Inevitably, I struggle to say anything nice about Prince William, so I’ll start off by noting something a bit nice(ish): he’s really so much happier and more relaxed when he has a solo day out. There’s something about William doing events with his wife that makes him look completely miserable. These are photos of William in Cornwall on Thursday. He did normal “Duke of Cornwall” events – planted a tree, chatted with local firefighters, said hello to some local kids. But his happiest moments of the day came at the Gear Farm Pasty Company, a Cornish farm which produces “pasties,” a local delicacy.
It was at Gear Farm where William got to perform a series of “Normal Bill” skits which delighted him to no end. He answered the business line and “took an order” (screechingly funny for Bill!). He worked the walk-by window long enough to pose for photos (delightful optics among the peasants!). He complained about trying to make a pasty himself, and “joked” about Kate should be there to bake rather than him (everyday sexism!). Granted, every royal is expected to perform some skits when they do these kinds of visits. King Charles is a shockingly good sport about wearing whatever he’s given and posing with random machines, food items or trees. But there’s something really unsettling about William and Kate’s skits and their “delight” in acting like peasants for a couple of hours (if that).
Meanwhile, William got heckled at some point in Cornwall. The “heckle” was one man asking in a normal volume, “How long have you known about Andrew?” Some biddy hushes the man and William hears the question but doesn’t answer. I imagine it was particularly awkward because there were so few people around in general. Even worse is that a policeman then bitched out the “heckler” and tried to say that you can’t ask the heir to the throne about his degenerate uncle who was recently arrested by the police. I mean…???
🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: William has been heckled in Cornwall over his complicity in the Andrew scandal. We can't let the royals dodge accountability. We need to know what he knew and when. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein pic.twitter.com/l19s0bYSzl
— Republic (@RepublicStaff) March 5, 2026
Prince William takes a large order for pasties to help out staff at Gear Farm Pasty Company on their busiest day of the year.
The Duke of Cornwall is visiting Cornwall to mark St Piran's Day and meet local communities impacted by storm Storm Goretti.
🎥Polly Webb / Gear Farm pic.twitter.com/XiYc35nxQE
— Cameron Walker (@CameronDLWalker) March 5, 2026
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Cornwall while in Cornwall, tries his hand at crimping pasties during his visit to the Gear Farm Pasty Company, a family-run farm known for producing traditional Cornish pasties in St Martin, Helston, as he visits Cornwall for St Piran’s Day. Picture date: Thursday March 5, 2026. PA Photo.,Image: 1080343976, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon
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- The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Cornwall while in Cornwall, answers the phone to a customer at the shop during his visit to the Gear Farm Pasty Company, a family-run farm known for producing traditional Cornish pasties in St Martin, Helston, as he visits Cornwall for St Piran’s Day. Picture date: Thursday March 5, 2026.,Image: 1080347369, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon
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- The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Cornwall while in Cornwall, answers the phone to a customer at the shop during his visit to the Gear Farm Pasty Company, a family-run farm known for producing traditional Cornish pasties in St Martin, Helston, as he visits Cornwall for St Piran’s Day. Picture date: Thursday March 5, 2026.,Image: 1080347378, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Duke of Cornwall during a visit to Cornwall on St Piran’s Day, the county’s national day. The Prince began his visit at the Gear Farm Pasty Company. The Prince was given a tour of the bakery to see pasty production in progress, met staff, and took part in pasty-making. He also visited the farm’s vegetable stall. To mark his visit, The Prince planted a tree in a new woodland area being established on the farm.,Image: 1080348348, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Prince of Wales during a visit to Helston Community Fire Station to thank firefighters and multi-agency responders who worked tirelessly during and after Storm Goretti. A round-table discussion brought together senior leaders and responders to reflect on lessons learned and the cohesion shown across Cornish communities during the storm.,Image: 1080348508, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Duke of Cornwall during a visit to Cornwall on St Piran’s Day, the county’s national day. The Prince began his visit at the Gear Farm Pasty Company. The Prince was given a tour of the bakery to see pasty production in progress, met staff, and took part in pasty-making. He also visited the farm’s vegetable stall. To mark