Note: This story came out before we knew about William’s coronavirus. This also seems like it was leaked from his office.

It was just two weeks ago when the Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima had to return home after one day of vacationing in Greece. Europe is experiencing a full-blown second wave of the coronavirus, and European countries are initiating or contemplating new lockdown measures. In Willem-Alexander and Maxima’s case, they traveled to Greece and had to return home after one day because of the outcry from the Dutch people and Dutch politicians, all of whom were already adhering to new lockdown and travel restrictions. Britain is in much the same boat – while the UK’s corona numbers have been consistently bad (not America-bad, but bad for Europe), there’s been a lot of hand-wringing about the what, where and how of additional lockdown procedures. So instead of trying to figure out if he could manage to take his family on an extravagant ski holiday, Prince William apparently decided on another “staycation” holiday. William and Kate took the kids to the Isles of Scilly, again, like they did this summer.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went on a family holiday to a modest stone cottage in the Isles of Scilly. William and Kate took George, seven, Charlotte, five, and Louis, two, away to a four-bedroom home on the islands 25 miles off Cornwall for a quiet ‘staycation’, The Sun reported. The weather was cloudy and temperatures remained at a glum 14C, but the Cambridges very much enjoyed the trip, according to locals.

It is the family’s second family staycation of 2020, following an earlier trip, also to the Scillies – where the couple were seen cycling and greeting residents in July.

A holidaymaker who saw the royals last week said: ‘We hardly noticed at first as they seemed a normal family on holiday intent on keeping themselves to themselves. The place where they were staying was quite modest and certainly not hugely luxurious. We couldn’t help thinking what the weather might be like in California — but it’s much better to be holidaying here in Britain.’

The isles have a population of 2,153, spread across just five of the 140 islands – a perfect getaway for those seeking isolated walks, cycling routes, quiet pubs and beaches. Prince Charles owns much of the land and one third of the homes, through the Duchy of Cornwall.

[From The Daily Mail]

First all, the “holidaymaker” was just someone inside Kensington Palace’s communications office. They couldn’t help but pathetically attempt to “swipe” at Prince Harry – “We couldn’t help thinking what the weather might be like in California — but it’s much better to be holidaying here in Britain.” Ah, yes. Harry is simply “on holiday” in California, I guess. It’s not that Harry moved to California with his wife and child because of his brother’s repugnant smear campaign against him. But now William gets to play The Good Brother Who Stayed.

Also: I absolutely do not believe that “the place where they were staying was quite modest and certainly not hugely luxurious.” Palace peeps always described William’s home in Wales (when he was in the RAF) as a “modest cottage,” and then when the photos came out years later, it turned out to be a nice-sized coastal home, practically a mini-mansion. This is probably just another Middle Class Bill shenanigan, just like the stunt queenery of the budget flight to Scotland.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.