Pre-pandemic, Queen Elizabeth II was already moving over to Windsor Castle, a relocation born out of necessity given the costly renovation project for Buckingham Palace. It’s a decade-long restoration, renovation and modernization for a drafty, outdated old palace, and the whole project costs the British taxpayers £369 million. Currently, King Charles is still based out of Clarence House when he’s in London, but he conducts events at BP, like garden parties and meetings with diplomats and politicians. Charles’s convenient line is that of course he’ll live in BP when the renovations are done, but until then (2027), he’s just staying put in Clarence House. The way Prince William and Kate are making it sound, they simply have no plans to live in Buckingham Palace or even use it for state events when they’re king and queen. Sources have indicated that William thinks BP should be open to the public full-time, all while he lives in his multiple forever-homes, Forest Lodge and Anmer Hall and Kensington Palace. Now Ingrid Seward claims that everyone always knew that William will refuse to move into BP.
“William was never going to move into Buckingham Palace,” Ingrid Seward, royal biographer and Editor-in-Chief of Majesty Magazine, tells HELLO! in this week’s edition. “He has never had any fondness for it, and he probably hasn’t spent much time there. The Queen and Prince Philip were devastated when they had to move out of Clarence House; Winston Churchill told them that the Queen had to live in a palace. But that was then, and this is now. Maybe Buckingham Palace will open to the public all year round, rather than only in the summer, and they will use Windsor Castle for banquets.”
Royal insiders say that their new home’s location will enable the Prince and Princess, who regularly do the school run, to remain “hands-on” parents. Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, ten, and Prince Louis, seven, currently attend nearby Lambrook School in Berkshire. After his 13th birthday next July, George is set to move schools, with Eton College tipped to be the frontrunner.
“I think William will be a hands-on father as well as a monarch, which is quite difficult, but I think he will manage it by changing the way that things are run, including being more self-sufficient and not being reliant on the taxpayer,” Ingrid tells HELLO!. “He is quite visionary, and can see that the monarchy has to change in order to survive.”
“He is quite visionary.” Trying to make a silk purse out a sow’s ear. It’s not “visionary” to be lazy and entitled! And what I keep coming back to is…if it was common knowledge that Charles doesn’t want to live in BP and William was always going to refuse to live there, why the costly restoration? If everyone knew that BP would just be used as a museum and maybe for a handful of state occasions, why not just live with the ruins? Make some updates so that it’s up to whatever building code (does BP have to adhere to building codes??), but the whole point of the restoration was to make it HABITABLE. To make it more functional for the monarch in residence and the staff needed to run the palace as a home.
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Peggs is no visionary. But he must keep up with that school run
Is William and Kate becoming part-time royals ??? somebody please explain 😳😳
Becoming? Arguably, they already are and always have been except for brief moments here and there, especially while the sussexes were around.
i would say they’ve never even been part-time.
Again telling us they are quitting without saying they’re quitting. Yesterday’s piece about it being a “destiny” instead of a duty is clear.
Hope he’s got the “vision” that his so-called ‘reign’ will be the ignominious end of the monarchy…LOL! And the Brit taxpayers can cheer as they get back the billions that have been syphoned off by the inbred nonentities currently waiting in the wings to step into the roles they’re blatantly unsuited for!
“including being more self-sufficient and not being reliant on the taxpayer”
Ding ding ding! You read it first from Sewer – Willy’s giving up the duchy income 😂
The line actually sounds like Harry. More wishful thinking from the rats. Willy wants Harry’s life.
Unfortunately I wonder if Ingrid meant giving up the smaller sovereign grant, not the duchies. Which is the least he could do for minimal work. I’m in the camp that thinks the duchies should be returned to the people, and in fact many lawyers argue the duchies never belonged to William or Charles in the first place (read former MP and Privy Counselor Norman Baker’s excellent book, “And What Do You Do,” or Baker has another book on the royals coming out soon). But William has no other source of so-called “self” funding than his duchy, so Ingrid probably didn’t mean that. And William is definitely not giving up publicly-funded security.
I don’t think the SG is smaller than they duchy incomes.
Ingrid needs to retire. The constant chatter about keens being hands on parents is so patronizing . Parents that work for a living are hands on.
Does visionary now mean lazy and entitled? They sure are performing some amazing gymnastics to make Forest Lodge a palatable idea. A hands on father who does school runs? George will soon go to boarding school so that leaves Charlotte and Louis. So what they are trying to sell is the King will handle school runs? GTFO with this load of shit.
