Here are more photos of the Prince and Princess of Wales at last night’s BAFTAs. This was the first time they attended the BAFTAs together since 2023. They both skipped last year (they were on vacation), and William went solo to the 2024 BAFTAs and he garnered some of the worst headlines of his life. Sunday’s appearance didn’t go smoothly either, as it came three days after William’s uncle Prince Andrew was arrested for suspicion of misconduct related to sharing classified material with notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. It also went poorly because William was, as ever, completely unprepared. From the Guardian:
As awks goes, you don’t get much more tricky than showing up in the grandly regal manner three days after your uncle had been arrested for misconduct in public office. William, as per standard operating procedure, ignored shouted inquiries about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but more pertinent questions were being asked off stage about exactly why the prince, and his seemingly ever-popular wife, were showing up unexpectedly dolled up to the nines? Could this be some sort of royal operation glambot, designed to try to draw republicans’ fire when the monarchy is wobbling as an institution? Well it worked, even if only temporarily; William seemed to elicit quite a bit of sympathy after struggling through an introduction to a studio legend he probably hadn’t heard of until 10 seconds before his speech was shoved into his hand.
Yeah, William knew ahead of time that he would present the Fellowship Award to Dame Donna Langley, Chair of NBC Universal Entertainment. He was unprepared. Apparently, the BAFTA President also skipped out on watching many of the BAFTA-nominated films this year, which is par for the course for William. He rarely watches the nominated films, nor does he ask his staff to prepare short summaries about the films so he can actually converse with the BAFTA nominees with any kind of grace. William told the Hamnet team that he hadn’t seen it yet because “I need to be in quite a calm state and I am not at the moment. I will save it.” And yet Kate said that she had watched Hamnet and she cried. The Mail reported that William said he had not seen Marty Supreme either (which is fine, that movie sucks) but he has watched Sinners. His summary of Sinners? “A bit dark.” Yikes.
While I didn’t bring this up in the story about John Davidson repeatedly shouting racist slurs at Black BAFTA nominees, I do wonder if Prince William, the BAFTA President, would consider issuing a statement about how that whole situation was mishandled. Is there any pressure on William to do so? Because it’s a huge mess and William is involved simply because of his position and the fact that he was in the audience when it happened. Something I keep coming back to is how little reporting there is about anyone from BAFTA apologizing directly to Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo. It genuinely feels like no one in the organization even checked in with them after they were racially abused on stage. Especially not BAFTA’s President, who found Sinners “a bit dark.”
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Britain’s William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, arrive with Jane Millichip, CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London Ken Olisa to the BAFTA Film Awards 2026, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, Britain, February 22, 2026,,Image: 1077419247, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jaimi Joy/Avalon
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- Britain’s William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, to the BAFTA Film Awards 2026, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, Britain, February 22, 2026,,Image: 1077428209, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jaimi Joy/Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, arrives to the BAFTA Film Awards 2026, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, Britain, February 22, 2026,,Image: 1077428218, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jaimi Joy/Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales,reacts next to Jane Millichip, CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, as she arrives to the BAFTA Film Awards 2026, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, Britain, February 22, 2026,,Image: 1077428230, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jaimi Joy/Avalon
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- Britain’s William, Prince of Wales, speaks with Jane Millichip, CEO of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the BAFTA Film Awards 2026, at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, in London, Britain, February 22, 2026,,Image: 1077428250, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jaimi Joy/Avalon
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- 22/02/2026. London, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales The Prince and Princess of Wales attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards held at the Royal Festival Hall. Their Royal Highnesses met performers and bursary recipients from The Prince William BAFTA Bursary.,Image: 1077447143, 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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- 22/02/2026. London, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales The Prince and Princess of Wales attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards held at the Royal Festival Hall. Their Royal Highnesses met performers and bursary recipients from The Prince William BAFTA Bursary.,Image: 1077470360, 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, Model Release: no, Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- 22/02/2026. London, UK. The Prince and Princess of Wales The Prince and Princess of Wales attend the EE BAFTA Film Awards held at the Royal Festival Hall. Their Royal Highnesses met performers and bursary recipients from The Prince William BAFTA Bursary.,Image: 1077470405, 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, Model Release: no, Credit line: Andrew Parsons / Kensington Palace/Avalon
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- Willian and Catherine, Princess of Wales at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards held at The Royal Festival Hall,Image: 1077540488, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Lounis Tiar/Avalon
He looks miserable and ignores keens festive glances. He looks,like he would rather be somewhere else.
