Thursday, May 2 was Princess Charlotte’s ninth birthday. Charlotte’s parents celebrated the occasion by posting a clearly weeks-old (if not months-old) photo of her and lying about how the photo was taken “in the last few days” by the Princess of Wales, whom no one has verifiably seen in over four months.
Adding to the absolute bonkers messaging around everything Wales-family, Prince William decided to spend his daughter’s birthday at an Aston Villa game in Birmingham. He was seated in the “luxury private box,” according to the Mail. He did not bring any of his children, especially not his daughter. He was seated beside a nice-looking man and they seemed to be chatting and they looked as if they were there together. The guy is possibly Nicholas Van Cutsem, a lifelong friend-of-Huevo.
One could argue that this IS work for William, since he’s the Football Association president and this match was the UEFA Europa Conference League semifinal. But… he’s pretty selective about where and when “watching football” is “work.” If it’s the Lionesses making the World Cup final, sorry, he can’t work, his vacation time is just too sacrosanct. But when his favorite team, Aston Villa, is playing, suddenly it’s vitally important that he goes to a match with a man friend on his daughter’s birthday.
Add to that, it’s not like Huevo has been working his fingers to the nub in the past month. He’s only had TWO DAYS of events (and not even full days) in the past four weeks. On Tuesday, he did two events in northern England, and it honestly seemed like he scheduled the busywork specifically to steal his father’s thunder (Charles had announced his Tuesday event days earlier). We were told that William needed to be the part-time, work-from-home Prince of Wales. But it just keeps looking like he would rather blow off everything, including his wife, his kids and his job as heir.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
You expect nothing from this entitled man and he lives down to this expectation.
Entitled indeed because surely he could have picked any other day other than his daughter’s birthday? I am not an avid premier league watcher but i doubt that Ashton Villa’s schedule is that hectic
Makes you wonder how often he goes to games but doesn’t get photographed. And yet here he is getting photographed on his daughters birthday. Did he know he’d be photographed or did he think he would be protected? Or did he not care and want people to see him out without his daughter on her birthday? Hmm. I have no idea.
Let me defend him here ,depends on what time the game was,I mean she was turning 9,the celebrations could have been well over.
I think it started at 14:00 edt. Which I think is 2 in the afternoon if I’m doing military time correctly😂 that’s the timeline from the guardian. If we’re going to be fair, sometimes people do celebrate on the weekends when the bday falls on a weekday. But usually the parents would still spend the actual day with them unless there are work commitments. He could have time to meet charlotte for a birthday dinner. Maybe she had school or friend commitments till 5? either way, William would probably be aware that people would see him out at a soccer game on his daughters birthday. Unless he thought the cameras wouldn’t show him? Which that would be a big assumption unless it’s happened before.
@Jais that’s where I’m scratching my head. He knew there would be pictures of this. And he knew that the press would protect him and not make an issue of it.
But this is also where the whole “hands on parent” narrative bites them.
He’s so hands on, such a devoted father, such an involved father, that he can barely be bothered to work when the children are in school, has spent the past 5 months using his wife’s illness as an excuse to work even LESS, and we all know what happens the instant there’s a sacrosanct school break.
But this? This he can do on his daughter’s birthday? Mr Hands On, School Run Every Day All Day Father, is going to skip out on his daughter’s bday for a football game? Like I said below….this is certainly a choice on his part.
If the match started at 2 pm he was easily home in time for dinner because he no doubt used the helicopter.
According to ESPN match time was 3pm which means he definitely missed the school run. I hope the children aren’t still waiting at school!
But what about the school run? Won’t someone think of the school run!!????
Ha BECKS1 just saw what you posted as well…
So @becks1, I wrote this earlier but my comment got lost? Hopefully it doesn’t appear and then I’ve said it twice. But a part of me wonders if he did expect for no photos to get out. Maybe he goes to games all the time but the press gives him his privacy. KP publicly called the photo agencies hypocrites and is now only releasing new pictures through their SM. Maybe this is Getty’s revenge😂. I have no idea if it could work like that but it’s funny to imagine getty or the DM putting out photos when he thought he wouldn’t be seen. Otherwise if he really didn’t care about blowing up his “mr. I do all the school runs” pr story, then that’s really something.
