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 one night for what purpose? Just sleeping under the same hotel roof? What the hell difference would it have made? I don't know about you, but I managed to survive the night before my wedding without having my DSis sleeping in my vicinity, ditto my DH coped without his brother.

It's not as easy as it looks, but surely people don't think this is rocket science? Such a job scope would be a breeze for all but the most low-paid/minimally-skilled jobs on earth.

I think that's an exaggeration. You need rather more than minimal skills to read up on, memorise and apply the knowledge gained from a detailed organisation and not to mix it up with what you've been swatting up for the other places you have visited recently or are due to visit soon, and to keep that going week after week. As for being able to appear interested, pleased and engaged day after day when meeting a load of strangers, no matter how you are feeling - frankly I couldn't do that bit.

And perhaps George and Charlotte were needing their dad also.

Wasn’t Charlotte supposedly upset about the wedding, there’s a good chance she wasn’t keen to go, so William might have been needed.

Yes that is a very good point that Charlotte (or George) might not have been keen to go.

Or they could have been over excited and stuggle to settle. Its one thing climbing into Mum & Dads bed and snuggling up. That not something that would be appropriate for them to do with a nanny.

Some posters seem to think kids should be excited for anything, Inc posters who thought it should be exciting for George and Charlotte to travel in the 'big cars' at the Queens funeral.

This incident has been discussed at length on other threads. What I draw from it is that William was trying to persuade Harry that he loves him and genuinely only wants the best for him. He was frustrated. They both were frustrated.

William grabbed Harry’s collar possibly to get him to look him in the eye to explain this and use the ‘I swear on mummy’s life’ code for please believe me, can we just stop all this. I think it was more of a desperate gesture than one of violence.

At the same time as grabbing his collar, William caught hold of Harry’s necklace. Incidentally this is a very fine piece of leather, the thickness of which could be used to lace a shoe and from what Harry said in an interview, he’d had it some time.

The room was small and cramped with low ceilings. Perhaps they were stooped. I don’t think William assaulted Harry. I think in the emotion and due to the cramped environment. Harry lost his balance and as he lost his balanced, the fine piece of leather snapped. Having had leather shoe laces, this would easily have happened. He fell into the dog bowl. It bruised his back / bum.