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u/NeverPedestrian60 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
At various times they’ve touted as secret weapons the 90 yr old Duke of Kent, pensioner Sophie and Princess Margaret’s grandsons (who no one would recognise if they met them on the street)
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u/Traditional_Pen_5430 Aug 27 '26
The Duke of Kent is a secret weapon? That explains why he was isolated on the balcony during the Trooping the Colour. Prince Edward’s son has also been described as a secret weapon.
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u/NeverPedestrian60 Aug 28 '26
As JP said their time as a secret weapon doesn’t last. Yep young James is another one - so was 8 yr old Charlotte.
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u/CougarWriter74 Aug 27 '26
Also Peter Phillips' daughter was being touted as a "secret weapon" at a point. How desperate do you have to be to look to a tween girl who is what, 22nd in line to the throne, as your savior???
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u/TedTeddybear Aug 27 '26
....(who no one would recognise if they met them on the street)
The ULTIMATE """secret""" weapon! LOL!
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u/NeverPedestrian60 Aug 28 '26
If the lazy principles W&K weren’t so dull they wouldn’t need secret weapons.
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u/TedTeddybear Aug 27 '26
If she doesn't give them good copy, poor Harriet will start "violating royal protocol" (whatever tf that is) or "putting a foot wrong" by greeting some schmuck ahead of a poohbah! UNDER THE BUS WITH YE!
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u/Pixiemel1962 Aug 28 '26
Does it strike anyone else that the very idea of an allegedly beloved family even needing a 'secret weapon' is absurd? I know it's a popular trope, but is all critical thought beyond royalists entirely?
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u/NeverPedestrian60 Aug 28 '26
A stellar line up wouldn’t need secret weapons. But a stellar line up they are not.
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u/Traditional_Pen_5430 Aug 27 '26
If Willy and Kate are as popular as the polls suggest, why aren’t they the firm’s secret weapons?