As we discussed in this week’s Gossip with Celebitchy podcast – in addition to noting it repeatedly on this blog for years – the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have always believed that announcing a future event or announcing their keenness for some issue “counts” as advocacy or some kind of royal work. The past nine years of their marriage is littered with examples of Will & Kate treating their hype as actual work.
It’s been happening a lot with Will and Kate in isolation too – they don’t know what to do with themselves other than remind people of their keenness, and how William “wants” to go back to air-ambulance piloting, or that they’re “thinking” about mental health and the virus. Nevermind the fact that W&K made a big deal three weeks ago or so about how they were keen to set aside their mental health “work” to focus on being keen about corona. It’s all a jumble of expectations and plans to eventually be keen, and at the end of the day, Will & Kate have done very little. Now William wants credit for being “gravely concerned” about healthcare workers. So concerned that he made a call and ordered some of his staffers to do some things.
Prince William has answered an SOS from NHS workers battling Covid-19 after being left “gravely concerned” by the lack of support some are receiving. William last week ordered aides from his Royal Foundation to hold meetings with a number of charities representing frontline staff. His dramatic intervention comes amid growing criticism of the Government’s handling of the crisis. And we can reveal that the future King has ordered his own charity-arm to come to the rescue by “urgently intensifying” the support they offer.
The Sun understands Wills, 37, is particularly worried about the mental strain many of those working for the NHS are currently suffering. And both he and wife Kate, 38, are fearful many will need support in the future which is not currently on offer.
Yesterday a Royal source said: “There is a huge amount of work currently going on behind the scenes to support emergency workers which William and Kate are throwing their weight behind. Through their Royal Foundation, the Duke and Duchess had always planned to roll out additional support this year to 999 workers. But the current crisis has led to William and Kate telling their team to urgently intensify this work. Ideas being discussed include awarding grants to charities to enable them to roll out extra services. But William wants to go further. He is keen to try and connect the many different groups working in the field and pull them together under one umbrella through his Foundation. The Foundation has held urgent meetings with different organisations and William and Kate are asking to see a plan in place within weeks.”
“…Pull them together under one umbrella through his Foundation…” Don’t do it. I still say that Will & Kate screwed over several good charities by putting them under their foundation’s “umbrella.” Kate’s patronage, The Art Room, already had to suspend their operations because they don’t have any money, because they agreed to this “umbrella” scheme and now all of their old donations are being funneled to the Royal Foundation. That will continue to happen because of the Cambridges’ lazy schemes – all they want is the glory, the embiggening of having “done something” for charity without actually having to, you know, actually focus on the charity or the issue in a real way. So we get things like Struggle Surveys and The Art Room closings and celebrities having to cover for Kate’s inability to show up to one EACH gala a year. In addition to all of that… William still just wants credit for making a few calls and ordering his staff to work on a new scheme. That’s it.
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THE PTSD that health care workers will face will be unprecedented in living memory. Maybe take just a week or so to ease off complaining about people trying to do something.
That is why I think the Cambridges should stay far away. Because they have such a bad track record when it comes to their charity work. Not only are they both just lazy and their charities like The Art Room and EACH are suffering/have suffered, their foundation financials are terrible according to the official audits. I rather people who actually can help and have a good record of helping people actually help the NHS. Not the couple who’s one half had joked about the virus.
Can they change? Sure but after a decade of mediocrity and lacklustre help I’m not holding my breath
William will gaslight them about how fragile they are and tell them he’s bored.
People care about healthcare workers. The point is whether William is going to be able to help or use them so he can have good pr.
Would you really give money to their Foundation? They’ll just throw themselves another yacht race.
I find the umbrella scheme extremely creepy. Hands off that money, William. Waste your own cash, not money intended to help people.
Wasn’t he just joking with them about all the TV time he’ll have? He sounds super worried. And they need to stop with the umbrella schemes. It’ll mean more closings of patronages of places that don’t give them the PR they want just so they can do less work.
What exactly are Will and Kate trying to do other than make themselves look good?
