King Charles III will depend a lot on Prince William in the years to come. The two men have always regarded each other with suspicion, and William used to rage at his father quite regularly. It felt like their relationship needed the buffer of Prince Harry, but really… William just needs Harry in general to prop him up. Still, when push came to shove, Charles sided with William and the Sussexes exited the UK. Granted, Charles believed that they would come crawling back. Everyone on Salt Island was convinced that Harry would come crawling back. The fact that Harry hasn’t come back has thrown a spanner in the works. So it’s just Chuck and his lightweight, lazy heir. From People:
King Charles III and Prince William are stepping up to their new royal roles united. Upon the death of Queen Elizabeth on Sept. 8, Charles immediately acceded to the throne and named his eldest son the Prince of Wales, the traditional title for the heir, the following day. And although the two don’t have a traditional father-and-son relationship, they are now closer than ever before.
“Talking about the future of the country and their future roles has strengthened their bond,” a source who knows both Charles, 73, and William, 40, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story.
In addition to coming together over the deaths of Prince Philip, Charles’ father who died in April 2021, and Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to move to California after stepping back as senior members of the royal family in 2020 has “brought [William and Charles] closer,” says the source.
Prince William has already proved himself to be a calming presence for his father. During his televised accession ceremony following the Queen’s death, King Charles showed an impatient side by pushing aside a pen tray and glaring at an aide to move the piece off the table, then he continued to vent his irritation behind the scenes.
It was William who helped soothe Charles, “defusing the situation,” says a royal insider.
Imagine how bad it is that Mr. Incandescent With Rage is the one positioning himself as the only one who can “soothe” Charles’s kingly pen tantrums. While Charles is known as short-tempered, irritable and shouty, it’s nothing like the reports of William’s screaming, shrieking rages. Also: Camilla will be pretty upset that she’s not being positioned as the only who can soothe Charles. That’s her thing!
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Imagine a grown man needing “soothing” over a misplaced ink pen tray. Yikes on bikes, I’m glad Harry and Meghan are no longer stuck in the middle of that. That’s probably the real reason they want Harry back, he’s their buffer zone.
Buffer zone, workhorse and scapegoat. Harry was run ragged by everyone around him.
I forgot to add meal ticket to that list. (For the British media and “royal experts”)
@Snuffles: You can understand why Harry said he was burnt out. It wasn’t just the work but the emotional strain the family put him to be everything to everybody including the press.
I’m convinced the scientific community still hasn’t realized just how grueling emotional labor is. Especially when you are dealing with never-good-enough expectations from your family alone. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have the BM and Men In Grey exerting that pressure as well.
Watching what has been done to Harry makes me wish someone would undertake a serious re-examination of the life of Princess Margaret, another spare who most suggest was more intelligent and more charismatic than her sibling. She was thwarted throughout her life, treated brutally by both her family and the press, all in service to “the crown”. Her sad, bitter life suggests how Harry might have ended up, had he not escaped. There’s a book project in there somewhere.
Oh good idea, I’d read that if it was a legitimate author.
Absolutely! Liz supposedly “loved” her baby sis but she treated Margaret terribly. Some love.
I recently came across Margaret’s schedule (I can’t remember where or the source so take it with a grain of salt). It was like “get up at 9 and read the papers for two hours” then bathe and eat lunch. I am sure she did more than that but it sounded so dull especially if that is what she did almost every day. Like it would be kind of nice for the very occasional lazy weekend but would you really want to do that every day as your life?
@mobim @greengirl The Crown seasons with Helena Bonham Carter have fantastic insight into Margaret. She was charismatic, funny, stylish… And Liz was jealous.
Margaret did the impossible and won over Lyndon B Johnson, she used her soft skills to charm amazingly. That was her biggest success and Liz benched her after that. She begged for a role, for more work, and was told no…. So those two hour breakfasts and smoking in bed was because she was literally not allowed to do to more work lest she “steal the spotlight”… She had to be 50% less so liz could shine, she was the alcoholic bitchy one so liz’s boring ostriching could be passed off as sober, steady, saintly…They have one playbook and use it for every generation.
(By the end she WAS alcoholic and bitchy. But in a “what happens to a dream deferred?” kind of way)
The book “99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret” was really good, actually one of the better biographies I’ve read just because of how it was formatted. There was a sass to it, I guess, a certain attitude, that made it super entertaining but also kind of sad. It just really epitomizes what others have said about her..:she was bitchy and an alcoholic but she was also bored and fairly lonely, with few real friends. I came away from I thinking what a very privileged but very sad life.
