King Charles was outside on Thursday – he toured Apple’s UK headquarters with Tim Cook, and he toured the Curated Makers Christmas Market. Both events were associated with the King’s Trust (formerly the Prince’s Trust), which has offered support to various entrepreneurs who were involved with the Christmas Market. Charles always manages to look genuinely delighted whenever he’s in markets, shops or grocery stores. He always manages to look mildly horrified whenever they make him do photo-ops with computers or anything tech-related too.
Anyway, Charles is preparing for Christmas and trying to make his Christmas-hosting sound much bigger and better than his late mother’s Christmas hosting. Per usual, Charles will celebrate Christmas in Sandringham with his family. Reportedly, it’s supposed to be a larger gathering than usual, and Charles and Camilla have both made a point of asking their families to come to Norfolk for the holiday. Tom Parker Bowles spoke about it extensively in an interview with the Telegraph last weekend – Tom usually spends Christmas Day at his ex-wife’s house, with their two kids. This year, Camilla asked Tom and his kids to come to Sandringham. I assume Camilla’s daughter Laura will also be there. Obviously, Charles did not not invite both of HIS kids to Christmas. We heard that weeks ago, that the Sussexes did not receive an invitation to Sandringham. But someone wanted it emphasized, so Richard Eden got a call.
The King is determined to make this Christmas a big celebration for the extended Royal Family. Indeed, Prince William told families at a Christmas event for the 1st Battalion Mercian Regiment in Wiltshire this week that he was looking forward to spending it with 45 relatives ‘all in one room’!
Among those present for the first time will be the King’s stepson, Tom Parker Bowles, who revealed last weekend that he would be taking his two children to the royal retreat in Norfolk.
Despite the profound significance of this year’s celebrations, and the King and Queen’s intimations of mortality, there will be four conspicuous absences at the Christmas dinner table. While the King’s stepson will be there – the first time a monarch’s stepchild has ever stayed at Sandringham – his younger son will not.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, will instead be in California. Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, is likely to be the only member of either family to join them as they carve their turkey.
I am told that it is unlikely Prince Harry and his family were even invited to Sandringham this year.
‘Relations between Harry and his family are not sufficiently close for an invitation to be sent,’ a royal source tells me. ‘It’s very sad that things are that bad. We know that Harry wants to mend fences, but there is an awfully long way to go.’
“Relations between Harry and his family are not sufficiently close for an invitation to be sent… We know that Harry wants to mend fences, but there is an awfully long way to go.” First off, the way it’s worded, they’re assuming that Harry was desperate for an invitation, but they can’t say that Harry requested an invitation (because he would deny that lie swiftly) or that he offered to come (again, he could deny that lie). It’s more likely that Harry and Meghan sent Christmas cards or holiday messages to Charles and then began planning their Christmas feast in Montecito. The fact that Buckingham Palace keeps pursuing this storyline – Desperate Harry Wants Reconciliation, Only To Be Brutally Snubbed By Charles – says more about Charles than Harry. It’s also a confession that all of this “big family gathering at Sandringham” PR is just another storyline for an audience of one: Prince Harry. “Look at us, Harry, we’re enjoying Christmas without YOU, aren’t you jealous?!?!” Psychotic.
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- King Charles III arrives to visit to the Curated Makers Christmas Market inside Battersea Power Station in London, where he will meet traders, some of whom are young entrepreneurs supported by the King’s Trust’s Enterprise programme. Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III meets traders, some of whom are young entrepreneurs supported by the King’s Trust’s Enterprise programme, during a visit to the Curated Makers Christmas Market inside Battersea Power Station Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook meet people from the King’s Trust who are being supported by Apple, during a tour the firm’s UK Headquarters at Battersea Power Station Featuring: King Charles III, Tim Cook Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook meet people from the King’s Trust who are being supported by Apple, during a tour the firm’s UK Headquarters at Battersea Power Station Featuring: King Charles III, Tim Cook Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III and chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, meet staff and young people from the King’s Trust who are being supported by Apple, during a tour the firm’s UK Headquarters at Battersea Power Station Featuring: King Charles III Where: London, United Kingdom When: 12 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
How does it work? How many of the 45 people invited stay overnight at sandringham or are some of them just invited for the day. The wales still stay at anmer I assume? but for the rest of the guests do they stay overnight or in outhouses or do they have to travel a long distance just for lunch bc they’re not offered a place to stay. It’s the logistics I’m curious about.
