The Princess of Wales was seen and photographed at Balmoral over the weekend. Prince William and Kate went to Crathie Kirk Church at Balmoral on Sunday, with William driving and Kate riding shotgun. William was in Aberdeen last week, so I guess he went from Aberdeen to Balmoral. I wonder if Kate took the kids for the weekend? The kids are back in school, so this was probably just a weekend trip specifically for the photo-op. And the senior royals probably had meetings and made some plans for what the hell they were going to do about Prince Harry’s work in New York this week too – trust that the left-behinds have hatched some scheme to try to impose themselves on Harry’s trip. It wouldn’t surprise me if they announced some new “private meeting” for Kate to try to grab some headlines, but it’s clear that Kate will no longer agree to being sent out to try to steal Harry’s thunder. Speaking of, the Express did a longer piece about how the timeline for “Kate can’t work” will extend into 2025. Naturally.
Sources have been keen to stress that the meeting about the Princess of Wales’s early years project this week does not signal a full-time resumption of duties – and that won’t come for some time. The road ahead still needs to be carefully navigated, as her recovery is expected to extend into the new year even though her treatment has stopped.
Over the coming weeks and months, Kate will work closely with her top team, namely her private secretary Tom White and assistant private secretary Natalie Burrows to meticulously plan her gradual return to public life. She is set to slowly ease herself back into work and has her sights set on attending some public engagements over the coming months.
Key events in the royal diary are set to be prioritised, including Remembrance Sunday on November 10, at which Kate is keen to support the King and the rest of the Royal Family. However, sources stressed that a final decision will only be made in the days before the event.
“Her physical and mental recovery will take some time, and although she wants to return to work she is mindful to prioritise her health, for her family’s sake as much as hers,” one said.
Mr Arbiter noted that the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall the night before could also be a possibility. The Princess is hopeful that she can attend her “Together at Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey in December and join the family for the traditional walkabout on Christmas Day.
The new year is set to follow a similar gradual return to royal duties, with aides mindful not to rush a resumption of a fuller diary. Some have suggested that the six-month mark – which would suggest March – is a likely timescale of when the public can expect to see Kate attending more day-to-day engagements.
One well-placed source said the couple haven’t ruled out rescheduling their visit to Rome, which was initially planned for spring 2024 but was postponed following the Princess’s cancer diagnosis, to a similar time next year.
Y’all already know what I think – I think negotiations were afoot for months and a deal was worked out. The sudden reemergence of Carole and Michael Middleton into society was part of the deal, as was Kate’s new schedule. All of the offices are on the same page though, except for Kate and William’s “cancer-free” video. That wasn’t part of Buckingham Palace’s script and BP was disgusted by it. But everything else is part of the plan, including the new timeline where Kate will still be barely seen through March. Ten bucks says that in January, we’ll be told that she still needs more recovery time and we shouldn’t expect to see her much until Trooping. And on and on. While I think Kate had legitimate health concerns/issues, there’s something else happening alongside those issues.
Kate Middleton pictured for the first time since she announced she has finished chemotherapy https://t.co/zM2u29fOdn pic.twitter.com/vsFKVPjIj4
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There are still people who care about her “work”? She is so useless that I don’t know why she isn’t left alone to raise her kids … W is the one who should work more
Her “work” is useless and she serves no point. She’s gonna resurface when the king will dead, thats whatKC is prepping now, his funerals, and of course she’s gonna take this opportunity for more vacation.
I don’t even think she will emerge then. The kids will be thrown into royal duties asap.
Honestly these “teasers” about when Huesa will ‘return to work’ are utterly ridiculous. Girlie doesn’t work. She hasn’t achieved a single thing of worth in all her years as a “working royal”… wiglet collecting, setting Botox injection records, and spray tanning herself to cosplay her royal SIL don’t qualify as achievements.
The British gutter press needs to face up to the fact that Huesa, and Huevo, are both about as useful as a pair of chocolate teapots.
People like WanK who spend their resources being petty, putting down their peers and punching down are not aspirational examples of leadership.
When it comes to actions? They ain’t royal.
