Some people probably forgot about this, like me. During the immediate reaction (overwhelmingly negative reaction) to Prince William and Kate’s ski holiday earlier this month, the Daily Mail slid a very interesting gossip piece into the mix. Apparently, Jecca Craig is getting married, for real this time. Jecca and William have been close since they were kids. Some say Jecca was his first girlfriend. Some say Jecca is his “Camilla.” Some say that William would do anything for Jecca. Some say the whole reason why William is so keen on wildlife conservation is because it’s one of Jecca’s interests and issues. Previously, William has let everyone know that Jecca is perhaps his non-negotiable, especially when Kate took George to Mustique for the first time and William jetted off to Spain to go boar-hunting with Jecca at the very same time. It was shady.
Anyway, Jecca is getting married and the whole thing is going down on her family’s huge estate in Kenya. The Daily Mail theorized that William and Kate might quietly fly down for the wedding. But given the fact that everyone is watching William’s schedule particularly closely these days, he wouldn’t try to sneak away to see Jecca solo, would he? Let’s ask Niraj Tanna, the Middletons’ favorite paparazzo.
According to @emynash Prince William is off to Kenya for a “private visit” over Easter weekend. Presumably Jecca Craig’s wedding?
— Niraj Tanna (@IkonPictures) March 23, 2016
Oh ho ho. That’s a good scoop, Tanna! Several hours after Tanna dropped that piece of news, People Magazine got a weird confirmation from Kensington Palace. The KP spokesperson told People that William would taking a “private” four-day trip to Kenya to see “first-hand some of the longstanding conservation and anti-poaching initiatives” supported by the Tusk Trust. A lot of conservation efforts going down at the wedding, eh? And if it’s a private trip, why the insistence that William is doing charitable work? People Mag points out that William is missing Easter with his family, which I guess means that Kate is not going… or she’s not invited. The Daily Mail has more details about his trip too – go here to read. Apparently, William is taking three protection officers.
And the rest of Tanna’s Twitter feed is sort of amazing too. I guess Tanna is on the outs with the Cambridges? Because there was some serious shade going on in the retweets.
.@IkonPictures @emynash That's what we predicted earlier this month. #royal Via @MailOnline https://t.co/tz1RqKU0bV
— Richard Eden (@richardaeden) March 23, 2016
@IkonPictures @emynash Guess that explains the set up PR pics of him working. Pre-empting criticism of another foreign break.
— Jennifer (@Chic_Happens_) March 23, 2016
And before Tanna broke that story, he had been tweeting shade about the oh-so-convenient stories of William’s EAAA heroics.
PR at its best. https://t.co/FpZHlMBurJ
— Niraj Tanna (@IkonPictures) March 23, 2016
@joancoh62316082 whatever helps their image won’t be a problem.
— Niraj Tanna (@IkonPictures) March 23, 2016
You know what I love? That all of the royal reporters are all on Twitter and that they’re all supporting each other and joining in on bitch sessions about the royal family. I really feel the comradery, actually. You know they’re all checking out who has what scoop, and I feel like if Tanna – who was just repeating something from a Hello Mag reporter – is tweeting about it, we’re in for some Easter scandal. What will Kate do in PR retaliation if William skips off to Kenya alone? Hm…
Photos courtesy of WENN.
OMG Why are you Brits paying for these losers ???!!!
As an American, I always thought that the royals were a tourist draw and so glamorous, but after I finally got to go visit London, I realized that I really love the castles and palaces and old historical items. It really has nothing to do with actual living people. I promise I’ll still come spend my money there if you ditch the Cambridge leeches.
Tourism would be more profitable WITHOUT them, you know. They wouldn’t be squatting in our heritage stopping tourists goggling at it!
+1.
When I hear that arguement it makes me sad that some people think/argue your castles are less exciting because you need a crown inside to bring in tourists. Which is not true!!
But I’m an American so the idea of a birth right to rule makes no sense bc we were taught to make your own destiny and never settle for the establishment given (I know -ironic given our current circus).
Even if it is about pride in holding on to traditions, and heritage… I bet we can all agree that not everyone is born to rule. *cough* *cough*
You don’t actually think that us Brits actually believe in that ordained birth right shit do you? even the Royalists don’t.
There is more tourism in France, you know, and they don’t have a monarchy.
better cuisine
You can’t compare UK and France. That’s like apples and oranges.
The Louvre tourism is suffering because there are no useless royals living in it anymore. (sarcasm)
France has a better climate to say the least.
London is still the number 1 city in the world when it comes to tourism.
France has a lot of people visiting from nearby (Germany, Holland, Scandinavia) for the sun and beaches. Nobody in their right mind would specifically go to the UK for that.
ncboudicca that is what the tourism studies show. Tourists go for all of those things, but not because those things are related to modern royals. They aren’t flocking to the Tower of London to see the Queen, they’re going to see the Crown Jewels. They’d still be the Crown Jewels even if there was no longer a crowned monarch.
There’s only one set of crown jewels a lot of us would go to England for and they involve a living royal. See the other thread on Harry.
Oh, you are so WICKED!!! and I love it!
Yes I really consider them posh welfare queens (and kings). I feel slight pity for them not having a real choice about the direction of their lives but William has enough money from Di to abdicate if he wanted.
If Jecca Craig is an ex girlfriend, then he definitely has a type.
She’s rumoured to be *the* ex girlfriend. The one that got away.
Or to quote Tanna again, she’s William’s Camilla.
If she is his Camilla, the one he would do anything for, I wonder what happened between them – why isn’t Jecca the duchess now?
I thought that was supposed to be Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe?
The Sage M: Tanna put out that Camilla tweet after Kate was pictured on solo holiday with PGtips. The media had concentrated on the hypocrisy of the hunting trip rather than Jecca or William’s missing his child’s first holiday abroad.
Implication being that the Middletons, or Kate, were pointing out someyhing about the William/Jecca relationship that had been missed.
I think that he had very strong feelings for Isabella, and if she had succumbed at any time during his frequent attempts to woo her, Jecca might have been dislodged.
D: most people speculate that her love of Africa and refusal to contemplate any other way of living is the stumbling block. She has lived elsewhere, and i think is currently living in Britain, but she goes back home often and is very involved in everything over there.
Thie whole “Camilla is the only woman on earth tor me” is just Prince Charles propaganda. He cheated on her with other mistresses and there were long periods in which she wasnt even Priority Mistress Number 1. She is his Waity Kaity, the woman who will put up with everything and stay focused on soothing his fragile little boy ego. Marrying her was more about defying a controlling mother and society three decades too late than romantic love. The man barely lives with “the woman he would do anything for”, thats a sign right there.
I’ve always thought that Isabella’s “one that got away” rep was a construct of her own making (I mean, we’ve seen her family’s PR angle with the whole younger sister-Harry relationship), but conspiracy theory: considering that Will and Sam Branson clearly don’t like each other, I think it was also an “f-you” to William, because didn’t he make his move on Isabella when she and Sam were on a break?
@ Naya
Very good points.
Bridget/Naya: absolutely,BUT to the wider public, the camilla as the only woman for Charles myth is strongly believed, so when the middletons trot out their pap to say that Jecca is William’s Camilla, it’s a dog whistle for what the public believes to be true.
Re:Isabella, she’s never wanted william, but he has wanted her. He frequently tried it on with her for years until she finally committed to Sam after the brief break in their relationship, which is when he went back to Kate.
Hasn’t stopped Isabella milking the situation. Opportunity and all that.
Jecca is more than William’s “Camilla” – she’s one of the few people he seems to truly value and respect. Romantic or not, that’s gotta be hard for Kate.
RE: Isabella. I’m assuming William hit on/hooked up/tried to hook up with pretty much all the women in his social circle. Just me?
@ Naya and LAK, i guess you could all say the same on Diana too, her propaganda that “three people were in the marriage” and that “Camilla was always there”, yet it seems it was a lie, Kanga was the one always there, not Camilla who was focusing on her family more. Doesn’t make her so innocent after all since she accepted Kanga as her husbands mistress, I see Diana in a very negative light after this, she did not only have affairs of her own, she was a liar by creating her own story, and at the end of the day, she ended up loosing. Sad.
On Kanga – That’s kind of rough on DIana, isn’t it? That’s kind of the way the royals have always operated, and what the hell else was she supposed to do about it?
She had her kids to think about. And she did finally chuck the whole thing. Let’s see if Waity Katie has the guts to do that.
Kate does look a good deal like Jecca
One of my favorite Jecca/Kate things was from when Kate started wearing the hats that Jecca always wore.
Jecca: http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/imgs/110425//Jecca-Craig-William-Kate_338.jpg
Kate: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0viO-Dm52sM/SPcWZcgpFnI/AAAAAAAAJyY/96iMX6H1CDM/s400/kate_hat.jpg
&: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/79/c8/d6/79c8d6aff83ce4a08f9c7f4f1d93a86c.jpg
@Anna, that’s so funny! For some reason, I think Jecca has more sex appeal than Kate, but can’t put my finger on why. I don’t feel like she’s particularly beautiful. Maybe it’s just that Kate is always so akward.