Oh Jais!
Outhouses!
That’s where the monarchy belongs, flushed down the toilet of history.
That said: good to know that King Fat Fingers Tampon III is closer to step-grandchildren than to his own younger son. Hope he will now stop complaining that he doesn’t know Archie and Lili.
While we all know that the relationship with the Sussexes is irretrievably damaged because of assorted royal racists, spreading this via the gutter tabloids is not the best idea the Left-Behinds have had recently.
I mean they’re probably fancy outhouses😂? Wasn’t that picture of ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein on the porch of one of the outhouses at sandrigham or something like that? Imagine staying in the same one as them😬
I don’t think Charles sees all that much of the Wales children either except he probably spends more time with George
When the queen was alive, guests arrived before tea was served on Christmas Eve at 4 PM. Guests stayed until 27th. On Boxing Day, they go hunting and have a lunch outdoors, usually a stuffed boar head.
The link below tells the details. It’s the interview of the cook who was at Sandringham for over 15 years.
https://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/post/the-traditional-royal-christmas-at-sandringham-norfolk
Thanks! Fascinating. They start early with those pre-lunch drinks.
As a vegan I’d starve!
He left out the bit about the formal Christmas Eve dinner, with the gentleman in black tie and the women in gowns.
So Charles needs 45 people just to make 1 person jealous 🤣🤣🤣 do don’t say 😀
The way the British press make the royal family look like a third rate clown circus. Or should I say, pull the curtain back on a petty, uncaring, malicious family?
An outhouse = an oldfashioned outdoor toilet 🧻🧻🧻
These people are pathetic.
“Sufficiently close” means “wearing a leash.”
Or “close” as in Royal boot on Harry’s neck.
Because bigger is, of course, better. (s) You would think that Charles was the one who met with Trump from this sort of attitude. Better would be actually exhibiting a Christmas spirit by the leader of the Church of England and apologizing for misdeeds and making peace with his family. That is also good advice for someone facing their own mortality. (Which is everyone basically since you never know.)
That would mean Charles admitting that he was a fallible human being not the God-anointed British Monarch which implies infallibility and superiority over all. Charles is not enlightened enough to see or accept the truth that his life and light are fading fast and that he has lots to make amends for if he is as “spiritual” as he says he is! I think Harry knows this and is fine with living his life without the approval and support that he really never had from his sperm donor. It was considered normal that Harry was to be the abused and neglected “spare”, after all.
With the Royal Family everything is the opposite. I don’t believe Harry is desperate to spend Christmas at Sandringham. It’s more like the press is desperate for him and his family to be there. I’ve said it before but I really think Harry had moved on and he’s no longer interested in a reconciliation.
“Relations between Harry and his family are not sufficiently close for an invitation to be sent,’ a royal source tells me.”
What an idiotic statement !
It hit me as so sad that a father would say such a thing.
Charles didn’t say it, a random source did.
I believe that is straight from the horse’s mouth.
Somebody said it to please the editor so it could be printed and the newspaper can’t be sued.
It’s a cruel statement and chucky is a horrible human being.. I hope their Christmas is filled with bland food and greedy relatives only there for a paycheck. Because let’s face it, if Chuck didn’t hold the purse strings absolutely no one would be joining him for Christmas or any holiday.
That’s what I thought as well, better to take the whole article with a pinch of salt. the DM is famous for being economical with the truth.
Chuck really thinks this sort of statement, this choice to snub the Sussexes yet again, makes him look powerful? Does he think he has the upper hand now?
If so, he’s absolutely delusional.
Clearly Chuck is openly panicking about Harry’s upcoming day in court. Harry is pursuing his case to pop the lid off, publicly, on the abuse carried out by the press. Abuse that had its origins with Chucky and Sidepiece Seabiscuit.
Chuck’s dedication to the ongoing announcements of exclusionary behaviour is not just a bad look, it’s emblematic of a man who has lived his whole life thoroughly eaten up with jealousy of others.
