Over the weekend, the Telegraph published an exclusive piece written by Camilla Tominey. I tried to get through it the best I could and provide the most significant excerpts, but it was difficult because Tominey just lies throughout the piece. She spent most of the piece raging about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to the point where she actually buried the lede: that King Charles will die “with” cancer and not “of” cancer, and his aides are hesitant to make plans too far in advance. There was another story buried deep within the Tominey piece too – that William and Kate are, as ever, lazy as hell. From the Scottish Daily Express:
Prince William and Kate Middleton might be the future of the monarchy, but Palace staff are becoming increasingly irritated at their determination to do things their own way, it has been claimed. The Prince and Princess of Wales are the two most popular royals with the public. But behind the scenes, things are not going as smoothly. The Scottish Express has reported previously on frustrations at their apparent aversion to official duties.
While it was understandable that William took a step back in 2024 as Kate underwent cancer treatment, even before her health scare there were suggestions she had been labelled a part-time royal by staff. And courtiers noted that William still found time to indulge in his own personal passions when travelling to Germany for the Euros and South Africa for his Earthshot prize.
Kate, 43, has taken on a phased return to duties but she is determined to be a hands-on mother to their children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7. And William, 42, had to be ordered to attend the funeral of Pope Francis by his father, the King.
According to Telegraph associate editor Camilla Tominey, William and Kate are “under growing pressure to up their workload”. Aides are said to be concerned the pair “may be spending too much time with their immediate family instead of supporting the ‘Firm’.”
Aides are concerned that William and Kate “may be spending too much time with their immediate family instead of supporting the ‘Firm’”??? That’s such a funny way of saying it too – it’s actually NOT a concern that William and Kate spend time together as a family. The palace isn’t concerned about that at all. What concerns the royal aides is that Will & Kate use “family time” and the fakakta school run as catch-all excuses for why they can never work. The entire royal establishment is bewildered by William and Kate’s inability to get off their asses and do ANYTHING. “Their apparent aversion to official duties” is also such magnificent phrasing, I just wanted to highlight that. Chef’s kiss.
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Tobermory on the Isle of Mull on their wedding anniversary Featuring: William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Tobermory, United Kingdom When: 29 Apr 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales, known as the the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, attend the naming ceremony for HMS Glasgow, at the BAE Systems shipyard in Scotstoun, Glasgow Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, William, Prince of Wales Where: Glasgow, United Kingdom When: 22 May 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales, known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, during a visit to the BAE Systems’ Shipbuilding Academy to at the BAE Systems shipyard in Scotstoun, Glasgow Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, William, Prince of Wales Where: Glasgow, United Kingdom When: 22 May 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales, known as the Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, meet with apprentices and graduates during a visit to the BAE Systems’ Shipbuilding Academy to at the BAE Systems shipyard in Scotstoun, Glasgow Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Glasgow, United Kingdom When: 22 May 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales, Colonel-in-Chief, the Army Air Corps (AAC), during a visit to Wattisham Flying Station, Suffolk Featuring: William, Prince of Wales Where: Wattisham, United Kingdom When: 04 Jun 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
The palace staff is just now noticing? It took them long enough..
The question is whose staff though? Chuck’s or Willy’s? BP?
They been knew. They just got distracted by Meg for a little while. Now that distraction isn’t working anymore.
What about this line: And courtiers noted that William still found time to indulge in his own personal passions when travelling to Germany for the Euros and South Africa for his Earthshot prize.’ Sounds like a veiled reference that Wills is traveling with someone he is passionate about?
Yes, curious phrasing indeed. Someone or ones
William and Kate have been coddled for too long
Catherine looks scarily unhinged in that top photo and not much better in the others. William looks concerned and disdainful towards her most of the time and looked extremely scruffy when trying to salute in fatigues.
Both of them seem to have significant challenges and both of them seem deeply unhappy. They should tell the truth about what’s going on.
Perhaps if they worked harder and had even an inkling of public service, they would be a lot happier.
