Last Thursday, Prince William and Kate made their first-ever visit to Rothesay, Scotland. That’s their title-namesake, when they’re in Scotland, their titles are “the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay.” Those have been their Scottish titles for four years, and once again, this was their first-ever visit. Wild, right? Even crazier is that William and Kate only threw together their big day in Rothesay because they were competing with Prince Harry’s Invictus events. At the end of the day, few people cared. There were some videos mocking the Rothesays for performatively picking up litter while wearing Burberry, and there was a video of William fussing at Kate, and those videos got more attention than the actual visit. Well, it looks like ol’ Peg and Buttons only agreed to their half-assed Scottish trip because they could get a vacation out of it. They apparently stayed in Scotland over the weekend.
The Prince and Princess of Wales spent the weekend in Scotland as the fallout from Earl Spencer’s memoir about Diana, Princess of Wales, continued.
William and Catherine are thought to have travelled to Royal Deeside after their visit to the Isle of Bute on Thursday, while the monarch stayed at his Birkhall home on the Balmoral estate, following two days of engagements at Dumfries House in Ayrshire.
Catherine stayed for two nights before returning to Windsor alone on a British Airways flight from Aberdeen on Saturday morning.
Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace would comment on whether they had spent time with the King. The monarch and his heir have made a point of enjoying private time together in Scotland in late September in recent years.
Last year, William stayed with the King on his Scottish estate, where he also reportedly hosted friends for a shooting party.
While the Prince has made no public comment on the allegations in his uncle’s memoir Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, his proximity to his father over the weekend may be interpreted by some as a show of support amid a series of damaging claims made against the King by his former brother-in-law.
Literally, they did one day of “royal engagements” and immediately needed a three-day holiday weekend without their children. I would argue that they probably weren’t even staying at the same place at a technical level – while I buy that William was probably staying somewhere on the Balmoral estate, I have my doubts that Kate was anywhere nearby. Kate leaving Scotland solo sort of confirms that they were not even together this weekend. I bet Willy hosted another shooting party. Anyway, Willy has to fly back to London soon – tonight is the royal premiere of Digger. Someone dig out the plane shoes and Kate’s beehive wiglet!
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Catherine, Princess of Wales, reacts while visiting Bute Shinty Club in Rothesay, during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135707480, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Catherine, Princess of Wales, smiles while visiting Bute Shinty Club in Rothesay, during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135707471, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, meet the community members and pub regulars while visiting the community-owned Anchor Tavern Pub & Hub in Port Bannatyne during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135707609, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, leave the community-owned Anchor Tavern Pub & Hub in Port Bannatyne, during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135707639, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, swhile meeting members of the public outside, after visiting the community-owned Anchor Tavern Pub & Hub in Port Bannatyne during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135717328, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Catherine, Princess of Wales, meets members of the public outside, in Port Bannatyne during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135717391, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- 17/09/2026. Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Ettrick Bay to meet the team behind Beachwatch Bute and learn about their efforts to protect and preserve the island’s coastline. Their Royal Highnesses joined a Beach Ranger and other supporters of the charity during a litter pick where they heard about the community’s role in safeguarding the local environment.,Image: 1135727013, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image 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., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- 17/09/2026. Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Ettrick Bay to meet the team behind Beachwatch Bute and learn about their efforts to protect and preserve the island’s coastline. Their Royal Highnesses joined a Beach Ranger and other supporters of the charity during a litter pick where they heard about the community’s role in safeguarding the local environment.,Image: 1135727032, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image 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., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, pose with 95-year-old Jenny Salli while visiting Bute Shinty Club in Rothesay, during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135736045, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Catherine, Princess of Wales, meets representatives from the club’s senior and youth teams, while visiting Bute Shinty Club in Rothesay, during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of TheDuke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135736062, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- ROTHESAY, ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Prince William, Prince of Wales (C) has a drink as he meets community members and pub regulars while visiting the community-owned Anchor Tavern Pub & Hub in Port Bannatyne during a royal visit to the Isle of Bute on September 17, 2026 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, who also hold the titles of TheDuke and Duchess of Rothesay, visited the island to celebrate community, connection and volunteering.,Image: 1135736104, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no , Credit line: Jeff J Mitchell/Avalon
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- 17/09/2026. Ettrick Bay, Isle of Bute, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales during a visit to Ettrick Bay to meet the team behind Beachwatch Bute and learn about their efforts to protect and preserve the island’s coastline. Their Royal Highnesses joined a Beach Ranger and other supporters of the charity during a litter pick where they heard about the community’s role in safeguarding the local environment.,Image: 1135810383, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: © Kensington Palace. This image 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., Model Release: no , Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
Have some compassion. She had to climb out of that tractor all by herself! It’s a tough job.
Per the Fail, people were in awe of her royal tractor-leaving skills. I kid you not. 🙄
Well, don’t you know, Harry and Meghan spent a lovely time in Scotland last July on a wee island with their children.
keen grins and g u r n s for cameras. I wonder if charles can arrange a happy families picture with the scooters
At least they stayed longer than Kate’s recent 35-minute (or was it 34-minute?) visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital.
34mins – thats a massive improvement on her previous drive by visits where at one point she would arrive massively late and stay for 15/20mins.
Such hard work including a movie premiere
So now her hair is darker after the blonde from an earlier appearance. Doesn’t she realize that changing her hair color that often proves that she’s using extensions?
Well, Kate Middleton has her own mind in terms of wigs and wigglets. Like in her job (princessing), she wants to forge her own path and do things her way. The hair color comes with her personal inspiration when she wakes up in the forest, against one of her favorite trees.
