Something I’ve been wondering about for about a month or two: did the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge get vaccinated and they didn’t tell anyone? I’ve asked that in a few posts, just because Will and Kate have been stepping out for more engagements in public (as opposed to Zooming themselves to the bone). While they’ve been wearing masks recently, they often showed a real carelessness when it comes to the pandemic, and I just wondered if they quietly got vaccinated and that’s why they felt more comfortable doing public events this month. William was asked about it during yesterday’s Westminster Abbey event for the National Day of Reflection. He said that he and Kate have not had the “jab.”
William and Kate heard from staff about their experiences of taking part in the biggest vaccination programme in UK history and spoke to people receiving their jabs in the clinic, which was set up earlier this month. The Duke told one vaccination team that he and the Duchess had not had their jabs yet.
“I’m a while away yet until I get mine. But you’re getting there pretty fast so it won’t be long,” he said. He added: “I’ve had plenty of vaccinations in my time. I get jabbed a lot.”
Do you believe him? I… don’t. I think as “future future king,” he would have demanded a vaccine months ago. Now I wonder if William and Kate will get their vaccines publicly, or perhaps just post photos from their “jabs” at a later date. The Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have all publicly confirmed that they’ve received their vaccinations although none have taken them publicly. The Windsors are absolutely being used by the government to advocate for the vaccination program though, which I fully support. That IS how the royals should be used, to advocate for public health issues. Which is why Will and Kate’s near-constant masklessness and breaking of lockdown rules was always problematic and dangerous. Hm… my guess is that at some point, Kensington Palace will just announce that W&K got their vaccines and maybe they’ll play a little fast and loose about when exactly the vaccinations happened.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
If they don’t publicly “get the jab” (Lord I hate that, & ‘shots in arms’, ugh), then either their pr team is even dumber than we think or they already got it privately. Time will tell, but this would be an easy, actually helpful publicity boon that makes no sense for them to pass over.
This puts their choo choo train of doom aka the covid express in even worse light. Who in the world does their PR? Why do they let them go from blunder to blunder, disaster to disaster? This admission is not a good look. For a family that prides itself on its stiff upper lip, there’s been a lot of soft flapping gums lately.
I think they’ve already had the vaccine, but if that’s the case they may get their second dose when the rest of their age group get their first and release photos then.
Depending on which they got, their second dose would be either 3 or 4 weeks after the 1st (and J&J is only 1 dose), so that ship likely has already sailed. If they got it and are being shady, I bet they had it back in January/February when they were first being administered.
True, I bet they did have the first that early. Some people are having to wait longer for the second dose (3-12 weeks is the guide, but it’s tending towards the lower end now as they speed up), but I bet the royals are on the lower end.
In the UK it’s being given c12 weeks later to get as many people as possible covered by first dose (which broadly stops hospitalisation/death) so it’s a possibility.
My Dad (UK) got his first shot in January and is waiting for a call for his second.
In the US, it’s four weeks between shots, unless you’re getting the one shot J&J.
@Yoyo,
In the US, Pfizer’s is a 21 day interval between first and second doses, Moderna is 28. That’s the ideal timeline/ the one used in trials, but of course abrupt interruptions in the supply chain may cause variances.
I get my first dose this evening. I’ll probably be in tears in my car on the way back.
In the UK most jabs are Oxford AZ vaccine and the second jab is coming 4 – 12 weeks after. The UK has administered 28 million first jabs, but only 2 million second jabs, prioritizing partial doses rather than full doses.
We’re currently at anyone 50+ unless you’re immuno-compromised. I have had 2 friends vaccinated because of underlying conditions, but otherwise no one in the 30s category is vaccinated yet. Of course as FFK and FFQ who knows.
I think it might be possible because they had covid, didn’t they? So they wouldn’t be vaccinated for a while, as there is no need while they still had the antibodies? But now they could get infected again, so they can get vaccinated for promotion.
Kate never had covid though. They made it a point to say she and the kids never caught it from William.
OK, I stand corrected! Thanks!
Hmm, more proof they don’t live together or interact outside of public engagements?
I suppose that’s easier to manage when they don’t live together. 🤨
Not necessarily. I know a family where the father had Covid, but neither his wife nor children caught it even though they were all living under the same roof. He was just very careful to stay isolated from them within their home for the two weeks he recuperated.
