Prince William stepped out last night in London, for the Air Ambulance Charity Gala Dinner. It was a fundraiser and William is the royal patron of the charity. Tom Cruise was there. It does not look like William wore his very special velvet plane slippers, the ones he wore to the Top Gun: Maverick premiere, the same ones he had to show to all of the actors. As he was entering the venue, someone in the press pack outside asked him about the public support for the royal family in recent weeks. William’s response: “We really appreciate everyone’s kind messages. Thank you.”
NEW: Prince William arriving to support @LondonAirAmb tonight was asked about the King and Kate and told reporters: “We really appreciate everyone’s kind messages. Thank you” pic.twitter.com/ATMciestRB
— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) February 7, 2024
As many have noted, this was a little play, acted out by the journalist and William. A little script was written and both actors performed their roles. Reminiscent of the “we’re very much not a racist family” play. While he was inside the gala, he also gave a speech. He said, in part:
“I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you, also, for the kind messages of support for Catherine and for my father, especially in recent days. It means a great deal to us all. It’s fair to say the past few weeks have had a rather ‘medical’ focus. So I thought I’d come to an air ambulance function to get away from it all!”
That was actually a half-decent joke? Give that scriptwriter a raise! Anyway, as I was looking through these photos, I realized one of the reasons why William hasn’t been doing events in recent weeks – it’s actually quite discombobulating to see him in a tuxedo, smiling and waving, while his father has cancer and his wife is incapacitated. I get it now – they actually worried that the optics would make William look too cavalier, too cold-hearted.
This air ambulance event was his second event of the day – hours earlier, William hosted an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle. He was swaying quite heavily and he apparently dropped one of the medals. Butterfingers! Or something else. All I have to say is that I used to drink (it’s been years) and when I drank, I swayed like this. When you’re around drinkers, you recognize that sway. This was mid-day as well – I guess they had several hours to sober him up for the air ambulance gala.
The Prince of Wales has returned to royal duties after his wife's abdominal operation and following the announcement of the King's cancer diagnosis.https://t.co/Ig4ZQJ3Vi4 pic.twitter.com/KUXAYfZZfp
— Sky News (@SkyNews) February 7, 2024
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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- London, UK, 07 February 2024: William, Prince of Wales talks with Air Ambulance pilots, doctors and paramedics as he attends the London Air Ambulance Charity Gala Dinner at the OWO in central London.,Image: 844429498, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: DANIEL LEAL / Avalon
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- London, UK, 07 February 2024: William, Prince of Wales (R) with US actor Tom Cruise at the London Air Ambulance Charity Gala Dinner at the OWO in central London.,Image: 844429508, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: DANIEL LEAL / Avalon
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Did you notice how hard he was clinching his fists as if that would stop the sway. He was doing some really weird blinking too. Very rapid. I wondered if he was signaling in some weird Morse Code for help but then I remembered he is to lazy to learn Morse Code.
The kid is not all right.
Brava!!!!
Brassy, I echo– he looks ashy and pale and slim.
Wow he did not look good at all. And very noticeably swaying.
That video is so weird! It doesn’t even look real the way he is swaying like that. And the blinking is just bonkers.
I think he had to have his shoes/feet lined up so they’re touching each other. If I had to stand and couldn’t have space between my two feet, I think I would sway too…
Okay, @Pajala, that’s a fair statement. A million years ago I was a gymnast. Balance, obviously, important, especially on the beam. I wouldn’t have been able to do those things the last three and a half plus decades.
William was in the army and supposedly learned to stand at attention. He was born a royal and was taught to stand a certain way for public events. There is a video of his first investiture in 2013. It’s not in my bailiwick to be fair to William. Don’t like him. At all.
He swayed back then and it’s worse now. After all these years of practice. DH has never been in the army or a royal bornl(lol), he’s a monolith standing at attention with feet together.
The other guys had their feet touching too but they were not swaying . He was drunk or hurting badly from a hangover.
I am also too lazy to learn Morse code. So funny .
He really does not look good. The swaying, the clenched fists, the quick weight loss. Something is up.
Maybe it’s William that has cancer, not Charles.
They claimed he was not eating or sleeping when the Oprah interview was scheduled and again when Spare was about to drop. What is he afraid of?
He never wanted to be King. And shit is getting real. He’s finally realizing he can’t get out of it and he won’t be able to continue to be the lazy louse that he is now. The public isn’t going to tolerate an absent unengaged King. I also think he’s realized that he is stuck with Kate. He cannot divorce her now – it will look as though he’s abandoning her because of her health crisis (even if it’s a few years from now because I have a feeling whatever happened with Kate will have long term impact).
Aside from the rapid blinking (which he’s done before, though when I saw the video it was the first thing I noticed) and the swaying, he’s standing at an angle. The side-shot is very interesting, compare the position of his heels to his shoulders and he looks the whole time like he’s about to collapse forward.
(1) I miss Tom Cruise’s old (prior) face.
(2) Wow — it looks like either PW is sick, he was trying too hard to stand with his feet tight together, or he’s on something/drinking.
(3) He could’ve been doing events without waving and grinning. Meeting with families of sick children, meeting with conservationists about climate change, etc. We all carry on when our spouse is recovering from a transplant or whatever is happening with Kate, and have to go to work while not visiting our parents with cancer. Surely they can find engagements and ways to keep them busy without their needing to grin and wave.
I was on a plane last week and finally saw the top gun sequel and his face looked pretty good in that. But I really believe there’s a lot of money spent on digital post-work. Is it called facial scrubbing idk? Although it was also probably filmed a while back.
Harrison Ford had this digital work when Indiana Jones had to appear at a younger age in flashback scenes
I just saw a screenshot and the DM did a whole article on Tom’s changing face based on his appearance at the gala. Lordy, now they’re mocking Tom as a distraction from William’s messiness. Proximity to the royals is just canon fodder, even for Tom Cruise😂
Are you serious, Jais? JFC, they will do anything to keep the spotlight off their swaying, lazy Prince of Wails.
That’s really funny @Jais. Cruise’s face work is not good. Using his face work as a distraction is funny yet wrong.
Remembering the Larry the Cat twitter account posting how his illnesses & surgeries were used as a distraction from the British Government’s BS.
Huh? I thought they called him One Pint Willy?
He’s a very unattractive looking man
Cain hitting the bottle hard, probably had his half pint the night before and was hang over the next morning.
Given the years long rumours about his alcohol and drug habits I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d either just come from rehab or from a bender for yesterdays events.
He did not look well and the fact that this is the last time we will see him for a while is indicative that whatever is going on with him and Kate is v v serious – he’s not stepping up and there is clearly a reason why.
Where is Kate has been trending for a week. And can we discuss how family and press are wearing black like they’re expecting a death announcement?
They are running out of ways to deflect from Kate being missing. Next week it will be Camilla’s turn to announce that she has an ingrown toenail and will be out while she recovers from its removal.
