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.

@Quintella but I don't think she did leak it. Not her fault if someone else did! "Privacy" in that world will not be "privacy" like you or I have.

@BejamNostalgia- I'm pretty sure Dave Clark is American?

Oh poor Fanny Work, what a name to bear! I presume she was a fabulously wealthy heiress of the buccaneering variety.

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

I'm not sure that one of his mother's great-grandparents being American makes this true. There is definitely still a snobbishness about Americans amongst the British upper classes (ironic given how many of their families married rich Gilded Age heiresses to save the family homes/fortunes) and I can easily believe that William subscribes to that. He doesn't seem to me like much of an original thinker who would reject the norms of the rather brainless toff set with whom he was educated and grew up socialising.

This thread is like a never ending bar of chocolate without the calories.

This thread is so unintentionally hilarious

The sight of Will Carlings wife in tears, as he got in his car ignoring her, finished off any sympathy I'd ever had for Diana. To do that to another woman when she'd whinged and whined about her own husband's heartlessness was beyond any kind of acceptable behaviour.

I don’t believe the rumours of an affair. It’s Absolute nonsense.

But Kate put up with it before she was married. William dumped her twice to pursue other women. I'm fascinated by her choice to stay with him and his choice to go back to her. I do think Harry is Team Kate though. And it would explain the change in the relationship between Harry and William. I'm also really frustrated at the hard time Meghan is getting.

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.

According to google she dated an American called Paolo Luizzo. And I don't see how having an American great-great grandmother who died decades before he was born would stop him from disliking his cousin's American boyfriend or even Americans in general.

It is so believable though. All that money and privilege and absolutely no integrity. Tale as old as time.

grimupnorth Diana and her mother were very aware of the American connection and both traded off it. Diana considered moving there post divorce.

I think he probably did have an affair. And Kate and Harry have always got on well.

Hi there, Fanny! We're honoured to have your wealthy American self on the thread.

@FannyWork (excellent name change by the way!) I think Diana was attracted to the idea of moving to America by her iconic/celebrity/goddess status there rather than feeling that identity via her ancestry. Doesn't mean the royal family William was born into or the posh set he mixes with are no longer snobbish about the "septics"

we can't discount the attraction of "forbidden fruit" - a powerful aphrodisiac

Especially among folk used to having exactly what they want just for the asking. With a mentality like that, "no" will never be welcomed and whoever offers it is likely to be out of a job pretty fast - as Charles's countless ex-employees could no doubt attest

The family's ridiculous behaviour might not be pleasant, but I suppose it at least adds to the gaiety of the nation ... probably just as well since they're damn all use for anything else

I would rather Kate was the Queen (the main event) than William be king. I know she will be a queen, but she won't be the monarch.

This thread is keeping me grinning today

Maybe the leaker was Harry! A good friend of Kate's, sick of Megan getting such a hard time, has fallen out with his brother. It all adds up!

I suspect it’s all just so much nonsense that they’re doing what anyone else would do and they’re ignoring the rumours.

It’s what I’d do.

@grimupnorthLondon that attitude definitely prevails in some circles, although it's kept on the DL. Americans take it all so seriously but don't quite "get it" is the term I have heard used.

Eg the rather earnest one I know who quickly jumped in teach a Brit all the middle verses that no one sings to British Grenadiers when we all cut to the end and had to be "corrected". The comment "isn't it sweet that the Americans always care so much about these things" soon shut her up. She was really hurt and it was awkward to watch.

me too @longwayoff. Have never been at all interested in royal stuff before but this has me weirdly gripped. I think maybe it's a result of watching the Crown (I may also be quite bored at work)

Yes, that's exactly what I mean @DSHathaway. Not outright hostility but intensely cutting and cruel "politeness". I work with a mixture of very posh English people and Americans and see this a lot.

According to google she dated an American called Paolo Luizzo

He sold a story on her but she denied they’d dated.

He doesn't seem to me like much of an original thinker who would reject the norms of the rather brainless toff set with whom he was educated and grew up socialising.

He went to Eton and he and Harry were pretty much the only people there who could be described as brainless. He’s never been into the whole fox hunting crowd of hoorays.

Good god, I hate the way people always boil these things down to looks!

Some of the things on Twitter about the possible woman's appearance are vile!

(A bit lower brow, but) not long ago twitter exploded with the Jordan/Khloe/Thompson thing and initially everyone was revolting “why do they always cheat with ugly girls” “he cheated with HER?!” “What a downgrade” about Jordan but after her red table interview she was a “kweeen”

People marry, cheat, date, have sex and affairs based on a lot more than just looks.
Chemistry perhaps? Sense of humor?

Would it be more acceptable if the person they cheat with is deemed more attractive or is this just something you tell yourselves to protect yourself from the prospect that a lot of men cheat, sometimes with someone who blows their mind sexually or intellectually or makes them laugh and sometimes they cheat with much less desirable characters who just happen to be there?

Quintella, Dickens was the first to use the expression mega-wonga in print, I believe, although it is thought to originate from Chaucer's use of monga-wonga to describe a rich, unattractive widower in The Canterbury Tales.