Prince William isn’t ‘worried’ about Queen Camilla getting all of the best events

Well, at the very last minute, Prince William did some “work” last week. He worked on March 1st (St. David’s Day) by doing some events in Wales, then he did f–k all until March 9th, when he stepped out in London. He went to the Kia Oval Cricket Ground and checked in an Earthshot Prize winner, Notpla. Notpla is newly contracted to provide sustainable food packaging to over 50 sporting venues, including the Kia Oval Cricket Ground. Enjoy these photos of William looking awkward and grim on a cricket pitch and inside the venue, which has some brutal overhead lighting. Just shows you that the Kensington Palace team is so incompetent, they can’t even get some basic staging right.

Last week, in William’s absence, there were two very interesting and related stories. One story was about William’s anger that Queen Camilla jetted off on holiday, so he was on some kind of sympathy strike too, because he was mad that Camilla got to jet off somewhere. The second story was that William was incandescent that Camilla was being “given” all of the plum assignments and that King Charles had not asked William, the heir, to step in for him. I personally don’t believe that – I think William has been asked to do more and he has consistently refused, and that’s why Camilla is taking over. Now a royal expert claims that William is just fine with Camilla taking on events which should have gone to the heir:

Prince William will ‘welcome’ Queen Camilla’s help in carrying out royal duties amid health battles faced by his father King Charles and wife Kate, an expert said today. Camilla has taken on a number of duties for the King in recent weeks, and will lead the Royal Family at a Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday. She was also the most senior royal at a memorial service for King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle last week after William pulled out at the last minute. Provisional plans are said to have been made for Camilla to represent the royals at the Chelsea Flower Show in May, as well as at four events in June – the D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations, Garter Day, Royal Ascot and Trooping the Colour.

Former BBC court correspondent Michael Cole insisted to MailOnline today that the Prince of Wales ‘won’t worry about who does what in the Royal Family’. He added that William would not be jealous of Camilla’s more prominent role – and would be ‘only too glad to see the responsibility for keeping the royal show on the road shared out between a suddenly reduced number of available working royals.’

Mr Cole said today: ‘It is right, proper and in accord with protocol for the Queen Consort should take up some of the duties of her husband while he is unable to preside at public-facing events and ceremonies. Prince William has shown nothing but good judgment in recent years, especially while dealing with tricky situations, not least the continuing fall-out from the self-imposed exile to California of his younger brother, Prince Harry.’

‘He has shown great wisdom in strictly limiting his reaction to cruel and unjustified jibes and barbs from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, or those purportedly acting and writing on their behalf, even though the attacks on his wife, the Princess of Wales, have been especially hard for him to bear. All of that coming as Prince William confronts the real possibility of his future role as king much earlier in his father’s reign than would have been hoped, adds to his burden.’

Mr Cole also said that William has ‘nothing to fear from the Queen taking a more prominent role in the coming days’.

He continued: ‘He is a Prince of the royal blood. His father’s royal lineage dates back to Alfred the Great, his mother’s antecedents to the Stuart King Charles II four centuries ago. His destiny is assured. In due course, if destiny does not decide otherwise, he will become King William V. Being fair-minded, kind and compassionate – characteristics inherited in full from his mother – he will know that Camilla would have been content to remain his father’s mistress, as she loved her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles who remains a close friend to her. She accepted that the King’s instance that she become Queen even though that had expressly been ruled out by Buckingham Palace ahead of their marriage in Windsor Register Office in April 2005. Queen Camilla has no personal ambitions. She is just doing very well in a role she did not seek and she is proving to be rather good at it. Prince William will have welcomed that, rather than resented her success, knowing the truth – if all members of the royal family shine, then that reflects a lustre on the very institution of a constitutional monarchy that has served this country so well and for so long.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Side-stepping the weirdness of reciting William’s ancestry like his bloodline will polish the turd we see before us, this guy is smoking his own product – Camilla loves being queen, she fought to be queen for decades, this was all absolutely her endgame and she has many plans for her stepson Huevo too. Speaking of, “Prince William will have welcomed that, rather than resented her success, knowing the truth – if all members of the royal family shine, then that reflects a lustre on the very institution.” William absolutely does NOT know that. Neither does Camilla, neither does Charles. It drives me up the wall – they believe everything about royalty is zero-sum, that only one of them can get attention or succeed, and that if someone else is successful, that takes away from everyone else. That’s how they’ve always operated, because they’re inbred idiots.

