Royalist: ‘People are going to have to get used to seeing a lot less’ of Princess Kate

The Princess of Wales hasn’t been seen since the Wimbledon men’s final on July 14th. She likely won’t be seen for the rest of the summer, and there’s growing evidence that she has nothing on her calendar for autumn as well. Which is the subject of this new exclusive from the Daily Beast’s Royalist. Sources tell Royalist’s Tom Sykes that Kate has had a “brush with mortality” and that her focus, going forward, will be on her children. They’re hard-launching “Kate will barely be seen from now on.” It’s not even part-time royalty, it’s not even half-out royalty. It’s something else entirely.

Sources say the Princess of Wales’ treatment for cancer is understood to be going well, but that her “brush with mortality” will lead her to focus on her family and children. On a positive note, reports that Kate is intending to travel to Balmoral for the traditional royal summer vacation coincides with friends telling The Daily Beast that her ongoing treatment for cancer is progressing well.

It is thought the smaller Wales family are unlikely to travel this year to Tresco, a small island off the coast of Cornwall, where they have often spent summer holidays. However, The Daily Beast has been told that the couple are aiming to be in Balmoral either for the opening of the grouse-shooting season on Aug. 12 or shortly thereafter. William and Kate both shoot.

One friend of the couple told The Daily Beast: “Kate has been exceptionally open and honest about her health. Making two appearances before the summer break, at Wimbledon and Trooping the Colour, was a clear signal that she is doing well. That is what we are hearing privately as well—it’s not over but there is lots of optimism, lots of positivity.”

The friend added that they understood Kate was still receiving chemotherapy for cancer which was found when she underwent abdominal surgery at the beginning of the year. The friend said: “It is obviously still an incredibly worrying time but all the signs are that her cancer treatment, which is ongoing, is progressing well.”

Another source, a Buckingham Palace insider, said they understood there was no sense that Kate was expected to be back on duty for the traditionally busy period of royal engagements that kicks off in the first week of September and runs through to Christmas. The source said: “There is still nothing in her diary. My understanding is that people are going to have to get used to seeing a lot less of Kate. The priority for her now is going to be family and the children. The youngest of those kids, Louis, is only 6. Like a lot of people who have a brush with mortality, Kate is going to prioritize the things that matter to her from now on. In her case, that means her kids.”

The source added that ongoing concerns around King Charles’ health were also likely to have shaped her new attitude, saying: “Charles is doing a magnificent job fighting his cancer but he is still unwell. It is being fantastically well managed to give the impression that everything is fine, but it is noticeable to those of us who are aware of such things that the engagements are shorter and carefully scheduled; for example he sometimes arrives by helicopter at the last minute before being choppered away and presumably collapsing in an armchair at home.”

“Charles’ cancer hasn’t gone away, the palace have said as much, and to be brutally honest, the once-popular notion that he will live to a similar age as his mother [94] or father [99] is now less widespread. I think that has very much focused Kate’s mind on the fact that there may only be a few years of freedom left. What does she want to do with them? Nurture her kids and try her best to equip them for the life ahead of them.”

Another friend of the wider family told The Daily Beast that the royals were expected to descend on Balmoral en masse for the opening of the grouse-shooting season on Aug. 12, known colloquially as the “Glorious Twelfth.” The friend said: “Balmoral is basically a very fancy Victorian hunting lodge. That is what you do up there: You go out shooting, you fish, and you have lunch in the hut. It is an important ritual for Kate and William to take their children there for the Glorious Twelfth and that is the goal this year.”

[From The Daily Beast]

“I think that has very much focused Kate’s mind on the fact that there may only be a few years of freedom left” – this sort of goes back to what Tina Brown said and wrote in March, that Kensington Palace was “flailing” from one crisis to the next and “Catherine is battling more — much more — than cancer. A tidal wave of premature responsibility is crashing in her and William’s direction.” She said that Kate and William were “frozen with intense anxiety” because they felt like they would become king and queen sooner rather than later. So basically, Kate isn’t even going to pretend to work until Charles dies and she becomes queen consort? I mean… that does seem to be what these “sources” are saying. Also: lol, no, Kate was not “exceptionally honest about her health.”

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  1. Neners says:

    Kate has been lazy for her entire adult life. It is what it is. If the British people are willing to pay for people who do absolutely nothing for them, I’m not going to sweat it. Couldn’t be me. I’d be mad as hell.

    • Smart&Messy says:

      The rota and Egg have long insisted that they focus on family until they get the Wales title. Then all those columns filled about how they are taking on this huge responsibility of their new role. (I never figured out what great responsibility they were talkng about, since there is no job discription or accountability). They didn’t do shit with the new role so now it doesn’t mean anything and they can be free until they are K and Q.

      • Tessa says:

        Kate can get access to the gems and will can play dress up in robes if the country does not go republic. And still be lazy.

      • BeanieBean says:

        Well, exactly! Those were the exact words used for their current titles! And nothing actually changed in their lives, other than the titles and maybe the additional home. Who do they think they’re kidding?! Kate’s not going to step up & actually start doing anything once she gets the big hat on her head.

        And seriously, ‘putting the kids first’ has always been the excused used for Kate turning in the lowest numbers of all the royals; her recent health crisis (whatever it truly was) changed nothing.

      • LRB says:

        At which point they are going to be zoom K&Q… why go out and have to meet the masses? Will the kids ever be allowed to leave home? As a mother who worked throughout my children’s childhood I find it so annoying that they do so little when they could do a much greater job working 10-2 4 days a week and one long day when Nanny Maria could let them have friends home for tea.

    • BayTampaBay says:

      “Kate isn’t even going to pretend to work until Charles dies and she becomes queen consort?”

      Does anyone really care? She does not appear to be missed by anyone to any degree.

    • StillDouchesOfCambridge says:

      Exceptionally open on her illness is very very rich for the disappearing princess. lol those guys are fcking idiots. Nobody cares about kate anyway, she is forgotten already. she was always lazy, she had to be seen more only because of Meghan’s public real hard work. And now, opportunist kate is taking her cancer (if true) as an occasion not to work, to show us all how she’s forging her own path and doing it her way. The journalist is praising her for showing up on 2 fcking days. Some people with cancer work everyday. Gimme a break and STFU. Kkkhate and bald william knew this, that they wanted to tap out, when they wanted that CEO so everybody would report to him instead and they could have a run in the fields

      • Bananie says:

        haha! Exactly.
        Tell us, rats: Is the exceptionally open honesty in the room with us now?

