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...

Honestly, the pure sycophancy towards the royal family winds me up.

I can handle the sycophancy as I suppose some have that deference built in. What I don't understand is the sycophancy combined with frothing over what font Meghan might use on her logos, it's batshit 😆😆😆

5 years ago Charles was completing nearly four times the engagements as Prince of wales than William has been…

The people saying 'let him relax, he'll be king soon' - just because you aren't the CEO of the company doesn't mean you do not work until you inherit the job. William is being funded huge amounts by the taxpayer and only turning up to a few events/engagements per year. The Waleses have been promising to do more work soon now for years.

The people saying he'll be more like a Scandinavian monarch - not sure they realise how much work the Scandinavian royals do in exchange for much more modest funding....

Both he and Catherine have generated a lot of goodwill, but that isn’t something that lasts indefinitely

This is true, @PigglyWigglyOhYeah, but remembering that none of us know them it raises the question of how much of that goodwill is based on little more than their highly skilled PR

As I've said before, given some of the choices of too many of that family, it was probably thought that W&K were the best bet they'd got, and that can create expectations which are apt to be frustrated if the royal concerned decides they don't want to play

Sometimes a lot of times a name change doesn’t really serve its purpose - just saying 😊

No ! , it’s the school holidays and I have spent all of it with my children, just because they can afford something that others can not , this seems the real reason for criticism.

I’ve just had a look at the daily mail and their speculation seems to be about which boat they’re on, rather than if they were there or not. They’re also fairly confident reporting a tender going out for a delivery from the yacht they’re were on which I can’t see them doing if they weren’t sure they were actually in Greece. And if they weren’t the palace could easily correct it - they released a statement about Kate not wanting the focus to be about her wardrobe, the never complain never explain stuff is a myth.

Funny how your story shifted once you were challenged. At first, you claimed William and Catherine cancelled parts of their itinerary. When pointed out that cancellations would’ve been noticed by every journalist covering the tour, suddenly it becomes ‘deleted before publication.’ That’s a completely different claim. If your story had any truth to it, you wouldn’t need to rewrite it to make it sound more believable. What you’re doing is classic backtracking after being caught in a lie. Good rest of your day

And how do they afford it? Can you not see why the public might have a bit more of an interest in what they do with their work schedules/money vs Sandra and family up the road?

So you genuinely think that a normal family who took time off (as in, a year!) to work part time would be able to afford luxury trips abroad?

You know who else had young children and some even a wife with cancer? The soldiers who fought in the Pacific campaign and made VJ day possible. Glad they didn't take that attitude.

They don’t go to everything together so no issue really. Charles didn’t see his dc much - William is more hands on. He’s not doing as much as he could but he’s balancing work and dc. I’m glad he goes to football! He tends to support the future. The King and QE2 were more rooted to the past. Generally William is doing ok and I’m not sure Kate will do very much again. Very carefully selected engagements.

It’s very well known that they have had a nanny, if not more than one. I’d not call that hands on.

When you say a number of events, how many are we talking about? And are all of them as important as the VJ one was?

They could well be at Amber hall which makes it even worse

I don't think William wants to be King. I'm sure he likes the perks of royalty but you can tell his heart isn't in it.

But he's probably smart enough to recognise that opting out wasn't exactly a bed of roses for his great uncle or his brother and even if he did it would all just be landed on his young son.

So for now they bumble along doing not much more than the minimum. What he'll do or not do when actually King remains to be seen.

I can’t be bothered to go into the history and nitty gritty about the details again, so I will simply say that the duchy supports the heir ! 🙄

It would be incredibly easy for him and his family to remove themselves from the line of succession.

@ThatAvidViewer 😆 literally laughing out loud at the idea that I’ve been caught out in my lies and backtracking. Thanks for confirming my original view that I was better off not sharing. I’ll go back to my policy of not commenting on royal matters on MN!

No ! , it’s the school holidays and I have spent all of it with my children, just because they can afford something that others can not , this seems the real reason for criticism.

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I don't think being faithful or not are really relevant to how good a dad someone is.

Is he a role model for a dad? I don't know him, and I don't know what he actually does. My suspicion is that he's not spending the school holiday time changing nappies, baking and helping his kids with their reading, but he could be. I'd be perfectly happy if he wanted to brand himself that way (and he'd need to be doing it in part or he would quickly get exposes), but then I see his role as POW as pretty pointless. Or at least what I know he does, and what I don't know he does is the bit that concerns me.

This thread isn't about C, but for her - they're a wealthy family and if that means she can take time off to recover, or just wants to be a stay at home mum, then that's also fine by me. A lot of well off families would have done this in this situation. Life isn't fair and some people do have a better situation in life than others.

I don't care about people born into privilege cutting ribbons. I do see a bit of a tourism advantage to having a royal family, and I would be concerned about Buckingham Palace being auctioned off to the highest bidder. However, what does bother me is people trying to pretend that they're working hard when they're not. If W doesn't want to be a working royal then he doesn't have to be - he could choose to entirely retreat from the public eye to focus on his family. No real reason why the royal family couldn't start a precedent where the POW isn't a working royal - I'd far prefer people are chosen for that role based on ability and actually wanting to do it.

[That said, I'm not Welsh - I suspect if I were I'd be less relaxed about POW just being an honorary title!]

Definitely should have been somewhere to support VJ Day or why have him at all?

Definitely should have been somewhere to support VJ Day or why have him at all?

And they’re not performing monkeys. I’m sure his diary is pretty full, and what might be ‘important’ events to you and I, might not be to him. They do do visits under the radar to places where there are no cameras. It would be draining if every single day they were attending events heavily attended by the press. I honestly don’t mind how little William and Kate do, as William is our future monarch. I do mind how little other fringe royals might do if they’re on the payroll, although I recall that has been ended by Charles now, so they have jobs.

No , they are rich, thats life I’m afraid 🤷‍♀️ , the heir is supported by the duchy , posters really need to actually fact check what the taxpayers actually pay towards the royal family!
then you can criticise that till the cows come home.