Honestly, who even cares anymore about these meaningless, empty declarations about when Kate will “work” again? All of the royals, most especially some of them, are expensive, out-of-touch parasites. I don’t see how they have as much support as they still have from less privileged “regular” people.
She’s been gaslighting the public since 2011 about doing work after the media was briefed that she was the most prepared princess ever and that’s what the decade of waiting was about.
I agree. William is the one drawing money from the duchy of Lancaster. It doesn’t change whether she’s there or not. Same with royal protection, the taxpayer part. She’d get protection as his wife and the kids’ mom. And royal homes. It’s basically all on William. HE should be stepping it up, significantly, but won’t .
Curious as to whether there are similar articles about when William will return to his regular “work“ schedule.
Kate doesn’t like to work but she loves attention and photographers. I’m sure William refuses to let her come along on his celebrity bootlicking and junior intern statesman gigs because she can’t act right, so she’s very much hoping KP/BP will let her raid the jewel closet and buy some new buttons and dresses for her Christmas photoshoot “events”. Carole will keep scheming to keep her in the headlines so she can’t be dumped before being coronated.
You cannot buy class, this is totally evident with the midds. K has learned virtually nothing in 20 or so years , other than to spend more money on herself. She has made no effort to learn, she makes sure she knows where every camera lens is, so she can dominate every event, she has had huge amounts of plastic surgery over the years barely resembling what she used to look like.. She lost a lot of weight, she was average size for her height, not thin, her face has completed changed from very ordinary to fairly attractive, her teeth have gone from small to large. Her fashion sense for the most part is boring bland stepford or prairie wife style, she has no idea how to dress for her body shape, she cosplays the famous, very badly. Her behavior is questionable , still flashing her naked butt or crotch, or high slit in a dress, flowy dress for windy days, none of this is sexy, it is trashy and totally inappropriate. William at some stage realized how low class she is and how she wants and demands all the benefits but is unwilling to make any effort to learn anything productive. She wants titles, money and all the benefits, including multiple luxury holidays every year but is too self-centered and selfish to learn how to do the job or any type of job. She demands attention but she does not appear to support William as next in line and all that is involved in him becoming the next King. William does not need an extreme narcissist as a wife. Kate wants and demands to be the next Queen and does not care who or what she destroys to get the title. She refuses to do any of the work. She has never been a victim or a doormat , Kate does what she wants and when she wants. Stalking William like a predator for more than 10 years proves this, a very determined predator, she was never letting go.
I guess their subjects are happy with a wave here and there from their saint. How the subjects put up with this nonsense is beyond my comprehension.
Completely agree, Maxine. She’s so completely useless I can only shake my head at the continued willingness of the loyal subjects to pay for this RF fraudery. I can imagine there is a long, long list of better uses for the money they waste on these royal parasites.
“…a final decision will only be made in the days before the event.”
In other words, this is going to be another version of “will or won’t Harry show up”, because the left-behinds and the RR are officially out of ideas.
OK for those who don’t have to earn a living.
Giving big “Miss Gulch”/wicked witch vibes in that outfit.
I think she’s got to keep covering up that eyebrow/forehead scar with a low brimmed hat unless she’s getting major prosthetic-level makeup done. She’s gone through so many phases, the Jecca phase, the coatdress phase, the Meghan phase… I think we would all enjoy if the next is her Miss Gulch phase 🧙
I do suspect prosthetic makeup. Her face at Wimbledon was particularly different to the ‘other Kates’. This ‘recent Kate’ has a greater resemblance to her mother and doesn’t look at all like ‘Trooping Kate’.
That she looks so physically different each time suggests makeup rather than her face being made puffy from strong medicines.
@Interestedgawker I was thinking the other day that she’s recently started to look A LOT like Carole. I totally agree with you
Gosh she looks thrilled to be there .
She’ll want to be at Wimbledon to be center of attention.
Easter is April 20th – I’m betting on then.
I doubt it because wasn’t that what we were told about for this year? That, originally, she’d arise like Jesus at Easter? And she never did.