Miles ahead of her time, too, in associating with cultural tastemakers instead of the horsey set.
This is what I think and have thought for as long as I’ve considered Harry’s decisions. He saw Margaret’s life and he saw his mother’s life, figured out where he landed in the hierarchy and carefully considered the choices available to him.
FWIW, I think he made the best from an array of difficult ones.
That was my first thought, too. It’s was JUST a pen! For all that William claims to care about mental health, did his family ever take a look at themselves and each other, and think “Maybe we need therapy ourselves?” Of course not. Their top priority is pretending to be genetically superior, so they will never admit to having “issues” and therefore will never get better. And not just anger management, but everything — sexual misconduct, racism, etc. You can’t get better without admitting there was a problem in the first place. That family will never change.
No, they won’t change at all. I don’t know about anyone else but, in a battle between Charles and any pen (be it a fountain pen or a humble Bick) my money’s on the pen.
The whole pen thing was so ridiculous. What a baby. I don’t think that there will be a King William at this rate. What a bunch of losers.
I don’t recall the “Will soothing KC thing” in the video of the event. And, after throwing a tantrum what KC needed was somebody to scold him, not “soothe” him. More toxic family dynamics at play, especially with the “look, Harry, we don’t need you” tone of the article. A simple apology for bad behavior seems to be beyond these people.
Exactly, William just stood there. How is that being soothing?
Don’t you know his mere presence is all that’s needed for him to be soothing?! He’s the future kang!!!!
Hang on! “Charles is known as short-tempered, irritable and shouty, it’s nothing like the reports of William’s screaming, shrieking rages.” But where are the palace courtiers coming forth with their claims of bullying from by Charlie and Wills?!
‘And although the two don’t have a traditional father-and-son relationship, they are now closer than ever before.’ There is no love lost here.
I thought People magazine would get better with the new American editor-and-chief. Instead they’ve double down on the royal butt-kissing and shade against Meghan.
yes, and I stopped reading People mag years ago. Seems they have their favorites and it shows.
Me too. Haven’t bought it for years, especially after they defended the Duggars and Tom Cruise.
@kelleybelle – same!
Since they had all the Will/Kate articles I stopped buying it.
I have a hard time looking at People lately. They’re going full tilt abuse enabling, towards KC, PW, and multiple articles fawning over Brad Pitt, hardly a mention of all his domestic abuse. So much for a “family” magazine.
Agreed, I’m bombared daily with Peoples sugary W&K and C&C pieces in my apple news feed daily. I dgaf about the wales move into yet another castle! I used to buy people all the time but stopped years ago but when I did it had more substance than US weekly but now I don’t think it’s very different.
Last week Tina Brown, who Kaiser refers to as a Middleton mouthpiece, was trashing the Sussexes as D-listers. https://www.celebitchy.com/787721/tina_brown_its_not_very_pleasant_to_be_poor_d-listers_like_the_sussexes/.
Tina Brown worked with Barry Diller at The Daily Beast (which has Tom Sykes spewing spit about the Sussexes). Barry Diller, who used to work at Fox a long time ago, is the Chaiman of the company that owns People Magazine. For whatever reason, the people working at certain publications, internet companies, and other media intersect and have similar selling points. To me, because I simply cannot believe William soothed Charles after his pen issues, it seems as though someone connected to Kensington Palace has various media sources and potentially pays them to print positive stories about Peggington and his keen wife.
Why do all the men in this family, with the exception of Harry, need to be constantly soothed? For people who supposedly care so deeply about mental health, they seem awfully reticent to go to a damn doctor and get a prescription for Klonopin. I guess inflicting your shitty moods on your family, friends, and office supplies is more fun.
Sometimes I wonder how much these reporters believe their own twaddle. Or are they only interested in keeping up the ruse to keep the grift going.
@snuffles: A friend is a senior writer at People. She says that the way it works is you get a very specific assignment, like ‘write about how Bill and Chuck are growing closer’, and then they make their story fit. They’re not really reporting, they’re obeying the top management’s directives.
So it’s the people at the top that give out these stories right? Which I assume comes from negotiations with a celebrity’s publicist. And then they agree in order to keep access to that celebrity. But obv the people at the top don’t have to do the bidding of publicists and yet it’s pretty clear that’s exactly what they do.