I saw a comment on TikTok that KC3 is terminal and they have all known for months. Also that this ruse of Kate and William being out of commission is a way for them to adjust to what is to come and help the kids adjust to everything and as a deflection so people are speaking well of KC3 and such. Also, there is speculation that Kate didn’t undergo anything and is just in hiding as her part to play. IDK what to think but I thought it was an interesting take.
If charles’ cancer is terminal, then he still probably has a few months to go. And I think if it was terminal Harry would have flown over when he was first told, not when it was publicly announced.
Kate doesn’t need to invent a surgery to hide for a few months. Had she done two appearances in January and then disappeared for two months no one would have noticed.
Vivika. Whoever said that has never looked at the Royal calendar. William and Kate have been using that excuse to get out of work for a decade, while some of their elders work every day. They should have been ready a long time ago. The Queen was working full time at 26!
@ Digital unicorn this is very tricky to navigate because no one is being told the truth and it sounds like The Firm are scrambling to come up with an acceptable cover story for both WK to protect the image of the monarchy. He is clearly struggling and yesterday’s first event exposed him looking ready to keel over. What on earth is going on ?
What on earth indeed. I was breaking this all down to my husband last night—the disappearances of Will and Kate, the lack of any explanation and also pretending that no explanation is normal, the total lack of any proof of life pics of Kate (through the window of the car waving), anything, and now this blinking and swaying—I’m fully on camp conspiracy theory at this point.
@snaggletooth I did something similar and shared all those ongoing with a good friend. She has no interest for the RF at all, but this morning she sent me an excited voice message, that she gossiped with her heating system installer about it, who had very similar thoughts. 😀
I mean, the whole world low key suspects that family had something to do with Diana’s death. We all know about the affair with Camilla. Many know about the queens cousins who were hidden in an institution. Everyone on earth knows this family is capable of some serious shenanigans. And if feels like we are living through the beginning of a real rollercoaster with these folks.
^^ Yes, a rollercoaster ride, but it’s not the beginning. It’s the continuing and perhaps the rough ending we’ll soon be witnessing. 🎡 🎢 🚆
He did not look well at all. I’m not that famiar with the signs of heavy drinkers, but the sway is definitely noticable. I just watched the video and it’s astounding how no media outlet has picked that up. Also noticeable is his skin. The color looks very strange and dehydrated, and thinner than usual. His eyes also look different. Puffy and like he is trying to focus. The gala photos are a bit better, probably because the afternoon was spent sobering him up or something. What is going on with this guy and how long can they cover it up?
This is not a healthy, hale 40 year old at all.
The media not picking it up is the biggest sign that all is not well within the Wails household. If this was any other member of the RF, the media would make a circus out of it. Whatever is happening with these two is beyond grave and the press need to stop sitting on their hands and demand truth for once. Of course it won’t happen, but one can dream.
Did that happen before? I mean I didn’t know that William would be drinking a lot. I remember also this story about “one pint Willy”. So my guess is more on meds, like tranquilizers. They pumped him up to be able to show up, but mentally he was not ready. That’s my take at least – he had to show up to distract from what’s happening, while clearly whatever is happening got to him badly.
There were stories dropped after the one pint Willy story about how much William was drinking and Kate making an ultimatum. Probably trash but who knows at this point.
One thing is for sure, that sway reminded me of the “functional” alcoholics I know, who think no one else notices that they’re drunk.
I think…we’re seeing a huge crisis for the british royal family. We get the photos, the briefs, the dribs and drabs. But behind the scenes, I bet everyone is freaking out right now. The heirs are AWOL or [insert everyone’s words about drinking issues, abuse, and rehab], the 3rd in line is barely out of his short pants, and the only stable and good people (Harry and Meghan) are safely as far away as possible.
I bet even the media sees the end in sight.
Ok, i’m not a rabid royal watcher, but the longer the WillKate story gets dragged out, the worse I feel. We know Will has a very violent temper. We have observed ill feelings between Will and Kate through body language and other means. I can’t help but think Kate may have tried to take things “into her own hands” and made a poor decision that has affected her medically. A lot of things can be ingested or done to oneself that might require emergency surgery to an abdomen (a very large part of the body that covers many vital organs). That she has not been seen can be consistent with recovery from such events. I have such a very, very bad feeling about this, and Will’s recent appearance, KC’s teary appearance, Harry’s in person trip for possible signature reasons… Pretty consistent responses for families struggling with members in such a state. And that the staff and PR teams are completely silent? Still fits. I really don’t want to think these things, but i’m not seeing enough evidence to prove me wrong. Please tell me I am completely mistaken?
That was one possibility that came to my mind as well.
I’ve had similar thoughts as well. We’ve seen over the past few years, especially since Harry and Meghan left, that William’s body language around his wife during joint appearances is cold. It’s gotten worse and worse but the pictures that gave me pause were the ones of William and Kate at the Jordanian Royal Wedding last summer (?). They looked so disconnected as a couple and Kate looks like in some of those pictures she is barely hanging on.
When you compare the pics to Beatrice and Edo who also attended the wedding, they entered the wedding ceremony holding hands and smiling and seemed happy to be there together and looked way more relaxed.
If Kate did do something to harm herself or maybe just had some kind of mental break, William may feel guilty or responsible for her current state and is super stressed out. He’s been rejecting her in public for months and that will take its toll on anyone.
He’s been rejecting her in public for a decade.
Didn’t think it was a half decent joke. Thought it was rather tacky actually. The whole day was so strange, beginning with the appearance of “One pint Willie”. Mike Tindall didn’t reveal how early in the day William had that pint. 😵💫🫨
He sounded whiney. Poor me speech
I totally agree about the joke. Your wife is so ill that she hasn’t been seen in almost 2 months and isn’t scheduled to come out for another 5-7 months?! And your father was just diagnosed with cancer?! And, for you, it’s cut-up time?? Pegs is such a fcuking tool. How about saying something like he’s so proud to be highlighting the important work of the air ambulance, which he recognizes even more deeply now. Or something!
There is something seriously wrong with that man’s mental state. Not that we haven’t been saying it for years, but it bears repeating. Over and over again until the truth comes out.
He can’t tell jokes he is so bad at it. Like when he faked coughed and laughed that maybe he had covid this during the pandemic and he said it to a front line worker.
Exactly – something like “it’s times like these when the importance of Britain’s emergency and health workers comes into focus on a personal level, so I’m especially pleased to recognize their efforts today.”
William made few more jokes about Tom Cruise not to borrow royal helicopters as he is known to not look after them/destroy them… something in this sense.I thought how weird his father battling cancer right now his wife who knows but not something minor if she needs 5monts to recover and he is brown nosing TC with bizarre jokes.It was surreal.
Press aren’t wearing black, a few UK newsreaders wore black or navy to announce Charles’ cancer diagnosis on Monday night, and they were all back in brights or light colours by Tuesday.
