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| | Express: Princess Kate's schedule probably won't go back to normal until March | | Added 31 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Princess of Wales was seen and photographed at Balmoral over the weekend. Prince William and Kate went to Crathie Kirk Church at Balmoral on Sunday, with William driving and Kate riding shotgun. William was in Aberdeen last week, so I guess he went from Aberdeen to Balmoral. I wonder if Kate took the kids for the weekend? The kids are back in school, so this was probably just a weekend trip specifically for the photo-op. And the senior royals probably had meetings and made some plans for what the hell they were going to do about Prince Harry?s work in New York this week too trust that the left-behinds have hatched some scheme to try to impose themselves on Harry?s trip. It wouldn?t surprise me if they announced some new ?private meeting? for Kate to try to grab some headlines, but it?s clear that Kate will no longer agree to being sent out to try to steal Harry?s thunder. Speaking of, the Express did a longer piece about how the timeline for ?Kate can?t work? will extend into 2025. Naturally.
Sources have been keen to stress that the meeting about the Princess of Wales?s early years project this week does not signal a full-time resumption of duties and that won?t come for some time. The road ahead still needs to be carefully navigated, as her recovery is expected to extend into the new year even though her treatment has stopped.
Over the coming weeks and months, Kate will work closely with her top team, namely her private secretary Tom White and assistant private secretary Natalie Burrows to meticulously plan her gradual return to public life. She is set to slowly ease herself back into work and has her sights set on attending some public engagements over the coming months.
Key events in the royal diary are set to be prioritised, including Remembrance Sunday on November 10, at which Kate is keen to support the King and the rest of the Royal Family. However, sources stressed that a final decision will only be made in the days before the event.
?Her physical and mental recovery will take some time, and although she wants to return to work she is mindful to prioritise her health, for her family?s sake as much as hers,? one said.
Mr Arbiter noted that the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall the night before could also be a possibility. The Princess is hopeful that she can attend her ?Together at Christmas? carol service at Westminster Abbey in December and join the family for the traditional walkabout on Christmas Day.
The new year is set to follow a similar gradual return to royal duties, with aides mindful not to rush a resumption of a fuller diary. Some have suggested that the six-month mark which would suggest March is a likely timescale of when the public can expect to see Kate attending more day-to-day engagements.
One well-placed source said the couple havent ruled out rescheduling their visit to Rome, which was initially planned for spring 2024 but was postponed following the Princess?s cancer diagnosis, to a similar time next year.
[From The Daily Express]
Y?all already know what I think I think negotiations were afoot for months and a deal was worked out. The sudden reemergence of Carole and Michael Middleton into society was part of the deal, as was Kate?s new schedule. All of the offices are on the same page though, except for Kate and William?s ?cancer-free? video. That wasn?t part of Buckingham Palace?s script and BP was disgusted by it. But everything else is part of the plan, including the new timeline where Kate will still be barely seen through March. Ten bucks says that in January, we?ll be told that she still needs more recovery time and we shouldn?t expect to see her much until Trooping. And on and on. While I think Kate had legitimate health concerns/issues, there?s something else happening alongside those issues.
Kate Middleton pictured for the first time since she announced she has finished chemotherapy https://t.co/zM2u29fOdn pic.twitter.com/vsFKVPjIj4
Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) September 22, 2024
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| | Prince Harry attended a WHO dinner in NYC & has significant events planned | | Added 31 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Prince Harry is already in New York! He was in California on Friday evening, attending and speaking at Kevin Costner?s fundraiser-concert in Carpinteria. Then on Saturday, Harry arrived in New York. We do not have access to any of the photos, but on Saturday evening, he attended the WHO dinner in New York, ahead of the start of the UN General Assembly High-Level Week He met with Queen Mathilde of Belgium and other dignitaries and advocates for ending violence against children. You can read more about the event and the cause here. Additionally, the Telegraph had a preview of two of Harry?s events in NYC this week. He plans to highlight his work with The Diana Award and the HALO Trust.
When he was 18, the Duke of Sussex vowed to finish the work started by his mother, Princess Diana. More than two decades on, he remains true to his word. On Monday, he will take to the stage before a global audience to champion two causes intrinsically linked to her legacy: landmines and young people.
Prince Harry, 40, will be the star guest at five high-profile events held over two days in New York during UN General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week, which will also see him focus on conservation, sustainable travel and the many crises facing the tiny African country of Lesotho. But it will be his first two appearances that honour that birthday pledge; when he steps out on behalf of the Diana Award, which works to create positive change for young people, and the Halo Trust, the charity for which the late Princess famously issued a clarion call for action by walking through an Angolan minefield in 1997.
Tessy Ojo, the chief executive of the Diana Award, hailed the Duke?s continuing support as ?truly priceless?, while the Halo Trust said that in a time of ?unprecedented conflict? the Duke?s voice was needed ?more than ever?.
The appearances will come amid a flurry of activity for the Duke, marking something of a shift in his public profile as he takes centre stage, solo, to further his own charitable causes. Travelling without the Duchess of Sussex, he will undertake a busy schedule somewhat evocative of his days as a working royal, with back-to-back charity engagements in place of glitzy award ceremonies and television interviews.
When he steps out at the Sheraton Hotel in Times Square on Monday morning, he may well cast his mind back to that pledge [to make his mother proud]. The Duke?s first engagement of the week will be on behalf of the Diana Award, a charity set up to reflect the late Princess?s belief that young people can change the world ? and the only one to bear her name. He will take part in a panel discussion with Christina Williams and Chiara Riyanti Hutapea Zhang, two young recipients of the Diana Award, and Dr Ojo on the current mental health crisis engulfing young people.