It’s not a mental health issue when royalty needs to be soothed. They’re entitled by rank to have everything be absolutely perfect and minions are supposed to anticipate their every need, even before they want it.
This. It’s hard for us to fathom the extent to which they are waited on. They live in a complete bubble and are treated like demigods. They are bowed to for goodness sakes! Of course they never developed the ability to cope with even the slightest inconvenience. Especially the heirs.
I think Harry wasn’t on a pedestal *as much* because he’s not an heir. But also? I know we all love Harry here, but I would not be the least bit surprised if he had a least some entitlement and temper issues -just nowhere near as bad as his brother and dad. That’s absolutely not a dig on him – I cannot imagine anyone coming out of that environment as a perfectly humble person.
I think Harry would be the first to admit he had temper issues, but unlike the rest of the family, he worked on them. As for entitlement, I’m not sure, if he did, they were minor and were probably drilled out of him when he joined the military. Between the military and Diana, I’m sure he was disavowed of that notion.
Now, now—royalty doesn’t have mental health issues. 😉😉 Their inability/unwillingness to see themselves realistically is a handicap no amount of money or privilege can make up for.
I agree with both of you, Colby and Snuffles. Harry does have a temper, but he’s in therapy and working on it. And if he had entitlement issues, his military experience, and world travels, and built-in empathy from Diana (which neither William nor Charles, obviously, has) knocked them right out of him. I’m all for anyone who learns and grows and self-improves. That’s why I’m on #TeamHarry. Otherwise, I’d have no use for him either.
@Eurydice, ah, yes, we must remember they’ve been “anointed by God”
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The reason all the men in the rf need constant soothing is because they are raised to believe that they are the center of the universe, with all the deference and entitlement that brings. When anything goes even a little wrong, as it inevitably will from time to time, they cannot cope. Nothing bad is ever supposed to happen to them so they snap, and everyone around them pays the price.
I remember reading years ago all the ways in which Prince Charles was ignorant of ordinary life. He had never to that point carried cash. He scarcely knew what a pound looked like and certainly couldn’t manage a supermarket run or riding the underground. He is not equipped with coping skills developed by ordinary living.
Because Harry was the only one who truly had a military experience. And I’m not talking about combat. All the rest including Andrew exerted their power when they were in the military even though technicly they shouldn’t have had any power. Harry ate slept and hung around the other guys. And became friends with them. Not because he is a prince. But because he is a nice guy.
Andrew is known to have expected senior officers to call him Sir. That’s not military protocol. He was always kept away from the more dangerous missions during the two month conflict.
William managed to use helicopters for personal reasons that would have gotten a regular person kicked out. Charles had to step in and deal with that
Let me rephrase that: They are thick as thieves because they are just that.
Yep. And there’s nothing like bringing two parties closer together than a common enemy, in this case ,H & M.
@Annakist, they’re constantly throwing these “reconciliation” and “olive branch” stories out there, when in reality, things would get extremely nasty between C & W if that ever actually happened (it won’t, I don’t think, but it’s a “be careful what you wish for” kind of situation for Charles). How sad that he can only have a relationship with his son by denigrating and discarding the other.
Dear god, so now its Peggy thats the soothing keen peacemaker of the royal family – Mutton won’t be happy he’s encroaching in her territory.
The last time William tried to pretend that he had an important role in this family, it didn’t go well for him.
Remember, Will tried to say that he was the one who insisted to the Queen that Andrew settle the Virginia lawsuit and be removed from public life? And then Charles’s sources pointed out that W wasn’t in the room where it happened, but he was “informed” of the grownups decision after the fact.
Charles has shown that he’s more than willing to shade his elder son if he gets too big for his britches.
William also says he’s the one who encourage Harry to get therapy, but Harry says it was Meghan. I don’t know which or if both versions are in some way true, but if William is the one who told Harry he needed help, well then William is a great big giant black pegging pot, and Harry’s the kettle.
@ThatsNotOkay I kind of got the impression that what PH had previous to Meghan was likely just grief counseling.
@thatsnotokay
I recall Harry saying that in the past others suggested to him that he get therapy but he brushed them off and never did until Meghan told him he needed to do it. He didn’t want to lose her, so he finally got help. Now it’s possible William was one of those people in the past that suggested it, but he was never the reason Harry finally decided to go.
@thatsnotokay William probably did tell him to get therapy. But the manger was probably as a diss and now he’s trying to take credit for it.