Certain American Twitter accounts are spreading gossip for attention that “OMG all the UK newscasters have been in black for days!!!” but it’s completely made up.
There’s definitely a lot of hinkiness around Kate’s whereabouts and the palace always lies, I don’t ever believe anything they say, and it’s obvious that things are much more serious than we’re being led to believe. But all the UK newsreaders have been in bright red, yellow, pale green etc since Tuesday (to coincide with Britain’s current very springlike warm weather) there’s no way they’d be in bright spring colours if they had even a hint that there was even the remotest possibility of a death announcement.
I saw these claims and they were on an Australian twitter account and a British one, so while we get that Britains dislike Americans and blame them for everything, please don’t smear them with being solely responsible for gossip that frankly originated in Spain and is being spread by all other countries that aren’t under orders from RF now.
It’s just inaccurate.
The only Twitter account I saw spreading the fake rumour that British newsreaders were wearing black beyond that first Monday was an American account.
This is hardly a major rumour, just one major SussexSquad account tweeting it and then lots of very minor SS accounts repeating it and asking if it’s true. All the British SS accounts are saying WTF no of course it’s not true. I’ve seen at least half a dozen British SussexSquad accounts debunk it. I did very extensive Twitter searching and can’t find any Australian or British accounts spreading it.
I don’t “hate and blame America for everything” and that’s a really rude and unkind accusation to throw at me, and it’s not acceptable for you to demonise foreigners en masse. I would never dream of saying “all Americans are awful because of Trump and Fox News” so it’s disappointing to see posters who seem to hate an entire foreign population just because of the actions of that country’s leaders and press.
You have no idea what it’s like being a black British woman and the reality of what it’s like to live in a country with such racist press, so give it a rest with the “all foreigners are awful” please.
I could not believe how tone-deaf that was of him. This is the result of everyone telling him how wonderful, fabulous, brilliant, and gosh-darned funny he is his whole life. He’s not. He is not a funny man. He cannot tell jokes, yet he does. And now is not the time.
Oh dear…. What happened to the good looking boy who used to look like princess Diana.
That good looking boy who used to look like Princess Diana will continue to be eaten up by his own sins and malfeasance until he shrivels himself into looking like Nosferatu.
Exactly. His good looks disappeared when his black, black heart emerged. So glad the Sussexes got out and are thriving.
It’s like the reverse of Dorian Gray
This air ambulance event was probably booked and kept on schedule as a slap in the face at Harry for being and winning an aviation legend award. So petty
This was my thought exactly. Seems like the only times he’ll leave the house/travel these days is to show up HArry with his Global Statesman Keenness
I think he could have done more basic events while Kate and Charles are incapacitated and it wouldn’t have seemed that callous. I think the fact that he has only done two events in 3-4 weeks and one was a gala event with Tom Cruise – that looks callous. Like William can get off his butt for Tom Cruise but not anyone else.
I saw these pictures and my thought was “oh, so that’s how they got him to go to the gala.”
Yesterday I had only seen pics but last night on social media I saw some of the videos from the investiture and yikes, the swaying was super noticeable. I felt like he was saying to himself “look sober, look sober, look sober.” Like we used to do in college when we were drinking underage and didn’t want to get caught sneaking back into the dorm. Not a great look for the prince of wales.
Agree that William absolutely could be doing types of events that wouldn’t make him look callous. The bigger issue is whether he will say something callous or revealing. And technically this wasn’t a bad event for William. It raises money. But it does come across like he’s good with going to fancy events as opposed to the more mundane community events. If he attended this in the middle of those types of events it wouldn’t have stood out. I truly believe he could do at least 2 days of work every week and still be seen as supporting his wife and doing the majority of the school runs.
It really does give a whiff of the PoW needing to be bribed to do his fucking job.
Exactly, it’s the not doing anything for weeks and then obviously only showing up because of Tom Cruise that gives away the game. I’d even say that Will showed up drunk because the firm made him do the investitures like they were the veggies he had to eat before dessert with Tom Cruise and that was his little way of throwing a tantrum.
This is Will’s entire problem, he thinks he’s the smartest person in the room and meanwhile his machinations are so transparent that we can clock his every move. A staged response to a planted question – again – is not enough to quell the avalanche of speculation he’s caused through his own (in)actions. If he had been disciplined enough to keep a light schedule through January and had gone to visit his father following the diagnosis then it would have done wonders smoothing over the situation.
Right like doing a meaningful event at a homeless shelter or refugee center certainly would not look callous.
He could have done the same type of events that Anne and Sophie have done and people wouldn’t criticize it because it is the bread and butter engagements and not the attending a sports event or fancy party and pretend it is work.
Doing investitures would also be straightforward f work and he can do them from Windsor which is alleges walking distance from where he lives.
This. He has apparently deemed himself too precious for life to do anything remotely “bread and butter”.
He can’t even address the homeless issue, without being photographed with his favorite homeless man, and put on the cover of The Big Issue.
It’s at parody level. None of this feels like real life, because he has just shrugged and said, “Nah”, to everything.
Remember Harry not only had the Aviation award presented to him, he was with John Travolta and made jokes. So of course 🍆 had to show up with Tom Cruise and joke with him. Sigh, what a waste of a life
The blinking. Maybe he was blinking away tears of grief over his sick wife, lol. Peg looked like he didn’t want to be there at all.
Tom and William have both lost tneir looks
Tom Cruise is 61 and rides motorcycles off of mountains. William is 41 and pees sitting down.
😂😂😂😂 @Pomski 🎯
You have made my morning with that comment 👏🏼🤣🫶🏼🏆
Snort!!!
OMG…perfect comment!
“Pees sitting down.”
So THAT’S what happened to Kate! Billy forgot and left the seat up, she went to sit…fell in…and he (with no forethought or malice) flushed her away.
😂😂😂👍🏽
1. So Lil brother harry was made a “legend of aviation” and William planned this “air ambulance remembrance”. I hope this was already planned.
2. Has William been to visit Chuck yet? His king. No telling with him.
3. I thought the joke was cute. I think this was the first joke of his I have liked. That’s ridiculous.
4. After the first few days I thought William was hiding out, pretending to care about the ill. That he did not visit. Then I thought he didn’t want to answer questions. Who knows with him.
It has a poor me ring to it how he suffers imo
I can’t stand wank . I was good with him getting back to work but could do without seeing his incandescent eggplant mug.
Was this meant to be reassuringly the public? Fail!!!!@
This 👆👆👆. The speculation has gotten wild! I mean, look at him ! Swaying, blinking rapidly,dropping a medal! And all this while having lost several pounds!!! Alcohol, drugs, rehab? Take your pick!! In the meantime, Kate and her family are completely missing …
Yeah, it’s not just Kate, it’s every single Middleton, and it is so strange.
Oh didn’t you hear? Mike Tindall now says his new nickname for William is “five martinis Willy.” The DM even reported on it!
