The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been “the royals” at the annual Royal Variety performance three previous times. This year will mark their fourth outing at the fundraiser for elderly entertainers. It’s still incredibly curious to me that there’s been no after-action keen embiggening on Will and Kate following their appearances at COP26, and I guess we can assume that the Royal Variety will be the next time we see their performance of Over It and Jazz Hands. The Royal Variety is scheduled for November 18th.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will take in the Royal Variety Performance this year. In a statement to ET Canada, Kensington Palace confirmed that the royal couple will attend the 2021 show, writing, “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Thursday 18th November.”
It is tradition for members of the Royal Family to attend the show at Royal Albert Hall in London. The Royal Albert Hall’s official website says: “This year’s performance is set to be one of the Royal Variety’s most memorable and enjoyable shows in its long history. As usual, ITV will film the theatrical production for television broadcast in the UK in December and then around the world over the Christmas and New Year festive holidays.”
This year’s celebration marks “exactly one hundred years of patronage from the reigning monarch, beginning with King George V in 1921,” according to the historic venue.
While the Royal Variety event sounds like a really fun night to me, the royal family treats it like it’s a huge drag and that they have to force one or two members of the family to attend every year. Will and Kate are supposed to be this young, glamorous couple, it was always a surprise to me that they didn’t carve this out as one of their go-to events every year. But now that they’re trying to fill their schedules before the end of the year, I guess they’re “keen.”
Here are photos from the last time W&K attended the Royal Variety event in 2019. Remember this fug doily dress? The papers made a big deal about how William briefly put his hand on Kate’s back too. Wonder if we’ll get a repeat of that.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid and Instar.
Honestly I have not been able to stop seeing those images of Kate poking those larvae in everyones face. She has struck me as many things but never childish, i guess she has a little juvenile in her.🤣
I was gonna comment on this too! Will she run around sticking dishes of larvae in people’s face and laugh hysterically like a xenophobic arse?
And everyone else is visibly wincing, especially bulliam. I guess she thought she was being cute and charming. And, yes, is xenophobic and totally at odds with their sustainability message that she’s yucking it up with a “get a load of this gross shit” routine.
I’ve read stories that said in university her nickname was “Kate Middlebum” because she had such a habit of mooning people. Maybe she hasn’t grown up?
She was called that while at Marlborough and supposedly she had a talking to because of all the people noticing it.
By the time she was St Andrews she focused more on being close to William and copying the notes from her classmates , even if the info was wrong.
Welp everyone needs a talent so… showing your *ss counts for some.
Lot of talented people out there.
She’s always been childish. There’s the video of her holding hands with William walking along the beach at Anglesey, and she jumps and kicks her legs out to the side. Like a little girl would do. And the video of her sitting in The box at an opera rolling her head around. Carole is a textbook narcissistic mother, kates a textbook adult golden child of a narcissistic mother. They usually end up stunted because the mother tries to stop them developing as an independent adult so they can keep control of them.
She did that on the Aussie tour, when they were staying at the Embassy, the one where they were walking, holding hands, and she jumped out to the side, like she was Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. VERY weird!
Interesting that they are now talking to art Canada, I smell desperadoes. I don’t know because I have never watched it but do they always broadcast it around the world?
Not really that surprising to be honest. They’ve been making a play for American media for a while.
If it has been broadcasted internationally before i sure can’t recall it. I assume it will have the same viewing numbers as the Commonwealth thing they did right before the Oprah interview
In the 1970s there was something called “The Royal Command Performance” that was broadcast on USA TV because I remember watching it. The Osmond Brothers were one of the acts/guest performers.
CBC in Canada has aired the performance in the past. Usually one evening close to Christmas.
I also thought it interesting they were giving statements to ET Canada, but then I remembered ET Canada was one of the Sussex’s go-to outlets. Then it made sense.
Wasn’t BFF Jessica’s husband working for ET Canada before her racist crap (and he stepped down in the wake)? I think that was their connection to it.
ET Canada is on Global but the show you were thinking of is Etalk, which is on CTV.
That said Meghan would have interacted with both etalk and ET Canada when she was working on Suits in Toronto so she would likely know who to trust for certain press releases.
Won’t this make the RR mad, to bypass the UK media outlets again?
Sorry ET Canada not Art Canada. Lol.
Kaiser can you get them to talk to you and confirm why they are so lazy and racist and abusive and why willyleaks no longer likes my buttons?
