The Windsors will mark Commonwealth Day on Monday with the traditional service at Westminster Abbey. Six years ago, the Commonwealth Day service was the final “working royal” appearance of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex alongside the Windsors, and it was a tense affair which is still being discussed and analyzed to this day. Since then, various senior royals have skipped the annual service. This year, King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales are all scheduled to attend the service. The problem? LMAO. The BBC isn’t going to broadcast any of it. Tell me the left-behinds are boring charisma-vacuums without telling me the left-behinds are boring charisma-vacuums.
The BBC has axed its live coverage of the Commonwealth Day service — and will screen an Escape to the Country episode instead. It blamed budget cuts for not screening Monday afternoon’s event from Westminster Abbey.
But Ingrid Seward, royal author and editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine, said: “It’s a ridiculous and appalling decision. The BBC has been doing it for years and it’s the most important date in the diary for celebrating the Commonwealth. If even the BBC doesn’t think its worthy to cover and celebrate despite its huge cultural significance for member states and the monarchy then the Commonwealth could fade into an irrelevance with every passing year.”
Commonwealth Day has been marked annually since 1972 and has been broadcast live on TV every year since 1989. It is the only annual event celebrating the links between the Commonwealth’s 56 nations, including Australia, Canada and India, and its 2.7 billion people.
This year, the Prince and Princess of Wales will join King Charles and Queen Camilla at the service. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner and ex-Strictly pro Oti Mabuse are expected to give readings to the 1,800 guests. But on BBC One, where the ceremony is normally broadcast, viewers will see a Canadian couple being shown dream homes by presenter Sonali Shah in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
The BBC said: “Our decision not to broadcast the Commonwealth Day ceremony in the same way we’ve done in previous years reflects the difficult choices we have to make in light of our funding challenges. BBC News plans to cover the service across its platforms, including the BBC One bulletins and rolling news channel.”
To be fair to the BBC, they probably worried that they would “accidentally” end up broadcasting the n-word again, amirite? It’s not like there’s an abundance of evidence that the left-behind Windsors are racist as f–k, right? Seriously though, this is less about the left-behinds’ well-documented racism, colonialism and bigotry. It’s absolutely about how boring they are and how the BBC knows that broadcasting the Commonwealth service would end up with the worst ratings since Princess Kate’s piano recital/Christmas concert.
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester attend the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey, in London. Picture date: Monday March 10, 2025,Image: 974325849, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Aaron Chown/Avalon
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Who would actually watch this?
The 50 and above crowd, and esp the 65 > crowd. When that generation passes, the monarchy is done for.
As a 57 year old woman, firmly a Gen Xer I can say the 50 and above crowd would NOT watch this. 70 and above may be the demographic you’re looking for.
As a 65 year old Brit I can assure you I don’t know anyone who would watch it unless maybe they were in a hospital bed and had no choice!
Stepping up for the 65+ crowd–this is a big nope for me & everyone I know. We’re the ‘hippie’ generation, remember? Anti-establishment? Couldn’t give a toss for royal sh*t.
I’m 51, there is no way GenX is lining up for this BS. None at all.
About 1% of the population.
They passed with QE2.
How insulting that one year, ethnic groups put up a show for their arrival and that day the wind was blowing so much – it was the hardest thing for them/the hair!/the hat! – they passed right by the performance without even giving it a glance.
Good thing we are seeing this crumble and going down piece by piece.
Nobody would watch this. This is the real problem for the RF. If they were exciting and attractive celebrities, no one would be complaining about the nonce or their parasitic nature or the fact that they don’t pay taxes and are slumlords. They would have adoring crowds everywhere. They are salivating to have the charisma and beauty of the Sussexes. That is the source of Peggington’s rage. Bitter, bitter envy. Especially since when William was young, he was adored for his remarkable beauty. And look at him now! Hideous. He lost it all, and he has neither the intellect nor wit to engage people. The RF have been skating by on people like Diana and Meghan for decades. What cuteness Kate had is now long gone, and she presents as haggard and angry. Imagine the regret and confusion among those four. Threatening to take away titles is the only thing that makes them feel better about their long slide down the razor blade of life.
Certainly not us ’50 states’ in the commonwealth care. Nor have we for a very long time. Some of us in fact didn’t know this was a thing.
Love this for them…
It also means there’s no camera evidence of the wales sitting stiffly next to each other. I’ll still never get over how rude Kate was that day. Epic mean girl face. Imagine having the audacity to have a mean girl face after telling what joke world a lie that Meghan made her cry.