And look at wee Cruise hedging his bets with both of Diana’s sons…cuddling up to Harry by nominating him for the Air Aviation award and now a donor/showing up for those all-important photos for William’s air ambulance charity? LOL
I heard some of the speech on tv. Could not understand what he was saying. Really bad speaker.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
The way they’ve handled everything since Christmas has been a lesson in what not to do for media relations, and it’s creepy and odd.
Looks like his xenomorph skull has a few more tufts of hair up there. Curious.
Seriously though, what is going on with him and his wife?!
And the comment about not wanting the optics of him appearing in a tux while his wife is vanished and his father ill – how about some more run of the mill work outings? No one (but himself) is forcing him to only show up for galas and award shows. What about more quiet, dressed down engagements. Like visiting with cancer patients or working on his plan to end homelessness or a million other non-gala-type work they could scrounge up for him.
This whole thing is a farce of epic proportions. I stand by my hypothesis from yesterday that Harry had to come in person to sign some sort of documents (what? I have no idea yet) – especially after seeing Pegs dropping things and swaying like that – because flying all that way just for 45 minutes of facetime with Chuckles makes no sense.
Exactly, an easy PR win would be to do some quiet charitable engagement. I don’t think he has capacity to do those – he could barely stand upright for 2 minutes!
He could have told Kate he never loved her and wanted out.and she won’t divorce him
Yeah, there are definitely small types of events that he could be doing that wouldn’t make him look bad. Or make him look worse than doing barely anything anyways.
William looked worse than usual. Something very very serious is going on. But I also expect sometime in the Summer, Kate will just magically reappear with no explanation.
Yeah, agree. I think Charles did an about face and needed Harry for something, so he cut Camilla and William out knowing they are both leakers.
Not sure if it was signing papers, it could have just been a discussion about something they obviously can’t talk on the phone about given what Harry is suing the papers over.
Charles’ nature is one of seizing power. He is not a father figure. This meeting was less to do with being a father than with consolidating and protecting power of some kind. That’s my take.
Charles is never going to cut Camilla out. And I don’t think Charles needed Harry for anything official or even asked him to come to visit him. I think Harry told Charles he was going to come visit, and Charles tolerated the visit for like 15 minutes. If there were any papers that needed to be signed, that could be accomplished by courier. Also, I don’t really believe that Harry would come over just to sign a paper. I think he genuinely wanted to see his father and understand how serious the situation was. How honest Charles was with him though, who knows. I also don’t think that Charles divulged anything to Harry about what was going on with Will and Kate.
To be clear, I’m not saying Charles is cutting Camilla out for good, I said he cut her out of this meeting. That alone is a pretty big deal.
And I’m not the one saying he flew there to sign papers. In fact I said I wasn’t sure if that was why, as I’d bet it was a discussion they didn’t feel safe having on the phone.
The tabloids are begging Tom to help Cain, get the Spirit of Aviation Award, that Harry got.
Now they’re saying, Unable may not return to making appearances before 9 months.
Abdominal Surgery is covering eating disorders, mental health, alcoholism and a host of other illnesses.
9 months?!
Is it even possible to make such far reaching medical predictions?
Where did you read that if you please?
Ftttt….the tabs are saying no such thing. They’ve hardly said anything. Do not make ish up when you don’t have proof.
There is an article out there saying she won’t be back for up to 9 months. I don’t recognize which one because I have only seen screencaps, but things are getting wild in tabloidville
I wonder if she will retire from public life like the Japanese Empress (I think it was her).
The Duchess of Kent retired from public life about 20 years ago. So there’s precedent. Ish.
It was first reported Kate might be away till April then it got extended. Now it is 9 months? How long does it take for hair to grow back if you had chemo? Just asking.
I don’t think this was about William looking too cavalier – nobody said Camilla was too cavalier when she smiled during her many appearances. And William could have staged his little play any time during the past 3 weeks.
Honestly, this cavalier excuse is beyond stupid. Nobody would have begrudged him for taking some time off, but to basically quit duties altogether whilst your wife recovers from a mysterious illness that still hasn’t been disclosed with the taxpaying public? Who on earth is this man even fooling? When I say he will do anything to get out doing the basic stuff, he seriously will… unless he has Tom Cruise by his side to console his fragile ego. It’s pathetic.
Did he get hair plugs on top? Where did that hair come from?
Sooo, basically the reason he got out of the house is Tom Cruise? Can we entice Tom to stay here for a couple of months, so in turn TOB can be pushed to get out and do what in reality he is paid handsomely to do? Or is too difficult?
Now, about yesterday’s investiture, it was also puzzling that he was blinking constantly. I don’t know what’s wrong with him, or with his wife and dad, but as far as I’m concerned he can drop the concerned act!
Prince William is the last person I would want to defend and I feel it’s important to say that I also sway like this and blink like this due to vertigo so I’m not convinced it’s just alcohol. It might be, but this specific thing, standing still in front of a crowd, really triggers it. I remember being a bridesmaid in my friend’s wedding and, in the video l look just like this. That being said vertigo can be brought about by many things. For me, it’s an inner ear issue, but, yes, alcoholism can bring it about, so can anxiety, so can medication and many other things.
I tend to sway because I’m nervous in front of crowds. For me, the reason I think something was off with him is because he does NOT usually sway. Normally during investitures he’s just fine – stands straight, doesn’t drop the medals, etc. It was the change in behavior yesterday that made me think something wasn’t quite right.
I think if he’d ever been observed swaying or blinking like that before it wouldn’t have been an issue. Tbh, I found myself feeling pity for him in that moment. I have no idea what’s going on with the wales couple, but without a doubt, they are one unhappy and unhealthy pair. Mostly, it’s too bad that their unhappiness has caused them to treat others so horribly and without care, literally putting another young family in danger through their manipulations.
Much of the WanK unhappiness is self inflicted though. They are in their 40’s fgs and have three children to think of. The time for ‘me, me, me’ thinking is long gone. They both just need to grow up & be kinder, better more mature people.
In addition to the blinking and the swaying, William also had first one hand, then the other over his belly. I was mentally ruling out things from: terrified to needs-a-doctor-Now. Drunk or drugged does make sense though. whatever’s going on, I hope his absence from most public appearances means that he’s getting help for it.
“William also had first one hand, then the other over his belly”
Kate was seen clutching hers at her last public event to the point people mentioned that too…
Maybe someone has been poisoning them all, someone who’s been smiling like Mack The Knife…
Omg: @ Interested Gawker I read your comment and immediately envisioned Camilla’s smile — which has seemed awfully bright in recent weeks, and thought of Charles foraging for those mushrooms….
He definitely looked ‘off’ at the Windsor event but I also think he really hates doing that stuff. He always looks miserable at all of these traditional royal events. Face grim and hands clenched. I laughed when I saw the gala pics though. He is really going to spend his life trying to one -up his little brother. Do the people around him not see how embarassing this looks? Or do they do all this for an audience of one (him)?
