@DeanBakopoulos
Not just kids of immigrants, try being a child of parents who grew up during the Depression and WWII. You can use EVERYTHING again. And again. Until your kids are cleaning out plastic bags and folded-up aluminum foil from 1972.
@SussexHenryVIII
The unwillingness of KP to offer a current, unadulterated photo of Kate is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Why won't they or can't they?
@BurnerRoyalty
The irony is if William and Kate and Charles and the rest of them had welcomed Meghan and stopped the attacks on her and Harry, their own workloads would be considerably lighter and the spotlight would be off their lack of work.
@SussexHenryVIII
Yep. They dragged her out of a hospital bed within hours of giving birth, did her hair and makeup, had her walk out in heels, for three Lindo Wing pics. If she was conscious and had no obvious head or neck injury/wound, there would have been a photo by now.
@BurnerRoyalty
And about that other "visibly angry William and Kate" bit too. It's getting harder and harder for the UK media to ignore the obvious tension between them and/or to spin it as something else.
@SussexHenryVIII
All of the Windsors' actions toward her have been so self defeating. She and Harry would have been an asset, a buffer for Will and Kate's problems and a solid sign that the family is keeping up with the times. Instead, they are destroying themselves by trying to destroy her.
@DrJenGunter
Spanx is a billion dollar company but sure, Megyn, do tell us that we don't have to tuck anything. Also, if this is the biggest thing she's got to worry about, tags on swimsuits at Target, millions of people want her life.
@BurnerRoyalty
The whole vibe today was decidedly downbeat and very odd. Harry and Camilla are the only ones who made the attempt to look happy. The Waleses looked furious from start to finish.
@SussexHenryVIII
Something else is going on behind the scenes too. The rota have turned the Sussex bashing and Meghan hate up to 11, which is a good sign that they're trying to draw attention away from the Waleses.
@SussexHenryVIII
The "William by my side" bit is laughable and sad. He allowed the speculation about Rose to run rampant in the media, he allowed her to be thrown under the bus for the fake photo. Pardon me if I doubt William's love and devotion for his wife at this point.
@BurnerRoyalty
No amount of "protocol" excuses can paper over the fact that William loathes Kate, can barely tolerate being around her for any amount of time, and that Kate is done trying to make it look good for the cameras.
@SussexHenryVIII
I was glancing back over all the patronages Kate "embraced" in the run up to the wedding and in her first year of marriage. With only a couple of exceptions, we've never heard about any of them since then.
@TudorChick1501
Kate's PR is her mother, presumably, and if history follows. But if Carole IS the one briefing Tominey, it's very strange that this is the picture that Carole allowed Tominey to construct. There's no way that Kate looks good out of all of this.
@BurnerRoyalty
They know that, in about 48 hours (or less), Harry and Meghan are on their way back home and that cash cow is gone. And the Palace (AND Charles AND William) need that sympathy vote. This will be another epic fumble but they're desperate now for anything to distract.
@SussexHenryVIII
Saw that earlier. That is the weirdest phrasing I have seen. And "surrounded by family," given her mystery cancer diagnosis and disappearance from the public eye, is ... not encouraging. It's like they're trying to prepare the public. 🙄
@BurnerRoyalty
George and Charlotte looked really tense and unhappy too. Part of that is the event itself, they had to be overwhelmed and certainly tired. But the tension between the Waleses was so thick it could have been cut with a knife. Kate isn't even trying to pretend anymore.
@Jeremyakee
Stonehenge. We visited on a rainy day in 2016. I was standing out by one of the smaller standing stones (that isn't roped off). There was a crow sitting on it, sheep down in the pasture. It was just one of those silent moments when you literally feel time give way.
@oldenoughtosay
@MelanieEast72
They dragged her out of bed within hours of giving birth, THREE TIMES, put her in a dress AND HEELS, did her hair, did her makeup, and paraded her on the Lindo Wing steps for photos. This time? They can't/won't even do a fuzzy "waving from the car" or at home recuperating photo?
@BurnerRoyalty
The mediocrity of low expectations personified. All he was ever expected to do was exist, marry, beget a male heir and spare and wait for his father to die. Nothing of substance was ever expected of him.
@SussexHenryVIII
I follow gardening, royal, home interior and HRP accounts on here and Instagram, they range from the Hebrides to Yorkshire and Norfolk, to Cornwall and Devon. Most of them post daily outdoor photos and video. None of their places look like the photo's outdoor surroundings.
@GOPLeader
You might want to talk to the farmers in your state about who does the work of planting, caring for and harvesting their crops, caring for their livestock and other ag and food industry jobs that Americans won't do.
