William's non attendance to important events

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Since there is a flurry of discussion on another thread its probably best to create a thread for it to take place here and not derail another one.

So William is not attending a number of important events the recent one being the VJ day..lots of you think he should have after all he is the future King and if he can't make time for these things then it begs the question what is the point of them?

So discuss away...what should he turning up to, what is his actual role if he starts to not do these types of things...

Do you know how long it takes to recover from cancer? It takes years, especially you have had chemo.

So Charles should be doing less.

Well a presidents son is just a son...not the next president in waiting by virtue of being born into that role...

I for one wouldn’t stand by while my father with cancer worked much more than I do.

I for one wouldn’t stand by while my father with cancer worked much more than I do.

I just don't understand why Charles can't have the same respite, he's 76!!!

I miss her terribly

Why?

My husband and I work in the public sector. Do you support me and my husband being on full pay while working very part time because I was ill a year ago?

Agree with this….

Maybe I’m just angry because I’ve had to come back to work earlier than I should have really done after a recent surgery because I couldn’t afford to go unpaid (or on SSP). Meanwhile they can pick and choose what they like to do while on full pay.

This is an excellent point. That’s a good reason to confine criticism to William. It is a bit difficult because Kate had such a poor track record before her surgery, but you are defo correct.

My husband and I work in the public sector. Do you support me and my husband being on full pay while working very part time because I was ill a year ago?

Of course they won't! 😆

Again, they are both able to be criticised.

Kate had a very poor record before this. She is now seemingly well enough to go to events she will enjoy, but not events she won’t. It looks very, very poor at this point.

Currently undergoing extensive chemo, managed to work part time throughout, just goes to show we are all different.

But she managed Wimbledon valiantly!

This.
And this is perfectly true…….why MUST William go to every event that his father, the present KING, attends?

Where do most wealthy peoples’s money come from? Those that I referred to, I’d say all of the above. 🤷‍♀️

This isnt about Kate but obviously I csnt stop people sharing their own opinions. If we could just keep focus on William that would be ideal...he is the future King after all born into this role and if he dont want to do it ...well see ya later let someone who does have it.

If some posters on here who say they dont care ifnhe turns up to events...well okay what should he be doing what is his role as a working royal then?

It’s not going with the King, it’s doing any engagement that day to recognise the significance of the event. Charles did those things as POW. William doesn’t.

I'm afraid W and K are an amorphous blob of grinning stupidity.

I don’t know about actual royals but it’s not too difficult to spot the hand of an overworked and underpaid PR department occasionally…(and not just on royal threads)

Fully expect this post to be deleted btw.

My father was a Japanese POW, he had what would now be recognised as severe PTSD. In those days it was not treated, you were just expected to get on with it. My childhood was very difficult as a consequence of his mood swings, his nightmares, and as he had already had an abusive childhood himself he was in many ways a timebomb of trouble. War causes intergenerational trauma, I and my siblings have all battled poor mental health and all have had troubled relationships as adults which I feel are partly a consequence of being brought up in a home where we often did not feel safe.

Why do you think it'll be deleted?

If the Royals want to stay being the Royals they need to show up as in effect this is what their whole purpose is, now they don't actually have to govern and lead us to war. If he was known for doing loads of other charity gigs like Anne then fine but he doesn't do that either. Maybe he has decided that once his father has gone, he will offer to end the Royals! This too is fine, but I hope he realises that he doesn't get to keep all the castles and land as well.

But that's just it, he is not our head of state; Charles is.

I find that a telling slip, actually, because I think that subconsciously in a lot of people's minds we have gone from our monarch being the late Queen straight to William, and we sort of slide over Charles as a very temporary placeholder.

We're therefore placing all the expectations of King onto William immediately when in fact he has 'only' graduated to Prince of Wales.

Not helped by the fact his image is one of the only fairly unblemished one in the stable. It makes people look towards him for stability and reassurance. He's done well, but I think it's caused higher expectations all round.

He can't be all things to all people all at once and a bit more focus on his immediate brood is necessary to try to prevent a repeat of the sibling shit show in his own generation and the one above! Let's look at it as a long-term investment...!

I don't think William shouldn't turn up at events. I do however believe that he doesn't have to duplicate what previous generations have done, we live in very different times.

I don't think the optics of William attending the VE Day and not the VJ Day events are good. They tend to reinforce the narrative that what happened in the East is forgotten. Having said that I don't think calling him names is appropriate or indeed useful.

As I said upthread it will be interesting going forward to see how William chooses to priorise once he is King. I believe there is a debate to be had about the place of the monarchy in the modern age, about expectations spoken and unspoken. What I find pointless is name calling a rich family because they live like every other rich family. Let's discuss the place of the royals in the 21st Century, what we expect and if those expectations are appropriate. Personally I think one thing that needs to go is expecting them to behave as if they are like ordinary working people. They aren't. I notice that the "normal family" comes from the press not the royals and it's a useful stick to use in the praise/ condemn clickbait cycle.

I don't have a problem with multiple holidays or arranging their work round the children. But I do think that sometimes they get the balance wrong and this is one of those times.

He does need to be careful. Both he and Catherine have generated a lot of goodwill, but that isn’t something that lasts indefinitely (as the late Queen could have told him and perhaps did). I’m seeing a lot of quite negative stuff popping up in the press and online this summer. I assume his team have an eye on it, too. They need to get out and about.

What was he doing instead, maybe he was doing stuff with his kids or Katherine, possibly ill.
Maybe he was attending an event elsewhere
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.