I started laughing at will and kate are, “as ever”, lazy as hell. LOL
William does whatever and kate keeps company with carolE.
Simple solution – they can start earning their keep. Perform your official duty, then get paid. Don’t perform, don’t get paid.
Let’s set it at…a very generous £1000/hour. They publicly shake hands with children and the elderly, cut a ribbon or two, the public will cover their expenses. They want to do the school run, then no payment.
The annual lump sum payment from the Duchy of Cornwall is a massive disincentive on working. The other European countries get value for money from their royals, the Lazies are not fit for purpose.
At one point before the sovereign grant there was the civil list where individuals in the family were given something and so the tax payers knew who was getting funded. They probably need to go back to that.
Anything’s better than the current funding model. Some fiscal austerity is required and the non-performers need to feel it.
But the POW gets the Duchies funds since forever.
I think when Charles married it was around one million a year? Maybe the real question should be how do they make over 20 million? How much of that comes from the taxpayer?
There’s a difference between how much the duchy of cornwall makes and how much the duke of cornwall gets. in addition, the funds are differentiated between official duties and other funding – because supposedly the DoC will pay tax on the money he receives AFTER official funding (but I dont think william is doing that anyway.)
so if he receives 20 million in funding and then writes off 15 million as covering “official duties” then he’s only liable for taxes for 5 million. but I think part of the shadiness is that william gets to label things as official spending or not.
and things like helicopter rides arent covered by the duchy but out of other funding.
but there’s no real way to look at it without it seeming super shady and like a big scam.
Hmm. But which aides are worried? Bc I’ve always figured that William and Kate’s aides were just as lazy as their principals. So are they really worried? So who’s telling Tominey this? Aides from Charles or Camilla? That said. It rings true bc, yeah, they don’t do much.
Yup, if they are BP staff, once Willy ascends, then their opinions no longer matter.
BP (and some KP) staff, aides and courtiers need to start looking for new jobs now. When Peg becomes king, he will probably fire most of them, especially the ones who schedule him for events and expect him to work and continue traditions.
It’s easier to hide and phone it in without pesky staff looking over his shoulder. Although I cannot imagine any real world job these folks would be qualified for.
I don’t think the aides are worried that W&K aren’t doing more work – after all, it’s not up to them to determine how much work W&K should do. I think the frustration is about inconsistent work – will they attend this or that, will they attend together or separately, what preparations need to be made, security, wardrobe, scheduling. What project will they take up or drop, is Kate about Early Years or Mother Nature, is William about Earthshot or homelessness or do they need a last minute box seat for the football game? How do you field questions about these two? BP or the Foreign Office calls, what do you say? How can you manage their PR? How do you write a speech for someone who hasn’t yet learned to speak?
“How do you write a speech for someone who hasn’t yet learned to speak”
Simples. One-on-one tutoring. How hard is it to get one of those tutors from Oxbridge reading PPE to teach Lazy on oratory and rhetoric skills?
Once she’s mastered that, she can get one of the PM’s minions to write a speech for her.
But you can lead the horse to water, but can’t make her drink. Lazy’s not interested and this will be her downfall.
Okay, now that I can actually see. Making work harder for others by their own lack of consistency and last minute planning. Would they have done that Scottish “anniversary trip” if they hadn’t been caught out skiing? And who had to put that together at the last minute? The staff.
The courtiers and the press have all started figuring out that William and Kate being so lazy. Means that they themselves might not have a job. The tabloids are losing money and laying off reporters because they aren’t getting the clicks or readership. Their own cushy little jobs of lying and making up stories are on the line now. And pretty soon all the reporters are going to figure out that for them to make any money they are going to have to release all the stories they have squashed on Charles and William and the rest of them. And that will be the end of the monarchy.
Peg and Can’ts WAY is to do absolutely nothing. As for them spending too much time I just their immediate family? I call bullshit. These two don’t live together and Peg doesn’t even want to do events with her. Start telling the truth about these two liars and see how many papers sell. The taxpayers have a right to know!!
