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Kensington Palace has been on a briefing frenzy over the past 48 hours. My guess is that Buckingham Palace and Clarence House directly ordered the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to not create any drama with or about Harry and Meghan while the Sussexes were in town for the Jubbly. KP studiously avoided briefing against the Sussexes for four days, but then as soon as the Sussexes left, KP went into overdrive. First off, Page Six claims that the Sussexes did invite the Cambridge family to Frogmore Cottage for Lilibet’s birthday picnic, but the Cambridges declined because… the Sussexes leak. KP is literally leaking these stories.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle invited Prince William, Kate Middleton and their children to Lilibet’s first birthday party as an olive branch — but the family did not attend, Page Six is told. Amid the brothers’ ongoing fractious relationship, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex asked the Cambridges to join them at their UK home, Frogmore Cottage, in Windsor, on Saturday.

But the Cambridges and two of their three children, Prince George, 8, and Princess Charlotte, 7, were in Wales for the day taking part in Platinum Jubilee celebrations. And as Page Six previously reported would happen, the Sussexes left without spending any solo time with William, Kate and the mini Cambridges — and their kids, Archie, 3, and Lili, didn’t get to see their cousins.

One UK-based royal insider said: “Things are still fraught — William is still wary of spending any time alone with Harry as you never quite know what may be reported back afterwards.”

[From Page Six]

Again, William and Kate’s office has been on a briefing frenzy and they’ve been claiming to multiple outlets that THEY are very worried about what might come out of the Sussexes’ communications office. To underline that point, the Telegraph had this curious passage in an article which was supposed to be about how big, fancy and important the Cambridges are:

While the Cambridges were prominent throughout the weekend, the public did not see much of Harry and Meghan – and nothing of their children. The couple kept a low profile at Trooping and were relegated to the second row during Friday’s service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, when they were seated across the aisle from William and Kate.

A royal source confirmed that the Cambridges and the Sussexes had “no interaction” during the busy weekend, suggesting that relations between the couples remain strained.

“A line was crossed with the Oprah Winfrey interview and it’s hard to come back from that – not least when there has still been no acknowledgement of the motivations behind it and the hurt it caused. Someone needs to be steely in this,” said the insider.

Reports that second cousins including Peter Phillips’s daughters Savannah, 11, and Isla, 10, and Zara and Mike Tindall’s children Mia, eight, Lena, three, and one-year-old Lucas attended a party at Frogmore House for Lilibet’s first birthday on Saturday appear wide of the mark.

Royal aides are now bracing themselves for images to emerge of Lilibet being introduced to her great-grandmother and namesake after the Sussexes visited the Queen at Windsor Castle following Trooping the Colour. They were also spotted driving out of Clarence House, the London home of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, before the thanksgiving service, suggesting that they spent some private time with Charles and Camilla during their whistle-stop return to Britain.

[From The Telegraph]

“Someone needs to be steely in this…” Wow, that is a fascinating quote. It suggests that the Queen and Charles are NOT “steely” about the Sussexes. Almost as if Charles and the Queen have quietly acknowledged that they f–ked up and they’re trying to diplomatically make some kind of peace with the Sussexes, all while Steely Baldemort is incandescent with rage about… the Oprah interview. “A line was crossed with the Oprah Winfrey interview and it’s hard to come back from that – not least when there has still been no acknowledgement of the motivations behind it and the hurt it caused.” Harry and Meghan were describing THEIR hurt, their pain, how Meghan was suicidal because of the smear campaign William and Kate ran against her.

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We knew that Dan Wootton would cry salty tears about something involving the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the godforsaken Jubbly, but I’m always curious to see just how nitpicky these people are and what arguments they make. Harry and Meghan were quiet for their four days in the UK. They went to church, they went to Trooping the Colour privately and that was it. They were clearly invited to other events but declined. So Wootton’s Daily Mail column is called “The glorious Jubilee has shown the gulf between the Sussexes and the royals is larger than ever, leaving Harry and Meghan bigger pariahs than Prince Andrew among their relatives – but they now need the monarchy more than it needs them.” Ah, yes. Harry and Meghan “need the monarchy” so much, which is why they avoided being photographed with senior royals and why they skipped out on several events and jetted out as soon as possible. Some highlights from Wootton:

Harry & Meghan were invited to the Guildhall reception after the church service: One of the rooms hosting dignitaries and other invited guests had been left without a member of the Royal Family present to mingle and chat as promised. The mood turned frosty when the upset attendees, who had expected to be hosted by a minor royal as they were served English sparkling wine and a buffet of traditional dishes like coronation chicken and smoked duck, were told by organisers it was because the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had turned down an invitation to attend.