his visit, The Prince planted a tree in a new woodland area being established on the farm.,Image: 1080348521, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Prince of Wales during a visit to Helston Community Fire Station to thank firefighters and multi-agency responders who worked tirelessly during and after Storm Goretti. A round-table discussion brought together senior leaders and responders to reflect on lessons learned and the cohesion shown across Cornish communities during the storm.,Image: 1080348541, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Prince of Wales during a visit to Helston Community Fire Station to thank firefighters and multi-agency responders who worked tirelessly during and after Storm Goretti. A round-table discussion brought together senior leaders and responders to reflect on lessons learned and the cohesion shown across Cornish communities during the storm.,Image: 1080348582, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
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- 05/03/2026. Helston, UK. The Prince of Wales during a visit to Helston Community Fire Station to thank firefighters and multi-agency responders who worked tirelessly during and after Storm Goretti. A round-table discussion brought together senior leaders and responders to reflect on lessons learned and the cohesion shown across Cornish communities during the storm.,Image: 1080348620, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image is free for use but may only be used for news or editorial reporting purposes. This image must NOT be used for any commercial or other use, save for news or editorial reporting and cannot be altered or amended in any manner or form whatsoever. All rights reserved., Model Release: no, Credit line: Pete Maclaine/Avalon
Scooter is not wearing gloves when handling food. The keens have chefs and cooks to prepare food.
Neither is the person next to him, and no hair net/hat either. I’ll definitely never be eating a Gear Farm pasty.
I’ve had pasties. I don’t think you can hurt them by not wearing gloves and a hairnet. The French Canadian branch of my family comes from the Keewenaw peninsula in Michigan’s upper peninsula. There is a large Cornish population there descended from the Cornish immigrants who used to work the copper mines. Pasties were a staple of the miners’ diets being easy to carry into the mines.
I mean, I’ve had pasties as well, and the person with the gloves and hat on is doing it right. You don’t want hair in the filling or on the dough.
@Becks1: lol! It was a joke. Probably a bad one but…I don’t find them a delicacy.
They should be eating pepperoni rolls. Traditional West Virginia miners meal. So well liked in WV they sell it in every gas station and grocery store, but you won’t find any by lunchtime, because they sell out!
Amazing to me how folks support this as work. Good grief.
what on earth is that police officer thinking?! he is perfectly within his rights to question Willy about anything he likes. he was polite and spoke at a normal volume, there was no name calling hence he was not arrested – he did nothing wrong. FFS.
Yeah, worse than the heckler, it’s hearing the overly obsequious way people are defending the poor heir to throne …for being asked a question. Of course that man can ask a question. Whew, they’ve lost the plot.
I suppose anyone who turns out to see the lemon-faced Thumb is going to be a royalist, so obsequiousness is par for the course with that crowd. The crowds do seem to be getting smaller and smaller, though.
See this is what I don’t understand. You can’t simultaneously be so special that you can’t be expected to answer questions about scandals involving the country or your family as a royal and the heir, but also be deserving of hundreds of millions of pounds per year because of your inherited skill at diplomacy, and soft power and ability to connect to the masses.
This is politics 101. He should have some sort of canned answer ready for this, and I’m sure he has received tons of media training over the years. If he did hire a crisis PR manager they really suck. They all should have canned answers ready, and answers planned on what to say even if they get stuck or someone yells something on the fly.
He’s already got his canned response: we are very much not a pedo family. I wonder why he didn’t whip that one out again?
@SussexWatcher 😂😂😂, I just can’t!!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
YES!! Where is their PR team?? ANY PR team!?!?!? They all should have a canned answer or two for any question about Andrew. Ignoring it and getting on with making pasties is just…..well, not the thing IMO.
But…but…surely they shot their load with “recollections may vary”? They are now just stunned stupid.
I kind of love the way the man answered that it’s the only chance he’s had to speak with William, like they’ve been trying to connect and have been just missing each other every time, lol
Considering he’s done the taking an order skit before, I’m guessing that the “customer” was a member of staff at KP. Plus, absolutely no one will be complaining that William wasn’t wearing gloves to prepare the food.
