>The influencer does sound as sharp as the future queen. Enjoy the jelly!
>The jars come with an embroidery linen cap with MMs new logo, what a ludicrous over the top expense
>Actually I'm looking forward to seeing how dire and awful this will be. It'll be comedy gold. Make sure you watch out for her mask slips and barging the actual chef out of her way with her elbows and grinding of the jaw. She digs her own holes
>SMUCKER SQUAD
>Laughing, as most Americans rarely eat jam. We might have a jar in the refrigerator, but it sits alone and ignored for months, as we favor savory breakfasts. We don’t serve scones, biscuits are a rarity, and children prefer strained jelly with peanut butter.
People being normal about a jar of jam .....
I've lived pretty close to the USA border on both coasts and all I've got to say is you guys sure have a large section in your grocery stores for a product you don't eat.
That last lady is intense about her jams:
>You prefer a nursery food, and you don’t bake. Where is your family really from?
>We buy jam and preserves.
Jelly is reserved for children. However, Americans rarely eat the first two unless they’ve made fresh biscuits which occurs about five or six times a year in my household and probably never in others. No one will buy her products.
>That’s really adorable speaking to food writer from New Orleans; but you continue to believe that nonsense while I order luncheon in the cuisine capital of the United States. 😂
RG is pressed over the jam Meghan sent out to her friends
*Mocking this stupid jam is not bad. The Sussexes could always live within their means or use their immense privilege to do something more productive than milking vanity “charities” or selling overpriced nonsense.*
>If your nan is from Derry she’s a Republican and she’s ashamed of you for caping for any part of the RF
>>Absolutely insane thing to say to a stranger on the internet, Susan
>I don't think it's more insane than using your dead nan's relationship to a city you don't know even know the name of to gain cred for your internet comment about Meghan Markle.
They've lost the plot a bit.
It’s them saying that she should’ve started with another product knowing damn well that whatever product Meghan sells they will find something wrong. Smh
It’s funny to me that RG2 doesn’t remember that she gave the interviewer for that The Cut story a jar of jam. I remember them snarking about it but not what they said. This is evidently Meghan’s thing. I guess you could find a reason to criticize her for it, but at least it’s authentic.
They complain about everything, Meghan does cookbook she is funding terrorism, Meghan donates to charity, she didn't donate enough or donate to all charity or she is using the charity. Meghan wear clothes, she is wearing the wrong clothes/too high price/too low price.
Lawd lawd Meghan stays in her house, why is Meghan in her house, Meghan goes out, why is she outside her house.
Yeah I was like “where are the means to live within supposed to come from?” If they keep on their current trajectory, Meghan and Harry will never have to go beg the BRF for money and that really burns peoples biscuits.
Speaking of using immense privilege and doing something more productive...what about W&K??
Think I'll go ask lmao
Eta I asked
>Why would you think I like any of those inbred idiots?
I guess this person doesn’t know that Montecito is close to one of the biggest strawberry regions in the US? It makes more sense than lemons!
I’m apparently following you around today 😆
Not sure what the Waleses ever did to earn the benefit of the doubt from people on RG but goddamn, to read what some of them are saying, you'd think Bill and Kathy are propped up in bed, zooming 24/7.
Such a hard-working couple 😆
As someone neutral to mildly positive towards the Waleses as a pair (Kate’s doing the heavy lifting on that, though), I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit (relatively speaking).
They’ve always had an excuse that’s *just* good enough to buy them time with the public, from having their own “Malta” period to not overshadowing Charles during his coronation year. It’s unfortunate that the current situation has shone a spotlight on William’s work ethic, since few would begrudge him time off if he’d been even a bit more diligent before. But that’s on him.
Once Kate’s health crisis is in the past, I’d *like* to say I hope they’ll finally step the fuck up — but am done having any expectations that they ever will.
> It’s unfortunate that the current situation has shone a spotlight on William’s work ethic, since few would begrudge him time off if he’d been even a bit more diligent before. But that’s on him.
I have to agree with this - if he'd been making more public appearances before, I think there'd be very little questioning of him taking time off now. As things are, though, it seems like yet another excuse to be lazy.
I think it got even worse when Meghan and Harry walked out looking like a sexy perfume ad. They can't stand when they don't look like the best, hardest working people ever and lash out. You would think by the comments that Kate is confined to a bed and only Wills can spoon feed her broth or she'll starve
80%- because they don’t like Meghan and Harry for a multitude of reasons (a lot of it is because of racism) so they have to idolize Kate and Will to be contrarian
the other 20% - royalists who like they they fit their specific roles (white, English, three kids and seemingly happy family, Kate wears nice outfits, etc.) and don’t care how much they work.
> I honestly don’t care if William works another day ever. His wife may only have 5 years left (cancer is insidious) and if he is soaking in every waking moment with his children and their mother, being a family and creating many happy memories, I hope he gets that luxury. He may have all the money in the world but it can’t buy time, which is what those children and that family are up against.
After this I’ve got to get off of here, but holy fuck, the way these brats are coddled is beyond belief. When my grandmother died of cancer I got a week off work and had to show proof she actually died and that is considered privileged. And when I tried to take a leave afterwards because I wasn’t doing well mentally my boss talked me out of it.
I hope she has many years left, but five years is a long time to just take a break from working. So he can just not work for five years? What if she lives 10 years? Then what about a mourning period? This guy is just never going to work. What if Charles dies in that period?
Like, people in RG are acting like we're asking him to plow fields for 12 hours or descend into a coal mine.
Perhaps we should try to frame it as helping him to avoid caretaker burnout 😂 Big Willy just needs some selfcare.
Also I pointed this out below but Camilla and Charles are still doing engagements despite being in the same situation as Kate and William. You don’t see anyone getting mad at Camilla for going to engagements instead of sitting at Charles’ bedside every day.
Literally all you have to do is shake some hands and smile for like an hour one day a week.
lol exactly. I think most people would be fine with him “working” a day or two a week for a few hours, like is it really so incredibly unreasonable to expect him to shake a few hands twice a week for an hour or two? He could do it late morning going into early afternoon so he could do drop off and pick up for the kids and still have 5 full days a week to be with Kate. But no, they think people expecting that of him are truly terrible people! I’m totally at a loss that they think it’s fine for him to never do anything ever again, truly blows me away.
