William just pulled out of event due to personal reasons

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https://news.sky.com/story/prince-of-wales-pulls-out-of-memorial-service-due-to-personal-matter-13081984

Completely agree, he was inappropriately jovial.

No wonder Prince Michael looked so strained in the photos from today.

How sad at such a young age.

In a weird coincidental twist, Gabriella was the royal who went to Constantine’s funeral as William’s representative last year. As she is also a godchild of his.

It's probably something and nothing. I doubt we'll ever know.

OH that's so sad

Yes! Totally agree. I dont think either of them enjoy it or want it. They aren’t ageing well and it seems like a burden.

Andrew’s jovial manner on the walk down to the chapel seems even more inappropriate now as presumably the family were all aware of the sad news.

I'll take that bet, how much are you wagering ?

@MrsMitford3 did you salute him back? Hawaiian good luck sign I hope😁🖕

How would that result in William missing one event but attending very many others?

He doesn’t strike me as the type to cancel an appearance unless unavoidable.

This is horrible - and I've only read the first few pages and got depressed

If anyone - male or female came on Mumsnet and said I didn't go to my God fathers funeral today - I just cant cope. My mum died when I was a kid, My Gran died last year and I loved her so much, my dad has cancer, I'm estranged from my brother and his wife, my wife has had major surgery and been really ill with it and the children are upset about it, and everyone thinks my uncle is an abuser... I can't take any more, I just can't do it

How many of you would tell them they were going to do a shit job in their future career (or just that they had the shits?) How many of you would tell them that it's amusing?

OK his family are meant to represent stability but blimey have some compassion

Andrew and Fergie looked horribly smug today.

tiny 🎻 Step down then. Do a Harry leave the RF if it is so burdensome and such a burden

Given that Prince and Princess Michael turned up despite the loss of their son-in-law I hope that William had a very good reason for dropping out at the last minute.

He's really going down in my estimation for the level of engagements he does.

Maybe the boiler's on the blink and he's got to wait in for the man to come and fix it?

Actually marrying the king doesn't automatically make you the queen. I think it's called a morganatic marriage?

That's not on the Palace. That's on all the speculators.

Maybe it's because his friend and cousins husband has died.

No. Queen is an inherited birth title to a royal born. Commoner Marriage to a king the wife is queen consort. This is often shortened colloquially to queen, but it is actually queen consort

'twas ever thus.

Family death

No. Queen is an inherited birth title to a royal born. Commoner Marriage to a king the wife is queen consort. This is often shortened colloquially to queen, but it is actually queen consort
I’m replying to @MrsDanversGlidesAgain and agreeing with @HussyWillow and @CurlewKate

Does anyone else think that Kate has had a mental health breakdown and is recovering from that, rather than the ambiguous 'abdominal surgery'

Morganatic marriages certainly existed - Madame de Maintenon in France in the 17c, and a few German princely houses in the 19c, but they've never existed in Britain. The convention is and always has been that a wife takes the rank she's entitled to by marriage - which in Camilla's case is queen consort; or queen, as she's dropped the consort.

Harry didn’t want to leave, he wanted a half in half out situation.

Nope. Why do you think that?