#robert jobson

[grits-gal-raised-in-the-south]

You Know it's bad when Charles has lost his number fan, Robert Jobson: "remove Harry from the line of succession"

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

I read Robert Jobson's biography, Catherine, Princess of Wales this week.

The anon was right - if you've followed William and Kate closely, there's very little new information or big reveals. The book reads more like a research survey/review of all the articles and public records available about Kate rather than his own work or investigative journalism about Kate. And because there aren't many real reveals, it feels a little unauthorized to me. Let me explain - usually when the rota writes a book like this or a major piece in honor of a milestone event, the writer will typically contact the palace and the palace will give them a list of names they can interview or use on background. So because there's really nothing new, I'm not sure that this book had that kind of cooperation from the palace.

I'd call it a great book if you're not very familiar with Kate and would like to know more about who she is, the work she does, and how she fits into the BRF. But also make sure you read it with some salt because Jobson does pass off Harry's book as fact (i.e., I'm pretty sure the only people who believe that William and Kate were fans of Suits is Harry. Given the few TV shows we know they've watched, Suits doesn't strike me as something in their repertoire.).

Some new-to-me reveals:

William and Kate lived on their own for their third and fourth years at St. Andrews. (I thought they'd always lived with their friends.)

Michael Middleton also had health challenges in 2024 that also required surgery, which led to William and Kate leaning more on Pippa and the Jameses for a bit till Michael was back on his feet.

Charles was diagnosed with his prostate issues in 2022 but felt he couldn't undergo treatment then because Her Late Majesty had just died and it would've caused a public crisis. (I'm really side-eyeing him/BP now for this, and I'm also wondering if the delayed treatment means his cancer spread/is more complicated than initially reported.)

Harry and Meghan were offered Adelaide Cottage when they were moving to Windsor but chose Frogmore Cottage instead.

KP drafted a statement about photogate to be from both William and Kate but William refused to release it since he had no part in it so the statement was amended to be just from Kate. (Which is honestly kind of fucked up of William. Dude, your wife just got a diagnosis that rocked her world, she's undergoing chemo, and you can't take one for the team?)

In the chapter about Kate's work, Jobson does confirm that she and William do a lot of behind-the-scenes work with their charities and patronages and that they work a "regular" schedule even on days they're not making public appearances (obviously YMMV), to which I say again: William and Kate need to be showing us that work more. They don't need to take a Wales version of the red box photo, but at least start reporting these calls and work events to the Court Circular.

Anyway, like I said - good book if you're not very familiar with Kate, but otherwise it's not really worth it. Really needed more pictures, too.

[houseofbrat]

ROBERT JOBSON: The late Queen's shocking gesture which revealed the d…

After the loss of her husband, the Queen spent nearly all her time at Windsor Castle, where she had few visitors. Her days were quiet, her health was rapidly declining and she was often lonely. Among the few who saw her regularly were Prince Andrew, his ex-wife Sarah and their daughters. Charles would stay overnight when hosting investitures, and occasionally dined with his mother. And Prince William? He offered her some company. As he was living nearby at Adelaide Cottage, the Queen also often spotted him and his family in the park below her castle window. Although she loved William and saw much to admire, she told insiders that she feared he might become a 'celebrity monarch' rather than a dedicated one. His rigidity, according to a royal source, occasionally frustrated her. A case in point was when the Queen asked him to stand in for her at the official opening of Thames Hospice's new 29-bed facility by Bray Lake, Berkshire, near Windsor. She had a particular connection with it through a retiring staff member who had looked after the budgerigars at the Royal Aviary, and she didn't want to let anyone down. But on the day of the ceremony, July 15, 2022, she was feeling particularly frail. William's schedule might well have accommodated this last-minute duty, but he cried off, citing fatherly duties. This left his grandmother not only disappointed but irritated. She is said to have scoffed: 'Isn't that what nannies and policemen are for?' Ever the stalwart, the ailing Queen asked Princess Anne to accompany her and went anyway. The 45-minute engagement – during which she spent some time with a woman expected to die within 48 hours – was the last she ever carried out in England.

Why am I not surprised?

And people actually think William was behind Andrew's title changes? The same William who couldn't spend less than one hour at an engagement on behalf of his elderly and frail grandmother in her Platinum Jubilee year?