“including being more self-sufficient and not being reliant on the taxpayer,” LMFAO. This woman has truly lost her rabid mind! 😂
Peggs could brag to Trump i am a hands on dad and do all the school runs.
Ingrid said they “regularly” do the school runs. Which, honestly, could mean doing the first day of school every year, posing for pap shots, and then letting RPS handle the runs the rest of the year.
It could also mean they don’t do it at all. But why is Huevo so desperate to promote himself as “hands on” Dad. And it’s said over 1000 times now.
He’s promoting himself as a hands-on dad because it’s all he has. His tiny little children need him to stay at home while they’re in school, and that’s why he does no work.
This is so funny – I would never say “I am hands on mom” or “I do school runs regularly”, because I am a mom and I simply do school runs because otherwise my young kids would no be able to go to school 😀 they are so out of touch and think their comments are so relatable
It’s also a direct slap at his father who has been (in)famously characterized as a hands off father.
Another useless article telling us what William is “going to do” where in reality he’s still doing “bugger-all.” £500 million a year plus security is a high price to pay for a family who promise the country so much when they in fact deliver very little. Privatise the lot of them, then let’s see how much VFM they’re really worth.
Interesting how those gutter rats pull out the school runs as if this is unique to the Wales. William is a narcissistic loser who wants everything while doing nothing. His brother should be supporting him as his servant. He hates his brother’s wife and do not trust her purely because she enabled her husband to see his worth and upset his vision of what a spare’s life should do and be. The only vision he has is one of privilege without effort, title without responsibility, adulation without reciprocation. when his kids are young adults, I wonder what excuse those folks will use for not doing anything.
The Middle Yahs are the most critical period in a person’s life, don’t you know. Time for another project for kkkate.
Love to see her take on the Teenage Yahhhs with her three kids.
Also, they act like William will be doing the school run as monarch. George is likely to go to Eton next year, so that’s one kid who no longer needs to be “run” to school each day. Charlotte will likely board at Marlborough two years after that and then Louis isn’t far behind her. The most they’re looking at is 4 more years, maybe 5, of “school runs.”
The clock is ticking for the Wales using that as an excuse.
They’ve got to be plotting what to do for when that day comes. It almost makes me wonder if William would be okay with his kids going to day school instead of Eton or another boarding school bc then he could still use the school run as a reason for everything.
Bet they’ll move again. For the children, dontcha know. 😏
London is the capital of the state he is going to be the bald head of. No, he cannot work at Windsor Castle.
It’s not “visionary” to be lazy and entitled, but figuring out how to get a pass on it just might be! The thing is, he’s not really doing that, either. Even the RR, aside from Ingrid here, is calling bullshit (albeit annoyingly gently) on his scheme. William doesn’t care, because he’s counting on the public’s complacency. The polls keep saying that the majority are either supportive or indifferent towards the monarchy, don’t they?
How is William as King going to be self sufficient and not reliant on the taxpayers? This is such a ridiculous statement. The only way he could do that is if the monarchy is abolished. But Ingrid Seward has highlighted one thing and that is William wants Harry’s life.
Self sufficient is the last thing Willy boy is! He has Kate, Ma Midds, Jason, 68 personal staff, his endless hatred for his brother and SIL, the Firm, the establishment, BM, SG, duchy income, cash in Harrods bags, endless freebies, TopGun slippers, Trump patting him on the head, Beckham and Blanchet grovelling at his feet( okay BAFTA actresses cringed at his jokes!) Bear Grylls he ain’t!!
The links the rota rats will go to to polish the turd that is Billy Idle is unreal. Ingrid Sewer’s latest bootlicking gibberish is a prime example. Nauseating stuff.
The way they keep flogging the “fresh start” theme over & over, like a talking point out of context, à propos de nada, just reminds me of the stories that alcoholics tell themselves about turning a corner, a fresh start, etc. …like, a home move is a pretty mundane operation, even if the home in question is a mansion, it’s not like they’re moving boxes themselves. People do it all the time… it just feels like this narrative gets recycled to cover for something else. Some chronic festering predicament that no one can see the end of, hence, paradoxically, the need to exhort the audience to imagine a change in direction. It’s pretty crude propaganda.
