Prince William & Kate will go to Wales next week to celebrate Black History Month

It is ridiculously funny to watch as Prince William disappeared into the ether as soon as his big “I Wanna Be A Global Statesman” New York trip was over. We seriously haven’t seen him since last week. It was clear that his father ordered William and Kate to not do anything during Charles’s big French tour, but that doesn’t explain William’s refusal to do any work this week. He was so obviously and desperately trying to steal attention away from the Sussexes during the Invictus Games, then his NYC trip was supposed to be William copying the Sussexes’ NYC trips too. And now? Now William is dreadfully bored with working. Well, gear up, because the Prince and Princess of White Supremacy are going to Wales to mark Britain’s Black History Month.

Basically, William and Kate are going to Wales to do photo-ops with some Black people and then they’ll go to a local school to hear about how Black history is taught. I mean… those events are fine, in theory. Y’all know the execution is going to be horrific though. Gawping and jazz hands, wiglets askew, white-power suits and a general lack of preparedness. This will be Bill and Cathy’s first appearance in Wales since they turned up over an hour late for their dumbf–k “tribute” to QEII on her death-anniversary.

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  1. Sunnee says:

    My belly hurts from laughing.

    • lanne says:

      this reads like satire

    • Megan says:

      According to my psychic abilities, this is going to be a disaster.

    • Gossipgirl says:

      but….but….How will she cosplay Black History?

    • Princessk says:

      Exactly! What a joke!
      Their PR team know that Willy and Katy are not popular with young black people. I can imagine how they sat around a table plotting how to change that around.
      It ain’t gonna work. They are just going to make fools of themselves. Black people are not stupid, they saw how they treated the members of their family that have Black heritage.

    • Elizabeth Phillips says:

      The Windrush landed in Essex, not Wales. Shouldn’t they be commemorating this in Tilbury?

  2. Andy Dufresne says:

    What a pathetic joke this is!!!

    • WHAT says:

      Probably because Rebecca English got the confirmation from KP. That Kate isn’t going to Singapore cause George has exams. 👀

      They have to be seen together until then but this is obviously a cheap version of Meghan Invictus with the Nigerian

      • acha says:

        oh god — i just had the horrifying thought that Kate is going to try to do her 23 and Me, and come up with some African heritage, just like meghan. Oh please, no.

        “See, I’m 1% from Africa via the distant past”

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        @acha oh TELL me we are not going to have to be forced to witness KKKate pulling yet another Rachel Dolezal stunt with her fake tan calibrated to match a photo of her sister-in-law.
        If KKKate shows up in cornrows she deserves to have her noggin snatched bald.

      • aftershocks says:

        OMG 😲 🤦 Where would these two fools be without their ill-conceived ‘listening and learning’ photo-ops, and their constant one-sided competitive copykeening of everything they think might conjure up some M&H magical stardust for themselves!!! 👀😳😖

    • Sam says:

      Why does this white pantsuit remind me of colonialism? 🤮

      • Ash says:

        She wore that white suit to Jamaica on their colonist tour and repeated it at a Windrush event. One of the butt kissing tabloids applauded her for her “White Power Suit”

      • Lorelei says:

        One of her fans suggested she wore it to “honor the Suffragettes” and I died laughing.

        I doubt she knows what a Suffragette even *is* and if she did, she sure as shit wouldn’t want to be seen as supporting them in any way.

    • Whyforthelove says:

      Right?!?! Was David Duke not available?

    • BeanieBean says:

      Similar thought to mine, ‘oh, that is rich’. So their ‘Black History’ only extends as far back as the Windrush era? Huh, ok.

  3. Ameerah M says:

    Will they be shaking Black folks’ hands from behind fences this time, or nah?

  4. Lau says:

    I’m already embarrassed and it hasn’t even happened yet.