The immediate family phrasing was kind of interesting right? Bc doesn’t immediate family just mean whoever is immediately by you at that moment? Bc otherwise, why not just say their family?
@ Jais, it’s not physical proximity, it’s level of relationship. Immediate family is usually in your household, such as spouse and children. Family more broadly means parents and siblings, nieces and nephews. Extended family would be grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Distant family would be further down the family tree more distantly related.
The interesting part is they use immediate family for Will and Kate, yet act like Harry doesn’t also have his own. Clearly double standards.
lol, okay yeah I’m being too literal😂. Bc I was like what family are they actually around and live with. And yes the double standards are real.
The fact that they can’t confirm on a Tuesday whether or not the Prince and Princess of Wales will be at trooping the color on Saturday tells you everything you need to know about their laziness.
And phased return? These euphemisms are killing me. Kate wasn’t working in a diamond mine. She was getting a police escort to spend 30 minutes having someone point out stuff to her, requiring her to nod and smile politely and ask very basic general questions. shake hands, pose for a few pictures and leave.
When are they just going to go all in on them? Their industry is dying anyway. I would go out in a blaze of glory and make as much money as I could. If they were just truthful about them they would get a ton of clicks for honest reporting. Clicks they aren’t getting about their Pepperidge farm remembers series about Meghan and Harry, or whatever busy work William is doing once a month. And for those that like to pretend that they are serious journalists, like Camilla T. , they could position themselves into better jobs as actual journalists.
“ Clicks they aren’t getting about their Pepperidge farm remembers series about Meghan and Harry”
😂 The rats are itching but as long as their hate for Meghan outweighs the public’s need for taxpayer funding accountability, the remember series will continue. The millions of views from Lili’s birthing room must be envy-inducing. Perhaps Lazy can perform another piece on the piano?
“Pepperidge Farm remembers series”, OMG. 😂🤣 Thank you for that much-needed laugh this morning.
Lol, I have to give the credit to @ Kaiser for that but I wholeheartedly agree with the phrasing.
This had me on the floor this morning!!!
I think it’s more than just laziness.
William looks terrible and he has aged incredibly over the last decade. It definitely looks like he has serious addiction issues and he can’t be depended on to perform consistently. The support staff has to wait and see if he is even capable of attending events. He has shown up on several occasions looking like he has just come off a bender.
And Kate seems very tightly wound most of the time. She clearly has food issues and she seems to suffer from anxiety as well. I’m not sure that her public speaking deficits can be corrected. Many people find public speaking terrifying and even training can’t really correct the underlying problem.
So neither of them are probably capable of doing their jobs on a day to day basis. It comes across as lazy but it seems much more like mental health issues to me.
And yes they have resources that could help them but they seem stuck and unable to get themselves unstuck.
I think they are both awful people and I think they are both in extreme pain. Both things can be true.
The issue isn’t only that they’ve carved out this sacred “Family time” thing. The issue is that they’ve allowed “family time” to be a big box of mystery activities, a time when the two “most beloved and popular royals” disappear completely. They are never seen or heard from during their family time. It doesn’t make sense. Do they live in the UK at all? Charles has his own special castle in Transylvania (?), Camilla has her little spa trips to India….where are Will and Kate? They were doing this long before Kate got cancer, so that’s no excuse. It just boggles the mind. The coverage of the royal family has shifted so much over the past 30 years that I’m always gobsmacked by the absence of coverage of Will and Kate. There’s so much weirdness around the two of them! So many secrets! I wonder how this is going to play when they are actually in charge of the whole show.
Tis no secret. They’re just boring and lazy. He spends most of his time on football forums, she goes shopping at Bicester and gyms. They can do soooo much more with their platform but they are both incurious. What you see, is what you get – the wannabe global statesman and his lazy spouse.
They also keep quiet because it would be even more obvious they live separate lives. It is not a secret that Camilla goes to her home at Ray Mill, but everything about Will and Kate is secret because they want to pretend they area regular marriage where the couple lives in the same home.