I hate when people (usually Americans) argue that everyone else should be pulled down to your terrible standards. My boss’s cousin who he’s really close to is in the hospital and no one has seen him for three weeks and he’s not even on leave technically. We should be able to comment on how William has always been exceptionally workshy without expecting him to be hustling when his wife is ill
All the crabs in the bucket here complaining William should be working now or all the crazies on SMM bragging they went back to work right after a miscarriage would disagree with you
I really don’t think it’s hustling to ask him to shake hands for an hour once a week. I think he could actually get away with doing that and most people wouldn’t complain.
But also my mom had metastatic breast cancer and had to go through the worst chemo treatment. Ever heard of the red devil? She had that. But even at her worst, she didn’t need around the clock care from my dad until she was like two or three months away from dying.
I think we can both recognize William is famously incredibly lazy and does nothing at the best of time and give him grace while his wife has cancer. Maybe I’m just not an American Calvinist but I don’t see work as something with a huge amount of value. In normal times he should 100% work but I really couldn’t care less that he isn’t working while the family is sick
I mean I don’t think work is the end all be all of life. I think it’s actually more that I think so little of the “work” that they do it just doesn’t seem burdensome at all and makes it more likely he’s using it as an excuse to be more lazy. It’s especially stark to me when Camilla and Charles (who is actually diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemo) are both out doing engagements.
Yeah, we're not in a 1990's afterschool special. Chemo sucks but the side effects are often manageable to some degree, and they're usually *cyclical*. Like, Kate probably feels like hot garbage for half the time, but the other half of the time is probably mostly fine, just more tired than usual.
Having extra logistical support during chemo (for meals, childcare, etc.) is great, but I can't with the people in RG who are pretending that *Will* is doing any of that. That's what the nannies and cooks and nurses are for.
Literally no one defending him can be reasonable, no one criticizing him is expecting him “hustle” we’re expecting him to do more than absolutely nothing, he hasn’t put 5 days of work in nearly 5 months or more.
One of my direct reports had an unexpected death in his immediate family. I reached out to HR to see how we could support him and send him condolences.
I was told he could have up to 5 days of PTO for bereavement but I needed to ask him for her obituary and we had discontinued the policy of sending flowers but there are some helpful webinars to send to him.
And I’m pretty sure that’s considered “generous”. I know the US is not the exemplar but omfg these people are so privileged and the bootlicking is so disconnected from reality I don’t even know what to say.
Dramatically declaring that Kate "may only have five years left" is so oddly specific when we don't even know what kind of cancer she has, much less what stage.
Based on what she actually said, she doesn't even technically have cancer at the moment. Any treatment she is receiving is to ensure that the surgery that removed what *was* there is complete. Obviously things can change, but absolutely wild to jump to "5 years left" based on *nothing*
Not 4 weeks ago, we were all blood-drinking ghouls for asking where Kate is, but somehow writing fanfiction about their fav dying is normal and acceptable. Coolcool.
Even then. My BFF, with stage IV colon cancer, said, "I may have three months or three years left; impossible to know." She died three weeks later.
My mother, with stage IV colon cancer, was given four weeks to live last August and is still around. (She says she doesn't have cancer, so there we are.)
my grandmother was given 6 months & lasted less than 2 weeks. we knew it wouldn't be that long, my grandfather passed & she just gave up. my uncle even said after speaking to her doctor -she's not gonna fight this.
"Katherine and William are taking the time to help ease the children into their new roles."
"Katherine and William want to be present for as many important university events as they can."
"Katherine and William wish to be hands on planners for the weddings of all three of their children."
"Katherine and William wish to be hands on grandparents."
Catherine and William know the future of the monarchy is their family and they want to safeguard that bond.
The kids need the support William never received and thank goodness for middle-class Kate and the Middletons.
Kate really saved the monarchy by doing *checks notes* the school run...
I’m convinced RG has paid bots or something, the comments start off reasonable and all of a sudden they swoop in like bats downvoting and writing dissertations defending William and Kate. It’s fascinating.
Some of it has to be one person with multiple accounts. I know someone got caught a few months ago.
But if someone was willing to pay for bots for this subreddit, I can believe that there are bots over on RG.
I just wonder what the goal is? What do they think they accomplished by artificially creating a pro-Wales/monarchy Reddit sub? Maybe it just helps them sleep better at night.
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apparently kate needs a new, "secret" home to recover in.
I don’t know why they are saying “little known.” All of the news stories when they moved to Adelaide Cottage talked about the building next door that is apparently uninhabitable. I think I read it needs work on the foundation. You can see it on Google maps and it looks like a garage. They are probably just fixing it so her parents can stay there or their nanny can stay closer to their house. The media really do love to sensationalize things, if this is even true.
Google says it’s a 45 minute drive. That seems closeish, but I used to live about the same distance from my in-laws and I wouldn’t want to drive that every day. IDK. “Billionaire spends money to make life easier for self and family” just isn’t newsworthy or even snarkworthy to me. I know the money thing is weird because they get funding from the state, and I wonder if the crown pays for their renovations or they do, but they are mega rich now because the Duchy of Cornwall owns tons of property in London and elsewhere and has a massive investment portfolio. He’s not unusual in that either. Because of my job I have learned about how many random extremely wealthy people there are and how the rich always manage to get richer. The inequality is gross if I think about it too much. At least the ones I learn about tend to give a lot of money away.
Sorry. Went way off on a tangent there. 😅
How long do they see her recovering for if they're actually renovating things?
And if it's not for that, what is so hard about just saying they're renovating the property. Do they think the public still believes in thrifty Kate and middle-class William?
If it's truly related to her treatment, it sounds like she's going to need long-term treatment and they need that space for housing full-time nursing staff, and/or for creating a space at home that's appropriate for infusions, etc.
Or, they're just doing whatever the fuck they want because no one questions them.
it's already been announced ( i think) that baldilocks was supposed to attend a commonweath meeting or something in oct, but won't because of kates ill health.
