Days after Prince Philip passed away, Prince William and Prince Harry released statements (within minutes of each other) memorializing their grandfather. William’s statement was self-centered and weird, while Harry’s statement was warm and authentic. In Harry’s statement, he referenced his grandfather as “master of the barbecue, legend of banter, and cheeky right ’til the end.” It was well known that Philip loved nothing more than grilling for his family in Balmoral, which is probably the closest he and QEII ever got to “normal family life.” I find it interesting that Harry was the one to reference Philip as “master of the barbecue,” because guess who is trying to make that happen for himself?
Prince William is becoming king of the grill — like his late grandfather Prince Philip. He and wife Kate arrived at Balmoral in the past few days to join the King, Queen and other royals for their traditional annual retreat. And sources say William is taking on barbecue duties, previously well guarded by Philip until his death in 2021.
Prince Philip was dubbed the “master of the grill”, while the late Queen did the washing up and prepared the salad. He even had a trailer built to carry barbecue gear around the Scottish estate.
A source said: “William is willingly taking on the role. His kids love barbecues and they have been mixing with all their cousins on the estate. He remembers only too well how much Philip loved taking charge.”
King Charles said in a tribute following his father’s death: “He adored barbecuing and he turned that into an interesting art form. And if I ever tried to do it, he’d say, ‘Go away!’”
His Majesty has invited all of his siblings, their children and grandchildren to continue the Queen’s long tradition of hosting at Balmoral in the summer. Prince Harry and wife Meghan are the only ones not attending. A source said: “Harry is really missing out.”
Can’t wait until Prince William rage-shrieks at the grill and attacks someone with a slotted spatula. The Windsors are definitely leaving the impression that Harry’s absence is THE talk of the Balmoral gathering, which is odd because… the Windsors have also made it abundantly clear that they didn’t invite him. For all of this talk about “oh, of course the whole family is welcome, just as in QEII’s day,” they made a point of not inviting Harry or Meghan or their children. Anyway, I don’t even believe William is grilling anything. He’s just doing what he always does – taking credit for someone else’s work.
The Sun even did a “mock-up” photo. The invisible contract, huh.
Wait…a British tabloid mocked up a photo of how Prince William would look at the grill because apparently he is Balmoral grill master now? STOP IT.
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Trademarket, a new outdoor street-food and retail market situated in Belfast city centre, as part of the royal visit to Northern Ireland. Featuring: Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom When: 06 Oct 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Trademarket, a new outdoor street-food and retail market situated in Belfast city centre, as part of the royal visit to Northern Ireland. Featuring: Prince William, Prince of Wales Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom When: 06 Oct 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Trademarket, a new outdoor street-food and retail market situated in Belfast city centre, as part of the royal visit to Northern Ireland. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom When: 06 Oct 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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- Prince William And Catherine, Princess Of Wales Visit To Northern Ireland The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Trademarket, a new outdoor street-food and retail market situated in Belfast city centre, as part of the royal visit to Northern Ireland Featuring: Prince William Where: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom When: 06 Oct 2022 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images **North America Rights Only**
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Oh that’s just sad.
I know. I can’t figure what’s worse, when the RF behave like themselves or when they try to act like humans.
William reminds me of my governor, Death, er, I mean DeSantis. There is a basic human empathy chip completely missing. An incandescent temper and a love of cruelty.
Right, if I understood this correctly, Prince Philip jealousy guarded access to the flipping bbq and kept the rest of the family from grilling? And now that the old guard has passed away, William has stormed in to become the family’s new grill master? This is seriously not normal. Not to mention that mock up of him. I’m shocked that this is gendered as well, normally it’s not just the men cooking on a bbq.
How is Harry missing out? I thought he was a traitor? I thought they and Mike tindall said they wanted to punch him? I thought they can’t stand to hear or see him? How dare he write spare? How dare he for the documentary? Or have they transferred all his “sins” onto his mixed race wife?