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        I also wonder how much of this is Cluck & Cloppy realizing how everyone spent 6mos asking Where’s Kate and dgaf about Where’s Cluck or Where’s Cloppy.

        Or are they still punishing her for upstaging them at Chelsea Flower Show last year?

        Kate pulls more attention than Camilla, and Camilla hates not being the only woman in the room w/ all eyes on her. And for all the folks here who suggested Kate was dealing with a mental health crisis earlier in the year: Is Camilla doing to Kate what Kate did to Meghan? Because I wouldn’t put that past her.

      • Christine says:

        The Wails benefited more than anyone else from Covid, and their numbers never rebounded to their pathetic pre-Covid low-100s. Will and Kate have basically acted like lockdown never ended.

    • PPP says:

      Gross take. She has cancer. To call her lazy when no one knows what’s going on with that is yikes. No one is entitled to her medical information. She is entitled to grace and privacy during this time.

      • Popsicle W says:

        It’s easy to call her lazy because she has never done much. The most effort Kate has put into anything was marrying Will. Her current health situation does not matter. As people have pointed out – people with cancer work ALL the time. Hell! Charles has worked more. The idea that 2 days of work in a year is for a “working royal” is laughable. What was the firm’s reason for not allowing the Sussexes to have half in/half out? Please! The firm is taking people for fools.

      • Steph says:

        We’ve been her lazy since we learned her name. Her recent health has nothing to do with that. She’s doing the same amount she’s always done, nothing. She is lazy always has been.

      • Becks1 says:

        We’re calling her lazy because she has a history of laziness. If she had been putting in 300-400 engagements a year and then disappeared this year, the way she has? I dont think we would be saying that.

        No one called Charles lazy for missing a few months of engagements because he has a history of working.

      • Kat says:

        I have had two brushes with mortality in my life.Now I have cancer of the red blood cells.I am twice Kate’s age, but have to carry on as normal.We all would just like to focus on our family and nurture them.The difference between myself and the Princess of Wales is I have to live my life the best as I can with little help.
        I have like many others, worked hard all my life and am still paying taxes to keep the likes of her in pampered luxury.
        If she wants to spend the next few years focusing on her children that is understandable, but then she won’t need nanny ,cook and cleaning staff if she is not doing royal duties.She can appear like she did at the Trooping and Wimbledon all dressed up in expensive clothes with perfect hair and make up, then go back to looking after her children and doing cooking and housework.Then I would say she is concentrating on her children and home, just like the wife of a wealthy man who can afford to keep his wife and children on one wage.
        The truth is William is living off the taxpayer as well as inherited wealth, he does not appear to do much work either.
        She has always had a spoiled pampered life, doing very little to earn her keep.
        She will only be missed by the fawners who think she is either a Saint or the world’s most beautiful and perfect lady.

      • Wagiman says:

        Kate is lazy. If she could preen at Wimbledon she could do some actual work. She’s barely done anything in all the years they’ve been married, but she’s got a million plus pound wardrobe, 4 properties, she has regular Caribbean holidays (all while the press lie about them going to wherever in the UK). She’s a lazy, bullying mean girl. And given her long long history of lying, why should we believe the soppy cancer story? It’s way too convenient.

        As for her parenting… They’re at school for 6 hours a day or whatever. She’s not cooking meals, washing and cleaning up. And they still have nannies. Only fools believe these grifters..

      • Neners says:

        Then I’ll be gross, I guess, because I’m not going to ignore her entire lack of work history going back to, like, 2004, including the many years she has been in the royal family. If you want to, by all means. As I stated, she has been lazy her entire adult life.

      • Cass says:

        I don’t believe for a second she had or has cancer.

      • Meredith says:

        The firm’s reason for not allowing the Sussex duo to be half in wasn’t the amount of work; it was not wanting royals to be paid by companies instead of Royal Estates/tax funds. And wanting to control when and why they were seen in public.

      • Nic919 says:

        It’s actually gross that kate can take a day to watch tennis and bask in crowd appreciation for herself but she can’t be bothered to even do one zoom call with cancer patients all of whom have far fewer resources than her.

        Even Charles took the time to visit cancer patients in person when his initial chemo treatment was finished.

      • TheFarmer'sWife says:

        Was it not written in one of the many articles about “Brave Button Girl” that the chemo was preventative? The reports of her health condition have been sketchy at best. Does she have cancer, or doesn’t she? Either way, she should spend time with her children. I never regretted a day spent being ASAHM–no nannies involved (I would have preferred a housekeeper and a cook, but alas, I never lived on the taxpayer’s dime). Her attempts at creating a role for herself as an early childhood expert have been poorly executed by both her staff and herself. Art History degrees don’t easily translate into anything much beyond that.

      • Convict says:

        I’ll cut Kate some slack when there is evidence of her diagnosis. Since she does have that right to such privacy, there will be people who are not buying what KP is selling. That is perfectible reasonable and no one ought to be chided for it. KP has shown it is not credible, meaning William is calling the shots.

        Kate has never held a real job in her entire life, she has a history on record of laziness. It got so bad that the late QEII intervened, which history tells us she only does when desperate. I don’t think QEII was happy with William’s choice of bride, but had to let him make his own mistakes or she may have feared he would end up like Charles. Anne even snidely remarked, “Nice work if you can get it” [being William’s doormat].

        The job with Jigsaw was custom made and not a real job. It was in response to QEII’s concerns. Kate’s parents knew the owner/s. The job at PP was also a ruse because they had a professional photographer on staff and the Middletons (including Kate) didn’t want to blow the engagement promise. It was a ruse to make Kate acceptable to the public.

        Excuse after excuse was made for Kate before marriage and it continues to be so. The excuses will never end for her.

        Regardless, I think we can all agree that something else is going on behind the scenes and it isn’t just her health, whatever the diagnosis.

    • Princessk says:

      She wasn’t doing much before so that will not make much difference.

      • Popsicle W says:

        What’s gross is calling those 2 events actual work. She’s done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING this year. No one once of substantial work. She went to Wimbledon and sat in the royal box and sat in a carriage for Trooping. I would love to sit in a lux box at Wimbledon, but I wouldn’t call that work – not even close. It’s only the Rota that’s calling this work. What it is is gaslighting. Where are her video calls with her charity or her foundation? That used to be royal work. The Rota is now trying to change the nature of what is work because Willnot and Cannot don’t actually want to work.

