Prince William had one work event this week, a solo visit to a farm in North Yorkshire on Tuesday. He dutifully looked at sheep, pointed at things and grabbed a box of pastries. That was the sum total of William’s work schedule this week – he didn’t attend Buckingham Palace’s first garden party of the season, nor did he attend the Order of St Michael and St George yesterday. William, the heir to the throne, left his 77-year-old cancer-stricken father to be supported by the 90-year-old Duke of Kent. The 90-year-old, disabled Duke of Kent and the Prince of Wales have the same number of “work events” this week. But William found time to watch Aston Villa in person last night.
Prince William celebrated in the Aston Villa dressing room with head coach Unai Emery and his players as his favourite football team booked their first European final in 44 years with an emphatic 4-0 win over Nottingham Forest.
The future king was on hand to witness the king of the Europa League, Emery, write another remarkable chapter in the competition as his side secured a meeting with Freiburg in Istanbul on May 20. A 4-1 aggregate win in the semi-final took Emery to his sixth Europa League final in the past 13 years, with a fourth different club. Of his previous five finals, Emery has won four, his only defeat coming with Arsenal, against Chelsea, in 2019.
“He was in the dressing room with the players and me,” Emery said of the Prince of Wales. “He is so happy for us. “Europe is very important. In my first press conference here I was speaking about Europe, I was speaking about trophies as well, but it’s very difficult to win, it’s difficult to get trophies. In Europe it’s difficult to be consistent like we are. It’s through our hard work and the players must set the standards we want to achieve. Today the players got their best, collectively and individually.”
Villa, in a European final for the first time since they won the European Cup in 1982, are also aiming for a first trophy since the 1996 League Cup. And after losing semi-finals in the Europa Conference League and FA Cup over the past two seasons, veteran captain John McGinn, who scored two of Villa’s goals, insists his team must lose their tag of “nearly men” against the Germans in the final.
Congrats to Aston Villa. I’m surprised that William wasn’t bad luck, but you know he’ll make it to the final and that’s probably when the luck will run out. We’ve seen it before. Maybe football fans will boo his ass again. As for the photos of William celebrating… he always looks absolutely unhinged when he’s “happy.”
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1 day of work and a football game? Cool cool cool.
I think you meant “1 day of work IS a football game”.
Such hard work. A yacht vacation is indicated. He looks like he’s growling at the team.
So no to the garden party to honor the charity workers who give their time, money and support to others, yes to Aston Villa. I don’t even know what to say anymore. He is 6 ft of uselessness. They have barely worked-“worked”, this year. He just had a month long vacation and he can’t even go to a party framed as work, but can go watch a game.
Seriously though- how are the courtiers, the foreign office, and the government not crapping their pants right now? There isn’t enough media lift in the world to be able to paste over the laziness of this man. Bots and apathy won’t allow you to ride out 40 years of this.
Let’s just imagine it’s 2030. Charles is gone, Camilla has said good luck with that, and the Duke of Kent has long gone on to glory. Is Edward going to open Parliament? Sophie lay all the wreaths? Anne travel to all the countries?
The sheer failure of everyone’s tasked with preparing William for his role cannot be understated. I’m not excusing him at all, but good grief. These people literally had one job.
William is an absolute choad, and a disgrace to the BRF, the monarchy, the UK, and the Commonwealth.
The only ones who don’t realize he was cancelled years ago by the public are the very clowns in the palaces and press currently, desperately, trying to prop this Failure to Launch failson of the British Monarchy up.
Charles completely failed his children and grandchildren, and in so doing has destroyed the monarchy and the House of Windsor. Point blank period.
You want a legacy, Charles? This and your universally hated, horse-faced, sidepiece queen. That’s your legacy, my dude.
I would argue that his mother had a hand in that as well. She raised him, she made sure that he had little to do because she needed to hang on to the very end. These people are toxic. They are an institution, not a family. I wonder if they are all stupid enough to believe that they are actually special.
Will-not is to blame for his own sense of entitlement and workshy ways. He is an adult and accountable for his own behavior. At a very young age he figured out he was going to be king regardless, no one could make him do anything and his temper tantrums intimidated people around him. The Queen and Charles could have done some things different (especially in his early childhood when Will-not learned his temper tantrums worked), but in the aftermath of Diana’s death, they tried to give him space and let him have a “normal” life away. Charles was pushed into the POW role in his teens and it affected his academics. If QE and PC had been task masters who forced him to work (and not marry the vapid doormat grifter), they would also be vilified for his disastrous life choices. Willy is a dud. He would be a f#ck up regardless. Also. If he looks like this happy, can you imagine him angry? Yikes.