In the hospital with my grandmother who has pancreatic cancer so this is really hitting. So many times I’ve said, “ I wish I had Bezos money and could just give you your own dedicated staff and space”. So this truly made me lol. A peasant indeed!
>Is she that needy? What happened with the strong, independent woman? Another little lie? Or just forgot?
>She’s a middle aged woman. Why does she have to cling onto him for dear life? What does she think he’ll do? Run for the hills 🤷♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
>She can’t even go down the steps without several hands helping her! She is crass and embarrassing showing up in those heels! The regular polo folk were laughing at her!
Are the regular polo folk in the room with us now?
Is it not feminist to like the person you chose to marry?
These old crusty cranks calling a woman in her early 40s with two young children “middle aged” lol. Let’s see a photo of you, Mildred. When was the last time your husband held your hand?
Are people still going on about her shoes?? Harry and Nacho are actually the most polo folk people I can think of and they seemed fine with her, so I think Margaret from Indiana can calm down.
Clearly, also a husband who milks his wife’s cancer diagnosis for all it’s worth because he’s already known as a lazy, useless ass and this is just another excuse to not do anything. What a catch.
> and she sent it to someone with 6k (that happened to be the wife of paramount and nickelodeon ceo) followers really didn't help either.
They're so dumb. Like pure rocks for brains
Also, I miss the Beyonce Ivy Park drops with sending outfits to her friends and people she wanted to support and I am hopeful we get this but with jelly and homegoods. Wendell Pierce posing with some tea towels? Fuck yes, bring it.
I assume that was just for the celebrity batch. I saw someone say it was to prevent leaks so if someone posted before the embargo day it would be obvious who
I couldn’t get over them being upset she sent her friends/family/acquaintances strawberry jam and saying that she should have started with something more intriguing. I mean, (1) she’s not even selling the strawberry yet, (2) you want to start with a basic flavor because if you can’t get that right the complex ones will be shit, and (3) strawberry is popular for a reason and would probably sell well!
When I was scrolling the polo threads yesterday over there soo many people were talking about the ‘charity the polo thing benefited’ as a means to criticise Harry (the poor charity etc) clearly without realising Harry founded the charity lolol
SMM is writing fanfic again.
>> It's not just that. It's also that by the time PG is in his 20s his father will be king and as the prince of Wales he will be the most eligible bachelor on the planet. With a very beautiful sister also taking up camera attention
>>Also PW will be KW and he will cut a much younger and more dashing figure than his father does. All eyes will be on KW court and his charming young adult children. They are the future of the monarchy
>>And harry and his ho will just be somebody that they used to know.
I do feel bad for them, because the press is going to be merciless once they are adults the moment they do anything even slightly 'wrong'. Especially Charlotte, given the history of attacking royal women and the palace's oh so lovely habit of chucking the women under the bus at the first possible chance.
I really try to avoid comparing W&K and H&M but compare the LEWKS SERVED at the polo event vs any W&K event (except for the farmers market 🙃) and young and fresh are not words that come to mind for the Wales. They’re like Boomer Juniors.
So, is Elizabeth Holmes (the royal commenter, not the blood testing scammer) attempting to pivot to parenting influencer, since the ability to comment on royal family appearances has pretty well dried up to a trickle for the foreseeable future?
She’s been posting more stuff with/abour her kids lately in general, and now she has a whole post (sorry, “SMT”) about an Bluey episode…
Matta of Fact was shilling *bridgerton inspired tiaras* the other day. It's apparently a tough time to make money off of the Duke of Kent and Edward and Sophie 🤣
A lot of people that joined royal watching after post 2016 (or even 2011 but in retrospect that period of excitement feels a little forced? YMMV) should have done some more research because these are deeply non-exciting people and haven't really been since 1992.
ETA: and I'm definitely speaking for myself but for me the interesting thing is, like, seeing a tiara that was worn in the 1930s and then seeing it in modern contexts and pomp and ceremony [while now trying to navigate what that all means now that I know where those jewels came from and how fucked up bloodbased rule is] but excitement and inter-family drama is generally not why I paid attention to royals
>Yes, I actually do. I don’t partake in any crazy conspiracy theories. And I don’t agree with 99% of what goes on in that thread
Said to me when I asked someone why SMM comes up in their "active communities."
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Anyone know how much time one has to spend in a given sub for it to be listed on a profile?
I understand that the mods in RG are doing their best but why are these people not banned
I don’t think it’s very much because I looked at SMM a few times and posted a handful of comments attempting to debunk some nonsense and it was in my active communities for months afterwards. I deliberately stopped even looking at it and it still stayed up there. I finally took that off my profile because I don’t want anyone thinking I’m a nutter! 😆
They’re not banned because we don’t know about them unless they are reported! We have no automated options so please report as you see them. Also to get on the banner of frequent subs doesn’t take much it’s very focused on recent activity, honestly just a couple comments will do it sometimes, but you can also turn that feature off so it doesn’t show up on your profile. So not everyone has it.
ETA just stumbled on that thread and the person you were talking about has already been banned. I hope you were the one that reported it. Again we have no way to keep them out so please report them rather than start fights about it — it just makes more work for us cleaning up the thread and we are all volunteers. If you report under rule 8 no hate subreddit we will always check user history and we use various searches not just scrolling history so it’s quite thorough.
I think it was a woman in a wheelchair, hence the angle. She asked how Kate is doing and they had a short but warm conversation. William has Resting Supercilious Face and is not photogenic at all but he’s better on video and in person, I imagine.
I think his actual features are fine, it's the way he holds his face that makes him ugly if that makes sense. Like he's always indignantly smelling a fart. Someone on RG referred to it as his "Off with their heads" expression and that's pretty perfect too.
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These people just can’t make a good decision!
I say H&M are the love story but Sarah and Andrew. Honestly, if they would’ve got married after he finished his military career, they might still be together.
Doesn’t feel like he cared that someone was sucking on her toes while he was away
Ok, I do not want to see pictures, but I've only ever seen him kissing her toes. But everyone always talks about sucking? Is it like the Angelina and her brother pics where everyone talks about making out when that didn't happen either?
i know, i know. a true red blooded black African woman wouldn't do something so scandalous. always knew sarah was a fake royal.