@Thatsnotokay – Harry himself said William suggested that he go to therapy. In the videos Harry did with William and Catherine, he seemed very comfortable sharing his story.
What always amazes me about Charles and William is that they never really knew Harry. I mean knew who he actually was and what he wanted and what mattered to him. It’s very sad. I know people will say that they never thought it mattered. And that’s probably true. It doesn’t stop it from being incredibly gut-wrenching for him though. They must hurt a lot.
Charles treated the heir as more “special” and William appears to do the same thing with George.
It shows what a bad father Charles is. I still think there is an element of W and CHarles “using each other.” I wonder what Charles thought of the blurbs of William being the next King and Charles being passed over. I think William and Charles are trying too hard with this PR.
Do any of them truly know each other? The only thing they care about is the role they play in The Firm.
This is what I’m expecting Harry to write about in his book. How the institution warped them as people and a family.
Oh, I think they knew Harry pretty well. As you say, what Harry was and what he wanted didn’t matter. And really, it doesn’t matter for any of them. If they could be robots, programmed to do the ceremonial stuff and then put in storage until the next time they’re needed, that would be ideal.
Got to disagree with you. The only parts of Harry they would acknowledge was the useful parts. Harry was charming, a hard worker, had great ideas, had his mother’s social IQ.
But Harry himself for YEARS had been talking about how miserable he was and how he wanted out and they ignored him. They told him to just suck it up because he must suffer like they suffered. And when the tortured his wife, they never imagined in a million years that he would leave. But the rest of the world was like “Duh! He’s been talking it about it for the past 20 years!”
@Snuffles – I said they knew Harry pretty well, not 100% – but, in general, I think we’re both saying the same thing. I think it’s more complex than just “toe the line, suck it up.” I don’t know that the RF has ever understood Diana. And, compounding that, they never made an effort to understand Meghan. Harry was greatly influenced by Diana and her legacy and Meghan gave him the emotional support to envision a stable, useful and prosperous life outside the royal family. Not understanding these 2 dynamic and charismatic women is why the RF couldn’t imagine that Harry would leave.
It used to be that Fawcett would keep things under control for Charles. I wonder if they are still in contact, Fawcett probably got a generous pension. It seems to me Charles has to ‘cater’ to William’s whims (must not upset William or have him blamed–Charles even was said to have to apologize to a landowner near him when William went speeding through the estate in his car .
Oh I think Fawcett is in the background just like Jason Knauf is for William. They made a great public performance of Fawcett falling on his sword and resigning after the cash for honorary titles mess, and Knauf going off to India with his husband, but both are most certainly still conniving away inside the royal fold.
Bullsh*t, complete bollocks.
Is anyone seriously still believing this nonsense?
No prizes for guessing whose sources leaked that he is the REAL power behind the king, the one who can “soothe” his father’s rages and talk about important kingly things together. It would be sad if it wasn’t so ridiculous.
I also don’t think it’s much of a brag to say that you are “closer than ever” in this situation – dude, you the only one LEFT!
Camilla spends half her time at her estate. His parents are gone. Harry is in America. Anne has her own family and work to do. Andrew is probably around, but constantly hitting him up for cash and is a walking legal hazard. Edward is a total bore and keeps calling about that pesky duke of Edinburgh title. So who is left?
This is like “winning” the Bachelor because the other finalists have left the show.
William has duchy money now, and we all know he’s not exactly booked and busy. He’s probably wandering aimlessly around Windsor Castle right now, annoying the staff.
Lol, you’re almost making me feel sorry for Charles…almost.
Jay I love this comment
So Kate needs to soothe William, then William needs to soothe Charles. So much soothing going on! No wonder William has no time to do any work.
Ridiculous people
Heh. And the irony is that this “sooth the beast”attitude just creates more problems the RF is trying to shelter from—problems they lack the self-knowledge and smarts to deal with.
I mean the Royal rota has been saying this since Harry left the family. I guess William has found a new wingman.
So, CIII needs Bulliam (sometimes Anne), and Bulliam needs Harry, to perform their constitutional duties. I don’t recall ever hearing that QEII needed Charles or Margaret to fulfill her head of state responsibilities, or that her father, for that matter, needed her. The monarchy has reached full irrelevance. Thank god Harry’s OUT.
I bet they are closer than ever, gotta close ranks and fight to keep their jobs.
Every single day from here on out, they need to change, adapt and hustle to keep The Firm in biz.
It should finally be dawning on them that the monarchy is out dated.
