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...

I can't believe posters think its ok that he did nothing for vj day and it was ok.
he would have known the date well in advance, so the holiday excuse is just that. how many holidays does he need? he hardly works hard.

He doesn't habe to do every single thing but he is our head of state,

He's not our head of state. FGS- don't know know anything?
If you want to criticise the RF at least get your facts right.

so could have easily attended the event at Norwich, therefore meaning that the 80 year old Gloucesters did not have to attend two events in one day. (The Gloucesters are already under-appreciated, imo).

It would have been incredibly rude, and out of order, if they had done that.

The Gloucesters have been involved with the Far East POW families for many, many years so it was entirely appropriate that they attend those specific two services.

Really? I know many people including myself whose lives have been changed forever by cancer treatment but perhaps we are all just lazy. Also tennis and football are not just their hobbies they are patrons for those sports

Respectfully the Gloucesters are irrelevant.

He is to be king, perhaps within the next 5 years (although god willing it’s longer than that, I do believe that as much as I dislike them that family has suffered enough for now), and he is doing less than a third of the engagements as the elderly king and queen with cancer. It’s going to be a difficult adjustment if they were to suddenly have to step up within the next year or so, and it’ll be even harsher on the children.

The alternative is they stay as a king and queen who do less than 150 engagements in a year and they end up very disliked.

I think they should look to other European royals, like the Spanish royal family, for inspiration. I think that period in the 90s and early 00s where Diana was somewhat of a cult-like figure and William and Harry were adored by the public and treated as celebrities has done a huge amount of damage to the family. They seem to now be walking the line between being a celebrity family (with all the drama that comes with it!), and being actual working royals.

I have heard of some of that. I think probably when I was flicking through a copy of ‘Hello’ or ‘OK’ magazine at the hairdressers.😁

Does it cross your mind that this may have been under a directive from Charles?
These will be family decisions.

I'm sure that if this were my family, I'd tell my son (who will have the burden of King sooner rather than later) to spend precious time with his family while he can.

I watched all the VJ celebrations and it never even crossed my mind the PW ought to be there.

I can't believe posters think it's ok that he did nothing for vj day and it was ok.

I would think this is the exact thing he should be doing because this is what the core supporters would expect.

But some of the fans are weird and twist themselves into knots to justify it.

He knows he's going to be Head of State. His father is elderly and ill, so it could be in the next 5-10 years. It's like when he became Prince of Wales and suddenly decided he needed to learn Welsh. He had known from birth (including the time he actually lived in a Welsh speaking part of Wales) that he would be PoW. Conveniently he was so unprepared for taking on the Duchy of Cornwall that is taken him 2 years to learn how to do a tax return! As they say only bad Kings cause change. On his performance so far, he will be a bone idle uninspiring King so will be forced to change the Monarchy. I very much doubt he will change anything apart from reducing his own workrate even further unless he had to because people start asking what the point of him is.

I never mentioned anyone being lazy.

My point is, that if you or I underwent cancer treatment and were in remission, we would be expected to not be working at all, or to be back at work. Not picking and choosing what work we do - it is undeniable that the engagements they choose to attend line up very closely with their interests, such as the tennis and football. Being patrons of those sports and their associated associations is irrelevant when they don’t turn up to things like memorial services.

has it crossed your mind that they were not?

Respectfully the Gloucesters are irrelevant.

I never heard of them till now!

Supporters?
Who do you mean?

Prince W wasn't even born during WW2.

There is time enough for him to turn up at events.

His wife, his kids, deserve priority now.

Not sure what you meant.

I don't think it's any of our business who was there, other than the King and Queen.

That’s not how it works I’m afraid.

If he wishes to focus on his family (understandable), they all need to step away from being working royals.

His father is elderly and ill, so it could be in the next 5-10 years.

Charles should be working less then surely!

Respectfully the Gloucesters are irrelevant.

Not to the people involved at the two services they attended they weren't...

They've been heavily involved with them for years. They were the appropriate people to attend those events, and those events deserve the coverage they've got.

As I said, William will have to start stepping up his engagements, but VJ Day wasn't the day to swoop in and start imo.

I am starting to like William now. I can see some changes.

@HerLivingontheHill read the thread, there are posters who like them who said they were disappointed.

In your opinion, you mean!
It's exactly how it works until he is King.

You don't make the rules, you're just an anon with an opinion.

Why did he not attend one in wales? These events were about honouring our fallen soldiers. And they couldn’t be bothered to go.

"Man with sick wife and three kids has holiday in August" shocker.

He doesn't have to go to every single bloody thing. You don't go to work every day of the year do you? The King was there, it's not as if the royal family just shrugged their collective shoulders and decided they couldn't be bothered.

A president's son wouldn't attend anything, would he?

Until he is King, he is a working royal.

His wife, his kids, deserve priority now.

Why would a few more outings mean his family are not a priority?