If he “takes an order”, shouldn’t he write it down? Including the name and address of the “customer”? Has no one in his PR team ever taken an order? At least try to make it look believable!
This reminds me of trump ‘working’ at McDonald’s. Neither one has worked a real job in their lives & it showed.
Prince william of Arabia(?) is giving Freddy Krueger vibes! Could these vibes relate to what the royal propaganda media is covering for the heir? “Good things” are never usually covered up by those people.
William treats every visit to a business like he’s on Undercover Boss.
Or a bring your child to work day. Look at him answer the phone, Marge, he’s such a big boy now!
Hahha such a big boy. Lol. I don’t understand why they can’t come up with any other concept for these visits. Same choreography time after time. He is only 43, decades more for visits and I’m already bored. We are supposed to be charmed when a Prince of the realm awkwardly does notmal people things. It could work if there was any sense of mistery left around them. But there isn’t, in this day and age we all know they are just people like everyone else. KC is only marginally more creative but still. I’m still waiting for photos about the fire ritual/ceremony KC did for leaders of various faithes. Peggington would never.
omg yes. Its so awkward to watch sometimes. He thinks its hilarious to cosplay a normal person working for minimum wage (or the equivalent in the UK.) then he goes home to his mansion via helicopter with his millions in the bank. I dont know why they keep making him do these kinds of things.
Well at least he went to Cornwall.
Why do he and Keen think we constantly want to see their uvulas? Shut your mouths, you lazy lunatics, you’re scaring the children (and adults).
Seriously. And what is so funny about whatever order he’s taking? I doubt the normal, minimum wage order-taker finds every call they answer over their 8-hour shift so absolutely uproariously hilarious. 🙄
He really looks like Mr. Burns in the second photo of him on the phone.
He really does. I’ve felt that way for about the last decade. His profile, his posture, his personality, his greed. Yup.
And I assume these are the photos his team approved? Wow
Willy was such a handsome young man. His looks have completely gone to seed and match his character. He looks awful with the beard, but without it even the rota would question his thinness. He looks desperately ill for someone who regularly gloats in the rota that he can’t wait for his father to kick the bucket so he can be the bully king. Someone has yanked his choke chain hard to force him into doing this kind of event. How long until someone in the rota specifically points our how miserable the Wails look together?
I don’t think he’d look too thin without it.
The beard is truly not a good look for him, I know he’s stuck in his obsessive Harry loop but genuinely, William, from the bottom of my heart, the beard doesn’t look good on you and that’s okay! Some people look better clean shaven, and William is one of them.
I’m going to be nice today and just say that the pasties look good.. I grew up mainly in the Upper Peninsula and they are very popular in that area I just thought were a lumberjack dish now I’m wondering where they originated lol they are delicious.
Food for miners, they didn’t eat the handle as there was nowhere to wash their hands,
Interesting, thank you. They mine (iron ore and copper I believe) in the UP so maybe it wasn’t the lumberjacks at all.🤔
In West Virginia the ‘pasty’ the miner food is a pepperoni roll. It’s filled with…pepperoni and cheese. It’s so popular, you can only buy it in the morning. Always sells out by lunch.
Yeah idk how is pasty just a “local delicacy” of a particular part of England when they make them all over Michigan including multiple shops in Detroit which is literally in another country on the other side of planet earth 🤷🏻
They make them everywhere lol but “Cornish pasty” is definitely a thing, it just got exported. And there are different variations of it obviously.
Personally I find the concept of dough wrapped filling fascinating because every culture has it – calzones, burritos or quesadillas, empanadas, pierogies, potstickers/dumplings, etc. I get the convenience factor but its one of those things that just fascinates me because of how food culture evolved globally.
Wrap the expensive ingredients in pastry, makes the expensive bit go further. Cornish Pasties can only be made in Cornwall. At least on this side of the pond.
I see this as another example of England’s appropriation of other countries/cultures ideas and recipes. Recently had a relative visiting England. They told me about how curry recipes originated in England (because they were told so). Laughed hard.