K is a budget Jecca. Jecca has more appeal and is more interesting. She has more of something K lacks. It’s pathetic she copies her.
Confidence! Jecca looks like she does her own thing no matter what you’re gonna think about her. Can’t say that about Kate…
Jecca Does have more appeal than Kate, if only because Jecca is comfortable in her own skin. I’m not sure Kate even really knows herself well enough to be comfortable.
Jecca craig wasvery pretty when she was ypunger, but now? Yikes! That woman looks 44 not 34.
Naya..yes that is interesting as it reminds me of that ‘ Kanga’ woman Dale Tryon?? Or something similar..too lazy to look up royals!!…
She also if I recall had a mysterious accident and ended up in a wheelchair …she passed away some time ago hence our memories become easier to manipulate that Camilla was the ‘only’true love!!
The interesting thing about the Charles/Camilla/Kanga love triangle is that it went on for nearly 15yrs+. Camilla and Charles started up in early 70s, and Charles and Kanga six months later. And continued the triangle through to the mid/late 80s. Kanga was just as involved as Camilla in finding a biddable bride for Charles. What was truly creepy was when Diana took sides and befriended Kanga in order to dislodge Camilla. I guess to Diana, Kanga was the preferable mistress.
Indeed..very interesting..how easily we forget ..and how easily they would rewrite history as Camilla being the ‘true love’….
“Whatever love means” as Charles famous quote on his engagement…
Do you think that affects the sons when they see that?
Or water under the bridge ?
Dale Tryon is a sad figure. She suffered from a condition similar to spinal bifida but which is recurrent rather than permanent. She survived uterine cancer but suffered from depression and an addiction to alcohol and painkillers. While in rehab she jumped from a first story window, landed awkwardly and broke her back resulting in paralysis. She tried physical therapy but it didn’t work. The depression returned and her husband asked for a divorce. She eventually developed septicemia (probably from bed sores common with those who are paralyzed) and died.
Aristocrats are so gross. I mean, your mistresses help find a wife for you to cheat on?
And we’re the lowly unwashed class-less masses…good God.
I hadn’t heard Kanga’s name in years and did not realize she died right after Diana. Just read a DM piece about her physical and alleged mental issues. How incredibly sad.
According to what I read, she was also well-liked by the BRF and would go riding with them. At least while she was in the inner circle, not at the end of her life when her physical health had deteriorated.
If you want to know how often charles holidayed with Kanga, look up all public references to Charles iceland. Kanga’s hubby owned a home there, and Kanga and Charles would visit it as often ss possible.
According to the Mail it’s been confirmed that he is going with bodyguards (paid for by UK taxpayers). Kate is staying home.
He has one meeting with the Kenyan president and the rest if the trip is ‘private’. I have to say I feel sorry for Kate.
On another note Harry has decided to spend another week in Nepal volunteering for a British charity to help build a village school that had been destroyed in last year’s earthquake.
Compare and contrast.
Long live Prince Harry.
The two brothers couldn’t be more different, could they?
I keep hoping that all the big and little things keep adding up for the Cambridges to a groundswell of support for a forced abdication. I know Willnot will never do it voluntarily … but JFC, he’d be a terrible king and an embarrassment to the UK and Commonwealth.
I think it is a long shot, but I just really want the Cambridges out of the line of succession. Even my staunchly monarchist 95 year old English grandmother (immigrated to Canada in the 1930s) wants them out.
Isn’t it a bit early to be thinking of “forced abdication?” Charles hasn’t even become king yet.
They can’t force anyone out of the line of succession. A royal abdication can only be effected by an Act of Parliament and it would have to be based on much more serious grounds than being a lazy wanker.
They got rid of Uncle David and his line. If they want William and his line out, it’ll happen.
@notasugarhere – Uncle David was determined to marry a twice-divorced American with Nazi sympathies and a very shady background. The Head of the Church of England is not allowed to marry a divorced person, and when it became apparent that he was determined to marry her, he chose to abdicate. In any event he hated his royal duties, which, like William, he chose to shirk most of the time in favour of partying and travelling, so it was a moot point. Not sure what you mean by “his line” as David didn’t have children. His line was his brother Bertie who took over as King George VI just in the nick of time as David would clearly have capitulated to the Nazis. “They”, meaning Parliament, can’t just fire William because he’s lazy. There have been plenty of other lazy Royals who maintained their place in the line of succession. Who knows, perhaps by the time Charles does his duty as King and passes the torch William will have willingly stepped aside for Harry. None of us can predict the future of the monarchy.
Wallis was a convenient excuse. They had many reasons for wanting him gone, including his frivolous attitude. An attitude very similar to William’s.
As part of the abdication he had to abdicate for his line as well, just in case he and Wallis had children.
He did have a frivolous attitude towards being King and his German sympathies were a huge liability, but he was extremely popular with the British people. Wallis wasn’t used as a “convenient excuse”, she honed in on him like a heat-seeking missile. However she clearly didn’t love him, she used him and enjoyed the status, power and lifestyle he afforded her, but I think had she not come into his life he would have continued as King. She was his tipping point.
I don’t think she wanted to marry him, she just wanted the access and power being with him gave her. She would have been happy to be the mistress for a few years but David had other ideas. If it wasn’t Wallis, they would have found another reason. He was popular with the people because his lifestyle and attitude were covered up, much as William’s has been until recently. Once the light was shined in, different story.
Yes, michelleb the two brothers are quite different. Diana knew it and if she was alive today she would be so disappointed with the current situation whereby William is seen as the bad brother and Harry the good brother. Diana wanted them to work as a team, supporting each other and equally liked and respected by the public. I suspect this good press v bad press may drive a wedge between the brothers. Perhaps it already has, given the fact Harry doesn’t seem to spend much time with Prince George and Princess Charlotte. I still find it unusual Harry wasn’t there for Charlotte’s Christening.
@Jaded – I think she wanted to be his mistress at most, never his wife. I think her life with him was exhausting.
Regarding Wallis and David, another important aspect is the complete media blackout that prevented any stories about their relationship to be run in UK papers. It was termed a “gentlemen’s agreement” between the press and the royals. Once the cat was out of the bag, the situation blew up and led to the abdication.
A huge part of it wasn’t that he was “unfit” by personality (although he was indeed, but as some have noted he was quite popular in his Prince of Wales days) but unfit because as head of the Church of England he couldn’t marry a divorced woman..of course less than 70 years later, we had the next Prince of Wales divorced himself and getting married to a divorcee with approval of the Queen.
Forty percent of UK marriages end in divorce. The Anglican Church was founded by a man who did so in order to dump his first wife. He divorced two of his wives and killed two others.
500 years later, I have no idea why a divorced head of CoE is considered a problem by some. (Not directed at you Tourmaline just a general musing).
He’s already there and has met with the President of Kenya. It’s on their Twitter account
‘For 20mins?’ I ask, because that seems to be the limit of his endurance of his meet and greets.
It’s nice that the President of Kenya made time for him. Is he required to? Is Kenya part of the realm?
I guess now he can claim this trip as a “business expense” and get a tax write-off. Willnot is disgustingly transparent.
No Breakfast Margaritas, the Kenyan President isnt required to make time for William much less the Queen. Its a republic that happens to be a voluntary member of the common wealth, a little like Canada maybe.
Kenya is about to set a blaze tonnes of recovered ivory in a few weeks so I’m sure Will would love to take some credit for that, even though he had nothing to do with that initiative. The timing for this wedding couldnt have been better. He gets to have fun while taking credit for something that has nothing to do with him.
@Breakfast Margaritas – Kenya is part of the Commonwealth of Nations, it’s not referred to as the “realm”.
Naya: Canada is a realm. Head of state is Queen Elizabeth. Kenya is a commonwealth country, but not a realm.
Maybe the President of Kenya is on the guest list of the wedding and will be seated next to Willnot? I’m sure Willnot will spend more than 20 mins at the wedding. Something he nor his wife seem to do for their events – unless there is a bouncing ball to watch.
I wish it was Prince Harry next in line instead of Prince William, I mean he would definitely hate it but at least he cares about people, genuinely cares doesn’t go around for one trip every year to say he “works”. Everyone thought it was going to be Prince William the successor to Diana, but it ended up being Prince Harry.
I wonder how much differently it would play out if they let the Queen actually choose her heir. That WIlliam is the shadiest ~ I actually do wonder what he is doing with all of his time as he is obviously not working. Internet p0rn you think?
But what if HM chose her favorite, Andrew?
He apparently also has his private secretary with him as well. On top of the RPOs, I would guess the private secretary’s presence is also at taxpayer expense since William turned the trip into a “work” holiday by adding this last minute morning visit and he’s having the private secretary accompany him to the meeting.