Courtiers & royals were horrified by the Sussexes’ demeanor: “I’ve learned some members of the Royal Family and many senior courtiers were horrified at the detached and cold appearance by the exiled couple, who had also made the decision to fly out of the country before the Queen had even made her historic Buckingham Palace balcony appearance, alongside Charles, Camilla and the Cambridges, on Sunday evening.

Meghan’s window: And while Harry and Meghan cannot be accused of attempting to steal the limelight – even though Meghan did tellingly seem to wind down her car window in the presence of photographers – the couple’s actions appeared designed to make it clear to the world that they continue to disapprove of, not only their blood relatives, but the institution they represent.

Lack of trust: Meanwhile, the lack of trust between the warring camps is now off the scale. It might sound like a ridiculous concept, but sources close to senior royals have warned them to consider that Harry and Meghan could secretly record their conversations. I must be clear that there is no suggestion the couple would ever do that, but even the concern they would is illustrative of just how toxic relationships have become. There is also an ongoing fear the couple will continue to leak intimate family moments to favoured American TV broadcasters.

Charles & William don’t want any more American interviews: I’m told Prince Charles and Prince William have made it known that they simply will no longer countenance even the smallest detail of their complex family relationships being used as fodder for US stars, after revelations by both Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King on US network CBS about private conversations between the senior royals caused fury.

Wootton honestly thinks this makes the Windsors sound reasonable: Somewhat astonishingly, Harry and Meghan are now considered bigger pariahs than Prince Andrew internally within the royal institution… A royal source explains: ‘Prince Andrew is less of a pariah than Harry and Meghan as far as the family are concerned. The public might be surprised, but within the family it is seen as if he didn’t do anything wrong. They have to believe that.’

The Sussexes haven’t moved on from royal life, lol: But the irony is that, just as the Royal Family has moved on, it seems like Harry and Meghan could want more involvement in the future. For commercial reasons at least, Hollywood bosses believe the Sussexes need to keep a closer proximity to their British relatives in the months and years to come to keep their brand relevant…Courtiers are now watching closely to see if Harry and Meghan release any pictures of their weekend in the UK, especially their meeting with the Queen, in the coming weeks or months.

[From The Daily Mail]

Wootton goes further, saying that the “Duke of Woke” is increasingly irrelevant, which is funny because Wootton devoted his entire column to how royals and courtiers couldn’t stop talking about Harry and Meghan and everyone at Guildhall was disappointed not to see Harry & Meghan. Obviously, there was no way for H&M to “win” with people like Wootton. The fact that Wootton even bothers to complain about Meghan & Harry rolling down their car window to wave at people shows that all of these people are desperately reaching for something to complain about. The part about the royals being less mad at Andrew… I believe that. I absolutely believe that. But it’s not some kind of slam on the Sussexes, it’s further evidence of just why they left.

As for Harry and Meghan’s “cold and detached appearance” at church… you mean when they walked into church with their heads held high? Wootton and the rest of them are mad that the Sussexes didn’t come back to beg for mercy.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left the UK with their children mid-day Sunday. It was not “the middle of the Jubilee.” Sunday was the last day of the four-day Jubbly weekend. The rest of the family attended the Jubbly parade in London, where images and videos of Prince Louis’s tantrum spread around the world. At the same time that Louis was covering his mother’s mouth, Harry, Meghan and the kids were on a plane, getting the f–k away from Harry’s dysfunctional family. They only decided to go to the UK when the Queen personally requested their presence. Harry clearly arranged their schedule specifically to honor the Queen and to spend some time with her privately and that was literally it. So instead of the British media getting to write a million stories about how Harry and “brazen hussy” Meghan stole everyone’s thunder at multiple events by simply showing up and smiling, now the media has to pretend to be scandalized by the fact that the Sussexes left on the last day of the Jubbly. From the Daily Beast’s Royalist column:

There was widespread astonishment in royal circles Monday after it was confirmed that Meghan and Harry left Britain by private jet before the platinum jubilee celebrations were finished, delivering a snub to the queen and organizers of the event.