Every single time the royalist press gleefully declares Chuck has “punished Harry” for existing, they shrink Chuck even more. Harry is never diminished in these reports; only Chuck is.
The press who purports to support the King of England has only succeeded in absolutely submarining him with this gambit; showcasing the worst aspects of his character, rendering him an object of ridicule, despised nationally and internationally. They show him daily to be illiberal, venal, petty, capricious, and utterly childish. Not qualities wanted or needed in a leader, a head of state.
Which really makes one wonder, if we already know Chuck to be a terrible human being from just his press allies, what is he actually afraid of coming out during the trial? What could be worse than what we already know about this terrible, miniscule man?
Every Christmas is last Christmas (Doctor Who). No one knows what is going to happen. These embiggening stories are really belittling and not knowing the difference makes Charles and Willy look foolish.
Harry and Meghan’s Christmas sounds much more relaxed and normal than a royal Christmas. I know which I would prefer. Who wants to spends Christmas Day with over 40 people in a formal setting?
If Meghan is cooking, you know the food will be 100% superior to anything flung out of the Royal kitchens.
Let Camilla enjoy her flavorless blancmanges, and beans on toast with a side of gin; Meghan and Harry and the Montecito clan prefer food with actual seasoning…
Will tom s girlfriend get an invite. Eden is really hung up on this event
How does he know who the sussexes will invite
I know who I’d rather spend Christmas with. Harry continues to miss out on absolutely nothing. He’s found his peace and it’s past time the Windsor klan found theirs.
And Charles doesn’t know two of his grandchildren enough to invite them. What a foolish man.
Harry probably doesn’t want to go and UpChuck probably doesn’t want him. So that’s fine and squared away.
It the messaging. KC has supposedly been reaching out to H&M this year and been rebuffed, or somesuch nonsense. Dear boy, happy grandfather, family man, etc. You don’t appear magnanimous by denying your own son an invitation if you’ve been emphasizing how you simply pine for his return. Not yhat I think KC does, but he might want to work on his message.
I have a feeling that this Sandringham Christmas is a bore and stuffy – probably for the younger royals. I am thinking that Wills is secretly jealous that Harry is off the hook because he’d rather be tippling egg nog and playing in the “snow” … whereas Harry can go to the beach and not have to wear a proper dinner suit.
Well at least TPB will be there so they can have the good drugs. Lol
100%
For years before Meghan it was all about how Will & Kate hated Sandringham Christmas and they split years with the Middletons and even brought the Middletons to Anmer to scoot back after royal obligations and have a “real” and “relaxed” Christmas.
I have no doubt Will is annoyed Harry got away from it all and now he has to go and parade in front of the cameras.
Actually, William doesn’t have to go either, but I guess he’s too stupid to realize that. If WanK and the Wales kids ditched the church walk and the lunch, I hardly think Chuckles will dispatch guards to Anmer and drag them back to Sandringham. I dare you William, grow some guts and skip it. Turn your Christmas into “me time”.
TPB & children, sister Laura Lopes with her whole family & Camzilla’s sister, Anabel will all be there. I’m starting to think there could be almost as many PB family members and extended family members there as House Windsor
Probably her sisters children will go and toms girlfriend in addition. Camilla s ex husband too.
Maybe they know it’s among the last, if not the last, they will get to spend with her. But anyhoo, yes went back and checked – it is the entire PB kabal
I’m watching Outlander for the 1st time so apologies for blasphemy … but …
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ 🫠
Actually seeing all Camilla’s family there and his children dining with the servants might just give him the kick up the backside he needs to realise that his brother is more important than the family of the woman who helped to kill his mum’s marriage. Not that it was ever going to succeed with that “Whatever love is.”
Ff—k sake. This has to be the stupidest thing to come out of Edens mouth. Harry is and always will be Charles’s youngest son.l know Charles seem to forget that now they once had a good relationship. But he would rather invite relative strangers than his own son and daughter in law. The prize of the worst father and grandfather goes to Charles. NOT MY KING.
I wonder if Beckham will get an invite.
More like a summons.