I saw a video of PW and Tom and Will was telling Tom that he didn’t have his aero plane slippers on….
Will must be such a bore to converse with.
That video of Will is shocking. That’s the real story here IMO. It’s the first time I ever considered that maybe Kate isn’t the only one they’ve been photoshopping and filtering to the gods this whole time. I can’t decide which is worse: if Will’s …issues are the real problem and they’ve been covering it up this whole time and are stupid enough to think they’ll be able to keep it covered up forever, or if going on a bender is just how Will reacted to actually being needed as the heir.
Willy at the investiture ceremony reminded me of university days of operating on 2 hours of sleep and thinking no one would notice as I blinked madly to stay awake and stumbled just by standing. The dark circles under his eyes! Also: has Willy lost weight in the last few weeks. His body looks so thin and his face has changed.
What has happened to Kate? We need proof of life for our Duchess of Doolittle! Who will be Keeper of all the Buttons? Who is wearing all of the Buttons? Where is our Princess of Wiglets?
But seriously, where is Kate Middleton and why is CAROLE Middleton so quiet?
He does look like he lost weight. And quickly.
I don’t understand why “Where’s Kate?” isn’t a repeating headline everywhere. Even while they were trying to hide the effects of his stroke, the press got a photograph of President Wilson appearing to be signing documents. History tells us now that Edith Wilson was actually doing the work while Woodrow was tremendously incapacitated. Where is a photo of Kate smiling & waving in a window or something? I hope I live long enough for the truth to come out. History will eventually tell…
It isn’t a repeating headline everywhere because contrary to what the British media and People magazine would have us believe, and despite their numerous fluff pieces on her she is not that popular and most people simply don’t care. Yes, people discuss the conflicting messages being put out by inept PR people (KP) on her behalf. But the royal rota especially clearly thought they could get weeks, months of vigils for Kkkate out of the vague “abdominal surgery” statement then realised that they weren’t getting many clicks on that. That’s one of the reasons they were so quick to latch on to Prince Harry’s arrival. It pays their bills and they get to continue helping KP to hide whatever is going on with her.
@Magdalena I’d argue that nobody was interested in the sycophantic coverage of Kate they used to run either and that never stopped them. the rota isn’t motivated by real public interest or newsworthiness, they’re a pr arm of the palace, full stop.
They’re not asking where Kate is because they know where she is and exactly what’s going on with her, and they’re protecting that truth for the time being.
My question is, why hasn’t the foreign media jumped on this yet, and my guess is because you can catch and k*ll a lot of unsavory stories with Duchy money…
“They’re not asking where Kate is because they know where she is and exactly what’s going on with her, and they’re protecting that truth for the time being. ”
This. 100% this. I absolutely agree. They know.
And then there was the Texas representative, Al Green, who got out of his hospital bed after “abdominal surgery” to vote in the US House. Then he went back to the hospital. Kate can’t even smile and wave somewhere. Yeah, there is a LOT happening behind the scenes.
I think William is in a lot of trouble and that’s the real reason the press is not calling for him to step up. He was sent out yesterday to give the press some pictures and soundbites.
The swaying, the dark circles, the closed fists. It’s almost as if he can hear the telltale heart. It’s slowly driving him mad. Hmmm.
I agree, I’ve never been on board with the DV storyline with Will and Kate but “telltale heart” is a great description of the man we’ve just seen. He may have done something really, really bad in a drunken rage, and that plus Charles’ diagnosis (and the throne moving closer every day) may have sent him over the edge…
I am actually worried for Kate, no one should be married to that man (even if she Choses Her Choice! #CharlotteSATC)
This is SUCH a good reference, he totally hears the telltale heart.
That video! I feel sorry for him, as much as I bust his chops in the comments. He does not look well and the swaying is upsetting to watch. While I understand the calls for him to step up, I’m not sure now is the right time. I honestly think he will crack up completely if he’s pushed too hard.
He was clearly drunk as a skunk that afternoon and only sobered up that evening because he was meeting Tom Cruise.
They probably sent him back to rehab and that’s why we won’t see him for a while.
The press is saying that Charles is ok with William taking time off. That has led me to believe that William’s in rehab.
A deranger was trying to convince people on a Sussex insta page that pegs was swaying from exhaustion from caring for Kate and the kids. Like ANYONE would believe that!
😂😂😂
I disagree that William’s team was trying to “protect” him by not having him do events. I think they had to beg, plead, put up photos of Harry on the wall and promise him a special photo with Tom Cruise to get Boxset Willy to budge.
We saw Anne and Camilla doing events and it was reassuringly normal. And if, as we keep being told, Charles’ cancer was caught early and Kate is recovering at home, then why shouldn’t he carry on? I think the only thing that seems odd or strange is that we are so unused to him actually doing the job he’s paid for.
Honestly, that feels more likely. One of William’s problems is that he seems to have a real resentment and disdain for most royal work.
This feels more likely compared to the ‘forced into hiding’ theories that have been circulating non-stop. If KP was just honest for once, none of this would be the circus it has turned out to be. I wouldn’t be surprised if Willy has been threatening to walk away within the last several weeks, hence the withdrawal from duties and the palace staff evidently running around like headless chickens. He’s got form for this type of blackmail. He knows exactly how to get what he wants, albeit if it doesn’t actually help him in the long run.
As for his physical appearance, he looks shocking. He looks older and more frailer than his uncle Ed and that’s saying something. This man isn’t even 2 years into his 40s! Whatever is going on with him and his wife, it’s not good at all. It was inevitable that they would both self-combust. The WanK’s should have been forced to be full-time royals from the moment they both said ‘I do’. Giving them free reign for this long was never going to end well.
William looked ill, during the investiture ceremony, but seems to have recovered.
Tom Cruise looks like… someone else.
I almost didn’t recognize Tom Cruise! WTF did he do to his face? I wish celebs would just age naturally, it is more grace and dignified that the jack-up shit they do to their faces, which makes them look so strange. I feel secondhand embarrassment and pity when I see what someone like Madonna has done to herself.
A youth-obsessed culture is so destructive to people, especially insecure people. The thing is: people in their 60s will never look like they are in their 30s again, even with plastic surgery. They just look like strange, uncanny versions of themselves. They don’t look young and fresh, they just look scary.
Tom Cruise looks like some kind of televangelist with more hair. Its giving Joel Osteen vibes. I was never a fan of his but now yikes!
TC looks like the elf on a shelf or a garden gnome at this point.
Can Tom play the piano? Get him a bedazzled cape and develop a Liberace act.
All that swaying and blinking made me think gravity would win and Willy would fall flat on his face. I couldn’t figure out what the problem but drunk makes sense now.
someone was really affected by the legends of aviaton award lmaaao he even got a _spare_ famous hollywood actor, this is so funny. his life revolves around H just like bones with M.
Rapid blinking is commonly viewed as a source of anxiety or a mark of lying or exposure to very bright lights. Take your pick. He’s definitely not well in some way. Must have been a very stressful investiture ceremony for him. Eventually it will all come out.