A friend of the royals expressed the irritation felt by many at what was perceived by some to be a churlish and attention-grabbing departure, telling The Daily Beast on Monday: “So much for not overshadowing the queen. Would it have killed them to wait a few hours?”

As The Daily Beast reported Sunday, the couple boarded a private jet an hour before the big jubilee pageant in central London began, landing back in Los Angeles at 6 p.m. local time Sunday. A source told The Sun: “They just left.”

While there had been suspicions that the couple perhaps didn’t have the best experience of the jubilee, spending much of the celebrations hidden away behind closed doors, and not invited to many of the weekend’s most significant events, their decision to flee the country while the queen’s life was being celebrated by 6,000 military and civilian performers in central London looks distinctly churlish. They were in the air, crossing the Atlantic, when the queen emerged on the Buckingham Palace balcony at 5 p.m. for her surprise balcony appearance with Prince Charles and Prince William, both of whom Harry has publicly criticized.

[From The Daily Beast]

Tom Sykes goes on to claim that the Sussexes were “being deliberately treated as unimportant and distracting appendages to royal life” during the Jubbly… which is funny, because H&M were trending on social media throughout the Jubbly and every British media outlet was obsessed with reporting everything about them. Sykes also claims that Harry and Meghan were “excluded” from all of the other Jubbly events, which… I doubt. I think it was clear weeks ago that the Queen invited them to all of the events and they turned down several invitations. I’m sure they were invited to the horse thing on Saturday. I’m sure they were invited to the Jubbly Concert Saturday night. They chose not to go. In doing so, they look like they refused to be used as props, as distractions to the monarchy’s mess.

Anyway, they were always going to be accused of “snubbing the Queen” and “pulling attention.” They can’t help it if everyone wants to watch them and everyone is interested in what they’re doing!

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Here are some photos from Day 4 of the Platinum Jubbly. The Cambridge family was back in London, as was Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Tindall family and the York princesses, among others. They all went to the Jubbly Parade, and the royals and politicians were once again seated in VIP seating, just like at the Jubbly Concert the night before.

The difference for the parade was that Prince Louis joined his siblings and he was bored out of his mind. He wanted to play with his second-cousins. He wanted to sing, to dance, to be loud and rambunctious. Which is fine. He’s four years old, a lot of little boys are like that. You would think that a credible expert on Early Years would understand that Louis is probably too young to behave for a long parade. You would think that coloring books would be provided or that – gasp – Louis’s parents would have just let him misbehave and be done with it. Instead. Kate kept getting in his face and telling him to watch the parade. He put his hand over her mouth and threw a tantrum about it, front row, live on camera. Even Reuters used the word “tantrum.” So did CNN.

Louis really did his utmost to get summarily carried out of the venue, but to no avail. pic.twitter.com/uXzlKKDikB

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 5, 2022

This is a good illustration for why Prince Louis has been missing from so many kid friendly events in recent months. Again, it wouldn’t have been half as bad if Kate, you know, knew how to handle her child. The way she kept fussing with him and getting in his face was annoying the crap about me, imagine what it’s like for a four-year-old. I also feel like Kate just wants to stage the photos of her “leaning down and talking” to her kids. And all three of her kids are completely over it. And yes, if this had been Meghan and her children, every single British paper would have done wall-to-wall coverage about how Meghan is a bad mother and her children are demon seeds.

After the parade, the Cambridges joined Charles and Camilla on the Buckingham Palace balcony, and the Queen made a “surprise” appearance. The optics made more sense for this appearance – at least the Queen’s heirs were closest to her, which was not the case at Trooping. Once again, Louis was bored out of his mind. He was too little for all of these Jubbly appearances and his parents are too incapable of dealing with him. Someone fetch Nanny Maria.