Given the size of Amner Hall and the fact they have live-in help that could bring William food or whatever he needed, I don’t think this proves that they weren’t living together at the time.
I know someone in the health service who spent weeks sitting next to someone who had covid. Neither of them knew, until a later antibody test revealed one of them had had the virus and, because he never coughed, the other one hadn’t caught it and therefore had a negative antibody test. This is a really long way of saying it’s possible she didn’t get it from William….along with love, affection and respect!
Oh god that’s right, I forgot about William’s secret Covid!! That’s probably why they’re not too worried….
Even if William had covid, his antibodies will be to a particular strain.
Yeah, but that problem exists with vaccines too.
I’m also thinking that if William’s covid was mild, that he thinks “ah, no biggies, who cares”.
Where I live here in the US those who have had COVID-19 in the last year are not eligible for the vaccine. Perhaps William was using the royal We when he said we have not been jabbed.
They can’t get the vaccine at all or just not yet?
Oof. What region of the country are you? To my knowledge, the general recommendation is that if you have had covid, you should wait at least three months to seek vaccination so that natural antibodies will have begun to wane and you can mount s sufficient immune response to the mRNA antigen.
NotSoSocialButterfly, I’m glad that you responded, because I haven’t seen anything to suggest that if you’ve had COVID-19 that you have to wait a year. In fact, they’re encouraging people to get the vaccine. They still don’t know how long someone has antibodies after getting the virus. Sounds like somebody out there is putting out disinformation.
I think a lot of celebrities already got theirs and aren’t saying anything. They’ll do something like the former presidents did: photo or video of them getting it but it’ll remain unclear when it happened.
Kate wandering maskless for PR in a massive crowd suggests to me that she was vaccinated. She’s incredibly stupid otherwise. William already had covid so he probably believes he has some temporary protection. I suspect we will see him get vaccinated but not her.
The crazy thing is he is not even smart to think he’s totally protected. I have a friend who had covid several months back — her whole family (husband and kids as well) had it. Kids were only mildly sick but she and her husband were totally knocked for a loop for a good 2 weeks. They recovered, but she ended up testing positive again a few months later when another family member ended up getting it and she just decided to get tested. She didn’t show anything in the way of symptoms that time, so it could’ve been residual, or a different strain, who knows. But you might endanger someone else by exposing and passing it on and these two knuckleheads have to be cajoled into wearing masks. Idiots!
Exactly, Nic919. As I said after seeing her at the vigil, Kate not wearing a mask demonstrated it was a PR stunt and also that she had most likely had the vaccine, probably both shots, while some others in the crowd were desperate for their first. They may consider themselves “frontline” workers.
I’m sure they’ve had it. If they’re stepping out all over town and trying to choo choo their way into the hearts of the public, they’ve had it. Also, Kathy would want to be around Pippa and the new baby so I definitely think so.
Side note – I really like her in that cream coat dress number. More professional, no windy day issues, nice scalloping. She finally looks like a royal woman and not a woman with a mad button obsession.
I don’t love the cream color (mostly since her “Am I the bride?” pale dress at Harry and Meghan’s wedding makes me think she enjoys cosplaying as a bride) but I agree with you that this is a decent dress.
I don’t see her as royal looking.
I agree with you, there’s something very tense and trashy that excludes her from being truly regal but for a change I’m giving this vapid nitwit a B- for effort. It’s a decent look.
Her maskless face at the vigil for Sarah Everard (along with that of her RPOs) determined this to be a lie.
But if they want to lie to give a second push for vaccination when their age group rolls around, that’s fine with me.
Just like they played fast and loose about when Will got COVID. Unless he thinks that since he had it, he doesn’t need the vaccine right away, but Kate should definitely want it ASAP. But I do not believe they are being truthful here.
They probably got vaccinated early on. Bill hasn’t been careful with mask wearing or social distancing for someone who previously had covid. Kate well we know of her maskless shenanigans. They probably had their second jab as well and will be playing it fast and loose as to when the vaccination happened.
I believe they have both been vaccinated. Mostly because Baldimort said they have not.
LOL. When he says something….believe the opposite.
This is my thought too. We know that Baldimort doesn’t believe the rules apply to him. He probably got his jab when Petty Betty got hers.
They may have or they may not – our premier (the Canadian equivalent of a Governor, kind of) is only getting his this week, with this age group cohort. Unlike the US where office holders got theirs pretty early, ours seem to only be getting theirs when the priority group they are part of are allowed to be vaccinated. It depends on the country I think.