I don’t think she’s ever coming back but what’s puzzling to me is why they believe the best move is to keep shifting the goalposts. Why not just give no date? Why not just say nothing? And then let her appear whenever she’s going to appear. Or just let her fade away into the divorce.
March 2036.
Yes because going to church on Easter Sunday in a new hat and coatd ress is such a hard day of work.
She is giving herself an out for Remembrance Day since it isn’t a glamorous event. She needs to skip that one and let it be about those being honored and not make it all about her anyway. Why is it pictures that are clear can be taken of H&M in vehicles, but all pix of Kate end up blurry?
But she might make an appearance at the Festival of Remembrance the night before which is more glamorous and where she might receive another standing ovation 🙄🙄
Ooh. Good call. Iirc, remembrance was where she had an unflattering pic that ended up on the papers. I was surprised they put it on the covers. I could see her doing either really but both no.
I think after this year she won’t be seen until the Easter church service.
If lazy Mcbuttons doesn’t want to work, then that’s fine under one condition. She must not take a penny from the tax payers money. No security, no houses no salary . After all if a blood Prince like Harry who did nothing wrong all he wanted to do was protect his family and his mental health can be stripped of his security because he was deemed a non working royal, then buttons should not get to enjoy the benefits of not working either. I wonder if we will ever find out what the middle bums used as a bargaining chip for Their status in society to be reinstated and buttons to not work
And James middleton got space in people magazine with excerpts from his book. Lots of perks for the middletons.
oh lordy. Is this the new “will Harry go to Balmoral/Sandringham”?
Are we just going to hear every few months or weeks about how Kate is really keen to return to work but you know, chemo and cancer, so don’t expect anything besides the major events in the royal calendar. Maybe in March they’ll re-evaluate. Rinse and repeat.
A few things in this article are revealing – “physical and mental recovery” (which plays into the theory that there was a significant mental component to this), she’s discussing this with her private secretary or whoever, NOT her doctors (so her return is being stage managed for maximum PR, its not health related at this point), and even in September they are able to predict that she will be able to attend Remembrance, especially the festival of remembrance (where I think the presumption is she will be greeted with enormous cheers as opposed to Remembrance Sunday that is much more somber), her christmas concert, and the Christmas walk.
Then we’ll see her at Easter, Trooping, Wimbledon, and a few Balmoral car pics.
I agree with Kaiser and others – I think its clear a deal was made between the Windsors and the Middletons.
Yes, Becks1, that “and mental recovery” jumped out at me too. If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time a RR tabloid acknowledged that. VERY interesting. What gives?
I think they were called in to Balmoral this weekend because of the video. Normally they are not in Scotland besides the end of August. Including the Middletons and excluding Charles did not sit well plus the video itself was tacky.
The coat looks bad with those pockets.
Those flaps aren’t even real pockets, they’re embellisments to make it appear like she actually has a bust left. Same with the light purple dress she wore to Wimbledon, all the draping and layers at the front compensated for her flat chest. The more they try to compensate the more it draws attention to the fact that she’s way too skinny. Yet they make fun of Meghan’s figure …
I am at a loss here. What kind of work is Kate trying to avoid doing? If she likes being the center of attention then she would not miss an opportunity to show off her ball gowns and jewelry at state dinners and what have you. What kind of events that she not want to do?
She likes the showy events like when she fakes piano playing. She does not appear that much and has neglected some patronage s.
That is why I laugh when people try to say she is shy or has social anxiety as a reason for why she never comes off well when doing “work” that has any level of seriousness to it. Mrs. Wails lights up like a Christmas tree and is a social butterfly whenever the event involves hanging out with celebs or “fun” activities.
She won’t do the bread and butter stuff…the visits to schools, community centres or charities etc. I think they are just setting the new normal. I think she will appear at the Commonwealth service which I think is typically in Feb/March. Then Easter in April. Then Trooping, Wimbledon and maybe an appearance at Ascot or a garden party. Then summer break. Rinse and repeat. A few appearances in the fall and then Christmas events.
At state dinners and the like she is expected to make intelligent small talk. I imagine she cant’ really do that.
She is a dumb woman…. Just hear her small talks during her visits to whatever charity she decides to inflict herself upon and you can see it is like her brain is empty!