  5. Layla says:

    So please excuse and bear with me as I get into a bit of a rant:

    A few days ago, an innocent 15 year old girl, Elianne Andam was murdered in the streets of Croydon, London. Not a single word has been uttered from any of the households, let alone Kensington Palace, considering that Kate is super keen to show her “solidarity and support” after she used Sarah Everard’s death and memorial as her personal PR boost. Not to mention that at this moment in time, and for the past 5 years, Kensington Palace are actively seeking to gaslight and erase the image of the black women THEY threw into a vicious smear campaign that led to her receiving multiple death threats, holding suicidal ideations whilst she was PREGNANT. They never said a single thing during BLM. When Sabina Nessa was murdered, a tweet was sufficient. With Grenfell, William was reportedly incandescent with rage that Meghan (who actually cared) was actively supporting the cause before he got a chance to add that notch to his PR belt (“Africa is mine”, Environmentalism, Homelessness, Men’s mental health. Just many of the other notches)
    But sure, shove it in our faces that you “care” about people of colour and black lives by celebrating an event you’ve NEVER celebrated before
    As a british woman of colour, seeing us being used as props when it suits these elite idiots’ narratives really bugs me.
    Thank you for unwillingly attending my TEDx rant

  6. BizzatchExtrordinaire says:

    I laughed so hard at this that coffee came out of my nose and I CHOKED. It’s practically parody. It’s really that comical.

  7. Bonsai Mountain says:

    This is like something from the Onion! White supremacists cannot celebrate Black History Month! I feel so bad for the Black British people who are going to be subject to this, yuck.

  8. aquarius64 says:

    They haven’t treated their black sister in law and they think Black Welsh aren’t aware of that? KP knows that racism charge has not been erased from them ( and the Caribbean Flop tour is still fresh on people’s memory) and no grip and grins in Wales will solve that. That kid’s look at Kate sums it up.

    • Amy Bee says:

      Meghan’s black American so she doesn’t count (sarcasm).

    • Debbie says:

      What about the fact that they had announced they’d hire a diversity representative* right after the Oprah interview, when they were feeling the heat, but they quietly let that announcement fade away. It just shows how performative and superficial all their talk is. I know it won’t happen, but how I wish someone would discuss all that’s been said in the posts above along with the Wales visit, so that it would show that they are not fooling anyone.

      P.S.: I know they called it a “czar” but that seems so farcical.

  9. Wannabefarmer says:

    WTAF? First they use black people as props, now they are just trolling them. I’m actually really p’od right now. If black brits have any sense of dignity and pride they would remember Meghan and skip this gaslighting crap. Just imagine just how meaningful this would have been if the only black/mixed race family member and her family would have been able to do this.

  10. ShazBot says:

    Have you noticed she likes to work on Tuesday and Wednesday now?
    She did Monday Tuesday last week to avoid the France visit (learned her lesson).
    But hey, if she’s going to do Tuesday and Wednesday every week, that is a HIGE improvement for her.
    It almost seems like a contractual obligation. Maybe that summer Balmoral meeting set out a schedule for them.

  11. s808 says:

    The jokes write themselves

  12. ML says:

    This makes no sense. I really hope that they treat everyone well, and the optics are terrible.
    Why are these two doing so many Wales visits together? They seem to have divided England and aren’t traveling abroad together often. Why Wales?

    • Harper says:

      It’s like the know they have to appease Wales, so they stage their perfunctory visits there, which kills two birds with one stone. They will be helicoptering in and out. I wonder if they have gotten to the separate helicopter stage yet?

      • kirk says:

        I’m almost hoping it’s too foggy for them to land the chopper in Wales even with environmental cost. Just for their PR.

      • JEB says:

        Well they used separate private planes to go to France the same weekend, so separate helicopters could be coming? Or will Kate not get helicopter privileges in the separation/divorce? I could see Will making that a condition: “Helicopter rides are only for me!”

  13. Wales? Wales? Oh yeah I forgot when when you went to Jamaica you screwed up and got fired. Yes by all means go to Wales for what is for sure to be an interesting photo op tour with people of color. If I where in Wales and knew he was coming I would call in sick so I wouldn’t have to be photo oped with this fine upstanding Not Racist statesman.

  14. Dani says:

    The Racist are coming!! The Racist are coming!!

  15. Amy Bee says:

    I laughed out loud when I saw this headline. Why Wales? Why don’t they go to Birmingham where there’s the largest black community outside of London or Bristol where they had the Bristol Bus strikes which was lead by members of the Windrush Generation? Btw, William has an engagement today at a charity that works with at risk youth. Another thing, black british history is more than just the Windrush Generation. It would be great if the Royal Family recognised that.