@SussexHenryVIII
Taken by an outside, verified, unbiased videographer. At this point, every photo from KP and from the Wales' comms team is suspect. The level of fail here is unprecedented, as far as royal PR/comms goes. The comms delay after Diana's death doesn't even come close.
@anne_marchant
It's easy to see why Kate was so jealous and bitter, aside and apart from Harry. Meg had a successful career, close female friends and vacations with them, the "single girl summer," all the things that Kate never had while she scurried around chasing after and waiting on William
@PunkyMantilla
Agree. The only tip re: the fresh meat/dairy donations is a call first to make sure the pantry has any or enough refrigerated storage to accept donations of meat and milk.
@SussexHenryVIII
The frantic attempts by the rota to change the subject and try to refocus on the Sussexes tells me that things are much, much worse behind the scenes that the Palace is saying publicly. This is more than clicks and views. They REALLY want to change the narrative.
@royalwhisper
Too little, too late. But at least some of them see what they lost. Even in the background, as he was today, Harry is, far and away, the star. And the king is the king. He could have stopped the hate directed toward them with a single word, one phone call.
@RoyaNikkhah
They literally lived in Wales for several years. And he's had 40 years to prepare his Welsh. His father gave his PoW investiture speech in Welsh. But sure,
@royanikkah
, keep covering and making excuses for this laziness and sheer disdain from the "working" royals.
@SussexHenryVIII
William keeps fumbling this and he continues to dig a hole that he'll never be able to extricate himself (and Kate) from. And it continues to beg the question of why Charles doesn't step in, at least for the Crown, if not because it's his son and heir.
@BurnerRoyalty
The 800 pound gorilla in that room is why the king has not stepped in and taken over, why he has let his heir implode in such a public and dramatic fashion. And if he's too ill, and too terminally ill, to do so, that raises some other, much more significant dynastic questions.
@SussexHenryVIII
I keep trying to push the thought away but it's starting to smell like domestic violence. The forced, almost manic "MOVEALONGNOTHINGSOSEEHERE!" attitude from BP and KP AND their media poodles and the absolute absence of information indicates something much more sinister.
@jonathanshalit
@LadySassington
@netflix
@InterTalent
Has anyone checked on little Richard Palmer yet? Even from this side of the pond, I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth, smell the carpet wetting, from the royal press poodles spinning in circles.
@CAFinUS
Thank you, neighbors. From Vimy Ridge to Juno Beach, from Operation Friction to Kabul and Kandahar, thank you for being there beside us, and for Gander, on 9/11/01, thank you for giving shelter to those who came from away. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
@SussexHenryVIII
@Clairedashian
The normalcy of what they are doing makes the enormous abnormalcy of what is going on with Kate and William even more glaring and obvious.
@SussexHenryVIII
The other sad part about it, and it's evident in your responses, is that people won't believe this announcement either, since KP now can't be trusted for the truth.
@SussexHenryVIII
I also keep getting the vibe that whatever this is, Charles knows it's THE thing that could bring down the monarchy - and that's significant, given the monarchy's most recent crises (his affair, Diana's death, Andrew's criminal proclivities).
@TudorChick1501
I find it odd that, in 26 years, not one pap who was involved in that chase that night has given a deathbed confession or come forward, in his dying days, to tell what happened in the minutes leading up to the crash. Not. A. Single. One. 🤔
@BurnerRoyalty
The other forward-thinking monarchy that is doing an exceptional job of preparing the heir is Spain. Felipe and Letizia have had Leonor AND Sofia out and about, learning how to meet and greet, since they were just little. Leonor's done more work at 18 than William has at 40.
@SussexHenryVIII
I am not a fan of hers but, in fairness, she is only doing what someone with a loved one in hospital should do - visiting on a regular basis. I think it's odd that people think visiting a loved one in hospital, especially after a surgical procedure, is some extraordinary act.
@LindaPSchacht
@laurapeek_
Well done, Great Aunt Margaret, and also Aunt Linda, for coming thru with that affirmative verb use. RIP Great Uncle Roy. Did Lila marry?
@Angry_Staffer
Ordinary citizens get FTA warrants issued when they forget about traffic citations. How and why do we keep allowing the political class to abide by a different set of rules???
@BurnerRoyalty
Kate's expression throughout last week's events and at the funeral was absolutely bizarre. Every other Windsor female cried and/or looked sad. Kate just looked furious. Every time.
@BurnerRoyalty
I wish there was some UK reporter who had the guts to mention that Camilla being chums with Clarkson and Levin absolutely destroys any credibility she has or had in regards to her work with domestic violence and violence against women. What a sham.
@SussexHenryVIII
And now William is proving as unpopular as his father. So now what? I think the ship has sailed on the "Will/Kate will grow into their roles" talking point (which was ridiculous since both were almost 30 when they married). This is who they are.
