George's exams

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Kate is not going with william to Singapore as George has important exams. What exams would a 10 year old be sitting in November?
I know nothing about private school systems so hoping someone here does.

No head-scratching required - Meghan wore the Mishka Nonoo “husband” shirt for her very first public appearance with Harry at the Invictus games which gained her acres and acres of press around the world. None of it negative though.

Yes actually, I am aware that you need serious money to be an eventer and that connections are helpful too. What I said was, it wasn’t necessary to have Royal connections. Otherwise, no one outside the RF would be able to participate. Talent is also necessary and Zara has that as you acknowledge. Your previous post made it sound that the only reason she was successful was because of her Royal connectins. No need for the snidey tone

You'd need at least several million people to answer a poll for it to be statistically significant, and most people just aren't invested enough in royals to be willing to answer a poll about them

Statistically significant samples in practice need a much smaller sample size than you would think. Polling organisations know what they are doing, you will be surprised to know! (And no, I’m not a statistician, but have commissioned experts in that field to undertake sampling exercises and then present on and defend their methodology in court).

If the public really were interested in Kate and William, then they would stop talking about Harry and meghan. Especially in Britain.
Harry and meghan don't live here. And yet they still get more publicity than royal family members.

Yeh I think he got an easy ride in his partying days but the public generally have a different view now

She isn't a brand ambassador and isn't the face of that brand, whatever it is. I have never heard of that shirt, so it didn't work for me! She just wore a shirt surely. Unless you are saying she is modelling for them?

Whereas it was hard to get away from the headlines about Zara being the face of Musto for their Autumn and Winter campaign.

You really can't compare.

I don't think you can speak for the public

Now this is interesting. I hadn't seen any of this before - such lovely children and lovely if very private moments. It's such a shame that they have brought so much negativity to other things. I don't think I have seen such intimate footage of K and W's children and nor would I expect to.

They really don't anymore - of course there were mountains of it before when it all blew up initially and in the aftermath but now not so much and lessening by the month and year I expect.

Zara does royal events and has attended events posing on the Buckingham Palace balcony

Do you moonlight for the Daily Mail, Coughing Majoress?

I presume you meant to say that “Zara attends family events - like weddings, funerals, public concerts and birthday celebrations - with her family” and “Zara stands on Buckingham Palace along with with her extended family when invited to do so”?

She's basically enjoying the same "half in half out" situation the Firm claimed Harry and Meghan couldn't have

No - she’s never represented the Queen or the UK government in any official capacity, and is paid no public funds. She’s in exactly the same situation as Meghan and Harry are now - not working royals, but free to leverage their positions and contacts as a royal family member for commercial advantage. All of them have done well out of that, obviously. I happen to think Zara and her husband bring more tangible experience and skills to the table than Meghan and Harry, personally.

Whereas it was hard to get away from the headlines about Zara being the face of Musto for their Autumn and Winter campaign.

See I didn’t see a single headline about that, but saw people excitedly gossiping about the name of Meghan’s shirt, and whether it was a secret sign, all over the media at the time. We must both be reading selectively 😀

(I can’t tell you if Misha Nonoo and Meghan had a behind the scenes arrangement, but it certainly catapulted her brand! Meghan later included a very expensive Misha Nonoo shirt in her SmartWorks capsule collection, too)

Zara’s mum declined titles for her children.

That seems quite a big difference.

Can anyone name a single equestrian who is a household name outside of horsey circles today, other than Zara?

Mark Todd, Nick Skelton, Ben Maher and Charlotte Dujardin immediately spring to mind…(not remotely horsey, but like sports, especially the Olympics)

PS Mark Todd, double Olympic champion, did not come from a moneyed background…

Whereas it was hard to get away from the headlines about Zara being the face of Musto for their Autumn and Winter campaign

What headlines? 🤔

In my younger days Eddie Macken and boomerang were loved in ireland. Most of the county watched the Puissance at the Irish horse show
How could anyone forget the controversy of the ‘macken sackin’ 😀

We've had some well known riders since like Cian O’Connor since.

Well... you wanted her in trackie bottoms and a polo shirt the whole time...

I have no idea about that shirt, never heard of it, never saw any publicity about it. Till now! From you!

Is she everywhere in their literature and online catalogue wearing it, like Zara?

Oh I remember them!

Wearing clothes that get the designer publicity happens to any female royal. The clothing item being called Windsor is different.

cleaver.
truth is W&K don't have to earn a living, they are paid by the people.
they do share a lot about their children. well George.....well they must do because we have this thread.
H&M can't win, show their children =terrible parents, don't show their children = omg how dare they/they don't exist.

Is she everywhere in their literature and online catalogue wearing it, like Zara?

I thought you were bothered about it being on the nose that Zara was wearing soemthing in a shade called “Windsor Wine”? Or are you annoyed that Zara is the face of the brand?

(Zara has been working with Musto for many years now, I do know that much).

I don’t agree . I have no time for H and M these days but I did think they were right to protect their children from the media . Then they sell them out to Netflix !!

Did they sell them out or did they include some family time ?

Is 'on the nose' a horsey term? I believe so lol. My DH likes a flutter on the horses, I believe he puts some dosh on the nose!

Just the hypocrisy of a royal using her privilege to model clothes and get paid probably huge amounts for it. Yet Meghan wears a shirt when she is out and is criticised. She wasn't modelling it, having a photoshoot, is not a face of the brand. She just wore a shirt. Crime of the century!

Windsor Wine is naff and obviously cashing in on her royal connections!

Yet Meghan wears a shirt when she is out and is criticised.

No, she wasn’t criticised! That was my point - Meghan worn an item of clothing with a pointed name herself previously.

You speculated she’d be criticised - but she wasn’t. Just a few examples of the host of coverage at the time…