It is interesting how they have never mentioned her potentially attending the diplomatic reception or any potential state dinner. She’s not against tiara events.
She is an airhead and is incapable of having an adult conversation with educated people unless it is about her children
@Becks1, my sentiments exactly.
Anything related to her patronages/causes, the day to day work and anything where she will be outshone by a lamp. Its clear the deal was that she would get to pick and choose what ‘events’ she does which includes the mens Wimbledon final and the big family events.
She will milk the sh!t out of the cancer story and then some. Its clear she doesn’t want to work for her supper and that is, ultimately, what will get used to divorce her. He is going to need someone who is going to step up and take on those duties i.e. small talk with heads of state etc.. She is much worse at that than he is.
I think they want to display her in situations where close scrutiny of her by the general public is difficult, seen from a distance as much as possible and utilizing a double at public events, not just for security’s sake but to give the illusion she was out and about.
Bread and butter events, where she has to meet, shake hands and prepare to care about the gawking/fawning public, while being handed bits of greenery.
Barring state dinners, trooping the colour & wimbledon. I genuinely do not expect to see her in public till Williams con-a-nation
She never planned to work, she was pretty much forced to when the Sussex’s were working Royals and after to justify running them out of the country with the targeted hate campaign they used to get them to leave. If I had to guess she always wanted to just be a photo op Princess.. she will show up for balcony and gold carriages but nothing else.
The “photo op Princess” title is perfect.
This goalpost moving has me convinced there is no cancer. An official statement from Kate’s medical team (and a thank you to them) would have tamp down suspicion of massive fraud. Tin foil tiara: Kate’s reputation took a massive hit in Oprah and Spare; and Piers Morgan outing her in Skin-Color gate was the last straw. Kate became a liability to the Crown so she had to go. Charles gave William the green light for a divorce and William gave the bad news to Kate after Xmas 2023. Kate didn’t take it well, had a breakdown, and threw Rose and the mystery blonde in William’s face. She made have gone too far and implied she had the late Thomas Kingston on her roster. William goes incandescent and Kate goes to the hospital. A lot of covering up ensues; including making sure the true hospital records don’t get leaked. (The breach is the cover story.) So cancer is the official ailment for Kate so no reputable news agency doesn’t pry (and to clean up KP’s PR messes for handling the situation.) Kate and the Middletons have the Windsors in a chokehold threatening to reveal all if there is a divorce; but I think they created a situation where William can be free of her as a widower grieving over a wife who succumbed to cancer. Harry and William were used to clean up the BRF image when Diana died; they’ll do the same to George, Charlotte and Louis. Tin foil tiara off.
I buy into this theory however if the cancer story is fake it mean that both sides have massive dirt on each other – my money is on the Windsors winning regardless of what the Mids think they have. The press will side the with Firm every time.
The moving goalposts are part of the plan – the plan to shove her into the background before a quiet divorce in announced. A divorce based on her ongoing ill health that makes her unfit for the job ahead. The only blip in the plan is these PR stunts (the trooping photoshoot and the Temu Boden ad) – things that show Kate still wants to be seen and are a blatant rebranding attempt.
Whatever was negotiated won’t last long as the Kate and Ma are already pushing their luck. Thats their biggest issue – they don’t know when to stop pushing.
There is no way Will is gonna able to divorce his wife with cancer. No good PR would clean this up.
@sevenblue he could if it was spun a certain way and looked like it was Kate’s decision. I don’t completely buy into @aquarius64’s theory above (too many moving parts, Kate faking cancer would hurt her, not help her because all William has to do is indicate that she was/is faking and that he was manipulated and lied to and that’s that).
But, for the divorce – I can see it going something like this. Maybe in a year, there is a separation/divorce announcement and the spin is something like Kate has completely recovered from cancer but still does not feel she can return to full time royal work and William needs someone who can support him, OR Kate has realized that time with her children is her priority and again she does not want to return to royal work and again William needs someone who can support him when king etc.