And he has a,lazy wife that enables laziness.charles and his mother should have reined him in years ago. And he should have been told to wait two years for being promoted to prince of Wales and have to earn it by doing a lot of work per year
It just seems so performative, right? Like he watched some sitcom with a middle-aged sports fan dad character and is basing his reactions on that: “this is what the peasants do when their team wins at sportsball! WAAaaHaaahAAA!!!”
I actually feel like it’s the opposite. This is a place it’s “normal” to be so expressive so it’s the only place he can act like this (besides at home, where I have no doubt he’s been an absolute terror since he was a child). I feel like this is who he really is – volatile, scary (even when he’s apparently happy), loud, and fists a-blazing.
If you didn’t know he was at a game you’d think he was about to go full rage-monster and beat someone to a pulp. You can’t even tell from these photos that he’s actually experiencing happiness or joy. He’s frightening.
But if you look at the people around him, NO-ONE ELSE is behaving as aggressively as he is, even though there are a few fists pumping in the air. The expression on the face of the man to his right says it all. The man looks both surprised and a bit nervous, but appears to be attempting to mask it because he’s aware of the cameras. William is over-acting. As Miranda says, it’s like he watched programmes and is doing what he thinks people normally do at football matches.
I knew a child who was a total sociopath and had no sense of empathy or genuine emotion or consideration for others. If someone told a joke, he would observe the reactions of everyone else, then copy theirs, but his would be so over-the-top that it would be really weird. He tended to laugh loudest and far longer than everyone else (having begun after everyone else), to convince people that he had really got the joke. It was a harsh, grating laugh which was totally manufactured and unpleasant to hear. Same with a controlling neighbour who copies other people’s emotions and makes them his own, but in an overly exaggerated manner.
@ Magdalena -The video shows that everyone acted that way. I’m guessing it took him a fraction of a second longer to stop and those are the pictures we are seeing.
I totally agree with you @SussexWatcher – that is really William, someone who turns into a rage monster at the drop of a hat, and for a football match he can “let it all hang out” for the world to see. There’s enthusiasm and there is aggression – look at the guy on his left in the glasses (on the right in the photo) – he looks absolutely terrified.
And William is a big, physically imposing guy who is told that every person in the UK needs to bow, scrape and obey to him. Whether or not it’s true, or whether a person doesn’t do that you have William looking at you, with that face, that physical demeanor in your presence, expecting that and more from you. What do you do in the moment?
Remember Meghan: “Kindly take your finger out of my face.” Brave, measured words but she was taking a risk and no mistake. I can easily imagine she’d want to put an ocean between her and someone like that who also controlled her and her family in every way, from finances to home to work!
I was once sitting very near QE2 at the races when her horse won. She behaved just like this. Got super red and shouty. It was quite a surprise given her usual calm. And rather sweet.
@OriginalMich
NO, not everyone acted like that. Everyone was going wild with joy, waving their arms, but only William looked like he was barely controlling himself and on the verge of exploding. His face wasn’t wild with joy; his face was like that of a wild animal.
I suspect he reacts similarly when he disagrees with something, is angry, or wants to force something. You can understand why Camila was so terrified after Will attacked Karol during a meeting with Harrym in Sandringham
She was shocked and said publicly that she was terrified and that it was the first time she’d ever seen anything like that in her life—William, with a wild face and madness in his eyes, “hanging” on his father and roaring wildly, trying to force something out of him.
It happened in front of other people, and how does he behave when there are no witnesses?
This is a sick man and I would write that it will end badly in the end, but it seems it is already too late because the worst has happened since “our eyes will bleed”.
Thank you. There is a world of difference between waving your hands in celebration or even pumping a fist in the air and literally snarling like an animal, which is William’s look everytime he is pictured or filmed at a football match. The people around William did NOT look like him. Even the man beside him was looking a bit jittery, like “Yikes”.
William has anger issues, and it’s clear that there are several deep, dark secrets related to his anger issues that everyone – including the reporters – seems to be invested in helping him and the palaces cover up. And I don’t mean towards his wife.
ITA BLACK ELDERBERRY.
