Prince William doesn’t really care about this whole “Church of England” thing, and according to royal biographers, William is “embarrassed” by any religious faith. While agnosticism is certainly nothing new, it’s extremely noteworthy that such agnosticism is found in the heir to the British throne, the man who will one day be the “keeper of the faith” and the head of the Church of England. It’s also notable because Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles were/are very religious. Charles is more of an intellectual student of religion and he has always been deeply committed to interfaith dialogue, whereas QEII was simply a very faithful Anglican. What’s also striking is that William is usually too lazy to even go through the motions of church-going and celebrations of Christian holidays. So, William and Kate must have known that it wasn’t a good look for them to skip Easter with the rest of the Windsors, so they made a point of going to church in Sandringham… with the Middletons. But there were no photos??
The Prince and Princess of Wales skipped the annual Easter Sunday church service in Windsor in favour of a quiet celebration with their immediate family.
Prince William and Princess Kate, joined by their children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, were spotted attending the 11 am service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham on Sunday instead, which is close to their country home, Anmer Hall.
The royal couple were also joined by Kate’s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, for their low-key family weekend of private festivities.
An eyewitness revealed that Kate was dressed in a long camel coat and a trilby brown hat, while William sported a dark suit.
The vicar, Canon Paul Williams, was spotted handing the royal family wrapped hot cross buns on their way out.
Despite a large crowd of well-wishers eagerly gathering outside the church, they were unable to catch sight of the royal family, who left via the back entrance.
Nothing says “no really, we went to church” like zero photos and leaving by the church’s back entrance like you’re leaving a nightclub at 3 am. This is reminiscent of all of those random “Kate sightings” last year during her strange disappearance. People swore up and down that they saw Kate at her kids’ sporting events and running out to chocolate shops and no one ever thought to take photos whatsoever. Granted, I’m sure there wasn’t a big crowd gathered at Sandringham for Easter like they gather for Christmas, but still – I’m sure some people were there with cameraphones. And no one thought to take a photo?
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- The Princess of Wales speaks to members of the public following the Christmas Day morning church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince of Wales, Prince Louis, Prince George, the Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte following the Christmas Day morning church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Princess Charlotte, Prince George, William Prince of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Prince Louis, Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: William Prince of Wales, Prince Louis, Prince George, Catherine Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the British Royal Family attend a Christmas service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of The Royal Family, led by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, attend the morning service at St. Mary Magdalene Church on the Sandringham estate on Christmas Day. Featuring: Queen Camilla, William Prince of Wales, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Louis, Prince George, Princess Charlotte Where: Sandringham, United Kingdom When: 25 Dec 2024 Credit: John Rainford/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK**
I read that headline as the Wales saying “you think we skipped Easter services? Well, Hell-o! We actually went with the Middletons. Ha ha”
I don’t wanna be a chicken
I don’t wanna be a duck
I just wanna shake my butt,butt,butt
No photos hmm…. Not even an over produced video hmm…. These two if they want you to see their “happy family” act will allow photos or video so I’m not buying this we went to church crap.
They would have to do some photomontage again and they know that they would be exposed.:))
Hold up-the Vicar is handing out hot cross buns???? I’m in the wrong country!!
Nah. I lean towards this just not being true.
Same, the fact that an unnamed ‘eyewitness’ has details but the people who were outside saw nothing says it all. The phrasing also doesn’t explicitly say that they also went in via the back entrance but the fact that the people outside “were unable to catch sight of the royal family” suggests they weren’t seen entering or leaving.
I dont think this is true either – pictures or it didnt happen.
But I do think this is an example of KP mismanaging its own PR again. It looks bad that they skipped church on easter sunday. Someone realized that – okay. but it ALSO looks bad that they went to church with the middletons and just couldn’t be bothered to go with the royal family, including the king battling cancer. It looks bad that they demanded a home in Windsor that they treat as housing for school and nothing more. It looks bad that they were skiing in france, took multiple helicopters and private jets to attend soccer matches and for Kate to shop (presumably) in London and then are going to take the helicopter back to Windsor in time for school.
Their PR is a disaster and the press is starting to crack, however slightly.
There’s zero chance that this happened and absolutely not one person got even a single blurry photo. Give me a break.
Whatever beef is going on between Charles and William has flared up again.
The media is okay creating fan fiction of the royals for financial gain. Many people are okay reading fan fiction of the royals for entertainment 🤷🏽♀️. Win win situation, mutually beneficial arrangement… 🙄
Most hilarious bit for me: the report of them sneaking out the back while the vicar is shoving emergency rations of hot cross buns into their hands to sustain them on their flight from the church away from the “adoring crowds”.
Really, Huesa? Really?
I thought she was all about the happy homemaker life now? Trying to compete with Megs in the Great British Royal Bakeoff in her head.
So why is the VICAR doling out hot cross buns and not the other way around?
Once again KP, you folks need to pick your lies/narratives and then stick with the ones you’ve chosen to run to press with. Driving over your own palace narratives is making y’all look like complete arses.
I’m not Christian but I grew up in neighbourhoods where everything revolved around the church, and I have never heard of a vicar giving out hot cross buns before. Wtf?