The only thing William cares about is not working.

[trexalicious]

I started reading this but stopped after a few chapters. What I've read so far is a total regurgitation of what most of us already know and his so called 'source' seems to be Harry's liefest Spare which he quotes from...a lot! TOTAL hatchet job on Catherine and the Royals with the exception of the TEMUs who are widely praised...👎

[jerseydeanne]

[ifreakingloveroyals]

20 March 2022 | Catherine waves to the crowd today in Belize. (c) Robert Jobson

[ingek73]

Duchess Meghan ‘didn’t understand’ that the Cambridges were ‘the number one couple’

April 28, 2021

By Kaiser

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are co-chairs for Vax Live, a Global Citizen-affiliated concert which will raise money for global vaccinations. This is a lot bigger than I originally thought, which is saying a lot! The Sussexes and Global Citizen have got a lot of A-list celebrities and performers signed up for the concert, plus world leaders will be making appearances:

Prince Harry and Meghan will serve as the campaign chairs of Global Citizen’s effort to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to medical workers in the world’s poorest countries. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will appear at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World,” to be taped Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and air on ABC, CBS, FOX, YouTube and iHeartMedia broadcast radio stations on May 8, Global Citizen, the anti-poverty nonprofit, announced Tuesday.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will also appear during the broadcast as part of the “We Can Do This” initiative to increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Croatian Prime Andrej Minister Plenković will also appear at the concert, which will be hosted by Selena Gomez and headlined by Jennifer Lopez.

Harry and Meghan are also leading an effort to raise money for the vaccine-sharing program COVAX, which hopes to produce $19 billion to pay for the vaccines for medical workers. Global Citizen said the idea is to push businesses to “donate dollars for doses,” and the world’s seven biggest economies to share excess vaccine supplies with countries in need. As of April, 60 nations had still not yet received any COVID-19 vaccines, Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans told the Associated Press. The celebrities will also urge pharmaceutical companies “including Moderna to make vaccines available at not-for-profit prices.”

[From CBS News]

Macron, Biden, Harris, Trudeau, Plenkovic… when will your fave? My God. And no Boris Johnson, which is HILARIOUS!! So, yeah, this is a big deal and it’s amazing that Harry and Meghan are co-chairs and that they’ve obviously been helping out behind-the-scenes. It’s just a reminder that Harry and Meghan have always understood how to use their profile, how to maximize their names for the greater good. I bring this up because royal commentator Robert Jobson was recently farting about how Meghan didn’t know her “place” in the royal food chain. Jobson said, in part:

“[Harry] is not the sharpest guy, but maybe he didn’t want to explain it. It’s hard work being a member of the royal family. People think it’s not but it is. It’s not glamorous and maybe she didn’t fancy that after at all….When [Meghan] saw that she had the little house and William and Kate were the number one couple she probably didn’t understand that and thought, ‘Well we can do better than this and start commercializing the royal family,’ well frankly that’s not acceptable,” he said.

Jobson notes that the point of the royal family is centered on “service and helping others. It’s not to do with helping yourself. I’m afraid that’s what’s happened here. I blame Harry really because he knew the story but he wanted his cake and to eat it and you can’t do that.”

[From Page Six]

Harry served in the military for ten years, founded the Invictus Games, founded Sentebale and did tons of on-the-ground conservation work for years. I think he genuinely believed that with Meghan by his side, they would continue to work on charitable endeavors, represent the crown and be beloved members of the Windsor family. He didn’t count on everyone in his family being engorged with rage, jealousy and pettiness. Anyway, Harry and Meghan are global superstars and the Keens are playing with sheep. Everybody got what they wanted.

Celebitchy is a daily gossip and entertainment blog, started in 2006, which also focuses on liberal politics, royal coverage and fashion.

‘It’s difficult not outshining a match on a windy day.’

[camillasgirl]

More recently, on her 90th birthday, the Queen took the key decision to elevate Camilla to her most senior advisory body, the Privy Council. As ever, this was all done very quietly. And, as ever, the Queen had her reasons. She wanted her daughter-in-law to be at Charles’s side at the precise moment that he formally becomes King. This will now happen: as a privy councillor, Camilla can now attend the ceremony, normally held within 24 hours of a sovereign’s death.

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