Guys! I got a different info from my source. He is not only here in luxury box. But also in several other luxury….. private spots. He must have a queen when he becomes king. C3 doesn’t support W divorce idea. But W strictly want to get rid of K. So they negotiated this. If W can find a bride before the deadline, (C3 given. IDK the exact date) he can proceed to divorce K. Now W is seriously involved in bride hunt. But C3 is sure W can’t find another.
From this I believe, he may think that his new bride may not like being a step mother. Or that showing his kids would not help finding a new wife.
Else, may be Charlotte is against the divorce idea. Because nowadays kids are very matured. I hope she is smart and can understand the situation.
We can see W with new women or K will appear around July or August.
It was too much work to stay home for Charlotte’s birthday
He probably didnt even know it was charlotte’s birthday that:’s why he was out in public. Team kate working against her husband.
I agree with Nubia. As detestable as William and Kate are, there is no reason that he couldn’t engage in his own thing on his child’s birthday. The celebrations could well be over. She could be having a sleepover with girls her age
She could have been having a friend date, sure. But a sleepover on a school night? No. The game was 2-5. Maybe he met charlotte for dinner after? We don’t really know.
George was seen with William at games and he stayed late. William is probably telling Charlotte I’ll take you next time and does not follow through
The game was in the afternoon? Then who did the sacrosanct school run on Charlotte’s birthday? This guy is running the biggest scam right in front of everyone’s eyes and no one will say it like it is.
The game kicked off at 20.00 as did both Semis in might be 1400-1500 in the US but it kicked off at 8 pm BST
And Aston Villa is the team he follows it was not an FA gig like the National Teams it is was him going to follow his own team and this is the best they have done since 1982
Sorry I know he is an arse but they could had the party in the day and driven to Brum for the game . And they lost so tough shit for him
That isn’t the dang point. This lazy pathetic man hasn’t worked but 2 days (not even full days) in the last MONTH. He screeches daily in the press that he does the school run and think of the children… that’s why he doesn’t “work”. But here he is… out watching a Vila game missing the all important sacrosanct school run on Charlottes birthday because he is a huge fan. William really doesn’t care about anyone else but himself. He is lazy and disgusting. He is entitled, arrogant and selfish. And no I don’t think he is choppering back to be wotb Charlotte. He’s probably heading straight to his mistress house or either the private club with his friend where he is caught going all the time without kate.
Although what you are saying is true, it’s about the optics. He can’t seem to resist the most basic opportunities to counter his own narrative. He could have watched the game in any number of castle/mansion/country house’s viewing/media rooms and avoided any speculation. Or, better yet, be seen at the event with Charlotte.
The British media made a big mistake when they decided to gin up public hatred of the American.
None of us would even have been paying attention to their sophomoric gas-lighting propaganda if they hadn’t attacked one of us so relentlessly.
Now, they got a whole educated country critiquing their cut-rate PR
I do not think this is the sort of attention that they were looking for.
Interestingly I looked high and low in the DM and couldn’t find this! It was all over social media though.
They only report the uncomfortable stuff when big circulation American media forces their hands. I’m not on SM, so I hope some of you will let us know when he jets off to the Craig family wedding alone.
There’s a link above to the DM article. I’m not gonna click on the DM and give them money but it seems they didn’t do a total blackout. The pictures are Getty though so at least we know it’s real😂
There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding times zones. I assume your computer is set to Eastern time of the US (same time as New York City). If so, articles will adjust to put in your local time. London is five hours ahead of east coast time. When I look up event times, it will be adjusted to my local west coast time. London is 8 hours ahead of my local time.
He was very ‘busy’ for two days,clearly stacking appearances,I wonder if they are counted as 2 things in the court circular or individually.
Definitely counted as two.
I have no doubt he is incredibly lazy, stubborn and incurious with a mostly hidden bachelor lifestyle. Said lifestyle takes its toll more and more as you age, his appearance is evidence of that. I also have a suspicion that he does spend some effort on his new income sources that he got as PoW. He might actually be busy (to RF standards) BtS, on things that benefit him and fill his pockets. Other than that, it’s sleeping off the parties and watching boxsets he spends the day doing.
Well he missed her first Easter because he was off to his Exes wedding in Kenya. Without Kate.
Wonder if he left her present to open.
Nonsense, Easter presents are only for adults, lmao.
He looks like a bachelor. You wouldn’t believe he has a sick wife at home, or that it’s his daughter’s birthday. I wonder who the blonde is in front of him…
Probably because she’s sick in someone else’s home, not his..
