morals. How the hell they have the nerve to set foot in a church I will never know.
notasugarhere, it appears that KFC is working behind the scenes to some purpose. First, I’m surprised that WanK went to Church. Add to that that they had Pedrew with them, and this just seems like a set up by KFC. That’s quite a visual. I wonder what the people who saw them are thinking.
Andrew usually goes with his daughters. This is a happy families photo o p . very heavy handed.
Charles is looking to sully William with Andrew’s presence so he can’t pretend to be “against” Andrew. This car ride was Charles reminding William and Kate who is king and who currently controls it all.
100%. The desperation you’re describing is that of coming extinction. William knows that he needs the PR to stay alive, but he was born too stupid and lazy to be able to do anything about it. Like his wife, all he can do is copy the optics, not the substance.
Probably he didnt get any invitations to any parties, meeting or wealthy people think he is famous enough to meet him.
His PR persons didnt have any clouds and incompetent to stage any photo ops.
That is what happen willie, if you hire unqualified nepo babies.
Well my celebchy friends, tomorrow marks another milestone for me. It will be mine and my wonderful husbands 35th wedding anniversary tomorrow. Glynn has early onset dementia, so I don’t expect him to remember, but I will and it’s going to have such a profound, bittersweet effect on me as it will be our last. Cancer will have taken me by this time next year, but I am so, so grateful for every moment of the life I have had with my Glynn. Is he daft at times, yes, is he infuriating at times, yes, is he soppy at times yes, and can he rant at times, again yes, but for all those things, on all those times I have known that he loved me. And THAT is the biggest gift any of us can be given, to know you are loved, can make even the darkest of days seem a bit easier to take. So hold the ones you love tight my friends, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
@ Mary Pester, Happy 💝 Anniversary My Dear!! ❤️ 🎊❤️🥂❤️🎉❤️🎊❤️🎁❤️🥂❣️❣️
Oh, your sentiments are lovely, compassionate and speaks as a woman that has been loved unconditionally her entire marriage all while Glynn has been gifted your unconditional love as well!! Glynn must be a wonderful man to have married a woman like you as you are such a lovely, warm, funny, compassionate, generous and STRONG woman with a beautiful heart and soul.
Though, I am terribly sorry to hear that Glynn is suffering from dementia. It’s such a horrible disease.
Happy ❤️ Anniversary to you both!!!
Congratulations on 35 years! What a wonderful thing to love and be loved for so many years. I’m sorry that your end is approaching. I hope that it can be peaceful, painless, and on your own terms as far as possible. You add a delightful snark to the conversation here and will be missed when the time comes.
Yes! You will be missed immensely @ Mary Pester!!! You are always delightful and so on point!!!!
@Mary Pester, your comment breaks my heart! Your attitude to the vicissitudes of life is admirable, and you are so right. Live each day as if it is your last, and hold our loved ones close. I wish you every good thing, and many congratulations on your long and happy marriage to your dear husband. Buckets of virtual hugs to you.
Mary, I love reading your comments, and I admire your wit and your courage. May your remaining days be filled with love and light. You deserve it so much. You have brought so much joy to fellow Celebitches here from all over the world. Thank you so much. I look forward to reading your spitfire takes every day!
Happy Anniversary, much love to you both.
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@interestedgawker, thank you xxxx
May your anniversary be filled with light and love Mary Pester! You have been a delight for all of us here at CB with your wise, funny and acerbic takes on the BaRF, the rota ratz, gutter tabloids, and life. Big hugs to you both!!
@JADED, thank you lovey xx
Starting the day with tears! @Mary Pester, congratulations on the 35 years, bittersweet or otherwise. Truly wishing you all the best from a stranger halfway across the world. 🥹💘❤️🩹
Mary Pester, your 35th anniversary? You have much to celebrate! I’m so happy that you have his love as he has yours for all of these years. Your humor and strength show in your comments, and I look for them each day. I hope you can do something special today. Happy Anniversary!
Mary Pester I always love your posts. Some of them, like this one, bring tears to my eyes. Happy Anniversary. xo
Mary thank you for sharing your thoughts and journey here with us at this site. It is a very moving post to read
The poodle and the pinniped will do a happy dance in your honor and I will send thoughts of joy to you.
Blessings to you Mary Pester. You’re keeping us all entertained and laughing while going through so much.
Happy Anniversary @Mary Pester ! Crying and laughing at the same time. 35 Years amazing! Love and then some more love
Happy Anniversary, Mary! Sending all the best to you and your husband. Your posts are always a marvel to me, full of humor, passion, strength and honesty. Virtual hugs from across the pond!
@Mary Pester, My heart goes out to you and your husband Glynn. I’m wishing you both a blessed day as you celebrate the gifts that your love together continues to create✨
Thank you too — again, as always — for enriching this site with your wisdom and your humor.
Namaste 🎋🪷
Happy anniversary @Mary pester! All my love to you and your Glynn. You bring us all so much pleasure with your hilarious as always comments.
Happy anniversary! Your comments are always a hoot and add so much to this site.
@Mary Pester, happiest of happy anniversaries to you and your Glynn. May it be the happiest, despite – or even because of – the circumstances.
Much love. <3
Thank you for this beautiful and courageous message of love. Have an amazing day of celebration… loads of hugs!
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Happy anniversary! 🎊🍾🎁🎉🎂❤️
If William hadn’t messed up so badly with the WWFC then there would have been no mention of his role as CoS. This is to give the impression if Charles wasn’t out of the country the tour would have stayed longer. This pointless TWO day trip has been in the diary for months and normally would have been used as an opportunity to “stick it to Harry.” Instead, by ignoring the WWCF William has put himself in a position where he can no longer jump on a plane for a two day trip without reminding everyone that he couldn’t do the same for the WWCF. Hence the reason why the trip is now being spun as being cut short for the sake of “duty.”
He could have cut short a trip to cheer on the women as duty as well…
It appears to me that Peggy is merely a cardboard cutout that gets trotted out at each ES event, then shoved back into a closet. All he is is a *name* and does not do any serious research or work with the organization. It’s almost as if everyone is mumbling behind his back “Oh crap, here he comes again” and they paste smiles on their faces and genuflect to the FK who faffs around looking self-important and gets in everyone’s way. It’s Bloomberg and his staff who do all the heavy lifting.
@bothsidesnow Rnot, Antipodean and Lake, thank you so much for your lovely thoughts and wishes, they have made me feel quite emotional xxxx
I cannot get over how narrow his head is.
I don’t know who came up with “Penis with teeth” because you would never think that could describe a face. But with that description alone anyone could pick him out of a lineup
@Pinniped, I am laughing so hard at this comment, omg
Yes, we must do all we can to save the planet so rich people like Pegs can do as they please. I’d like to know one thing Pegs is doing to save the environment. Does he recycle? Are his fleet of range rovers all electric? Did he sell the royal chopper? The only thing he does is make pledges & tell people what to do. He’s useless.
Also, when you jet around the world to host earthcrap instead of using zoom, you just look like a moron.
This: The first sentence of the People article “Prince William will probably have to save his Big Apple sightseeing for another trip across the pond”
‘Another’. So are they hinting there’s going to be more trips to the US 😄. I didn’t think he was going to linger anyways, unless he was supposed to stay a week which I never thought so.
And agree with one of the commenters above, interesting they’re using People as an exclusive outlet to get this out instead of their normal channels.
For what? So he doesn’t miss a single pint with his mates? It’s not like he’s going to work.
Oh, that’s too bad – William is the MOST popular royal in the United States, he’s got lots of polls that prove it.