The locals near KP have tracked the numerous times helicopters are used by William and it is only him in them.
This facade can only last so long, especially when he is top dog. Charles as monarch is tracked a fair deal in terms of his activities. That’s part of why he was more open about his treatment.
It won’t be a big scandal if they have separate homes UNLESS Carole makes a big deal out of this revelation.
Couples grow apart, couples in their position have multiple homes. Makes sense not to live together if they can’t be together. Chuck had Highgrove while Diana mostly stayed at KP.
But joint appearances are necessary for this couple. They just need to appear and the rats won’t have such a hold on them.
First we were told it wasn’t cancer, then it was, and then we never found out what type of cancer. Why the mystery?
So I disagree that if it was publicized that the Wales live in separate homes that it wouldn’t be a big deal. I do think people would find that odd. It’s one thing when rich and older and have grown kids that live elsewhere. But with 3 kids who we’re told they spend all their time with and are doing the school runs and that’s why they can do barely any events. That would be a big deal. The BM might do their best to spin it a certain way but still.
And it’s crazy because historically people knew where the royals, even ( or especially) the monarch and heir, were. The Court circular used to cover everything not just official duties. It’s a relatively recent invention that there’s this intense secrecy around their movements.
The no-show for the Easter Sunday service was even more mysterious. How can there be a stark choice between spending time together as a family and keeping up the vows you made at their christenings? As this anonymous blogger put it: “One wonders if Bill understands that when the future head of the Church skips the most sacred date in the Christian calendar and sells his truancy as ‘family time’, that’s sending quite a message that you can’t be a good parent and a good Christian.”
https://unpacked4.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/prince-william-to-become-head-of-church-of-england-eventually-but-first-a-lie-in/
@Cali
The Donothings are mentally challenged lazy racists.
It’s not that complicated.
As part-time royals, Harry and Meghan would have done oceans more work than these two.
At least we no longer have to listen to “Kate is too frail to work, you monsters,” after she’s been papped skiing twice this year. The rats can’t write about where to buy her favorite handbags forever. Bashing the Sussexes in the same piece seems like the devil’s (awful) bargain for saying anything negative at all about the Lazies, if Tominey doesn’t want to lose all access to the palaces.
A story about the frustrations of the aids to the laziest royals comes out every few weeks in some capacity and yet they do nothing about it. Stop complaining and go work somewhere else.
These aides LOVE being the source of tabloid gossip. They wouldn’t give up their position when they can play a pivotal role in the soap opera.
Hope Murdoch etc pays them well for leaking.
So Charles is going to live out the rest of his life and royal duties with cancer, while Kate is in remission and won’t be doing a thing? And the BM has the gall to focus on Meghan.
The phrasing here is hilarious: “Aides are said to be concerned the pair “may be spending too much time with their immediate family instead of supporting the ‘Firm’.” Given that William’s immediate relatives (well, the ones not in California) are all part of the firm, I think it’s pretty clear which/whose “undesirable” immediate family we’re talking about! Watch out, Carole!
The thing is William and Kate don’t care what anyone says about them. Until it starts to actually hurt, they’ll continue on as they have been.
Exactly. Cut off the taxpayer money, see them howl. Or work. But the politicians are too scared.
Agree. Although I do wonder if the messenger might make a difference this time. Tominey was the one who reported the fake crying story. And she did have sources for that, even if they were lying sources from KP and the Midds. So will seeing the telegraph report on this as opposed to a tabloid make a difference? Eh, idk, they might rush to throw in some more events but it would just be temporary.
@K8ERADE
It would be enough for the media to start writing the truth about WK, it would immediately get them to work.
Now they do nothing, and they will still get an article about how hard they work, and that it is not visible – “because they do not care about the shine, so they work in secret”:)))
SERIOUSLY! – these are almost verbatim words from one article.
