I could spend days analyzing the body language between Duchess Kate and Prince William. But I won’t. But a picture really does say a thousand words, huh? Anyway, as we heard last week, poor William and Kate were in such desperate need of a vacation that they just had to jet off to Balmoral, the Queen’s estate in Scotland. Apparently, the Queen’s staff were alerted and ready to tend to Will and Kate’s every need. Poor overworked sausages! Alas, vacations have to end at some point (BOOooo!) and so Will & Kate’s press office is working overtime to remind everyone that they are still working royals and they DO have some kind of schedule. *hair toss*
Pregnant Princess Kate is starting to make up for some lost time. Kate, 32, missed a series of royal outings due to her severe pregnancy sickness – but now she’s got a set of upcoming appearances that are sure to excite royal fans. When she emerged from the Hyperemesis Gravidarum that blighted her first trimester, a palace source told PEOPLE that Kate was looking forward to getting back to helping charities close to her heart. And SportsAid is one of those.
On Nov. 12, she is expected to meet young athletes who are Tokyo 2020 Olympic hopefuls as they take part in advanced performance assessments at a workshop run by the charity in west London. Before then, on Saturday, she and husband William are scheduled to visit an oil refinery that has been a major industrial employer in the area around Pembroke, west Wales, for 50 years.
Later that day, they are expected to watch the national sport – rugby – as Wales takes on Australia in the capital, Cardiff. William, 32, is vice patron of the Welsh Rugby Union. It will be a welcome return for the couple, who enjoyed living in the country for more than three years until last September.
After recently returning from a weeklong babymoon in Scotland, the couple will also likely make an appearance Sunday at the official commemorations for Britain’s injured and dead servicemen and women at the Cenotaph.
So many appearances! So overworked. Someone’s going to need a nice long second and third babymoon in the Maldives. So, basically, Will and Kate will be very visible this weekend and then Kate will do a solo event a week from today. And if they make it through all of that, it’s looking like Kate will definitely be well enough to make that glitzy trip to Manhattan later this month, right? Meanwhile, I read this piece about William’s “first job” with a lot of eye-rolls:
Being a prince isn’t exactly all play and no work. In fact, in the memoir Chatsworth: The Housekeeper’s Tale, author Christine Robinson reveals that Prince William completed work experience at the Derbyshire estate for two weeks after graduating from university in 2005. Prince George’s father was only 23 at the time when he was busy making sausage rolls and mince pies along with the rest of the staff just four months after receiving his degree.
The author dished to Hello! magazine about William’s time there, saying that “he spend a week dressed in overalls, drinking tea and eating fish and chips with the rest of the housemen and joiners.” That’s right…no butlers, no custom-tailed suits, no perks of royalty whatsoever!
“We were staging a ballet in the theatre but discovered the stage was too short and had to be extended. William was carrying planks of wood through the shop dressed in workmen’s clothes.”
And understandably so, people were a bit wary of the new guy after he stepped foot onto the property.
“The look on visitors’ faces was priceless. Most obviously thought to themselves, ‘That joiner is the double of Prince William,’” Robinson shared. “When two old ladies came straight out and asked him, he admitted he really was the heir to the throne. He was, of course, charming.” (But of course!)
That wasn’t the first time that the Duke of Cambridge took part in work following his studies. The 32-year-old has since interned at several financial institutions including the London Stock Exchange, the Bank of England and Lloyds of London.
Yes, William worked at one of England’s grandest estates for… two weeks. Then he did some internships, all of which lasted a few weeks. Then Sandhurst, then the RAF, then the second “gap year” for a Cambridge “bespoke program” plus lots of vacations and now he’s “studying” to become an air ambulance pilot for a commercial company. He won’t officially start that job until next spring. What a life, eh? I’m not denigrating his military career – I think he probably loved his RAF work but William has always been… moody. And it often feels like he’s too busy fighting against his royal role so he’s never really explored what would make him happy. All we really know about his pilot work is that it’s an excuse for him to not do royal work. And I suspect that’s the major reason he does it.
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