From what I can understand of that DM article, it seems that William had already paid for the round-trip flight before the meeting with the Kenyan President was set up, which to me means that the meeting was a last-minute set-up to give William a cover for going on this four-day personal trip.
I just did a sort on the DM comments on the article, reviewing the Best Rated. The DoLittles are really getting clobbered. Good luck Jason, you’re going to need it.
I don’t feel sorry for Kate. She knew what Will was like and still wanted to marry him. I doubt he’s ever been faithful to her, before or after the wedding.
That said, he should at least try to be discreet about it.
If he’s sleeping with her, why would he go to her wedding?
Because that set is, in all but name, a bunch of swingers?
“Because that set is, in all but name, a bunch of swingers?”
I’m not surprised at all, but it still skeeves me out to think about it. It seems like a testament to the ridiculous entitlement of this group of adult babies. Like… “I am a PRINCE OF THE U.K., why should I only have one sexual partner?”
And as far as Kate… What a life to have for a crown. I would never. Ever ever. Put up with a husband who missed out on my infant daughter’s first Easter to sneak off to his ex-girlfriend’s wedding. That’s grounds for a breakup, in my book. Seesh, what a life to live.
I do keep telling you that they’re throwbacks from a shallow gene pool!
Sixer, could they even be… ANACHRONISTIC? 😉
Much as I like that word, I can think of choicer (ruder) ones!
Yes..isn’t that idea all from earlier royals Edward VIII and others up to Camilla that better to be seen with a married woman and easier to ‘deal’ with..?
Infact..I shall correct myself..Henry VIII ..did he not get Mary Boleyn ,Anne’s sister married so the the child could be passed on as the husbands?..The illegitimate heirs had titles such as Duke of Richmond?,,,,Charles II children were illegimate..no heirs via the wife…so I guess the attitude is well and truly ingrained…
I will forever say MILF with the poshest of accents.
There was some political sense to all the illegitimates in past eras, they were acknowledge, given titles and married off for political alliances because of their Royal Blood as if they were legitimate heirs of the King with no shame attached. Diana’s claim to Royal lineage came from the Duke of Monmouth an illegitimate son of Charles II (he was also an ancestor of the Duchess of York)
This is (very) petty, but he will be forgiven less for his petulance and bad habits as he loses his looks. And they are going fast.
I know right? I am the same age as William, and I had a huge crush on him as a teen. All the girls in my class did. I was telling my 10 year old niece this just the other day – and she can’t imagine anyone ever thinking Prince William was good looking. I google’d old pics of him for her. She couldn’t believe that they were pics of the same person. To be honest, seeing side-by-side was a little startling for me too. Those Windsor genes kicked in big time, didn’t they?
He looks more and more like Prince Edward all the time – except a worse, more petulant version.
I think it is the personality deficit that detracts from his looks.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I think someone is lazy or petulant, I transfer it to how I perceive their outward looks.
It’s not just you, Christin.
Me too. And the reverse if they have a good personality. Their looks become enhanced as far as i’m concerned.
It works both ways for me as well, LAK. Looks fade with time, but personality remains.
I am with you all. A few months ago, I looked at pictures of Charles’ and Camilla’s wedding, and I was like “Who’s that hot guy standing next to Harry?”
I used to find William VERY attractive too but over time, his treatment of Kate, him being with Kate period, and his personality have shown thrown and made him far ugly in my eyes. Harry is now the hottie. Rawr.
The opposite would also be true, though. If he tried hard, was passionate about causes, and reached out to people in a sincere way his big baldy noggin would not be a topic of real conversation. He has a great body and eyes and would be seen as a “distinguished gentleman” ala Prince charles.
Agree with that, too. I’d be saying things like, “he might not be the best looking guy you ever saw, but look at this that and there! He’s lovely!”
I agree with that as well. If William had a good personality, there would be fewer comments about his lost good looks. He was handsome in his teens, but that’s all history now.
I don’t keep up on the royalswhy ius he so hated or what has he done?
Harry is not that good-looking, but his charm and his interest in his causes make him much more attractive than he objectively is!
They are gone and so much of it is his petulant attitude and sour expressions. I never thought the ginger sexy would end up being the better bet.
Yes and Harry is not conventionally handsome but his charisma and kindness transform him into someone really beautiful.
As was said yesterday, I think Willnot will go to Kenya alone and Cannot will take the kids to Buckleberry for the long weekend for a Middleton Easter. In retaliation, I think she’ll be papped with the kids being an “oh so normal” mom while William is partying without his family at his ex-girlfriend’s society wedding. Such a devoted father and considerate husband SMH. I’m looking forward to even more backlash. What an asshat!
But I doubt she’ll get a lot of sympathy now that she is trying for a Marie Antoinette reboot. Seems reboots are all the rage these days. Too bad she didn’t find a better original to copy.
He is a real piece of non work isn’t he?
He certainly is a piece of work but the fact that he left the kids behind with their “devoted mother” will give her some leverage. The games these two play…Wow.
The public humiliation, too and all on the public dime.
I think I’m going to steal “piece of non-work” if that’s OK. 🙂
The devoted mother routine doesn’t play when folks remember they both dumped the 8-month-old on a brand new nanny to go hang out in the Maldives for 10 days. She’s been caught away from them too many times for most people to believe the SAHM routine.
@NOTA…………..absolutely. She’s played some games herself. People don’t forget.
Good points. She’s sunk herself.
bluhare-steal away. 🙂
It is pathetic. It’s so brazen on his part and if she does play the mother card I can’t say I blame her.
Kate = Jennifer Garner.
Do you think this was all hatched out by #PoorJason? Kate’s star rises as dedicated mom while Will generates interest in comparisons to Charles/Diana/Camilla? Or Kate told she has to stay home and not go to wedding because of shamrock backlash?
I am wondering if the “shamrock diss” was some passive-aggressive move by Kate because he was going to Africa without her. Maybe she thought that skipping the event would make it clear how mad she was. Would not put it past her/Carole to try to manipulate the Prince. Didn’t work, though.
That backfired on her though.
shamrock backlash….AWESOME!!!
If poor Jason were truly brilliant she’d end up whisked to the hospital, sick again in early pregnancy. That’d make William a total heel, and she’d be forgiven for shamrockgate.
Poor Jason is currently in Nepal with Harry. Not sure how much he’s able to spin on this latest William event from there.
And it’s Charlotte’s first Easter too…
I guess there won’t be any Easter-themed family photos coming out with Charlotte and George in pastel clothes surrounded by Easter eggs and baskets filled with plastic green grass and plush bunny rabbits dolls. No photos of William helping the kids dye eggs or unwrapping a chocolate egg for George. No photos of William smiling as George tries to find hidden Easter eggs in the garden at AH.
Also, no photos of the future head of the Church of England taking his family to Easter services, thus providing a tradition for the other future head, George, to follow in his life too.
But William would rather spend it making sure Jecca isn’t going to completely forget about him even if she gets married and gets a promise that Jecca will continue to be his special *friend*…. (just speculating).
It would be funny if they did one of their “personally taken photos” that was actually done days ago and tried to pass it off as being taken on Easter.
But remember, Kate is a “keen” photographer. They can always photoshop William in like they did the last time 😉
Is it really such a big deal to miss a one year old’s first birthday though? Do you have photos of yourself at that age surrounded by eggs and plastic grass and that whole hallmark card situation you outlined above?
@ Polly
If one’s excuse to one’s whole country is that one can’t work much because one has little children to take care of and make memories for, all the while raking in millions of dollars from the taxpayers, then yes, there should be photos to prove that one is at home with the kids. Not jetting off to one’s girlfriend’s wedding in a different country for a vacation without one’s wife and kids.
If anyone else (aka non-royals) gets money from the government claiming one can’t work because of whatever excuse, then there will be investigators coming around looking to take photos to prove that one is actually capable of working and one is just b.s.’ing.
I find this super sad. I feel sorry for Kate, but I know people gonna say she knew what she had signed up for, still it’s Easter, the future king is out of England, missing the family holidays despite he said to be a hands on dad.
As a wife I would take this really hard. And Jecca looks like just Kate, sorry but this is too much for me. I wonder what he does to make up for Kate, last time they went to the Maldives. I expect a vacay after India to rest.
Prince Charles needs to have a conversation with his son. And for the sake of the Monarchy, Long live the Queen!
That photo of her looking over at him is incredible. She looks vulnerable and worried instead of the usual perky and smug. That looks like a photo of an actual relationship – maybe one with a big fault line through the middle named Jecca.
I think Wills is a good actor, comes through as a helping and caring man, but he can’t convince me any more. History tends to repeat itself, Kate used as a rug.
I don’t think Charles — I made my wife’s life miserable and then divorced her and married my mistress after her death– having a talk with him is going to help.
