Two nights ago she was in Leicester Square in purple silk with the Queen Mother's amethysts at her throat. Today she was in Essex with the Forward Trust, sitting with people in recovery from addiction. If you want to understand the Princess of Wales, here it is.
The Forward Trust is not a glamorous patronage. It works with people addicted to drugs, alcohol and gambling, a lot of them inside prisons, most of them written off by everyone else. She took it on in June 2021, when it would have been easier to stick to gardens and children, and she has never let it drift. She gave the keynote when the charity launched its Taking Action on Addiction campaign that year. In 2022 she recorded a message that said, plainly, that addiction is not a choice, that nobody chooses to become an addict, and that shame must not stop anyone asking for help. In 2023 she spent a day inside HMP High Down in Surrey, going through the visitors' security like any other family, then sitting in a room with serving prisoners whose road into that prison began with a needle or a bottle, listening. Last November she wrote that stigma lets addiction thrive behind closed doors and ruins lives.
Here is why it matters this week of all weeks. She has spent the last two years learning what recovery actually is, and she has said the honest thing about it: that the hardest part is not the treatment but the phase afterwards, when the clinical team has gone and you are supposed to be fine and are not. That is precisely what the people she sat with today know better than anyone. You do not get out of addiction the day you stop. You get out of it one ordinary Thursday at a time, with somebody who believes you can.
It would have been very easy this week to stay behind the red carpet, to let the premiere be the story. Our darling Catherine Elizabeth went to Essex instead. No gowns, no jewels, a charity many of my old neighbours and school mates who battled drug addiction would have been blessed to know of, and a room full of people whose names will never be in a newspaper. Then home for the school run.
That is the future Queen.
William, you have done nothing to deserve any of what’s happened. Know that your dear mother knew what kind of father, husband and King you were destined to be. The people stand with you and your beautiful family. 🥰👑🙏
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Prince William.
The Lion of Windsor.
While his duplicitous uncle Spencer cashes in on Diana’s memory, and Harry and Meghan keep feeding the circus, William is still quietly holding the line. Betrayed by his only brother. Let down by his father. And still he does not flinch.
Family, duty and the future. That is all he is focused on.
The monarchy has one last great hope left, and it is William.
The rest is just noise.
“It emerged yesterday that the couple's protection vehicles were unable to remain together amid congestion on the route from the family's new home, leaving Harry and Meghan feeling like "sitting ducks" whenever they were stationary in traffic.”
Feelings aren’t facts. They have no security problems, they just don’t want to sit in traffic like other private citizens and are making drama over it.
The suss exes are now engaged in child abuse
They 'moved' to the UK, squatted in someone's house and chose a school for their kids. Then the Presidential-level motorcade they organised to take their kids to school took more than five minutes and hit traffic snarls, like the school drop-off known the world over as a traffic snafu. So they pulled the kids out of a school they already 'loved' after TWO DAYS.
They're using their kids as security pawns for their Ravec demands. If they love the school that much, why not buy a house nearby? It's supposedly a wealthy area with estates dotted about. Buy a place close to the bloody school you chose!
But that doesn't fit their narrative. They'd rather rip their kids out and make sure the whole world knows. It's essentially child abuse.
These two believe themselves to be as important as the King and Queen and want the same level of security. Their self-importance is now insufferable. But no one actually cares about them, their kids, their house, their kids' school or their goddam security.
Tedium ad nauseum.
We are going to show all of these tabloids, newspaper agencies, and Sussex briefers, HELL. @CommunityNotes will be used to confirm, warn, advise, and correct lies!
Imagine ur having a meal with ur friends & chatting & Prince William walks by, cracks jokes, sits down to take a pic and walks on while interacting with multiple people.
Another example of why he’s so beloved—no airs, no obsession with security or drama. He’s just so likable.💕
HRH Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, aka His royal Hotness👌🏽🔥
The photographer deserves a raise. He understood the directives and the assignment☺️🥰
Such a striking and chiseled face and the childhood scar adds that edge you read in him.
No wonder his enemies can never say anything directly to his face but rather leak their moaning in the press as "sources"
The vibe William sends without even issuing a word is: "Do not even try that nonsense with me".
#PrinceofWales
#LionofWindsor
@TG_desk69 This should have been done the day they betrayed the late Queen Elizabeth and then the future King William. They also bullied Catherine and the Wales children and criticised the hardworking people of the UK. The titles need taking too!!
@sage1411 Harry has much to envy. Prince George is attending Eton on his own merits, passing the entrance exam just like his father.
Harry you petty lying fool- get over yourself! 🤢