And how is it that the vicar is at the back door sending off the Cambridges (I refuse to think of them as the Waleses) with hot cross buns AND saying goodbye to parishioners at the front door? Or was his second in charge at the front? Or were people just wandering out the front by themselves?
@Samuel, I was raised Christian and have never heard of anything like this either, because it’s BS. It’s almost funny how pathetic this story is.
The hot cross buns detail is hysterical! What is wrong with these people?
Either it never happened or there were no “well-wishers” outside the church all excited. What was keeping the “well-wishers” from entering the church? And where did this crowd come from when they didn’t publicize their appearance? Does the COE exclude the commoners whenever a royal is attending or it’s invite only? If it happened nobody was all that excited to see them. I can buy that.
And at least one pap would have been there, on the chance that they showed up.
These two love to lie.
The do. Even if there were photos it would be hard to believe due to their love of photoshop. You can’t trust them.
There’s no point to this article other than as cleanup because of pushback. Regardless of how religious people may actually be, it’s pretty well known that people who wouldn’t even consider themselves religious probably will go to church on Easter and Christmas and probably expect the same out of the person that’s going to be the head of the church at some point. It’s not about his personal feelings or religion or how devout he actually is, but the expectations of the role that he is in and is compensated for.
If they didn’t go to Windsor because they wanted to spend time together as a family, even though they’ve been together the entire Easter holiday supposedly, why did they have to insist that they went to church? I thought that the King was okay with them not coming, so why write an article about how they totally went to church it’s just that no one saw them, and of course there were tons of people there waiting to see them because they’re so popular and everyone loves them, none of those people though took photos because none of them have phones I suppose in 2025.
People are noticing on twitter that as per this morning the Wales’s had posted nothing about easter or the pope.
they’re too busy trying to make ducks pay attention to them for a video.
They are busy. They don’t know which still from the frolicking in the woods video they can use for Louis’s birthday tomorrow. Or they went hunting for ducks. Who knows except they’re too busy.
Brilliant.
LMAO!
LOL. Did the “eyewitness” see the Easter Bunny too?
@Caitlin 😂😂
The church’s Instagram account said the church was closed to the public on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. So it may be true.
Some churches that are visited by tourists close to the public for important holidays. Doesn’t mean that Peg and Can’t attended.
That usually just means its only open for services. Like Westminster abbey closes to the public a certain amount of time before services.
It wouldnt have any bearing on the Wales attending.
I don’t see them, so I don’t believe them.
I think the story could be true simply because there were no pictures of Harry visiting QEII yet he was spotted by tourists and the RR went into meltdown. However, I also believe this is the Heir trying to behave like the spare. This is William thinking if Harry doesn’t have to pose for photos or let the press know where he is then neither will I. IMHO it’s finally dawned on the heir that being the spare isn’t such a bad thing after all. William for all his protests and denials knows Harry was speaking the truth when he said William and KCIII are trapped.
Regardless of whether William felt forced to make an appearance at the church or this is a made up story to save face, Harry’s point is still valid. As the next leader of the faith William could not get away with ignoring what many believe is the most important day in the Christian calendar. Whereas the spare is happily filming his wife and their ducks and celebrating Easter with his family in the privacy of their home. Every single day that passes William is reminded that the best thing he ever did for his brother was to chase him and his wife out of the country.
Could it be true? Maaaaybe. But the Wales are so squirrelly with fake photos and stories about visits to chocolate shops that it makes sense that most people are skeptical. So it almost doesn’t matter if they were really there or not bc so many simply won’t believe it. But I think you’re right about William’s competition with Harry. He’s likely thinking, if Harry doesn’t have to be photographed all the time then why should I?
Don’t agree that Will actually went to church, but the rest, yup.
They gaslight over everything. He has all the worst qualities.
This entire story seems to be sourced from one “lawyer” on Twitter who “saw them”.
I also noticed the pro-Kate bots were out in force on the weekend talking about her grace and how she’s loved all over the world or whatever. Same language on all tweets with photos and video of her. Super weird.
Anyways, I think it’s probably all fake and wouldn’t be surprised if they were actually somewhere else completely.
Damage control. Comments were not kind in the DF.
Not sure I believe they went to church. So all the Wales AND the Middletons used the back entrance and not even a single picture? Sure. Harry Potter would like to get his invisibility cloak back.
I think they might have gone, and been very bad tempered about it. Perhaps Bullyiam whizzed up in a helicopter, in a terrible mood because he had to yank Waity and family to church because the optics looked so bad. Waity and the Midds rushed to get out the door (no time for primping and wiglet choosing) hence the back door at church. Bullyiam pissed, both Us and UK version, and gritting his teeth about the peasants being uppity if he didn’t attend. Out the back door of the church, and five minutes later he’s back in a helicopter to trim rose bushes somewhere.
I saw a deranger post a photo from the DM of two range rovers parked outside the church purporting to belong to William and Kate. Why are they leaving through the back entrance, aren’t royals supposed to be always willing to meet the public and have no right to privacy?
