A critical blog about Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the rest of the British royal family
Kate Middleton may be out of action due to pregnancy, but she’s keeping in the news thanks to the Anna Freud Centre, of which Kate is Patron, dropping a video yesterday of Kate giving an introduction to their latest project.
Kate Middleton made a video message for Children’s Hospice Week 2017, which starts today, May 22, and runs through the end of this week, May 28.
Last Friday, May 12, Prince William was named the Celebrity Straight Ally at this year’s British LGBT Awards. William did not attend the ceremony, instead sending a video message.
Well now we know why Kate Middleton was wearing a mic on Wednesday, because she was filming a video with Prince William and Prince Harry. The trio filmed their very own #OkToSay video for Heads Together.
I get that we are in the last week ahead of the London Marathon, of which Heads Together is the charity of the year, but the royals really should have spaced out their mental health stuff better. Because two interviews, a video, a documentary interview, and four engagements all in one week was just poor planning. They did a flurry of mental health engagements in February after announcing they’d be doing lots of mental health engagements leading up to the Marathon, but then didn’t do any mental health engagements for a month and a half, and then drop all of these things in one week. Poor planning. Anyway, after Prince Harry‘s interview in which he discussed his own mental health issues following his mother’s death, Prince William also has a new interview about mental health (which is a joint one with Harry), a new video about mental health (with Lady Gaga), and he attended an engagement yesterday for the BBC documentary ‘Mind Over Marathon’ which has an interview with him about mental health.
I’ve been waiting for KP to officially announce that Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry will attend the London Marathon and they finally did Monday morning (before dropping the press release about Pippa’s wedding). KP also announced several other engagements and released a new Heads Together message video from Harry.
Shortly after KP dropped photos of Harry’s summer in Africa, they announced a new engagement for Kate Middleton. I’m also including Alexandra Shulman still talking about Kate, as well as Princess Eugenie giving an interview about modern slavery.
While Sophie, Countess of Wessex has not traveled to Rio to watch the Olympics like some other royals, she is keeping up with how Team GB’s women’s hockey team is doing. Team GB made it into the finals, and Sophie, as Patron of England Hockey, released a video message to wish them luck.
Also on August 4, Buckingham Palace released an update, in the form of a video, on Sophie, Countess of Wessex‘s training for her DofE Diamond Challenge which will see her cycle 445 miles from Edinburgh to London.
Kensington Palace released a video message yesterday which features Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry talking about the 2012 London Olympics over footage from those Games and giving their support for Team GB in the 2016 Rio Olympics.