  2. Lemons says:

    Sorry to break it to the rota, but everyone is used to it.

    • lamejudi says:

      Yeah, we good.

      • Smart&Messy says:

        Right?? Egg did good ereasing her from the narrative. I don’t miss her at all. I do want to know that she is alive and has sone agency. But that’s it.

      • Megan says:

        If she is still having preventative chemo eight months after surgery, it’s not preventative. She has an aggressive form of cancer with an uncertain outcome. If she wants to spend her time with her children, she should go for it. They can pump her full of steroids for the occasional public appearance, but she’s making it clear we shouldn’t expect too many of those.

      • Nic919 says:

        None of this explains why she can’t do anything when the kids are in school during the day. That’s a whole six hours where something can be done.

      • Convict says:

        You can’t tell me that Kate hasn’t sat in the dentist’s chair for at least several hours per day over several weeks getting those new choppers.

    • Eurydice says:

      The button industry might miss her.

  3. Oh please!! She is suffering from nothing more than Peg wanting out. I’m sick of the fake oh poor Can’t she is so brave and is getting through her mortality scare which I call BS on. Whatever happened on that December 28th night is giving her some kind of leverage with Peg. I still think he wants out but whatever it is that happened she is using to do only what she wants. How long will Peg let her have her way? Will he find away out? I say yes he will.

    • Whatever says:

      I mostly agree with you, but I’m not totally sure she wants “out-out.” I think she wants to continue to live in comfort, to know that her access to her children is secure, and that she is financially secure. But I also think she wants nothing to do with William. My guess is that they’re living separate lives in separate residences with an agreement in place: she has a home on royal property, she is taken care of financially, keeps her titles, and has most of the control over the younger two children’s lives. In exchange, she shows up for a couple of official events a year and keeps her mouth shut.

      I think Charles is preventing them from divorcing officially, because it would be an absolute disaster for the family, but I don’t think they’ll last long as a couple after Charles passes. Will is too immature to understand how bad it would look for him to divorce Kate, and he wouldn’t care, anyway.

      • Tessa says:

        Charles divorced and remarried. I dont think it would be a disaster if the keens divorced.

      • Smart&Messy says:

        I get the same impression. And I’d add that I don’t think she wanted to retire this much from public life. Being seen regularly gives her laverage. He, however, benefits from keeping Kate out of public view most of the time. This way, whatever goes down between them is not so obvious to the public, they don’t have to explain the strained way they interact in public, or Kate’s physical and mental fragility. Last autumn she was very obviously in a bad state, and it was becoming very noticeable in pictures too. She had to be removed from view, plus yeah something went down over christmas.

      • Tessa says:

        Charles parents could not stop him from divorcing and remarrying.

      • Mrs. Smith says:

        @Whatever – yep, this is where I am too, at this point. W&K have worked out a deal they are both happy with for now. I agree that K doesn’t want out entirely, but she wants nothing to do with W. For me, it was the car ride photos to Trooping in June. Those pics did NOT seem like a joyous family who were excited to show everyone that mom was feeling better. Every photo was tense and unsmiling. K’s brush with mortality is buying her a pass until KC shuffles off. So fine. I doubt W will want to do anymore work either, whether now or when he becomes king. I don’t really care.

      • TigerMcQueen says:

        I think the main reason there won’t be a divorce is that Kate doesn’t want one.

        Don’t get me wrong, she might not want to married to W, for sure. But she sure as hell wants that title, wants financial security, and wants access to her kids…and she now has (for whatever reason) leverage to have all of that.

        Charles might not want them to divorce because of the scandal, but it would not be a disaster if they divorced. The family survived cutting Diana out followed by her death, and if they can survive that, they can survive almost anything (certainly they’d survive cutting off Kate and the social climbing Middletons, because no one actually likes them).

      • Whatever says:

        I know that Charles divorcing and remarrying wasn’t a disaster, but this is different. I don’t think people would be scandalized by a divorce, but the royal family is in much worse shape now. There is no steady, generally well-liked and somewhat respected queen at the head. The slimmed down monarchy has blown up in Charles’ face spectacularly. There are questions about Charles’ health and longevity. The workhorse, Anne, has scaled back her schedule. Charles actually worked when he divorced; Will does not. If Will and Kate split up and Kate leaves, who’s left? Also, Charles was not divorcing a woman that was supposedly sick with cancer. The optics are very different.

      • Nic919 says:

        The country is rioting right now so it’s not like the Wails shaky marriage is doing anything to comfort the country. They are irrelevant to people’s lives and only prove this every day.

      • Smart&Messy says:

        Tessa says:
        Charles parents could not stop him from divorcing and remarrying.

        Wasn’t it the other way around? That C and D didn’t want the divorce but QE2 and/or Phillip put their foot down and told them to divorce because they were a shitshow together.
        Maybe Charles (=Camilla) doesn’t want them to divorce for some reason. Maybe Camilla wants to keep the docile one around because she knows who Egg has waiting in the wings and she doesn’t approve of the replacement.

      • Nano says:

        Are you kidding?! Kate has been treading water since they married in 2011 to be queen, she ain’t giving up now that she’s so close. This was never a love match, it’s a good-enough match. I bet once they accede the throne they will have their separate lives. It will be like Edward VII and Alexandra.

      • Nic919 says:

        It was not socially acceptable for royals to get divorce during the Edward VII and Alexandra era. It is now and if Kate is going to hide away and not do anything, that’s not going to be acceptable if they have a fake marriage in top of that. But really this is about William and if he wants a divorce it will happen. This lowered expectations article could easily be set up for a long term plan to make Kate forgotten and disposable.

    • Smart&Messy says:

      Right? The whole cancer thing sounds less and less believable. To me it’s the hospital stay with zero visitors, and the insistance that they all live in Adelaide cottage that speak the loudest. And now this brush with mortality narrative to discourage everyone from asking questions as to why she retired from public life. They are lying. Kaiser has long insisted that what we are seeing is Kate retirimg from public life forever. I didn’t believe it first and yet here we are.