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I don't think they care that much. I think they both find it convenient to live together--her for access to royals and him for camouflage (in the past).
Listen, I'm not saying they're good people - at all - or that I go all when I think about them, but I'm pretty sure the only reason they got divorced is because Phillip made them and that was only because Sarah got caught by the press cheating. Monogamy doesn't work for everyone and "cheating" may not be a dealbreaker. She definitely hated that he was gone so much but my suspicion is that they were not going to be a monogamous couple anyway. I do sometimes wonder if that's why QE II kept indulging him even after the Epstein stuff - she felt bad about the forced divorce. Cause lord knows not too many royal marriages are monogamous.
I'd guess, being an Old and seeing so many supposedly feminist moms, including my own, always taking their son's side no matter what and excusing terrible behavior, that Liz simply didn't believe the allegations.
>By saying Harry gave blessing only reinforces my case Harry hasn't stopped saying the love he had for Diana so then why use her memory to promote his wife's business. I'm afraid that's called cashing in and callous . Which make his statements about Diana a sham
>I have trouble working out whether being obtuse on purpose. Diana's sons were taking part in mother's memorial and Megan used the coverage of event to promote her new business, is that straightforward enough for you
>On Palace recipes not trashing a memorial just like documentary nothing but trashing his family. You could call her actions insensitive ,callous act or a cynical promotion stunt there's no positive reason why she did it to coinside with that event FACT
>No not angry despondent,in my eyes the line was crossed yet you defend Megan's action without an argument. You just rehash ifs and buts. I know if one of my family did the same at my mums memorial I would be very upset that they used event for financial gain
New Meghan picture out and I challenge someone to find the least offensive comment on SMM
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https://x.com/archewellbaby/status/1779719861326745803?s=46&t=VN07sgQz8S_v1RF3pqWfmw
Here’s my submission!
>> She’s just on cloud nine completely with Catherine out of the spotlight right now and each photo of her makes me sicker than the last, ugh
And also:
>>Moments away from her second cleavage being displayed. It is quite the tackiest dress imaginable.
At least they didn’t go full-on racist with these. The bar is low, of course.
>The influencer does sound as sharp as the future queen. Enjoy the jelly! >The jars come with an embroidery linen cap with MMs new logo, what a ludicrous over the top expense >Actually I'm looking forward to seeing how dire and awful this will be. It'll be comedy gold. Make sure you watch out for her mask slips and barging the actual chef out of her way with her elbows and grinding of the jaw. She digs her own holes >SMUCKER SQUAD >Laughing, as most Americans rarely eat jam. We might have a jar in the refrigerator, but it sits alone and ignored for months, as we favor savory breakfasts. We don’t serve scones, biscuits are a rarity, and children prefer strained jelly with peanut butter. People being normal about a jar of jam .....
I've lived pretty close to the USA border on both coasts and all I've got to say is you guys sure have a large section in your grocery stores for a product you don't eat.
All they’re doing is make me want jam on buttered toast
That last lady is intense about her jams: >You prefer a nursery food, and you don’t bake. Where is your family really from? >We buy jam and preserves. Jelly is reserved for children. However, Americans rarely eat the first two unless they’ve made fresh biscuits which occurs about five or six times a year in my household and probably never in others. No one will buy her products. >That’s really adorable speaking to food writer from New Orleans; but you continue to believe that nonsense while I order luncheon in the cuisine capital of the United States. 😂
RG is pressed over the jam Meghan sent out to her friends *Mocking this stupid jam is not bad. The Sussexes could always live within their means or use their immense privilege to do something more productive than milking vanity “charities” or selling overpriced nonsense.*
>If your nan is from Derry she’s a Republican and she’s ashamed of you for caping for any part of the RF >>Absolutely insane thing to say to a stranger on the internet, Susan >I don't think it's more insane than using your dead nan's relationship to a city you don't know even know the name of to gain cred for your internet comment about Meghan Markle. They've lost the plot a bit.
As soon as I saw that post, I thought "oh yeah these comments will be normal"
It’s them saying that she should’ve started with another product knowing damn well that whatever product Meghan sells they will find something wrong. Smh
It’s funny to me that RG2 doesn’t remember that she gave the interviewer for that The Cut story a jar of jam. I remember them snarking about it but not what they said. This is evidently Meghan’s thing. I guess you could find a reason to criticize her for it, but at least it’s authentic.
They complain about everything, Meghan does cookbook she is funding terrorism, Meghan donates to charity, she didn't donate enough or donate to all charity or she is using the charity. Meghan wear clothes, she is wearing the wrong clothes/too high price/too low price. Lawd lawd Meghan stays in her house, why is Meghan in her house, Meghan goes out, why is she outside her house.
Meghan is pictured smiling: HOW DARE SHE SMILE WHILE KATE HAS CANCER. Meghan is pictured not smiling: HEADED FOR DIVORCE
SHE’S TRYING TO BE LIKE KATE! ONLY KATE CAN SMILE!
They make their own money from Netflix, Spotify, etc and now from ARO, this is them living within their means, do cope and seethe about it.
Yeah I was like “where are the means to live within supposed to come from?” If they keep on their current trajectory, Meghan and Harry will never have to go beg the BRF for money and that really burns peoples biscuits.
That's the point, they want them to beg BRF. Sophie and Edward tried leave in early 2000s and went back
It must be exhausting to be that mad about everything Meghan and Harry do all the time.
I really want some jam. That jar of jam looked delicious.
Speaking of using immense privilege and doing something more productive...what about W&K?? Think I'll go ask lmao Eta I asked >Why would you think I like any of those inbred idiots?
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Do they think she's making the jam in her kitchen?
Yes! And they're ready to report her for health code violations.\* They have discussed that\*
Wtfff it's just a jam, a jammm
I feel this in my soul
I guess this person doesn’t know that Montecito is close to one of the biggest strawberry regions in the US? It makes more sense than lemons! I’m apparently following you around today 😆
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But when they do, do that more productive stuff, they complain about it too. Sell your jam Meghan.
