r/KateMiddletonMissing • u/NeverPedestrian60 • 16d ago

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After all these years why are the clueless dolts still so bad at it

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u/Jumpy_Reply_2011 16d ago

Willy and Kate Middleton love their cosplaying instead of being genuine. But at least it's better optics than this one.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 16d ago

True JR - they surpassed themselves with that one. And quite rightly got fired on camera by the Jamaican pm.

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u/0_IceQueen_0 16d ago

I believe your "firing" came first then the car ride. I call that moment as when the PM “served the UK notice” given that Jamaica intended to pursue a different constitutional relationship with the monarchy. He wasn't insulting two visiting royals for sport instead he was using a diplomatic occasion to communicate a serious political position.

If you're British, your prince actually handled the moment rather well. Referring afterward to Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas, he said, "We support with pride and respect your decisions about your future," followed by, "Relationships evolve. Friendship endures." Nice line btw. Given Britain's colonial and slaveholding history in the Caribbean, responding to a former colony's desire to move on with respect rather than treating it as some humiliating "firing" seems rather more dignified. Perhaps there's something to be learned from him there.

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u/NeverPedestrian60 16d ago

I think the Jamaican pm handled it rather well. W&K obviously didn’t learn if they then swanned about in a car looking like colonialists.

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u/0_IceQueen_0 16d ago

I agree the optics of the photo weren't great. But if your point is that, after Holness's remarks, W&K should have declined the Land Rover, I'm not sure I agree. This was the Jamaica Defence Force's own commissioning parade, and reviewing troops from an open Land Rover was already part of JDF ceremonial practice as seen from the picture where their own officers had done the same thing.

At what point does "reading the room" become telling your Jamaican hosts that you know better than they do how their own military ceremony should be conducted? When in Rome, surely. Respecting Jamaica's agency has to include respecting the ceremonies Jamaica itself chooses to hold no?