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  1. equality says:

    Thought for a paragraph or so that there wasn’t going to be whining about PH. Then, of course, the nonsense began.

    • Wow they are going to great lengths and back into the ancient history to try and make something of Peg and it’s not working. The part about everyone shining and no one having a problem was pure malarkey. Diana shined and she was gotten rid of. Harry and Meg shined and they were run out of the country so this not jealous of other family members is crap. Peg has not stepped up as he should and this little PR isn’t going to change anything. People have eyes and social media won’t let them forget.

      • BlueNailsBetty says:

        Yeah, that history lesson is pointless since many of us are descended from Alfred (and many royals of Great Britain/Europe) and it conveniently overlooks how utterly brutal and terrible so many of those royal ancestors were.

        Nice try, William. We share many royal ancestors and I don’t use that as an excuse to be a shitty person.

    • Chrawi says:

      Mr. Cole….William doesn’t have your back AND Camilla is on a whole different level than you both are…..King Charles has a ride and die with Camilla

  2. ShazBot says:

    This is his PR doing what it should have always been doing. Between this and the pic, someone took the reins and is trying to get things under control.

    I wonder if Camilla will take that little Barb lying down or not.

    ETA: obviously none of it is true in the least (ancestry aside), it’s just his PR is finally PRing.

    • Agnes says:

      More like propaganda than PR. Too late Baldy, we know who you are.

    • Yvette says:

      @ShazBot … Agreed! Oh, the SHADE is deep with this comment as well! “…he [William] will know that Camilla would have been content to remain his father’s mistress, as she loved her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles who remains a close friend to her”.

      Their PR Team is (finally) trying to craft a narrative, which is:

      1) Prince Harry and his wife left of their own accord without any nefarious prompting from their petty, jealous brother and sister-in-law and royal family members. Harry has also said unkind things about poor, fragile Kate and is therefore worthy of contempt and un-worthy of consideration by British citizens as a rival for King of the British Throne.

      2) Camilla is only his father’s former mistress without a drop of royal blood who still loves her ex-husband, has never ever loved nor ever intended to marry King Charles. She is therefore worthy of contempt and un-worthy of consideration of any kind at all by British citizens, and is no threat to William at all.

  3. The Hench says:

    Um. Has Mr Cole, “royal expert’, actually ever MET William? It doesn’t sound like it. Either that or he is seriously trolling. If so, this is hilarious.

    ” Prince William has shown nothing but good judgment in recent years, especially while dealing with tricky situations, not least the continuing fall-out from the self-imposed exile to California of his younger brother, Prince Harry.’”

    and:

    ” Being fair-minded, kind and compassionate – characteristics inherited in full from his mother – he will know that Camilla would have been content to remain his father’s mistress, as she loved her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles who remains a close friend to her.”

    Ouch.

    • ML says:

      Mr Cole comes across as either a fawning sycophant or someone who’s very aware of W’s royal temper.

      That second quote is absolutely hilarious!

    • Christine says:

      My jaw is on the floor, Willnot has zero shame. What did I just read?

    • Jais says:

      Apparently Cole is the BBC correspondent , which is strange. Does that mean royal court? Or have they just not replaced Witchell yet bc a court correspondent feels random but maybe they’re supposed to speak to the legal duties of the heir?

      • Amy Bee says:

        @Jais: Michael Cole hasn’t been the BBC royal correspondent in decades. He’s basically a royal commentator now making his money as talking head for GB News, talk tv and the DM.

      • Jais says:

        Ah got it thx @amy bee. I’m actually curious to see who ends up replacing Witchell as the chief royal correspondent at the BBC . A couple months back I read an article that it was between Chris Ship, Rhiannon Mills or Roya Nikah but who knows if that was true.