Yeah, I’m not sure how Meghan is just supposed to assume she is welcome. Charles literally talked trash about her on the phone the last time she tried going to balmoral. Obviously, the circumstances were different with the queen’s death but Charles spoke poorly about her to Harry to the point he had to tell him to stop speaking about his wife in that way. Then Charles let the papers gleefully report how she was banned from going to balmoral. And now she’s to assume she always has an open invitation. GTFO. Maybe Harry does but not her.
They had to shoehorn Harry into this desperate piece. They really have nothing without the Sussexes.
Agreed. The desperation, it reeks.
Harry gets to go home to Meghan every night but damn, he’s missing out on Bulliam’s shoe leather steaks. You know he regrets that decision….
For real though, I bet the RF even puts ketchup on them. ::ewwww::
Hey, I like ketchup on my steak! 😋
I’m not even sure they are doing steaks, arent they into murdering little wild animals to eat, I assume?
I was thinking, geezus this is truly, truly pathetic, SMDH- but your pithy comment just cracked up. Good lord. These people need serious help.
Harry is not coming back you’all. Have you SEEN his house? You don’t think he has a pimped out grill back there and is bbq-ing/having a cookout for all his A-list pals? I mean WHAT do you think he’s missing out on? Being devalued, looked down on b/c he’s ginger, treated and talked about like spare parts?
It’s very sad the Harry is missing out on his brother’s (Future King) infamous assault burgers. Very sad that Harry is missing out on all the bullfuckery that might involve William.
This has got to be one of the most desperate articles.
Between hanging out with Serena Williams, Tyler Perry and Mama Doria you know damn well Harry has been to a black family cookout at this point. I doubt he’s missing a thing at Balmoral
I’m picturing this with a posh British accent
https://youtu.be/3gmKxkRZzP4?si=KJYmVV53_K3PFa1x
ROFL! lolololol. I am crying! The idea of Harry throwing down and playing spades is magic!
In contrast, there’s Willie fumbling around with undercooked sausages….
Harry knows what’s what. lol
I’m also imagining the sequel: Prince Harry does Black Thanksgiving — and dominoes.
Also, let’s take a moment and reflect on Kaiser’s ability to write a headline.
This is exactly what lame people would say after someone finally escapes their suffocating events and they know the escapee is out there having genuine good times.
“King of the grill” – translation: resting on our stale laurels for a long time now
“(X) is really missing out” – translation: even we know we can’t compete
Not Harry playing dominoes! 🤣
We need taste-tester videos! Aunties Try Royal Ribs, Deacons Taste Royal Macaroni Salads. Even better: Royals Try Each Others’ Brisket, Royals Taste American Potato Salads for the First Time.
pretty sure Harry knows his way around a grill. He paid very close attention to everything Philip did.
That video is hilarious! “I’m white, not stupid!”
That video, “I realized the only 3 white things at this cookout is the salt shaker, the napkins, and me.”
On the floor, cry-laughing.
Oh my lord, that was funny!!!
I nearly spit out my water when I read your headline. How pathetic!
It’s even worse! They superimposed his head on Prince Phillip’s body…
Exactly. That’s a famous old photo of Philip with Anne beside him. Almost as creepy as when Kate fans would put Kate’s head on Diana’s body to ‘see how Kate would look’ in Diana’s gowns.
It’s SO BAD. SO BAD. I’m laughing. You guys I just keep laughing. the KP PR machine is in full swing and its SO BAD.
YIPES!!! you are not wrong…that looks like an older person’s arm and hand.
To see the original do an image search for
prince philip princess anne barbeque
It is a photo of them from 1972.
I thought it was funny when I read the headline… but this is pathetically sad.
huh, so Philip is where Charles gets his sausage fingers from.
This is utterly ridiculous. The story and the fake photo. The only thing William would like to grill is his brother.
Is this…important? How is this something worth writing articles about? Headline: Man Grills. This is truly something out of The Onion.
BBQ… how American of them.
Not BBQ – GRILL. Brits don’t barbecue. They just roast their meat over coal.
Yes! It is just grilling! Which is good, but shouldn’t be so easily confused with one of the best foods on earth.