@BurnerRoyalty
They know what's coming with Andrew. And they know it's not going to be good. Liz didn't pay off Virginia Giuffre because she thought Andy was innocent. And the Wales marriage hasn't been great for a while.
@CarmenGranddau1
The two of them just exude glamour, the kind of glamour that always surrounded Princess Diana. You either have it or you don't and they both definitely have it - and to spare!!
@funder
Flint water, Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, veterans' healthcare, military family housing, Blue Water Navy, infrastructure (roads, bridges, inland waterway locks and dams), Cali fire recovery, Midwest tornado recovery.
@MagdalenaOnFire
Well said and a welcome perspective. The "public's shame" and "the problem was the conspiracy theories" tack shows that Kensington Palace continues to blunder and mishandle this. It's like watching a slo mo PR/comms train crash.
@SussexHenryVIII
It is absolutely baffling to me why UK residents in one breath will complain about how long the wait times are with NHS and how much they are suffering and then fiercely defend stuff like this and maintaining the royal family, who contribute nothing.
@BurnerRoyalty
It's almost as if the media is doing those stories to expose the royals' privilege. People on NHS wait lists vs. Kate with a 10-14 stay in the hospital. Single parents juggling illness, work, kids, bills vs. William, with an enormous staff and no job.
@BurnerRoyalty
Weird that Pippa and her husband didn't bail them out. James Matthews is a hedge fund manager. You'd think he'd have contacts who could have discreetly purchased the company or done something before it went into administration.
@BurnerRoyalty
Bringing one or both of the Sussexes into any story about the "senior royals" is the only way that the UK media can hope to get enough views and clicks to justify their continued employment.
@jeneps
There aren't enough hours of confession available for these people to repeat the act of contrition as many times as would be needed for doing this. I think karma or fate or judgment or however you want to call it has a special present waiting for these people.
@CamillaTominey
@Telegraph
Hilarious that royal reporters who savaged the Duchess of Sussex at every turn and encouraged the worst racism, insults and threats to her and the Duke are now scratching their heads about why the Sussexes went to ground and will likely remain there.
@SussexHenryVIII
I came here to say this exact thing. The amount of embarrassment and the loss of credibility they would have saved, just posting that video a month or six weeks ago.
@GagaVanTrap
@SussexHenryVIII
He held back to continue to protect himself and his family. I am sure he has made it clear to his father and brother that if his family is threatened, the rest of his story goes public.
@ddale8
OMG, this whole thing is beyond unhinged. This is dementia-level rambling. Seriously. The phrasing, the drifting to completely unconnected topics, this is deja vu for anyone who's ever had a loved one with dementia.
@SussexHenryVIII
I'd add the reaction to the queen's death. People were sad, but it didn't come close to the level of national mourning that Diana's death brought. The accompanying condemnation of the monarchy as an irrelevant, outdated institution should have raised alarms.
@SussexHenryVIII
With all the careful coordination and planning that the RF is supposed to do, I do not believe for a second that they would have allowed Kate's surgery to interfere with the king's, and thus, for her to get the attention. One of those hospitalizations was an emergency.
@SussexHenryVIII
Do you think there will be a tipping point ever, when either the rota or the public question any of this with William? I mean, this is Little Richard's standard lackey stuff but it's hilariously weak, even for Palmer.
@SussexHenryVIII
STOP reading my mind! I was JUST thinking that, can you imagine the conversation at that luncheon, after those racist old sots were six or eight G&Ts in? If Clarkson felt that comfortable saying what he did publicly?
@AgathedeLili
Anyone and everyone who wept at the sight of that little boy, obviously heartbroken, walking behind his mother's casket, without even a hug to reassure him, should be livid about the way he and his wife and children have been treated.
@thecatreviewer
Pest control staff at northern Illinois farm and greenhouse. Tawny lad definitely eager for fusses, his ebony coworker not so much. 20/10 for greeting guests and photo during staff meeting.
@SussexHenryVIII
I think the biggest danger now, especially for William's and George's crowns, is what appears to be an utter lack of real public concern, or even interest, in where Kate is and what happened to her. It's good for the Crown now, but the apathy isn't a good sign for the future.
@SussexHenryVIII
You and
@BurnerRoyalty
called it. The health of both of them is worse than is being reported and the health of both of them has been bad for longer than we know.
@chrisshipitv
Two unemployed aristos, surrounded by servants, on a luxe private train, granting largesse to the peasantry. Wow. Did they and the KP staff brainstorm for the most tone-deaf gesture (aside from the January migration via private jet to Mustique) the Cambs could make? 🙄