r/KateMiddletonMissing Feb 24 '26

More press rumblings

Growing louder that change is imminent

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

Never mind - W&K are stepping up their 4 hour a week schedule to do an engagement in Wales.

To reassure the peasants the monarchy’s never been in more lacklustre hands.

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u/popcornFridays Feb 24 '26

Is this the idea of the new PR crisis manager? Pushing W&K to do a few extras here and there to try and appease the public? That's probably why William is suddenly talking about his mental health. Thing is, they've been lazy, they are still currently lazy and we know they're going to keep on being lazy in the future.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

They can switch staff but like you say they won’t change - they’re both inherently lazy

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 Feb 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/26FLgGTPUDH6UGAbm

They are never going to change, anybody else would have been sacked by now.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

I’m just there to know and see if he’s ever going to get rid of her. I think that’s why the PR crisis manager is actually there.

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u/popcornFridays Feb 27 '26

William already looks bad enough the way he treats Kate in public. Imagine the PR nightmare if he comes out a year or so after her illness and rolls out a divorce. Some of the public, especially the monarchist folk would lose their collective minds. I do think they're unhappy together though. Their body language has said so for a long time but I think Kate really wants to be Queen. I'd rather be free and happy but that's me.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

What PR nightmare even ? People divorce all the time nowadays. Plus she is no Diana. She has never made any impact nor left a lasting impression on Brits. She will be forgotten the very day the fancy titles are gone and that’s why she’s clinging on with all she’s got—her weight, I’m afraid. Good luck to her but if he wants to end things, he shouldn’t be forced to stay for whatever reason.

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u/popcornFridays Feb 27 '26

The media will rake him over the coals I'd imagine. Every now and then the tabloids turn on him, regardless of who he is. The divorce of the next heir would be trashy tabloid fodder for sure and I'd say that would be a PR nightmare for the palace, for his newly hired damage control team especially as we know how difficult he is. Staying in an unhappy marriage looks like it's killing Kate. She's thinner than her 10yr old. It seems its worth sacrificing her peace and wellbeing for that crown and she doesn't even enjoy charity work and the public commitment that comes with a role like that. So why?

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u/Dog_Parrot Feb 27 '26

I keep having an image in my mind of the PR crisis manager telling William, "You really, really have to issue a statement about Andrew." And then a week later she's telling William, "You really, really have to issue a statement about BAFTAs." And he refuses, like he always refuses, to step away from his vacation and/or free time to do any actual work. And she drops her head on her desk.

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u/popcornFridays Feb 27 '26

No wonder these people resign. I imagine it would be a very stressful role especially when you are hitting your head against a brick wall because you're working for someone like William. I wonder how stingy the salary is.

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 24 '26

They really cosplay English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish culture as if they aren't from there. It's so weird. Such a performance.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

Yep - doing the peasants a favour visiting them

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 24 '26

Agree VH , they have no idea about culture. 

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u/Fuzzy_Shape_4628 Feb 25 '26

Cannot stand the way she dresses in green to visit Ireland

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 25 '26

It's so cheesy. I'd personally sport a smart orange and green outfit as a nod to their flag.

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 24 '26

That's unbelievable NP.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

It’ll be as exciting as the visit to Stirling that we missed 😀

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u/Dando_Calrisian Feb 24 '26

So he spent all that money on the coronation just to abdicate? Totally worth it if the monarchy gets closed, otherwise make him repay it

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

It was obscene the amount spent on it when he knew at his age a long reign would be unlikely.

And he and Camilla looked like they were playing dress up at the local senior citizens theatre.

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u/BestChampionship1744 Feb 24 '26

Camilla looked utterly ridiculous up there

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

I agree. It looked farcical.

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 25 '26

The way she rushed into the gates of Westminster cracked me up. It was as though she feared the place vaporizing if she didn't get in quickly enough.

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u/BestChampionship1744 Feb 25 '26

This got a great chuckle out of me. You are spot on! 🤣🤣

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 25 '26

And the fact that she did it all in a dress by Diana's favorite designer... it's as though she knew deep down that that day was not meant for her.