It will never be forgotten, and it was so childish and unnecessary. The world knew there was tension at that point did she really have to be so obnoxious about it. I actually wonder if she ever regrets any of her certain conduct.
I think at the time she was really proud that she was sending some sort of message about putting Meghan in her place. Idk if she feels differently. She acted worse at the funeral walkabout. But a lot has happened since then so who’s to say.
100% she was proud of herself for being so rude which is appalling. even William managed to say hello and acknowledge Harry. Literally a nod and “hello” would have sufficed.
And at that point, there was no Oprah, no docuseries, no spare. Kate was being a bitch because she could, because she was pissed that they were walking away, because…..whatever. But even the royalists cant spin it as “how could Meghan expect her to be nice after what she said about her to Oprah.” ( and we all know that Meghan was very gracious regarding Kate to oprah.)
I co sign everything Becks said because it is important to note that in 2020 we did not know that kate had lied about the crying story. We did not know that Meghan had been suicidal and they had not helped her and the family, especially William and Kate failed to correct the false stories and continued the media attacks.
What we did know is that Harry and Meghan were leaving, which was temporary, and yet Kate chose to be petty about being removed from a procession for this service because she and William could not share space.
That she was so insanely jealous she chose to publicly ice out Meghan in full view of the cameras shows how deranged she is about Meghan. We know Kate is always aware of the cameras, but when we add in the later behaviour at the public funeral walkabout, there is something in Kate that gets triggered when she sees Meghan.
That she has never apologized to Meghan for the lies she helped create says so much about Kate and none of it good. She is a shallow insecure woman.
Not just the funeral walkabout but every funeral event – heck even the Jubbly she was pretty rude and iced out Meghan again. Not as completely/obviously as the commonwealth but still not great behavior.
Even William can pull it together to at least pretend to be civil in public. He doesnt like it, he’s not warm and fuzzy or anything, but at least at the walkabout he seemed to chat a bit with both of them.
It’s Kate who refuses to even pretend to be civil for the cameras. No one’s asking them to be BFFs at this point. Just be polite. And she refuses to do that – either she won’t or she can’t.
Yep at the bubbly she was caught turning around to look at the Sussexes and then rolling her eyes. She really cannot keep it together in a church around Meghan. And if we wanna go way back, how about in the church at Meghan’s wedding. She purposely looks down, her face covered by her hat, as Meghan walks down the aisle and does not look up at her once, not once, as she walks down the aisle. Who doesn’t look at the bride as she walks down the aisle?
Kate gets cover because william has anger issues, but Kate’s irrational behaviour toward meghan since 2020 is also the sign of someone who needs therapy. Kate not being able to maintain a polite veneer toward Meghan is disturbing. It also confirms that she really was briefing against Meghan because someone with anger issues that cannot be controlled in public is definitely going to be trashing that person in private.
May meghan continue to thrive because kate is watching and clearly burning with jealousy even across a continent.
And the contrast to Meghan was so stark. She glowed the entire weekend knowing she was getting out.
That Cut article with the headline of How can you be rude while wearing that dumb hat, basically captures the small and petty nature of the next Queen of England.
One of my favorite articles ever. And yes her behavior at the funeral walkabout was considerably worse. Considerably.
article’s still up if anyone is curious
https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/meghan-markle-snubbed-by-women-in-dumb-hats.html
“And honestly, part of me does feel bad for Kate and Sophie — imagine having to snub someone while wearing a silly little hat? I mean, you’re bound to feel ridiculous wearing one of these things, even if you didn’t feel the need to be bad-mannered on top of that. Meghan, meanwhile, looked delighted, silly little hat and all.”
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And Kate treated Meghan that way in church! Such hypocrisy Kate should be very ashamed of herself.
@nic919 & @jais – was coming to say the same thing – I can’t remember if it was the same article but I remember reading a description of Kate meangirling at that obsolete event and it include the words “pinched little face” (I think that’s a quote) and then asked how you could be mean when you’re wearing such a silly little hat. I still chuckle remembering that – and pinched little face (it may have been pinched mean face – but I remember “pinched” for sure) is one of my favourite descriptions of Kate EVER.
(Oh and can vouch that no one in Canada except some monarchist clubs care about Commonwealth Day)
That was the day I got over being mildly uncomfortable using the c word, and fully embraced my b*tch era. Kate was a full on See You Next Tuesday that day, and she deserves every single bit of dragging she gets for doing it in a stupid hat. The look on Harry’s face…
Harry was pissed and that’s probably when he decided he was going to remove the gloves when he was describing her for his book.