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The British royal commentators spent the weekend banging their heads against the wall, wailing about why the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were being so secretive, so quiet, so lowkey. Nevermind the fact that all of those same commentators were having meltdowns a week ago at the very idea that Harry and Meghan might turn up to events and steal everyone’s Jubbly thunder. At the end of the day, Harry and Meghan quietly went to Trooping the Colour with Harry’s cousins on Thursday, they attended the service at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, they threw a nice little birthday party for Lili on Saturday, and then they were out of Salt Island on Sunday.

A glum-looking Prince Harry has arrived back in California with Meghan Markle and their children as it emerged they left Britain on a private jet before the grand finale of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee even began yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their children reportedly flew out of Farnborough Airport, west of London, at 1.30pm yesterday, an hour before the Jubilee Pageant started in central London.

It marked the end of their Jubilee, where they were left without any official role having quit as frontline royals in 2020. One insider said: ‘There was no fanfare, they just went. They didn’t stick around for the Platinum Jubilee pageant which is a celebration of Britain and all of its quirks and eccentricities over the Queen’s 70 year reign.’

At lunchtime yesterday the Montecito-based couple were reportedly driven from Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, where they were staying since arriving in the UK on Wednesday. And they were already crossing the Atlantic as Harry’s grandmother, father, brother and nieces and nephews waved to the adoring crowds from the balcony at Buckingham Palace at the denouement of four days of wonderful celebrations marking the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.

[From The Daily Mail]

While I would have loved to see them do a few more public events – come on, everyone would have loved those photos – I completely adore how they handled all of this. It was spectacular. They took the wind out of everyone’s sails. Harry and Meghan made it clear that they merely came for the Queen, to support her and so that their children could spend some time with her privately. And that’s it. That’s all they did. They showed support for the Queen (at her personal invitation) and they did not show any public support for anyone else in the institution. They were not used as diversity props in the Windsors’ colonialist play. And the papers can’t stand it. They’re trying to make it sound like Harry and Meghan left in a tiff because they were so “snubbed.” LOL. This was most likely their plan from the start. And I love it.

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Just so we’re clear, the British media spent a full months crying salty tears about how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were going to steal the Queen’s Jubbly thunder, that they would be seen constantly during their visit and it would be awful, that no one in Britain even wanted them there, that the Sussexes would be booed everywhere, that everyone hates hates hates them. Harry and Meghan then turn up, stay lowkey save for one gorgeous appearance at church, and now the new storyline is “why didn’t Harry and Meghan do MORE?” Why weren’t they seen more, why weren’t they humiliated, why didn’t they beg the British public for crumbs, why didn’t Harry throw himself upon Baldemort’s mercy? It’s insane.

Following the Jubbly church service, Richard Kay shat out a long column about how Harry and Meghan were now royal B-listers, relegated to sitting with “the also-rans of the Royal Family” (aka Harry’s cousins and the Wessexes). Then, Kay writes this sh-t with a straight face: “There they waited, exchanging small talk with Harry’s cousins as the real stars of the show arrived, William and Kate accompanying Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.” This is the fundamental issue with the Windsors and their sycophantic media machine: they think they can solely dictate someone’s popularity. They think that what they did to Harry and Meghan would leave them humiliated, and that people would obviously want to see William and Kate more because the Windsors are telling people: you should want to see William and Kate, they are the stars. Meanwhile, people were literally craning their necks to check out H&M, their names were trending on social media for days, and Meghan’s Dior look is the one people will talk about for weeks.

Anyway, Kay had another point, which is that the people are apparently desperate to see William and Harry reunite or make some kind of peace. That was also the point of a very special “Daily Mail Comment” (basically a staff editorial), which was headlined: “William and Harry’s brotherly rift must pain the Queen so much.” The Queen went out of her way to keep the brothers apart, likely at Harry and William’s separate requests. The staff editorial had this hilarious conclusion:

There is of course a deeper poignancy to Harry’s estrangement from William. The nation grieved with the boys on that day in 1997 when they walked together, inconsolable and uncomprehending, behind their mother’s coffin. They had lost so much, but at least, we thought, they had each other. Brothers in arms.