I think the announcement will come from KP or BP and it will be spun to look like Kate’s decision but we all know it will be William’s. Kate will get a nice settlement and in time might be treated like Anne of Cleves was. Still invited to the major events such as the coronation and funerals, still in the royal box at Ascot, still living at Adelaide and maybe even Anmer, still getting a nice stipend, but officially no longer a royal.
I agree with Becks on the timeline. Before the surgery announcement I thought they were aiming to say something over the summer, but that has been pushed back.
But the one thing the video exposed that they didn’t realize is that Kate can put some effort into things when she feels like it, because that was not a ten minute effort. And being able to backpack and run around the beach also confirms she’s physically fine especially for the work she used to do, which is not that taxing. Kate showed her cards too much in the video and this will be used against her when William believes it will help him.
“Kate can put some effort into things when she feels like it…Kate showed her cards too much in the video” Really good points @nic919. The truth is that Kate is not in the public eye for a reason or one that does not have to do with her cancer treatments. What is the reason? I mean we can speculate so many things as aquarius64 showed. But either way something’s happening. In terms of a divorce, I’ve always believed if William wants one he will get one so agree with @becks1. Although, he is lazy so would he ever get around to a divorce? But I don’t actually think it could be blamed on her illness, like she’s decided she can’t do the events needed to be POW so she decided to leave William. Bc in that case shouldn’t it be that William fights for her and says no it’s okay the country will understand. I can see that reasoning but also just don’t think that reasoning one hundred percent works. However, I do think, they could say over the course of her illness that they grew so close but also realized they were better off as good friends. Very conscious uncoupling along with the illness making them re-examine their lives. But it would have to come from Kate. That Kate’s feelings changed. That the illness somehow made her see that she and William are better off as friends and co-parents bc yes as @sevenblue says he can’t be seen as leaving a sick wife. However, they’d have to get the public to really believe it’s something that Kate wants as opposed to being fed lines by William.
@Aquarius 64 – that tiara is not tin foil. +1
So the gaslighting of the British public will continue indefinitely, then. She can film a video where she takes her kids to the beach and is out and about running through fields, but she can’t turn up to a charity event for 1 hour, shake hands with a few people, and leave? Righto. What she and William do could never be described as ‘work’ in the first place, but this is expert-level chipping away at expectations. She is a porcelain doll and must be kept in a glass cabinet. But still keep paying your taxes, peasants!
Yup! Exactly.
I hope Kate remains in remission, but all this babying is over the top. I have a friend who has multiple myeloma and had a stem cell transplant early this year, and she’s done more than Kate has done in the past six months.
I doubt she ever had cancer. That couldn’t be more obvious.
The only thing I know about her cancer is what she says about it in her unauthenticated videos. That and the fact she’s telegraphing her status prevents her from working. Perhaps ever.
I was surprised to learn that one of my favorite actors, Jerry Orbach, had prostate cancer TEN YEARS before he died. He worked fairly steadily during those last ten years according to IMDb and Wikipedia. Apparently he only told a few people about his cancer until the end of his life. When he was so sick he could barely speak in a whisper, they rewrote his scene in Law & Order: Trial by Jury so that everybody in the scene had reason to whisper. As an organ donor, he gifted his eyes to a lucky recipient upon his death. What a guy!
@Kirk, look at Chadwick Bosman too–doing marvel movies where you have to be in crazy shape while fighting cancer. Meanwhile, opening an envelope is too much for Kate.
They are trying to hid something bad in that family. Kate looks like a Stepford wife no life in her . She definitely doesn’t look like any cancer sufferer I have have experience of.She hasn’t engaged with any cancer charities.William and her are probably still smarting about the bad publicity they got from their melodrama video. Anyway 46% of the younger generation in the uk would rather have Harry back. A kick in the teeth for W&K who are supposed to appeal to the younger generation 😂😂😂😂
I think that she has had some kind of mental breakdown and she and William have been undergoing marital therapy as a result. This is why William was forced into the soppy video and the kissing and canoodling that he looked so uncomfortable with.
This is the same man who could not bear to hold her hand when she wanted to copy Harry and Meghan.