Obviously I meant Charles lecturing Wills on his sense of duty not his personal life, though it might be already late.
Yet he wasn’t exactly a great, devoted boyfriend, was he? She knew the history and still wanted him.
Diana’s marriage disintegrated after the second child. History repeating itself?
It’s one thing to know in the abstract and another to have your fart face husband actually blowing off you and the fam. With documentation.
The interesting part, in the overhead arguments from one of the many breakups, is that she didn’t protest the cheating. She protested that it was public so he was humiliating her. As long as it is quiet, she’s okay with it?
I’m sure like most celebrities, they have an “arrangement” that allows him to have affairs as long as it doesn’t go public. He’s openly treating Kate like shit with this trip, and that’s not cool.
I just can’t feel sorry for women like Kate, Hillary, Jennifer Garner, etc. who of sound mind chose to marry cheaters and have children with them. Then are shocked, shocked to see them continuing to cheat! I feel bad for the children who were brought into these dysfunctional relationships.
Regarding this article the major issue for me is the future head of the Church of England (??) ditching Easter ceremonies during the most holly week in the Christian calendar. THAT is flat out not acceptable.
To be honest the Queen isn’t any better, she has said several times that she knows ‘Philip needs lot’s of entertaining’ , in a snippet from a recent biography one of her close female friends said she doesn’t mind Phillip ‘keeping company’ with other ladies (ie lady Brabourne) , but she does mind that it’s gossiped about. I have a relative that was with them on their first Australian tour, Elizabeth went back to England but Philip stayed on for an extra few days and he certainly did a bit of ‘entertaining’ when separated from the Queen.
I know how the aristocracy works. There is no playing around until the heir and the spare are secured. After that everything is fair game. And so it begins. I would say the dealio with waity and clairol was the ring in exchange for kate being allowed to hide with mummy whilst willie galavanted off doing whatever he wanted. Just like their courting days really. No change there.
Not to be fussy, but lots of families have members that miss holidays: military, police, firefighters, nurses, waitstaff, etc. It doesnt mean they don’t celebrate together, it just means they usually push things off a few days.
Not defending William, but I’m just sayin’….
You are right. But ordinary peole do not say they want to concentrate on their family and that’s why they work when they want to, also ordinary people do not mascarade a private trip as work, he has already met the president so now on have fun for 4 days. Also ordinary people work for a living. Should I go on?:-)
and these people are………………working. If William was working this weekend at EAAA, it would be an entirely different story. But here’s the deal: others are working at EAAA and Workshy William is off partying.
Yeah, but all those examples are of people who have to go to work because their bosses scheduled them to work on holidays. Either they go to work when they’re told to or they get punished and/or fired.
In contrast, William chooses not to go to work for his EAAA job and his royal duties to observe one of the main religious holidays as he’s a future head of the Church of England.
Also, William made a point to miss Charlotte’s first Easter as well as joining in on all the Easter fun that a kid George’s age is now capable of understanding.
He has dodged “full time” anything because of supposedly wanting to have a private life with his family. Blowing them off at Easter for an ex’s wedding is really tacky.
When it comes to dumping his family, how did Kate put that? Something about not creating the expectation that he will always be there.
Annett – you suggested prince Charles needed to have a conversation with his son – about what – cheating? Charles was never a faithful husband – he never wanted to be married to Diana in the first place! I don’t suppose a “don’t go down the same road as me” chat would go over very well…
As I said on his sense of duty and not his personal life. Sorry if it was not clear in the first place.
You’d think there would be some pointers to share, at least.
I feel sorry for her, too. It’s Charlotte’s first Easter. As parents, my husband and I would NEVER miss a holiday, especially if it was one our kids’ first. I was hesitant to believe that their marriage was really in trouble, but this pretty much confirms it.
I know the reason that William tacked on a last minute meeting with a head of state and is marking “going for a stroll around my ex-girlfriend’s dad’s land” as engagements are to do with KP running scared due to all this bad press but my goodness it’s a little gross that this idiot can go speak to a head of state on a whim to cover up abandoning his wife and children on Easter for a woman he is a little obsessed with to have done this to Kate twice now during significant moments of his now-wife’s life. Every single thing about this story is shady, including the set-up PR “paparazzi” photos taken by a professional who also *took William’s official first-day photos at the EAAA* where William muscled his way into the way of medical professional just to use a poor man’a tragedy to his cynical benefit in advance of today’s news.
William is pretty much proving that he’s the person many here have been saying all along.
@ mm
Exactly.
And the fact that the DM is reporting that William paid for the round-trip flight himself ahead of this meeting being set up with the Kenyan President says to me that the meeting was set up as an afterthought, because if it was an official trip, then the government would have paid for the flight.
As to the recent photos of him at his EAAA job, like the media says, it’s the first time he’s ever gotten out of the copter to help with the medical side of it. It took at least 30 minutes to finish his PR stunt of pretending to be crucial in pushing the gurney even though there were at least three medical personnel already on hand, talking to the medical personnel as if his input is crucial to the patient’s treatment, unnecessarily riding in the ambulance to the hospital, and then getting a ride back to the copter.
So what does this mean? Why have this particular photographer whom he used before to be there in advance to take these photos? Why would a co-pilot leave his copter? Does this mean that he chose to make the copter unavailable for other calls to pick up other patients just to finish his PR stunt? That the pilot had to be stranded at the copter because he had to wait nervously for William as he didn’t know how long it would take for William to finish his PR stunt? And it was all set-up right before this vacation to go meet up with Jecca.
Also, it plays into William’s recent comment on ITV that he takes part in the medical side of the EAAA work, even though he has nothing to do with it?
He was always going to go on his own! I think the real reason Kate stopped going to weddings of his friends is that its an opportunity for him to cut loose and have fun (chipped tooth due to drunken behaviour at Guy Pellys wedding) WITHOUT having Kate there stalking his every move. Plus weddings are a good place to have drunken casual hookups – just saying.
The Kenyan Pres meeting is clearly as last min to try and salvage a good excuse and up his numbers. Its so pathetically obvious now.
Just take them out of the succession already – i don’t really care how much they have to pay them off. I DO NOT want these 2 twits representing me!
Also, cue some staged pap shots of Kate and her LIW Carole with the kids doing something eastery over the weekend! Am sure Carole is planning it right now.
The Kenyan President is needed to give him official security given the heightened terror climate. It’s standard OM. However, i agree that they had to make it seem official because there is no reason for him to visit Kenya at this time without the involvement of the foreign office.
And that he paid for the trip himself says it wasn’t set up as an official trip in the first place. It was private, and then the government connection came in. If it was official, then his flight would have been paid for by the government and his miserly self wouldn’t have had to pay. But it’s a testament to Jecca that he didn’t think of this in advance but gladly rushed to use his own money to fly to see her.
But then, it might be another case of that £8,000 private copter joyride he took and then later called it an official trip so that he’d get out of paying for it himself. So with the inclusion of this meeting with the President, he might get his plane tickets comp’d by the UK government.
I can imagine that somebody had to tell him that he should include the meeting with the President just to make it look like he’s not on another pure vacation.
@Betti: What you said about those twits not representing you, got me thinking about their trip to Canada shortly after their wedding. They were not sure how they would be received in Canada, but there was huge crowds everywhere cheering for them. At the time I was happy and excited for them, and hopeful. I was a little concerned that they weren’t touching or even holding hands, but LAK pointed out that was just William being his usual jerk self. I had thought there was a royal rule against public touching. All this to say, I no longer want those twits representing my country either. Totally disillusioned and disappointed in both of them. I thought, foolishly perhaps, that they were going to emulate his mother. I can hear Nelson from the Simpsons, laughing at me.
I had similar assumptions about them. After Wiliam witnessed his mother’s life and marital issues, it truly surprises me what a jerk he seems to be. I realize she was not perfect and played with the press, yet he seems to be an all-around a $ $.
Who marries at easter? Does she want just a few guests?
Wasn’t she engaged 2 times before and then called it off short before wedding? Bill asked Kate to marry him after Jecca was engaged to the first guy…
Maybe this time Bill will storm the wedding… Prince Egghead might rescue poor Jecca with his helicopter and they ride into the sunset together
Maybe they aren’t Christian.
Maybe Jecca’s knows her Christian friends are twice-a-year-Christians, only showing up at church on Christmas and Easter. They’d have no problem having a great Easter week vacation on her family’s estate. They can attend Anglican Church of Kenya Easter services if they want.
She’s getting married on Saturday, so I guess that leaves Sunday for the future head of the Church of England to practice his consistent observance of religious holidays. HA!
Am I the only one who doesn’t see the big deal at marrying at Easter? Maybe this is because I am a non-practicing Catholic. haha
Jecca’s family estate is a Tusk Conservation site. William has always been given a tour of it with rangers etc, so it is really shady that he is dressing up what is normal as ‘ work’.
Secondly, the meeting with the Kenyan President had to happen in order to make this an official visit so that William would be given additional official security given the current terror climate.
