Royals attending high profile events - business as usual or tone deaf?

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Over the past week Charles has been at London Fashion Week, Kate at the rugby and her and William at the BAFTAS. They may have attended other things, I don't know.

These are all very high profile events. the sort of thing my late mum would've described as 'glitzy' so I suppose not the less glam outings, or charity events.
In light of the fact no official statement has gone out from the BP, do you think it's appropriate they're still attending this sort of thing, or it's a bit tone deaf considering the conversations happening about the future of the monarchy, how much Charles already knew about Andrew etc?

Why?

Doesn't matter, they'd be damned if they don't and are being damned as they are! I personally favour them getting on with the job! I like the fact that William has alluded to the fact that he is stressed at the moment.

Neither of them attended the last BAFTAs

Ok so the events like this often depend on the royals and the accompanying PR column inches it generates. The BAFTAs perhaps less so, but for a lot of charities these sort of appearances are gold for keeping the profile high in peoples minds and donations coming in.

what would you have them do?

I mean, everyone was aware of the payment to VG.

Which doesn't prevent any criminal proceedings if there were criminal prosecutions to be made because civil suits don't cover that.

And it wasn't 'buying silence' since it was public and everyone knew about it. And she wrote extensively about it in her memoirs that were printed after her death.

Whatever she accepted £12 million for, it certainly wasn't silence.

Exactly. If your brother was in trouble you'd still have to go to work.

Just waiting for someone to come along and say no wonder H and M left .

Of course they carry on - they have each made commitments, sometimes years in advance and it would be profoundly unprofessional to do otherwise. They can't let those people down.

Also I don't see what Princess Anne or Kate Middleton can do. They have no influence about how AMW behaves, or what he's done in the past or how the police and the crown prosecution service proceed. They literally cannot do anything that will make any discernible difference.

I also suspect the King has issued instruction that he will handle all questions that need to be answered, completely reasonable, since he is the only one who does have influence.

Their approach will always be Keep Calm & Carry On. There is no reasonable alternative.

Yeah, The Princess of Wales had cancer treatment throughout 2024 and that effected her Royal family duties.

She was in remission from September but not attending all events which extended into 2025.

Now she is. That's all.

That has to be the weirdest take I’ve seen. And bloody hell there have been plenty to choose from!

No, there was a lot of questions as to why William wasn't there being Patron of BAFTA.
They were in the Caribbean.
That's why they weren't there

Well we have no idea what you knew , do we?

Why would you?

Exactly!

Exactly what?

The BAFTAS 2025 was 16th February.

February 2025 The Prince and Princess of Wales were on February 5th in Widnes, Cheshire visiting a child bereavement charity.

On 12th in his role as president of Bafta the POW visited the London screen academy.

February 26th POW and Princess OW visited Pontypridd.

In between that they took time off to holiday with their children during half-term.

This year.

POW in public duties from 4th February then travelling on 9th-11th Feb to Saudi Arabia to attend numerous royal engagements.

Baftas is at the end of UK half-term.

This year they didn't take the whole of half-term off which is pretty standard for most parents to spend time with their DC?

Is your argument that members of the royal family shouldn't take time off in school holidays to be with their DC?

Who's arguing? Not me. Seems you are though.

You said they weren't at the BAFTAs because of Kate being in remission. I just added they were in the Caribbean. Just a fact. People like facts on here, I don't need their diary entries for the last year and this!

Why do you think they gave AMW £12 million to give to a woman he’d ’never met ‘ ? Just think about that for a while .
Why was Savile allowed unrestricted access to Charles with complaints to the police ( including from me ) about the latters sexual abuse of v young people going back to the 1950s ? I’ve met members of the Royal family . You go through a pretty comprehensive vetting process.
Why did Thatcher insist on knighting Savile despite being expressly told of his doings ? Why did no one in the Royal Family ( esp the Queen ) listen to the Father of the Jersey Senate ( Stuart Syvret ) when he appealed directly to them for help in uncovering the alleged paedophile rings involving VIPs & the terrible Haute de Le Garonne children’s home ?
So many questions which will never be answered …

Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing.

If you look at my previous posts, he gave VG 12 million in a civil suit which was public from 2014 and is still spoken about now and didn't prevent VG from extensively talking about it in her widely published memoirs.

He lost his job as a member of the Royal family with official duties, he lost his titles he was born with and his home.

He's been arrested and investigated by the Police.

What cover-up are you on about?

If you have a look at the rest of my message I’ve alluded to it there . The wider cover up of abuse and consequent blackmail of too many VIPs .

As can be seen by looking at the Epstein files a far larger and darker web of abuse and blackmail .extends beyond AMW who ihas been thrown to the wolves after an attempt was made to pay off .VG by the RF . Why did they think what she knew was worth 12 million ?
Why didn’t they force AMW to go and give evidence as he promised ? They do have MI5 to advise them
VG held back much detail in her book ( her biographer can be seen saying this in interviews ) because she was afraid she or her children would be killed .

if there’s one thing I’ve learned over 30 years everyone who makes any headway in trying to expose this stuff gives up after being threatened , has their career destroyed or suffers an early demise in odd circumstances .

I reported Savile to the BBC and police over 30 years before his death after treating a 10 year old girl who’d be abused by him .Many other good medical professionals, social workers and police did the same . He was given a Prime time children’s programme despite all our efforts and those of the many survivors . Also unfettered access to and the deep friendship of our present King .
Terry Wogan was reported asking the reporter Jean Rook ‘when something was going to be done about him ‘. The BBC knew what he was . Yet he was allowed to carry on ‘grooming the Nation ‘ . Why ?

Mountbatten was tolerated and venerated in the bosom of the RF despite his well known abuse of boys in Kincora children’s home ..

The Queen would not help when she was directly appealed to by Stuart Syvret who was the most Senior politician on Jersey at the time but now lives in a ‘safe house ‘ in the States after appalling persecution.

And you know she doesn't?

@IloveOwlsandPenguins that’s a sobering post. I find it odd that so many think no one can possible know when history tells us otherwise.

Because if she was- we would be being repeatedly told about it!!

Maybe she does in the privacy of her own home and to private functions, but it's literally headlines every time she wears a piece of clothing more than once in public..