    • Wannabefarmer says:

      If they didnt want ONE black/mixed race person in their family, I dont think they would let themselves be surrounded by them. They are the original colonizers, they think black people are beneath them and worse are probably put off by black skin touching them. They will take them in small dozes, you know, like the ‘I have a black friend’ but no way they want them living next to them, so to speak.

    • Princessk says:

      I bet the black communities in London and Birmingham said a firm “No thank you!” to a visit from these two.

    • ChattyCath says:

      2 birds with one stone! Black History Month and Prince of Wales visiting Wales! Incidentally Cardiff had a large black population from the sailors that visited the port. Most of them staying. So it’s plebs as well! How modern.

  16. JM says:

    My supremacist parents called themselves liberals and voted Democrat for decades all while living away from even their POC relatives in the whitest corner of Maine. They sure would be the first to praise a few “exceptions” (Arthur Ashe, Barbara Jordan) before resuming their tirades against “those people.” W&K seriously give the same energy

  17. Snuffles says:

    I can see the train wreck coming from a thousand miles away. I hope every black person they try to use as a prop side eyes the fuck out of them. Better yet, I hope someone challenges them on slavery and reparations.

  18. Likeyoucare says:

    Isnt this political?
    Which the brf shouldnt be doing?
    They need to not taking pictures and videos around kids and teenagers.
    The last humiliation when the kids ask questions about meghan are hillarious.

  19. ThatsNotOkay says:

    William: First off, I want to say, slavery should never have happened. Now we’ve gotten my great sound bite out of the way, please stop sullying the earth by having more children. You’re taking up resources and my kids need foxes to shoot.

  20. Debbie says:

    Well, Wales is the place for it. Is there something wrong with that headline? Shouldn’t it say, “William and Kate will go to Wales next week”, “William and Kate will celebrate Black History Month this year.”? Cuz…

  21. TheWigletOfWails says:

    I wish they would just leave black people alone. Nobody asked for this. We know they’re racist, nothing they do is going to change that.

    Why are they going up to Wales? Does Wales have a significant black population? Why not do something close to home so you don’t have to spend massive amounts of taxpayer funds on transportation?

    This just reminds me of them (the BaRF) “celebrating” MLK Day a couple of years ago. Instead of marking it with a day of service like we usually do here and what they claim is literally their job, they had their band play a happy birthday song (it didn’t even fall on his birthday that year). So disingenuous.

  22. Amy Bee says:

    At the last Windrush Generation event she went to.

  23. girl_ninja says:

    Have they not harassed black people enough?!? Leave us alone! What have the Black Britons done to deserve this harassement?

  24. Dhianna says:

    Right after she seen her SIL wearing it. KopyKate is her name. LOL

  25. Maryanne says:

    How many black people are in wales?? If they really care about black people they should go to black commonwealth country where his ancestors looted . Idiots I hope all the common wealth leave and ask for stolen jewelry to give back. So many diamonds where looted from india and africa , it’s time to give back.

    • lanne says:

      The corgies in the trench coat advising the Wales have been fired. They have been replaced by a passell of headless chickens running around a barnyard. Those headless chickens suggested that the Wales can import some black people to bring with them to Wales. It will be a lovely symmetry with how black people came in contact with the English and perhaps the Welsh as well! They also suggested that Kate, who loves meaningful fashion, wears her 75,000 dollar Cartier gold loop necklace because it’s a fun fashion reminder of chains! And it’s also slightly transgressive! But ultimately, it represents how much society has changed and there’s no racism anymore. Brave, brave Kate!

    • Avonan says:

      2.9M White Welsh
      28K Black Welsh
      Quite the disparity.
      “On Census Day, 21 March 2021, 2.9 million usual residents in Wales identified within the high-level ethnic group category ‘White’ (93.8% of the population, compared to 95.6% in 2011)….28,000 usual residents in Wales identified within the high-level category ‘Black, Black Welsh, Black British, Caribbean or African’ (0.9% of the population, compared to 0.6% in 2011)….”
      https://www.gov.wales/ethnic-group-national-identity-language-and-religion-wales-census-2021-html

      • Christine says:

        Oh my God, did they choose Wales because it won’t look wonky if only 2 Black people are photographed with them? Sorry, we couldn’t find any, we really looked!