@ Over it, yes please Kaiser!! Pretty please!!! We are dying to know why there are incredibly vapid, lazy and do-nothing leeching off of the backs of the taxpayers. They must be doing something to justify their incredibly expensive lifestyles! Anything…
Wasn’t wearing black so called “breaking protocol”?
Yes @ Chloe, when Meghan wore black, but it’s perfectly fine for the FFKween!
Diana wore black as well. AND RED nail polish at times. No one had a stroke over that as well.
Oh man, she really went through a strong doily phase that lasted almost a decade, and she really loved the see-through lace look with the lining. (She does have one black lace dress that I like, but most are just more of the same.)
So Kate will attend this on the 18th, Remembrance Sunday right before that, isn’t there another event at Royal Albert Hall associated with Remembrance Sunday (maybe the night before?) She’ll attend the family christmas luncheon at Buckingham Palace, the diplomatic reception, and at most another half dozen events here and there. Oh and the christmas walk.
So i’m predicting we will see her 12 times between now and the end of the year. so okay last week when I said she could break 100 engagements I was being a little generous.
@ Becks1, the only 100 things that KKWeen could break is the number of awful clothes that she wears!!
Kaiser, brava on your pictures chosen!! As usual, you have his it out of the park!! It looks like KKWeen is getting ready to beat up on this poor woman she is speaking with!! Looks like rage is the only thing that she and Burger King have in common!!
12? More than one engagement in one week? Oh poor sausage
This is the kind of thing the royals do best – attend an event, make distant chit chat with the little people and then back to the palace. Sometimes they’re in horsey gear or wellies, other times it’s tuxedos and tiaras. I really don’t think we can expect anything more from the Keens. Diana and Harry, rather than being role models, were anomalies.
+1 — that is right on, Eurydice.
Yeah I have no issue with W&K doing those sort of “lightweight” events aka “bread and butter” engagements. It’s these events that help drive interest and adoration of the royals which in turn makes me less likely to want to get rid of them.
In fact, I’ve suggested many times that W&K should do more of these events but 300 times a year like everyone else does.
oh for sure. They can’t do the big projects and “heavyweight” events like Harry and Meghan could do, or Diana, or heck even Charles. And that’s okay in itself – do these lighter engagements, go to a variety show, go to the local fair, whatever – but do that times 100, 200, 300.
Yes, that’s the thing – do what they can do, but do more of it. Other than the fawning articles by the RR (and whoever gives them the stories), does anyone really believe that Will and Kate are or ever will be a world-changing power couple? Do people even want the royals to be world-changing? To me, it looks like people want the RF to stay the same, only be younger – that is, if they want the monarchy at all.
Earthshot is actually not a bad thing, but I don’t see people flocking to it. Early childhood development is important, but nobody’s expecting Kate to do anything about. Whatever the PR plan behind the scenes, W&K have only ever been interesting when their jealousies have led them to behaving badly – all other PR stunts have been failures. So why waste time and energy on things they don’t want to do and aren’t capable of doing? Why not stick to the easy things, visit all those patronages that are languishing under dust and spider webs, smile and wave and have their picture taken. That will look more like “work” than whatever they trying to do now.
Sofia, I think the thing is that the Cambridges don’t want to do the real bread and butter engagements. The flashy stuff like going to award shows, movie premieres, and performances, they seem to love that. But the stuff Anne does like showing up to the local village fete? They seem to shy away from it. How often do they even bother showing up to a school, a hospital, etc.? Not much, unless it’s connected to a tour or a larger event.
This why they’re getting free room and board, to attend the hum drum events.
Only for royals would attending a show be considered WORK. And it will be considered TWO work events because they both attend.
Please let her wear the Princess Margaret wig!
Anyone want to place a bet on how many buttons, spangles (button substitutes), frills, peplums and wiglets are going to adorn Kkkate’s form this year? I reckon she’ll go for silver foil, or a deep blue a la Meghan.
Attendance to this event is alternated between the Wales and the Cambridges. Harry and Meghan went in 2018 and I guess would have been in the roster had they remained working royals. The Cambridges are probably pissed that they now have to attend this event more frequently. Should have thought about that before they decided to get rid of the Sussexes.
The look she gives that poor woman in the one photo still cracks me up. It’s like she is mad at her.
Also “Over It and Jazz Hands” is a new classic.