The question of the day, Beachdreams.
I’d say the answer is: Not a damn thing.
The question of the decade of the W&K marriage really, LahdidahBaby.
William is not one to talk. The ugly faces he made at the event where his brother and sister in law were show he needs to get his head together. He should stay out of it and let professionals deal with it. There are already help lines set up and people on call for help. He’s just in the way.
The problem is that if any intelligent person cared about what Will and Kate have to say, they already know that their concern is a sham. They are concerned about how the public will perceive royalty (ie FFKQ) in these times perhaps, but they aren’t concerned with the public’s wellbeing. If they were, that would show in a lot more ways than keen photo ops and senseless tabloid leaks, exclusives and battles.
I don’t want an article about it, just release what’s being done. We don’t get articles and Harry and Meghan thinking about their foundation’s name. We just give the press release for Archewell meaning that they will soon try to do WORK through their foundation.
Instead, we’re getting stories about their charitable endeavors shutting their doors, articles that they are dropping out of engagements, and obviously, when they show up, it doesn’t mean anything.
I’m tired of public figures giving their thoughts and prayers.
malorca …. PTSD, it is such a serious, complex problem for an individual, let alone all medical professionals in a Country. William and Kate should stay away from it. They have proven they are inept at helping, they are inept at working hard. This is an issue that is entirely too complex and serious for them.
But this is a horrible plan. We already know that the royal foundation doesn’t raise enough money to take care of the few patronages and charities that they already have, as seen by the Art Room having to shut down.
So now Will wants to take all these successful charities that each probably already have their own successful fundraising schemes that are currently helping NHS workers, and he wants to put them under an umbrella organization with the royal foundation and have all these charities rely solely on the royal foundation for their funding? How is that helpful? The royal foundation’s umbrella orgs aren’t successful. The royal foundation itself isn’t successful, and there have been articles written about how their finances are in all kinds of disarray and frankly, rather sketchy. Why would any successful charity want to give up their own autonomy and their own fundraising abilities to become just one of many charities that are under a vague “umbrella organization” that’s under the sketchy royal foundation that has a history of failing its charities?
This is just a way for William to pretend like he’s doing stuff. He gets all the PR goodness from all of these already established, already successful charities helping NHS workers, and he doesn’t have to do anything besides funnel all their money through his own foundation and then take credit for any and all work that they do. He will be several layers removed from any work: the charities will do nearly all the work, any help they need with organization will be done by the royal foundation’s workers, who might then ask for help from Williams aides at KP. He’s got 3 layers of different bureaucracies between himself and the actual work being done. But he will claim all the credit. If he even feels like acknowledging these charities enough to visit them once a year for his own PR or show up for their fancy fundraisers. He might not even want to put in that level of commitment (as we’ve seen before with the art room and the EACH gala) and then the charities might just quietly fail.
People can multitask. We can donate to unemployed restaurant workers, advocate for first responders and discuss the efficacy of a 1% royal couple’s nonprofit and advocacy efforts. We are extraordinary machines.
William and Kate need to sit down and shut up. The best thing they can do for everybody is nothing. Just stay out of the way of professionals who have work to do. Neither one of them has any education, training, aptitude, work ethic, etc., to help health care workers. Unless they want to simply cut a large check, quietly. Otherwise, they are useless.
You’re so distressed by what our healthcare workers are going through you’ve decided to spend your time attacking a bunch of random posters on a gossip site? How productive.
OMG, their PR person needs to stop. “dramatic intervention”??
Also, this makes it sound like Will and Kate aren’t doing any work. They’re telling their staffers to work more.
Their own PR can’t even make it sound like they are doing actual work. That’s how lazy they are. They can’t even say that William is making phone calls himself. And Kate just gets included for being married to him. Still no concrete evidence of her doing anything.
I almost fell out laughing at that one! Dramatic intervention, indeed! H&M post some links on their IG and they get accused of grandstanding, interfering and the dreaded “ famewhoring”.