      • Debbie says:

        It’s not the number of Black people in Wales, it’s the fences there. So many fences. /s.

      • Princessk says:

        I bet they got rejections from other communities before they settled on Wales.

    • Nicky says:

      This was exactly my first thought. You’re literally next in line to rule over an entire commonwealth of countries, some of which are like 99% black, and you pick WALES???

  26. Chantal says:

    Seriously – Wales? Hilarious! Now have the BM tell us for the umpteenth time how you and your vapid wife continue to refuse to learn Welsh. I’m sure using Black people for another photo op, I mean important visit, will make the Welsh forget your ongoing disrespect. More Black people need to publicly fire these clowns.

  27. Mslove says:

    The irony of these two racist idiots celebrating black history month. When was the last time Pegs & Kate read a book? Or apologized to their sister-in-law? And there’s a good chance Pegs is the royal racist. My gawd.

  28. Lucy says:

    Wales? Why not go to the Faroe Isles? Or Shetland? I think of Wales as small and rural (which are not bad things), but not particularly diverse. Are they celebrating Black History with the fewest amount of Black folks possible? Seems like it.

  29. Carrie says:

    Funny, I saw the photo and the only thought that came to mind is that she manages to make even a white suit look dated and boring.

    • Debbie says:

      Right? What did they call it, a “White Power suit”? Never heard of anything so apt.

    • Lucky Charm says:

      @ Debbie, I know they meant it as a “power suit” in white, but there really couldn’t have been a more apt description of her in it than “white power” suit.

  30. Laura D says:

    As my old mum used to say “those two have more front than Woolworths!” There’s a little mixed race girl’s birthday who they both took great pleasure in ‘snubbing.’ There’s a little boy who (again is mixed race) who they had ‘concerns’ about how dark his skin might be. There’s a mixed race SIL who they drove to the brink of suicide. There’s a brother who is doing his best to make his mixed race family safe from people like the Wales. The Wales have very few people of colour in their employ and made a half-hearted attempt to find a much needed ‘Diversity Tzar’ for the “very much not a racist family.”

    The Wales’ celebrating BHM is an insult to people of colour all over the world. There are far too many pictures Kate visibly shrinking back whenever she has to make contact with a POC. William is on the record as being “bored with racism” and yet here they both are telling the world they will be celebrating BHM. Two faced hypocrites the pair of them.

  31. Karmaflower says:

    I laughed so hard at this one, sweet tea shot out through my nose! Ow!

  32. BlueNailsBettyi says:

    According to Wikipedia, the Black population of Wales is approx. .9% (not a typo). Make of that what you will.

  33. tamsin says:

    So their idea of being Prince and Princess of Wales is doing as many photo-ops there as possible? Inflicting themselves in the country to remind people that they are the Prince and Princess? Using the helicopter each time. I’m still waiting for them to check into a local b&b to help bring “business” to Wales. I’m wavering between disgust with them and second hand embarrassment.

  34. Mary Pester says:

    Mmm let me get this right, the only Royal household that refused to publish it’s diversity figures are going to Wales to celebrate black history. Hey dumbassss, walk out of the paiace, turn left and go a couple of hundred yards into London and SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE THERE!! NOW will bullyam have a black shirt on unbuttoned to try and look cool 😂😂😂will Kate wear a curly wiglet, stay home you useless show ponies, people can see right through your play acting, and STOP scaring children

  35. GDubslady says:

    All of this is a joke including the fact that the UK actually celebrates Black History Month.

  36. Blithe says:

    I’m cracking up here! Lol And also quite furious.

    Two of the whitest people I can imagine, fronting for a country that spread colonialism and racism aggrandizing white people, white cultures, and white superiority throughout the globe, are going to what I’m pretty sure is the whitest country in the UK ….to celebrate Black History Month?!! This is both side-splittingly hilarious— and tragically painful.

    I don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said. I just had to chime in, even as I’m seething about the idea of a public performance like this when these people actively and deliberately abuse and disparage the Sussex family. Ugh

    I bet she’ll wear white too.