Told them they need to research the history of food before they believe such nonsense.
The Cornish Pastie/y recipe originated from a Malawian chef.
https://tangerineandcinnamon.com/2011/06/18/malawian-cornish-pasties/
The children around scooter don’t look thrilled to be near him.
Don’t kids have a built-in BS meter! They see he is and aren’t impressed by his fakeness.
Per Wikipedia, Michigan had copper mines. Cornish miners would have emigrated to work your mines after the local ones were depleted.
Which is why you have pasties in Michigan.
Okay, just saying, this whole sub thread has been really interesting and informative.
Lol!! William always looks awkward to me. 😂
I gather he’s trying to connect with young people at these engagements so seemingly this event was coordinated to project those sort of images of him relating to young people. However, he looks so out of place as he gawks and mingles with his oversized teeth exposed in almost every photo. William = Awkward uncharismatic bully!!!
I guess being the Duke of Cornwall and owner of the Duchy land that those people’s homes and businesses are on means he can pop in at any time for an organized engagement and they are oblige to have him there. 🤷🏽♀️ I hope his presence boosted business sales for all the fuss. If it didn’t and sales were just same as usual or lesser, that would be disappointing. No one ever reports the financial impact of any royal engagement performed by the so-called ‘working royals’. 😔
There have been articles written and there isn’t any type of financial boost with these kinds of visits.
I’m waiting for the heckling to include verbal excoriation for busing in kids to pad their royal events. “When will you stop trafficking kids to royals?”
The rainy Wales event was creepy af.
Part of me wants to hope, that Totally Normal Thumb Boy Bill is taking the pasty hut work experience day seriously, building skills that will enable him to earn a living and provide for his family after the monarchy is dissolved and the state reclaims all their stolen wealth for the public good.
Even one offshore account could fund the NHS for years…
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There needs to be transparency regarding royal finances – the Duchy of Cornwall, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Crown Estates, the Sovereign Grant. The Windsors paid £17m to silence Virginia Giuffre and to cover up for and protect Andrew. Where did the money come from?
It’s sad that the victims seeking truth and accountability are being ignored. The sole protester was essentially speaking on behalf of the victims seeking truth and accountability. Kudos to him. Shame on William and the Windsors for using the police to ‘hassle’ the protester exercising his right to free speech.
Transparency of their finances is urgently needed and it’s to be hoped that the UK government is working on this now.
Things have changed forever for the RF post-Andrew, post W&K’s serious neglect of their duties whilst trousering £23m per annum and a recent move to yet another ‘forever home’. If that’s what they represent, they must all be paid salaries dependent on actual work done and the massive surpluses channelled to the UK homeless. I’m sure that’s what W&K, Anne, P Edward would like to see put in place……. Well, be nice to think so.
“Normal Bill” skit😂😂. He has however learned from his wife to over act with that big toothed smile and laugh. You’re right though he seems much better without his beloved wife!
Omg, every day he looks more and more stupid. The squinty eyes, the open mouth, the giant teeth – I googled “laughing donkey” – they’re twins.
OMG i almost spit out my coffee
I’m not proud to say this, but in the U.S., the lone “heckler” might have gotten more than a talking to–he could easily have been beaten and arrested (in self-defense by the officer) and maybe even shot as “a direct threat to the officer.” That’s what happened to two people by ICE in Minneapolis. England may be a shit country, but so is the U.S. these days.
I sadly agree.
Freedom of speech is just a fancy but empty phrase these days.
What. A. Twat.
Juicy ?? He said Juicy for Josie and laughed like a drain . If he were a real employee he would have had hell to pay.
How Marie Antoinette of them to think it’s a hoot to pretend at being peasants.
Wilbur and Kate just do little skits rather than anything serious, substantial or “impactful.” They are incongruous really because they are prematurely old and stuffy but whooping around like little kids going down slides. Are Wilbur and Kate being portrayed as royal pandas: fluffy, cute, non depraved, wholesome and innocent?!