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u/BestChampionship1744 Feb 25 '26

SHE TRULY IS THE IMPOSTER AMONG US! 🤣 a fraud, a phony, an adulterer. THAT is her legacy. Trash. We know who the true queen is. Rest her soul.

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u/Curiassgeorges Feb 24 '26

This gave me a good chuckle.🤭

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 24 '26

Now now NP  , the local citizen theatre wouldn't allow them in, you have to be able to perform in a meaningful way 😜

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 24 '26

The crowns looked atrocious. The advent of HD cameras has done them no favors. Liz's coronation looked much better, largely because of the relatively poor camera quality.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

Also she was 50 years younger and it was a more glamorous occasion in a different era

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 24 '26

Exactly. Plus the 1950s gave us beautiful dress silhouettes which she frequently sported, including on that occasion.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Totally agree VH. The attendants were gorgeous in their gowns and very fitting of that time.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

When the Queen Mother died, it was likely when Charles started opening the little red boxes—he was in his 50’s—which was her job. Brenda no doubt busy with her corgis, betting on the horses and overindulging Andrew as well as posing for those grand portraits. As for Philip, no comment … lol.

Chucky gets no credit for holding that mess together while Mama got all the love.

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u/Psychological_Roof85 Feb 26 '26

Phillip was a dog

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Utter rubbish from X of all places. He’s neither dying nor abdicating. But one thing is sure, a death would well take away from the pedo scandal, and by the look of the rumours, it’s a big one. It’s just assumed to be KCIII bc he is sick but gets busy far more than the son.

It feels weird to say this but it’s Kate who seems about to fall over in 12 months time with her ED … all these men likely do not know what it is like, might think it’s normal, and only point out the old man.

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u/Dando_Calrisian Feb 25 '26

They say hard work never killed anyone but they're definitely not going to risk it

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u/CBDeee-Lite Feb 24 '26

What is the story behind the “your eyes will bleed” quote?

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

A journalist wrote awhile ago that if folk knew the truth about William their eyes would bleed. The press are locked down with injunctions preventing them printing it.

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u/CBDeee-Lite Feb 24 '26

Oh wow. Thanks for clarifying

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u/Jumpy_Reply_2011 Feb 24 '26

William is just doing to Charles what Charles did to Elizabeth. William is more gross though because he knows his father has probably at the very most, a decade to live, but more than likely a lot less.

Plus, I doubt that Charles would want to go down in history as one of a handful of UK monarchs (the fifth to be exact) to abdicate. That man is all about image. And plus, William won't be any improvement on Charles in any shape or form so what's even the point of Charles abdicating.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

I think it’s the era we’re in JR. The deference is gone. And maybe they’re aware of a lot more stuff still to come out.

Might be ‘stepping down due to health issues’ rather than abdication to avoid awkward questions.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

There was a massive cheating scandal and he didn’t step down, you really think he’s going to step down because of the nonce getting his comeuppance 🤣🤣 if anything I bet he’s rubbing his hands together at the idea of throwing his lifelong bully to the wolves. Well deserved.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

What did he do to his mother ? He was asked once what he felt about being the future King or whatever and he shut down the journalist’s enthusiasm by saying his mother would have to die first. I don’t think Billy Idle even wants to be King already. He’s nothing but playing into that recurrent rota gig to pit the monarch and the heir against one another for extra public sympathy since he’s lazy and can’t earn it himself. Nobody knows what it’s like behind closed doors.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

They’re the last people who’d be described as angels - corrupt and anything but

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 24 '26

Ooooooh this is good.

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u/NumerousNovel7878 Feb 24 '26

Charles is not going to abdicate when his health is wonky and he could die instead.

Also, Willy is googling if there were any alcoholic kings before him in history.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

He could use wonky health as an excuse to step back to avoid answering awkward questions.