    • sarah W says:

      no we Brits are not wanting to pay for those parasites – time to Abolsh the monarchy

    • Unblinkered says:

      Some deal has been done for the Middletons to be back in public life, and W tolerating KM on the balcony after Trooping. I believe KM is a vengeful woman who will do her best to thwart W having their separation made official, and/or having a new life with a new woman. That, and she wants the social prestige that comes with the marriage.

      • The Duchess says:

        I agree with you. A deal was made just before trooping to satisfy all parties involved, even if it is only a temporary deal. I still believe something drastic happened after Christmas that resulted in Kitty being temporarily incapacitated. And I still believe she is dealing with some health issues from that incident. Kitty is the type of person to do drastic things to stop something coming (official separation/divorce). Kitty does not want to be married to Willy, but she also doesn’t want to be an ex-wife either.

  4. IForget says:

    If that’s the case, when does she get fired? Unpaid leave? She was one of, if not the laziest royal before her illness, so at what point do we get someone in who can actually do the job? I don’t begrudge her wanting to spend time with her family- I have plenty of friends who are stay at home parents. But I don’t pay for their lifestyle.

  5. Ginger says:

    I don’t think we will see Kate much at all, ever again. She will go to the big events and celebrations but not “work”.

  6. Harla says:

    Will anyone notice? Will anyone care?

    • holly says:

      Only the taxpayers

    • SarahCS says:

      Nope.

      Taxpayers are more focussed on things like the number of children in poverty and the NHS crumbling around us. The tories left a hell of a mess to be cleaned up. Once we get past the current racist hooligans trying to wreak havoc on the country.

      • sunnyside up says:

        Nice to see the anti-racists out today,

      • equality says:

        So taxpayers can’t connect dots and think about how the money spent on the monarchy could benefit those children or fix the NHS?

  7. Inge says:

    “Kate has been exceptionally open and honest about her health.”

    She has not. Especially compared to Charles.

    Also if her focus is ont he kids(which it always have been mind) why can’t she do engagements(I refuse to call it ‘work’) when they are in school?

    Lazy as usual.

    • SURE says:

      Let’s not pretend that the Frankenphoto wasn’t a dishonest attempt to deceive the public about K’s health.

      • M says:

        The more I think about it, the more I am convinced KP created that photo because Kitty was in the wind (on the beach somewhere sunny).

  8. Brassy Rebel says:

    Most quiet quitters aren’t taxpayer funded. Is everyone in GB okay with this?

    • sunnyside up says:

      Actually the Waleses income technically comes from the Duchy of Cornwall which is privately owned so the Taxpayer is only supporting their security.

      • Dee says:

        Tax free. Great grift if you can get it.

      • Lady Esther says:

        No matter how many times people try to say the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are “privately owned,” it will always be wrong. The Crown Estate, eg taxpayers, own the land. The RF is entitled to the income from those estates. That’s it.

        They are not at all “private” like Balmoral or Sandringham, and given that taxpayers pay for upkeep, transportation to/from and staff for both of those (and more!) supposedly privately owned estates, it’s a question what exactly does the RF own “privately” other than a billion or so hidden tax free around the world. See the Guardian series on the RF finances for a good summary, since the Duchies aren’t releasing that kind of information anymore….

        But I guess the UK folks are a-OK with this situation, so (shrug?)

      • SURE says:

        Why can’t W pay for his own security since he doesn’t have to pay income tax on what he “earns” from his duchy?

      • Julia says:

        I know the propaganda line is that the duchies are privately owned. Except they are given to the monarch and POW by the government because of their position they are not the private property of the Windsor family and cannot be sold. The monarch and heir are basically allowed to run private businesses using land that should really be the property of the state. It’s a scam.

      • Afken says:

        The taxpayer funds their security, so yes they are taxpayer funded. Just like everyone insisted when Meghan was there and breathed, that she was taxpayer funded despite their income also coming from the duchy of Cornwall. “We Pay you Pose” remember?

      • Nic919 says:

        What other private property exists where you can choose to pay taxes on it if you feel like it. None. That’s why the private property thing is pure fiction. It is a tax haven that keeps money from the UK treasury and money that is used for Kate’s outfits and Billy’s motorcycles could instead fund schools and the NHS.

      • fwiw says:

        “Seeing a lot less of Kate” and a lot more of whom? William’s cousins? Or just one cousin? Probably will not see Rose near William, just near Camilla.

      • Convict says:

        @Sunnyside: please go to the Republic website to understand who owns the Duchy land and other assets. Also, if the monarchy was abolished, the royals could not take the duchy capital and income. That is reserved for the Monarch and Prince of Wales.

        In short, taxpayers fund every inch of the royals’ lives. Then they get to bequeath the saved and invested capital tax-free through testamentary trusts because they don’t have to worry about having to amend their wills within the time limit.

    • sarah W says:

      willie is ditching her – cancer story was a cover up

  9. Becks1 says:

    Her focus has always been on her kids, in a way that other working mothers can honestly only envy – being able to take extended vacations every time the kids have a school break, scheduling work around the infamous school runs, etc. You can absolutely be an involved mother and work full time (I am one!) but if you have an actual job, you can’t just take 2-3 months off in the summer and two weeks off every 3 months or whatever during the school year because of “school breaks.”

    So this is rewriting history to pretend that Kate has ever bothered to care about her role or her work or has ever bothered to do anything during the hallowed school breaks.

    As for people getting used to seeing a lot less of her…..well, people are already used to seeing her for 100 engagements a year. If they see her for 10 engagements a year, will anyone notice?

    And again I ask, she’s well enough to travel to Scotland, go shooting, but can’t lift a finger for a single charity in 8 months?

    • BothSidesNow says:

      Exactly @Becks1! She is perfectly capable of traveling but is too ill to lift a hand for one of her many charities that she had dropped and disappointed before as well??

      I find it bizarre that no one is causing a fuss for her incompetence and laziness as Anne will not live forever and they don’t want to add to the families enormous public responsibilities. And Keen hasn’t been honest since day one so why would she think she is now?? I predict that the Britshidmedia will find out the actually truth and blow the whole house down as she is a married-in unlike the rest of the wives.

    • MY3CENTS says:

      She dosen’t even have to physically visit a charity, she can zoom.
      The contrast to Charles is striking. Too bad the media is playing along and not asking any questions.

      • Becks1 says:

        Exactly!! Or she can walk across to Windsor Castle and attend one of her Early Years meetings. Or pick up the phone and call someone (which we know they would count as an engagement.)