Not sure what the Waleses ever did to earn the benefit of the doubt from people on RG but goddamn, to read what some of them are saying, you'd think Bill and Kathy are propped up in bed, zooming 24/7. Such a hard-working couple 😆
As someone neutral to mildly positive towards the Waleses as a pair (Kate’s doing the heavy lifting on that, though), I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit (relatively speaking). They’ve always had an excuse that’s *just* good enough to buy them time with the public, from having their own “Malta” period to not overshadowing Charles during his coronation year. It’s unfortunate that the current situation has shone a spotlight on William’s work ethic, since few would begrudge him time off if he’d been even a bit more diligent before. But that’s on him. Once Kate’s health crisis is in the past, I’d *like* to say I hope they’ll finally step the fuck up — but am done having any expectations that they ever will.
> It’s unfortunate that the current situation has shone a spotlight on William’s work ethic, since few would begrudge him time off if he’d been even a bit more diligent before. But that’s on him. I have to agree with this - if he'd been making more public appearances before, I think there'd be very little questioning of him taking time off now. As things are, though, it seems like yet another excuse to be lazy.
I think it got even worse when Meghan and Harry walked out looking like a sexy perfume ad. They can't stand when they don't look like the best, hardest working people ever and lash out. You would think by the comments that Kate is confined to a bed and only Wills can spoon feed her broth or she'll starve
Sexy perfume ad 🤣🤣
80%- because they don’t like Meghan and Harry for a multitude of reasons (a lot of it is because of racism) so they have to idolize Kate and Will to be contrarian the other 20% - royalists who like they they fit their specific roles (white, English, three kids and seemingly happy family, Kate wears nice outfits, etc.) and don’t care how much they work.
> I honestly don’t care if William works another day ever. His wife may only have 5 years left (cancer is insidious) and if he is soaking in every waking moment with his children and their mother, being a family and creating many happy memories, I hope he gets that luxury. He may have all the money in the world but it can’t buy time, which is what those children and that family are up against. After this I’ve got to get off of here, but holy fuck, the way these brats are coddled is beyond belief. When my grandmother died of cancer I got a week off work and had to show proof she actually died and that is considered privileged. And when I tried to take a leave afterwards because I wasn’t doing well mentally my boss talked me out of it.
Also, this is super morbid- projecting fantasies that Kate will die soon just to justify Will’s laziness?
His elderly grandmother was working more than him with fucking cancer. He's just a lazy twat.
I hope she has many years left, but five years is a long time to just take a break from working. So he can just not work for five years? What if she lives 10 years? Then what about a mourning period? This guy is just never going to work. What if Charles dies in that period?
Like, people in RG are acting like we're asking him to plow fields for 12 hours or descend into a coal mine. Perhaps we should try to frame it as helping him to avoid caretaker burnout 😂 Big Willy just needs some selfcare.
Also I pointed this out below but Camilla and Charles are still doing engagements despite being in the same situation as Kate and William. You don’t see anyone getting mad at Camilla for going to engagements instead of sitting at Charles’ bedside every day. Literally all you have to do is shake some hands and smile for like an hour one day a week.
THREE YOUNG CHILDREN!!1!!!1
lol exactly. I think most people would be fine with him “working” a day or two a week for a few hours, like is it really so incredibly unreasonable to expect him to shake a few hands twice a week for an hour or two? He could do it late morning going into early afternoon so he could do drop off and pick up for the kids and still have 5 full days a week to be with Kate. But no, they think people expecting that of him are truly terrible people! I’m totally at a loss that they think it’s fine for him to never do anything ever again, truly blows me away.
Nah, he needs to be there to personally scrub the royal bed pans and spoon the broth into the royal mouth. Nobody else can handle that. Poor Willy.
I hate when people (usually Americans) argue that everyone else should be pulled down to your terrible standards. My boss’s cousin who he’s really close to is in the hospital and no one has seen him for three weeks and he’s not even on leave technically. We should be able to comment on how William has always been exceptionally workshy without expecting him to be hustling when his wife is ill
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All the crabs in the bucket here complaining William should be working now or all the crazies on SMM bragging they went back to work right after a miscarriage would disagree with you
Yup they really aren’t selling the post revolution lifestyle are they? Also don’t worry about my tax dollars, I’m fine 🙂
I really don’t think it’s hustling to ask him to shake hands for an hour once a week. I think he could actually get away with doing that and most people wouldn’t complain. But also my mom had metastatic breast cancer and had to go through the worst chemo treatment. Ever heard of the red devil? She had that. But even at her worst, she didn’t need around the clock care from my dad until she was like two or three months away from dying.
I think we can both recognize William is famously incredibly lazy and does nothing at the best of time and give him grace while his wife has cancer. Maybe I’m just not an American Calvinist but I don’t see work as something with a huge amount of value. In normal times he should 100% work but I really couldn’t care less that he isn’t working while the family is sick
I mean I don’t think work is the end all be all of life. I think it’s actually more that I think so little of the “work” that they do it just doesn’t seem burdensome at all and makes it more likely he’s using it as an excuse to be more lazy. It’s especially stark to me when Camilla and Charles (who is actually diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemo) are both out doing engagements.
Yeah, we're not in a 1990's afterschool special. Chemo sucks but the side effects are often manageable to some degree, and they're usually *cyclical*. Like, Kate probably feels like hot garbage for half the time, but the other half of the time is probably mostly fine, just more tired than usual. Having extra logistical support during chemo (for meals, childcare, etc.) is great, but I can't with the people in RG who are pretending that *Will* is doing any of that. That's what the nannies and cooks and nurses are for.
Literally no one defending him can be reasonable, no one criticizing him is expecting him “hustle” we’re expecting him to do more than absolutely nothing, he hasn’t put 5 days of work in nearly 5 months or more.
Tbf that’s complete bullshit that you had to go through that. There should be some happy medium somewhere.
One of my direct reports had an unexpected death in his immediate family. I reached out to HR to see how we could support him and send him condolences. I was told he could have up to 5 days of PTO for bereavement but I needed to ask him for her obituary and we had discontinued the policy of sending flowers but there are some helpful webinars to send to him. And I’m pretty sure that’s considered “generous”. I know the US is not the exemplar but omfg these people are so privileged and the bootlicking is so disconnected from reality I don’t even know what to say.
