Prince William's Absence (Part Two)

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Following on from this glorious thread

William just pulled out of event due to personal reasons http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/theroyall_family/5017144-william-just-pulled-out-of-event-due-to-personal-reasons

I think it’s fairly obvious that a last minute available slot for a bit of fun pegging became available and he opted for that instead.

Not having school holidays to contend with, I had to look. It's a couple of days over 4 weeks away

Yes, we have, as the Queen did this for her pregnancies, even in the 1960s when she was the sovereign. Didn’t do public engagements, didn’t open parliament…

(Victoria disappeared for YEARS after Albert died, too of course)

I’m not sure what your point is here?

People were saying KC has been more open so there must be some weird and wacky reason that we aren’ t all hearing all about Kate’s condition. The point I was making is that he might feel differently about sharing it. We did after all know about his prostrate: he was braver than I’d have been.

We pay £86 million a year for the royal family. She is being funded right now by us, the tax payers.

You can’t expect the future queen to disappear without a trace for months on end with absolutely zero communication and everyone is like cool - who cares? of course people will be rightly very concerned. You either have the public support, trust and good will (and money) or you don’t.

That’s it then: POW has died! Kate in mourning and its now patently obvious why he didn’t attend the memorial service. Bingo!

Well that’s not going to wash in 2024 is it!

Pretty sure he does, she's HM The Queen. The protocols are different to those for Philip who was HRH not HM because sexism, although many of the younger generation would bow or curtsy to him out of respect anyway.

Also think you're confusing bowing with precedence (HRHs have an order of precedence depending on who is there but they don't bow to each other) but reckon Philip came before everyone bar Elizabeth anyway regardless of who was present.

None of this will be news to William who grew up in this world, coming second to Camilla and bowing to her wouldn't faze him.

Now be honest.... was it a Brazilian butt lift??

Gosh this is so similar to the plaster thread - how weird

Well they need to get something sorted if they want the monarchy to survive because wheeling out the family perv and his ex wife is a great way to turn all but the most ardent hangers on into republicans.

I think someone in Kate’s position has to choose one of two paths with this - you either keep all medical diagnoses and procedures private as a matter of course, or you disclose every time.

Because if you disclose some and then one day you have something you really don’t want discussed on national television and in every tabloid across the world then you would end up with even worse speculation than we are seeing now.

She’s right at the age when health stuff starts happening and she’s facing another 40 years or so of this scrutiny.

Looks like the plan is to give the plain bare minimum - abdominal surgery - and set boundaries and guidelines around expectations - doing well, back after Easter.

Once she’s back to her usual smiley bouncy hair public facing self the rumors will die down (apart from the few crazies on Twitter) and then the next time she has a private health matter the same boundaries will apply and then eventually it will just be the way they deal with health stuff and everyone will stop freaking out.

Then she doesn’t have to disclose the full embarrassing details of her bunion removal op in her 50s, or the polyps removal in her 60s, or the cancer scare that was resolved with minimal treatment in her 70s etc etc etc

I couldn’t agree more. It is a bloody shit show. It’s like the kids are running the show. They need to get a grip.

I dunno. I’m actually starting to feel sorry for them all reading this thread.

You 100% can when they specifically said, shes ill, see you at easter.
I think thats Fair enough, and im no Royalist, I think its all a load of BS and malarky, but I think a sick woman with small kids deserves her privacy and that comes before "duty".

prostate

It doesn’t come before bloody manners!

Yes sorry. I think it’s too late to edit though

But prostrate is quite funny …

It was, My Backside was harrowing for me, never mind DH, so needs must.

Something dodgy is going on with Kate. No family photos to even say she is healthy? Why?

You can’t expect the future queen to disappear without a trace for months on end with absolutely zero communication

Not zero communication. A statements from KP at the outset and then three updates.

it is in the context of royalty 😂

Yes!

Whatever is wrong with her how can it be worse than what is already circulating?? What is the point in continuing with this position.