William was just there to thank Tom Cruise for a copy of “The Official Scientology Guide to Hiding Your Wife.”
Too right CC!!!! Where is Shelley? It always amazes me how gullible some people seem to think the general public are! You can fool some of the people some of the time…etc, etc, etc. The truth will eventually come out, and the frantic covering up will be exposed. It is my belief that Pegs has actually harmed Wiglet and KP is doing a desperate cover-up shuffle. The skeletons will come dancing out, very soon, or at some time in the future, it is inevitable.
Omg, the optics of this! I initially saw this as I take your John Travolta and raise you one Tom Cruise but that is a major observation!
Seriously! I was sure they were old photos of the premiere, but nope. Apparently Tom Cruise is lazy heir catnip.
The Where is Kate/Shelly jokes were running amok on social media last night, I am honestly gobsmacked that no one at KP thought, “Hmmmmm, the most prominent scientologist is probably not the way to go here.”
Only David Miscaviage himself would be more tone deaf. It’s like they are playing chicken with when they have really REALLY gone too far.
William’s swaying, whether from alcohol or nerves, does not give reassurance that the heir is fit to step in as regent let alone become king. To me it’s a reason not to let William have access to the red boxes which hold government documents. If he ever does, any enemy nation can get a hold of William, throw down the receipts of misdeeds, and threaten to expose him if he doesn’t hand over copies of state secrets. Some TV talking head blurted out on air William leaked about Harry’s birthday call to Charles. William is a national security risk.
Something about this whole situation feels deeply wrong. The lack of pictures/communication/confirmations of information when it comes to Kate is incredibly strange, also, her otherwise very vocal family, fallen entirely mum… If the surgery story was above board, where are all the stories about her beeing a lynchpin, even while bedridden, beeing waited on by her adoring husband, whom can not find his way out of a paperbag without her, that Carol is usually trusted to deliver? Not even uncle Gary seems to have something to say? Could a “pillow-throw” have gone awry? If that was the case, yes, I do think panicked silence and chaotic desicion making, and generally weird behavior from William would be the result. Untill iron-clad NDAs were handed out, and a quiet (but very hefty) settlement turns into divorce papers that is. It would, of course, all be “very amicable”. I do not have a great impression of Kate as a person, but it is frightning to think how powerless a person risks beeing when in her position, how easy it seems to be to explain away her absence, without her own voice, and with very few questions asked. I really hope she is okay.
For me, its downright creepy that there is No questioning by the press or tabs as to where Kate is.
The British press will sniff out your knickers any other time.
Foreign press uses the paparazzi (on scooters even) and log lenses to stalk anyone else….but not Kate?
……and no one questions this?
Ot feels even darker qhen you look back at Kate’s deteriorating appearance the weeks and months before her surgery. The curtain bangs that covered half of her face, the finger bandages, and some of her outfits were totally disheveled. I don’t have a theory, bit I do think things have been going downhill rapidly for a while. To me it also looks like zhe one with the real medical or whatever issues is Peg and Keen just cracked under the pressure of constantly clamoring to toe the ever moving line for him. Add in Camilla’s masterful annihilation of her family’s reputation and PR. With Charles being weakened even further by his illness, and Camilla gaining more power by that, I don’t see how Peg and Keen will come back from this. Maybe Camilla quietly suggesting KC to convince them of a divorce.
I’ve been wondering if he maybe injured her in a fit of rage and she left (good on her if so!) and is with her parents. Her family would have considerable leverage if this happened bc the RF would be desperate to keep the news out of the papers. Would also help her get a better settlement.
I hope none of this is true and they all find peace one day. Seems like a horrible life.
I don’t remember either of my parents being able to take days off from work to take care of their spouse after an medical operation and they both worked full-time jobs, nor when my grandparents had medical conditions like cancers . I don’t think it would have made him ” look too cavalier, too cold-hearted”, it might have made him appear closer to normal people though. Also, once again, there is no way that he is taking care of Kate.
I took one day off when my 87 year old mother had hip replacement surgery and a few vacation days when she came home from hospital. Fortunately she had a personal care worker to come in daily when I was back at work. This whole thing stinks to high heaven. More and more I’m coming around to believing that something really sinister happened to Kate and William is in it up to his rapidly blinking eyeballs. The coverup is astonishing in its obviousness.
If he weren’t so lazy they could spin it into “How brave of him to carry on working !” but nope.
This whole business just gets stranger and stranger. PW looked absolutely terrible at the investiture – swaying all over the place, hollow-eyed, it was like he was still drunk from the night before and hadn’t slept.
Plus, why have they still not done an announcement about Kate? You’d expect a bland “thanks for your good wishes, continuing to recover etc.” type notice by now. If she’s not even up to a soft-focus photo sitting up in bed or something, I would really like to know WTF is actually going on here.
Maybe Top Gun TC is giving Willy Wails tips on how to keep his wife out of sight, just like Shelly Miscavige, wife of his pal & Scientology leader David Miscavige. Shelly hasn’t been seen since 2007 in public – even Richard Simmons peeps his head out the windows once in a while.
I thought the same thing.
“Where’s Shelly?”
“Where’s Kate?”
William is in BIG trouble, no visits from any of the family to keen, and willy hasn’t visited dad. No one from the family was anywhere near him at the Palace, even the staff didn’t rush to help when he dropped the medal he was about to present. The children haven’t been seen, not even on the school run. I can’t Waite till Heather gets back so I can spill some more tea, but I promised her!!!
Yes, William now looks like the family pariah doesn’t he. The Meddlesome Midds and Uncle Blowhard have disappeared, the tabloids have pretty much been shut down, no communication with Pa, and Harry won the PR war with his brief visit. Usually my intuition doesn’t fail me and right now it’s whispering that something realllly bad went down and when it gets out William’s name will be mud.
@mary pester, I saw screenshots from the gala and it seems lord Snowden and some of the Spencers were there and yet they didn’t seem to have any contact with William. And they’re family. Not close but still. It’s weird. William seems v isolated.
@Jais and @JADED, YES isolated is the right word! Think back to the last days of Charles and Diana’s marriage, the press loved Diana, they swarmed her, just like they write copious articles about harry, because articles are as close as they can get to Harry
When you get the likes of the Snowden family and the Spencer family taking stock it shows its BIG within the family, but the biggest tell is, where are Sophie and eddy?????
I just picture the wider family, maybe the Spencers but definitely the Tindalls and the yorks gossiping just as much as we do.
The older guy facing Willy in that video is standing perfectly still for the duration of the anthem, but Willy looks like he’s on the deck of a lurching boat.
And Willy has panda eyes (without any other panda charms). He looks absolutely terrible. Kudos to whoever sobered him up for the evening gala.
Is William ok? He looks alarmingly pale and like he dropped a significant amount of weight in a fairly short time period. What is going on over there?!
