William was in the wrong re Harry’s wedding

[MaybelleMary]

Re William didn’t stay over with Harry the night before his wedding and caused a fuss about having to go to the hotel he was in the night before for dinner. As his only brother and as best man he should’ve been there with him. We hear all the time how wonderful and amazing Catherine’s family are - surely on the occasion of his only sibling getting married her parents could’ve come over to help her with her newborn and the children for the night. They have nannies and cleaners and staff so not exactly short of help in general.

my DH has only one brother too. He got married when my baby was 6 weeks old post a difficult c-section. We went to the hotel for 3 nights - so DH could have drinks with his brother and bridal party the night before, the night of the wedding and the night after the wedding. I was fine with this as it was his only siblings wedding. Yes it was difficult for me and exhausting but it was important to us both that we made a big effort for his DBro especially as (like Harry) they were missing a parent at the wedding.

from my view either William or Catherine or both didn’t care enough to put themselves out for Harry and his wedding which reflects poorly on them.

It was four days before. Not the day before.

What difference would it have made to the baby that he wasn’t there? His wife wasn’t in a position where she had to rely on him to help either. One night would have made no difference whatsoever in terms of his relationship with the baby

@Eyerollcentral it might not have made much difference to his relationship with the baby but he had two other small children who had a big day in front of them who were just getting used to having a new baby sibling too.

And it would have made a difference to Kate knowing he has her back and didn't leave her to deal with it all.

It doesn’t sound as though that one night before the second wedding would have made any difference whatsoever in terms of his relationship with that baby of a brother more like.

Absolutely this.

You’re forgetting there were two other older children who, adjusting to a new sibling, and about to perform for Auntie Meg, probably appreciated some Daddy time.

Yes, who would have been in bed by 7.30/8pm. Kate absolutely would not have been on her own to deal with the children. I’m not saying it would have necessarily been easy for her to go to the wedding so soon after giving birth, but I think a lot of people see these situations through the prism of their own family life and that’s not reflective of Kate’s reality.

It’s not but this has to be seen through the prism of William, not Kate. Why is it so hard to believe he’d rather be with his post-partum wife, newborn, toddler (3yo) and 4yo?

I didn’t say it was difficult to imagine. I said he has one brother and this is supposed to be a once in a lifetime thing.

You said it wouldn’t make a difference to the baby or Kate.

You didn’t mention how it would affect the other two or William, how he may have wanted to be there for his kids.

And his third child was a once in a lifetime thing.

If family was sooooooo important to Harry with him wanting William to stay the night, then why didn't that apply to Meghan? She has nice relatives too that she didn't invite for whatever reason? 🤷‍♀️

In my opinion the other two children would most likely have been fine and excited to be part of a big event. A lot of people seem to think children share adult anxieties, very often they don’t. He would have been there for the children on the day though and they have a mother who seems calm and reassuring.
Yes of course @ArcaneWireless but Louis wasn’t born the day before the wedding.
I think if there’s a low bar it’s what mothers and children can cope with when daddy is away for 14 hours

Maybe William just didn't want to be there as a pp said "it's an invitation not a summons."

So with a newborn baby, 2 young children and a wife still recovering and William put them first over a single, grown man who lives next door??

Lol

William obviously just didn’t want to stay the night and wanted to be at home with his wife and children. Given everything coming out of the horse’s mouth now, it was probably not a difficult choice.

In your opinion despite not knowing the children

But again you’re still missing the point. Even if they would have been fine, William wanted to be with his children that night. Maybe he couldn’t bear to be apart from his 3-week old, maybe he wanted to be there when Charlotte and George woke up. Maybe he wanted to support Kate with Louis in the night. We don’t know.

But that’s what he as a parent wanted to do.

William should have had dinner with Harry. He could then have returned to Kate.

www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20230116161744/prince-harry-frustration-prince-william-royal-wedding-eve/

He did NOT have dinner with Harry.

So a third child doesn’t matter as much as the first two now?
It'll all come out in Louis' book The Spare's Spare @ArcaneWireless. Uncle Harold thinks he had it bad.

Did William also have to be there the night before the day they really got ‘married’ 3 days before the wedding at Windsor Castle?

But you don’t know them either? Your point is no more valid than mine.

So Harry is lying in the book when he says William did?

Harry says he did in the book - he wasn’t going to and then he had tea w Liz, next thing rang harry and said I’ll come over and see the crowds with you. Then harry says he did have dinner then went home

Have you read the book @babsanderson?