    • Pinkosaurus says:

      @Hench Ouch, indeed. I hope Camzilla will unleash hell on KP for this.

      Let them fight 🥊 🥊

    • Harla A Brazen Hussy says:

      Wow! Whatever Mr. Cole is smoking or ingesting, I Want some of that!! Damn, to be able to see incompetence, jealousy and rage through such rose-colored glasses must be one hell of a trip!

    • Yes that second paragraph you quoted is really putting it out there. I hope to see Camzilla come for him hard 🐎🔪🔪.

    • Cessily says:

      They need to stop skipping their meds.. I don’t think I’ve read anything more delusional in my life and I live in Florida where a large population has dementia don as their savior.

  4. Amy Bee says:

    Michael Cole is unhinged and everything he says here is opposite. William is jealous and feels that only he should shine. Heck those are reasons why he forced out Harry. And if Camilla didn’t want to be Queen she wouldn’t have married Charles.

  5. Indica says:

    I want someone, anyone, to take the royal calendar of events from 10 years ago (chosen at random) and see how many events were done and compare it to today.

  6. Tessa says:

    William has shown anything but good judgement. Also harry and Meghan only left because of toxic behavior much of it from William

  7. Feeshalori says:

    Another whitewashing of Camilla, the reluctant queen. And of course they had to drag the Sussexes into this whinge fest. Where’s Kate? Does she have any role when you become William V?

  8. Tessa says:

    No way would Camilla have wanted to stay.mistress. and William called Diana paranoid. He will be a bad king.

  9. Befuddled says:

    “ Side-stepping the weirdness of reciting William’s ancestry like his bloodline will polish the turd we see before us, this guy is smoking his own product” —this is hilarious, what a good sentence.

  10. Tessa says:

    The Camilla did not want all this spin. Again.Camilla never looked so triumphant since she got to wear queen Elizabeth’s tiara and jewels and grinning for cameras over the past few months. William and his incandesence jealousy and spite and laziness will not be remotely a good king

  11. “That’s how they’ve always operated, because they’re inbred idiots.”

    My favorite defense of the marriage of Phil and Betty, “but they are only 3rd cousins”

    Yeah, 3rd cousins on BOTH sides of the tree.

    • BlueNailsBetty says:

      Haha, my mom used to tease me that I (and my bro) were inbred because somewhere she and Dad were related. She based that on the migration pattern of her families and his. However, she never found a connection.

      A couple of years after she died I finally found the connection and yep, she and Dad were cousins. Luckily, the connection was in the late 1400’s/early 1500’s so I’m pretty sure Mom and Dad’s cousinness was distant enough to not matter. 😁🙏🏻🤞🏻

  12. Jais says:

    Personally, my favorite part is the aside about how much Camilla loved her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles and is still best friends with him. Ouch. A dig from William to his dad about his wife’s loyalty?

  13. Lynwall says:

    Who exactly is behind this article?

    All the ‘will haves’ and ‘will knows’ …..This reporter is guessing? coming to a conclusion based on evidence? What? What?

    • Pinkosaurus says:

      This is SO syncophantic and not hing but imaginative puffery that I wonder if this apparently unemployed “royal expert” is making his pitch to be Angry Bill’s go-to mouthpiece now that the Daily Fail, People, etc. are pushing back in the most mild, indirect and respectful way. He doesn’t seem to have any quotes or information but is writing the most ridiculous of fanfic that even KP might find to be too much 🤢

  14. tamsin says:

    They tried to link the “barbs” about Kate to the Sussexes. What “jibes have the Sussexes made against William? This mature and noble William is complete fiction. To say that Camilla loved her husband and was content to remain a mistress reduces her to an adulteress. So much for the great love story- a woman who is the mistress of a prince, but doesn’t love him.

  15. aquarius64 says:

    Bringing Harry into this artcle confirms William still resents him. And that was a dig at Camilla, reminding everyone see Anne Boleyn’d her way into her current status as queen consort.