@K8erade I think they must care or 1) they wouldn’t look so miserable and unhealthy and 2) they wouldn’t be competing with H&M.
I think it can be both. They only care when it suits them.
With KC’s uncertain health it is a problem that FK isn’t stepping up now to ensure a smooth transition to his reign. Before it was like not imminent so people were adopting Will’s tactic of pushing this issue to one side. It becomes a crisis when he inherits and can’t or is unable or willing to cover the basics. Anne and Edward and Sophie are decades older than him and aren’t the monarch. Will is the heir and eventually king so his incapacity looks dreadful now considering KC is having maintenance chemo and still works hard and does regular foreign tours. The Fail have been nipping at his heels for the past year. Private Eye reported on FO being frustrated by Will ability to go on frequent foreign holidays but not at the Government ‘s behest. Jason and Will expect to carry on doing as little as possible but how sustainable is that once he’s King of certain newspapers are already sounding the alarm?
It must rankle palace aides that their English Rose who never puts a foot wrong also never raises a hand to do jack squat, yet they’re taxed with negatively comparing the brilliant, successful, glossy Meghan with their faded, lazy, racist rose. Of course, being monarchist bigots themselves, it’s crucial to their livelihood (and personal identity) to attack the biracial American and try to twist all her accomplishments into liabilities.
They can’t big-up KKKhate without trying to destroy Meghan. It’s so glaringly obvious.
The racist lazy mattress is so opposite to the expected modern day English Rose.
In medieval times, she could have been fair Rosamund – tasked with only being a mattress as the king is FORCED to marry for reasons of state.
Rose Hanbury would have been a better candidate, Diana was the better candidate…but it is, what it is.
Neither the Rottweiler nor the mattress are the exemplars of English womanhood. They are hardly inspirational (what Lazy thinks she should be) nor aspirational.
Yep, at least Rose Hanbury is busy designing upscale furniture to sell at her Norfolk palace, curating her Instagram account to pull in the tourist money, and arranging exhibits by British sculptors and artists around her house and gardens.
lmao “aversion to official duties.” that’s a fantastic way to say they dont want to work
w&K have played this wrong from the beginning and i think things would have come to a head sooner but having H&M has distractions kept the press occupied longer than they would have been otherwise.
The “family time” excuse has always been problematic for a few reasons, including the fact that it implies that working parents arent hands on or aren’t raising their kids. They could do 2-3 events a day and be home in time for the school run.
it also implies that other working royals aren’t raising their kids – and while charles was a crap father, Anne Andrew and Edward have all seemed to be relatively involved parents (i know ew Andrew but he and Fergie are close with their girls). Or how about royals in other countries?
If they worked consistently when the kids were in school their multiple extended vacations wouldn’t be as noticeable. But you cant pop out for two events in a month and then disappear for 6 weeks and not expect people to notice.
Once Louis was in school full time there was zero reason for Kate and William to not have a three engagement a week schedule, and even if they took all the school holidays off, they would be over 100 at this point.
Patricia treble put out a work chart for the first part of 2025 including May and kate has fewer numbers that the Duke of Kent. William is slightly higher.
It is insane for the “future” of that family to be outworked by elderly people and a monarch dealing with cancer treatment.
There is zero reason for them to do so little. Their excuses don’t track with school aged kids at all.
Right? Plus, most people I know with kids jump at the chance to leave the house without them now and then. Come on now. All three of their children are bigger than I am and they have like six nannies.
Imagine being a foreign service officer or a staffer in the diplomatic core at this time of unprecedented attacks on Europe and NATO and being told the Prince and Princess of Wales will not perform 2-3 day trips within Europe because they want to be “hands-on parents•
I had to put my teaching career on hold a while back due to multiple health issues, but managed to fill my time by taking over and expanding my church’s pantry/meal delivery program and getting more involved with other volunteer work. Recently, my health has been worsening again and I’ve had to dial back on that as well, and my God, I don’t know how William and Kate can live like this. It f–king sucks. It’s not just that I’m incredibly bored, this feeling of uselessness is starting to have an impact on my mental health as well. The only way I can imagine someone contentedly living like this is if they have absolutely zero self=awareness and are delusional enough to believe that they ARE doing the most.