Definite Tommy Cooper vibe with the hands!
I think the lace dress looks nice *shrug*
@Annesco
I like it too. 🤷
I would like it, but the boob bullseyes wreck it for me.
One of her better looks for sure.
I can’t remember, is this is a tiara wearing event?
I *think* it used to be but it’s not anymore.
I predict Keen Mandela will still glam it up as much as possible, similar to the Bond premiere.
Did Diana ever attend this event? I’ll have to research and try to guess which one of her outfits Keen will use to cosplay.
Oh that photo with Kate looking so manic and William looking so done with it. Whoever released it was full of shade.
This is the second picture I’ve seen of Willie making a semi-fist listening to Kate talk. I wonder if he’s even aware that he’s doing it?
Did he actually talk to her at this event or just stare at her oddly? Clearly RR have a fatwa about the state of this marriage because body language is grim. She all manic pixie energy being iced out by potato head!
I swam over to the Daily Mail UK edition (clicked no links!) and their front page has FOUR Meghan related articles, two on the Queen, and none others related to the entire rest of the royal family with the exception of Queen Mary’s royal chauffeur.
These Cambridge announcements seem to have no press or legs in the UK.
Probably trying to distract from Old Brenda’s state of health by throwing Meghan under the bus. Again.
What I don’t understand is why only one couple attends this sort of thing. That makes it seem like a burden, when they’d be better off seeming like this was a fun, exciting thing to do. Send all of the Wessexes, Charles and Cam, Zara and her older daughter, etc., make it look like they enjoy hanging out together. Fill the box with Royals, that would get much more attention for them and the cause they’re apparently supporting. It’s called the “Royal” variety show, show up with multiple royals!
They seem to be very bad at PR which is curious. Isn’t that one of their largest functions? They are bad at PR and messaging. HOW is this even possible?
They hate this event and the BAFTAS even more and usually use could not get a babysitter excuse not to attend.
If William invited his Windsor cousins he would at least appear to be a likable person instead of an entitled ffk who hoards the spotlight. It would also be a kind gesture to include Lady Louise in an event without her parents while part of a group of cousins.
Different royals used to go to the royal variety on alternate years, say the Queen and Philip one year, Charles and Diana the next. They HATED it!
That dress is slightly inappropriate. No, we don’t need a visual of what you’d look like naked.
That’s a fantastic idea, Laura Lee. The Courtiers could use your creative thinking skills on their public relations team; you’re probably too young. I believe the younger royals would be interested in representing the RF at a social event. A more significant representation should please the serfdom and give the impression that they are affectionate for the arts. Charles and Camilla will travel to the Middle East after Remembrance Day, so that leaves W&K. I don’t think Edward and Sofia ever fit the bill. Andrew is still on punishment, so there’s no one left. Eugenie spent 3-days at COP26, but I haven’t seen photos of her with the other family members. Was it coincidental or intentional? Getting dressed up to show up is getting old. What’s missing is the diversity Harry and Meghan bought to the space. The open affection, smiling, waving, touching, feeling made the commonfolk happy. It made the elitist unhappy. Harry and Meghan were not upstaging; their focus was the grassroots; the people William and Charles prefer to avoid at all cost. I don’t think they’ll ever acknowledge the foolish mistake, but I’m sure history will shine a light.
Charles does do bread and butter engagements the whole time and not just in the glam areas. He has done more bread and butter engagements than his two sons will do put together. Might not be the popular idea but much more important it is truthful.
Middleton loves the trappings of “Royalty”. Never misses an opportunity to flash her butt. Even has her jackets cut out to showboat this. I repeat, how on earth was this avaricious, shallow family allowed anywhere near “The Throne”?
Brother James is doing the media rounds again, advertising his “royal” puppy farm.
Incidentally, if anyone wonders how much power the Middletons have over the popular media, check out “Comments now closed” on the advertisement dressed-up as an article on the deeply-unpleasant brother James and his “royal” puppy farm after just 85 comments.
I am writing this on here as most recent thread. My friends 9 year old granddaughter was one of the people Kate and William met on their recent scout/cub or whatever it was thing.
The kid lives in Glasgow and belongs to the group they met. The kids were given letters beforehand to get permission to attend and to be away from school. They were not told who they were to be meeting.
Kate helped the girl make some craft thing. The girl said they were both very nice and ordinary and not “posh” at all!