(Scratch that – utterlyĬharles, William and Kate have every right to be about as pissed off at the Sussexes right now as Queen Camilla when an aide tells her she is off to a four-hour Latvian folk-dancing engagement.īut, however they feel about the couple, that should not extend to Archie and Lili. The same goes today for Lili, and there is only one word to describe this – inexcusable. Last month, the young prince’s birthday fell on the same day as the King’s coronation, with Buckingham and Kensington Palaces entirely ignoring the boy’s big day. However, Archie and Lili are another question entirely. If the duke doesn’t get sent his usual £10 WH Smith gift voucher in the mail from Princess Anne this year, it would hardly be a shock. Over the last year, Harry has chucked much of his family under the bus in his never-ending palace mutiny. There was the duke and duchess’ six-hour TV series, an overwrought, stretched out attempt to extort sympathy, and Harry memoir Spare, a book about as lacking in self-awareness as Ivanka Trump’s diary entries. (They have both involved aggrieved redheads wanting to take on the crown, though thank god Harry has never had a kilt phase). Sure, it was all a bit perfunctory, but at least the HRHs (or their social media managers) had remembered the kid.īut a hell of a lot can change in 12 months, like Lili’s parents launching a media offensive that has been something like the digital equivalent of the Jacobite Rebellion. Wishing Lilibet a very happy 1st birthday today! ð- Clarence House June 4, 2022 (Let’s assume also that several large impeccably-wrapped gifts from famed toy shop Hamleys also found their way to Frogmore Cottage. On the Saturday of that long weekend, while the UK woke from its Tesco-brand prosecco hangover and got ready for another day of celebrating the achievements of the near-deified Queen, outside the capital, at Frogmore Cottage, Lili and her family got down to the business of cake-eating and face-painting.Ĭonveniently, all of her British relatives were dead busy that day, but still, the social media accounts of the late Queen Elizabeth, her grandfather, now King Charles, and her uncle and aunt, William and Kate, now the Prince and Princess of Wales, all took breaks from briskly posting about the Jubilee to send her birthday wishes. (It is also the only time that Lili, despite her parents’ claiming the title of British princess for her, has been to the country). Rewind to this time last year, and she and her family were in the UK, her first birthday coinciding with her namesake great-grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee.
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