You need multiple homes both domestic and international. Travelling takes such a toll – the jet lag, the packing and unpacking of beach and skiwear…hard when one leaves one’s favourite clothes in a different home. Must do more shopping!
Replying to Miranda; thank you so much for being a volunteer. For a short while we received volunteer prepared church meals brought to us by a volunteer driver. We again were both able to drive but I remain so grateful for the short term help while we were both housebound. Hoping your health improves.
What a lovely act of kindness, @Miranda. I’m sorry your health situation is in such flux.
There is nothing “apparent” about their “aversion to royal work”, it’s very clear and has been since before they wed.
Yep!
Does the hands on parent want to follow them to school. They are school age now.
Dr Tessy Ojo, the chief executive from The Diana Award, has worked with Prince William and Prince Harry for over 20 years.
She said: “They would never do royal engagements from the sense of cutting the ribbon or simply being poster people. We were very clearly warned if you wanted any form of engagement, it almost had to have a whole strategy behind it.”
This quote from Rhiannon Mills my week with Will article recently. This can be understood as having to put together a very good reason for PoW to turn up rather than it’s your duty to support your patronages. Indicates how difficult it is to get him to do anything!
There doesn’t seem to be any “whole strategy behind” anything William or Kate are doing these days. Just PR guff, shallow speeches at events your cousin Albert invited you to, and Kate’s silly nature videos.
Doing local community and charity events is much more impactful than anything William and Kate are doing now. I know Brits mock cutting ribbons, but it’s starting to seem like their bread and butter work. Getting out there, being seen, and making a difference for charities and local project, just like the late Queen said. Yes, there was a study showing their patronage didn’t mean much to their charities, but that seemed like it was because they never visited their charities. It’s time for the British public and KP to re-evaluate the local patronage events.
It really is their bread and butter work, it’s what the public want to see the PoW – he and her – doing. It was good enough for The Queen, Philip, Queen Mother, P Margaret, Diana & Fergie, and remains good enough for Charles and Anne.
Someone, anyone, just make W&K tow the line and be seen out working several times a week!
@Me at home
It wasn’t Albert who invited William. It was more likely that William invited himself. If Albert had invited him, he would have also been at the gala dinner organized for invited guests, but William wasn’t there. I assume that after Harry appeared in China at the climate conference at the end of May, where he was the main speaker, William was hysterically looking for a place where they would let him speak. The UN Ocean Conference is taking place in Nice from June 9-13, but as you can see, he didn’t manage to get there, because they already know that “oceans are big and there are fish in them”, but Albert took pity on him and organized a small meeting for a few people he works with, which ended with a gala dinner. He allowed William to come and read the second-grade roll call, but they didn’t invite him to the dinner. Apart from the fact that Albert had his plans and business to discuss only with those who were affected, it is clear that William began to frantically search for a lectern at the last minute after Harry’s speech in China, and the conference schedule is set months in advance, including dinner plans, seating, tableware, etc.
This is so desperate, pathetic and degrading. I wonder what the European courts think of William and how he is perceived.
??? Pretty sure the Grimaldis & the Windsors are not related or did Victoria’s legacy reach that far?
Dr. Tessy Ojo is being very diplomatic, or (of course) Rhiannon Mills is failing to report the full context or implication behind the words. That statement suggests to me that “whole strategy behind it” means that if the focus will not be on William and Kate, and in a way guaranteed to provide them with INTERNATIONAL coverage, then they refuse to engage with it. They need the PR benefits to THEM to be spelled out in full before they deign to participate, even in charitable events, even for their own patronages. THIS is what William means by “impact”: how much foreign attention will this bring to me?
They want ALL of the attention and accolades and to do NONE of the groundwork required to receive such attention and accolades. They just want to turn up to events with massive audiences, increasingly mainly international audiences, and be applauded and praised for this. Nothing more.