I don’t believe for a second they’re moving, they’re adding another home. Just as when they left KP–it’s still theirs, still has their stuff in it, still has their furniture, etc., etc. I bet they keep their stuff in Adelaide, too–Kate’s picking out all ‘new’ stuff from the royal warehouses, nothing’s getting moved. That’ll be somebody’s little getaway place, home office, etc. ‘Office’, who am I kidding, maybe man cave for Billy Boy & his football watching buddies.
Are the members of the rota paid a royalty (heh heh) for every time they mention the school run? What is with the fixation on this? It’s like they are legally required to mention the most holy school run in every single article they publish. I got news for them – repeating it a billion times does not make it any more believable.
And that cover….a fresh start for Kate as she walks off looking into the distance carrying a bag, leaving behind her teeny husband and children who all look like a bonded happy unit without her…
Oh, my. This is to reply to @Jillinil, GOOD CATCH. My, my. That is…. Brilliant. Lol.
I’ve been enjoying and appreciating a lot of your comments over the past few days as well! You seem to have a good eye for propaganda 🙂
Yeah, good catch, JillinIL … Kate looks like she could be catching a train in that photo … (as if she’d ever use public transportation willingly).
Yes it was a real choice, as Kaiser said. Kate solo, willy with the kids.
yeah that cover is…..interesting.
my theory with the school run is that they used it once a decade ago and people were like “omg what amazing parents! They can’t possibly work!” so they have kept using it for years and years even though its lost all meaning now.
Kate didn’t even bother to go with George on his first day of school. And it was a long car journey of about an hour.
I really don’t understand why they can’t live where they want with Buckingham Palace being “the office,” basically. On days when you have to come into the office, you go to BP. Those days would include state occasions, etc. The nice thing about the office is that you can also get ready there, sleep over after a long night, etc. These people could complicate a fart, as my dad used to say. And I’m so sick of “the school run” being why they can’t do a damn thing. They want to be so middle class but millions of middle class parents get up, get ready, get the kids to school, and get to work without all the “help” that Peg an Lazy have at their disposal.
I think the angst about William not wanting to live in BP is more about the fear he will not be working in BP, if at all. If he’s having to commute from Forest Lodge everyday for work, what’s the likely hood that he’ll even feel like traveling to London for his duties? This is a man who has established that he won’t even do investitures at Windsor castle that are in walking distance to Adelaide, where he supposedly lives, because of the damn school run. He is not about to be a present monarch traipsing to BP everyday to work. The BM is using his living arrangements to get around talking about how he will not fulfill his responsibilities as monarch.
That’s what the Swedes have been doing for like 50 years now with their main palace. Plus it’s open year round, except during state visits, with 3 different museums on the grounds. Turns out giant palaces can be multi purpose
So this is where I think W&K are purposely complicating things.
the idea of BP for the head of state isn’t just for appearance – its also meant to help streamline security, staff, etc. Its much easier for the monarch’s staff if they know the monarch will be at BP daily for months on end, minus the summer at Balmoral and winter stretch at Sandringham when the monarch typically works a lot less so needs less of the staff that is focused on the state aspect of being the monarch.
There’s also a symbolic aspect to it – the monarch resides at Buckingham Palace.
this also boils down to the idea of how much taxpayer money is going to support W&K at their various residences when they have BP right there? Honestly even KP is overprotected at this point considering who lives there. And why is BP being renovated if its never going to be a residence again?
but if W&K have already established residence at a few different houses they can just say ‘why bother moving since security has already been set up, staff is here etc.”
But at the end of the day I think all of this handwringing over Forest Lodge is because everyone now fully realizes that William is not going to work – not as prince of wales, not as king. Many of us assumed that but I think a lot of the rota and courtiers assumed he would eventually step up. this is his saying “nope.” he’s not taking a helicopter to BP every day. he will barely go to Windsor Castle once a week if I had to guess.
There’s less pressure for charles to move because he has a London base that he uses regularly and he works regularly. No one thinks he’s using the renovations at BP as an excuse to avoid work.
but William 100% is going to use Forest lodge to avoid work, and that’s sending a lot of people into a panic.
It doesn’t help that of the eleventy billion explanations William has floated for this move, none of them include any mention of work. Ok, so he’ll be at Forest Lodge – how does he expect to fulfill his duties from there? Ok, so he wants to eliminate a zillion patronages – tell the people what he’s working on instead – use work words, even if no work will ever be done. Update what’s happening with Earthshot, or the housing project, or what the Royal Trust is supporting – anything to make it look like some work is going on behind the scenes, even if he hasn’t lifted a finger for any of them. Instead, all the people hear is privacy, seclusion, the school run and mumble mumble fresh start.