  37. Jaded says:

    How many black people are they going to have to hire to make this look remotely popular? I’m raging at the impropriety of these two racists having ANYTHING to do with Black History month and I’m white. I cannot fathom the anger and indignity people of colour must be feeling at this travesty. Do they think they’re killing two birds with one stone, i.e. showing their support for the Welsh people as P&P of Wales, even though they can’t speak a fekking word of Welsh, AND POC at the same time? As @Layla and others on this thread have commented, this is yet another guaranteed fail for the Wails. I hope they get rotten tomatoes thrown at them.

  38. Flower says:

    This visit is going to be choreographed to the nines.

    They know they’re going to get absolutely roasted on SM for this hence why they’re doing it away from London.

    If they really wanted to be impactful – they’d go to Tiger Bay in Cardiff – but something tells me they don’t have the kahuna’s for that.

  39. Nadia says:

    Have they ever done anything for Black History Month in the past? Or is this something new for them? To seem…less racist?

    • TheWigletOfWails says:

      I think they tried to do something a couple of years ago iirc, to compete with Harry and Meghan..unfortunately for them Black History Month here is in February so that didn’t work.

  40. Beverley says:

    Whew! These jokes write themselves. 😁 We’re supposed to believe that two members of one of the most bigoted families in the UK – the Original Colonists, the British royals – will be making an appearance to honor Black History Month? Who falls for this tripe? Who exactly are they trying to GASLIGHT? Black Britons or white Britons? Because no one with any shred of critical thinking will make sense of this.

    William (who is bored with racism and was undoubtedly the Royal Racist worried about unborn Archie’s complexion) and Kate (who has recoiled from Black people, captured on camera) are the very best ambassadors to celebrate Black achievements and contributions???

    What a joke!

  41. Cel2495 says:

    Lol, this is insane, these two racist who couldn’t even play fake nice with their black relative are going to celebrate BHM? Lol

    I hope they get dragged ! Grabs 🍿

  42. Moira's Rose's Garden says:

    Khate better start working on getting her white robe and hood adorned with buttons.

  43. Oya says:

    Um, so for Black History month they are going to the one country in the UK with the LEAST amount of Black people? pahahahahahahahahahaha

  44. QuiteContrary says:

    This is actually offensive. And stupid. And a certain disaster.

    Who is advising these morons?????

  45. Well Wisher says:

    Oh Dear!!

  46. Mrs.Krabapple says:

    All her white suit needs is a pointy hood.

  47. Shoegirl77 says:

    I’m going to be in Liverpool on Monday and Manchester on Tuesday. If my schedule wasn’t packed I’d scoot over to witness this shit show 🤣🤣

  48. Gabby says:

    I’m sorry but how DARE either of these two show their faces during Black History Month with their travelling bullshit show using people of color as human props. My patience has come to an end. They should just take another month long vacation and stop trying to insult everyone’s intelligence.

    • Kreama says:

      That’s it, isn’t it? At this point they would do a better job of preserving status quo if they only vacationed. Better for them to be out of sight and quiet than in the news fumbling and gaffe-ing every time they represent the crown.

      I hope people show up and protest the shit out of that event. No one in Wales likes them anyways – they already represent oppression to the average Welsh. It’s a pretty potent combination of communities that the Royal family have exploited that would be the target audience of this event.

      If I lived even remotely close I would show up to protest. (I live in North America).

      • Lucky Charm says:

        @ Kreama, if I didn’t have a work commitment on Tuesday, I would totally fly over there. I have the vacation time and air miles, lol.

  49. samipup says:

    Any idea if they will be addressing all the problems occurring with the compensation of the 2018 deportation debacle? Hmnnn..

  50. TangerineTree says:

    Oh, my these two are going to be earning their pay for this one hour engagement!
    Will they helicopter together? Will William Parker-Bowles chopper in and make Kan’t take a train?
    Will Kate dress in black since she favors literal dressing? Or just copy M?
    We they be able to pretend to be in love for the cameras?
    Will they be able to pretend to value and respect black people?
    Whew! Tuesday can’t come soon enough, lol!

  51. Sunny O says:

    My guess is this PR stunt might be an attempt at damage control because of the following story from The Washington Post that was published yesterday.

    “A crown branded onto bodies links British monarchy to slave trade”

  52. SIde Eye says:

    Kate could have just worn her Scarlett O’Hara ballgown and aluminum foil tiara with William the Global Statesman looking annoyed while standing in front of their racist painting at one of their numerous homes that they hid from the Obamas. In the background, some cardboard cutouts of Black children behind a chain linked fence. Kate could have grabbed William’s ass without his consent. Click click click and Tadah – we have a perfect Happy Black History Month post.