Seated, he was practically sitting in the lap of the woman on the other side of him, leaving a foot of space btwn him and Wiglet. Where are all the body language experts now?
And of course he won’t make a statement. Or perhaps when out again, he’ll just say, “We are very much not a racist organization, thank you, ” and keep on walking.
He won’t and a part of me is convinced that the network massively facilitated this to take attention away from him and everything that’s going on.
I wonder if he even watched sinners. He heard vampires and said a bit dark. And wtf, there’s so much more that could be said about the richness and complexity of sinners. My god. And are we supposed to feel bad for him that’s he’s not been calm enough to watch Hamnet. Seriously? GTFOH. You know what’s really freaking dark, more than just a bit? The RF and the BM.
I truthfully don’t think Willy has any depth.
H+M were recently seen entering an elevator while attending the NBA match recently, so OF COURSE these two copycats had to release a photo of themselves in an elevator too. They clout-chase even the most basic moments by the overseas royals.
OMG!! I would never have thought that but you are absolutely right. They are both so disturbed.
Sometimes I have to ask myself if I’m over-reading the copy-keening and then sometimes I’m like but am I? Am I???
He’s bored with racism so doubtful, but I have to ask again what do they do to fill up their days? You’re the president of BAFTA, and you’re pretending that it wasn’t a last-minute decision to do a ” look squirrel” so why haven’t you watched all the films? Also, why haven’t you prepped for the speech you are giving? At least to make sure you are pronouncing names correctly and won’t stumble.
Just tragically unprepared and it’s going to be very interesting when Charles isn’t here to hide behind, how he’s going to explain why his constant unpreparedness and bumbling is a regal good thing.
Sinners is “a bit dark” is the kind of sly remark I’d expect from William. I’m just so glad that H&M got those kids away from that awful family and their “concerns”. I very much doubt that William will offer an apology to Michael and Delroy as we’ve heard on numerous occasions that the future king is “bored of racism”.
#Notmyfutureking!
It seems he is only concerned about racism in football. Of course he did nothing about that either just platitudes. I don’t expect anything from him on this either. He seems they type to have enjoyed the outburst
THIS.☝🏾 I believe that Peg IS a racist…that’s why he’s so “bored” with the subject of racism. You have to actually care about marginalized people to give a damn. I believe William is absolutely a racist and probably enjoyed a hearty chuckle, along with several others present, when that vile outburst occurred. He will NEVER make a statement, because he was as tickled as all the others who tittered.
Kate truly looks ghoulish in those lights…
And who is telling her that the hair situation is working for her? If she DID have chemo and suffered hair loss…it would be so much more useful and helpful to admit that and speak frankly (for once) about what cancer she experienced and the how and whys of her treatment. She and
Chas missed an opportunity to be modern and useful in keeping mum about their cancers.,,as though their body parts are reverential and must not be mentioned even when milling around cancer wards…
The ‘a bit dark’ about Sinners jumped out to me. Why would someone racist condemn other racism at the Bafta’s?
And as usual he fails to prepare, theBafta presidentnot wanting to watch the movies is idiotic, then againhe also told people at a preplanned Bollywood event that he’d never watched a Bollywood movie
William: “I need to be in quite a calm state and I am not at the moment. I will save it.”