Since Ontario hasn’t gotten to Dougie’s age cohort yet he can’t be seen to have gotten the vaccine. Especially since many older ontarians haven’t had theirs yet. It’s very chaotic for the 80 plus group who have mobility issues and don’t know how to use a computer.
Same with Trudeau. He will only turn 50 at the end of the year so it would be bad optics for him to get it now, especially since vaccine procurement hasn’t been great in Canada.
If they have been vaccinated already they will need to keep quiet about it as their age group has still to be called up. It would not look good if they have been seen to skip the queue.
IDK if they are that worried about Covid that the vaccine is high priority for them. I wouldn’t use Kate’s masklesses at that vigil as evidence they’ve been backed.
Wills survived Covid early on and they probably think it’s not a huge deal. I can see them thinking it’s like the flu. They may not be impatient to get “the jab”
They did not get the vaccine but want it so bad. That’s why we get this story: because they want to have a feel of what the people are thinking. If public opinion says it’s appalling that the future king didnt get a shot because he’s essential service, then they’ll proudly get it on camera as example and proof that they believe in the safety of the vaccine, and say it was to the people’s demand. If people are side eyeing and judgemental, well, they’ll just get it in secret and say they will sacrifice themselves so that more derserving people can get it. Very noble Kate & William. And dont forget, kate might want to get preggers with peace baby. (That scalloped coat, man, it is not fitted like it usually is: the waist, the arms… and just a quick note, the shoe game is horrible but what do i know about fashion 2021)
That coat looks baggy at the bottom. I think it’s a very pretty coat, there was just something a little off about it.
The coat felt like bad Queen Letizia cosplay to me
I think they have absolutely had it. I think we’ll get pictures in a few weeks or whenever they’re eligible of them getting the jab, but they’ve had it already. We were talking in the other post about William liking the perks of the job, if not the actual duties, and this is one of the perks, and I think they absolutely took advantage of it.
I think they are likely vaccinated.
Have to say she’s always so ill at ease in these outings. Awkward + overdoing things (hyena smile, exaggerated hand gestures…and now we can add craned neck). Cannot wait till we are a republic.
At least she’s not wearing a kid’s mask in these photos.
Considering how they’ve been acting like Covidiots all through the pandemic, I don’t think they’re too bothered about catching Covid (or passing it on to their subjects) either way. I’m sure they’d take the vaccine if it was offered, but I don’t think they’re necessarily incandescently trying to jump the queue.
No vaccine and maskless at the Everard vigil. Good grief.
I think they had it before their Choo Choo train wreck tour. There is no way they would have ventured out and mingled with peasants without getting the vax first. I remember them breathing all over school children. I think they would have made sure they were one of the first people in this country to get it before it was made available to the public.
I can half believe this only because they know full well what’s available to them as immensely privileged wealthy people if they do get it. They would get round the clock immediate care and immediately shot up with the cocktail and steroids that Trump got. Look at the medical care that Prince Philip received – no other 99 year old in that condition would have received that care.
In the UK, no one is supposed to jump the queue – including royals and politicians. People become eligible in batches according to age and/or health risk (currently I think we’re doing people aged 50+ and those in vulnerable health categories of any age). So if it turns out that they have had the vaccine, that would be quite a scandal.
They hae already been dishonest about this. Will had covid and kept it secret. So he has the antibodies. Who knows if Kate had covid also since she has a history of being a liar.
On a shallow note, Kate’s dress is terrible. She’s too young to be wearing something like this. As for the jabs, I think they’ve got them already but KP will release some photos of them getting them later pretending that they got them on the day the photos are released,
Oh I am sure they have had it . It’s them and their sense of entitlement for all things.
It’s not their turn but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear they’ve already got it. But I wouldn’t say that them being maskless and going on a tour is evidence that they got the vaccine but evidence that they don’t really care about the virus.
It’s not like they were always masked up when they went outside before the vaccine was announced
Well, they have to choose a narrative. Either they didn’t get the vaccine and have been maskless among the people anyway, or they jumped the line to get the vaccine in a blatant misuse of their privilege. Either way, they’re completely selfish.
So glad she’s wearing a midi-length dress and recently wore trouser pants again. Far more befitting to the position, although I’m sure the windblown skirt reveals won’t go away just yet.