I maintain my position that Harry’s description of Kate in Spare has damaged her more than anything else ever has and it opened up the public to consider her to be an evil jealous queen like in Snow White. (The pinched face description in that Cut article helps too).
Kate was viewed far more sympathetically prior to that book. Harry showed in a few apt stories just how awful Kate could be.
As someone who lives in a commonwealth country, this does not have any significance to me. The only commonwealth event I have ever enjoyed was the commonwealth games. We don’t celebrate commonwealth day in Canada.
I remember back in the 50s getting a half day of off school for Empire day, (Britain) later changed to Commonwealth day.
Oh wow. I didn’t realize that CW day was once called Empire day.
I would bet that your sentiment is shared by most Commonwealth countries. It’s a good day to celebrate each individual culture instead.
Same, if I didn’t follow royals on here, the day would pass without my knowledge. It is, at best, a minor news item, I’ve never heard anyone talk about it otherwise.
Also, who is watching a boring church service on tv??? Especially because the royals clearly do not gaf – when was the last time they did anything significant for a commonwealth country?
People are mostly done with the neocolonialism of the Commonwealth. William and Kate killed that particular narrative in Jamaica a few years ago.
This is the part that’s always confused me. Why not have some sort of party? Why is it always a boring church service?
I’m am absolute news junkie in a Commonwealth country and had absolutely no idea that Commonwealth Day existed until the whole debacle.
Canadian here as well, and there has never been a holiday or coverage of this service. The closest we get to empire now is the Victoria Day long weekend in May and that doesn’t involve any royal worshipping.
Basically it’s a holiday for the British to pretend they still have an empire. I bet Australians and Jamaicans have also never heard of this day either.
All I can do is laugh about this bit of news. What stunt will Baldy and Cosplay come up with to get attention and prove that they are relevant. How embarrassing for that whole bunch.
I wonder if they will even show up at all, since they only do so for cameras.
I love the “lmao” in the article title, lol
It’s just, like…fancy people at church, right? Who was ever watching it in the first place? I refuse to believe that there was ever a real audience for this crap. Even the Sussexes couldn’t make such a thing worth watching for any longer than it would take to see what Meghan was wearing.
Actually to see what they were both wearing on that day since Harry’s jacket lining matched the green color of Meghan’s dress. Prince Eddy tried cosplay a few years later…
Oh darn. So no one will see the loving Wails couple? No shots of Peg looking like he wants to be anywhere but next to his beloved wife? No shots of Can’t maniacally looking at her beloved husband? Whatever will people do. Alas.
Does anyone have a link to the CB coverage of the last commonwealth service with Harry and Megan, mentioned in this article? I tried googling but couldn’t find it, thanks in advance!
I googled “Commonwealth day service Harry and Meghan Celebitchy” – there are lots of articles.
There is almost too much coverage about it to link because it was in the midst of Sussexit.
But this is one:
https://www.celebitchy.com/656101/the_guardian_petty_duchess_kate_isnt_showing_the_most_civilized_example/
and here’s another:
https://www.celebitchy.com/655444/who_was_the_saltiest_royal_on_commonwealth_day_prince_harry_or_duchess_kate/
It is always interesting to see comments from before we found out that Kate lied about crygate. It’s clear we all know Kate was jealous of Meghan and the snub was her insecurity, but we didn’t even guess just how wronged Meghan was by Kate and still Kate thought she was owed so much.
6 years later and William and Kate have gotten even more pathetic and remain obsessed with Harry and Meghan.
Sure, it’s not broadcasting the service on BBC that will make the Commonwealth fade into irrelevance. Didn’t William say during the Caribbean Disaster Tour that he doesn’t care whether he’s made head of the Commonwealth or not?
Why would any network willingly live broadcast a ratings dud? Good lort, Keen looks desperately unwell in those pics. It isn’t normal for a middle aged woman to be thinner in her 40s after having 3 kids than in her 20s. She needs out of the public eye and treatment. Most women would look like a brawny lumberjack in that red button up dress. The higher ups in the BBC know what is going on behind the scenes with the left behinds and are distancing themselves from them. The royals have always been a weak spot for the BBC (and Guardian). It is good to see the BBC refuse to participate in embiggening Windsor nonsense. Broadcasting/publishing anything Keen related is contributing to her destruction.
So, I agree that it seems unreasonable to ask or expect a network to broadcast a ratings dud.
but that’s what makes this so interesting to me, because I’m sure this has been a ratings dud for a while (it wasn’t like QEII died and all of a sudden people stopped caring about the commonwealth service) but BBC has aired it, I imagine, to preserve a good relationship with the royal family who clearly expect it to be aired live.