The event coincides with the award?s 25th anniversary celebrations, and Dr Ojo said that the continuing support of both the Duke and the Prince of Wales was critical.
?It?s incredibly helpful to have people in positions of power, especially a non-political position, and especially in a system when young people are feeling more and more unheard and unseen, speak up for us,? she said. ?To have people who have that platform, who have that power, not only to listen to young people but help amplify their voices, is truly priceless and we are deeply honoured and grateful to have both of them involved in our work, lending their voices to the challenges that young people face.?
[From The Telegraph]
There were equally supportive quotes from The HALO Trust people, basically that Harry is the real deal and he?s absolutely continuing his mother?s important work on landmines. This week is a very big deal for Harry going solo to all of these significant events, highlighting his causes and speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative too. I hope we get a lot of photos!
Prince Harry at the WHO Dinner at the start of UN Week. pic.twitter.com/TIg3dL7JBT
Dr. Zanye Omobolanle (@bookedbusy) September 23, 2024
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| | Janet Jackson on Kamala Harris: 'she's not black. That's what I heard. That she's Indian' | | Added 31 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I will always want to give Janet Jackson the benefit of the doubt. Her musical impact is major and majorly underrated. I still believe Rhythm Nation is one of the best albums of all time. Her career was undermined and almost destroyed by very powerful people. My point is that there?s every reason to give Janet the benefit of the doubt. But we can also call bullsh-t on her, because she just said some really fked up sh-t to the Guardian. The bulk of the Guardian?s interview/profile is about her life as a divorced mom living in London and her career. She apparently has to live in London because her son?s father Wissam Al Mana is London-based, and I would assume that those were the terms of her divorce from Wissam. Janet ?crinkled her nose? when asked if she enjoys living in London. That?s backstory for what everyone?s talking about, which is that Janet is extremely misinformed on the American election. I have no idea what media she?s consuming in England, but it?s bad. Here?s the relevant portion, with everything in context:
We move on to talk about the state of the nation. Jackson brought politics directly to the pop consciousness with Rhythm Nation, which addressed racism, poverty and inequality ? all issues just as urgent today as they were 35 years ago. She is a prolific social media user, and has used her profile to support Black Lives Matter, to bring awareness to police brutality. Does she feel despondent about how slow change is in coming or is she hopeful about the future?
?Well, there?s all this child trafficking crap that?s going on and sex trafficking crap, you know what I mean, that wasn?t so prevalent then?? It?s a strange about-turn, not least because of the many allegations of child sexual abuse made against Michael. But it is also the most forceful she has been since we sat down. ?At least, we didn?t know about it back then. I don?t think we did, did we? Not really. I think it?s really now out in the open, because it?s like a billion-dollar business and all that crap.?
I wonder what internet rabbit holes she?s been going down, but, before I can ask, she?s moved on. ?On [the Rhythm Nation album], for us, it was about making a difference in a kid?s life, a teenager?s life, from them taking this path with drugs and going down the wrong street to trying to make something of themself.?
On that record she sang about ?joining voices in protest to social injustice? and ?pushing toward a world rid of colour lines?. I wonder where she stands on the forthcoming election. After all, I say, America could be on the verge of voting in its first black female president, Kamala Harris.
?Well, you know what they supposedly said?? she asks me. ?She?s not black. That?s what I heard. That she?s Indian.?
She looks at me expectantly, perhaps assuming that I have Indian heritage. ?Well, she?s both,? I offer.
?Her father?s white. That?s what I was told. I mean, I haven?t watched the news in a few days,? she coughs. ?I was told that they discovered her father was white.?
I?m floored at this point. It?s well known that Harris?s father is a Jamaican economist, a Stanford professor who split from her Indian mother when she was five. ?My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters,? Harris wrote in her book The Truths We Hold.
The people who are most vocal in questioning the facts of Harris?s identity tend to be hardcore QAnon-adjacent, Trump-loving conspiracy theorists. I don?t think Jackson falls into that camp, but I do wonder what the algorithms are serving her. I start again. Harris has dual heritage, I say, and, given this moment, does Jackson think America is ready for her ? if we agree she?s black? Or, OK, a woman of colour?
?I don?t know,? Jackson stage whispers. ?Honestly, I don?t want to answer that because I really, truthfully, don?t know. I think either way it goes is going to be mayhem.?
She doesn?t think there will be a peaceful transition of power?
?I think there might be mayhem,? she falters. ?Either way it goes, but we?ll have to see.?
[From The Guardian]
I chuckled at the Guardian writer basically writing ?what in the QAnon bullsh-t am I hearing now??? And that?s what it is, this has all of the hallmarks of Janet falling down a particularly batsh-t QAnon rabbit hole the trafficking comments, the eagerness to spin/amplify conspiracies around a Black woman?s race, the ambivalence when suggesting that there will be a bloody insurrection again. And since people are dumb (including Janet, apparently), let?s say it again for the record: Kamala Harris is Black and Indian. She?s both. Her father is a Black man from Jamaica. Her mother was an Indian immigrant. Janet needs to stop falling down QAnon rabbit holes.
Throughout Sunday, this story got even more bonkers when a man claiming to be Janet?s manager apologized for Janet?s comments, saying in part: ?Janet Jackson would like to clarify her recent comments. She recognizes that her statements regarding Vice President Kamala Harris? racial identity were based on misinformation. Janet respects Harris? dual heritage as both Black and Indian and apologizes for any confusion caused.? Then a few hours later, Janet?s actual manager (her brother Randy) said this guy does not represent Janet and that the apology is not real or authorized. So? even days/weeks after the interview went down, Janet apparently feels no need to backtrack or clarify. Very strange.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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