They can’t jump the queue. The NHS is doing an absolutely brilliant job of making sure there are no queue jumpers and I know plenty of very wealthy people who would love to buy their way up the queue but it cannot be done. I think we do the doctors and nurses and managers of the NHS, all of whom have been under unimaginable pressure, a great disservice by suggesting this even could be possible. Please can we not assume because we don’t like someone that they are automatically breaking a very robust and carefully worked out system which protects the most vulnerable first.
So they’ve been maskless in public, even though they’re unvaccinated.
The vaccination system is not open to abuse. The biggest problem we have is getting people to take the vaccine not people getting it before they are due.
I think “very wealthy” is a long stretch from “the second heir to the throne.”
I am not saying they did jump the queue but I doubt a decision like that would be in the hands of the NHS. In this one specific case.
I doubt Will or Kate use the NHS anyway. The Royal family has always used private doctors and hospitals except for cases like Sophie being rushed to an NHS hospital during her first delivery. That would be actually patriotic and we can’t have that.
They won’t have had the jab yet unless one or both has serious health issues. The UK are doing this strictly in order of age under the rule of the NHS. The odd person might be slipping under the radar but they would be toast if they tried that.
As for them not living together? Get real. They are tracked the whole time. Our press would find a way of getting that into the public domain.
They get first in line privileges with everything else and they don’t use the NHS. I see no difference here and do not think it’s outside the realm of possibility at all.
As far as them not living together – they do not and never really have. The idea that the press would find a way to get that into the public domain, after everything we’ve seen in the past year (well, YEARS, but it’s been in the clearest contrast recently) where William’s awkward truths are always covered up and Harry and Meghan thrown under the bus to distract from him and others…that argument simply holds no water at all.
Maria, the jabs are only available through the NHS. No private company has access.
As for them not living together, not all of the British press are friendly towards the RF. This is just so ludicrous for people to be even writing. Even Charles and Diana did not have separate London homes until they officially split. He lived mainly at the Gloucester house but Norfolk too far away for William to do that when they are clearly in London together. He even shares the school run. I am not a fan and don’t have a clue what their marriage is like but they are not separated.
Kate is in London while the kids are in school, and they do some London appearances together, but remember this is the couple who had the privacy hedge installed at KP so people cant track their helicopter travel. It would be a very simple matter for William to do one London event a week and then go back to Norfolk in between. He even commented once (I think December 2019) that he didnt get to see his kids that much. Why, pray tell, if they are living together full time? It’s not like he works that much.
and why are they suddenly zooming from Sandringham when they were doing just fine at Anmer Hall for months?
Private companies do not have access.
But as I have stated, the second heir to the throne is not a private company and the senior Royals are most definitely going to have access to this (even if it has to be on an individual level) before everyone else if they haven’t already.
As far as getting that information of them not living together into public domain, you are contradicting yourself because that information IS in public domain, people on Twitter et al talk about it, some provide photos too, and there were hints that William was occupying Anmer by himself for long periods to welcome Rose over before his lawyers descended and it mysteriously disappeared.
I’m not sure why this concept even seems weird to you, the Queen and Philip did it, Charles and Camilla do it.
I fail to see what pictures of them driving to a palace indicate about their living arrangements or marriage.
Re: your last sentence – LOL for days. What the press knows and what the press shares are two very different things. For example, the press knows that William had an affair with Rose Hanbury. After threats, the press would not report on it and there is a self-imposed “media blackout” re: the story. l’m sure similar threats were made re: reporting on their living arrangements.
“ They are tracked the whole time. Our press would find a way of getting that into the public domain.”
No they’re not. They live in estates that literally stretch for miles and helicopter everywhere so if they want to go somewhere, they can and they will without press. The Sussexes did that with a media that is hungry for any info on them so if they did it so can the Cambridges. And second of all, “our press” can and does hide stuff about people if they want to. Let’s not act like the UK has a country full of journalists that hold the BRF accountable as political figures (which they are). The media barely holds the elected government accountable. And I’m from the UK so don’t bother with the whole “you silly American!”
Sofia, I was always under the impression that on sites like this, we kept to the subject on hand and did not get personal.
Kensington Palace is actually in the middle of London. There were photos in the press of both Kate and William driving there last week. They do not do the school run by helicopter.