My husband is from Maine, and when we were engaged his family said they would have a bbq for us. I was excited (from Texas). It was 11+ years ago and I still remember how disappointed I was when we got there and it was hamburgers and hotdogs, and a bunch of other unseasoned food. That was the beginning of finding out how deep the culture shock went.
The queen cleaned up and made salad? Yeah. Sure. Whatever you say.
That was my first thought. These people have royal toothpaste squeezers and they want us to think she’s doing dishes and prepping food? Sure, Jan.
IKR?! LOL
Betty “did the washing up and prepared the salad,” dont you know.
Jeebus Christus. Brits have no concept of cringe when it comes to their royals, do they?
I think they took that detail from Spare. I recall reading it in Harry’s book.
How shameless they are photoshopping Willies head on Philips body tut! Tut!
I do not actually believe William knows at all how to barbecue. Only clearly unedited video evidence will convince me otherwise.
Agreed. I’d say about half of his daily activities needs to be re-learned every morning. It’s a capacity issue.
@Gabby
Ok, I literally LOL’d at “it’s a capacity issue.”
Like that episode of Married…With Children where with every new thing Kelly learned, she completely forgot how to do something else. Her brain could only contain so much information before it was full lol.
“William is willingly taking on the role.”
Sure he is. He hasn’t bothered to be a good grandson, son, brother, husband, and, we will find out in 20 years, he also sucks at being a dad, but sure. He’s been dedicating himself to something.
Willnot has never willingly taken on anything, ever.
The looney toons British press is making the British public look like imbeciles. THIS is what they cover instead of the fact that Pedo Andy is getting taxpayer funded security to the tune of millions during a cost of living crisis. The British deserve the press they have.
Yeah, the tabloids have definitely run out of material. And I’m sure Harry is crying himself to sleep at night over missing this “family time”.
This story makes no damn sense! Charles arrived at balmoral less than two weeks ago and didn’t william just get there on Friday at the earliest. I have know idea which palace idiot is pushing this. But ,they really ought fine out and fire them while silly season is still in affect and they have a chance to save themselves.
Tell me you miss Harry without saying you miss Harry. This is desperate and I love it. Those pictures with Nacho really got to Peg. It’s either Peg or the RR but someone is in their feelings about summer coming to an end and Harry not writing or calling. I would like to think its Peg but no he is much to weird about expressing genuine emotions about his brother. I think the RR is just wishing for a text, a glance or any attention from Harry. These stories are only highlighting how much the RF doesn’t do while Harry is getting ready for charitable work and Invictus.
I think it highlights that William and Kate don’t have (m)any friends, and they definitely do not have accomplished friends like the Sussexes. Their bubble is only William’s dull toff mates and Kate’s fam.
Celebrities aren’t fighting to invite WanK to their holiday villas or yachts, that we know of.
WE ARE A HAPPY FAMILY DAMN IT!!! What is this new nonsense? Harry couldn’t give two you know what’s about this. WE DON’T BELIEVE THIS CRAP YOU ARE TRYING TO SELL!!! Yes Peg is a master at something but it’s not bbq.
The way I didn’t get past the headline just bust out laughing lmao I have no idea what even happened but I doubt anyone is missing out on this beige colored BBQ lmfaaaoooooo
@cidySmiley
Imagine the day.
Camilla 5 martinis in before noon.
Charles in full coronation robes for his bbq
Kate pushing around food on her plate because lets be real about that.
William checking his phone every 5 seconds to see if Harry texted or called. Saying the mayo is to spicy and to add more raisins to the potato salad.
Stoppit! Lol!
LMAO! The imagery!
Ugh–raisins in potato salad!?!? Walnuts I can see, but raisins…
Wow, new levels of weird! I can’t decide whether it’s funny or sad that the bbq apron, unlike the crown, seems to have skipped right over Chuck to his useless son.
And I can totally believe that W is the sort of person who sees the bbq as “his domain” and jealously guards it, and I can well believe that they let him. After all, it’s better than TOB attempting to socialize! We’ve all seen his idea of humour. If true, by providing adequately cooked food, he will actually have contributed more for any gathering at Balmoral than for any of his patronages.
