William just pulled out of event due to personal reasons

[Kenthighst]

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

Love it

Not sure she is full time. Aren’t the children all at school now?

*He really would be 'the only Prince of Wales never to have had a mistress'!

I think you can safely discount Richard III's son (died when he was in his early teens), Prince Arthur (ditto). I don't know enough about James I's eldest son, but he also died young so pretty unlikely. And James II's son was only putative PoW and was kept on quite a tight rein until his DF died.

So not the only PoW, IMO.

Liz was resilient and she had more than a few knocks during her lifetime. Charles is well meaning but somehow doesn't seem to have the gravitas needed. And then there's William.

If, as some are suggesting, he has had a lot to deal with, yes of course he has, but so have many of us, emotionally, financial, and health wise etc., and many are posting here having survived and got through it without the support of an endless money supply and all that jazz.

William is NOT resilient IMV. He doesn't seem to want to shine as the future Monarch. Just a feeling I get, and perception counts for a lot these days (and in the past too) when judging the behaviour and attitudes of those in power with vast wealth, who represent us as our Head of State.

If we had a President, there would not be a million or so family members hanging on and similar millions of castles, manor houses, hunting lodges, estates, and Duchies to administer either. Just the President, his or her spouse, the staff, and a formal residence.

And before anyone cites Trump, forget that, he is not a titular HOS he has POWER, as does Macron, but there are so many other examples of Presidential HOS that are subtle, relatively inexpensive to run, and effective. Oh and democratically elected too. It's not the worst thing that could happen, since I think the RF is sliding down to the slough of despond now.

I was thinking the same.

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Likely this

The first 8 ( all charles's line ) weren't there.That's probably all protocol demands

If you read the article it says that it's not.

Screenshot if you don't want to click the link

This was discussed ages ago, why not read the end of the thread rather than just the beginnning?

According to Princess Diana, that's what Charles told her, so maybe take it up with him!

I expect William discovered at the last moment that a) he would have to walk either with our just behind Camilla and b) that Andrew was going to be in the ‘procession’.

Thanks but no thanks. Good for him.

I think him pulling out at such short notice, is either he had a dose of the shits , that immodium wasnt fixing or something serious happened to one of his immediate family, Kate or kids.

I don't think it was anything to with Charles or Camilla wouldn't have been their. And certainly nothing to do with his second cousins husband dying (however tragic)

It has to be something catastrophic like the child has had to go into hospital or something. They have staff, nannies, Catherine's parents etc.
It's a reading he had to do, not a 2 week trip.
I think there's more to it and obviously people are filling the blanks.

I thought Harry was persona non grata for insulting Camilla in his book? How come Wills can get away with insulting the entire ex Greek Royal Family, as well as his sick father just because he doesn't want to walk behind her?

Lol good point!

And if he is to be King there are going to be situations like this where diplomacy is needed and doing the right thing because that's the job
If that's his reason for not going today it's pathetic
He'll get his chance soon enough to banish Andrew somewhere...

@Quizine that may all be true, but I was commenting from a human perspective rather than a constitutional one. I don't think you can necessarily compare one person's stress with another anyway. The support he has is also implicitly there to stop him going off the rails and letting the side down, which is a form of mental pressure too. Plenty of people don't cope, have breakdowns etc anyway, there's nothing shameful in that. The Queen was exceptionally resilient though, I agree.

As for a presidency - it wouldn't be my choice personally. Far too much faff to sort out with little to no benefit, and I do quite like having a really longstanding monarchy.

Don't mention Ireland whatever you do 😂

Well I imagine that is indeed the case 😂

Well I think William's good at prioritising and if his cousin's husband died yesterday - it's a big upset for the family. He needed to focus on that. Just being real. Going to this memorial was not a priority.

So the consensus seems to be after 28 pages that William has the shits?

The press must know what's going on. They will have followed William to see where he went when he "left Windsor". The school, a hospital, whatever.

I really would like to befriend someone in royal journalism - bet they know LOADS of secrets.

Imho W&K are a genuine couple and are doing their best in the job. I think Kate is just taking her time to recover fully, she won't want to be papped looking less than 100%. Yes, it probably has been that she's been v ill with Crohn's or similar for years.

What happened Tom Kingston? Was he sick?