Not surprised Mr incandescent with rage 😤 is panicking at the moment. He is incapable of handling pressure. His reign as King (Head of State of the United Kingdom and all its realms) will be a spectacle to behold.
William went on BBC radio a week ago and told the audience that he has a toolbox 🧰 that he uses for mental health challenges and recommended the toolbox to the audience yet he made the statement above. 🤦🏽♀️ What’s the truth, does he or doesn’t he have a toolbox that works for him? The contradictions never cease when William opens his mouth to speak. No wonder the royal rota goes to great lengths to create and push propaganda to prop him up.
William (President of BAFTAs) as usual was probably too lazy or disinterested to watch the films so he resorted to what he’s comfortable doing – he deflected.
Why do I get the feeling that the only thing in his coping “toolbox” is alcohol?
You may be onto something there. 🤔
“William seemed to elicit quite a bit of sympathy after struggling through an introduction to a studio legend he probably hadn’t heard of until 10 seconds before his speech was shoved into his hand” :did I understand correctly? The guardian makes fun of William famous being unprepared? Of not reading his notes?
And did he really elicit sympathy??? Who is feeling sympathy for him? The BM is working overtime to humanize the royals.
Him being unprepared is totally on brand and not knowing people are, what their accomplishments are and even watching the top films is parr for the course. How is this meant to reassure anyone that he’s a safe pair of hands as a middle aged PoW who could be king any moment?
If your performance in your role depends on you being in the right “mood” or “state of mind” to do it, then you need to do some work to get yourself into the right headspace. Diana famously took public speaking lessons. You can’t fake it till you make it. That’s a phrase you hear a lot in the UK, and it’s very awkward, it implies a level of cynicism about other people’s achievements, that they must be faking it, nothing is genuine. It’s all keeping up appearances. So every opportunity to reckon with judgement and testing just becomes petty point scoring.
The best thing I’ll say is that I liked their coordinated outfits. I liked Kate’s dress.
It does seem like this was last minute, because he said Kate watched Hamnet the night before, maybe trying to prepare herself re at least one of the movies (also she wore a dress on repeat and a disheveled wig, neither of which is completely unusual, but still could suggest hurried prep). They were on vacation the previous week, the kids presumably go to bed earlier, and it would have been a fun night together to watch these movies, so what on earth were they doing on their vacation (presumably together) if they planned to attend this all along?
But the most stunning thing is William saying he wasn’t “calm” enough to watch with Kate. “Not calm” because he was angry about Andrew, fearful about the monarchy’s future, not sharing a roof with Kate, or, you know, drunk?
“I need to be in quite a calm state and I am not at the moment. I will save it.”
Who even talks like this about a movie???
He just has zero interpersonal skills.
It seems to me that it would have been better for him to be a no show than to show up and make passive aggressive racist comments. It’s also very disrespectful that he didn’t watch the movies. I mean, c’mon how much effort does it take to watch the movies? Maybe even take a few notes to be able to knowledgeably discuss them. It shows his self entitlement that he didn’t watch the movie’s. Why should the future king have to do anything he doesn’t want to do is his attitude and it sucks.
The “president” should say something, even though we know it will be written for him. He likely won’t and he’s sure trying for sympathy for himself. He’s alluding to mental health issues, but it doesn’t seem genuine. Show your work; I find those doing the work aren’t always there with the perfect words and yet the beauty of being on the healing path glows. It shines in that I generally see people have compassion for others as they learn self-regard too. That journey is such a piece of wonderful humanity.
Its gonna take a day or more. Theyre watching public opinion, before they respond. As usual…
I understand that the BBC has a two hour delay on the BAFTA awards They managed to edit out the woman who said Free Palestine and the man who made comments about Trump. But they let those racial slurs go right thru to people’s I players until some people complained. Then they withdrew the broadcast and re-edit it. Their excuse they didn’t hear it. I am glad the Sussexes are out of that backwater country.