What followed nearly became an international incident.įirstly, the couple arrived in the sort of convoy you’d expect for a US cabinet secretary or a lesser Kardashian, in what appeared to be three hulking black cars.īREAKING: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived at Ms Foundation's annual gala at Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York ð¹ /N1IUUxiObA- Harry Rutter May 16, 2023 Take the events of late May this year, when Meghan got an award in New York for ostensibly saving feminism thanks to a bit of cheque-giving and regularly name-checking gender equality. While the exact events surrounding Seatgate may never come out, what has become clear since then is that often there is a certain circus that surrounds her and husband Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. (Though then, why let her out into a sea of thousands of people?) Maybe there was something else going on.
Maybe her security team had gotten some warning and was creating some sort of cordon. Maybe in reality all those empty seats were down to some overzealous Wimbledon staffer, desperate to ensure the duchess had a smashing day. Picture: Laurence Griffiths/Getty ImagesĪ club source told the Times: “Andy Murray was on Court 1 afterwards and it was a massive faux pas not to watch a Brit when she is signed up to the royal family”. She also “ruffled feathers” at the famed All England Club by turning up in jeans. Then there was the fact that the duchess “ruffled feathers” at the famed All England Club by turning up in jeans, which meant she couldn’t enter the Royal Box because of the strict dress code. He appeared a bit mystified as to why he was being asked to make such a request”.Īnother tennis watcher, Hasan Hasanov, was spoken to by protection officers, but told them, according to the Daily Mail, he had “no idea she was there”.Įgg ended up on certain faces when photos clearly showed that Hasanov was not trying to photograph Meghan but Roger Federer instead. One such fan, Sally Jones, told the Telegraph that the request was “astonishing” and that “I think this royal protection officer was quite embarrassed.
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NqdkXsyByj- Chester Kisiel January 20, 2020Īccording to reports, spectators sitting nearby were “ordered” to not take pictures of the duchess, even though the game was being broadcast live on TV and there were press there to boot. When Kate was there, she sat among the crowd like everyone else. The Duchess of Excess? At Wimbledon, 40 seats around Meghan were left empty, and security stopped people from taking photos of her. (Reporting at the time said that Court One was “packed” and Serena Williams was playing so it’s not as if this was down to a lack of public interest). When the duchess took to the stands, it was to sit in a sea of dozens of empty chairs, a scene that had never played out before or has since. One official involved in organising Meghan’s visit told the Times: “It was a nightmare, she was a nightmare”. Then we fast forward to Jwhen Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex turned up with a couple of old friends to watch some tennis. Perhaps if one is inclined to mutter an “oh good show” here and there, so be it. In the last 12 years, avid tennis fan Kate has been to Wimbledon so many times that they should probably just let her have her own keys.Īnd the vast majority of those visits have hardly differed from the very first time members of the royal family (the future Edward VII and Queen Mary) rolled along in 1907. Which is what makes things over in the court of Sussex so marked. The thing is, the general mode à la Wales is that it is entirely sans fuss and fanfare. Watching it, though, the most interesting thing is how low-key her visit largely is. It’s the sort of thing that should be prescribed for insomnia or to be screened as punishment in juvenile detention. This week Kate trotted along to Wimbledon to do her bit for King and Country, and the social media video put out by the tournament is take-the-cake dullsville. Having to come up with fresh ways, day-after-day, of making two steady, dependable, vanilla sorts doing good into Instagram catnip is a challenge beyond me. Or, there is a Master of the King or Queen’s Music, which dates back to the 17th century, and which is a role that these days I assume means creating bespoke Spotify playlists for Queen Camilla to listen to while she’s having a sneaky cigarette in the tub.īut one of the inestimably most monotonous, and hardest, would have to be running the social media accounts of William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Take the poor bloke who looks after the more than 400 clocks at Windsor Castle and who has to spend 16 hours resetting them by hand when daylight savings changes. There are some bloody boring jobs on Planet Royal.
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