I’m still thinking Will has George and, wherever she’s hiding, Kate has Charlotte and Louis. Maybe Charlotte doesn’t want to see Will? She’s the right age to be ferociously defensive of her mom, even if it’s against her dad.
So maybe Kate did the birthday celebration and Will wasn’t welcome or wanted so he went to pout at a game.
@Katy, I’m not defending William because he’s a piece of sh!t, but I was only a few months older than Charlotte is now when I found out my father was leaving my mother to go live with his mistress, and I immediately took my mother’s side. And while my dad and I are fine, our relationship was never the same again and I’ve always been much closer to my mother. So depending on what Charlotte might have heard/read/witnessed/whatever, it definitely might have been her choice not to be anywhere near Bill on her birthday.
@Katy, your last sentence is exactly what I was thinking. There was a Wales family celebration for Charlotte’s birthday, and Peg was neither invited nor welcome. He has to wait for his visitation weekend to see her.
I’m thinking along the same lines.
For all of the propaganda about how he is prioritizing his family and thus can’t work, doing this on his daughter’s birthday while being mostly unwilling to work is a choice.
Exactly, WITHEAMERICAN. He can’t have it both ways on defining himself although he’s so out of the loop he obviously thinks he can. He’s a global statesman that shies away from any displays of that other than misinformed posts on SM. He’s a devoted father who doesn’t spend time with his kids on their birthdays. He’s a loving husband who only visits his wife once in the hospital.
Well he really is his fathers son.
Granddaddy chooses to have his fancy hat party on his grandsons birthday
Daddy chooses his daughters birthday to go see a football match
Btw Granddaddy also went off to play polo after son 2 was born…
The GrandDaddy Tampon also left his son in brain surgery to go to the opera.
So the Father of the Year, who deserves a cookie for doing the school run and a pat on the head for cleaning the guinea pigs’ cages, can decide to spend time away from the birthday girl because… football. And the BM doesn’t call him out on it.
And Princess Sick Note, Kate Missington of Adelaide Cottage, is an afterthought for the 🐀🐀🐀.
But when H&M do so much as take a deep breath, all hell breaks loose, and things need investigating down to the Montecito level while taking a general swipe at all things US.
They sure got their priorities in Brexitannia.
ETA: the pics I saw of Bulliam on Xwitter were terrifyingly scary.
Those rage monster shots that were circulating were truly terrifying. All I can think of is that’s what happens behind the scenes that causes everyone around him to feel like they are walking on huevoshells and another reason why Harry took Meghan and Archie and scrammed.
I can’t see these because I’m not on X. Can you provide a link? Thank you.
Both People magazine and The Fail have a photo of his, um, expressions? while watching the game. I saw some other ones that looked like screenshots of him that were super intense but there wasn’t a link I could copy.
Thanks, Harper, I’ll go check People out. I won’t click on the Fail.
@Nanea Do you have a Twitter link to thise pictures by chance? For some reason I’m having hard time to find many pictures of it now. I wasn’t on last night.
Replying here to myself because somehow I can’t reply to Feeshalori, and I hope Julianna sees this too.
A post I could find in a hurry is this one:
https://x.com/Coyoteband2/status/1786130392753308004
and a bit further down someone shared a close-up and called our dear Prince of Ales Count Olaf from Lemony Snicket. He really looks ragey-angry, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near him in moments like this.
https://x.com/ms_intexas/status/1786197310541549988
Got it, Nanea, thanks so much. Jeez, l wouldn’t want to meet this guy in a dark alley with that contorted face. I realize he was caught up in the moment during the match, but I can still imagine him with those expressions during a rage-filled moment.
Thanks Nanea. I saw them 😳
Such bad optics to go off to Birmingham for a run-of-the-mill league match on his daughter’s birthday.
I’m sure Mr Earthshot took the sustainable option to get to Birmingham (roughly 110 miles away from Windsor). We have the court circular where we can track how many engagements Billy Idle has. I wonder if there is some Twitter account (or something) who tracks how often he goes to Villa matches and compare the two. It doesn’t seem that long since the last one he was photographed at, with George.
But it’s not a run of the mill league match, this was a Conference League semi final. Aston Villa haven’t been in a European semi final since the 1980’s . It’s a special occasion for the club and its supporters.
