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

We're just going to wait for the full truth from the national enquirer 😂

I disagree. I think if would irk William
considerably have to stand/bow or whatever silly gesture they bestow upon themselves, to Camilla unless she’s with Charles.

Whatever their PR say, there is no love lost between William and Camilla. He pointedly disclosed at one time that the kids were making cards for the dead grandmother they never met which was very obviously aimed at Camilla.

Has anyone seen the timeline of when she was last seen etc? Apparently the kids and her parents haven’t been seen either? Plus they say William didn’t visit Charles in hospital wtf

They said Charles visited Kate in hosp when he was there for one of his own appts though?

William is probably throwing a right old strop and insisting he won’t be told what to do 🤣

Just because they haven’t been photographed doesn’t mean they didn’t visit or aren’t visiting. The press seem to be unusually respectful at this time and I think have backed off.

William looks like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders in recent photos. He looks stressed, nervy and has lost weight. I’m sure he isn’t throwing a ‘strop’. He is trying to cope with a sick wife and a father with cancer. He probably thought he has years before he would be king and suddenly it could be on the horizon. I feel sorry for him.

They’re saying Meghan put a hex on the RF, and tbh things have not gone swimmingly since she and Harry decamped. Maybe Kate has done a runner, William has had a nervous breakdown and H and M will return in triumph! Love to see it

All hail King Harry (Harold/Henry)

Oh wait, have I said that already...

😉

Wonder who put a hex on H and M. Several failed court cases, dropped by Netflix, popularity at an all time low, failing businesses, 30 minute meeting with his father..

Why turn a thread about William on to an attack on Harry and Meghan? They left the Royal Family years ago.

I think this is true. I know Kate VERY slightly, through several other people - but we're not friends, I am not in recent contact with her, and my scrap of knowledge comes second hand, but from an overlapping social/familial network.

This - from my tiny, minuscule flakes of knowledge - is probably approaching the truth, but it's impact - if any whatsoever - on the current circumstances is a separate thing entirely.

I have the shitest of all anecdotes to add to this thread.

I went on a minibreak to St Andrews in 2002 and the taxi driver who picked us up from Leuchars told us that he had seen Prince William in the street and he 'didn't seem very happy with the headphones from his walkman or whatever' and was basically tantrumming and having a strop in the street.

I was a choatic mofo at Uni so I'm hardly one to talk.

But they we are.

Disregulated and losing his shit at inanimate objects back in the early 2000s (not long after losing his mother) apparently.

Oh absolutely. It's been a relief to not have the H&M lot disrupting a relatively benign thread.

Domestic abuse, alcoholism, affairs, prolapses, murder etc. is what you deem to be a benign thread? The mind boggles

We need a new series of The Windsors to shed some light on what’s really going on.

Hahaha yes!

Different opinions not allowed

Coming from you - hilarious 😹

It's weird when MNers post something and you have no idea if it's directed at you

Best to assume not

Well I'll call it first.... they are aliens in disguise and for whatever reason they need to go deal with their alien colony maybe there is an alien mutiny on their hands ... only time will tell

Not long after losing his mother? I think we can give him a pass for having a strop about earphones frustrating him in the circumstances (if that's even what it was or if the anecdote of the driver is even true).

She’d have been dead nearly five years by then.

I doubt he was pissed off by his headphones because of his mother.

I say that as someone who lost a parent at a very young age myself.

I thought the poster heard the story in the early 2000s but the alleged incident had occured 'not long after losing his mother.' I've seen kids grieve and sometimes, they do react to small frustrations more than the otherwise would. Maybe you didn't, but I'd give them a pass.

The PP said

and losing his shit at inanimate objects back in the early 2000s

which means it happened then. Not that she heard about it then.

I have no idea why William pulled out of the event, but as a general thought / comment, I think I would be really struggling with my own mortality if I were him. The Queen's funeral must have brought home to him the sense that he'd moved one step closer to Charles' eventual death and subsequent funeral and then his own. A state funeral is such a spectacle, that it must be difficult to think about that happening to yourself one day.

Add in Charles' cancer diagnosis and suddenly everything must seem even more real. I think up until the Queen's death, becoming monarch must have seemed like something that was so far in the future it was almost an obscure kind of concept, but now it's so much closer and reality has set in.