There are several things which I find interesting all at once. This week, we’ve talked about the Earl of Snowdon’s divorce, we’ve talked about Prince Andrew’s 60th birthday, and of course we’ve talked about how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will almost definitely lose their ability to use “Sussex Royal” branding, even for charity. This week… the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are almost certainly on vacation, right? It’s weird that we haven’t heard anything about that, it’s weird that we haven’t heard which private jet they took or which billionaire’s playground they headed to. Just something to keep your eye on.
As for the Duke of York’s birthday, the @RoyalFamily Twitter account – which is the official account of Buckingham Palace – chose to mark the b-day like this:
On this day in 1960, Prince Andrew was born at Buckingham Palace, the first child born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.
Happy Birthday to The Duke of York. pic.twitter.com/zoZErBHQbG
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) February 19, 2020
First of all, it’s SO tone-deaf. Second of all, could it be any clearer that the Queen plays favorites with Andrew and that her staff is incapable of talking her out of it? In the Queen’s mind, nothing has happened and Andrew will still be able to come back to “full time royal” status. Speaking of, *someone* chose not to use Andrew’s HRH in the tweet. He is still an HRH, my guess is that they just decided not to put in the tweet because of the conversation about Liz of House Petty taking away the Sussexes’ use of any “royal” style.
Meanwhile, Victoria Arbiter is still trying to make us feel sorry for Princess Beatrice, the poor sausage. Beatrice has to get married while there is so much “ugliness” around the fact that her father was such good friends with a pedophile rapist and human trafficker, and that her father raped teenagers trafficked to him by his friends. Poor Bea just wishes she could run off to Italy! But instead she’ll suck it up and have a posh tent wedding reception in the Buckingham Palace garden.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Avalon Red.
That top photo is him indicating how big a slice of pepperoni hot is in Pizza Express, Woking.
I honestly feel bad for the Pizza Express. I’m sure it’s a nightmare for them to be dragged into this. (Our local pizza place got dragged into an INSANE rightwing anti-Hillary conspiracy, and they’ve received death threats, had people showing up with weapons, had an arsonist set a fire. All in a place where people with kids have some pizza, play some ping pong, and hang out. Leave pizza ALOOOOONE!)
@Agnes – poor Comet Ping-Pong. And poor Pizza Express Woking.
By coincidence I was in a Pizza Express (not in Woking) the night after the interview aired and the place was heaving. Pizza Express were apparently about to go into administration, so maybe this has given them a weird boost?
The responses to that on Twitter and IG were amazing. I thought it was going to be all fawning responses about Andrew but NOPE. People were on it. I wonder if that was a surprise to the royal family.
Hahaha! Good.
Oh, I had soooo much fun reading them! Especially the ones from ex-Navy people!
I went to Twitter and frankly it made my day. I’m glad people see this for the hot steaming mess that it is.
Responses on Twitter are amazing. The odd fawning response but I seriously wonder if the ‘nice’ ones are for real🤔
The Royal Family is garbage.
Well, as long as M&H can’t use “Sussex Royal,” all is well in the world.
Right, you’d think everyone in the tabloids and royal circles would be sleeping easy and enjoying their lives since they expelled the Sussexes and kept the pedo Andy. Nope, they’re still mad and petty, writing snarky “come back Harry, and Harry only” articles. They’re desperate enough to make a news out of Harry getting a sandwich. Such losers.
My first thought after reading the headline was “of course they did”. Too much time spent here on CB?
Petty Liz??
Her petty crew??
Tone deaf??
Nooooooo……ooooooooooo
Let me start by saying that, IN NO WAY, am I an Andrew apologist. The guy is a sick pedophile who needs to pay for his actions…publicly!
That being said, should we expect the Queen and Royal Family to not acknowledge his birthday? I mean, at least it wasn’t some sort of glowing review of all the noble and extraordinary deeds he’s done in his life. It was short and direct. I, personally, thought that it was appropriate from the RF’s point of view.
They can acknowledge his birthday all they want, but they don’t need to loop the public in on it. A simple note in the court circular will do under calendar of events or whatever.
If they want to acknowledge his birthday, they can send him a Hallmark card. No need to involve the whole world. The response to the bell ringing request should have told them that but noooo. So tone deaf indeed.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they hadn’t done something that would no doubt have been mentioned as well. I think they thought they were threading the needle by posting a super bland one. You know they would’ve loved to lost a whole fawning Instagram story or something. But the barn door is open and the story isn’t going away no matter how much the courtiers wish it would.
@Agnes — we have the same hometown.
Andrew stories at this point just make me sick.
I just can’t with the tent wedding. It makes me laugh. It literally comes across like she isn’t good enough to come inside.
Lol! None of the York’s are allowed inside…they might steal something. Desperate moochers, the lot of em!
I really like the inbred, racist, petty, money hoarder’s hounds tooth coat. It is really pretty.
I’ll agree that she has some nice clothes but how about the guy walking behind her, hiding behind his Mommy? Liz is evil for protecting her Pedo son and contributing to scapegoating her “beloved grandson” and family and he’s a shameless coward for not cooperating with the FBI.
Did I spend more time than necessary liking every comment on @royalfamily’s IG post that chastened them for their tone deafness? Why, yes, I did. I can be petty af too, Liz.
I don’t know why, but she must despise Charles so much .
Maybe there have been too many “you should retire, mummy” suggestions, lol.
“Happy Birthday, you creepy piece of shit”
LMAO
((sorry to the victims))
Is Andrew attending the Commonwealth services? That would be a hot mess if he does.
It’s about what I would expect of the RF at this point.
The queen was wrong to do this. So very very wrong. Andrew is disgusting. Maybe it is time for the end of the royal family?
Let them. I’m glad they’re showing who they really are. Now and Meghan and Harry and Archie are safely out, let the rest burn to the ground.
The Brits….complete OUTRAGE over the mixed race Duchess
The Brits….crickets on Lizzie’s support of her pedo Son
Does anyone ever look at baby photos of of terrible monsters and wonder where it all went terribly wrong? It’s sad that little beaming baby grew into a disgusting garbage person.