Also kick off wasn’t until 8pm so he had plenty of time to celebrate Charlotte’s (9th!) birthday during the day and watch the game in the evening. There a plenty of things to criticise him for but this is one of them.
William has missed plenty of games in the past that are “special occasions,” including the women’s World Cup. There was no real pressure or expectation on him to attend this one.
Nah you can absolutely criticize him for this. He wasn’t on the field playing with them. I’m sure he could have watched from one of his numerous homes on a very large screen TV. His actual job required him to go for the lionesses in the Final and he couldn’t be bothered but he had to go for a semifinal? And kids absolutely understand if they are not your priority, and even if he spent some of the day with Charlotte looking at your watch every 5 minutes so you can jump in your helicopter to go somewhere else definitely translates to a 9-year-old. He can’t have it both ways. If he can’t do more than two engagements every month because of his family he has to pick a different day than his kids birthday for some me time.
George was about Charlotte age when he went solo with William to games and was kept up late. It would be nice for William to have a special day with his daughter as well.
Normally, I would totally agree but daughter’s birthday when wife has cancer is slightly different.
Kate being I’ll did not stop Will from bringing George to a game
Bill is criticizable for everything, always.
@shab, if this was a special game for Aston Villa shouldn’t the President of the FA have made this an official engagement with proper press coverage to bring attention? Shouldn’t he have been meeting players in the locker room, etc? Wouldn’t have been appropriate for all the kids to join him like they do Wimbledon, even if only briefly? Shouldn’t there have an official royal acknowledgement from him that they even made it this far?
I agree. It was during the day while she was at school. I’m sure he helicoptered back in time for dinner.
I’ll give Will the same grace that would be given to Harry were the roles reversed.
Harry would be absolutely eviscerated by the rota rats if he were to attend a soccer match on one of his children’s birthdays without the child, both children, or Meghan with him.
The optics here are horrible, and his technically being able to get home in time for dinner (do we really think he did that?) don’t make the optics better.
Yeah, it was a semi-final, not a regular game. But I don’t think kick-off was 8pm?
Jais the game kicked off at 8 pm
Huh. Then I guess the guardian article I read was adjusted for US times? Which is weird. Apologies if I spread misinfo. The link is below further down the thread. I’d still argue that him attending does not fit his current pr that he is not able to work much bc he needs to be there for his family. Clearly he can choose what events are important to leave home for. And his favorite team being in a semifinal is clearly one. If we’re being technical, then i suppose he could’ve done both the school runs, had an early bday with his daughter and then helicoptered off for the 8pm kickoff. Such a busy man. However does he do it?
@SHAB It’s just an Europa League game, not Championship League game.
P.S. Since none of the Premier League clubs was in The Championship League Semi-final, this is all the England soccer, sorry, football fans could put their hope on this year?
3 pm EDT means Eastern Daylight Saving Time USA
Yes he did go out and didn’t even bring a child. He doesn’t seem to care for any of his children much like his father didn’t care for his. What a happy family when your dad goes to watch a game on your birthday.
It was during the school day-I don’t think he should pull his kids from school to go to a game.
The game was at 3 pm he could have gotten them out for early release to go especially Charlotte since it was her birthday.
@Susan Collins- Respectfully, the match began at 20.00hrs. UK time. Football matches don’t start, in the UK, during the day except on weekends.
I looked up an article on the guardian that said the preamble was at 14:00 edt? Maybe I’m wrong but do you have a link showing kick-off at 20:00? Bc now I’m confused. Here’s a link to what I read and you can click and scroll on the key events that shows the times of events in the game.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2024/may/02/aston-villa-v-olympiakos-europa-conference-league-semi-final-first-leg-live
Ok I had read a comment that it started at 3 pm. Still he seems to be okay leaving his family that he claims to be doing everything to help and not work to attend this game on his daughters birthday.
I saw that it was 3 pm, but that could have been US time, which would make sense if it was at 8 UK time.
Still – which is it? did he miss the hallowed school run for this and just make it back to dinner, or did he miss a birthday dinner and bedtime and reading to them at night which we’ve heard he does every night? Even with the helicopter, I doubt he left at 730, you know?
Birmingham isn’t exactly close to Windsor. It’s a 2 hour drive. And even if he used the helicopter, he was still gone by early evening.
