The Duchess of Cornwall is not only a professional fart-sniffer and fart-gossiper. She’s also one of the few full-time working royals left. So this 74 year old woman was sent out on Armistice Day – aka Remembrance Day – to do some wreath-laying and veteran glad-handing. Camilla actually likes a lot of those old dudes so she was fine with it. But I found it interesting that Camilla was truly the only royal out on Thursday to do any Remembrance events. Usually, there would have been a few more appearances by a few additional royals. What were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge up to that they couldn’t do some wreath duties? Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Queen will do the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph. But that’s all!
The Queen will attend the annual Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph on Sunday after Prince Charles insisted today that his mother was ‘all right’. As the heir to the throne was mobbed by excited well-wishers outside a NatWest bank branch in South London, the Queen continues to rest at Windsor Castle. The 72-year-old Prince of Wales was given a very warm welcome by people gathered on a street in Brixton, and a man asked him: ‘Prince Charles, how is your mother?’ Charles replied: ‘She’s, she’s all right thank you.’
Despite earlier health concerns, the Palace has confirmed the Queen will attend the annual Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph on Sunday, November 14. Her Majesty will view the Service from the balcony of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office building.
Mindful of her doctors’ recent advice, The Queen will not attend the General Synod Service and Opening Session on Tuesday, November 16. Instead, The Earl of Wessex will be there to represent the Royals.
It comes as Clarence House confirmed that Charles and his wife Camilla will lead members of the Royal Family at the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Saturday night – but the Queen will not attend. Other royals attending are Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra.
So this means that William and Kate will put in appearances at the Festival of Remembrance on Saturday, and then the Cenotaph event on Sunday. Which means that William did one event during the work week and Kate did one event during the work week and that was all they did since the COP26 conference. Imagine being that lazy. In their keen defense though, you know they’re both scared to death that if they belch or fart in front of Camilla, she’ll tell the world. (Update: I wrote this before the Cambridges’ published a Remembrance video with Kate, but the point still stands: Camilla was the only royal to do a public event for Remembrance Day.)
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
I’m crying at the title of this post, lmao.
Is this the what the future of the slim downed Monarchy looks like when Charles becomes king?
@ Cessily, unfortunately for Chaz, he hasn’t needed to slim it down, as the Lambridges have done the work for them!! It’s rather insulting that only Camilla was present. I guess a two minute video was just too much for Mumbles, and PWT is hiding from his wife.
I will say that Camillas choice of clothing here looks smart! She certainly knows how to dress for the occasion, compared to some one we know.
The Countess of Wessex and the Gloucesters attended events as well. He’d be an idiot if he don’t keep the Wessexes on as working royals. There’s a limit to how long TQ’s cousins can hold down the fort. For instance 84 y.o (85 next month) Princess Alexandra had 9 engagements in october. What was Keens’ number? The nearly 85 y.o with polymyalgia rheumatica seems to be doing more than the FFQ.
I always like Princess Alexandra… thanks for mentioning her.
Charles at least did a public event, but there remains no reason for William and kate to have skipped out on any public engagements for Remembrance Day. None.
William is so incredibly lazy, it is almost beyond belief. What a freeloading asshole. Jfc.
He’s still stinging from the spanking he got at COP26. His ego can’t handle the scrutiny. I also think he’s mad that earthshit failed to elevate him. But maybe, just maybe, he is sporting a black eye or some other bruise that can’t be hidden.
@Nic919: I said on an earlier post but I don’t think William has any affinity for the military so that’s why he does very few engagements with them. He tried to claim Invictus as his own in the beginning but Harry took it out of the Royal Foundation.
I think he’s jealous that Harry actually got to serve in the military and William was held back.
Although he was allowed to fly that helicopter. And if I remember correctly, he dedicated himself to it and really threw himself into the service of others. (Sarcasm in case it’s needed)
According to his schedule, William doesn’t have an affinity for anything at all.
I highly doubt that lazy, self-centered William is at all jealous that Harry actually got to serve.
Then he is truy very stupid. The armed forces are their power base. He truly will rely upon them for his reign when it comes.
I’m sure there were calls to Jason during this week on how best to discredit Meghan that they’ll count as work.
All those meetings with Jason in the Court Circular have new meaning now. And kate is the one who listed those meetings the most.
“Camilla actually likes a lot of those old codgers” I’m reminded of an episode of The Windsor’s when Camilla visits a village up north, all the codgers loved her right back. Ah, I need to revisit that show.
The Duke of Gloucester was at an Armistice Day ceremony and Sophie Wessex went to another but that was about it. William and Kate should have done something. They could have invited some veterans for tea.
I think the Duchess of Gloucester was there as well.
Waity passed up an opportunity to wear all kinds of buttons? Hard to believe. I guess she is saving up her buttons for one be button extravaganza.
I can’t stand this woman. That will never change.
@ Detnow 359, I wholeheartly and totally agree !!!
I agree. I don’t like how she got where she is today.
When I was watching Meghan’s talk with the DealBook summit I thought “look at the stark differences. Here’s a woman who is eloquent in her speech, who does her research and is incredibly well-read, who interacts with everyone equally and lights up any room she walks into and on the other side you get jazz hands, the heir’s heir that’s nowhere (to be seen) and a the future Queen consort who can only attract headlines by gossiping about another leaders farts 🙄
(Also p.s. this is the event Camilla backed out of attending with Harry and Meghan in 2019 with her “cough cough I’m sick”)
@Layla: I never thought about it before but I don’t think Camilla was really sick in 2019. I think she backed out because she didn’t want to overshadowed by Meghan and Harry.