If we feel sorrow now at their alienation, imagine how their grandmother must feel. How she must long for them to find a way of repairing the old bonds.

That would probably necessitate Harry making the first move, an apology perhaps for all the heartache and offence he and Meghan have caused – especially to Kate.

There was little evidence of rapprochement yesterday, however. For now, at least, the brothers remain worlds apart.

[From The Daily Mail]

There we go: “That would probably necessitate Harry making the first move, an apology perhaps for all the heartache and offence he and Meghan have caused – especially to Kate.” Ah yes. That was the point of all of it. “We’re shunning you, you and your Black American wife are so unimportant, we don’t care about you at all, you’re a B-lister, you should be groveling at my feet, apologizing to ME!” Absolutely psychotic. William, Kate and the British media are all running DARVO on the Sussexes.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went to Wales on Saturday, as they were scheduled to for weeks. They brought their two older children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, but seemingly left Prince Louis at home. I think Prince Louis’s first big outing with his family on the balcony was deemed “enough” for little Lou for the time being. That child was too much, everything was too loud and he looked way overstimulated. He’s a little firecracker though. In any case, Charlotte and George are old enough to “behave” during public events, which magically means that they’re now considered working royals, I guess. George and Charlotte look unimpressed with public duties, in general. One good thing is that William and Kate were so busy fussing with George and Charlotte that this was the first event/trip they’ve done in months where their body language isn’t set to “William can barely tolerate Kate.” Shades of Diana and Charles, using the kids as buffers.

As for Kate and her fashion – Kate did a rewear of a very expensive bespoke Eponine coat. The Mail said the coat is orange, some photos make it look red, so I’m going with orange-red. My guess is that Kate didn’t feel like doing flag-cosplay today and maybe “red is Wales.” I found Kate’s hairstyle pretty interesting – she so rarely does a high ponytail with straight hair. It is… um, a very Meghan hairstyle.

Interestingly enough, Kate did a quickie event on Friday evening, when she made a surprise visit to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. She wished them a happy Jubbly and she wore a mask.

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For all the talk about the “body language” and “frostiness” between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there was no public interaction between the Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and the Sussexes either. Everything about Friday’s service at St. Paul’s Cathedral was choreographed precisely so that Charles, Camilla, William and Kate would not have to be in the same frame at Harry or Meghan, or speak to them whatsoever in public. Now, we also know that Charles and the Queen did a lot to ease Harry and Meghan’s path for this visit. That much was clear. It’s also clear that Harry and Charles have had *some* contact in recent months, especially with Charles and Camilla seeing the Sussexes on their April visit. So… this isn’t surprising: Harry and Meghan apparently went to Clarence House on Friday morning before the church service.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen leaving Clarence House after meeting with Prince Charles at his London residence this morning, it has been claimed. The Sussexes were reportedly seen leaving his home shortly before Friday morning’s National Service of Thanksgiving. After leaving, they were followed not long after by the Prince of Wales and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

Clarence House and Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on reports that the Queen has already met the couple’s daughter Lilibet. But Vanity Fair reports Harry and Meghan met with Charles before the service, which the Queen was forced to sit out.

[From The Daily Mirror]

Some British outlets are going with “secret talks,” but as always, there’s a difference between discreet and secretive. I think Harry and Charles are quietly and discreetly talking and they’re trying to work through some things. Is everything perfect between them? No. Will all of their hatchets be buried? No. But they’re grown men and I genuinely hope they can work something out where they can at least talk. I would also hope that Charles showed an eagerness to at least see and spend time with his grandchildren.

In the New York Times’s coverage of the Jubbly events, they describe this year as Charles’s “soft launch” as eventual monarch, with Peter Hunt calling him “the de facto, front-of-house head of state.” Historian Ed Owens told the Times: “We’re living through a regency in all but name. They’ve got no blueprint for what to do with a monarch who is so aged and so frail.” I think that’s important to remember too – what’s happening between Charles and the Sussexes isn’t just about an estrangement between father and son, it’s about a soon-to-be king making peace with the prince who is partly a political asset and partly an existential political threat.

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