He can’t have it both ways. He can’t pretend to be hands on dad and not take his child to a soccer match on her actual birthday. She’s 9. He should have been at home with her.
@MaryContrary, why not? Is missing, maybe, a half day of school going to ruin the life of a 9 year old? I’m pretty sure I’m/Americans aren’t unique to having a child take a day off from school. I have no doubt other Lambrook school parents have done the same.
When our daughter and her best friend turned 16 within days of each other, her friend’s mom and me were like, let’s do something! We did. We spent a Wednesday/Thursday overnighter during a school week, taking them to a very fun restaurant, a Bobbi Brown beauty counter/makeup session, making their own necklaces and the hotel we stayed at had fun swim pools. To this day, both of these young woman (they’re 37 but still our babies), will say how fun their 16th bdays were.
Normally I couldn’t care less. But on his daughters birthday? It doesn’t give me “father of the year award” vibes for sure.
He is definitely sprouting more hair on his bald patch .
The slacker Prince, taking a much needed break from working two days a month. He appears to be taking a break from his family as well.
Oh, so NOW he can “work”.
Must have been Kate’s night with the kids. & on Charlotte’s birthday!
That family man he is.
This certainly felt like a choice on William’s part, right? he had to know that cameras would pick up on him there. I mean maybe Charlotte goes to bed at 6 even on her birthday so he wasn’t missing anything, but that seems unlikely.
It also just seems like a such a contrast to three weeks ago when he took George and a friend. He couldn’t take Charlotte and a friend for her birthday? (I know some will screech “school night” but again, this was a clear choice on william’s part to go to the game last night.)
Remember last year when they had to miss the coronation rehearsal or something for Charlotte’s bday? But now this is fine?
And speaking of the Coronation contrast Harry’s efforts to get back for Archie’s birthday and also attend the most important day in his father’s life.
This family is supposed to specialize in optics, right? Either he knows he would be photographed or didn’t care. People defending him in the DM comments and doing all these mental gymnastics about school nights and bed times and birthday are missing the fact that this man blocks of whole work days because he has to drop the kids off from school and pick them up.
This @mrs.cope. Doing mental gymnastics and game times, he could have spent time with Charlotte, of course. But the point is that his pr has been that he can’t work too much right now bc he is supporting his kids while their mother is sick. And yet he has time to go to a football game on his daughter’s bday. Which means he’s capable of doing more than he claims. It’s not good optics.
YES! I just said something similar above to @Jais. this is such bad optics. he can’t work because of being a father but now football trumps his daugther’s bday?
Scandal! Who picked his daughter up from school on her birthday??? I’m kind of joking but seriously this man is blowing up his pr narrative. His arrogance is something. But at the end of the day, what’s the BM going to do? Maaaybe he’ll get some critical articles but so what? It’s not like he’s going to actually be dethroned.
I agree. For those screeching school night that also means that they were at school all day, meaning his time with her on her birthday would already be limited, so staying home and spending whatever time was available with her and maybe watching the game on the television would have been more fatherly or going to a pub after bedtime to watch the game would have been a close second. Flying to Birmingham was a clear choice that he shouldn’t have made.
I can’t believe people are defending him on this. Or maybe I can, since some women set the bar so low for men.
So to all the “I’m sure he was home by dinner”s: would you really be so fine with your husband doing that on *your* birthday? Would you feel prioritized, loved, honored? Or would you maybe feel like he’s just checking a box in between the parts of his life he actually cares about?
@Katy I completely agree. Baffling to defend this man and the crap that he does.
@Julianna I feel like I’m taking crazy pills watching the same forum that thinks he killed Kate also thinks he’s somehow a passable dad because the game “probably” didn’t interfere with birthday celebrations.
William always does exactly what he wants. This wasn’t work. He wanted to go to a game on his daughter’s birthday and *at best* everyone had to work that into the schedule of the day. That sucks. He sucks.
I’d be sad if that was my dad. I’d be sad if that was my husband. And anyone who says otherwise needs to look inward and ask why their bar for men is in hell.