This plus the VJ no show upset a lot of people because they have been a wishing and a hoping that Will was going to snap out of it and prove his mettle. It is crystal clear that Will isn’t going to divorce or abdicate and take any flack. Instead we have the cowardly and dishonest option of William parking his wife at the Lodge and hiding behind her and the kids and modernization to do as little as possible. Yes he intends to enjoy the fruits of other people’s labour whilst in return being very reluctant with a big R to appear in public or work behind the scenes.Breathtakingly dishonest really but we have the nauseating PR bingo of school runs/ laser focus/ moderniser / devoted husband to be sprayed at us by the BM.
“There’s also a symbolic aspect to it – the monarch resides at Buckingham Palace”
Only since the twentieth century. The monarchy existed for 800 years before the palace was even built.
@Preston – Queen Victoria made BP her residence in 1837.
The repairs to Buck House needed to be done whether or not the king lives there. Unsafe wiring, old plumbing, etc. Even if just kept as a museum for visitors these updates are necessary.
@Preston that’s not the winning argument you think it is. For modern purposes, BP is associated as the residence of the monarch. the balcony appearances, the flyovers, the changing of the guard, etc.
William refusing to live there because something something school run is just…..well, thats also not a winning argument.
@Betsy sure. The wiring and plumbing need to be updated, I’m sure there are mold concerns, etc. But I’m also sure the perspective is different if you are renovating the home of the monarch vs another museum.
And again this all comes back to the idea that William is just refusing to work. he refused to work as duke of cambridge, he’s refusing to work as PoW, and he will refuse to work as king.
@preston I get your point. They existed without it once why can’t they again. But the symbolism is huge with BP as it’s been seen as *the* royal residence since the advent of photography let alone film. It’s where the great modern moments have occurred—the royal weddings, the VE Day celebrations, post coronation appearances etc.
I think if William kept his KP apartments as “home” and didn’t live at BP but rather it was used for official and ceremonial purposes, where William could drive over to “work”, that would be fine. Certainly Charles has proven that with CH and it’s not even a palace. But not all the way out in Windsor. And William wants to be squirrelly and contrary to boot.
How can a visionary ignore his base who are monarchists. They want a good, old fashioned King, not a visionary who is ignoring the very people who keep him in power. As Meghan said, I know my audience. William does not know his audience.
At this point, his audience are the rats.
There’s an old Greek saying that suffers in translation, but is basically “The pooping bird takes his ass with him.” Whether William is here or there, he’s still William.
That saying sounds so much more colorful than “no matter where you go, there you are’!
This aggrieved UK taxpayer keeps mulling over the Chinese proverb, take what you want AND PAY FOR IT! Only it seems that FK is all take, no give and WE, the tax payer are paying for it, whether we want to or not!
Are school buses a thing in the UK? It seems like it would be soooo much traffic if every single “normal” child has a parent in their own car dropping them off picking them up every day.
I think it’s on the private schools to provide bus services for nonlocal students. Considering the tuition and that most of the parents probably have jobs and/or don’t want the drive everyday, Lambrook has several minibus pickup spots, including one in London and one in Windsor. But I don’t think the Wales kids would be able to use them for security issues.
High school children (age 11-16) can walk to a designated bus stop, which might be quite far away, and take the school bus, which is a standard public transport bus that’s been assigned to do the school run, and has cheaper bus fare. We don’t have school buses that stop at individual childrens houses to pick them up, which I’ve seen in American films. So it’s not considered safe for primary school age children (4-11) and we don’t have school buses for them. Children are driven or walked to school by an adult. Some 10-11 yr olds are allowed to walk by themselves.
When I was 5/ 6 I went to a friends house every morning and then her mum drove us to school. Except sometimes she made us walk a long way to a bus stop, catch a public bus to another bus stop and then walk the rest of the way. When my mum found out she went bananas. It was considered a crazy thing to allow.
@Cairidh: typically, there are designated school bus stops in the US. I don’t know what films you see where the bus stops right in front of each kid’s home–the designated stop may be in front of one kid’s home, but that’s about it. Even in rural areas, there’s a designated stop & you’ve got to get yourself there somehow. (Some kids spend hours on a school bus each day.).
My guess is, in the films you’ve seen, this has been a director’s choice–by someone who’s never ridden a school bus.