There are also lots of ways to get things into the public domain by private individuals that track the royals. You can write virtually anything on local paper sites, even although there are press injunctions out. I know because I have written about a Scottish politician. Not everything is monitored on fb or twitter and there is also good old word of mouth which is the way I learned about the Scottish politician who has had a press injunction out since 2017.
As for people telling us what their nationalities are, who is to tell.
Where did I get personal? I mentioned I was in the UK because I have (even on this site) seen comments directed at me saying “well here in the UK we do things differently!” And I wanted to state that since I’m from the UK, I know how things are “done”.
And things about the Cambridges have leaked. The Rose affair leaked didn’t it?
Anyways I have no interest in arguing with you about whether or not they live together because I literally don’t care if they do or don’t beyond a gossip standpoint, my whole point was 1) The Cambridges can sneak away and 2) The UK press are not exactly experts in holding public figures accountable and can and will keep secrets.
Yeah, none of us obviously know for a fact that they do or dont live together (they are not at KP all the time.) Pictures of them driving around London once in a while do not mean they live together full time. And that said, they have just very recently moved back to London for the kids school. They were in Norfolk full time for close to a year. Of course they could have maintained separate homes without anyone knowing, considering the size of Sandringham.
Finally – the press did make a big deal about the fact that they were using Sandringham for zooms, which to me meant that they wanted people to be aware of it.
They live in places large enough to be living separate lives. No press would be able to find that out unless someone revealed it to them.
Many separated couples with normal sized homes live separate lives to be near the kids.
The sandringham zooms were certainly unnecessary seeing as they already had a manor they were using. The excuse to use another room in another home when there was a lockdown in place asking people to stay home as much as possible was unnecessary and suggests they couldn’t even tolerate being in the same large home.
If Will and Kate wanted the vaccine, they could get it, any time. The system is not incorruptible, don’t let anyone fool you.
I personally think it more likely that they are too arrogant to think they need it. But there is no way their doctors and their connections couldn’t get them any medical treatment they want. And yes they could keep it secret. Haven’t you noticed the media blackout on his affair?
Funny how many seem to assume they know the U.K. system. The Covid vaccine is administered through the NHS and there is no cutting the line unless someone has serious health issues. Which I’m assuming they both don’t. And I doubt William and Kate are going to stick around at the end of the day in vaccine sites to get the last shots. My guess is since Charles + William survived the virus they don’t seem to consider it something they can’t handle. Kate probably got it at some point too after William did and they didn’t disclose it yet.
This isn’t about the UK system of public health. This is about the Royals.
This family is sitting on countless secret bank accounts and they do all sorts of unimaginable illegal things. The idea they’ll be waiting in line for this unless they choose that path themselves is….unrealistic.
If someone gets a phone call that goes “HRH the Prince of Wales wishes his son and daughter in law to receive this treatment and is fully supported by Her Majesty”—I think you can guess how that will go.
We just watched Prince Philip get treatment through the NHS that no other 99 year old would get.
You really just don’t get it about the jabs in Britain. The jabs are not in the hands of private distributors. They are in the hands of the NHS, our public health system.
Please stop commenting about stuff you do not seem to understand.
Also Philip’s original hospital as far as I can gather was NOT an NHS hospital. The second I don’t know about.
Carolind is right. The injections here are run through the NHS. Your personal invitation to the vaccine is sent from your local GP surgery, which in itself runs to national priority guidelines: ie key workers, age, underlying conditions. I haven’t heard of people hanging around at centres in the hope of left-over vaccine. The system is being run so carefully, with paper entries recorded at doorways and patient records ready on line at the vaccine point; the system wouldn’t allow for last minute passers-by. The UK is currently finishing the over 50s and moving down. Younger people are apparently phoning GPs, begging for the vaccine, but there is no jumping the queue. Having seen maskless Kate at the vigil, I wondered whether the RF had in some way got the vaccine on a key worker basis. I just couldn’t get my head around the fact Kate would go maskless to a large crowd event unless she felt protected by a vaccine. Stupid thing to do, all for the sake of PR.
Kate didn’t have covid because the timeline would have meant she exposed the children at the hospice as she was idiotically maskless during that visit.
Kate may just be really stupid and vain and went maskless in a large crowd for PR. She’s been pretty dumb about covid safety throughout and so the most likely answer might just be she’s really dumb.
Kate looks harsh these days. I can’t tell if it’s her makeup, the preppy 80’s bitch hair vibes or the assortment of Nana coats. It’s no bueno