        I think in general all of us here would be a lot more…..well, forgiving….about her lack of work this year if she had a steady work history before this. When Charles took those two or three months off, people thought “okay this must be serious, he never takes this long off.” Kate takes three months off and we’re like, so another vacation?

    • Elizabeth Kerri Mahon says:

      If she can pick up a gun, she can do an engagement or two or Zoom with several cancer charities.

    • Nic919 says:

      She was so hands on with her kids she had no idea how to handle Louis during the jubilee events and didn’t realize it was too much for him. If you are going to claim to be super hands on mom, stuff like that doesn’t happen.

      • Kat says:

        Well said.She did not have a clue how to handle her own child when his behaviour got out of hand.He was far too young to sit through that type of event for more than five minutes.
        She has no idea about young children, despite being a so called ”Early Years”expert.

    • BeanieBean says:

      Yeah, they went one step too far with that ‘glorious twelfth’ nonsense. If she can go shooting–which I guess is walking around carrying a gun–she can do any other number of actual engagements that a POW is expected to do.

    • Convict says:

      I don’t think Kate’s focus is her children. Her focus is herself, how she looks, what she wears, how to please William and how to stay married so she can be crowned Queen Consort. The nannies raise those children primarily.

  10. Nanea says:

    Great.

    So everyone among us who’s ever had a brush with mortality, be it through an accident or ill (mental) health never ever needs to work again — and will be funded by the taxpayers going forward.

    Please tell that to my co-workers. I’ve had more brushes that I can count on both hands, mostly due to being a walking genetic disorder. But hey, at the same time I’m one of my institution’s human lab rats and get to test the newest drugs or procedures that we all develop together.

    Seriously. The BRF are more than just extremely tone deaf, especially *now*, giving the Farage/Robinson/Musk riots.

    That woman hasn’t worked a single day in her life, and her showing up for a few minutes here and there, without bothering with any kind of preparations, is an extremely bad look for someone who’s Keen to be Kween. Too bad they still let her and her staff of 66 or 89 get away with it, without any kind of consequences.

  11. Mia4s says:

    Mmmhmmm, so who’s the side chick William? Anyone we know? More than one?

    • Dee says:

      Always good to have the wife who is willing to look the other way while Bill has his way with his sidepieces. Probably more than one and not all of them chicks.

  12. Jais says:

    Okay, but why are they pretending she will do more work when she becomes Queen consort? Stressed bc these are her last years of freedom? Okaaay. But honestly what more does the consort have to do? How will that really strap her down? Less vacations? I doubt it. She and William will just whittle down whatever they are required to do.

    • BeanieBean says:

      Exactly! It’s the same when the press blathered on about their ‘promotions’ to P&POW–nothing changed in their lives but their names!! Oh, and more money for Billy Boy. Do they really think W&K are going to show up to the opening of Parliament every year? Kate, who doesn’t want people to expect her to do anything? Billy Boy, who has that school run to do!! Sorry, folks, can’t open Parliament, gotta do the school run! The kids will be traumatized for life if I don’t, sorry!

  13. Feebee says:

    Who is reading this and not thinking GMAFB?!

    Transparent with her health?! Premature responsibility? They’re 40!!!

    I couldn’t care less if we never saw her again but tell me why she is considered and being paid as a senior working royal who is at all truthful.

    • Smart&Messy says:

      The premature responsibility is my favorite part. They are in their 40s for god’s sake. And what responsibility are we talking about exactly? After QE2 died, the British media kept pushing how the Keens have the weight of the world on their shoulders, and they are molding their new role to their own ‘modern’ ways, and it’s all such crushing weight on them.
      Now we are saying that their new title doesn’t change anything, they can enjoy the freedom it provides before they become K and Q. Then I’m sure it will be rinse and repeat.

      • Convict says:

        The infantilising of 42-year-old parents of 3 children, in high public office, is hilarious. There will always be excuses for this pair of lazy layabouts and I don’t understand it either.

  14. SarahCS says:

    So the crown is the ultimate of amazing and marvellous things yet having it is SUCH a burden and they have to savour their limited ‘freedom’. Please. You could a) abdicate or b) fold the whole operation but you won’t because you love people to say you’re special. They are so pathetic.

    • Smart&Messy says:

      It was the same thing before with the Wales title. And then nothing really happened.

  15. Avonan says:

    “Balmoral is basically a very fancy Victorian hunting lodge. That is what you do up there: You go out shooting, you fish, and you have lunch in the hut.”

    Louis XVI and his legion of aristocratic besties might have fared much better had they the co-conspiratorial British Press of today, as exemplified in this Beast-ly royal drivel. Psyops works. We’ve seen how propaganda in our media ecosystem has helped the fascist minority take a stronghold in governance and politics. For how long, though? I hope we’re starting to see more discernment about propaganda given the reality played out after Brexit and Trump. (The counter-protest response to the coordinated race riots in the UK has been gratifying.) Soon people may see that Workshy Willy and Can’t and the rest have no there there, even as they preen in new, bespoke “Emperor clothes.”

  16. Draadje says:

    I’m a bit surprised at the suggestion that she is still undergoing chemo. That’s a long cycle if she started in April.

    • Libra says:

      A commenter previously noted that preventive chemo lasts 6 months so that would take us to August/September.

      • A non says:

        I had to take 5 years of preventive chemo, just saying. We just don’t know her situation. But I do agree she’s lazy.

      • Looty says:

        @A non this does read to me as possibly someone who has been presented with 5 year recurrence rates and didn’t like what they saw. Who knows?

    • sunnyside up says:

      I believe she actually started Chemo in February, but it wasn’t announced until April so finish in August. But if she can go out and shoot grouse she must be reasonably fit, lifting a shotgun to the shoulder pointing upwards holding it steady while you aim and fire is not for weaklings, I shoot holes in bits of paper at 50 meters and I have to rest my rifle. Mind you, it is an old.