Your wealth hoarding is vile and serves no purpose.
Heykay the idea of ‘hustle’ for the royal family is hysterical, probably too American. But I completely agree with you. They should be out there everyday, rolling up their sleeves, along side their subjects who are coping with so many challenges. Dare I say, just like Meghan did with the Hubb kitchen and smart works, something immediate and tangible and helpful
I’m trying to imagine someone reading the people article and thinking, “thank gawd William was able to soothe the king!” We all know William wasn’t able to soothe the king. I think the pen set is at the bottom of the Thames.
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A shame—that was a nice set that at minimum was probably worth a thousand-plus bucks.
Thank you, Kaiser, for saving us the pain of having to read those ridiculous clickbait articles.
What is happening with William’s appearance? His face appears swollen, and he is not aging well. The elders say, “You never miss your water until the well runs dry.” He became so caught up with his posse that he focused on abusing Meghan and interrupting the marriage. He didn’t imagine it would cost him Harry; life without Harry is more complicated than he imagined.
William and Harry had issues with Charles because he was not a prize-winning dad, and they could not forget how he mistreated Diana. Watching Camilla receive the crown should not be easy for Diana’s sons. Harry said he would work on mending his relationship with his father, and William has never admitted that their relationship was fractured.
The article is another smokescreen. William is Prince of Wales only according to his title. I can’t imagine William having the skills to manage such an enormous responsibility, and I don’t believe Charles has provided much preparation. They need each other more than ever, but faking a close relationship for public viewing will not be easy because both have rage and spotlight issues.
Sadly, the Queen’s death ended what we know as the monarchy. From this point forward, it’s more like mockery (deep sigh).
Swollen face can be dehydration from high alcohol consumption or something else altogether.
“I don’t believe Charles has provided much preparation.” That’s because the oh-so-lazy William never bothered to show up for instruction/lessons. Charles wants the monarchy to continue, he would have prepared the lazy sot for his job had he shown any interest whatsoever. He was probably told he needed to prepare but being William he will find someone to do it for him.
You know, it’s interesting. Instead of William playing college student for four years at St Andrews, his time would have been better spent taking a degree course that would have prepared him for his future role (I almost wrote ‘job’, but let’s get real). Something along the lines of business management or international relations; but no, he went with geography after crashing & burning on art history. As someone with a liberal arts degree (two of ’em, actually), I am not in anyway denigrating geography or art history as courses of study; nor I am against knowledge for knowledge’s sake & studying what really interests you; but with his entire life bankrolled by the British public & Commonwealth, I think his time would have been better spent on something more purposeful & useful to him.
Fellow liberal arts major here. I don’t think you were denigrating it; a liberal arts degree is special in that you really will only get what you put into it. I think other more job focused degree programs really track you, where as in liberal arts you frequently have to track your own path. So to speak (and I realize I’m not really advertising well here, lol).
I got my MLitt in the art history at STA the year after those 2 left.
STA has one of the leading international business and finance undergrad programs. It’s also VERY competitive. THATS why he chose geography. He couldn’t hang. But the fact that he’s still so clueless about literal basic geography, why even bother?
There’s no actual responsibility that comes with the Prince of Wales title. It exists solely to insult the Welsh. An English king decreed his son had the title after the king murdered the last actual Prince of Wales. And his son didn’t have to do a damn thing for it. It’s a signal to the Welsh of English empire, colonialism, and genocide — see what they did to the Welsh language and culture. “You get nothing. Anything you have that we want is ours now. And we’ll constantly mock and humiliate you about it, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us.”
King Arthur was Welsh btw. Not English.
Ah here comes the “Charles NEEDS William” articles in the same vein as “William NEEDS Harry” but I doubt they’ll stick as a long term narrative. Anyways it’s the same thing others have said above: it’s not good if a 73 year old man needs his 40 year old son to soothe his ego after getting angry.
Nothing like plotting, planning, conniving and scheming to bring despicable people together! It certainly worked when W&K drove the Sussexes away – then W went back to his regularly scheduled program of disrespecting and despising K. C-Rex and W both know how much Harry is needed but stop help themselves from pursuing and continually bashing the (to them) ungrateful runaways so that they can punish them some more. Also, now that W has his hands on duchy money, expect even more PR puff pieces on how great and wonderful W the Terrible is and how he should be king NOW!
