Anyone else feel this was an entirely random post yesterday in the Independent?

[HornMeister]

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/sarah-rose-hanbury-duchess-cholmondeley-william-kate-b2510472.html

@GoodOldEmmaNess but if you went to the school gates of Lambrook or any other private school in the home counties you would see many women of Kate's age wearing practically the same!
It's the casual dresses down uniform of upper class mums!

Interesting, it definitely feels as though there is more going on behind the scenes. Like others I heard about the rumours of an affair between PoW & Rose Hanbury but I thought they’d been widely discredited.

And it is his son who is the Earl of Rocksavage, according to the Indie article (presumably on account of making it out of the womb seconds before his twin bro?).

That would make a good AIBU from the younger untitled twin!

How do you justify spreading nasty unfounded rumours about people you have literally never met? You have reduced yourselves to the intellectual level of Russian bots on X…

If any of the posters spreading this nonsense have happy, successful lives and good careers I will eat my hat… this sort of bitterness must be deep-seated.

I do not think this rumour has legs - wasn’t it started by Giles Coren? Likewise I find it hard to believe that Pippa would name her daughter after the woman shagging her sister’s husband?

It's Telegraph, Independent and Tatler although apparently Tatler has deleted. Screenshots are still online.

I can completely understand why she’d want a side piece, being married to old Chumley, who depending on the source is either a homosexual or a groomer of a teenager (the latter is gross)

But the future king as your affair partner? That’s too hot to handle surely. There will be plenty of youngish aristo men out there for her, looking for extramarital stuff. Why involve oneself with such a potentially toxic situation? The opprobrium, the scrutiny, the negative impact on her minor children when it all comes out.

Camilla was different because they’d been in a relationship before and had never fallen out of love. But to enter into a scratch relationship with a married senior royal … that’s pretty crazy.

MummyJ36 · Yesterday 22:27

Oooh I’ve been on this one for ages! Always amuses me how shocked my friends and family are when I mentioned this well known affair. And to be fair, I believe it is well known in lots of circles. I do have a feeling she is firmly a mistress though. Royals have had mistresses since the dawn of time. I think what seriously muddied the waters was that she was actually good friends with Kate before it all came out.

Ooh yes. Isn't it lip-smackingly thrilling to drool over a lovely piece of gossip, especially when the woman concerned has been seriously ill and there are three young children involved?

Great fun!

Well, tough luck. This was all based on some rubbish made up by Giles Coren, the horrible toad, so you may be disappointed. To quote a MN cliche...'You sound lovely..."

You’re barking up wrong tree, someone (potentially) nails it upthread, (although close). No one would have thought it of Mountbatten, either, possibly. Altho’ poss all of it rot.

Yes not Rose her husband 🤦‍♀️heard from a reliable source

Or, they know from past experience that a lot of people will be googling “Who is Rose ?” because, with William being in the news the pro-Sussex brigade will be picking up their efforts to get her name splashed across social media (as they often do).

If people are going to google her, may as well be the Independent site with a recent article about her that they land on…thinks the Independent. Tactics to drive clicks, in other words.

Tbh if you look at it with pure logic William wouldn’t be such a terrible choice if she wants to ensure her affair partner never wants more.

She has a title, grand house and good lifestyle. To make sure the affair partner never blabs or decides that he’s caught the feels and wants more her safest bet is someone who has more to lose, but who is in her social set so there’s easy explanations if they’re seen together.

William both has more to lose and access to high security places to meet. Her husbands family is also entwined with royals by the Lord Great Chamberlain role so she could never be completely cut out of their social circle if an affair ended.

i don’t think they did have an affair, but if you were in her position he wouldn’t be a shit choice logically.

Omg this rumour is still doing the rounds! Is this where the "prince of pegging" springs from?

Absolutely not a 'by chance' article. The quality of the content in The Independent has slumped in the last 3 or 4 years. I used to really like it.

As an aside- that's a very odd photo of Sarah Vine, her neck has completely disappeared and her head is on her chest.

@HornMeister looks that way

@HornMeister No.

Aristos, Royals, I don’t mean PW, are notoriously louche, look at Mountbatten/‘White Mischief’, etc.

The Mail is not a 'normally sympathetic paper' to the RF. They undermine them constantly, snipe at them, make up ludicrous stories daily that counteract the previous day's 'exclusive', but are, of course, not below producing sycophantic articles with hundreds of photos, particularly of Kate and the children, to sell papers on big occasions.

Where did it come from so?

Rose is trying to say she's happily married in a large house living life. If anything happens she had nothing to do with it. If Willy flies a chopper down ever so often it's on him.

perhaps it’s a matter of perspective. I’ve never seen anything in the mail that could be considered republican, or that looks too closely at royal finances in the way the guardian might. I agree they publish quite sycophantic articles.

Now THAT would be difficult to 'explain' to the public given PW family image!

It honestly was really doing the rounds a couple of years ago! Prince of Pegging! I'm not imagining it 😊

Stephen Colbert talking about the Rose-William rumour even implying that William is the father of her child. To imply that on National TV, he better have credible sources other than Twitter otherwise he should totally get sued

https://twitter.com/MandieBrowne/status/1767770502431482201?t=5CELywPX_2RKMOhDyLj40g&s=08

Surely if Rose wanted a third child but couldn’t/wouldn’t be impregnated by old Chumley, she wouldn’t choose PW to be the father. And why would he agree to it?

That rumour seems far fetched, and hurtful to the adults and the child involved. And I’m no defender of the royals or the aristocracy by any means.