WillKat's second honeymoon...

[louloutheshamed]

They've gone to the Maldives without Prince George apparently (it's in the dm)

Seriously?? Think this might turn the tide of public opinion against them...seems its just one long holiday being the D and D of Cambridge....

[DinoSnores]

charmschool, read the Court Circular. That will tell you what any of the RF are doing officially.

[LadyKatherine]

MN referenced here as well: Not DM Link.

[KonkeyDong]

greysandy you predicted the future - some attempt at positive K&W news in the DM today and their 3 week holiday tour to Aus and NZ.

Apparently they couldn't bear the fact of leaving PG for 2 nights whilst in NZ.....

[LittleBearPad]

Managed for a week in the Maldives though...

[fideline]

They have permanently wrecked the 'can't bear to leave their kids' line of PR haven't they?

Optimistic of their 'people' to still be trying to use it

[LittleBearPad]

And their 'we're just like any other young parents' line too.

A new pr strategy is called for.

[fideline]

They have limited workable PR options, though.

'Divine right of Kings' isn't very 21st century. Justifying an anachronism is difficult.

Which is why they need to avoid PR disasters like this, but someone didn't get the memo, it seems.

[LittleBearPad]

They created the problem by the insistence pre-birth that they weren't going to have a nanny etc. I think most people would have assumed they would and wouldn't have commented.

Then William has his bespoke Cambridge course - an agricultural college would have seemed a better option - and he can't even make it to the end of a 10 week term without a holiday.

[fideline]

It is baffling.

My own assumption is that everyone around them, including PR advisers are from similar Eton, Harrow, Marlborough, Westminster, multiple-barreled name backgrounds and they genuinely have no proper idea of how their choices will play with the public.

[gertiegusset]

Don't actually suppose they care really.
The great unwashed and all that, why would they care what we think, job for life for them.

[fideline]

They can't afford not to care. Do they not know that?

[fideline]

I think the wrong lessons have been absorbed from the Diana-quake of the early 90s.

I imagine there was/is a strong establishment feeling of 'if only she had settled docilely into family life' all would have been well. Maybe they are aiming for that 'happy first family' vibe in this generation and think that as long as they project that, all will be well.

But that doesn't give them carte blanche to do whatever they fancy with guaranteed popularity and besides, this isn't the 1980s.

[anonacfr]

Well what are people going to say to this one...

www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/295340/royals-seek-romantic-escape-queenstown