William’s appearance and behavior at the investiture were shocking—the blinking and swaying, the sunken black eyes, the obvious weight loss, dropping a medal!
Last night during our pre-dinner wine on the patio I showed the video of the investiture and the photos from the aviation gala to my daughter. (The night before I’d given her a summary of the Royal Family soap opera as she has not been following the story.)
She immediately thought the swaying, the black eyes and dropping the medal were neurological.* Because the swaying was front to back she didn’t think it was alcohol. While it may have been alcohol there are many other causes of front to back swaying. Her thought was that it was PTSD, having to do with Kate, and caused perhaps because William has something to do with Kate’s condition. Maybe it was being in uniform, at Windsor Palace, with footmen and courtiers at a particularly “royal” event?
While it was obvious that William was better made up at the aviation gala, my daughter also noticed in the Daily Mail photos that William had more hair to comb over his bald spot at the gala. This of course could be photoshop but it’s interesting that she noticed this (as I had earlier).
William’s speech at the gala was terrible. He could not speak more than two words without reading from his script. He couldn’t even thank the well wishers for their kind messages of support without reading. His joke fell flat (and rightly so as it was not funny.)
Meanwhile, until I get the facts about Kate I’m going to continue to think the worst of William.
(*She’s had a neurological condition for ten years that involves swaying and balance issues and those cavernous black eyes so she’s both experienced and biased.)
William is about to crack like a hard-boiled egg. He may have been born to be king, but the top job or anything adjacent is too much for him. His appearance at the investiture did not reek of alcohol IMO; it looked like severe anxiety and sleep deprivation held together by crumbling willpower.
Look like he inherited the Hapsburg lower lip.
There should be proof of life established for Kate and active live video, of all five of them at this point, to prove William and the children’s well being. Have the children been attending school, definitively seen in public, or have they been spirited away too?
I agree. Kate showed up mere hours after childbirth with hair and makeup done. No appearance due to abdominal surgery does not align with her history. Also, William’s penchant for violence was documented by Harry in Spare. It was likely not a one time anger issue. Where is Kate? Where are the kids?
Good. Good. Whatever mental anguish Will is going through, he deserves it. He is the disaster of a son that Charles deserves. Sooner or later, they will all get their comeuppance. These sick assholes do not deserve inner peace.
Tom Cruise appears to have become an official Windsor mascot.
I watched Top Gun and Mission Impossible only recently and Tom Cruise did not look like this!! What the hell happened to his face?
I wrote about this above! I was on a plane last week and decided to catch up on Tom Cruise movies. He did not look like this. Especially not in top gun. It was actually filmed a while before it was released bc they held on to it during Covid. Which means it could’ve been filmed 4 years ago or more but still. However that would have given them a lot of time to digitally retouch his face. I didn’t think he looked quite as fresh in mission impossible but still there was a lot of digital retouching. That’s why it’s jarring to see the photos. It’s like seeing a Chris Jackson photo of Kate that is massively retouched versus one that is not. I mean it’s possible this is just how his face looks aged with a lot of fillers. It’s just hard to compute bc his face is digitally refreshed for his movies. Stars have it written into their contract or the ones with money pay for it themselves. To me, he just looks like a guy in his 60s but he does not look how we see him in his latest films. Sorry this was a lot but bc I just saw these films it’s in my mind.
JAIS, I actually enjoyed both movies more than I thought I would. I had been avoiding watching Tom Cruise movies for years but he was good- quite likeable in these two films.
But man, Will and Tom both looked pained and are painful to look at in these photos.
I’m kind of pointing to this as an example of “KP is a clown show” because issuing a quickie statement like that before William emerged from his hidey hole would have been the proverbial doddle. I mean, the principals are laid up but staff can keep it rolling.
I don’t think optics is something they’re worried about. Didn’t Charles go shooting or something right after one of his sons were born? My recollection is probably off but the point being they do what they want when they want and how they want and optics be damned most of the time.
If they were truly worried about optics they wouldn’t have let him do the investiture with a sway on.
It’s pretty funny how the papers are framing this as Willy being back to work when it’s really the equivalent of a drive by.
I think I’m close to the correct amounts on this…
Tom Cruise is worth about $400-600M.
William, PoW, has an annual income from the Duchy of Cornwall, around $20M a year. And he has even more private wealth, we don’t know about.
So, this official event is to raise money for 2 new Air Rescue Helicopters, by Sept. they need approx.. $15M left to be donated.
Fine. Have your fancy fund raising party to get publicly for this worthy cause. It’s fine.
BUT, how about Cruise brings a fat check, oh say, $5M. And, William also brings a fat check for $5M. Take LOTS of pictures, pat each other on the back, etc.
Tom and William could easily just each donate $7.5M and take public credit for it.
Write your names on the Helicopters too. IDC.
(sigh) Wealth hoarders!
I didn’t watch the investiture video yesterday so today I finally got to see the swaying/blinking for myself. It is concerning though I am not entirely convinced it’s due to drinking. It could be nerves, stress, or maybe lack of sleep? He doesn’t look like he’s slept much and being sleep deprived can easily make someone look drunk. With everything going on, I wouldn’t be surprised if he has insomnia and isn’t sleeping well. He also looks nauseous? If I am sleep deprived, I also get nauseous. I also agree he looks like he’s lost a lost of weight. Whatever is really going on, William is very stressed out and it shows physically.
Hey, Everyone, look!
TOM CRUISE!!
OK, Tom start working the movie star angle.
Take some of the spotlight off William but, still imply that William can bring in “International Movie Superstar, Tom Cruise”
I expected William to make a few corny jokes, and he did.
I can’t play the video, all I can see id the still photos. Swaying? That can’t be good.
I was married to a high functioning alcoholic. Who drank continually. He somehow never slurred his words, never swayed, never missed a days work, never smelled of liquor.
But, he did need liquor within a few minutes of waking, or he’d get the shakes, pale, headaches, etc.
Vodka for breakfast, shots at lunch, the minute he was home couple of shots, then cocktails and shot until bedtime. This went on for 2-5 years.
If William is trying to be in rehab, good. Alcoholics ruin their life and the lives of their spouses and kids. Not gonna snark if thats his situation.
Why can’t they release a photo of Kate?
Propped up in a chair, or bed, full hair and makeup done to her best advantage?
Even in black & white, it would end all the speculation.
One photo, show her face only. Surrounded by huge vases of flowers to distract a bit.
“Thank you for all the well wishes” underneath Catherine, PoW.
Boom. Done. Then be quiet for the next few weeks.
Even if she has IVs, or oxygen, or tubes, we’re being told she is recovering so some medical equipment could be in this pic.
The PR teams of The Firm are not doing a good job on any of this. It just causes more speculation.
And, yes William does look like he’s lost weight but, with Catherine having surgery, Charles announcing cancer, I’m not surprised he’s under stress.
Stressed, everyone giving him orders of how/when to behave publicly, 3 kids under 10, he’s probably not eating or sleeping well even with all the staff helping.