I’m sure William is worried about NHS workers.
But he doesn’t care about his brother, sister in law, or nephew’s mental health.
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First… if he “cares” so much, let him open his own personal wallet to donate to buy meals for overworked healthcare workers. If he can’t/won’t do that, then shut the hell up.
Second, considering the way he gaslighted his own brother, calling him “fragile” (Harry is stronger than Will will EVER be!), the way he contributed to the BM piling on his sister in law and even Archie (birth pics, monkey cartoon), he needs to shut the hell up, and glue those lips together with Gorilla Glue (VERY strong glue compound).
All of the BRF needs to actually make a PERSONAL contribution, or take ALL the seats! Bleating out from the comfort of a palace, while others wait on you, risking their health (Charles traveling to Scotland when he knew he was symptomatic?)….yeah…right. Sell off ONE PAINTING on your walls, that’d fund a LOT of supplies. TWO paintings will keep the NHS going for at least a year or two.
Until they do that… yeah… don’t wanna hear any “keen bleating” from this bunch.
I think so too. Talk is cheap. What the royals have are world wide contacts, status and resources. Use that to hustle around and find the urgent physical supplies those fighting on the front line need. Otherwise, stay out of the way. The virus has certainly sorted the wheat from the chaff in terms of world/civic leaders. Some have stepped up amazingly well in service of their people and its been quite inspirational. Others, not so much.
With you, OG Jan.
Agreed Ali. I’m not sure the tantrum baby tyrant is the best person to be “working” on dramatically helping healthcare workers’ mental health. I agree on the importance of making sure that resources are available to help first line workers. They are all basically in a war right now and it is taking a huge toll on them.
I really cannot imagine the pressure that healthcare workers are going through. I know my own mental health is suffering majorly. I have a tendency towards anxiety and depression but haven’t had to treat it specifically since college. I’m ADHD as well, which REALLY doesn’t mix well with working and living at home with everything going on in the world. Nervous energy is rough. My sister in law is an RN here in NS, my childhood best friend is an RN, and I have a friend who’s a primary care physician in BC as well as another great friend who’s an RN in BC. My SIL ended up having to stop work for two weeks because she and our 4 year old niece developed fevers. We think they just had one of the ‘usual’ viruses that makes the rounds during late winter because they’re both luckily fine now.
I’m just trying to follow little pieces of joy wherever I can. I went out in the yard yesterday because it had warmed up a lot. I have crocuses blooming, the pond goldfish are starting to become active again – and I found a few little smaller ones roaming the pond yesterday which is great because I was afraid a summer drought had decimated their population too much to recover. I had actually avoided looking for them until yesterday after that drought. But it gave me so much hope in a time where it just seems so bleak.
I think we’re going to see a lot of people needing treatment for PTSD after this. I can only imagine that the health care workers in Italy where they had to decide who lives and who dies are going through a massively heartbreaking time right now. I have so much love for the people who signed up for health care jobs knowing that there’s always a possibility of something like this happening. There are some less than stellar people in healthcare like any other job – but the vast majority are just doing such an amazing job.
Speaking for myself and where I work as a nurse…
What we’re going through is burn out conditions. Our shifts are probably back to back to back doubles meaning 16’s. Our lunches and breaks are not the full time allotted and we nap. We eat a bite at a time and fueled on unhealthy energy drinks. Doing jobs to pick up slack in other departments as well as our own because workers are calling out or quitting from being overworked or fear or child care struggles.
We’re feeling unappreciated by administration. Our gloves sometimes give us chemical burns because it’s all we could order and toilet paper is incredibly limited.
My area isn’t even bad yet. We’re on the upslope.
I’m venting, but also we don’t need lip service from those sitting in ivory towers.
Wigletwatcher – you have so much respect from me. I can only imagine how mentally and physically taxing that is. I know you probably hear this a lot, but stay safe – I know that’s not super easy given the current situation.
I’m sure hearing a lot of people in power sitting around not properly advocating for you guys and instead offering meaningless sentiments only adds to the frustration and the overall disconnect.