And that Photoshop! 😂😂😂 He looks so unappealing! And beige! Not, I’m guessing, unlike the burgers he probably serves up.
The headline made me laugh.
This made me sad though: “[William’s] kids love barbecues and they have been mixing with all their cousins on the estate.”
It stuck out to me because I’m estranged from my brothers, who both have children. I have met one of them but not the other two. When my own kids hang out with cousins, it is only my husband’s sibling’s kids. We love them. We love all the cousins but they only know some of their cousins.
So this phrase “they have been mixing with all of their cousins” – William has one brother with children. Kate has her brother and sister, but are they at Balmoral? No? Is harry’s children there? No? Then William’s children are not “mixing with all of their cousins.” They are there with family sure but not their cousins.
@Abby Princess Anne has two kids that have kids are are close to Will and Kate. So yes he has cousins. Beatrice and Eugene have kids as well and I think Andrew and Fergie are already there. Also, Prince Albert has two kids.
Yes, but the sentence read William’s *kids* are mixing with *their* cousins. Which would be Lilli and Archie and Kate’s sibling’s kids.
I know William has lots of cousins there, but they’re his cousins, not his kid’s cousins. It was just a weirdly written sentence to me.
Who is Prince Albert?
Prince Edward🥹, Prince Albert is in Monaco.
If the Tindalls’ kids are there, those would be their second cousins. James and Louise are first cousins once removed of the Wales’ children. August and Ernst are second cousins, etc. So saying “cousins” is appropriate here, but saying “all of their cousins” is not because two are missing.
Zara was at some horse competition so they weren’t there this week. And I recall seeing something that Beatrice and Eugenie had gone there at balmoral but the wails still weren’t there. It’s likely they didn’t show until the church ride.
“Mixing with” sounds so weird to me—as if by hanging out with their cousins the Wales children are slumming or something. Maybe it’s just a Britishism.
@annel
LOL, he is so forgettable. I meant Prince Edward.
@abbey first or second cousins either way my point is that the kids have other cousins aside from Lili and Archie on Williams and Kate’s side of the family. You are right though to say not all the cousins are present. It does make it sound weird though because I think Camilla’s kids are there too. Wonder how awkward AF that is going to be. You just know Camilla will say to Chuck “they are to be put at the same status as all royal children and grandchildren” and he will do it and in the same breath exclude to actual royals and their royal children.
William making it clear he doesn’t consider Archie and Lili to be part of the family. ‘All of their cousins’ are at Balmoral (excepting Pips kids I assume).
Another way of looking at it, but he is pissed that Lili is the only blue-eyed one in the group of 5 cousins……..
They know full well that William would never handle a bbq. He would either serve a charcoal bit as a hamburger patty; or if he works a gas grill it would be a second mass fire at a royal residence.
Grilling is straight-up work. And hard-core BBQ is even more arduous. Patiently waiting for meat to cook while out in the hot sun for hours…nope, couldn’t see William anywhere near that. And the expensive grills he’d use almost require a MIT degree to operate. My brother was grill master once for 4th of July. He missed half the barbecue because he was barbecuing–so he has noped outta that ever since. 😂
Wow.
This is so pathetic lol.
It’s been 3 years since Harry has attended any Balmoral summers with the royal mafia family. This one without his grandparents would likely be least inviting for him and his family so he’s definitely not missing out on anything positive.
Thank goodness he’s thousands of miles away from that royal mafia family of shady leakers and betrayers.
Actually, Harry has barely visited Balmoral as an adult. Before his grandmother died he hadn’t been there for at least 5 years.
Darn Harry is missing out on dry burnt bland food. They don’t know how to season food the royal chef showed how he cooked chicken and got clowned for only putting salt on it.
does anyone else remember the story the brf was pushing for philip’s one year anniversary? that he would have the kids squirt mustard all over the place??? that for me is a prime example of how out of touch these people’s “human moments” and “charming stories” are. I take this article with a fist full of salt. Also noted that Harry is the only one that didn’t tell that story in the documentary.