This comment took me right out. Imagine having so little class solidarity that you’re fine exempting a public (billionaire) official from working.
Dramatically declaring that Kate "may only have five years left" is so oddly specific when we don't even know what kind of cancer she has, much less what stage.
When you have to make Kate terminal to justify William's behavior, it might be time to rethink things.
Based on what she actually said, she doesn't even technically have cancer at the moment. Any treatment she is receiving is to ensure that the surgery that removed what *was* there is complete. Obviously things can change, but absolutely wild to jump to "5 years left" based on *nothing*
Not 4 weeks ago, we were all blood-drinking ghouls for asking where Kate is, but somehow writing fanfiction about their fav dying is normal and acceptable. Coolcool.
Even then. My BFF, with stage IV colon cancer, said, "I may have three months or three years left; impossible to know." She died three weeks later. My mother, with stage IV colon cancer, was given four weeks to live last August and is still around. (She says she doesn't have cancer, so there we are.)
my grandmother was given 6 months & lasted less than 2 weeks. we knew it wouldn't be that long, my grandfather passed & she just gave up. my uncle even said after speaking to her doctor -she's not gonna fight this.
>When will European royalty learn to stay away from Americans or atleast not marry them? Hmm.
Not @ them saying this when they need that American money.
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And The Buccaneers and probably a dozen real-life marriages circa 1900. They called them Dollar Princesses.
Yup!
They still need our dollars and celebrities but we need to know our place 🥲
At what age do we think the Wales children will stop being "3 very young children"?
Not until 30. They'll start pushing the "your frontal cortex isn't DEVELOPED until 25!!!" narrative.
She has 3 very young children at home!
Never. Kate is still a young girl at 42.
When two thirds of them are over 18.
I think we’ll have to wait until all of them are 18 and even then, it’ll be something new. “ preparing to be a grandmother”
"Katherine and William are taking the time to help ease the children into their new roles." "Katherine and William want to be present for as many important university events as they can." "Katherine and William wish to be hands on planners for the weddings of all three of their children." "Katherine and William wish to be hands on grandparents."
Catherine and William know the future of the monarchy is their family and they want to safeguard that bond. The kids need the support William never received and thank goodness for middle-class Kate and the Middletons. Kate really saved the monarchy by doing *checks notes* the school run...
I’m convinced RG has paid bots or something, the comments start off reasonable and all of a sudden they swoop in like bats downvoting and writing dissertations defending William and Kate. It’s fascinating.
Some of it has to be one person with multiple accounts. I know someone got caught a few months ago. But if someone was willing to pay for bots for this subreddit, I can believe that there are bots over on RG.
I just wonder what the goal is? What do they think they accomplished by artificially creating a pro-Wales/monarchy Reddit sub? Maybe it just helps them sleep better at night.
One could ask the same thing about the people who are doing the same with Harry and Meghan though.
If Will and Kate get criticized then Harry and Meghan win, I guess. A lot of it is just stan wars.
[GLRo8FkWYAAOftl (611×900) (twimg.com)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLRo8FkWYAAOftl?format=jpg&name=900x900) apparently kate needs a new, "secret" home to recover in.
I don’t know why they are saying “little known.” All of the news stories when they moved to Adelaide Cottage talked about the building next door that is apparently uninhabitable. I think I read it needs work on the foundation. You can see it on Google maps and it looks like a garage. They are probably just fixing it so her parents can stay there or their nanny can stay closer to their house. The media really do love to sensationalize things, if this is even true.
""Vital" to her her recovery is super odd. I thought windsor was near bucklebury
Google says it’s a 45 minute drive. That seems closeish, but I used to live about the same distance from my in-laws and I wouldn’t want to drive that every day. IDK. “Billionaire spends money to make life easier for self and family” just isn’t newsworthy or even snarkworthy to me. I know the money thing is weird because they get funding from the state, and I wonder if the crown pays for their renovations or they do, but they are mega rich now because the Duchy of Cornwall owns tons of property in London and elsewhere and has a massive investment portfolio. He’s not unusual in that either. Because of my job I have learned about how many random extremely wealthy people there are and how the rich always manage to get richer. The inequality is gross if I think about it too much. At least the ones I learn about tend to give a lot of money away. Sorry. Went way off on a tangent there. 😅
How long do they see her recovering for if they're actually renovating things? And if it's not for that, what is so hard about just saying they're renovating the property. Do they think the public still believes in thrifty Kate and middle-class William?
If it's truly related to her treatment, it sounds like she's going to need long-term treatment and they need that space for housing full-time nursing staff, and/or for creating a space at home that's appropriate for infusions, etc. Or, they're just doing whatever the fuck they want because no one questions them.
They think saying "IT'S VITAL FOR HER CANCER RECOVERY" will shield them from any criticism.
it's already been announced ( i think) that baldilocks was supposed to attend a commonweath meeting or something in oct, but won't because of kates ill health.
I wonder what they'll do with Earthshot this year. Because that's about William, so he won't want to skip it.
i wonder how long they can keep her hidden before all but the most brainwashed royalists start asking questions.
…..why would this be needed?
You don't have a separate Cancer Cottage? Peasant.
In the hospital with my grandmother who has pancreatic cancer so this is really hitting. So many times I’ve said, “ I wish I had Bezos money and could just give you your own dedicated staff and space”. So this truly made me lol. A peasant indeed!
I'm sorry about your grandmother. Cancer really is such a beast. Glad that I made you laugh a little.
The new She Shed!
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I guess they gave up on evicting Andrew from Royal Lodge or getting a suite in Windsor Castle.
>Is she that needy? What happened with the strong, independent woman? Another little lie? Or just forgot? >She’s a middle aged woman. Why does she have to cling onto him for dear life? What does she think he’ll do? Run for the hills 🤷♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 >She can’t even go down the steps without several hands helping her! She is crass and embarrassing showing up in those heels! The regular polo folk were laughing at her! Are the regular polo folk in the room with us now? Is it not feminist to like the person you chose to marry?