And finally the BBC is like you know what, nah. People would rather go house hunting in Scotland (I want to see that show, lol.) When even the BBC is done pretending that people care about the royals and that that they are interesting….its a problem for the Firm.
I predict Will and Kate will be no-shows if the cameras are not there. What’s the point of going if they’re not papped for the world to see? I love the mention of the BBC’s fear that the “n” word would be repeated (as it was with the Baftas). Imagine if twice in a row the “n” word was heard on BBC to broadcast to the world (as they did the first time for 15 hours with the racist slur intact)? What if EVERY broadcast of a royal event had the “n” word shouted out from now on? They’d never be able broadcast it bc they are obviously incapable of removing it from film before they show it. This could signal the end of the monarchy (hopefully).
It’s confirmed that they will be there and the papers will get their pictures in the walk-up to the church. I’m hoping for lots of yellow signs on the way in.
Confirmed means nothing to these two. It was confirmed William would attend the Greek king’s memorial service; it was confirmed Kate would attend Ascot…yet they both pulled out last minute and didn’t go. And yes to hoping there’s a lot of yellow signs that day!
Fair!
My thought too–Kate at least will find a health or school or some other reason not to bother (she’d get more attention that way, actually, with everyone asking whether she’s well). One of them will still need to show up, so Willy might show up for the pap walk in front of the church.
Sometimes she does love to use it as an excuse to whip out a new hideous Alessandra Rich dress she wears without irony and a giant hat.
It’s not being broadcast because people don’t watch it. To be honest I didn’t know about Commonwealth Day until Meghan went to the service in 2018 and I live in a Commonwealth country.
Same. Learning that it used to be called empire day tells you a lot about who this day is for. Not for the other countries in the commonwealth
Immensely satisfying news.
Everything the royals and media wished for Harry and Meghan is happening to them: being booed and heckled on engagements and irrelevance.
The photos are the only way they get attention – but you know for these narcissists it’s an ego blow.
So now they can do what they always do when there are no cameras – go on vacation and say they went to mass.🤣
Is this the same service where camilla blew past the dancers who had been waiting barefoot in wind and rain for them? And left them to dance for charles in the rain outside? If yes, then good riddance. That was awful to see.
Yes, and that was terrible!
Haha love this for Charles and Camilla.Even the bbc (the most popular channel in Britain) won’t air the commonwealth service.What a snub lol..Apparently there’s going to be a huge republican protest outside if so I hope all the royals get booed and no one shows up except protestors (which is likely as no one likes the royals anymore)
I think Commonwealth day should be discontinued. It reeks of Empire. It’s been a case of members of the Commonwealth are called upon to “perform” in London. The Commonwealth is ready to stop “performing” for the royal family.
I wonder if the request not to air the service on the BBC came from the royal family themselves. And if they requested the BBC not state they had made the request. 1/ The royals might want to lay low at this time, 2/ avoid risk of showing the public’s reaction to them on tv and online (whether disinterest or dislike, or even potentially shouting about Epstein), and 3/ they wouldn’t want it revealed just how low the viewing numbers were.
Nah, don’t think so. These folks have no self-awareness.
I wonder if BBC is just tired of bowing to the royals and getting slammed by them in return?
This is off-topic but why does Kate insist on wearing evening jewelry in the daytime, with such non-existent necklines? It obscures the piece and looks overdone and awkard. The God-awful droopy bow should be enough to exclude the need for neck adornment. The (vulva) necklace is meant to be worn with off-the-shoulder dresses at evening events. It just looks so off. Future consorts should know a thing or two about this, shouldn’t they?
Because Middleton is typical of the nouveau riche and small-town tastelessness. They’re always hanging themselves like Christmas trees. They’re tacky.
Agreed.
If anything that would alert Charles and William that streamlining the BRF is a bad decision, it’s this.
It’s not even a bank holiday. I don’t even think British people are aware of it. The only two time we have ever heard of it was 2020 (which also became a superspreader event where Charles, the Queen, and William likely got COVID) and when William skipped it to go clubbing with women other than his wife in 2017.
The commonwealth is perfectly serviceable as a trade union/friendly union of countries that share a lot of trade and a shared history. Beyond that, it is an outdated outpost of empire.
Poor Charles LOL. He’s so much less a draw than his dear old mum.
I think this might have been aired in the past out of respect for QEII. But Chuck and his sidepiece don’t garner any reverence.
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