    Kate and William you’re welcome.

  53. Lucky Charm says:

    With their horrible treatment of Meghan, what would they do if George, or even Charlotte, wanted to marry someone who is half-black? Since both are closer than sixth in line and would need the monarchs approval, it’s hard to see them getting it instead of being told no. By the time they get married it will be so much more accepted (by the public, probably not the royal family). Sadly, I’m sure they’d treat Louis the same way they treat Harry and just cast him out.

    • Beverley says:

      What if the Wales children are queer and want to marry someone of the same sex/gender? Or what if they fell in love with a non-white non-binary person?

      • HeatherC says:

        None of that will be allowed, at least not for George. They may possibly allow it for Louis, he’s the least important of the kids after all. I expect William to strictly uphold that whole “first few in LOS need MY permission to breathe”

  54. JTH says:

    William, Kate will celebrate Black History Month, yet they continue maltreating Meghan, Archie n Lilibeth? Tsk tsk

  55. Nerd says:

    It was appropriately called the White Power Suit.

  56. AC says:

    I don’t know what they’re both trying to prove here. Their condescending Actions already speak louder.

  57. Cathalea says:

    🙄 Wales is safe. The brown people there, aren’t so scary as •the rest of em•🫣

    🫠

  58. monlette says:

    Not sure if anyone here has seen Animal House, but this reminds me of the scene where the frat boys and their dates go to a black club to see “Otis Day and the Knights”, and were clearly terrified the whole time.

    I am willing to bet money we will never see Kate dancing with a black man the way Elizabeth did in Africa.

  59. Monlette says:

    I would dearly love it if Dave Chappelle showed up and did his Silky Johnson routine.

    “Well well well. It is isn’t Lurch and Morticia. I haven’t seen someone so inbred and into cornholing since I watched Deliverance. Thought you might celebrate black history month? Hope Rose is wearing the appropriate hue while you play “stick it to the man”. And as for you, Twiggy, Charlie Chan called and he wants his white pimpsuit, his dubious accent, and his casual racism back. Though I must commend your courage, letting Micheal Jackson’s surgeon ruin your face for black history month. Now if you excuse I need to head over to the palace and refill the kibble in Camilla’s food bowl.”

    Ice Tea: “That’s hateful!!!”

  60. HennyO says:

    Are these two fools aware that most black people in Britain have not forgotten that they bullied the black people within the Royal Family out of the country, and that they (Meghan and Archie, and now Lili) are very much a part of the history of Great Britain and of the British royal family? Do they realize that celebrating Brittan’s BHM, means, celebrating the HISTORICAL FACT of their exitance?

    They can create their ‘hire-us-some-blacks’ photo ops for the day, but can’t forever walk away for the fact that, on day – sooner or later, they will have to answer for the part they played (and still play) in the racist treatment of the people with black roots in the royal family, the royal institution and the British press/media. Prince Harry’s black family, to be more specific – the family whose creation and existence they – with all their might – religiously have sabotaged and continued to sabotage. But they’re not going nowhere – that family will be a lasting testament that will haunt their racist a*ses forever.

  61. Sadie says:

    That pic with Kate in the middle for a split second I thought it was Doria and Meghan because of the white pantsuit ahahaha

  62. Marivic says:

    Are they not afraid they will get booed in Wales?

    • Lady D says:

      They will have curated their audience. My sincere wish however, is that they get a huge crowd, and get peppered with all the questions on their racist actions. I also hope they are stupid enough to erect a fence.

  63. Chrissy says:

    Why do I get the feeling that these two racist asses are being sent and set up by Chuck to take the fall for what the entire family put Meghan and her children through with all their racist actions? Exposing Dumb and Dumber to the potential firestorm of outrage in Wales (?) may be a set-up for them to personally take the fall for the entire institution rather than the head of said institution. I hope they get roasted!

  64. ChattyCath says:

    In an aside Prince Charles spent time at the University of Aberystwyth learning Welsh. There were some violent protests with Welsh burning down holiday cottages ‘second homes’ and there was a real fear the with the Investment his life was in danger. Just saying.