Wingletwatcher thanks so much for what you and your colleagues are doing to save lives. The conditions you are working under are infuriating. You have my deepest respect and gratitude.
Wigletwatcher. .. you have earned the right to vent since you are doing the actual work of helping people, not just talking about how concerned you are. Much respect to you and all the health care workers.
What hospital do you work at? I could send you some TP, at the very least, you shouldn’t be worrying about TP, To your attention, though, not to the admins (they might want to keep it for themselves..)
<3 <3 <3 WigletWatcher! Thank you.
Also, great name. 😉
I finally realize that William and Kate have no ideas.
They are truly just figureheads in a world of action.
They just want to take credit for other people’s work forever.
I truly hope there’s a real societal shift in how we treat frontline workers& views on access to affordable healthcare when we get through this pandemic.
In Britain people are clapping for NHS workers but a very short time ago William’s friends at the Sun were calling for junior doctors to be sacked because of proposed industrial action for better pay. People like Piers Morgan are lauding immigrants who make up a lot of NHS& care workers but arguments about value immigrants bring to Britain were shouted down during the Brexit debate.
After briefing the press about Harry’s mental health after the African journey documentary in a derogatory way, royals don’t have credibility to me on mental health, but good for them if they support campaigns etc on this issue.
Speaking of no ideas, the Queen snags Sara Latham& now the Sussexes’ social media guy works for the Cambridges. Good for these staffers that they got other roles- guess goes against Fail piece that Sussexes’ employees wouldn’t be picked up by other households & how they had been left jobless by the ruthless Sussexes. Funny how Sara won’t be ‘too political’ a hire for the Queen & I’m guessing whatever new flavour the social media guy brings to Cambridges’ social media won’t be ‘’unroyal’ now.
The Cambridge’s has been copying David’s ideas for a year now, the least they could do was hire him.
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@ABritGuest,
Hear, hear! Well said.
Ali, This is it exactly. They have no ideas, no creativity, no curiosity when they look at the world, no unique way of viewing things that leads to innovative problem solving. They’re telling their people to find some already successful charities that they can put their names on because they have NO CLUE what to do right now. How can they be so clueless? So empty headed to have not even one interesting or innovative idea?
They just seem like people who have never ever had to use their own imagination or brain power. How did they even get through school, let alone university, if they can’t do basic problem solving? If they’re so out of touch with the real world that they can’t even fathom what could be needed or helpful right now? They are truly to opposite of leaders.
William was given a pass because of who he is. He switched out of art history to geography because he was doing pretty poorly. Kate was known to copy from classmates and was generally seen as dim. But since she was the official girlfriend of William, she as well got breaks. Anyone who attended St Andrews at the same time as them will confirm this.
It’s been obvious they are both dimwits that have been given a pass from early on. Many like to say Harry is dumb because he didn’t go to university but William and Kate got the rich kid treatment and have a paper degree with no real intelligence behind it. The years since their graduation continually proves that they just aren’t smart and are surrounded by sycophants who never tell them the truth.
The real threat they felt from Meghan was that she went to university as a normal person and had to actually work for her degree. She doesn’t need to the smartest, but she’s done the work and it scares the shit out of them.
They have been sitting on their hands all these years, enjoying cheap praise and being fawned over, waiting to be King and Queen Consort. They are in a panic of being rendered useless and redundant, in the wake of Corona. They are being busy for nothing, or jogging in the same spot, in a nutshell: It’s all smoke and mirrors!
PS; Quick, employ David Watkins, because we want to be like H&M on ourSM.
They are both the shallowest of saucers. But keen, very keen.
“He is keen to try and connect the many different groups working in the field and pull them together under one umbrella through his Foundation.”
Another piece of the puzzle. I really believe Will and Kate lazy schemes are what really made Harry look and think ” Meghan is right- this is fucked up” . That theory about Meghan being ” I see you” about they trying to grab funds from the cooking book is so TRUE! Remember: the first step Harry took was to part ways with his brother and split their households. A completely understandable move that infuriated William to the point he started his smear campaign.