    • blueberry says:

      Depending on the type, chemo can be spread out at longer intervals. My dad has it one day a month for six months. But they are being utterly disingenuous no matter how you slice it. They are using the uncertainty around “cancer” to manipulate their “subjects”

      • Smart&Messy says:

        Yes, the RF and the rota both use it to manipulate the masses and they are trying to parcel it out for as long as they possibly can. You are saying the chemo should long be over by now, so let’s see how the keen princess is doing? Yeah, she is fine, very well, but she was so spooked by c.a.n.c.e.r. she wants to focus on her family for the rest of her life. She is going to be queen one day, you say? Yes, but by then you will get used to only seeing her twice a year because she forever remains fragile and precious because she had cancer just a few short years ago.
        I only want to know what the endgame about Kate is. Does William want to erase her from public life so he can divorce her and replace her? Is Kate’s case another thing KP and BP go against each other about?

  17. s808 says:

    I wonder what the next excuse will be when they’re King & Queen and she still isn’t being seen outside of a few flashy events every few months. If they stay married. I think Charles is the duck tape around that marriage now but once he’s gone…

  18. Bamaborn says:

    Kate be like, “I ain’t doing $h!t and you can’t make me.” Lol!

  19. Tessa says:

    Alexandra as princess and queen worked. And she later was ill she had to walk with the aid of a cane and has lost much of her hearing but she wanted to work and did charity work. The public took to her and she was admired. Kate did not bother to work much even before the children were born

  20. Amy Bee says:

    Not surprised by this at all.

  21. Aurora says:

    “ A tidal wave of premature responsibility”

    Like, they’re 40 and have known for nearly two decades they might be king & queen. When will the infantilizing cease?

    • BeanieBean says:

      Funny, how when Charles was the next one up everyone talked about how he’s waiting, having to wait soooo long, waiting, waiting; but when it’s William, it’s too soon! Too soon for such a huge responsibility! Gah!

    • Kat says:

      Charles’ s mother was 26 when she suddenly found herself a reigning monarch.Those two having to take premature responsibility is just one big laugh

  22. aquarius64 says:

    Covering up the marriage of convenience.

  23. wolfmamma says:

    These two are bringing down the monarchy all by themselves. Good thing they’ve got the Duchy of Cornwall to keep them living the style they’ve become accustomed to. O wait – taxpayer funded… maybe not if the monarchy no longer exists.

    • Convict says:

      Oh, I’m sure they’ll fight for the duchies if the monarchy is abolished, but it isn’t theirs.

  24. Digital Unicorn says:

    She’s being phased out of public life for good – I still think its part of a longer term divorce roll out plan. Push her into the shadows and when they do get round to announcing a divorce the public are ‘Kate Who?’.

    Chuck is not going to want a repeat of his own divorce that was played out in the public sphere and I think thats where the sticking point is – keeping Kate and Ma’s mouths shut. For now they keep up the charade with her and Ma being seen at certain royal events. Its now a waiting game and we know Kate can waity.

    • Tessa says:

      It would not have to play out on the public sphere. Will and Kate could agree on not giving interviews

    • Nic919 says:

      I agree she’s being phased out because this is clearly an article to lower expectations in terms of what she will do and it’s not the first one. Sykes was told to write this.

      She got a few short term wins with only showing up for trooping and Wimbledon and the Middletons showing up to Ascot and wimbledon too, but Camilla plays the long game here. They had to do this because William screwed up and Kate got some leverage, but this won’t last forever. People are already questioning if the cancer is real, or if she would still be getting treatment. Plus the frankenphoto was a mistake too. But by the end of the year, most who even bother to think about Kate will not be surprised about her absence from public life. And if William does want to make a separation public, it won’t seem as bad as had he done so not long after December 28.

    • Christine says:

      I think you are right, Digital Unicorn, I think this is as simple as Chuck said, “Absolutely not while I am king. I will not answer and/or ignore questions from the media about one more divorce.”

  25. HeatherC says:

    I wrote a long rambling venting post then decided against it. Basically I’m back in treatment for my cancer and I’ll continue my normal schedule as long as I’m able to because otherwise I’d be bored silly if I’m still able to work, go out, do things with my kid. You know. like Kate.

    So she’s publicly funded, yearns to be considered an important person, but her “brush with mortality” is her excuse for doing what she also has dearly desired….nothing. Her kids are in school so when the term starts up again, what is she going to do all day? What DOES she do? (Meghan look book, Sussex hate book, dieting, exercises, I guess).

    In the US the right likes to complain about “welfare queens and welfare moms” who should be getting up and working because they shouldn’t be publicly funded to “sit around and do nothing.” Apparently that’s okay in Britain that your welfare queens get praised for doing that?

    • QuiteContrary says:

      Wishing you well, HeatherC.

      If only you and other people with cancer had the privileges Kate has.

    • Convict says:

      Standards for royals around the world have always been very low. They get praised for doing, well, nothing. It’s a cult. Really though, if they smile and wave at the masses a few times a year they are considered “down-to-earth” and “one of us”, those who work hard to keep them in their life of luxury.

      If they make a speech they are considered literary intellectuals and possessed of oratory greatness, and on and on. If we were all judged by royal standards, the world would come to a grinding halt.

  26. Jay says:

    Tiresome – the rota is suddenly acting like the fact that the Wails are next in line to the throne is new information, that the threat of the throne has come suddenly crashing down around them. Yes, dummies, that’s what those robes and that fake tiara were all about!

    This reminds me of Kate’s long-running “keen” strategy of moving the goalposts: They’re engaged, let them have their freedom – they’ll settle down and work once they are married. Then: they’re married, let them do what they want until they have kids. Then, let them enjoy being new parents. Don’t worry, they’ll get down to work once their kids are in school. Now, let them enjoy their time with the children until the King dies – I’m sure things will be different once they are actually on the throne, right?

    • Bamaborn says:

      @Jay…I hate to use these people as my source of comedy, but, can’t help myself. Brings me back to when Betty and Phillip announced Kate and Will’s would be moving closer to (Buck Palace?) to take on more royal duties. Kate and Will’s were like, “sorry, Kate’s pregnant.” 😂

      • Becks1 says:

        I think my comment on here when her third pregnancy was announced was something like “damn she really is never going to work full time is she?” Because you’re right, it happened right as they moved to KP full time (supposedly) to be full time royals after 6 years of marriage and then it was like shes pregnant! and that was the end of the discussion of Kate working full time ever.

      • Nic919 says:

        They expected that after a boy and a girl that would be it but kate had other plans, especially when she had leverage of the Verbier ski trip earlier that spring. Also in 2017 they would have known how serious Harry was with Meghan so don’t tell me William didn’t think that a new baby would take more attention away from the charismatic Harry and Meghan as a couple as an added incentive.

