William being rude during public visit

[OutofEverything]

William visited an Ipswich hospital. A staff member had made cakes for his visit and decorated them with union jacks.
William then took part in a video call with some children, including the sin if the woman who made the cakes, William said to the young boy: ‘Your mother’s feeding me her cakes.’ He then held up a cupcake to the camera, and said: ‘They’re not very good!’ The children then burst into laughter as the prince adds: ‘I’ve told her she wouldn’t win Bake Off.’

I can understand the children laughing, but this is just so rude. The NHS staff member made cakes with her own money for his visit and all he can do is insult them.

Merely persiflage.

I thought from the title that William was doing that thing of making farting noises with his hand under his armpit!

I'm glad to know that he has stopped doing that now.

In public, anyway.

Moot point. Meghan is American and her sense of humour seems very different. She only worked 72 days as a senior royal and wasn’t a boots on the ground type person, which in part is why they left so it’s not likely she was ever in the same position. As for Harry, totally something I could imagine him saying.

Of course she was smiling.

Smiling like someone who really doesn't feel she has any other option, like many women.

This was a humor fail on his part. He doesn't understand his privilege.

OP, have you ever thought about taking up fishing as a hobby given how you spend so much time angling for ways to discredit the RF?

It sounds like the overall issue is your lack of humour. There are far more important issues to get your knickers in a twist over!

People this literal should stay off the internet. It won’t end well for you

Finally British culture has been established as a tendency to be rude about afternoon tea.

Except egg sandwiches. William would have been complimentary about those.

It wasn’t a joke. Your tea was shit. That’s OK, we can’t all be British.

Didn't see or hear this, but from this thread it sounds like he was having a good laugh with the kids like he probably does with his own. If it were me that made them, I'd find it funny. Lighten up OP!

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I want to live in a world where people are happy and have a sense of humour. Its actually that what makes it so funny, I doubt he could do a better job and they (including him) all know it. It's funny. Chill out

@OutofEverything the lady & her son were on the news last night laughing & joking about what had happened., whilst being filmed making cupcakes. She also said she thinks she loves William!

OP will be returning shortly to say it’s Stockholm syndrome

Is he even allowed to eat them?

Oh dear, OP.

Maybe seek help for your obsession.

I think it's rude. I agree with PPs, it's all very well to make a joke but you would think he'd be taught not to punch down.

His one 'use' is showing up and being innocuously pleasant towards strangers for a short period of time. You'd think he'd have a few things ready to say that aren't jokes at the expense of the people he's just met.

I don't think many would have taken offence (clearly a few would).
I don't laugh much these days, but I would have smiled at that and understood the humour.

It wouldn't worry me in the slightest - but then again I have WAY bigger things to worry about in life, and would never be in a situation where I was baking cakes for royalty, so it's a non issue for me in anyway.

Alternative perspective - I'm from the 2 cultures tea is actually truly from (India and China), and it's shocking what the British have done to tea! As if stealing it during the opium war and from the colony wasn't bad enough, you then stuff it into teabags, water it down and turn it beige... What did tea ever do to deserve this? It was a rude shock the first few times I and others encountered it here.

*I'm actually saying this in all seriousness but if it offends you, consider it a joke in the same vein as William's joke!

It sounds like a joke at the woman's expense, which is pretty poor from someone in such a position of power over her. Considering he has trained all his life to be royal and interact with the peasants, William seems spectacularly bad at it.

LMAO 🤣
OP it was clearly a joke that the woman was in on. Why are you getting so astronomically offended on the behalf of someone who actually enjoyed it?

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Just when I thought mumsnet couldn’t get anymore bizarre, a thread like this appears! The video, is trending on TikTok, the woman and her son, appeared on ITV news last night. I suspect if they thought it was intentionally rude they wouldn’t have appeared on the news…in public promoting the video!!!

no……I’ll get my coat!!

Did you bake them 😬😬