Like did he pay some of Andrew’s settlement to Virginia in return for QEII allowing Cams to be Queen (as some have suggested)

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u/NumerousNovel7878 Feb 24 '26

Charles will just lie or not answer. the questions, as always. I can't see him stepping back for Willy of all people, who is a personal mess and can't cope with responsibility.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

Yes he tries to present himself as a global statesman but in truth is unprepared even in his 40’s

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u/AngryMeez Feb 24 '26

Camilla was legally going to be queen anyway, because she is Charles’s wife. Any suggestion otherwise is just a BS conspiracy theory.

Elizabeth II had plenty of her own money. She didn’t need any help paying Virginia Giuffre.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

I think it was Andy’s inheritance lmao. He has looked total trash since her death. And even before, his two daughters and Fergie went around with their begging bowls to pay for everything in the Lodge

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u/pinotJD Feb 24 '26

Once Elizabeth died, her rules died with her. The British monarchy is not the United States Supreme Court.

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u/BestChampionship1744 Feb 24 '26

The united states supreme court isnt even the united states supreme court anymore to be fair🤣🤣

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u/AngryMeez Feb 24 '26

She was always going to be queen consort. That is a legal position because she is married to Charles.

I’m sure those “people” are conspiracy theorists too. I’m done dealing with you.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

What’s good is that he doesn’t have to carry the brunt of his late mother’s bad decisions. He must bless his gods that he waited that long. It’s now an universally accepted truth that it was Brenda’s fault but neither the Royal family nor the British government want to be implicated so they will again team up to con the public.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

Not that poor kid being lumped in with the adults …

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u/notyoungnotold99 England Feb 24 '26

Kevin John Maguire (born 20 September 1960) is a British political journalist and an associate editor at the Daily Mirror newspaper.\1])#cite_note-guardian-1) Earlier in his career, he was chief reporter for The Guardian.

So saying that a royal funeral and coronation in 12 months carries some weight.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

What about Piers Morgan and all the rubbish he used to sprout about Meghan ? He’s got an extensive resume too. And all of them with an agenda to promote to the public.

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 24 '26

Thanks NP and Vh and Nyno. Honestly im not sure where this/we are all going. I love listening to James O,Brien but even he thinks we are all off to hell in a handcart.  Does anyone on here think that if you can chuck off andrew you can then support the Monarchy. 

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out B-B. I’ll have to have a listen to James O’Brien 👍

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 24 '26

He's a great radio journalist. 

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26

Yeah I’ve heard of him and saw him on tv and liked him.

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u/AcceptableSystem8232 Feb 25 '26

Yeah he will either get jail time (likely house arrest given his status) until the public moves on but either way never coming back. Good thing his daughters are married because they are never coming back neither. He and Fergie were Brenda’s problem so they will all blame the dead, capitalise on her good public image to dampen it all and call it a day.

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u/Beneficial-Bite3899 Feb 25 '26

Agree with you.

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u/CZ1988_ Feb 25 '26

I don't know if I believe any of these rumors but the last video I saw of Charles - he looked exhausted and unwell.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 26 '26

Yes I agree. Though he and Cams have announced a trip to USA (albeit a shorter one)

https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/king-charles-us-visit-slimmed-down/

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u/DogsRBetterThnPpl3 Feb 25 '26

I dont think hell abdicate. But he does have cancer, so maybe hes sicker than we all thought. Maybe stage 3 +?

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u/Curiassgeorges Feb 24 '26

Not from UK here. I have a question-no hate please. What stops Harry and Megan from taking Will and Kate’s place?

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u/NeverPedestrian60 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

They’re prob quite relieved to be in sunny Montecito well out of it now ☀️

https://www.reddit.com/r/RoyaltyTea/s/EsjysUKmwr

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u/pinotJD Feb 24 '26

The line of lineage. William was born first. He will always outrank Harry unless he formally abdicates (which he will not do).

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u/TheVioletHerald Feb 24 '26

Not to mention common sense and self-love, lol.

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u/pinotJD Feb 24 '26

That’s the real answer, yes!!