To think the UK media silence on the Prince William rumours is odd

[Absofuckinglutely]

Just that really. No idea if there's anything more than rumour and speculation, but it's all over social media that Prince William allegedly had an affair with one of Kate's friends, but there is a total media silence on it.
Pretty bizarre considering that Meghan Markle barely has to breathe and the media are covering it.

Sounds awfully like Prince Charles

No, Prince Charles does not and has never had trust issues. As long as people fawn over him sufficiently he is perfectly happy to have them around. Being over trusting of people who flatter him has been his problem and has led him to have close friendships and receive very dodgy advice from a succession of spivs and charlatans (Louis Mountbatten, Lauren’s Van Der Post, Jimmy Savile).

This was the way I'd always thought about Prince Charles:-

www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/03/the-isolating-boarding-school-days-of-prince-charles

When Prince Charles hit bottom after his separation from Diana, in 1992, he unburdened himself about the miseries of his youth to Jonathan Dimbleby, who was writing an authorized biography. Dimbleby noted that, as a little boy, Charles was “easily cowed by the forceful personality of his father,” whose rebukes for “a deficiency in behaviour or attitude . . . easily drew tears.” While brusque, Philip was “well-meaning but unimaginative.” Friends who spoke with Charles’s permission described the duke’s “belittling” and even “bullying” his son. Charles was less harsh about his mother, but his opinion had a bitter edge. She was “not indifferent so much as detached.”

His father transferred him to Cheam School, in Hampshire, where Philip himself had been sent at the age of eight. Charles was just shy of his ninth birthday but considerably more vulnerable than his father. He suffered from acute homesickness, clutching his teddy bear and weeping frequently in private. “I’ve always preferred my own company or just a one to one,” he has said. As heir to the throne, he made an inviting target for school-mates, who ridiculed his protruding ears and called the pudgy prince “fatty.”

Later he went to Gordonstoun:

www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5095441/why-prince-charles-hate-gordonstoun/

Charles did not feel a good fit at Gordonstoun and later labelled it as “a prison sentence”, calling the school “Colditz in kilts”. To top it off, according to fellow school friends, Charles was relentlessly bullied.

Charles wrote in a letter home in 1963 describing the tough time he was having, it read: “The people in my dormitory are foul. Goodness, they are horrid. “I don’t know how anybody could be so foul.” In another, he wrote: “I hardly get any sleep in the House because I snore and I get hit on the head all the time. It’s absolute hell.”

I feel that any kid who gets sent away aged 8 and writes plaintive letters back home which are basically ignored would have some trust issues with his parents.

Why do people think that cheating has anything to do with anyone's looks?

Anyone can be cheated on if Cheryl Cole and Halle Berry can...

Yes I'm sure Charles does have trust issues - his mother pushed him away when he went to her for affection at 3 years old. Goodness know what wasn't documented.

@ElektraLOL Indeed! If even Beyonce can be cheated on there's no hope for anyone.

Did Paul Newman cheat on his second wife ?

If these stories are true - and who knows - then Rose Hanbury is exactly the type of woman a 'royal' would have an affair with.

She's aristocratic, so knows how to play the game. She's not known to the public and lives in the country, so easy to be discreet. Since she has 3 kids - two of them male, thus securing the future of her husband's house - then she's likely done having children and unlikely to introduce a cuckoo into the nest. Her aristocratic husband probably knows of any affair that is taking place and doesn't care, because he's off shagging his friends' wives too.

That's how the game has always been played among the posh set. We'd like to think that the younger generation is different and more 'modern' in their attitudes, but are they really?

If even Beyonce can be cheated on there's no hope for anyone

Anyone can be cheated on, Beyonce and the others mentioned are not perfect women, that suggests that beauty alone should be enough to keep a man faithful, do people really think like that?

Knew nothing about Rose Hanbury until I read this thread.

I see her husband is in his SIXTIES! Maybe he turns a blind eye, given that she is still a young frisky filly...

They met when she was 21 and he was 44.

Oh please, William comes across as a right upright git. He probably did do it, and has had a little fit that the common plebs found out about it.

My favourite quote about him came out when he was kind of feuding with Beatrice’s ex - William didn’t like the brash American or something and thought he was untrustworthy - the quote was along the lines of “William’s the type to get offended if a dog looks at him the wrong way” and was clearly from Beatrice’s camp. Him to a T!

Rose Hanbury has famously dated older men though, as has her sister.

I initially thought she wouldn't risk it, but the way @icedpurple described it, I see more & more that she is the perfect candidate.

Wills is going to be King. There is a lot of PR and Spin around to protect him.

A 21 year old society beauty marrying a middle aged aristo with mega wonga seems so…….1880s. Mega wonga was a common Victorian phrase, wasn’t it?

chaosisaladder- the ex is Dave Clark. Agreed that I don't think Rose would've leaked it.

the way @icedpurple described it, I see more & more that she is the perfect candidate

Well, not quite. We wouldn't be talking about it now if she was the perfect candidate. Seems that discretion may be lacking somewhat.

do people really think like that?

Yes, if you'd read the whole thread you would have seen such sentiments expressed.

My favourite quote about him came out when he was kind of feuding with Beatrice’s ex - William didn’t like the brash American or something and thought he was untrustworthy - the quote was along the lines of “William’s the type to get offended if a dog looks at him the wrong way” and was clearly from Beatrice’s camp. Him to a T!*

Beatrice has never had an American boyfriend and half Prince William’s family are American and William himself is of American descent so that’s not likely.

And only someone completely naive would believe William can’t do “anything” which would bring down the Monarchy.

Times have changed. When the Queen goes, who knows what will happen. (No one would have foreseen Brexit 5 years ago.)

Absolutely this, and this is why I don't believe that William would risk it all for an affair, theres far more riding on it than his marriage.

half Prince William’s family are American and William himself is of American descent so that’s not likely.

Is he? I didn't know that. I'd fail miserably on a Mastermind quick fire round on the royal family.

lookingelsewhere, what you’ve missed out of that account is the Queen Mother. When the Queen was taken away from her young family by work Charles was left with the QM who spoiled and cosseted him and catered to his every whim (she was notorious for sucking up to the heirs and Diana fell out with her over it because she openly favoured William over Harry).

He was a very spoiled little boy, QM allowed him to be brought up in the Victorian style where he did absolutely nothing himself and had servants for every whim. He’s complained that his parents weren’t loving but they apparently don’t think that is fair and instead think Charles would have criticised any parent who didn’t indulge him and fawn over him the way his Grandmother did.

Yes they sent him to a tough school where he was unhappy and wouldn’t let him get his ears pinned back even though he was bullied about them, but that has never, ever translated into trust issues.

He’s always found it very easy to trust people as long as they replicate his Grandmother’s behaviour and tell him he’s wonderful and clever and are slaves to his whims. He’s actually been far too trusting and had several dubious friendships because of it.

Even the whole ‘Camilla is his one true love’ myths are balls because he had two full time mistresses for the entire length of his marriage and the other one was Kanga Tyron.

She'd have to leave him??? No. She won't be going anywhere.

Yes, Quintella, through an American heiress called Fanny Work which is the best name ever.

I’ve sometimes wished I was a man so I could be a drag queen called Fanny Work. In fact I may change my username.