  16. Harla A Brazen Hussy says:

    I see that it’s upside-down and backwards day across the pond today, here it’s just a time change.

  17. Lady Digby says:

    FK taking a week off between public engagements tells its own story. He is a real dog in the manger where it is QC or Harry, doesn’t want to turn up himself but roars at the idea of them stealing his limelight whilst not wanting to put the hours in as heir. His excuse for not stepping up according to a 2 page spread in The Times is BOTH the school run and helping the kids with homework!! Any other parent who has done the school runs sandwiched between day job and then helped with the homework at night, how we manage just fine ?

  18. Mslove says:

    The part about Peg’s bloodline is indeed weird. As if we didn’t know these people are racist & classist jerks.

  19. Eurydice says:

    Why was this ass-kissing article necessary? The People article about William and the Earthshot prize winner was informative and showed a successful outcome. Yes, the piece is sycophantic, but at least in the direction of something William is trying to achieve. Why wasn’t KP content with that? Why drag in a load of manure about majesty?

  20. Feeshalori says:

    I’m conjecturing that the snippy aside about bloodlines and lineage is trying to appeal to the Debrett’s crowd.

  21. Chaine says:

    I suppose Alfred the Great and Charles II are rolling in their respective graves that their bloodlines over centuries have all come down to this lazy doofus.

  22. Lau says:

    They could just say that he realized he would need to do the “work” instead of wasting words pretending is not lazy.

  23. Mario says:

    The ham-handed way Will’s new team continues to operate is so bizarre. They are just as bad as the old team and possibly worse…defensive, combative, and, for all the protests, forever furiously complaining AND explaining on his behalf.

    And they are terrible at keeping Will’s fingerprints off of things. They have a decent, good(ish)-news story here, but flood it with clumsy spin and positioning — the lineage stuff meant to evoke his divine majesty but really just showing how much he pales in comparison, the unnecessarily catty reminder that Camilla is an upgraded sidepiece with an unusually close relationship with her ex-husband AND the shoehorned-in bit, complete with comically overused adjectives, positioning him as Harry and Meghan’s victim are too personal and too petty, both undermining the whole “Will doesn’t care, he’s busy doing work and being regal” claim and making it clear this is all of Will’s personal grievances being fed through a mouthpiece.

    The key to good image and crisis control is doing it all without it being obvious you’re controlling (or trying to control) anything.

  24. Rnot says:

    “His destiny is assured. In due course, if destiny does not decide otherwise, he will become King William V.”

    Uh, how would destiny decide otherwise? Is that a hint or a threat? What on Earth is going on over there?

    • WiththeAmerican says:

      I had that in my comment and took it out. What even are they saying. His destiny is assured but destiny might decide otherwise. ??

    • Feeshalori says:

      The big “if.” What are those men in gray plotting?

  25. WiththeAmerican says:

    Wow the Camilla shade is intense. Mentioning mistress even. Someone is fuming but now they’re leaning away from incandescent toward loves everyone to shine. It’s giving Disney.

  26. Wryly amused says:

    Is it possible that Lewis Carroll is the inspiration for royal reporting at the Daily Mail?
    .

    Are we to understand from the excerpted Daily Mail article that Harry & Meghan are to be held responsible for all critical comments published anywhere regarding William & Kate, but that steady stream of hate journalism and social media propaganda that ‘leaks’ from Kensington Palace in no way reflects on the Prince or Princess of Wales?
    .

    “Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!” ― Lewis Carroll

    • Wryly amused says:

      In any case, William’s people are spending a lot of time insisting that William will be king one day. What are they worried about?

  27. Lauren says:

    Holy Crap!!!! Camilla is going to be leading Trooping the Color?!?!??! Hopefully not the balcony piece as well because I don’t see that going over well with a public that, at best, are indifferent to Camilla

  28. olivia says:

    This article is bonkers.