William is the furthest thing from a “calming presence for his father” that I can imagine. Can you imagine the fights those two have? William can’t control his temper and nastiness at the best of times, and if Charles throws a wobbly every time his pen holder isn’t in the exact right place… well, I have this mental picture of broken objets d’arte everywhere, paintings knocked off the walls, books thrown all over the place and W&C staring each other down while Camilla runs for the gin bottle.
Camilla has already checked out to her own private estate
C-Rex has a wife who is very unpopular with the public. He has another son who bolted the family business and the country with no regrets. His remaining son is famously reluctant to work or follow in his dad’s footsteps. Cue the C-Rex PR machine to gaslight the public into thinking the opposite.
What a shit show! Spin as they might, KC3 and Wails are still boring, incandescent, and petty AF…and unattractive as the day is long. No wonder the RR are desperate for Harry to come back.
Since Kerry Kennedy’s tweet announcing the Sussexes amongst recognised for their support in public service, they’ve two articles.
One in the dailybeast, written to depict the incandescent rage of its source now this.
The second article, from People is about the source’s feelings of inadequacy due to their uselessness.
This tried to focus on what he believes is his sense of duty, to calm his belligerent father.
He may have not read that Camilla has stated that she already does that, or it could be another plaintive dog whistle to his beleaguered brother to do the same for him.
Since, in his words, he’s the calming influence for his father, would it not befitting that his son George do the same for him?
Meanwhile, Prince Harry in a silent scream says “Leave me the fcuk alone” or better yet, he’s unaware of the existence of either articles since they are not related to the upcoming lawsuits.
The Telegraph is full of articles about how Hard Cam works, deserves to be called “Queen,” not QC, how wonderful Willy & Perfect Kate are, etc.
The Kohinoor hoopla? Comments from the readers are horrible! “We did all the colonies such an enormous favor invading & taking over & colonizing, they’d all be starving, fighting each other. We gave them rules & order so they should be eternally grateful.” “Yes, and btw, we’re keeping all the stuff we took from everybody, including the Elgin Marbles. We deserve it for all we did for them and we want all the Indians to go back to India instead of taking jobs from “real” Brits.” It’s sickening how much these people love their monarchy & its symbols.
This is the new paradigm, Camilla’s wishes.
She craves respectability, certainly that’ll not forthcoming from changing the title.
It is as if they’re unable to read the room.
Why this? All of the polls, except the fail’s, never postulate an acceptable of Camilla as Queen Consort.
In fact, the results indicated that the biggest change was the indifference in the undecided, those who were opposed for her being QC remained constant after all the decades.
The job at hand is to move the indifferent to acceptance, not to whinge about a fictional series.
Go out to the public and let them be aware of the emotional intelligence and social acumen.
This might just be a distraction from the disastrous government trying to sell all the public assets at bargain price.
It is affecting banks and Mark’s & Spencer.
Lots of closings.
It would be interesting, who would be blamed? Would it go beyond finger pointing?
Where would the pitch forks be headed?
Most importantly, would there be a democratic solution to this self imposed economic misery from this ecoomic laggard ?
Well Wisher, I saw a very short video in the US regarding the Bank of England and the pension funds. It wasn’t long enough for me to understand what is going on. What in the heck is going on? It sounds like something is teetering on the brink and if it falls it’ll take the financial markets with it.
@Saucy&Sassy — here’s a good article on the instability of British government bonds, known as gilts, that could trigger a terrible economic meltdown: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/13/bank-of-england-competence-mini-budget
I think something is wrong with me . Lol. Kaiser, I totally read that as chuck and his lightweight lazy hair . Lol.
“kingly pen tantrums” 😂
That header photo is hilarious!
The Windsor genes seems to include a short window of being relatively attractive for a period of time, before morphing into true Windsor face…
I think Charles is OK with William’s embiggening. William is more popular than Charles, so letting William appear to be Charles’ right hand helps both of them. Plus, Charles seems intent on ostracizing his mixed race family members, and made comments admitting they’ll likely lose commonwealth countries. So if Charles wants to double down on his core (white, conservative) support, then William and Kate are good mascots for that
The Sussexes left the UK. They were not ostracized.
I see a lot of hanoverian and Windsor features on william
As far as William’s face looking kind of swollen goes, I think he’s just put on weight. He’s not overweight or anything, and being tall he can carry a few extra pounds without it being that noticeable. But at forty he is probably 20-25 pounds heavier than he was in his 20s, and some of that goes to his face.
Being bald doesn’t help.
The terrible twosome ….