    • Blujfly says:

      Bang on. They have always lied to the public and never intended on carrying out more duties. There was reporting back in 2017 that William went to the Queen and demanded Kate be allowed to scale back even more. And the Queen was not happy about it. Let’s not forget the big lie that Kensington Palace was their forever home and permanent base.

  27. Lady Digby says:

    Hands up anyone who believes that either W or K will “straighten up and fly right” when they become King and Queen? Kate ADORES the limelight, look how she drank in the ovation at Wimbledon. She will only do the big events where she gets to preen. W has been hiding behind her lengthy treatment as an excuse NOT to step up as heir when he should have worked extra to cover for an indisposed King this year. Her uncertain health is a good excuse for W to ahem, remain at her side and also reduce his own schedule. Neither of them ever intend to emulate either TQ or KC and do 500 Royal engagements and 2 foreign tours per year. The question really is how little William intends to do as King and when it becomes apparent that he is indeed unready, unwilling and unable he can’t be sacked but will the Fail and co continue to spin his ineptitude as British reserve??? His uselessness as heir is making the republican case for an accountable and elected head of state.

    • bisynaptic says:

      What will the Rota do, when W&K destroy their business model? I imagine circulation will have further declined, by the time Charles dies, but having nothing royal to “report” on would still constitute a steep dive.

    • Convict says:

      @LD: very well said.

  28. RRN says:

    Kate should have married a titled aristocrat or a royal who isnt gonna end up on the throne. She could live in her country house full time and have her aga. Okay she has cancer this year but then what about pre-cancer? There is nothing wrong with being a sahm but when she’s married to the heir and is going to be queen, how is she not doing anything?

    Nobody is saying she has to do what Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip did – leaving the kids at home months at a time. There needs to be a balance. You can tend to your kids in the evening and still do one engagement per day when your kids are at school. W and K are work-shy and constantly hide behind their kids. They have plenty of staff to take care of them but are pretending that they have none and do all the work themselves. And then we have the british media who help these inbreds lie.

    Seriously, this is a grift that keeps on going. Nobody is going to hold these people accountable.

    • Lady Esther says:

      Well said RRN. No one is expecting even the Prince and Princess of Wales to leave their children for months at a time, dump them on nannies except for a short time before bed like in Downton Abbey, etc. However what they should not do IMO is choose to prioritize private family life over their public duties, especially as they receive so much taxpayer funding for everything they need in life, forever and ever. Hiding out until you become Queen Consort should not be an option. It’s a disgrace and Kate/the RF are laughing all the way to the bank.

      You can bet that Kate won’t give a tinker’s damn over Aaarly Years from now on except for the odd baby bank next to Adelaide. But her clothing budget will remain the same (hidden by the new accounting principles with the Duchy of Cornwall). The private tennis clubs where we hear about her swimming with pearl earrings, the constant vacations (if you think she hasn’t left the UK since her cancer diagnosis I have a bridge to sell you) and the occasional highly visible RF event with tiaras and jools. That will be it from now on. Maybe a Zoom call now and then, heavily edited?

      I guess Kate finally “won” over Pippa? Private life, enormous wealth but with the jools and titles that Pippa doesn’t have…

    • Blujfly says:

      The truth is that William has never wanted to do the work of the royal family let alone monarchy. Kate’s refusal to work reflects him. He also hardly works.

      • First comment says:

        They are both for the perks of their titles (money, position etc) and not for the so called “work “.

      • Convict says:

        That’s why he married her. She would never challenge or overshadow him. Ever.

    • Convict says:

      Kate didn’t want any anonymous aristocrat or wealthy man, nor did her mother. They wanted to biggest prize of them all. They deemed that HRH Prince William, future King of the UK and Realms. They are the poster people for “be careful what you wish for, it might come true”.

  29. Aimee says:

    The irony being that they had two perfectly good stand ins that actually were good at it and if they hadn’t run them off Kate would be able to hide behind them. Oh well.

    • Velvet Elvis says:

      Harry and Meaghan could’ve been half in/half out and would’ve still done more royal work than Will and Kate has done.

  30. Hypocrisy says:

    So she refuses to even pretend to be working until she has the keys to the jewelry vault.. it’s funny that they actually think the public cares beyond morbid curiosity, I guess we won’t be seeing her until Chucks funeral now.

  31. AuntRara says:

    I feel like the Venn diagram of people who angrily accuse low-income women of having kids so they can “live off of public money instead of working” and people praising Kate for living off of public money while refusing to work so she can stay home with her kids (who are in school most of the year) is a circle.

    • sunny says:

      Pretty much! It is telling which people get stamped with the ‘lazy’ narrative in public and who doesn’t.

  32. Murphy says:

    Like she would ever do more work (as Queen) >rolls eyes<

  33. paddingtonjr says:

    Can we all just stop pretending WandK are ever going to “step up”? They are going to do as little as possible and yet reap the rewards as the Waleses and will do the same as K&QC. They are lazy, entitled, uninterested and delusional and that’s all they’ll ever be. Congrats UK CBers – this is your RF.

  34. MerlinsMom1018 says:

    As opposed to?

  35. GoodWitchGlenda says:

    This has been my theory from the jump: Kate does really/did really have cancer, and she would use that to work as little as possible for as long as possible. Sounds like the Rota is stating that pretty plainly now.

  36. Izzy says:

    That’s a lot of words for “The palaces are trying to figure out how to manage the Wales’s divorce.”

  37. Lau says:

    After all these months this situation is still as much of a mess and only getting worst. Also Kate has always been lazy and yet they’re still trying to gashlight us into thinking that she was the hardest working person in this family. Maybe she’ll reappear once she’s finished binging the entire Netflix catalogue.

  38. QuiteContrary says:

    It’s true that people in cancer treatment have good days and bad days. But it’s funny how Kate’s few “good days” allow her to swan into Wimbledon and shoot at Balmoral …

  39. Tate says:

    I only read the title of the article and my response is…. Ok 🤷🏻‍♀️

    Honestly the only reason people cared a few months ago was because people were genuinely concerned about her well being.

  40. sunnyside up says:

    The length of Kate’s chemo. will have been worked out at the beginning, So unless she has developed more cancer she will know when the preventive chemo will finish.