And while I could have ridden a bus in junior high, I chose to walk the mile & a half instead. Ditto for mid high; had to take the bus in senior high until a friend got a car. Earlier in my life, in a different state & different school, we took the bus. Hated it. That school had kids grades K-8 & some of those older kids were just nightmares on the bus.
People do however often share car rides with friends and neighbours so there might be one car with four children climbing out.
Ah, thank you.
at bottom, William’s attitude begs questions about what the sovereign actually *does* that are not easy to answer because the constitution is famously unwritten. I mean. The late Queen did have access to all the Cabinet papers, court judgments, selection of crown prosecutors, bishops’ edicts, synods, PM weekly audiences, armed forces staff planning & procurement, and a whole lot more…. Basically you get a no-holds-barred top-level access to every aspect of the British state, and that’s before you talk about the Commonwealth, the crown territories and dependencies and tax havens, as well as allies, and I don’t know but imagine access to intelligence of all kinds, by request, but it’s the sort of thing where you’d have to know what to ask for, it’s not like picking from a menu, famously George VI wasn’t told about D-Day because he wasn’t cleared for it. I would think the system can survive someone who is not interested / not engaged / not involved because it is designed to maintain its own equilibrium. But to have someone with that kind of access, who is at the service of another kind of power, with another agenda? That would be a show stopper. I think William tends more toward apathy than intrigue. Which is kind of … meh. Okay? I guess.
That’s what I was thinking. He’s not going to bother reading whatever is contained in those red boxes & he will likely sign whatever he’s asked to sign by the PM of the day (without reading it, natch), and…fine. He’ll be ignorant of everything going on in his country & the world & won’t care a whit, in any case, as long as he can pop off to Greece whenever he feels like it.
William loves to do the school run, doesn’t want to do the work of a monarch, and wants to reduce the burden on taxpayers? The solution is clear. The UK should abolish the monarchy and William can get a job as a bus driver.
Excellent solution really.
This “hands on” father allowed his newborn baby, his heir and future king, to be precariously carried down a dangerous flight of aircraft stairs by a woman who was clearly teetering on stilettos as she made her way down all by her lonesome. And for some weird reason, the children of this devoted, hands on father, always look stressed as hell when they are near him. We keep being told William is hands on, but what does that really mean when you see three children who always look like hostages when they are in his vicinity?
I always 🙄 so hard whenever a fancy new manager came in who referred to themselves as Big Picture people. Because guess who gets landed with figuring out the execution 😄…
Ha! I know exactly what you mean! Beware the Big Picture people!
What will be their excuse when these kids are in their late teens? Twenties? Thirties? The days are long and the years are short. These kids will age out of the “school run” just like that. Also, I’m a single mom who works 55-60 hours a week at a pretty demanding corporate job and I still do the school run every day. Just saying, I could probably king my ass off if this is the metric.
“king my ass off” 💀
I have had it with the stupid school runs. 🙄
Surely Prince Earthshot and Princess Ahly Yahs could afford to sponsor a bus route or two from the school to cover the main catchment areas.
They’re trolling us. No way will they stay at Forest Lodge after Charles passes. The line will be , “the people have spoken and we’ll move into (insert name of palace,castle) . We don’t want to, alas we feel we must.”
This seems like the likeliest scenario to me. Although, it looks to me like they are maybe setting up Kate to stay there as her forever home. For her health, don’t you know.
I totally agree with this, Henny Penny.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they moved to Sandringham full time.
There’s no way at least William doesn’t move into Windsor castle either officially or unofficially imo. I can believe not wanting to live at BP because everyone has always pretty much detested it.
and that’s what makes this whole thing so weird. Does anyone here actually think that after becoming king, william isn’t going to upgrade to Windsor or BP or Sandringham on a full time basis? His title and status as heir/future king (and someday king) is all he has going for him. he’s going to take full advantage of that. And honestly that’s what people expect from kings – that they live in castles. So they could move to WC with very little pushback (besides the whole BP vs WC thing) because that’s what monarchs do.
So then why is KP trying to insist that Forest lodge is their forever home and they’re not going to move even when he’s king? I think that’s part of what is ticking off the press – the gaslighting here.
William looks better than usual in these photos. Maybe one of his vacations was to have work done on his jaw lines.
Why the heck is he so gaunt?? It’s wildly obvious in the one group shot of them walking. Seems pretty clear he wore the double-breasted jacket (and grew the beard!) to try to hide it. Maybe it won’t matter for very long whether he wants to live in BP or not.