I don’t think anyone is saying he’s a passable dad just bc the game time means he might have spent time with his daughter on her birthday. He very well could have spent some time with her before the game. Whether he did or not, isn’t really the point. The optics don’t change. He was seen in photographs at a game on his daughters birthday when he’s been saying for months that he can’t work more than one, at most 2 days, a week bc he needs to be there for his sick wife and kids. I don’t know if he’s a passable father or not. Or whether he spent any time with her on her bday or not. But I’m not going to say he totally ditched her when I don’t know. For all I know she skipped school and they had breakfast and most of the day together. For all I know he hasn’t seen her in weeks. What I do know is that it’s a bad look regardless of the time of the game considering the family is all about narratives and optics.
There is no way he didn’t expect to be seen at the game. But he doesn’t care. And I guess hands on father doesn’t need to be around for his daughter’s birthday.
Hmmm…on his daughter’s birthday?
Charlotte’s birthday photo compounds this neglectful attitude of his; he removed himself from that image. A father daughter photo could have been really cute but she was reduced to having her arm hitched up on an mirage of flowers. William literally told the world ‘my daughter can’t lean on me’. That he’s an absentee dad. How is Charlotte supposed to handle that? That was a sanctioned KP picture. How must it feel to know that fake image ‘is real’, to know she was thrust out into the public sphere by herself instead of alongside her parent?
The photo shopping might not be exposed by the media in this instance but Charlotte and her siblings have to live that truth in perpetuity; their dad, the same man who was made to walk behind his mother’s coffin, had no problem issuing another manipulated photo that was reproduced worldwide at Charlotte’s expense and then went out to the football while the kids are still dealing with whatever is going on with their mother on her birthday. Even if he came home and sang and watched her blow out the candles how do the children process that? How many secrets and aspects of performance are they made to endure because their parents used them as shields and ‘get out of jail free’ cards for their public life?
A father-daughter photo would not be possible if he isn’t allowed to see her right now.
That photo for Charlotte’s birthday was not recent and William was removed from that image -replaced with flowers. They didn’t have to put out that ridiculous lie ‘Kate took this picture recently’ they could have left it as it was; Charlotte leaning on her father’s shoulder.
KP might not get busted for another manipulated photo while the press is still spooked by KP telling the world Kate had cancer but Charlotte and her brothers have to live with the fact that their father exposed them and their mother to international ridicule over a photo HE took credit for with that Mothering Sunday photo and put Charlotte in that potential situation again, literally, all by herself in a photo that originally had William in it too on her birthday.
I’m curious, do we know the original photo where Charlotte is leaning on William’s shoulder?
I don’t think this series of photos were ever released to the public as-is and this session is being farmed by KP for composite pieces in the frankenphoto, Louis’ B-day (I think the foreground is Louis leaning forward on a blanket covered table or sill and the background of the legs, shorts and grass were added) and now Charlotte’s. It is my presumption that the figure she was leaning on, replaced with flowers, is William. Yesterday morning I thought that black fabric was piece of garden tarp or a sleeve from a poorly removed standing figure because I was still thinking “vertically” about the photo. It wasn’t until I read an evening comment that I approached the image in a “horizontal” frame of mind. That made the flowers turn into “a William shaped hole”, that extraneous pillar of black fabric read as a necktie, the white non floral splotch a bit of dress shirt and explain why the drape of her cardigan seemed too abrupt in its shape.
There is absolutely no way William is being kept from his kids against his will. There would need to be a custody order and that has to be public record. Super injunctions don’t apply to family or criminal matters.
If he isn’t with his kids it is by choice.
Devoted dads don’t go to a regular-season game on their kid’s birthday.
Also, “man friend”? Shady Kaiser
Yes. I came here to ask if Kaiser’s implying that this guy is maybe a bit more than a “friend “?
It was not a League game it was a European Conference Semi Final and this is the furthest Villa have gotten in 40 years
I stand corrected, a playoff game then. Still not cool to fly off to an out-of-town game on your kid’s birthday, without bringing the kid. If she’s into it, he should bring her. If she’s not, he should stay home to celebrate her, not his team.
In my spare time I do enjoy the odd comment on the fail, I spent the other day in a particularly gratifying disagreement with a man over American jam. so I was “keen” to get in the comments section on this today, only to find the other comments were in the same vein as mine would have been. takes the fun out of it really.
Would love to read the ‘jam’ conversation!
Please stop insulting our intelligence by calling that work. I worked harder standing in line for beer and brisket-topped nachos at a Rockies game!
He seems to pay more attention to George. Maybe George preferred being with Charlotte in her birthday. As far as fatherhood he seems to be following in Charles footsteps.