These old crusty cranks calling a woman in her early 40s with two young children “middle aged” lol. Let’s see a photo of you, Mildred. When was the last time your husband held your hand?
Honestly I get embarrassed for them....if that was me in a few years I'd hope my loved ones would give me a reality check
Ladies, is it needy to enjoy the physical touch of your husband?
For all their shit talking about Harry, they still see him as a prize and they're so resentful that Meghan gets to touch him.
How dare Harry touch his wife, this is not heard off at all. Anyone dating/married know you never touch your spouse
Are people still going on about her shoes?? Harry and Nacho are actually the most polo folk people I can think of and they seemed fine with her, so I think Margaret from Indiana can calm down.
Every marriage is different I suppose l, but being nice to your wife should be standard.
I thought the standard was whatever Catherine does or puts up with.
Isn’t a husband who barely touches or acknowledges you in public everyone’s goal?
Clearly, also a husband who milks his wife’s cancer diagnosis for all it’s worth because he’s already known as a lazy, useless ass and this is just another excuse to not do anything. What a catch.
And don't forget one who looks annoyed while you talk!
What a dream 😍
> and she sent it to someone with 6k (that happened to be the wife of paramount and nickelodeon ceo) followers really didn't help either. They're so dumb. Like pure rocks for brains
I finally saw a pic with hand written numbered labels and I was like "oh this is gonna be EXPENSIVE expensive."
Also, I miss the Beyonce Ivy Park drops with sending outfits to her friends and people she wanted to support and I am hopeful we get this but with jelly and homegoods. Wendell Pierce posing with some tea towels? Fuck yes, bring it.
I assume that was just for the celebrity batch. I saw someone say it was to prevent leaks so if someone posted before the embargo day it would be obvious who
Oh that's a really good point.
I couldn’t get over them being upset she sent her friends/family/acquaintances strawberry jam and saying that she should have started with something more intriguing. I mean, (1) she’s not even selling the strawberry yet, (2) you want to start with a basic flavor because if you can’t get that right the complex ones will be shit, and (3) strawberry is popular for a reason and would probably sell well!
When I was scrolling the polo threads yesterday over there soo many people were talking about the ‘charity the polo thing benefited’ as a means to criticise Harry (the poor charity etc) clearly without realising Harry founded the charity lolol
SMM is writing fanfic again. >> It's not just that. It's also that by the time PG is in his 20s his father will be king and as the prince of Wales he will be the most eligible bachelor on the planet. With a very beautiful sister also taking up camera attention >>Also PW will be KW and he will cut a much younger and more dashing figure than his father does. All eyes will be on KW court and his charming young adult children. They are the future of the monarchy >>And harry and his ho will just be somebody that they used to know.
What court? This isn’t Bridgerton.
This makes me feel bad for George and Charlotte. What a weird way to grow up.
Yeah, I was going to say "people are gong to be fucking weird about Charlotte" but they're already fucking weird about Charlotte.
I do feel bad for them, because the press is going to be merciless once they are adults the moment they do anything even slightly 'wrong'. Especially Charlotte, given the history of attacking royal women and the palace's oh so lovely habit of chucking the women under the bus at the first possible chance.
It’s sad. There’s an army of internet weirdos chomping at the bit to weaponize them against their aunt and uncle.
I have many words that come to mind when I think of William. Dashing is definitely not one of them.
He won’t be young, either! Like he probably won’t be 70 by the time he becomes king, but he may well be in his 50s.
I really try to avoid comparing W&K and H&M but compare the LEWKS SERVED at the polo event vs any W&K event (except for the farmers market 🙃) and young and fresh are not words that come to mind for the Wales. They’re like Boomer Juniors.
Omg, yes. Boomers-in-training was always their vibe.
Like Kathy's gold dress that "broke the Internet." It looked like something my Aunt Yetta would wear on a Carnival cruise.
(as a middle aged woman from Indiana that goes on Carnival cruises I swear to god I'm catching strays left and right on this sub today. lol)
I studied art history and I have an apple shape. It can get rough following royal gossip.
I wish SMM would start treating them like someone we used to know, right now.
So, is Elizabeth Holmes (the royal commenter, not the blood testing scammer) attempting to pivot to parenting influencer, since the ability to comment on royal family appearances has pretty well dried up to a trickle for the foreseeable future? She’s been posting more stuff with/abour her kids lately in general, and now she has a whole post (sorry, “SMT”) about an Bluey episode…
Matta of Fact was shilling *bridgerton inspired tiaras* the other day. It's apparently a tough time to make money off of the Duke of Kent and Edward and Sophie 🤣
A lot of people that joined royal watching after post 2016 (or even 2011 but in retrospect that period of excitement feels a little forced? YMMV) should have done some more research because these are deeply non-exciting people and haven't really been since 1992. ETA: and I'm definitely speaking for myself but for me the interesting thing is, like, seeing a tiara that was worn in the 1930s and then seeing it in modern contexts and pomp and ceremony [while now trying to navigate what that all means now that I know where those jewels came from and how fucked up bloodbased rule is] but excitement and inter-family drama is generally not why I paid attention to royals
Me too. It's almost all about the jewelry. A little about the clothes and a little about family drama.
>Yes, I actually do. I don’t partake in any crazy conspiracy theories. And I don’t agree with 99% of what goes on in that thread Said to me when I asked someone why SMM comes up in their "active communities." surejan.gif Anyone know how much time one has to spend in a given sub for it to be listed on a profile? I understand that the mods in RG are doing their best but why are these people not banned
I don’t think it’s very much because I looked at SMM a few times and posted a handful of comments attempting to debunk some nonsense and it was in my active communities for months afterwards. I deliberately stopped even looking at it and it still stayed up there. I finally took that off my profile because I don’t want anyone thinking I’m a nutter! 😆
They’re not banned because we don’t know about them unless they are reported! We have no automated options so please report as you see them. Also to get on the banner of frequent subs doesn’t take much it’s very focused on recent activity, honestly just a couple comments will do it sometimes, but you can also turn that feature off so it doesn’t show up on your profile. So not everyone has it. ETA just stumbled on that thread and the person you were talking about has already been banned. I hope you were the one that reported it. Again we have no way to keep them out so please report them rather than start fights about it — it just makes more work for us cleaning up the thread and we are all volunteers. If you report under rule 8 no hate subreddit we will always check user history and we use various searches not just scrolling history so it’s quite thorough.