Make no mistake: Will and Kate are in this together. Willis is calling himself next King, Charles is looking over his shoulder and counting the days until the situation with Harry will be revised because he knows something is wrong in Will´scamp and that no amount of spinning will cover their traces…
If this pattern continue I would not be surprised if Charles camp leak dirt on Will as a warning shot: that guy has been waiting for decades and will not tolerate his son trying to steal his thunder.
Charles and Camilla got out of quarantine awfully fast. I think Charles felt the urgency to rein in William.
and I cannot blame Charles! He is following his country´s standards, after all, but I have the feeling, could he trust William not to be thirsty, he would have returned only after Camila was out of quarantine.
ITA. Charles could see William’s plan from a country mile away. It was obvious what William & Kate were up to. Charles has to re-emerge and reclaim his & Camilla’s positions as heir.
I got so sick of William the Regent spin. So gross. And he showed his true colors.
William and Kate are too thirsty for their own good. They don’t even want to do the work or have the extra responsibility, they just want the perks and everyone more senior out of their way so they can do whatever the hell they want. I always said the ‘skip a generation’ line that kept proping up in the press years ago came from camp Middleton.
I agree that Charles quick comeback was his way of cutting off williams campaign as ‘most senior royal’ fighting coronavirus. William was probably seething at the positive reaction the queens speech got.
Well I hope they can really help because this is real and no longer time to joke or peacock around.
I’m sorry. I couldn’t help but laugh at some language they used in this excerpted article.
“Urgently Intensify” is my new favorite phrase. For some reason it reminds me of the “Do you want to know more?” type news reels in the Starship Troopers movie.
Loved the reference!
Whoa he’s starting to look like Fred Windsor
I can imagine Cain’s face when Meghan told him all the Cookbook money was going to the Hub.
He must have huff and puff and said I am going tell Grannie, banish you guys to a land far away, and take away Harry’s cermoniol honors.
Now all Cain and unable are doing, photo-ops with obselete phones in a livingroom turned into an office in a hurry.
He should hold his tongue. Preferably forever, a king braying like a donkey isn’t very regal.
How much money are they going to actually put down?
How will resources going to distributed?
This can be a really great opportunity to really make a difference, and if they do manage to get something constructive done, then I would really commend them – no snark there.
On a side note, I like how the article embiggened Will’s ‘future statesman / future kinging’ superhero persona by shading the government. It’s like these reporters always need to put someone down in order to make him look good.
Exactly! If they genuinely do something that actually helps these people, I will commend them for it. But I’m not holding my breath as I’ve said above because they both have a track record of saying things are going to be done yet most of the time nothing is.
Remember when William said he was going to help Grenfell victims? He launched the National Emergencies Trust 2+ YEARS after the incident and his initial visit. And I don’t think its was their idea they were just there for the launch (or it could have been)
Or Kate’s Broken Britain. We got a press release saying Kate would release a “body of work” at the end of 2019? We’re in the second quarter of 2020 and nothing. I know the virus has put a damper of plans but did they even have plans in the first place?
The Broken Britain initiative was the log chair and struggle survey. How did you miss it???
This is one time where I’d rather they do what they usually do and throw their names to a fully formed project that’ll actually make a difference. Don’t take credit but provide support. Or stay out of the way all together.
Ah Wills. Dramatically coming to the rescue! It does seem that all he is capable of doing is picking up the phone and telling his flunkies to do something. In other words, pawning off his feelings of discomfort to others and expect them to act. “Ideas being discussed” is pretty much his mojo. There is no concrete help going to anyone in the NHS right now from them, if you read through the lines. He and Kate are truly paralyzed beyond belief when it comes to stepping up.
Meanwhile, Eugenie has been going full throttle on her Instagram stories promoting ways to get PPE and food/soup deliveries to the NHS folks.
I was unaware of Eugenie helping them NHS folks, but that is the kind of the thing the others should be doing, if they cared enough. But we know they don’t. This is all about PR from the lazy duo.
