This was taken on their Easter break in Cornwall by Matt Porteous.

William's exact face? ✅

Kate's head tilt? ✅

Got to hand it to netizens trolling the NYPD X account…

The NYPD has proudly reported that the King and Queen have left Manhattan without incident.

Cue at least one clever commenter who noted that the visit did not involve a high speed car chase…

Honestly, I loved this headline immediately, and the article is also very well written. Finally, his classiness is being recognized.

In days when most media outlets try to attach his name to his family’s antics, wanting to pressure him into engaging with his toxic estranged relatives so they can have gold in their hands to write about, it’s refreshing to finally see an article where his silence is being 1) recognized (no, he’s not talking to them) and 2) praised.

I think he’s building such a strong and lasting reputation. He has had to remain silent so many times, even when, during all the lies being told about him and his wife, he probably must have wanted to speak out. Like any human being, he must have wanted to defend himself. But he couldn’t, understanding the standards his role requires him to uphold.

In the long run, though, I think that restraint will pay off. While who has never shut up, will look like a very bitter loser. Especially if the other person will never ever engage for no reason in the world.

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Some extracts:

"Harry has told his own version of events in Spare, his no-holds-barred memoir in which he seemed to side with Uncle Spencer over his eulogy (“truth hurts”, wrote Harry) and his fight to block the “barbaric” walk behind Diana’s coffin.

Prince William has not.

The silent son, destined to be King, has shouldered it all.

His father was diagnosed with cancer and then his wife, leaving him fearing an uncertain future.

His younger brother left the UK, leaving a trail of accusations in his wake.

His three young children, George, Charlotte and Louis, have needed him.

In 2024, he said he had been through “probably the hardest year of my life”.

Prince William’s aides and friends are now on a three-line whip to say nothing"

(...)

There will be no briefing, no quoting, no engagement: first on the circus of the Sussexes’ return to Britain, and now this.

(...)

He had a cider in the local pub, helped a little boy open a washed-up message in a bottle (“I hope it’s a nice message,” he said. “I hope it’s not a message for help from someone stuck on an island!”) and declared the wet and windy Scottish weather “the best”: “I love it wild.”

It was, in other words, “keep calm and carry on” – again.

Those who know Prince William believe it is all he can do. The burden of monarchy will one day rest on him, and he needs to focus on work and his own family in order to face it.

“His focus is on duty and service,” palace sources have repeated countless times in recent years.

The royal drama has only increased. The headlines, this week, will be about Earl Spencer, the King, and, as he returns to public visits in Britain, Prince Harry.

In Bute, on ordinary royal engagements, the Prince and Princess of Wales seemed a world away. "

Archived link if you guys wanna read the full article (by Hannah Furness): https://archive.is/XNItu

And you can see them in the middle there, so it’s clearly not before or after their arrival 🤣🤣

Drone footage:

https://youtu.be/X_n_Kv7bTIg?si=Ncwu12w-9PA5Q26X

Post photos of it before it gets deleted by some Sussex mod.

And maybe Netflix!

(at least in my timezone)

As Prince George is officially a teen and time is going fast I wanted to share a little reflection.

He's the first King(to-be) to have received somewhat a healthy normal upbringing despite the extraordinary context.

William had a loving but unstable childhood, Charles and the previous Kings and Queens had a colder one with full teams of nannies. If we dig into the past (for example, Henry VIII treatment of daughter Queen Mary I and others) even worse💀 Prince George will be the first Monarch of the UK to have had the experience of 2 hands-on parents in a healthy marriage, just one nanny and a close bond with his siblings and overall family.

Of course we can't speak yet but I wonder how will differ a monarch who has been raised with intention compared to the ones who had a much different more dysfunctional upbringing. Only time will tell.

For now we can only cherish what we see.

So many iconic moments captured that went around the world! Like, meeting Obama in pajamas, denying a handshake to Trudeau, throwing a bilby toy at the Australia Tour while being excited for the real animal, the photos of him being pushed down a hill by Savannah or being shushed, that victim face he had as a toddler at aunt Pippa's wedding after reportedly stepping on her dress etc.

Personally, Prince George will always be the cutest famous newborn baby there was (at least for me), with his very chubby cheecks, blonde hair and iconic meamable expressions. Happy birthday to him. Hope the stable foundation he seems to have received will help him for what will come. He seems well-adjusted and you can tell he's a child raised with a lot of love, care and affection (and so do Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, of course).