Using conservation as the excuse for the meeting is mighty convenient and about a month off the big conservation summit that is going to take place at the end of April. The biggest part of the summit is efforts to tackle poaching, yet William is claiming the Kenyans want a private meeting with HIM…..Mr Trophy Hunts are OK.
And if it was an official visit, it would have been announced ages ago, not this mealy mouthed announcement sent out via twitter.
This is, bitchy gossip aside, really bad, LAK, don’t you think? We are really teetering on abuse of office now. We’re getting into political scandal territory. They have lost control of this idiot completely.
Bitchy gossip aside (and it is great bitchy gossip), I agree.
Similar to his secret meeting with the spy folks, outed because of the helicopter costs. Plus him lobbying the government for the bigger EAAA helicopter.
Yes. All very bad.
Richard Palmer @RoyalReporter
William’s private secretary has also flown to Nairobi at taxpayers’ expense, just to attend the meeting with the president.
Or, more to the point: “just to give the veneer of official business so as to avoid outright corruption”.
@Sixer, completely agree! I think this is the most damaging thing leaked so far. The Coverup story is ridiculous and makes it seem even worse, if possible. He seems not to care anymore or he does care but figures he has enough public sympathy and wealth to do as he pleases. Not so sure…
Yep.
I hope the media points this out.
Yes I agree. I hope to see a couple of articles in the broadsheets soon.
As for leaving Kate: firstly I agree with Sixer and bluhare that it is the less relevant piece of their story – as long as William works I would not care about who he sleeps with except for getting an infinitesimal bitchy gossipy pleasure out of it. Secondly, honestly I don’t think it is a big deal. I have always been one of those who have seen a loving relationship (albeit more one-sided from Kate’s side) between the two, possibly too loving.. even to the exclusion of their children – Kate totally strikes me as the kind of woman who would put the husband’s wishes and wellbeing before the children’s. I think that they are quite secure in their relationship and William can keep Kate happy enough that she would willingly plod off to the Middletons in Berkshire.
I maintain that the whole dubious conservation passion of William is in reality, a strong affinity for Jecca and her family and their land in Kenya. It’s a way to cover up what he wants to do–hang out with Jecca and her Tusk family/friends on their fabulous land, and at glamourous galas–under a veneer of “work” and “charity”.
so obvious…
Lmao!!! The last picture really goes with the story! He looks like he’s trying to sneak away! The look on her face is perfect! Lol!
I know right. He’s not even giving a hot damn about her well being.
I feel that I need to get a twitter account to follow all the royal reporters, because I’m loving all this shade.
I’ve recently reactivated my twitter to pretty much do just that!
Please do that, I have just seen the cutest ever photo of Harry with a baby in his arms. bluhare you gonna love it:-)
It is on Kensingto Palace site ohhh lovely.
OT: New photos of Estelle, Oscar, and Princess Victoria have been released too!
Check Twitter, Anett. 🙂
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Lovely pics INDEEED!!!
Richard Palmer is keeping up the pressure.
“William has claimed he works only part-time because he wants to be a hands-on dad. Kate and children will spend Easter with the Middletons.”
“It is not clear if William, a future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, will attend church on the holiest day in the Christian faith”
Why doesn’t he wear a wedding ring? Is it some royal thing, no wedding rings for the guys?
He specifically refused to have one made on the grounds that he doesn’t like/wear jewellery.
All other royal men have wedding rings, worn under their signet rings.
Phillip took off ALL his rings when his fingers became too swollen to wear them.
I think that if I was married and my husband decided that he didn’t feel like wearing a wedding ring just because he doesn’t like jewellery , I would be a bit annoyed by that.
D,
Some married folks don’t wear them for safety reasons. Rings can cause gruesome injuries, like ripped-off fingers. Sometimes, you just shrug and know it doesn’t make you any less married.
I would have no issue with it if it was for safety reasons, but if you just don’t feel like wearing the ring…
Neither my husband nor I feel like wearing rings. Some people don’t. It has nothing to do with how faithful someone is or how invested in a marriage they are.
Er, that is, usually. I don’t know about William. With him, I’d be willing to entertain the idea that he doesn’t wear a ring because he doesn’t want to look/feel married. Because a) he’s dumb and b) he obviously can’t stand anyone have any kind of expectations of him whatsoever.
Since William doesn’t have a job where wearing a ring is a safety risk, it is just another sign of how little he really cares about this marriage to not even bother having a ring made.
@Emily C – I didn’t say that I think not wearing a ring has anything to do with faithfulness or how invested in a marriage someone is, just that it would annoy me personally.
But I agree with you about William, that is probably his real reason for not wearing a ring.
My dad never wore his because of his job – he was a surgeon. He saw no point in constantly taking it on and off. By the time he retired, he had arthritis so it wouldn’t fit anyway.
It’s sort of a thing in England for upper middle class men not to wear them. My father never wore one.
Whether he wears a ring or not, people know he is married. I would bet money they divorce before I get married (and I am 35 and no prospects at present haha).
Ok, I know these posh types have their side pieces and all because you guys have told me, but does it occur to anybody THAT THIS IS HER WEDDING? Do you think she’s going to cheat with William at her OWN WEDDING? I think this speculation is so vulgar and disrespectful to her, and will probably put a damper on what should be a joyful day. Men and women can be friends, you know. If she had wanted William, she could have had him. So what is she doing now, just faking her commitment to this other guy so William will what? This is so gross.
ETA I’m talking about the Twitter people, not people on here.
I think it is William asserting his dominance. Jecca probably invited the whole Cambridge fam and cringed when Willnot said it was just him on the RSVP.
GNAT, he clearly isn’t going to sleep with Jecca on this trip (which doesn’t rule out drunken randoms), but that doesn’t mean he isn’t following a youthful fantasy down to Kenya. When an ex gets married, it’s emotional for all of us, even if we’re happily coupled ourselves. I’m picturing him sitting wistfully at the bar, obsessed with what could have been, only to be comforted by the bridesmaids…
GNAT, the speculations are vulgar but the facts are as well. Of course, William can be friend with Jecca but to totally exclude his wife in order to attend her wedding is suspicious and insulting to his own family and to the public as well.(because he is a public person after all, a lot of eyes are on him, this is a fact) And on Easter!
Whatever the relationship is, you can’t call it healthy. Someone is mismanaging it and I think it is William. If this is a friendship it would be his job to somehow integrate his new family in his old entourage. Even if Kate is horrible and doesn’t want anything to do with Jecca, going on your own is arrogance. And using such a transparent excuse is also insulting to the public.
Exactly.
Exactly! If Kate wasn’t comfortable going, William should have declined to attend. Plus, Easter, and George is old enough to know his dad is gone.
Well said GNAT.
Also, William going alone *ideally* should not be a big deal…
-Maybe Kate didnot want to go – it wuold be odd to go to your husband’s ex’s wedding (Especially sinc Waity waited 10 years to be the wife)
-There would be even more security needed if George was on the trip (and hands-on mom and conservation-keen dad would bring the kids -no?)
-There would be more expense in terms of staff needed to look after the kids
But coming back to *ideally* since Will-not is so work-shy this is fair game for all speculation.
The idea that Jecca and Willy would hook up during her wedding weekend IS vulgar but as long as you guys bring it up, here’s my opinion. I think it is in the realm of possibility. That set is the same as the people on Jerry Springer but with money and titles. Jecca is part of the Windsor set and they do and say lots of things that are considered vulgar in my middle class world. As Sixer said above for all intents and purposes that set are basically swingers.
Doesn’t matter who is in whose bed. His conservation work, limited as it is, is because of Jecca. Jecca’s voice is the one he listens to, the opinion he values. He put her and her family above his cousin’s wedding, Diana 2.0’s first Easter, and she’s the non-negotiable in the arrangement with his wife. That’s what makes her dangerous in the eyes of the Middleton family.
She never attends any of his friends weddings, so she certainly wasn’t going to attend an ex of his either. That is just plain silly. I say let him go. Yes, it is at easter, but if he was that close to her, then go. I have a best friend of 10 years who is male and an ex (we briefly dated 10 years ago) and I would go to his wedding no matter what!
She did attend other weddings of his friends and exes, just not certain ones. It used to seem that all they did was attend other people’s weddings.
Sneaking off to Kenya for Jecca’s wedding and missing Easter with his family is “part of the job, Mark.”
I wish there was a like button for this. Made me inhale my coffee laughing.
Future head of the Church of England to miss:
*Easter weekend – the holiest of the days in the church calendar. Absent head and chief.
*His much wanted daughter’s first easter (no eggs /baskets moments shared by him). Just a regular Joe who works less shifts to spend more time with his family.
*In the year of his grandmother’s 90th birthday – events to be celebrated soon – he skips out on his immediate (kate/children), and royal families duties to see an old flame’S wedding. No sense of duty to crown or country, or family.