Speaking of support, Kate is supposed to be a keen supporter of nurses so I guess we’ll be hearing from her about that. Or not.
She won’t do anything that might create expectations of her. So far, she’s treating these groups like they’rejust backdrops for her pr.
His whole foundation “umbrella scheme” actually just sounds like money laundering to me. All respectable non-profits need to run away if they want to keep going.
Why do you think two of the directors for the remaining W&K foundation quit in four months? One of them was the internal budget guy. That is usually a sign they’ve seen fiscal wrongdoing and want out.
Ohhh I had no idea. But yes, if the Internal budget guy left… then most likely there are some serious financial shenanigans going on
This man is deranged. He just jump on any opportunity that can upgrade his image.
Sick
These two have ZERO credibility when it comes to mental health issues. Or charitable work.
Yep, completely superficial, for show, and insincere. This pair has all the charisma and appeal of cold margarine. Extra points for Kate laughing uproariously after visiting terminally-ill children and veterans.
I’m not really familiar with access to psychotherapy within the NHS but if the situation is anything like the one here in Germany – this plan will do nothing whatsoever to help exhausted and over stressed medical workers. I can really report “from the ground” here, my husband and I run a psychotherapy practice (is that a correct translation? like a doctor’s office just for psychotherapists), he even specialises in post-traumatic stress. I absolutely share William’s worry, we’re worried, too. We’ll set aside some slots for immediate appointments but we also have to manage patients who’ve been waiting for a year now.
Like any branch of the health care complex – our system is not built to cope with mass casualties. We were very strained before Corona, lots of patients, few therapists, long waiting periods – especially for serious illnesses like personality disorders. We’re not equipped to deal with thousands of defeated nurses and doctors. I speak from a place of privilege: In general, Germany seems to do reasonably well so far, despite shocking numbers on paper. Our hospitals, at least the ones where I am, are doing ok-ish, my husband and I, our immediate colleagues and friends and family are well, we still have a job. In fact we have more job than we can manage. But just yesterday I had five (!) new patients on the line, job loss, anxiety, isolation, depression. What we need are more therapists, young ones who can work more patients a day. Many of our colleagues who treat out-patient clients are 60+, they’ve closed down or reduced their working hours significantly. The clinics are releasing anyone who’s not acutely suicidal or psychotic because they need the beds for Corona victims. How the f*ck can a restructuring of some charity organisations help with that?
Bless you and Mr. Spikey. I wish I was capable of the same type of help.
They are disgusting, but i did laugh out loud while reading the first paragraph so I guess they have entertainment value. The difference between the queen’s speech and this pr is staggering. She talked about the people, he’s talking about himself. Just write a fucking check and go back to the sofa.
Also nobody should write a sentence about them “throwing their weight” into anything.
The cemetery next door to my condo complex (New Jersey) is putting people into the ground without funerals.
Balls. He tried to destroy his own brother’s wife. Complete horseshit, this story. William gives a damn about one thing: William.
I am gravely concerned about the mental health of NHS and think this is a good thing for William to prioritize and do what he can. I truly hope he succeeds in making some difference for people.
Why would these charities need to be pulled under the umbrella of the Royal Foundation? Why not just work on seeing how to assist them with funding? This all sounds like William wants to be able to get credit for the established work these groups are already doing. I really think that story about him allegedly wanting the Hub book money to be used for all the foundation projects is true.
He’s so controlling. If someone else is doing something that interests him, he then wants them to report to him and look to him for leadership instead of looking to see how he can be of help to them.
Putting all these charities under his foundation, I will say he is trying to usurp power and credit for himself, with the help of, chief toady: The Sun. They are really bereft of ideas. Goodluck with that!
William will lay low this week and ride on his grandmas coattails.
More organizations for Royals to add their names control and profit–no thanks. Why not just donate without the need to take all the credit, like everyone else?