Louis is 5. I bet he wants to be with Mum or Dad most of the time, even just to be in the same room.
I feel worry for those kids. Catherine is unwell. William does look too well either.
Kids want their parents. Even with the Nanny and Nurses, etc.
Thinking now days, kids go to school in an effort to keep the daily routine in place.
Doesn’t mean the kids, aren’t upset.
I just hope all the tabs let things settle down for all.
Mostly, bc I don’t want 12-14 weeks of constant speculation everywhere.
Can we get back to snarking on Bezos & his stupid $500M yacht? 😁
No thanks. I’ll keep speculating until we know Kate’s alive.
Kate must be alive.
That creepy Uncle Garry of hers can not keep his mouth shut. He’d be trying to make a buck selling every detail or making anything up. He never keeps quiet, loves attention, really loves being able to remind the world he is related to Kate.
@JaneS — Uncle Gary has been uncharacteristically silent. Normally he’d be blathering to the media but even he’s been shut down. I don’t think Kate has been unalived but whatever is wrong with her is so serious that the BRF and media has been completely silenced. For months to come unless someone leaks the truth.
They can’t release a photo of Kate because whatever is wrong with her is being kept a complete secret, so it’s got to be bad and clearly involves William. The wagons have been circled tightly around her and that portends a situation so grave that even William is showing the strain, and it’s not due entirely to abdominal surgery.
William was soft launching the ” retiring” Kate campaign last year already. He was just waiting George to go off to Eton. He already got Adelaide Cottage for Kate and lives somewhere else. But Charles got sick. They know since December. Things came to a head!
What is next? Kate will not be seen. William will tell the world Kate is not longer fit for public duty around Summer. Once Charles can no longer keep up, they will tell the world that ” William needed someone with he could share the burden of being King” and that Kate ” gracefully ” agreed to separate, as her health is very delicate.
This entire situation just gets stranger by the day. William’s swaying and blinking was bizarre. He did not look well. And of course, where is Kate? (Kind of like the kids’ book, “Where’s Waldo?”) I agree with the above poster that Kate should be well enough to release a statement about how kind everyone has been, etc., but instead, she just goes missing? I think there are many layers of deceit within this family. And William is such a lazy fool. I’m so glad he gets to take so much time off to “take care” of his wife and kids. And yet, some comments on other sites talk about how incredibly brave he is, how resilient, etc. All I see is a miserable man with serious problems who is completely unfit to be anything of value, let alone king. And I can’t wait for the stories to come out that Kate’s situation is all Harry’s fault and Charles has cancer because of Harry. Just insane.
I can see Catherine could be very reduced in public official duties and using her frail health as a reason. She’d show up for the Xmas church walk and birthday photo postings with the kids.
William could easily keep a Mistress on the side for years. Will would make some ugly deal with the UK press to keep it off the front pages.
PP had the Penny lady as his “friend” in his later years.
I really don’t see William publicly divorcing Catherine, PoW, at least until George is of legal age.
Imagine the thrashing and endless tabs that would intensify for years on in him if he did.
If Charles is able to recover and return to a lighter schedule of official in public duties for the next several years, he could say it is part of his slimmed down Monarchy.
The Firm needs to start an entirely new PR push to save their jobs ASAP.
They keep botching it up like this and the Down with The Monarchy teams will get a good toe hold. They would look heartless if they gained ground on going Republic while Chuck and Kare are both out ill.
I bet Carole M. is with Catherine but The Firm has told her to keep her head down bc of their shady biz dealings.
The men in grey must be praying for anything to happen to get the spotlight off the palce problems.
Ok, I have my disdain for Baldy and what not, but I do have empathy for someone in his position who is clearly stressed and miserable and not managing it well. So let me just say–Baldy, this is NOT the way to manage your stress. There are tons and tons of other options for you at hand, like therapy, or exercise, or mindfulness, or CBT worksheets, or EMDR therapy if your anxiety and stress is veering into the trauma side of things. Or medication, if that is an option you haven’t already perused.
But drinking? That ain’t it, bruh. That solves nothing.
In the last what? 6 weeks? Kate is ill. Charles has announced cancer and treatment.
The kids are worried, and a wife and 75 y/o Father both going thru health treatments at the same time = Stress.
At times of high stress I can not eat or sleep. I have a special needs daughter with a lifetime of hospitalizations and surgeries. I can not eat for days at a time before surgeries. To the point that I now joke “Yes, upcoming surgery, I’m guaranteed to lose 20# in a next month. I live on coffee and enough food that I don’t faint. Nausea unending.
Maybe that’s all that is wrong with William.
William’s pupils were as large as dinner plates at both events, that’s not stress alone, surely.
I wish William would have brought Princess Anne along.
Just to see Anne give Tom Cruise the stink eye!
I am warming up to Anne a lot since QE has passed.
Anne with her recycled/updated clothing and she just shows up, shakes hands, cuts the ribbons, poses for a photo, Next. Next. Next.
Now, if Anne could get a muzzle on Mike Tinsdale, I’d like her even more.
Did ya see the photo of Princess Margrets grandson? Arthur Chatto?
He is currently serving in the Royal Marines.
In full uniform he is a strikingly good looking, young man. About 25 y/o. Full head of dark hair, very fit.
The Firm should start giving him more publicity, in uniform.
An entirely new character for the soap opera The Monarchy is turning into.
So what did Arthur do to deserve the royal “expert” spotlight. They need to leave him alone like they should have left PH alone when he was in service.
Anne only cares for Anne and her horses. I have no use for her. See, e.g. her CBC interview (summarized by RS Locke): “Princess Anne directly calls out King Charles’s support of research into the British Royal Family’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade as a PR ploy advanced by the media & a topic she’d avoid. Then a member of a 1000 year-old monarchy says not to focus on time scales & periods.” The pain Elizabeth caused her by refusing a divorce (making her wait three years) might have made her more empathetic to others, but no. Her “support” of Harry is limited to saying hello in the aisles of various cathedrals.
Being a nosey person that I am. I looked up the royal diary. Prince Edward has a few engagements in February . But march just seems to be dominated by Princess Anne right up to Easter . No mention of Camilla , Sophie or anybody else apart from an ancient Duke who has a couple of engagements ; but he must be older than Charles. Where are they all . Given that Easter is early this year are they all going to pop out of hiding in April and flood us with Royals. It’s all very strange as the keep harping on about being relevant
What point are they trying to make by emphasizing it was a “range rover” instead of merely stating suv or simply driving herself. Unlike the royals, Meghan is self-made and wealthy enough to buy her own luxury vehicle (I’ve read on here that the royals are gifted a fleet of Land Rover vehicles).
I am super surprised they let that SKY clip out. He looks like he is trying to stand up on a boat in the high seas and not throw up.
Those royal servants need more lessons in sycophancy. They made it look worse by standing still, they should have all been swaying in unison with liege man to make it less noticable.