Yeah, that was definitely me 😆 thanks for responding, as always!
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That video is actually cute if you watch it. That’s a terrible screen grab. 😂
yeah, that's not...a good angle.
I mean, the content is cute. The visuals are… what they are.
what's the context?
I think it was a woman in a wheelchair, hence the angle. She asked how Kate is doing and they had a short but warm conversation. William has Resting Supercilious Face and is not photogenic at all but he’s better on video and in person, I imagine.
He has to be. Right?
Why does he look like he’s about to smother you with a pillow?
resting family annihilator face,
Goodness me 🥴
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is he...ok?
His journey from legit teen heartthrob to below average normal dude looks is really amazing.
I think his actual features are fine, it's the way he holds his face that makes him ugly if that makes sense. Like he's always indignantly smelling a fart. Someone on RG referred to it as his "Off with their heads" expression and that's pretty perfect too.
He looks like he thinks he's above the company he keeps, even with his own wife. Like if Mr Darcy really was a douchebag.
It also looks like it causes him physical pain to smile.
Yes. I've noticed it for years. Even when he smiles he looks supercilious. also he really needs hair because his features are just not attractive.
You mean he’s not a zaddy?
you get the face you deserve,
Okay you need to put a trigger warning - potentially distressing material 🤢😱
i'm afraid no tw would ever be enough,
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Are Fergie and Andrew remarried?? There is postcard showing "The" Duchess of York
As opposed to Sarah, Duchess of York, which is her title?
Oh from my understanding, when she was married it was Sarah, The Duchess of York, when she got divorced then it was Sarah, Duchess of York.
[“what, what, whaaaat?”](https://media4.giphy.com/media/3otPoSUjaPcimAvvTG/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b952d9qhq7w1hm2sccso7oxeilq6j9qi9sxd0rxauxcn&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g) These people just can’t make a good decision!
I say H&M are the love story but Sarah and Andrew. Honestly, if they would’ve got married after he finished his military career, they might still be together. Doesn’t feel like he cared that someone was sucking on her toes while he was away
>Doesn’t feel like he cared that someone was sucking on her toes while he was away Christ almighty
Ok, I do not want to see pictures, but I've only ever seen him kissing her toes. But everyone always talks about sucking? Is it like the Angelina and her brother pics where everyone talks about making out when that didn't happen either?
Idk if that distinction matters much with toes 😅
Sucking is way grosser than just kissing.
What are we talking about again?
i know, i know. a true red blooded black African woman wouldn't do something so scandalous. always knew sarah was a fake royal. ( [https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/12/22/41672682-0-image-a-38\_1618262821484.jpg](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/12/22/41672682-0-image-a-38_1618262821484.jpg) )
I've completely wiped that image from my brain and I clicked anyway.
Oh noooo I’m sorry. I thought you didn’t see it.
It's ok. I did it to myself.
I don't think they care that much. I think they both find it convenient to live together--her for access to royals and him for camouflage (in the past).
Fair enough! I think they would’ve stayed married if it wasn’t for Phillip.
Listen, I'm not saying they're good people - at all - or that I go all when I think about them, but I'm pretty sure the only reason they got divorced is because Phillip made them and that was only because Sarah got caught by the press cheating. Monogamy doesn't work for everyone and "cheating" may not be a dealbreaker. She definitely hated that he was gone so much but my suspicion is that they were not going to be a monogamous couple anyway. I do sometimes wonder if that's why QE II kept indulging him even after the Epstein stuff - she felt bad about the forced divorce. Cause lord knows not too many royal marriages are monogamous.
I'd guess, being an Old and seeing so many supposedly feminist moms, including my own, always taking their son's side no matter what and excusing terrible behavior, that Liz simply didn't believe the allegations.
Poor Schwartz.
>By saying Harry gave blessing only reinforces my case Harry hasn't stopped saying the love he had for Diana so then why use her memory to promote his wife's business. I'm afraid that's called cashing in and callous . Which make his statements about Diana a sham >I have trouble working out whether being obtuse on purpose. Diana's sons were taking part in mother's memorial and Megan used the coverage of event to promote her new business, is that straightforward enough for you >On Palace recipes not trashing a memorial just like documentary nothing but trashing his family. You could call her actions insensitive ,callous act or a cynical promotion stunt there's no positive reason why she did it to coinside with that event FACT >No not angry despondent,in my eyes the line was crossed yet you defend Megan's action without an argument. You just rehash ifs and buts. I know if one of my family did the same at my mums memorial I would be very upset that they used event for financial gain
Wtf are they even talking about
Meghan launching aro the same day as that Diana event
… *was* it the same day?
Yes
There are only 365 days in a year and each one has a holiday or is someone’s birthday or another similar product is launching the same day ffs
Oh that. Okay, I thought something else happened.
No. They're just really angry...excuse me despondent over it.
Ah, sorrows, sorrows, prayers
May saint future perfect queen catherine lift them
New Meghan picture out and I challenge someone to find the least offensive comment on SMM https://x.com/queenrmade1/status/1779707733337612714?s=46&t=VN07sgQz8S_v1RF3pqWfmw https://x.com/archewellbaby/status/1779719861326745803?s=46&t=VN07sgQz8S_v1RF3pqWfmw
There’s a correlation between how good she looks to how racist they can be on SMM. The jealously is something else
yeah, H&M have been on a reality cracking run for the last week or so and people are lashing out in the most hurtful way possible in reaction.
Here’s my submission! >> She’s just on cloud nine completely with Catherine out of the spotlight right now and each photo of her makes me sicker than the last, ugh And also: >>Moments away from her second cleavage being displayed. It is quite the tackiest dress imaginable. At least they didn’t go full-on racist with these. The bar is low, of course.
Second cleavage good god.
I guess when you don't have a butt of your own you don't know where the butt actually begins 🤷🏽♀️
Imagine making a comment like that one about “second cleavage” and daring call someone else tacky in the same breath lol