  29. mary Pester says:

    Ye gods and little fishes, was this idiot stood resplendent in a suit of armour when he spouted this dross. It’s like something from camelot!
    William and his crown, that will forever be known as the Royal solar panel 😂
    Are you thirsty, I am, I’m having a cup of tea.
    William has been screaming up and down the stairs at KP.
    See Charlie has let it be known, that he loved seeing his youngest son, no matter how short the visit was. He has also let it be known that he HAS ASKED his youngest son to bring his family for a visit so that he can talk to Harry about a possible (AHEM) half in roll for him and Megan, centered around the commonwealth!! Billy ain’t happy, some of the grey suits aren’t happy but Charlie does not give a stuff and has even told camzilla that this is what he wants. Heather has said it all kicked of after the visit from the Jamaican high commissioner. I think that’s what he was! Given how there was a bit in the paper saying that keen and Megan had spoken on the phone, it does seem they are starting to try and turn around the hatred against Harry and Megan that they caused. There is more about willy and his wanderings, but I will save that for tomorrow. But watch the press peeps!

    • Pinkosaurus says:

      @Mary Pester that is some piping hot tea! That news seems consistent with what we are seeing in the press.

      Harry, who I believe, wrote about how he couldn’t get in touch with Charles to talk about his role, security, etc. when they were trying to get out. It seems like Charles avoids having difficult conversations and refuses to admit when he is up to something, to the point of not calling or being available to talk or meet.

      I suspect the same is going on now with William. Charles doesn’t want to hear William’s incandescent shrieking about how everyone has to hate and punish Harry so BP has just cut off communications with KP. Not only is KP left without support for whatever witless PR shenanigans they are trying, but William is completely on his own and it shows in the decisions that are being made. I think Charles has completely ghosted William and KP, and could be choosing to be in regular contact with the Sussexes again. That would also explain the less insulting headlines about H&M in the Daily Fail.

      • mary Pester says:

        @pinkasauras, if you look at the press and the reporting on the Royal family, you will see NONE of them have spoken to or about William and Kate! No good wishes, no visits, not even from the ever present Sophie!! By the way, Edward being given the order of the thistle, does that mean they are now a family of prks with teeth 😁😁

    • Sigrid Maelstrom says:

      Thank you @Mary, I’m on tenterhooks 👀

    • Morning says:

      I hope that, if Harry takes the Commonwealth job, that he gets paid for it. with an income producing estate and cold hard cash.

    • Schrodinger's Kate says:

      Ouch Mary Pester that tea was so hot it burns! Lol Royal Solar Panel! Many thanks to you and Heather for the afternoon tea.

      I don’t know how it would go for anyone if Harry and Meghan take Charles up on an offer to do something for the Commonwealth. They look too happy now. I don’t want to see them dragged back in any way where the Rota could get at them more easily, but that’s their choice to make. Considering everything I’ve heard Harry say recently, I think they’re done, regardless of what Charles wants. It would have to be something they also genuinely want. They did continue to have some engagement with Commonwealth Youth representatives after they left so perhaps there’s still something there that can be salvaged.

      • BeanieBean says:

        I’m with you, @Schrodinger’s Kate. I’d just as soon Harry & Meghan say thanks but no thanks, not if it means living over there for any length of time. If Montecito can be there home base, then maybe. (Not that they’re asking me!). But anything that pokes a stick in the eye to William & Kate, I’m good with that!

    • Saucy&Sassy says:

      Mary Pester, I’ve wondered if H&M would be involved with the Commonwealth Trust again. I could definitely see that as something they would do. I guess they could go to Commonwealth countries (where KFC is head of state) on behalf of the Monarch, but I suspect they would have some pretty HARD boundaries about the press. I don’t know. I think they would be great if they were back with the Trust and that’s something I think they really felt strongly about (in a positive way).

      It’s POSSIBLE that they would get housing (and security) again if they did that. I hope that if any of this happens that KFC fixes it so that Bully Idle can’t yank anything away.