Someone on Twitter also pointed out that, since Charles wasn’t there, Camilla would’ve had to have walked behind Meghan and Harry if she had attended, since Harry holds higher rank in Charles’ absence as a blood prince.
Or she didn’t want to deal with one of Il Duce’s tantrums of how DARE she acknowledge Those People exist without screeching for the world to hear that they are the spawn of satan and the devil and the source of all evil in the world.
Camilla doesn’t strike me as so petty and jealous and short-sightedly stupid that she’d cancel something this big to avoid being overshadowed. She DOES strike me as the kind to cancel to avoid William screaming at her, or William siccing the press on her.
And heaven knows William is the kind to throw himself on the floor and flail and shriek in rage that someone else was in Harry and Meghan’s presence and not spewing forth bile…metaphorically speaking.
@Simone: You’re damn right, it’s all performative. The Royal Family don’t care about the military they just use them for popularity. I realized this when their Twitter account didn’t talk about Harry’s last few events with the military before he left and they were slow to respond to the Afghanistan pull out. The Queen never sent a message of gratitude or solidarity with UK Afghanistan vets.
Really, the #1 advantage the royals have is being old and dull. If they can just dodder along under the radar, attending expected events, wearing something fusty and not-quite stylish, making boring speeches to sleepy audiences, then people will forget that they’re actually paying for the RF. That’s the secret to a lasting monarchy, not modernization (whatever that means).
I wonder if the Queen is getting a bit “forgetful” and that is why they are keeping her under wraps. They may have to worry about her saying what she really thinks about all of them when she’s out in public.
Equality- it’s either cognitive issues, digestive issues, or balance/standing/walking issues. She is obviously healthy enough to travel and do videos. There’s something that specifically makes live public appearances a problem.
Right, the festival of remembrance shouldn’t be a hard thing for her to attend – she just needs to show up, shake a few hands, and then sit there for two hours and then she can be escorted directly to her car. It’s interesting that that’s considered too much for her, maybe they’re concerned it would make her too tired for sunday?
Probably doesn’t want to be seen NEEDING a walker instead of just a cane, which is “ok” for a “few” steps, but no real distance. It would make her appear (in her mind) feeble and fragile (and OLD).
When I think of Camilla, I think of Lady MacBeth: Act like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.
Merricat-So accurately true, that is why I dislike her.
Some like Diana saw right through her. And still see through her.
Looks like Kate’s got that act down pat, too.
Kaiser, your title has me in stitches.
Brits should be more concerned with the fact that they pay for the keenbridges and get no work in return and less about the American and her husband who take nothing from them.
I think the the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey is one of the last events Harry and Meghan did before they left for Canada. It is a patronage that Harry inherited from his grandfather shortly before he met Meghan, and I believe Harry supported this event for three or four years. That famous picture of Meghan in the blue fascinator and navy teddy bear coat is from this event. I don’t see William picking up any of Harry’s military patronages. There would be comparisons, so so speak.
The headline for this article is everything 🤣🤣
She really like this dress.
what is the deal with the Cambridges? Week after week they claim to be ‘stepping up’ because A the Sussex’s left and B Granny is sidelined, and week after week they are MIA. This seems more than entitled brats who feel they can go on vacation while the rest of the royals put in some effort.
are they on vacation?
Who can tell. Half the time I’m convinced they only occasionally announce ‘vacations’ where they actually go somewhere so that people don’t realize that upwards of 90% of their life is vacation. And heaven only knows what DOESN’T get reported.
I think this is exactly what the next monarchy will look like: Camilla pushed front and center as queen, and the Cambridges’ awkward videos shoved to the next day so as not to distract from Queen C. And we know, after Camilla blew off Eugenie’s wedding because 25 years ago Andrew tried to push out Charles, that Camilla holds a grudge. And when she gets the keys to the kingdom, she’s going to settle scores.
Eugenie is safe since she hasn’t ever been a “working” royal and H&M are out so let Cam do her worst.
Eugenie actually did a lot for COPD26 and she seems to be seeting herself up away from the royals. I think she realizes the monarchy is falling and she needs her own to be able to be independent. She sees how her dad has to rely on Charles’ whims and mummy’s love to get by. Fergie blows money like a fan and has probably emptied their trusts. Charles is going to have a hard time with the slim monarchy bc the only people doing anything are senior citizens
@Kfg I have been following Eugenie’s anti-plastic causes for some time. She just doesn’t get the attention her work deserves. It made me mad that the Queen could brag about Will and Charles and “carrying on Philip’s environmental causes” but doesn’t acknowledge any by those who aren’t “working” royals. Haters on Twitter wanted to make it about snubbing Harry and are too blind to see that she has ALWAYS given preference to the direct-in-line heirs and this involves snubbing other members of her family also. It’s warped.
I don’t think Camilla has that much power. She knows that William will be next and I don’t think William will be “nice” to her nor is there any love lost between Kate and Camilla She has to tread carefully . I don’t think Charles has changed that much and he would not want to be “upstaged” by Camilla.
“As the heir to the throne was mobbed by excited well-wishers outside a NatWest bank branch in South London“
I see the heir to the throne has served his tabloid overlords well for them to write this sugary fiction. The only time Charles got close to an excited mob was when Diana was with him.
Well, let’s not be TOO contrary. I’m sure there was the occasional excited mob when he was a child and teenager.
But they were probably there for his mother.
I would have said his sons but he was never with them.
They are all so smug and arrogant. They think so highly of themselves and they feel invisible because they have the media currently on their side. It’s disgusting!