The things that gravely concern Cain and Unable that will prompt them into immediate action include seeing the Sussexes on a balcony in the South Pacific. The Sussexes showing up their weaknesses via SmartWorks and the Hubb cookbook. And school children singing about they duchess, their duchess with solutions.
MTE. The Keens can remain out of the news for months, and no one complains. The true royalists and Keen fans really don’t expect much from them or TQ (or Chuck), and the senior royals know this. To me, this is evident by the low public engagement on tabloid articles, RR tweets and media commentary feedback. Yet, one effing tweet about the so-called non-royal Sussexes’ charity, and royalists and haters lose their minds, posting comments and tweets everywhere. So, Woke Willie and his PR team can continue with this lame, almost comical promotional strategy of all talk with a few photos but no work to boost their public image. But, the dismal results will be the same–low interest and impact.
I pray these fame/publicity hoes stay away from the already burdened front line staff. Thry have enough on their hands and dont need to worry about accommodating two clueless Dolittles to come do a photoshoot around them!!
I was dumb enough to expect lizzy to have some tangible ideas in her speech to help the struggling NHS! For all their talk about how its like the blitz/war time, I thought she’d get NormalBill or Edward to go visit military or something to boost moral(whilst wearing masks & gloves)! What a shame.
I’m at least pleased to read that the Sussexs new foundation aims to support+empower people affected by this pandemic when it’s set up.
Putting charities under one umbrella Foundation is very much in the same vein of what Kate is “doing” with her Early Childhood “Initiative”; gathering a bunch of charities and experts into one project. We’ve all seen how that’s gone.
Also, didn’t they announce they were going to abandon working on Mental Health causes and Children’s ’cause fighting the Coronavirus was supposed to take up all of their precious time?
They are so ridiculously useless.
I know that the press is obsessed with Harry and Meghan — for clicks and because they are petty jerks — but when is someone going to do some actual reporting on the lack of tangible work from Will and Kate’s philanthropy? I mean, pre-Meghan, the press did slap the Cambridges on the wrists for not doing enough, but the criticism was so minor compared to how the Sussexes are treated. And, where are the exposes on where the money goes for their foundation?
It is so frustrating to see how there is a real scoop to be uncovered here on how little charity the Cambridges actually do or how there is likely money mismanagement with their foundation. Yet, no one wants to lift a finger because writing false and exaggerated stories about the biracial duchess are apparently more worthy of their attention. Truly, white supremacy at its finest here.
It would have to be an American journalist. No British journalist would risk the wrath of William, even the non tabloid ones. After all they all agreed to the media blackout on the Rose affair and that wasn’t anything criminal.
Perhaps the NYT journalist who wrote the piece on the Cambridge Instagram numbers recently might be interested….
They have this pathological need for self promotion even during times of fear and suffering afflicting the 99%. It’s really disgusting but almost impressive how they manage to turn everything into a PR promo. L
Dear William and Kate, please shut up, sit down, watch TV and/or make chutney; the adults are talking. Seriously, before this crisis, their “we’re keen, no really, this time we’re really keen” rhetoric was mildly irritating but harmless. Now, they could really be dangerous if they interfere with people doing their jobs under the illusion of “helping” or if people give money to the foundation thinking the money will go to help those who are risking their lives every day. This is not the time for a photo op nor is it time for an 8-year research and discussion period that culminates in a 5-question survey I could have come up with the night before the project in my Intro to Psychology class in college was due. This is too important to W&K to half-a$$ (and I am being generous) in the usual manner or for them to lose interest as they have so often over the past decade.
‘GRAVELY concerned’ is a poor choice of words for WilliLeaks to have sent out as his latest messaging.
This man just got £5 million that could have gone buying test kitsch for the NHS who budget was constantly reduced by the government of the day for at least the last ten years.
He has employed David, the Sussexes former instagram tech to continue his one man competition. The latest in the quest for revelance.
I guess the metaphorical child is busy watching ” Elephant ” the documentary to indicate that the Emperor is naked as a Jay bird.
I hope Prince Charles live for a very long time.