It was announced that the Edinburghs will visit Papua New Guinea and Japan this September, meanwhile the actual heir to the throne:
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YUP!
William is the future heir to the throne. He will be Papua New Guinea's head of state when he becomes king. If he didn't want to do both trips, then at least he should be traveling to Papua New Guinea.
Nope.
He doesn't care. He's not going to do anything. He's just going to expect his comms team's social media propaganda to save his ass. THE CON IS ON!
He's not prepared to be king, but his insipid fan club will pretend he is because they haven't gotten over Charles & Diana's divorce 30 years ago.
Dedicated members of The Will & Kate CULT whining about a member of the press not kissing William's ass. Well, well, well! How delicate and fragile they are! They can only live if their faves are being celebrated for breathing oxygen every time a reporter or columnist publishes a piece.
Meanwhile, back in reality, Patricia Treble posted a brief piece on Robert Hardman's Canadian edition of Charles III with this commentary.
The King of Canada is also the King of the United Kingdom (and monarch of 13 other realms). This year, people around the world got a crash course in the doctrine of “the divisibility of the Crown” as the political needs of those two countries came into direct conflict because of the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Charles has had to straddle the needs of those separate thrones while alienating no one. After the King’s formal offer to Trump of a state visit to Britain (starting on September 17), he then undertook a 24-hour visit to Ottawa to open Parliament after a federal election focused on the threat posed by the Trump Administration, its tariffs, and desires to absorb Canada as its “51st state.” As Hardman writes about the “divisibility of the Crown”: Now, that potential problem was resurfacing again as Charles III arrived in Canada in May 2025. While there was no overt hostility (he was more likely to be hugged than assaulted), he was, however, expected to issue a forceful assertion of Canadian sovereignty in the face of increasingly combative rhetoric from the recently re-elected American President, Donald Trump. That, though, ran counter to the policy of his British prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, which was to avoid antagonizing Mr Trump in the hope of securing a better trade deal for the UK. Both prime ministers were acting in their respective national interests. But where would that leave the King? Thankfully, as Hardman points out, Charles has decades of diplomatic experience. “Here is a guy who can remember back to de Gaulle stirring things up in Quebec. He went to the White House pre Watergate as a guest of Richard Nixon … He met Churchill, Reagan, Gorbachev; Nelson Mandela was a bona fide chum…. That level of world experience – no one rivals him in the G7, G20, NATO, etc.” Notably, Charles emphasized his dual U.K. and Canadian roles during his state visit to Italy weeks before that quick trip to Ottawa. During his address to the joint Houses of Parliament in Rome
Who here actually thinks William could actually have managed this situation? I don't. Most people with half a functioning brain won't. William can't hack it because he prioritizes himself and his copious vacation time.
William should have a solid fifteen-plus years of diplomatic work under his belt at this point, at least. However, if we're really being kind, he probably has about three. He hasn't done enough for his age or his position. And waxing poetic about seaweed doesn't count!
But the press will probably write eye-rolling pieces about how close Will & Kate are on Thursday when they touch each other's backs, smile coquettishly while making eye contact, and make goo-goo eyes at each other. At the age of 43, they are both twats, who fail to conduct themselves like professionals at their jobs.