Who the heck actually rounds their shoulders, hunches over (protect the core), balls their hands up into fists and puts the dukes up in front of their face to…celebrate a sports team? Gimme a break! That is NOT an exuberant, celebratory pose—that’s somebody who’s getting ready to throw down. If there is actual video showing “that everyone acted that way” I’d def like to see it. Cuz that’s abnormal. ‘Spose it’s possible people around him might mimic him since he’s the future hair, but that’s not a normal sports fan enjoying their team’s win. Having just attended a PWHL game a couple of weeks ago, I can affirm I saw no one in the stands acting like that. Nobody acted that crazed. We waved our hands in the air and screamed ourselves hoarse. But not that.
Y’all, my dad was like this watching games on TV. 🙄
Just saw a pic of Timothée Chalamet at a Knicks game doing this same cave man pose. The Jenner GF was smiling meekly. 🙄
So I guess he’s going to Istanbul on May 20? so he can travel internationally more than once a year, just not for work?
HOW do the people at the palace not see how bad this looks? the first time or two he went to a villa game it was like “oh he’s always been a fan that’s kind of cute that he goes.” But now it seems different – it just comes across like this man is so lazy, so entitled, that he is only going to do exactly what he wants to do and no one can stop him.
Who is giving him these seats? Does the club invite him to every game and save a seat for him? what about his RPOs?
Its interesting to me that he didnt really do this before becoming Duke of Cornwall/Prince of Wales – maybe he wanted to and Charles was able to control him enough to stop him.
Anyway he’s just pathetic and a total lightweight.
I think the people in the palace absolutely do see this but not even THE QUEEN had any effect on getting him to take his job seriously so what chance do they have? He’s their future boss and has spent 40+ years learning that he can do whatever he wants.
Yeah…..the time to course correct was decades ago.
It’s those giant horse teeth and his huge mouth that make him look so unhinged!
Extreme fans are unhinged… being so consumed by a game or team that ultimately doesn’t truly matter in your day to day life is beyond my grasp.. (and I do like sports)
He was in the locker room celebrating the win with the team? How very Kash Patel.
Yes, I find that strange too. It’s not like he is a football fan and watches different matches. It’s his obsession with only one team.
I don’t get the obsession with non-athletes going to locker rooms to celebrate a victory that they had nothing to do with. Yay. You watched a game from a VIP booth. Go get yourself a cookie.
Ooh, does he have a POW-branded bourbon? With the feathers on the label?
I always thought all the leftovers were Gin drinkers for some reason..maybe because grandma Elizabeth sold gin.. Willy relabeling it as his own when he’s crowned wouldn’t surprise me.
Interesting to see that he still has his fists clenched when the rest have gone back to normal.
he looks like an angry fan even when celebrating
The only time we see some emotion..
We know he won’t (and Kate & the Establishment wouldn’t stand for it), but he really ought to abdicate if he knows he isn’t able to do it.
Carole would have a fit if scooter abdicated then she could focus on George. Scooter and keen like the perks though so scooter wont step down.
In the 3rd photo the guy on the far right is likely clapping but his face is saying “My ears, my ears!” 🙂
Things must be really bad between Willy and Charles if Willy is skipping both the St Paul’s thing (quiet faith, lol) AND the garden party for charities (my godmother ran a charity and went to one of those). Then he rubs it in Charles’ face by going to the game.
Ane Kate is forbidden from attending church or garden parties without William? Because either she needs the rest of the week off after doing that Early Years thing, or they know it would make Willy look even more terrible. I mean, they probably said “you can’t go to the garden party because everyone would ask where William is” and she said “aw shucks, I really wanted to go, but what’s a girl to do? I’ll just stay home like I always do.”
She has very small children to take care of all by herself with no live-in staff!
The very same small children who are old enough to competently heat up a butter chicken wrap in the microwave after school.
LOL, KittenMom!
Is this his first football match of the season? When Aston Villa was in the champions league last year he was at a lot more games. William’s Villa fandown is just fraudulent and inauthethic to me. He’s never lived in Birmingham which is primarily a working class city with the most Black people living there outside of London. William lived in London at either KP or Clarence House for most of his life so he should be supporting Chelsea not Aston Villa.
Well I guess it depends on which season you mean but the EPL league games start in August, Champions league is still happening and the Europa will go to May 20. So the seasons are all almost winding down.
He has been to other villa games in the past few months, I just think its getting less coverage because people assume he’s going to go now.
I wonder if he was there on Sunday when Tottenham beat Villa (sorry I have to bring that up…we’re Spurs fans and we’re on the verge of relegation but still somehow beat Aston Villa on Sunday lmao.)