  41. Over it says:

    She has the strength to hold a gun to shoot birds but she can’t do a zoom call to any of her charities? F this sh. Kate and William should not be publicly supported. They should be forced to live off their own money. This makes my blood boil. Lots of people with cancer have to work. Lots of them have children that would rather focus on but can’t afford to .

    • kelleybelle says:

      She can show up to shoot beautiful living things out of the sky but little else, right? I’ve no use for this airhead. I also think she just can’t compete with the fact that Meghan and Harry are always doing good in the world, and what does Kate do? It’s an awfully empty, sad life she and her mother pursued, isn’t it? “Always be available for William” until you snag him, and at what cost?

  42. Khadi says:

    I guess I know nothing about how this RF works.

    I thought if KC dies, then William and Kate become King and Queen. And Camilla becomes Queen Mother.

    What do I know? Seems to me that going by that article or rumors or whatever that KC and Kate are both still cancer stricken and that is not good news.

    • Julia says:

      The Queen mother is the title sometimes given to the birth mother of the monarch. Which Camilla is not.

    • Tessa says:

      Queen d o w a g e r would be the right title. For camilla. Charles first wife Diana gave birth to william and harry.

    • Becks1 says:

      She’d be the dowager queen. Queen Elizabeth the QM was the dowager queen, she just didn’t want to be called dowager – I can’t remember if its because Queen Mary was stilll alive or if she thought she was too young to be a dowager.

      • Nic919 says:

        Queen Mary was still alive for a brief time but there was also the issue of her name also being Elizabeth which would have meant two Queen Elizabeth’s out there but one being regnant.

      • Convict says:

        I read that she was notoriously attached to her title and rank so a special title was conferred.

  43. Nerd says:

    This sounds like they are quoting fake friends and that the palaces are trying to counteract any questions or complaints that anyone has had about this whole ordeal for the past seven months. Kate has absolutely NOT “been exceptionally open and honest about her health” because she her “making two appearances before the summer break, at Wimbledon and Trooping the Color” isn’t a “signal that she is doing well”. Only two appearances in seven months when she is supposedly only going to be seen when she is having “good days” isn’t a sign that she is doing well. So if we go by their reasoning for when she is seen and when she isn’t seen, her absence the rest of the seven months would imply that she is having “bad days”. So them making the assumption that her not being seen as a “good signal” doesn’t add up or make any sense.

    They also are making it obvious that either the friends they are quoting are fake or they are quoting palace spin doctors by using phrases like “that is what we are hearing privately”, “they understand Kate was still receiving chemo”, “my understanding”, and the royals “were expected to descend on Balmoral” which are all decisive and signs that they don’t have direct knowledge of anything happening with Kate.

    • First comment says:

      Exactly, @Nerd. The whole article is pure speculation about everything concerning Kate and that’s one more argument against “Kate has been open and honest about her health “. The palace is just trying to appease the peasants in case they start to wonder why they are paying for the invisible Wales 😉

  44. kelleybelle says:

    “Open and honest” are words I would NEVER use to describe Kate Middleton. What a load of bollocks.

  45. Brit says:

    Of course by focusing on ‘being around for the children’, she’s setting the precedent that George, Charlotte and Louis won’t have to do public engagements until they’re in their 30s either, and if William is going to do ‘most of his work from home’ there probably won’t be any public engagements or appearances by anyone once Charles has gone.

    • Lady Digby says:

      Fellow Brit, methinks we get to pay for them to have a big, fancy Coronation and then continue to get nothing back in return except the occasional SM platitude about world peace and buttons being good ideas?

  46. Miss Scarlett says:

    I’m glad she is giving a giant middle finger to the British public, showing them with her actions that her duty and service to them do not bring her joy, so she’s going to opt out until absolutely mandated.

    She is a terrible example to her children and to her country.

    She spends literally all of her time with her children and has done so since their births. I cannot fathom bouncing (especially while they are in school???) and finding yet another excuse to get out of work.

    Aren’t the British public tired of her yet?

    • Unblinkered says:

      Not sure how much time she actually does/has spent with the children,
      wouldn’t be surprised to find W has care and control, with Carol Middleton interfacing to KM. Partly, that’s because I think KM has been living with her mother for some time.

      The reality, of course, may be even more shocking.

  47. Saucy&Sassy says:

    I only have one question. How old do WanK need to be before “premature” leaves the room?

    • Rnot says:

      If it’s sooner than Charles, then it’ll be premature in their eyes. Charles got to do whatever he wanted as PoW for 64 years. William thinks he should get the same and it’d be terribly unfair if he has to take on more responsibility before he’s in his 70s. He wants all the power but feels the responsibility is unfair.

  48. First comment says:

    What really baffles me is the fact that everyone accepts the invisible Wales because of “family ” and “children “. They get to prioritize their children (as they say, I, personally, have my doubts) as if they are far more precious than any other child on the country in similar or even worse circumstances and they are doing it since their birth. Peasants should just back off and not question anything in the procedure. Anyway, I can’t see how the example of 2 parents not working can do them any good.. The whole focus on family is weird for me and shows that they lack any sort of work responsibility and ethics for their position and the numerous perks they enjoy. I’m afraid that they are raising another generation of entitled royals 😕

    • Miss Scarlett says:

      Ditto!! How is this total lack of duty and work ethic doing any sort of favors for George, Charlotte, or Louis? It’s okay for them to shirk any sort of responsibility and just phone it in? This whole RF is not an example to anyone. They aren’t aspirational unless inherited unlimited wealth without strings is your aspiration.

      The people Looked up to QE2 because she was always there for her people. Kate and William are essentially saying that the people don’t matter, they don’t care. And they have such a thumb on the press that the press are afraid to speak out. It’s really quite frightening.

      “How to ruin a family business in 3 generations” – this is textbook

    • Liz -L says:

      I expect the Nannies and staff have done the heavy lifting with the kids. And have been given zero credit for it.

    • Convict says:

      It takes some serious chutzpah do take so much from the public and give so little. William ought to know better from his mother’s, grandmother’s and even father’s example (Charles has never been a shirker). Kate ought to have had her mother as an example of working hard, at least.

  49. Tessa says:

    I think it might have been jobson but it was said that Kate could not work because she was dating a future king

  50. Well Wisher says:

    This is the result of the endless relentless pursuit of mediocrity, with ambition and nothing else….