Except Charles was emotionally unavailable and buried in his work. W is just emotionally unavailable and it’s very unclear what he does with his time. The bits we see don’t scream top executive.
It takes more than school runs to be a good father. Something off about this.
Its looking more and more as if Charlotte and Louis were part of Kate’s separation agreement.
Can you share some of those comments?
Because Kate has the kids this week. He’ll celebrate Charlotte’s birthday when he sees her at the weekend.
Yep! This is exactly what it’s sounding like. It wasn’t his week and he’ll see her on the weekend. That’s the vibe this is giving
KC and Cam are photographed weekly attending church together which is right and appropriate as he is the Head of CE. Men’s football is Billy boy’s equivalent of attending church. It is a MAN thang so no need for HER INDOORS to be included, only besties and occasionally George!
Father’s go to sporting events with sons and daughters all wearing jerseys from their favorite team. It’s family time. But William takes only the heir.
Agreed@Tessa my dad took my older brothers and I to the footie. I was six and would sit on his lap and have a great time but Billy boy doesn’t appear to be inclusive. He gives off Sid the sexist vibes to me the way he didn’t fly over to support the Lionesses and then did a Good Luck video just with Charlotte not with all his children?
Omg the Daily Mail comments on this are basically the same as here! There seem to be three main themes:
– What kind of dad goes to a game on his daughter’s bday?
– Does he call this work?
– Get rid of these mooches. Down with the monarchy
With a generous sprinkling of “If Harry did that, there’d be four DM articles with 1,000 comments each, talking about what a monster he is”
Billy Boy is being blatant because his raison D’être for NOT WORKING was missus and kiddies need him 24/7. Even now he does a handful of events and unlike dad isn’t photographed attending church with wife and children every Sunday. Instead he is enjoying a footie match with a chum so the optics are: I come and go when it suits me. Footie and nights out with celebs but pass me by if you want me holding the fort in a crisis. He is coming across as a lotus eater who dodges hard work and has no qualms about enjoying himself like a bachelor.
Someone on Twitter said it must not be his week with the kids. I’m inclined to believe it.
Not an excuse. A child would be hurt if the father ditched her birthday
Yes. She’s 9! What she wants most for her birthday is a family dinner with her dad, mom and sibs. And for dad and mom to be nice to each other for a day 🥺
Poor kid, imagine if that was her birthday wish, to have a happy family dinner with everyone being nice to each other.
Especially with their mom being sick.
There was room in the private suite for George and Charlotte to attend. These kids are old enough to watch the game even if it does start at 8 pm. As if missing a day of school is a big deal for those two.
I was very young at the time, three maybe four, but I remember it clearly. My dad had to work on the night of my birthday. So he had one of those birthday grams sent. I was told I had a telephone call which at that age is already a big deal. When I got on the line, I was serenaded by a wonderful rendition of Happy Birthday. Kids know when their parents are thinking of them and care about them. Btw, he had his brother call me too.
So first we have the weird birthday photo of Charlotte leaning against a person who has been photoshopped out for a clematis climber (try leaning over in an open cardigan and see the angle – it’s vertical) and now William clearly absent for her big day because he has a football match to attend. The plot thickens. I’m calling Chief Inspector Barnaby for a welfare check.
Can you imagine Columbo turning up to quiz sweating Willy and asking Just one more thing?
“Just one more thing…”
😂😂😂
And that clematis she was leaning against had an awful lot of dead blooms on it already despite being early spring.
And the main branch, cascading from her hand, is in an extreme sharp focus that keeps the eye trained to consider the image vertically, if you consider the image horizontally the human form in that area of flowers becomes very obvious and there’s a remnant of his tie and white shirt they didn’t excise properly on the left.
I looked again and I see it. The blurry clematis looks like it is the shape of a human shoulder. As if Charlotte was leaning on a person originally.
Right!? The fence or frame that would have to support her arm up like that would have to be more substantial, visible, and the side of her jumper would hang differently.
Coming on the heels of the First of May there are A LOT of Wicker Man, morris dancing, Green Man, folk horror jokes that could be spun out of this picture. William was an idiot to put Charlotte in another manipulated picture after the Frankenphoto in any case but doing this, turning himself into flowers in May, is a Monty Python level of absurdity.