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That ugly boy cap again…
Looks like there has been a 3 day vacation yes. In just a few days, when people will complain they vacay too much, the vacay will transform itself into a swan song summit where it was, of course, forbidden to speak about the sussexes.
If there was a Swan Song summit, there is not a snowballs chance in hell that khate would have been allowed to attend. They wouldn’t have trusted her with any of their nefarious plans.
💯 she’d be pushed aside for any summit.
I actually like that kind of hat. Keeps your head warm & shades your eyes, something your standard stocking cap doesn’t do.
I wonder if the story was in response to the woman on Twitter who said that Kate boarded her flight alone on Saturday morning. She was going on about how Kate’s getting on the flight was “no fuss, as it should be,” clearly a dig at Meghan…only to later admit she got bumped from her seat because of Kate.
BTW, Kate was last on, first off, and had a car waiting on the tarmac. Very normal lol.
Ha, they are so deranged.
Honestly my only surprise at any of this is that she flew commercial. Which probably speaks more to their relationship than anything else.
Yeah, is William hogging the helicopter for himself?
Last week they only “worked” one day but they had multiple engagements so they completed the necessary numbers. I’m pretty sure they counted at least four…..they are impossible…and lol at whoever believes that they spent time together
I think she must have been up in Balmoral if she flew back from Aberdeen, as that’s the other side of Scotland from Rothesay (if she’d flown straight back from Rothesay she’d have gone through Glasgow). But that doesn’t mean she spent time with PW – or indeed KC. The Balmoral estate is enormous.
I love how the article talks about William and Charles spending private time together….and then mentions that William also hosted a shooting party. My guess is there was another such party planned for this weekend Kate was not invited.
Interesting that her flight back was discussed – besides FlyBe, we rarely hear about their travels to and from Scotland. Wonder if someone wanted to make it clear that she was send home separately.
They are super vague about william being with kate but far more specific about kate travelling from Scotland alone.
We all know they wouldn’t be glossing over either Harry or Meghan travelling alone.
And what about the kids? I guess it’s ok for them to be left alone?
If William and Kate spent the weekend in Scotland does that mean that Charlotte and Louis were at boarding school?
Of course the rota is interpreting the Scotland mini-break as a sign of William’s support for his father. And I wouldn’t be surprised if William does think too much is being made of how terribly his father treated his mother — because he treats his own wife with disdain, too.
William doesn’t seem to love or respect his father. But they are both self-obsessed, spoiled misogynists.
The thing is they didn’t spend the weekend together. If you leave on Saturday morning as Kate did, you’re going to spend the weekend somewhere else. This tells us nothing about where William was – it tells us what he did last year. Obviously the Hello story is a reaction to people tweeting about seeing Kate on their flight but as usual, why are they so bad at this? Why not just say they spent an extra couple of days and then she returned to the children? I mean, the children are always the excuse so why not now? I don’t know why they needed to spin it a way that makes it so obvious it’s being spun – it only encourages conspiracy theories even if things are completely straightforward.
💯 Hahaha the weekend STARTS on Saturday morning, so she was sent home from this little weekend getaway. The article informs us about what Egg did same time last year, all of which we should conflate in our little minds to envison the very together love birds spending a loved up long weekend together.
Actually, it does not appear that “they” stayed anywhere.The writer is trying to be slick, trying to have it both ways. Kate was seemingly left there on her own, as the article says, immediately after making it sound as though both she and William had been there together. She was so worn out that she needed time to recover on the spot before returning to wherever she really lives? Because William certainly was not travelling with her on the return journey.
These reporters just LIE. And they don’t seem to proofread their own articles long enough to spot the glaring contradictions.
Tom Sykes spilled the beans last year that during the alleged father-son private time, William was staying at Balmoral and Charles at Birkhall, and William was hosting a stag shooting party. It’s about that time of year. They probably didn’t even see each other, if he was even there. Don’t forget Kate loves to shoot and bought herself a shotgun a few years ago.
Kate’s facial expressions always reminds me of those old Rankin & Bass claymation Christmas movies.
Poor sausages! The Sussex return is running these two dolts ragged. How on earth will they survive? Working puts such a damper on vacation time. Oh the humanity!
Katie Keen needs to take a vacation from that hat.
I hate that hat on her. Yes, they’ve trained themselves to be lazy do-nothings, so even a whiff of work will exhaust them. It’s not the “work” itself (which is never real work), but the anxiety and anger of doing it at all that wears them out. So then, yes, they’ll take a 3 day holiday. On holiday, skiing, hiking, swimming etc. will not exhaust them because they know they’re doing it for themselves, no one else, to have fun. The idea that they have to SERVE other people is infuriating and exhausting in itself (to them). Charity? Do-gooding? How does it help THEM? It doesn’t. So why do it at all? Or have to do it? It’s a bloody outrage! What do all those people want from them? Fuck them all. I imagine that’s what’s going on in their heads with everything that’s work-related.
@JFerber
Frak, you’re exactly right. And how absolutely depressing.
I wonder if other “royals” like QEII, Philip, Charles The Cruel, Anne etc. felt the same and just hid/hide it better?
Or is this really William’s dark, inverted version of the same rebellion Harry has accomplished so successfully, and BillyIdle picked a wife to match his perspective, just like Harry did?
I’ve long thought both of Diana’s sons have reacted with equal force to their upbringing, their father’s many failures and their mothers tragic death. Well, I suppose it would be more surprising if they hadn’t.
But while Harry did the work to make his life positive, happy and useful, William didn’t get himself any help and has pulled himself inside a bitter, angry shell, useful to no one, not even himself.
IdlesAtCranky, I believe you are absolutely correct.