Who cares about if they went to church “privately” or not? If they aren’t religious, that’s a personal choice. However, Will has a symbolic role and a responsibility to represent the COE for the public. So he should be seen. He can even be truthful, and say, he isn’t a believer like QE2 was or his father is, but respects his future role and that’s why he’s out there. It’s not that hard.
How did the writer know the vicar gifted them bread if no one saw them leave via the back door.? Where was your camera ; if you saw them leave where is the evidence? Liars need to get the their made up facts straight.
KKKate and CarolE are camera wh*res. No way they wouldn’t have preened for the cameras if they were actually at church.
Agree. I can see William opting out of a photo but not “catch my best angle” Kate .
A trilby? On Easter? I don’t think so.
But it’s Kate we’re talking about here!
@Jane – A brown trilby hat and a camel coat are hardly appropriate colours for late April. I thought Kate was supposed to be fashion-conscious? The weather has been very sunny and warm in the UK recently too. Her choice of attire for this Easter church service sounds rather odd to me.
This reminds me of the way their attendance at James Middleton’s wedding in France with super precise clothing descriptions but somehow not one photo of them at all.
@Nic there was not one single photo of William at that wedding, even in shots of the crowd where you could see some of the other Middletons. I’ve never believed he was there.
It just…didn’t happen. Maybe it was Fake William and Flowershop Kate?
If it was Fake Kate, we would have gotten photos or a video. They’re not going to go to all of that trouble for no reason!
Simple damage control..
It seems that they hate being in the royal family after seeing how H&M and how free they are and are wildly jealous and resentful of them having the life they covet. I’d feel sorry for them if they weren’t sucking $$$ from taxpayers for contributing absolutely nothing!! Maybe dive into charity like Diana did in her misery. Right now they are just freeloaders!
So, no articles with the headline, “we pay, you pose”? I guess, it only applies to the biracial duchess who wasn’t even receiving millions from taxpayer purse.
Totally unbelievable, but the detail about the hot-cross buns is really ludicrous.
Especially because hot cross buns are traditionally eaten on Good Friday.
So the vicar was plying with them with left-over hot cross buns LOL?
(Ooops, should have read further down — others also are pointing this out.)
This reminds me of Willie jogging through Central Park stories.
Not one person took a photo of the vain Lazy one and her social climbing family?
Right…pull the other leg.
Was he trying to copy JFK jr jogging through Central Park. He’s not a patch on him
Lmao I’d forgotten about the William-in-Central-Park fan fiction. That was hilarious. Good times.
I had to double check because hot cross buns were not a part of my faith traditions as a child, and no pastor ever handed out baked goods after Easter services at any of those (and I went every single year without fail till I was 30). Hot cross buns are for Good Friday. That weird little detail includes a lot of lies and gives the made up game away.
💯 My Scottish aunt always bakes hot cross buns for Good Friday – sweet buns with a cross on them. They are placed in a basket under a cloth at the exit of the church on Good Friday to take away. I believe the story about the buns, but I don’t believe anything else.
They’re for Good Friday. They must have been a bit stale by Easter Sunday. Enjoy, Bulliam and Khate!
At least they can’t complain that they didn’t get any Easter gifts at all!
I said it before and I’ll say it again: church walks are the most intimate of their public appearances as a family.
The crowd is right up close, no way to hide that the kids are sad and stressed, Billy Idle is perpetually angry, and Katey Keen is so desperate for public affection that she trawls the crowd for love and flirts with handsome strangers.
I think they’re avoiding the situations they can’t stage or fake, because they’re trying to sell the idea that they’re a happy family and it’s an outright lie.
Media strategies have to evolve over time. The era of blantantly lying 🤥 to cover up egregious behavior should be over. This is not 1980. More or less every adult has a smartphone and can instantly take videos/pictures. Evidence would exist of this appearance if it happened. Willy got criticized so he lied and planted this story and several negative hit pieces on Meghan as extra insurance against criticism. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Also. The Middleton’s are gross and associating with them isn’t a good look. Mamma coached her lazy, dull daughter as a mattress to marry a violent bully with money and a prestigious title. Keen has none of the personal attributes or abilities to be a good queen. She could have been a trophy wife to any rich man without the expectations of being a future queen and not married to a rage monster like willy. The fallout from Party Pieces collapse should have made the Middleton’s social pariahs that no one ever had to hear about again.
I second every word that you’ve written. Every word.
Do people beyond the rota and geriatric royalist really care if they see these two ever? (I would say photo or it didn’t happen but with these two the photo is usually manipulated and deceptive)
Huh. Per People Magazine, Kate has only attended Easter services with the royal family five times over the course of her 14-year marriage.
Neither she nor the rest of the midds attended Easter or Christmas services before 2010. They only started after that to do their pap strolls on these two days.
They’re probably on holidays somewhere that is not in the UK again lol. I wonder if William will interrupted this latest holiday to go to the pope’s funeral or if they’ll have to send Edward and Sophie to represent the royal family.
@Lau – According to the British TV news today, KCIII is sending William (with no mention of Kate) to the Pope’s funeral. I’m sure William will be thrilled – not!
Did the DM think to call the Vicar and ask straight out, “did you see the Wales on Easter?”
Must maintain deniability, darling.