@Becks: I never knew were a football fan. WIilliam wasn’t at the Tottenham game. That would have been all over social media if he did go. I don’t think he’s ever gone to watch Villa when they’re in London which makes me believe that he’s not a real fan. Btw, I’m an Arsenal fan.
I *think* the Spurs-Villa match was in Birmingham but don’t quote me on that. But yes in general going to a London match would be a lot easier for him, so interesting he doesnt do that.
And yes we’re football fans! We’ve gone to a few Spurs games in London and whew, that is an experience!!!
But some years (this year) I wish I was an Arsenal fan, lmao.
Who knows why anyone supports a football team. It could have been because one of the Villa players was nice to him when he was a lad. He could have decided that as he was going to be king he’d pick a team that was in the middle of the country. I’m seriously not going to knock him for supporting Villa but, what really gets my goat is that he doesn’t seem to do anything-else. He could quite easily use his love of the game to promote grass roots football and incorporate it into getting kids off their computers and into the park for a healthy kick around. He could visit some of the lower league clubs and highlight the difficulties they have staying afloat. He was given a golden opportunity to highlight women’s football and blew it spectacularly.
If William did some (or all of the above) people wouldn’t begrudge him taking the day off to support the team he loves. They would see a man who truly loves the game and will do everything in his power to highlight where help is needed. It would be an easy PR win but, instead he chooses to do things “his way” and turn up to the games that only interests him. Which in turn reinforces the notion that he’s a lazy spoilt entitled man-child who only thinks of himself.
It’s alleged he picked Villa because it was in the middle of country and because all his friends were Man U fans. I know it’s just performative to me. I don’t believe he has any passions. I don’t believe he truly loves football either. He thinks being a Villa fan makes him an everyday guy but it doesn’t when he goes to games via helicopter and to only Champions or Europa League games. He doesn’t even go to Villa games when they play in London.
I thought there was suggestion that it was because Aston Villa is the “local” team to the Spencer family seat. But I’m not sure about that – he’s never seemed close to the Spencers. (And Harry is said to support Arsenal).
There was a report that his helicopter landed at the stadium one night, when he and Kate were on their three week Easter vacation.
Yikes! He looks as unhinged as Ka$h Patel in the locker room with the US Olympic hockey team. 🤢
That’s what I was thinking. Has can charter another plane and meet up with his new out of control bro.
I was just thinking that too. Maybe they should start hanging out because it doesn’t seem like either one of them has any friends. Somehow I think only white people qualify to be Peg’s friend though.
Let’s hope his complete apathy brings down the monarchy.
I second this emotion!
Then William can follow his true passion and become the equipment manager for Aston Villa.
He’s such a yob.
I am a soccer season ticket holder here in the US and honestly this is how a lot of supporters look when our team is doing well. William is definitely lazy but how he’s acting isn’t abnormal at soccer matches.
He’s so awkward, like an alien pretending to be human but not quite getting it. No matter what emotion he’s trying to express, there’s always a weird edge to it.
Forget the fact that he’s supposed to be royal, whatever that means these days. If I saw a man of his age, of his physical build (or any shape, really) manifesting this state of psychotic mania, in any setting, bar a shooting war, I’d be alarmed. He’s a freak. Diana would be appalled at the way her son was warped by his life in her absence. He used to seem very unsure of himself, very hesitant, very withdrawn, a bit like George does now, potentially severe, and possibly an bit antisocial. Harry was the larky, sparky one. He was just more robust. William was felled by people who indulged him and allowed him to swerve every time a merely normal life would have compelled him to face himself and surmount his own weaknesses.
He really looks frightening in his hurrah photos! He looks like the kind of guy that would hang with toughs and maybe do something bad to you if you were a woman or person of color –maybe least name-calling, harassment, something. If I saw him and his gang of toughs on the street at night, I’d cross the street. Definitely. And take out my mace spray. And that’s the future king for you and I know Harry and maybe even Meghan has seen him like this. Certainly Kate has dealt with His Royal Thuggishness.
NO, Kate couldn’t cope and ultimately fell into a coma for six months with a shattered eye socket.
It’s known that they regularly argue and throw objects at each other, as described in the book by a “royal expert.”
However, I fear that William and Kate have more in common than they do differences. They are both illiterate, lacking in knowledge and intellect; in short, they are stupid, dull, and terribly lazy. They also share jealousy, aggression, and a psychopathic nature. William attacked Harry at home, by surprise, from behind—like a coward, Kate attacked Meghan several times in front of the cameras, once physically. There wasn’t full contact, but there were crowds, cameras, and Harry, but I wonder if Kate didn’t try to attack Meghan without cameras on palace grounds. We’re all waiting for journalists to stop waiting for permission that may never come and finally write the truth about William, Kate, and the rest of the Middleton family.