Good for them. Merry Away amongst the other miserables. As if Harry would consider bringing his family into the Sandringham snakepit…PLEASE!!
Btw – Charles looks like crap.
What kind of a weird family has to invite each other or be “invited “. It’s stupid.
The Parker Bowles clan showing up at Sandringham? Are Camilla’s kids and grandkids going to do the church walk? Camilla is going to make sure her children and grandchildren are recognized and there is nothing William and Kate can do about it. They and the Wales kids are going to have to show the public they get along with Camilla’s family to keep the press happy. The Sussexes dogged a bullet; they will have a truly happy Christmas..
I don’t think it will be much longer that Tom gets a title and there is a ceremony involving him.
I would be surprised if the PB clan didn’t do the Christmas walk. And why shouldn’t they? I’m not a fan of Camilla for obv reasons but she’s the queen so she should just go all out and get her kids all the perks while she can. Bc eventually it might be the Midds doing the church walk and the PB will be cast aside.
Charles can ensure they will all be secure. I am not sure the Middletons will have that much power down the road. Time will tell.
“there will be four conspicuous absences at the Christmas dinner table.” Doesn’t Eden know that the children don’t dine with the adults, they dine with the servants. Perhaps Harry would rather dine with his wife and children than a bad tempered brother.
Eden sure likes to stir up drama. How does he know that others will not attend.
Yes, It must pay well.
How many “articles” on this subject have we been treated to and how many more can we look forward to? Yikes, BRF – give it a rest! Who actually gives a f**k?
I wonder sometimes when I read articles like this, meant to convey Charles doesn’t care for his own flesh and blood, and William “fucking hates his brother” if they truly understand what this looks like to people outside their safety cocoon. How bad it looks for them, that the leader of a country, a man supposedly the head of a church, forgiveness for an action he himself took, and was forgiven, he denies to his son.
This 💯
I am trying to understand their target audience for this kind of info and exactly what kind of person they want to portray Charles as….
This. Chuck and Will look like petty toddlers.
Personally I think that they’ve invited the Sussexes and they politely decline (as they have the right to do) and Charles being his usual bullying self couldn’t help but turn the situation into him not inviting his son to Christmas. He probably thinks that it makes him look so good.
Yeah, I can see them declining. This is the first Christmas that Lilibet will be aware of what’s really going on. Her and Archie will probably have a blast opening up their presents. Meghan said they are establishing their own traditions. Why ruin it to be around people that really don’t want you there.
Totally understandable that they do not want to back to the side of the family who bullies them the rest of the year. Charles really needs to stop behaving like a moody teenager.
The Royal Family: They’re just like us!
Someone on a royal gossip board pointed out that Tom Parker Bowles is Camilla/Charles’ mouthpiece while Mike Tindall is William’s…
Are these seriously the best these people can do?!!!! You’re ROYAL. You’re SPECIAL. And yet you use those two giant ZEROS as your representatives to the masses?!
They’re just the official boot-lickers! Their only job is to promote their immoral, hypocritical ‘betters’! In exchange they get ‘favours’ (like meaningless decorations) for ‘services to the King/POW’.
I sometimes wonder if Charles regrets being in bed with the Royal Rota .
Now they just make up stories and there is nothing he can do to control it .
So many secrets to be kept hidden, what an awful way to live .
The UK media is never going to let this Christmas narrative go even when Charles dies. They haven’t spent a holiday with that family since 2018 & his family still won’t let it go.
Only Richard Eden could make “as they carve their turkey” sound dirty.
My personal take on this is that it’s more about Eden? He has space (online and in print) that he needs to fill and has no actual news so he’s making stuff up, hence the use of “information” from a “royal source”. Eden knows nothing but he likes to portray himself as the one, the only one, with the inside gossip from the royals plus, and more importantly, the free kibble from his dear mate James doesn’t pay the mortgage.
That sounds closer to reality than the stories he produces.
So Charles is a divisive bitch. What else is new? He’s also a racist, a thief and a murderer in my opinion, so I wouldn’t give two cents for what he thinks. His legacy and what people will remember is how he treated Diana, Harry, Megan, Archie and Lilibet. Dogshit husband, father, father-in-law and grandfather. And that is all.