One word for this story: Pathetic. They can’t even do a stinking BBQ without trying to make it about Harry? Why should or would Harry care about William grilling? Why is that missing out? This is so sad, every day they keep demonstrating how much they need Harry, if they didn’t they’d stop dragging him and Meghan into every stupid story they keep pushing in the press.
Personally, I wouldn’t trust that rage monster with sharp cooking utensils. Just sayin’.
@brassyrebel, me either. This man can’t even be trusted with a masher! And Harry “missing out” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, cold, wet, windy, (and that’s just William) a draughty old relic (his father) and corn with soured cream (yep camzilla and keen) what the hell is there to miss. Let’s face it, they have used Harry’s words about his grandfather for this story, and had willy boys blessing, because he was so very jealous of Harry’s relationship with Philip. When Harry was leaving for Afghanistan, Philip said to him “just make sure you come back alive”, and hugged Harry, this was done in front of prince incandescent, and the only person Philip EVER hugged was harry. And it was Philip who took charge and decided which military patronages Harry got. William has never gotten over his jealousy of the closeness between Philip and Harry, that’s why we have this story and headline
Brassy Rebel…not near lighter fluid or propane, neither. 👀😂
Does William even know how to operate a grill? I get the impression he usually leaves all the cooking to his kitchen staff.
He probably just glowers at it and orders it to light 🤣
LOL!!! That is hilarious!
LOL
Lol @MaryPester
Omg😂
If Pegs would just get off his lazy bum and do some work, the RR wouldn’t have to make up these hilarious stories. That photoshopped pic, lol. 😂😂😂
I bet he’s not cooking’ California Tri-Tip!
They are still stripping Harry of his patronages, I see.
No, William, Harry doesn’t want to come back for (checks notes) your sausage.
Absolute fantasy fanfic!
As if wills does any cooking
He asks the cooking staff to work and then has his picture taken near a barbecue grill
Yeah right. William has no clue how a spatula, a grill or cooking meat works.
I know a guy who I 100% do not trust to safely prepare pre-cooked meat, and preparing raw meat is grounds to leave right now.
Would you trust Willy to safely prepare raw meat for you?
Hard pass.
Sounds as legit as trumps last golf tournament win.
The only thing I could think of when I read this is, “Wont may be the King of the grilling, but Harry is the Master of the bbq.” How long has Harry lived in the US? I would bet good money that he is getting to be quite good at it.
Would you like a side of mushy peas with that burnt burger? No thanks to a Balmoral barbecue.
This story is as fake as William’s photo which accompanies it 🙄 😒
Barbecues will be as much fun as the taste of the food and the company that share that food….
Harry is not missing anything, he can always get tasty burgers, sausages etc in good company, elsewhere.
This equation can only change if his grandfather was still around and well …
That’s so pathetic .
Imagine spending time with that boring, racist, selfish, jealous , hateful mob .
It would be excruciating.
Harry has his own paradise with his beautiful family living his own life .
Service is universal and Harry is doing an amazing job .He is thriving.
Why the hell would he want to go back to that life .
OMG!!!
That’s a photo of Philip about 25 years ago with Bulliam’s head pasted on
Harry is missing out because BBQ does not exist in the USA. Poor Harry, however will he survive.
I think we’ve just reached peak nonsense. Even for the silly season this non story is desperate space filling PR guff.
Unless, perhaps, his long experience in running a burger van (lol) is rubbing off and he’s finally found something he can do unlike everything else he can’t be bothered to do.
Now I’m thinking of a recently repeated episode of Kingdom in which two brothers are running rival burger vans either side of the road, throwing buns at each other in between customers.
And now I’m thinking of a fictional Daily Star front page using this image. Wills tells Harry to Burger off!
Oh dear, I think I need to lie down now!
Harry is missing out on what exactly? 🤣Awkward af “family” gatherings and bland af food? Wasn’t it the British press that was just writing articles about how William will never forgive or trust Harry again. Why would Harry eat anything prepared by William. It’s likely to be poisoned if William hates Harry as much as the British press says he does. They need to be so ffr.
If the media and RF misses Harry and wants him back in the fold, then they need to just say that because these kinds articles are extremly embarrassing.