As Sixer said, it’s bad. It’s really, really bad. Political scandal, abuse of office bad, as she so eloquently put it upthread. It’s disgustingly insulting to his wife and his country.
I have a question. Is her name pronounced like Jekka? Or Jessa?
Her given name is Jessica. Jessa sounds about right.
Jecca is not pretty. I get that it doesn’t really matter where “love” (barf) is involved, but Kate is so much prettier. Camilla was not as pretty as Diana and that didn’t matter, same thing here I guess. I was just shocked when I googled Jecca. I didn’t expect her to be so plain and dried out looking.
All cats are gray in the dark.
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HAHAHAHA!
Comment disappeared. I find Jecca far more attractive physically and intellectually than Kate Middleton. Jecca is who she is naturally. KM’s looks are a fiction of plastic surgery, extreme dieting, caked-on makeup, eye-tricking clothing, and hair extensions. I appreciate Jecca’s attitude.
Jecca is what’s referred to as “handsome”. She doesn’t give a toss for make-up and elaborate hairstyles that require thrice-weekly 2 hour trips to the salon. She comes by her tan naturally, not from spray-on orangeade or a tanning bed. She’s fit because she’s active, not because she diets and works out obsessively. She is a real woman, something that Kate isn’t and never will be.
Thanks for educating us on what a real woman is. I wear makeup, get my hair done and work out so by your standards I guess I’m just a pretend woman.
Jecca was pretty when she was younger. I don’t know what she has done to age so badly. She looks a rough 10 years older than she is. I wonder if she has health issues.
I think Kate was prettier before she got the royal treatment tho. She needs to throw out her makeup, gain 20 lbs and sleep for a week. That will help, at least she doesn’t have jeccas wrinkles.
KM has serious eye and forehead wrinkles, treated with botox (tell-tale bunny lines) and lots of photoshop.
I’m beginning to think Billy married K because no one else wanted him and in a perverse way to stick it to his family. I think he kind of enjoys her failures and knows if the whole thing gets too bad he can ditch her and throw her under the bus since she’s not beloved at all.
The way he took over the Shamrock event and now jetting off to be with Jecca is a pretty bold move and speaks volumes about how much he values his wife. He knows full well she isn’t likely going anywhere and that the Buckets need him for their social mountaineering.
This bad press must make him irritated and I’m thinking he blames her and thinks he deserves a break from her. I bet he doesn’t hesitate to constantly remind her how fortunate she is he even looked her way.
Two things made me LOL:
1) The image of Carole in climbing gear, a deadly focused look on her face, dragging, through sheer force of her Herculean will, her 3 kids up through “social mountaineering”.
2) That you are just now “beginning to think” that William married Kate because no one else bothered to show up for the interview.
I always said: mumma midds saw Willie as Mount Everest and she was trying to scale K2, aka Harry, the 2nd hugest peak in the Hymalayas, for Pippa. LOLZ
He’s treated her like a doormat since the beginning – his RPO’s nicknamed her ‘the mattress’ for all the booty calls she made (turn up late a night with an overnight bag and then sneak out again early next morning). Marrying her was never going to change it – she LETS him treat her like that. Given that Willy was a known cheater – he was actually with another girl when he started hooking up with Middleton at University – its no stretch to say he has NO respect for women, any woman.
As for the engagement he didn’t tell his family until an hour before the press release went out and he didn’t ask HM’s permission as the heir’s are supposed to. And yes he married her as he realised no one else wanted him or was willing to put up with his behaviour, such was her desperation for the ‘prize’ of being future Queen consort one day. She KNEW what she what kind of man she was marrying.
She even went on that ‘single Kate having a great time’ pap tour to attempt to get him back. I cannot imagine putting life on hold for a decade in my 20s, to be at the beck and call of a guy like this.
Did she really think he would suddenly turn into a devoted husband and family man?
“Men marry women with the hope they (the women) will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change.
Invariably, they are both disappointed.”
– Albert Einstein (not just smart in quantum physics)
Actually no, Einstein should have stuck with quantum physics. Because he was very, very wrong in that quote.
Betti, I never knew she had been that pathetic. It’s mind boggling.
Canadian B- I know I was slow to get that she wasn’t just the last one standing but she was the only one standing. Great quote too.
Christin–A tour. I am without words.
Kate given the nickname “The Mattress” by the London press due to disclosures from William’s RPOs.
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I think he did marry Kate because there were no other options and she was always there, desperate and waity. Didn’t he say during their breakup they were better friends and he wished she’d move on? Wasn’t he glad when he was “free”?? Telling statements.. I have zero respect for a woman who marries a man out of sheer desperation for title and to have him over anything else. There is no great love story here my friends. He loses all my respect too for marrying such a woman. They both have very low self esteem. I hope they find the great love the second time around.
Physically have sex with each other this weekend? No, almost certainly not. As the bride, Jecca will probably not have a moment to herself and hence no opportunity. I also think that he is way more into her than the other way around.
But there is physical cheating and then there is emotional cheating. If I witnessed my husband giving longing glances at another woman, fixated on her, and willing to drop everything to be at her side, it would just about kill me.
“Emotional cheating” <- exactly. We've all got a youthful fantasy about the one who got away. But most of us have appropriately filed those memories away as "the past."
I’m loving this a bit too much. Who wants some popcorn?
Me! This just keeps getting juicier by the day. Not often you see a famous person not give a hot damn about optics this much.
I think a cup of tea would be appropriate in this case too.
So predictable. He’d rather cut off his arm than miss this wedding. And I feel zero sympathy for Kate. None. Now, the kids? Another story, but they’ll be with their loved ones and since I doubt they see Daddy much anyway, they’ll be fine.
Keep digging that hole, William. Long live, the dutiful King Henry!
I feel more embarrassed for Kate than sad. She put up with his ridiculous behavior for a long time and accepted it as the price she had to pay for Big Blue. But to be publically humiliated in this way was probably a slap in the face even she never expected. I predict there will be more tweets from the Middleton mouthpeice, Tanna, in retaliation and I think that Kate will retaliate personally in some way as well. Ahhh, the schadenfreude…..
Yes, the schadenfreude is strong. I’m sipping my hot tea and waiting for it all to explode in the messiest of ways.
My guess is Kate will get a vacation either before, or after, the trip to India. Seychelles? Maldives? She’ll get pay back from William for this, I just hope someone leaks it to the press in a timely manner.
If William felt so strongly about going to this wedding, the least he could do is invite his wife to join him. I doubt that happened, though. Just IMO, I have not facts.
This is a mess, isnt it?
Idiot.
I agree that the last photo of Kate looking, with despair, at William as he is walking off (with arrogant look fixed on face) says it all. He is so disassociated from a “relationship” with her and his appearance in the photo gives the strong impression that he has no regard for her and it is all about him. I have a sneaking feeling that their “marriage” is for show only and he does whatever, whenever, he wants and she is left in the dust. That said, she knew what she was getting into – I bet she (or Carole) thought they could “change” him! Big error – his ego reigns supreme and she has no place in his “world”. Yep – she is one the sidelines watching as the plane takes off. There isn’t any real relationship there – just a marriage of convenience and show. My opinion. But – definitely watch photos for body language as it speaks volumes.
There’s a whole story in that picture. If rumours of trouble/pending divorce start up about their marriage in a year or two then that’s the picture all the papers will run.
You left out “whomever” in the list of Will’s accomplishments.
You can see similar looks on her face when she steps out of the car at non-fun royal engagements, sans William.
I see a Jen Gardner plan hatching——bandaid baby on the way.
Photos of Kate “hands – on – mommy” somewhere in a park with both kids and no nannies around, fully exhausted face and the sad “oh – so – Diana ” look will be all over the newspapers while Will is away. Predictable people is predictable.
Here comes the Diana all alone pose in front of the Taj Mahal.
Christ this is awkward. Am I the only one who gets the feeling that Jecca flat out didn’t want to be a royal and have that microscope? So, he settled on Kate who looks similar and was willing to take the job? I don’t doubt that they love each other, I just think that “it was part of the deal.” when they got married. Sigh. Sad.
This seals the doormat image for me. The whole “best friends” type of image the press was fed is falling apart. Whatever deal they had, it’s hard to imagine it involved being so blatantly disrespectful.
The problem Kate will have should she decide to play the public sympathy card is, she’s not a fraction as popular and sympathetic as Diana was (image wise).
On a bit of a side note, perhaps the Midds will further back off their showboating?
I watched a Pippa interview (from the time NBC was wooing her). Wthin the first few sentences she was humble bragging about how she was thrust into the limelight, when she was only there (at the wedding) to support her sister.
Kate seems to have been the “means to an end” for her entire family.