There is a cosmo article out there speaking with a few neighbours who weren’t kicked out and they said there is a non stop parade of trucks there. The article also discusses the infra red cameras and other security measure which they estimate to be around 10 million.
There is no way the taxpayers won’t cover that.
Will any of the neighbours get invited in for coffee or a get to know us party? After all surely Kate wants to christen the 24 seater dining table as soon as possible?
She doesn’t know how to make more than six brownies at a time, though. She’ll have to batch the guests.
I think it’s disingenuous to pretend it doesn’t need work whether someone lives there or not. Apparently the roof leaks and the electrical hasn’t been redone in 100 years. Those things have to happen whether the King William’s family of 5 moves in or not.
I’d argue that it’s better to spend the money renovating a museum that’s regularly used for public and paid private events than it would be to spend the money just so the current Waleses can eventually live there.
Now, it’s not visionary. This whole summer plot line is stupid. But on its face, BP needs renovation unless they’re going to tear it down.
I agree. And it would likely go down better as renovating a historic landmark to use for the public and tourists to visit rather than it being just an office and unloved home.
then the money should not come from the sovereign grant which is meant to fund the working royals. It should be funded the same way the Tower of London is funded.
I think the reason some are side-eyeing this is that the royals have used “BP renovations” as a way to increase the SG and then they can’t ever get a lower amount. So it feels very convenient that now the line is “well of course they won’t live there.”
Different kind of renos needed for living vs. museum/offices, particularly if the living space is to be occupied by people who need security. It’s going to be way more than simply taking care of the asbestos problem or old pipes (my building just went through a total pipe replacement, which took forever & it’s only an 11-story building!) or wiring for wifi.
And they can’t just place it into arrested decay. It’s too important, symbolically.
Will may be a “hands on” dad but he sure as hell ain’t going to be a “hands on” 👑. Abdication would part him from all the good things in life and consign his reputation to hell. He’s on the gravy train and has no intention of surrendering the money, power, property, titles, security and goodwill. He’s never had to work before and gotten away with it for so long, why would things change? Jason has a cunning plan that under the guise of modernisation KW continues just to attend splashy events and football finals like always. Once he’s King he calls the shots and will have even more money and power and who can make him do anything then ?
William wants to be more self sufficient and not rely on tax payers’ money??? Yeah, right. Is it not the taxpayers of that dukedom of Cornwall that make him a billionaire? Tssss! The brown nosing of all these so called royal experts is nauseating
They split hairs and play semantics games. To them getting rents and whatnot from the Duchies isn’t taxpayer money. It’s just their personal income. You know they define that as coming directly from monies paid into the Treasury. Like their security costs do.
He’s not well educated nor skilled enough to live independently. Harry, I’m sure, shocked them all by proving he was capable of taking care of himself; Billy Boy just isn’t. That Geography degree & part-time assistant pilot on the rescue ‘copter just didn’t prepare him for anything.
News from the inside is that BP is full of asbestos and infested with rats.
No doubt, but they have the knowledge & tools for abatement–it just needs to be done. Stop funneling that money elsewhere.
Lambrook school reopens a week next Wednesday 3 September. After the arduous school run and a two month holiday when do we reckon FK will next “work”? Dare we expect anything before the Trump visit or will both he and madam be too busy supervising the Forrest Lodge move to bother with blessing the peasants with an appearance?
I expect them both to do something on September 8th to try to take focus away from Prince Harry’s Wellchild award appearance.
Not being reliant on the taxpayer?? Say what???
There’s the matter of housing the staff machinery that supports the monarchy. Is that not in BP? I’d hazard a guess that William probably lives at KP. He could receive the prime minister there, but since BP has been touted as monarchy head-quarters, it seems absurd that it wouldn’t be kept as working offices. The sovereign doesn’t actually have to live above the shop these days, but he/she should certainly be in London to do most official business. I can imagine William not keeping up with official papers, and doing away with the weekly meeting with the PM. However, that would mean that the sovereign appears to have nothing to do with being head of state, and surely that can’t be good if people begin asking what exactly does he do for half a billion dollars a year? It seems likely that William will be king while George is still a minor, so he won’t need his own staff for years.
Can I substitute “quitting in plain sight” for “visionary”? He’s like a little kid refusing to come out of his room to avoid a noisome chore. Being king is William’s noisome chore and he won’t come out of his room.