After the farm video, I tried to avoid analyzing their images too much–no point to wondering, too much energy. But your comment made me check again and I’ll be danged, it really does look like she is leaning on the shoulder of a seated adult, and her hips are shifted so far our to compensate for a chair. WHY DID I LOOK?!?!?!@
Oh wow. It sure does… and the flowers. Someone pointed out other problems with the picture yesterday that I missed too. This is getting crazy.
I knew there was something odd about that side of Charlotte’s cardi, but I couldn’t figure out what it was!
I said yesterday in another post that I’m very bad at picking out Photoshop elements unless they are clearly visible, so I’m going to have to go back now and check this out again. The only thing I thought that it was a weirdly contorted pose that Charlotte was in.
William literally refuses to work because of the school run. And now suddenly he shows up to this not only in the middle of the school run but also on his daughters birthday. I for some reason I have a feeling Heuvo left to a private club party after this match with his friend. This is the man that missed Charlottes first Easter to go on a trip to Kenya for his ex lover Jecca Craig wedding. And then got the whole trip paid for by adding one event in for 30 minute meeting with the President. This man has barely worked but 2 not even full days in over a month because of the sacrosanct “school run” and supposedly because Kate is sick. But here we are. He really does not give a sht what anyone thinks because he knows the media will tail spin everything he does and make excuses for him. He literally spits in the faces of tax payers IMO. He does not care. William does whatever the hell he wants without consequences.
8 PM is not in the middle of the school run.
Still her birthday thou
Ok @Rosa. I may have seen conflicting times. Doesnt change a thing though. I was actually being sarcastic about his sacrosanct school run that we all know he doesnt actually do. Explain to me why he hasn’t “worked” more than 2 days in the last month but he can turn around and show up for his favorite football team? William is lazy, arrogant and pathetic.
Aston Villa lost and badly at that so well done to lucky charm Willy ! I can’t help but put the image of William going to a football game on her daughter’s birthday (without his daughter of course) in parallel with Harry rushing back across the Atlantic in order to see his son on his birthday because his father was too petty not to put his coronation on the same day.
Maybe it was Kate’s day, not his… He’ll see her on the weekend.
Every pic I’ve seen of Willy at this game, he has his lips pursed. Just something I noticed.
Another sign of supressed tension and anger. :-/
Utterly embarrassing. William is not even hiding his contempt for working.
He will be the last King.
He is so entitled. He does not give a eff because he knows he has the upper hand with the media and public.
It is funny too watch as he goes about his business doing whatever he wants.
I detest Willy with the fire of a thousand suns. I hope he spent time with his daughter on her birthday. That said, I do think he is a more loving and affectionate father towards all of his kids than useless canine crap charles.
Like everyone said, it’s the optics … of him being allegedly so worried about his ailing wife that he can’t work because he’s supposedly taking care of the family …
If you find yourself being photographed lazing around on your daughter’s birthday at a football match, this is how you fix it: You let yourself be photographed in the team store, picking out a gift for her. The tabloids would eat that crap up.
Idiot.
Most parents work all day and then would pick up their child from school and be able to enjoy a birthday dinner (with maybe some cake and balloons) at home with their nine-year-old in the evening.
But since William does not work maybe they had a birthday lunch or something.
William is honestly really stupid. He would have gotten so many points for taking Charlotte on a daddy/daughter date to the football game for her birthday. She appears to really be into sports just like her older brother. Headline “GREAT DAD WILLS TREATS BELOVED DAUGHTER TO SPECIAL BIRTHDAY OUTING”
But no. He’s too dumb to manage an easy PR win.
What a selfish prick. Instead of being jealous of Harry, he should BE more like Harry. But . . . back to first sentence (“What a selfish prick.”) Reap the rewards of who you choose to be, Willbert. You are an asshat and have the reputation of an asshat. You earned it and deserve it truly.
Still don’t think the kids are with him. I think Kate has Charlotte and Louis and MAYBE Will has George.
If not, he is still not living with them. They are separated. No doubt about that.
My dad, who was a season ticket holder for the Bills (American football) missed a home game in a year when they were doing really really well because it was my brother’s birthday (and he’s not into pro football, even as a kid) because my dad was an awesome dad and didn’t think twice. Bro wanted to do something else on his birthday (a school night) and they did.
I think this is a very good point and I have the same opinion. I think he is not interested in his family or being heir. Perhaps he is jealous of Harry and Harry’s lifestyle and interests.