“What will Kate do in PR retaliation if William skips off to Kenya alone? Hm…”
She cancelled the Irish Guards event two weeks ago, a week before it took place. Original answer because she didn’t want to set the expectation that she’d show up every year. Later answer because she wanted to focus on spending time with the kids. Maybe she found out three weeks ago (just before the story was leaked to Sebastian Shakespeare) that William was going to Jecca’s wedding alone. William was left to step in to do the Irish Guards because Petulant Kate refused to?
Now diligent hands-on father William is skipping Easter with wife-and-kids to be with Jecca.
Kate being Passive-aggressive? She publicly admitted he wasn’t around much for the first 6 months of their son’s life. Now he’s going to Jecca’s wedding alone, she gets to play put-upon mum with neglectful husband.
Or she’s content with the deal they struck years ago, that she gets the title if she let’s him live his life without interference.
Good theory there. I can imagine Kate threatening not to do the Irish Guards event if William left for Kenya.
But if she really wanted to take a page out of Diana’s book she would know that doing her job- and doing it well- is the best FU. Anyone remember that little black Versace? I think william pulled her off of the shamrock thing. Probably under the guise of “caring” for her.
Perhaps she didn’t want to set up expectations about showing up for the Irish Guards shamrock tradition every year because she knows she will not be around next year? I know this is an “out of left field” theory, but I think it’s possible. No matter how much she may want to stay married (she worked hard for it; perhaps the only thing she ever worked hard at), if Bill says it’s over, it’s over.
If it started at the time Kate found out about William going to Jecca’s wedding, then maybe:
– She didn’t want to go to the shamrock ceremony because William was going to be there.
– Even though William was going to the Queen’s church ceremony, because a larger group of royals were going too, she had to/wanted to go because it makes her feel like a royal too.
– She did the charity shop event because William wasn’t there and it was a local event in relation to AH so there wasn’t a way for her to pull out, not two events in two days.
Just playing with this theory.
I doubt that part of the deal was publicly humiliating her in this manner.
Why do you think willie gave her 4 days skiing and said ma midds could come along. Its because waity realised he was going to Jecca’s wedding without her afterall. He was placating her. I would say Waity pulled out of the Irish Guards lastminute.com out of spite. I shizz is bad behind the scenes. It will all come out soon. This is just the start.
LOLZ and even then at the ski trip Willie invited his friends to stave off the boardem. Poor waity, she prolly thought it was going to be a nice family holiday.
Intervention? Intervention?
On a selfish note, I do hope she does a single mom Easter pap stroll with the kids. I want to see George smash some eggs!
William doesn’t want Kate to have the expectation that he will remain faithful every year of their marriage.
Oop! *sips tea*
Royalty cheating is one thing. But they’re supposed to be discreet about it. Jetting off to a “friend’s” wedding in another country on Easter weekend without your family when you’re the future head of your country’s church is just… wow. Disrespectful to his wife, but far more important is how disrespectful it is to his country.
He doesn’t want to be king. He wants the material stuff that comes with it, but he doesn’t respect the duties even minimally. He should be forced to abdicate, this is beyond absurd.
Disrespectful is the perfect way to describe it!!
That picture – the first one after the article? Is like a gut punch every time I see it. I feel like someday we’re all going to look back and realize *that* was the moment when things really started publicly going downhill with those two. It will be like Diana’s Taj Mahal photo, just completely symbolic of their entire relationship.
If so it’s too bad she has to be wearing that ugly gingham dress….Katie of Middlebrook Farm.
Maybe that was the idea — to look wholesome, innocent. I’m just guessing like everyone else, but I agree that photo speaks volumes.
She’s difficult to feel sorry for but the more we see of the real him, the greater the spotlight it throws on why Kate’s so hopeless. All a bit sad really.
Meant to share this on a previous Jecca thread, but didn’t. I am American and studied abroad at a UK college for a semester, 10+ years ago. I was in a small seminar class with Jecca. I don’t know if she was enrolled at that school or was a visiting student like I was. She is quite striking and pretty in person, has a super posh accent, and came across as bright and outspoken. She was very polished and put-together. I remember her engaging with the professor in the class and speaking up often. She loved to argue and talk. Thought this would be appreciated here…
Thanks for sharing this nugget! From pictures of her, I guessed that she would look better in real life and now it seems that she is also attractive personality-wise.
“She is quite striking and pretty in person, has a super posh accent, and came across as bright and outspoken. She was very polished and put-together. I remember her engaging with the professor in the class and speaking up often. She loved to argue and talk.” Sounds like she is the polar opposite of Duchess of Laze Quitting and completely unsuitable to the petulant/control freak Prince.
Ha. I figured someone would say that. Now that I’m thinking about it, I also remember that she seemed confident almost to the point of being a bit full of herself. She didn’t bother me, though. But not timid or a doormat, not at all…she was confident in herself and her opinions.
Interesting. Sounds like she’s a challenge (not a pushover), and he probably likes that.
Thank you for sharing this! Someone posted up-thread that they thought Kate was the prettier one, but I have to disagree. Jecca has the sort of look that I associate with truly affluent girls without a care in the world — simple, sporty and at it’s best almost luminous. I LOVE that look and wish I had it, but, alas, I have cares! She also seems like she has more spark, personality in a quick google search. It’s hard to tell something just from pictures, but your anecdote confirms what I was already thinking.
Having said all that…I have NO IDEA what she would see in boring Bill!!! The only reason I could imagine for her continuing to engage him would be just the satisfaction of seeing him make a fool of himself repeatedly. Tragic.
Here’s a video of Jecca speaking about environmental security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSWQJDiR-7A
And, a video of Willie’s visit with the Kenyan president today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-jiviQhMU
Jecca comes across unaffected, determined, passionate about her subject and interesting. I think Wills will have a great weekend he will be with people who are passionate about conservation especially Jeccas new husband who is a doctor I believe in zoology. Also Jeccas father who is a huge animal conservationist. Sorry this above my previous post but WOW Jecca is pretty awesome.
Thanks. Jecca is awesome! She’s intelligent, well-spoken (no fake posh accent there), and obviously committed to conservation. IMO she would have made a great princess.
I don’t think Wills would have missed this wedding for anything he will be surrounded by conservationists. Mind you he will be surrounded by ‘old flames’ too so old flames and conservationists makes for a heady weekend.
You’re right-he would do anything for her. The Queen should have her on speed dial.
Didn’t Jecca attend his wedding too?
So did a entire flock of ex-girlfriends whose weddings he didn’t reciprocate.
I used to love the royal family Easter pics (google Princess Diana Easter.) My favorite was the year she and William wore matching coats (I wonder when Waity and George will wear copies?) And one year she wore a fabulous pink gingham coat. Do they even go to the Easter church services anymore?
Oh, he’s here. Met with the president and everything. Lots of talk about conservation and poaching, but the headlines here in Nairobi are “Prince William Flies In For Wedding”
That’s because he’s there for the wedding, not to talk conservation. As stated above, if this was an official visit for good reason, it would have been announced months ago. Current terror level, such a visit would have been postponed at this time. He’s in Kenya for the wedding and the meeting was thrown-together last-minute as an excuse.
HA!
No fools in the Nairobi media! No ass-kissing either for William. They’re calling it as it truly is. He’s not concerned about conservation efforts in Kenya. He’s there for his girlfriend’s wedding.
Cannot wait for the DM and other papers to tackle this by the weekend (hopefully). He is definitely not getting the prize egg on Sunday.
Didn’t we predict this?
Don’t feel sorry for Kate, she knew what she was getting into when she married this loser.
There will be some Middleton photos over the weekend, just wait!
The Middleton family that traditionally goes skiing over Easter vacation and doesn’t go to church except for Christmas pap strolls? Pap stroll with grandkids for Easter service, complete with egg hunt?
My guess will be pap stroll for Easter with an Easter basket or two.
When we say Jecca is ” His Non Negotiable” Help me understand: He goes to The Firm Kate and her Lawyers and say: This one on the side, Forever?? or what???
Anyways give me the deep Jecca and Wills Guide ( I BTW love that these guys couldn’t land the ones they really wanted cause they have nothing to offer them by way of access/money etc, that they are so circumspect and moneyed that A KINGDOM is not where it’s at in 2016), I’m high, I’ve got NOTHING to do at work, feed me!!
I’m thinking he gets this one on the side IN HIS DREAMS! Seriously. What does he have to offer her except his own humiliation? She looks like the sort who can get whatever she wants and has no need for history to remember her as the sidepiece of a dolt. He’s just nursing a fantasy (and his ego) is my guess.
Jecca calls, william runs. Above all else, even his own family, blood and in-laws. No public/private shaming will dislodge her from his heart, so if Kate ( or any woman) wants him, they have to understand that Jecca is forever and they have to settle for what is left.
She appears to be the only person he truly listens to in a way that is outside of himself eg this conservation schtick comes from Jecca, and the few times he is motivated to say anything about it, rather than his usual lackluster efforts, is when something has happened with her area eg rhino killed on the Jecca family park = speech from William about saving rhinos.