This is embarrassing. All the photographers grabbing a photo of him taking a phone call. Enough with these childish “we’re coming to visit your workplace and pretend to be an employee for 5 seconds, then have a great laugh about how awful we are at it, and thank goodness we get to go back to our castles where everything is done for us, and we get paid millions a year”. And for the person who suggested Mr Burns, you absolutely nailed it!
I’m curious at what age people would have expected him to speak out about his uncle. I will agree that it is a hard venue for that type of question. Like something more appropriate for a sit down interview. Which really if he had any wits about him he would do. Talk about what he knew as a child, allow space for Beatrice and Eugenie to share their experience so he’s not doing that for them. If the crime and abhorrent behavior was continuing once William was an adult and understood his role in society and the monarchy, when he first felt that Andrew was a real threat to his family and the monarchy and what that was like. He now knows rich and powerful people all over the world, what is his experience with continued abuse and crimes of this nature, does he find it important as a prince and future king and as a father raising a daughter and sons to use his power and fame to stop these types of crimes and abuses? He could really use this as a moment but of course he won’t because he doesn’t have morals…
Honestly, it’s difficult for them to talk about Andrew and what they knew/when they knew it because the very act of doing so would be to frame his behavior as outside of the norm within the wider royal family. And that’s not true, at all. Thumbiam would have a very difficult time saying “this is what I knew as a child, this is when I was an adult and realized how awful Andrew’s behavior was” because…did that even happen? Did he ever really think Andrew’s behavior (sexual, financial) was horrible in and of itself when others in the family have engaged in or been close to people engaged in similar acts? Or did he just realize that exposure of that behavior was a threat? And crimes of that nature? If we’re talking sexual crimes, financial crimes, as I mentioned, all of that and more was tolerated within the family going back generations. The current PoW 1) does not have the skills to navigate an interview given that background, and 2) along with the rest of his family, does not want greater scrutiny on their actions as a whole.
I bet that every one of the members of the BRF get away with so many dodgy activities that they don’t even flinch when something like Andrew’s degenerate activities comes to light. They know their secrets/ habits/ proclivities will be protected for the most part and they they will still be able maintain their privilege not matter what. IMO if there were any true Justice in the world, Andrew would be serving the rest of his life in jail not living rent-free in a secure location and having his every need taken care of. The same with when Willnot attacked Harry when he refused to leave Meghan… by rights he shouldn’t have gotten off scot free but should have faced consequences like anyone else would have.
Nothing says I am an irrelevant royal than performing for the masses. I mean, come on. Future head of state and this egghead trolls around on a scooter, gurns like a Punch & Judy show.
Wank really is a balding demon like Kaiser says . He is getting uglier by the day
Remember when Scooter “sold burgers on the street” from his stall? There were tons of articles and raves about how crowds recognized him, how popular he was, how people were delighted, how they stopped, how they formed long lines, and tons of photos were shown… Ultimately, it turned out that the “crowds” were extras, and the “street” was a closed-off film studio.
Their “charity” and “work” were posed photoshoots lasting a few minutes, with elaborate, inflated content.
Kate, especially when Meghan suddenly appears, has a habit of looking for something already happening, something someone has been organizing for months, and then she goes there, manipulating the reports so we think it’s her organization, her job.
Lurker, why do you assume that William can write? We all know that he can’t read and the inability to write would make him fully illiterate, which I believe he is. He probably has a faulty memory too and couldn’t remember what orders he received and from whom. But no matter. He will be your king soon!
OK, don’t shoot me, but I think he came across pretty well on that phone call stunt.
Of course, it was a stunt, and nothing like real work, but I was expecting him to insult the quality of the pasties, or something, because his humor usually consists of punching down.
Your second paragraph, @Kaiser, was perfection! 👏
I have to wonder how much of that was staged. As in nobody on the line. I mean if I was calling to order takeout and I heard people laughing on the other end, I wouldn’t think much of it at first, assuming there is a large party going on at the takeaway, but when it became clear to me the laughter was timed with the order taker’s punchlines, I would become very concerned I dialed the right number or what secret ingredient might be in my juicy pasties.