In tandem with the re-launch of the ghastly Middletons, waster brother included. There has to be upside somewhere for W, and the RF, but where and what?
Their “work” is just PR for themselves, so if they think they don’t need it… good luck to them! As an anti-royalist, I say let them take the money and skip the PR “work” assignments and see how that works out! Maybe in the 21st century the PR they get through traditional and social media is enough. But the queen, who was actually good at her job, didn’t think it was.
Lort. One week the media admits Keen isn’t going to work until all the kids are legal adults (when she is near retirement age and will therfore use that as the excuse to continue doing little), then the next week they are pushing this narrative again. The rota narrative of her grand return has went from Easter 2024, Trooping 2024, Fall 2024, Christmas 2024, 2036 when Louis is 18, and now around Easter 2024, The rota is getting restless and the stories eviscerating Harry/Meghan are getting old. How long will the public go along with this clearly false narrative?
She’s retired and that video was her goodbye from public life but they can’t come out and say that without calls for her to stop being funded or for cuts to royal costs across the board so they’ll keep chipping away at expectations until George is enough to be fresh meat and start working (probably 18, maybe 21 if the BM/institution are generous). Then focus will shift and K will fully be the forgotten queen consort, free from expectation and able to do whatever. They messed up saying she was cancer free though. It’s why they backtracked after the fact.
How does Kate “support the king” by showing her face? How does that work exactly? Work my arse.
On another website one of Kate’s adoring fans was praising her for all the “hard work” she has done in her life, including running her parents Party Pieces business and working for Jig Saw where she innovated a branch called “ Junior Jigsaw”
Well well well this must be news to many people.
I had the stupidly to reply to this deluded woman and suggested she was dreaming
She replied to me “Princess Catherine can run circles round you when it comes to work!”
I wonder what sort of circles she meant?
I am now 80 years old and worked as a nurse from age 16 to 64 as well as bringing up a family and caring for a husband with severe heart disease and now I have been diagnosed with blood cancer
No rest for me for 12 years
Kat, sending you healing energy and good wishes.
Thankyou *Dilettante*
Good on you, Kat! I wish you wellness and healing.
Thankyou Kelleybelle
I fully believe she had cancer and she had chemo. What I’m interesting in knowing is about her mysterious “abdominal surgery”–what was that for? They made a huge deal saying the issue was non-cancerous at the time so she clearly had to been having some other symptoms to have that surgery. I could believe after having that surgery, the two weeks in hospital after, recovering from that at home, and starting chemo all in quick succession probably did a number on Kate’s mental health. Maybe she became massively depressed, maybe she started on antidepressants, who knows.
But there is precedent for a royal spouse’s wife to be mostly MIA-Empress Masako being a prime example. I know her situation is very different from Kate’s–the pressure to produce a male heir, the fact she had to give up a promising career in diplomacy (she was very accomplished before she married), the adjustment of being a commoner marrying into an even more traditional family than the BRF. She was out of the public spotlight for about 10 years and it’s only in the last few years (especially since Naruhito became emperor in 2019) that she’s been more visible. Masako actually wanted to work, is very educated, can speak multiple languages etc. and the complete opposite of Kate. A very tragic story but if Kate was mostly an MIA queen, William could do the same and say Kate is living a quiet life out of the spotlight due to mental health issues.
I don’t think her so-called scheduled will ever go back to normal, whatever that means for a woman who only worked 3 to 6 weeks per year.
The Wales are perpetrating a huge grift and their audacity is almost impressive. How they convinced British taxpayers to support them in exchange for little to no work is amazing.
Wow. Per that Sun article, this was her first official engagement after the announcement of the end of her chemo. Official engagement. Going to church. These people!
The mirror claims they went to Scotland for a child free weekend. They could not be lying any more than they tried. This confirms that they were summoned by Charles.
People are very cross with decision to remove OAPs winter fuel allowance by new Labour Government and response has been to question why the rich aren’t being targeted instead? Republic are stating RF really costs us 6 times more than the SG and specifically asks when should we prioritise them over OAPs? RF are skating on thin ice if you have a non visible FK and FQ because how do you justify their cost if there is no return and no service?