      Edited to add: “royal solar panel”!!!! LOL

    • tamsin says:

      This worries me a bit. It seems Charles ignored his mother’s wishes. What is to prevent William from doing awful things once Charles is gone? I find this sudden turnaround on Charles’s part a bit hard to believe. Does a leopard change its spots. Can Harry trust his father? Do we want the Sussex children subjected to Salt Island and the vile British press? It seems we have heard that Charles has set up trust funds for Camilla’s children. At the very least, he should give Harry a free and independent estate like the Queen did for Anne and Andrew.

    • BeanieBean says:

      Oh ho ho! We will watch this space!

  30. BlueNailsBetty says:

    “He has shown great wisdom in strictly limiting his reaction to cruel and unjustified jibes and barbs from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,…”

    Pardon me, what? What cruel and unjustified jibes and barbs have come from Harry and Meghan? Are these jibes and barbs in the room with us? Can you point to them so we can see them, too?

    Literally, the only jibes and barbs that have been slung at William or Kate in Harry and Meghan’s name have been written by the rota who backed up the jibes and barbs with “sources close to HM” or “it is understood that HM …” or “one can imagine that HM…”

    Like, just literal make believe spewed as facts.

    • ChattyCath says:

      None of the BM’s avid readers have read ‘Spare’. ‘I believe what I read in my paper’ is a constant refrain from fellow retirees.

  31. Serena says:

    Man, those photos are rough. Why does he look so much older that his age?

  32. Jaded says:

    I still maintain that it’s Charles who is keeping William away from much of the more important, public-facing events because A) he KNOWS William will inevitably make an utter fool of himself, and B) William is the main reason behind Kate’s disappearance. That family knows what went down and William is being punished with their shunning of him. It’s sink or swim time for old Heuvo-head.

    • Smart&Messy says:

      Jaded I agree on all points and I’d like to add one more:
      KC doesn’t want to give the slightest sign of Peg being his regent, and thus rekindling talks about akipping KC for Peg in the line of succession. That pesky talking point just kept popping up throughout KC’s prince years and I’m sure he hated them.

    • ArtFossil says:

      I agree, Jaded, that Charles is behind the shunning of William.

      William hasn’t been seen with any other member of the royal family since December 25. That’s almost three months!

      The Commonwealth Day service is tomorrow, Monday. Will William be there? His appearance or absence will tell a great deal.

      Meanwhile, my personal conspiracy theories are all still intact.

  33. Lisa says:

    Have you seen “Gentleman” on Netflix? It’s hilarious and the heir who I won’t spoil his part, reminds me of peg & the spare reminds me of Harry. Admittedly I had to turn it off before I got past the pot farm stuff so I won’t ruin it, I was tired, so I’ll finish tonight. It’s interesting that it’s Guy Ritchie film. Anyhoo

    • Jais says:

      I saw a clip of it on Twitter and omg straitaway my mind went to William. It was amaaaaaazing. I’m not a huge Ritchie fan but it had me wanting to watch.

  34. Schrodinger's Kate says:

    How on earth does overwrought drivel like this get composed and published? Does William sit in a wing chair and dictate the talking points to a scribe who then passes it along to the PR guy who then drags out the history books and the thesaurus and pulls up Wikipedia and just goes for it?

    It’s a shame this garbage is stealing the focus from an otherwise worthy visit. Sustainable food packaging is important. So much food packaging remains environmentally unfriendly and that which is environmentally friendly is often inadequate at keeping food insulated and protected. So it was genuinely good of William to make this visit. Notpla should be the story this weekend.

    I wish he had put the royal scribes to work enlightening the public on this subject and kept his royal pedigree and emotions as a story for a different day. But we all know that is not how he rolls.

  35. Tessa says:

    With all Williams ancestry he appears to be bragging about. Not one aristo lady wanted to date.him
    During those breakups with Kate he could not get one of the aristo s to want him. I wonder if this is a way of putting down Kate by his bragging about his bloodlines

  36. one of the marys says:

    when I read articles like this I’m so impressed with Harry and Meghan putting their own history out there in their own words. This era of the royal family will be studied for decades, the business model, the propaganda, the decision making etc will provide case studies for so many fields. It’s absolutely astonishing to witness this in real time.