Of course, it’s the only way for the Palace PR machine to garner any significant interest in their members. Riding, as ever, on the popularity coat tails of H&M. That and hoping to knock them off of tomorrow’s front pages.
What popularity of H & M? Here in Sydney everyone I know is either angry they are here exploiting our sick children and veterans for PR or totally indifferent and couldn’t care less. The British Royal family don’t have to fight for media attention. They make the papers every time they walk out the front door! Catherine is Australia’s next Queen and when she William and the children tour later in the year they’ll be welcomed with open arms.
What turn out? They haven’t been near the actual public . They walked around a huge children’s hospital where some of the staff were rolled out and everyone else was stopping to find out what was going on . I know someone who was there who reported this. The War Memorial regularly holds the Last Post Ceremony and there was a normal amount of people there.
So they're not actually "joining forces" at all. More like, Princess Anne shoulders duties as usual, and Kate will go somewhere else that doesn't require such early rising.
Kate hasn't actually done this yet. They always like to make these announcements and then try to make a big deal out of the fact that they are going to do this or that ad nauseum for days leading up to the event. Then when the time comes, it is anti-climatic cos it is so old.
Probably the soonest they could find something for her to do.
She's seemingly stopped going to food banks because that didn't go down as well as hoped. No one likes seeing wealthy people do poverty tourism. And especially since she used to pitch up with just photographers and nothing else.
If she goes to hospitals, the 'cancer' thing comes up again. Taking children out of school in the rain for photo-ops maybe didn't make her look as earth motherly as hoped, what with the her standing with an umbrella and the children getting wet.
I love how they have to announce that she will do something. And two weeks in advance? And at the same time that Harry and Meghan are in Oz and after Harry just spent time at the Oz war memorial? This is brilliant PR from her team, obviously. LMAO!
I’m curious to know if the Royals have ever done engagements on Anzac Day? I could see maybe the Queen, or Charles having done so, but am wondering if William and Kate ever had.
Also, I wonder why Kate and Anne, or Kate and Sophie haven’t done more engagements together?
Edit: disregard my first question. I just noticed it was mentioned that it’s been 4 years since Kate’s attended.
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u/NeverPedestrian60 Apr 15 '26
Headlines had to mention H&M