St Andrews is an excellent university. While William was a royal, Kate was just a nice middle-class gel when she applied to be a student. They have hundreds of them seeking admission each year. They don’t admit illiterate people.
@Anne Marie
I don’t mean to offend you, but you’d have to be blind and deaf not to see Kate and William’s intellectual shallowness and lack of any knowledge. Giving them diplomas is a shame and a disgrace to any university, including St. Andrews, and an insult to other hard-working, knowledgeable students.
Elementary school kids have more knowledge than WK. Neither of them was involved in academics. William knew that even if he didn’t show up for classes, he’d still get a diploma, and he took advantage of that, while Kate took advantage of her fiancée status, even though all she was was a stalker.
No matter what diploma they bought, their level of education is evident as soon as they open their mouths, and in this, Kate is even worse than Will, even though it seemed impossible.
People actually pay to tour farms these days and he clocks that as a work day. Lucky him :-/
He is so basic
William wants the perks of the position but doesn’t want to put in the work. He is like the typical nepo baby.
He has to be the most incompetent heir in royal history. He spends more time on vacation and only doing events that are essentially sporting events or award ceremonies. There isn’t anything substantial about him in a role that he’s been preparing for most of his life. I can’t imagine being in my mid 40s and not have any accomplishments to my name when he has had everything handed to him. He has been given more than his younger brother and yet Harry has accomplished so many things at various stages in his life. William is essentially a frat boy who has never grown up.
Imagine those great big yellow teeth coming at you! yikes on a bike!
William, showing himself to be the royal most likely to be seriously injured and/or maimed in a jousting accident since Henry VIII.
Siri, good call. So he’s like Apple Martin or Kaia Gerber then? Okay. Nepo boy. Black Elderberry, a shattered eye socket?!? I knew she had a scar near one eye, but a shattered eye socket IS serious enough to be in the hospital for (and to have a nervous breakdown too)! And Laura D., you cracked me up with , “Who knows why anyone supports a football team?” When I was younger I liked the Pittsburgh Pirates (baseball team for non-Americans) only because they looked so hot sprawling in the dugout. I was watching the dugout more than I was watching the game! But now I prefer basketball—-gossip, that is. I don’t really watch the games, but know who many of the players are and I like to read about their off-court lives (either for the good or for the bad). My favorites are LeBron James, Steph Curry, Dwayne Wade (retired, but still incredibly hot, especially with Gabrielle Union) and Jimmy Butler (I liked him, but much less so when he “couldn’t” pay child support for his 3 children with a former girlfriend). Pay up, buddy! It’s your responsibility and you look like shit for not supporting your own kids! I know he has the money, or should.
Of course, the shattered eye socket IS serious enough to require hospitalization, and Kate
she was hospitalized somewhere for six months from December 2023. Part of that time was spent in a coma. And during her first appearance after six months, she showed everyone a deep, long scar across her left eye socket and forehead, along with new teeth. Did you sleep through that? You’re probably the only one 🙂
‘Python aligning its jaws so it can ingest a strangled antelope’ expression.
William was at the Garden Party Friday.
Jean, did you see a photo of William at the Garden Party? Because it was reported he didn’t attend. Anne Maria, brilliant metaphor!
Actually he had a huge top hat on and he looked better than normal. Kate looked about 100 years old. She had on a white pookodotted dress down to her ankles . It just looked so, dowdy. Sofia actually looked chic next to Kate.
The WKs were not present at the garden party on May 6th, which Charles organized to celebrate the anniversary of his coronation, which took place on Archie’s birthday. Now, Charles makes sure every year that day is about him, not Archie. Several garden parties will be held in May, with the last one likely at the end of June. William and Kate, dressed as a worse version of Meghan, represented Charles, or so it was reported, at the party on Friday, May 8th.
https://www.royal.uk/media-centre/court-circulars
This is a link for the court circular which lists 5 separate events for PoW last week. The statistics and limited description available for people/ organisations met is there . It is a light schedule to be sure.
What happens if William ends the monarchy, either by choice or by demand? Does that mean the Royal Grant will continue? Will William be allowed to keep all the royalty-based income that flows into his coffers? Or will they end it all and re-route the money to the people of England?