He appears to run to Jecca when high stress events are going on in his life eg diana inquest into her death. And every anniversary of her death.
I have not read anything about Jecca’s groom-to-be. Can we assume he knows this history (which sounds mostly one-sided, but still very emotionally charged)?
Oh really, is Like that??!
Yep.
It may not be physical, but it sure is emotional which i personally find more troubling.
I hope Jecca’s hubby doesn’t end up being collateral damage, unless it truly is a camilla situation where everybody is cheating, in which case, carry on.
What is the actual day of the wedding? I wonder if he will put in an appearance and then hop back on a jet in order to make it in time to Anmer or one of their other residences to hide the Easter eggs.
for some reason it makes me sick to think of him blowing off his family during a holiday to attend an old flame’s wedding. WTF? Especially right after the Duchess of Clueless blew off the Irish Guards.
These two make me appreciate being an American. Not that we don’t have our own set of problems…but at least we have the chance to vote them out of office every so often.
I read that the wedding is on Saturday, March 26th, that he’s on a four-day trip, having flown out today, Thursday, which would mean that he’ll be flying back on Sunday.
I don’t know if he’s going to be back in time for Easter celebrations with his wife and kids. Maybe. But I suspect he’s going to be drunk on Saturday night, have a huge hangover on Sunday morning, and won’t fly his lazy ass out until the afternoon, so if he does fly out on Sunday, might not be home until the late evening or night.
Then there will need to be time for the emergency dental appointment. Another tooth lost over the weekend and what not.
I find it very telling that Kate rarely attends social events with Willnot wherein she has to make friendly with his friends, and especially other women. In fact it appears she doesn’t have any female friends, which is a sad way to be. I’ve always relied on my galpals to enrich my life in a way that men just can’t. Is it because she’s jealous? Afraid Willnot will make a pass at them? Too above most of them now to care? Or is it because the women at her social level are actually too intelligent and accomplished for her?
Sixer, where are you to weigh in??
Um… in truth, I’m not that fussed about the BRF’s various relationship farragos, you know? If they do the public service job as advertised, I don’t care whether they’re all happily married or spend their time going for gold in the aristo swinging Olympics. They all seem dysfunctional in this regard so I just leave them to get on with it!
I just take it as read they’re a bunch of weirdos who wouldn’t be able to hold down a normal relationship in this world or the next. Royal marriages are a bit like Hollywood marriages: not at all what normal, sane people think of as marriages.
Just imagine them as zoo exhibits. It works for me!
“Zoo exhibits” *SNORT*!!!
I think she is one of those women who the man and children are her life. I have seen some women become like this and drop all friends once the marriage and babies come along (for Kate it was even before that). It is very dangerous because if the man dies or leaves you, you leave yourself in a very vulnerable/emotionally unstable position. Kate is very unhealthy in many, many ways IMO.
Or she played the game long enough to win, and after that, she sees no need to spend time with his friends. She got the title and the lifestyle, and he gets a wife who let’s him live his life his way.
He was always going to go to this wedding, he missed his Phillips cousin’s wedding to be at the wedding of Jecca’s brother.
I noticed that the article that William would be attending the wedding sans Kate – in The Daily Mail – was somewhat buried in amongst other news, as a little tiny 3-4cm box. Interesting!
I feel sorry for Jecca’s husband-to-be … it must be somewhat awkward for him having William there? I’m not surprised Kate’s not going … I wouldn’t want to either, and would probably stamp my foot down very hard and tell my husband he wasn’t either … but if she was mature, confident and self-assured it would be a better look if she DID go – and looked fabulous – and wore an amazing white dress (ha!!!).
I thought Jecca had married last year … I’m sure I read that somewhere. Maybe someone mixed up the year or something.
I can’t wait to see what Kate comes up / out with in retaliation!
This is getting so good … now where is my popcorn …
I too would love to see her go to that wedding in a white dress AND a big ass hat. This is shaping up to be a huge hot mess. I’m off to melt some butter for my popcorn.
Why? To get back at Jecca? What has she done? It’s Will-not, not the lady in this situation.
I completely agree with you ‘Me’.
William is so much like his father. How some are destined to repeat history. And then there’s Prince Hot Ginge. He has his mama’s gift, right? There’s something very charismatic, sincere, and lovable about him.
When did William leave? Wasn’t he just photographed yesterday comforting a patient??? (EAAA duties).
William must have that private airplane owned by the billionaire Duke on 24/7 standby for him.
Apparently, he left today, Thursday.
Those EAAA pics aren’t dated, so who knows when they were truly taken. If he was in Kenya this morning, an overnight flight would get him there by 9am – Kenya airways flies everyday.
Life lesson to be learned: how your relationship starts is generally how it ends.
That’s so true.
Very true.
If Niraj Tanna used to be the Middletons’ favorite photographer, no longer I think. He isn’t shy about criticizing either Kate or William and I don’t really get the sense he is kow-towing to them. His Twitter is entertaining for that reason. I think the trope that he is in their pocket is incorrect.
Over 200 comments! I had to check to make sure no one had jacked the thread and perhaps some kind of Hiddleston, Cumberbatch situation wasn’t on fire 🙂 Ok, I’m just throwing this out there. Wills and Kate keep this up, at some point they will show up to a charity or formal event, try to leave after 20 minutes and booing and hissing will ensue. Ya’ll know, like the scene from Dangerous Liasons.
Remember when George Osborne was booed by the entire stadium when handing out medals at the Paralympics in 2012?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM0Ube0oLs
William and Kate skipped out on their paraolympic duties to go on holiday in France. If not for the pics of her in the nuddy, it would have gone unnoticed, yet it did go unnoticed in the furore of the paps daring to photograph her in the nuddy despite her prancing on an open terrace facing a public toad and a houseful of staff.
The palace chose to go with the outraged response rather than be called out on their previously released statement that WK had to skip out on rest of their duties in order to prepare for their asian tour.
Yes! Omg@Sixer, and much like George I imagine Will and Kate will giggle, eye roll and handle it poorly. Most likely, use it as an excuse to disappear from any public events. Some one, somewhere has to be telling them how badly the last 3 months look to not only the publiv at home but abroad as well. Who knows, maybe move to Mustique?
Kate in the nuddy facing a public toad! Wish I’d been there! Bwahahahahaha! Best laugh of the day for me! Still cackling.
Ha!….. William is the public toad.
If Harry can’t become King, then I hope he tries to run for Prime Minister ( I don’t know if a Royal has ever done this or is allowed to for the simple reason of “conflict of interest”). He would do a great job. I know he has made some poor choices in the past (the Nazi costume and the nudes in Vegas). But seems like he’s finally matured and is righting his wrongs. I approve.
Prime Minister?! I think not.
The royals are a dim lot, at best, and when one of them shines, it’s a very relative shining. I’m not knocking Harry here – his engagement is great and plainly sincere – but he’s only doing what someone in his very entitled position should be doing, and the reason that he looks so exceptional is very solidly down to his sibling being a wilful, petulant, passionless, joyless jerk.
Seriously, perspective.
Good point !
Are William’s wrists really that small, or is it a trick of the eye?
That pictured on top is really worth a thousand words. Kate is not ageing well. She must be under a huge pressure to remain calm if she wants to keep her place, because you know one wrong move can land her next to Diana.
At this point , if William keeps up his nasty attitude he will be the one landing next to Diana, Kate can then play the poor widow, so overcome with grief that she has to retire from public life and never works another royal engagement. Harry can then become Regent until George comes of age. William gets to be revered as the wonderkingtocome who died too young. Sounds good actually.
Willie better watch his back. Royals and ex royals are despatched when they become a liability. If you google Louis Mountbatten you will find all manner of info about him being involved with The Cincora Boys home in Ireland. Guess we all know why he “loved” ireland so much. He was also a pal of Jimmy Saville. Need I say more. Then there was Di, and we all know how that ended. She just wouldn’t go away quietly.
has he ever been with anyone who didnt look like dry toast?
This is all so sad the way that it is unfolding, and I do feel very sorry for Kate. I understand why others don’t (she was a big girl who walked into it with her eyes open, etc), but William could have had her fooled just like he did with many other people. I can’t imagine she would have married him with the full expectation of being treated like trash.
Just because she knew he has not always acted aboveboard in the past doesn’t mean she deserves to be treated like this now, and so publicly. No matter what we think of her or her work ethic, no one deserves to be treated like such shit by their spouse. This is such a very public slap in the face to her and shows his complete and utter disrespect for her and his family. He is a real piece of shit. And now she is stuck in this position- and with him- forever. It’s just sad how he turned out.
William is turning into an easer on the top of a Number 2 Pencil.
So, wait. Wills is a fully trained EMT? Because if not, what the heck is he doing getting in the probably crowded ambulance and in the way of the guys doing actual emergency care?
Non-essentials staying out of the ambulance is a big deal, from what I recall.