Thank you @ Magdalena for such an astute translation of how FK is persuaded to appear in public. Rather than plead or expect him to support his own patronages out of a sense of duty, one must approach on bended knee as a supplicant pointing out how marvellous such and such an event would garner him maximum publicity and global reach. He is very grand with over weening vanity and self deluded if he believes that turning up briefly, drunk, sullen and bored adds lustre to any event!
I love this for Will and Kate. Their laziness should be their defining characteristic in the media. It should be mentioned in every news article and column.
William, who’s too lazy to do much beyond cheering on his favorite football team …
Kate, who milked her cancer diagnosis to avoid official duties, …
Workshy as well as Wales should be the label applied every time.
So that quarter-in, three-quarters out plan is working for them, but not the Firm, huh?
Maybe they could level up to a half-in, half-out situation…I hear there was a very good plan for that drawn up at some point; just need to dust if off.
These people exhaust me.
It kind of fits perfectly with William’s insane jealousy of Harry. The only thing the man has is demonstrating it was never about “half-in, half-out”.
Not only are they lazy, but they’re stubborn as a pair of old mules. Because they live in a world where they’re cossetted and fawned over and have a legion of worker bees looking after their every need, they naturally have an overweaning sense of entitlement — the “I don’t have to do it if I don’t want to” attitude. So they’re lazy, incurious, indifferent and basically bored by everything they do except going on lavish holidays and spending money. Their very privilege sanctions them against having to lift a bloody finger if they don’t feel like it. Neither of them seem to have the slightest sense of duty or committment to a cause or causes other than paying mere lip service then fucking off in their private helicopters to their private abodes and living their lives in a gilded cage. Utterly useless wankers.
Just a note that someone put together work numbers through May and William is out worked by every major royal except Kate. Even the EIGHTY year old Duke of Gloucester has worked more.
So he’s out worked by an eighty year old, an almost eighty year old with cancer, two seventy something women with inconsistent health (Camilla and the injured Anne) , and two sixty year olds, one of whom is looking increasingly unwell.
These figures are shocking.
If the Prime Minister can’t control W&K, surely the trustees of the DofC, who channel the £23m a year profits to W, are neglectful in not insisting on a return for all that money?
Sort it out!
Every single parent around the world from the beginning of time to the end of time have had to manage work/life responsibilities even without unlimited funds, a team of full time support staff and close by retired grandparents. These 2 just don’t want to, which is fine if they give up the titles and funding or at least negotiate an half in half out arrangement…but therein lies the problem…they want the fame and money but don’t want to fulfill the duties that go with it.
I honestly think he wants a Duke of Westminster arrangement… billions, pet projects and interest groups, and show up only very rarely to “the people” within the Duchy to show their “goodwill.” Mark my words this is what he’s going for…
I don’t understand why Charles lets them get away with this, especially considering how hard working he has always been.
Because he feels guilty and also doesn’t know how to really parent someone who isn’t self-motivated with a sense of duty.
The title alone of this article gave me special joy after a crappy day. Thank you!!! Compare the top pic of Will as compared to his pics with Sophie. His hand is clenched and his face looks grim here. Kate is about to do jazz hands and walks slightly ahead of Will and his dark looks. He should just divorce Kate and marry his aunt (by marriage).
And who knew “doing things their own way” was code for doing nothing and has been all along?
It’s been going on forever and the time to do something about it is long gone. The press and Charles have no power over William and he knows it. He doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to . Before Meghan it was workshy Willy and Dolittle Kate. The public will just take it. I know people like to say the monarchy is in trouble but I don’t see that at all. There isn’t much action to do anything about it, just some shoulder shrugging and the performative not my king signs(I enjoy the photos with those signs in the background but it doesn’t go farther than that) He’ll be a king that goes to sporting events in between vacations, and gets a yearly raise, while people grumble but do nothing about it.
Jaded, perfectly and eloquently stated.