bitchy | Eden: The ‘peace summit’ news ruined Prince William & Kate’s Wimbledon!

Unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden got an exclusive on the royal story of the week, the “secret peace summit” between representatives of King Charles and Prince Harry. Prince William was clearly panicked and furious about the news and William’s people spent most of Sunday and Monday rage-briefing and centering William in the story. Eden takes a different tack – won’t someone think of poor Bill and Cathy, their day at Wimbledon was just ruined by the news of the summit, and the summit might have even ruined their summer vacation!!

As the Prince and Princess of Wales were driven from Wimbledon to Kensington Palace on Sunday evening with their two elder children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, the excited chatter in their Range Rovers is likely to have been about Jannik Sinner’s brilliant victory over Carlos Alcaraz. They’d watched the final, captivated, from the Royal Box.

Preying on William and Catherine’s minds during the 40-minute journey across south-west London from the All England Club would, however, have been the world exclusive story published by The Mail on Sunday that morning – and its implications. Editor at Large Charlotte Griffiths disclosed on the front page that King Charles and Prince Harry’s senior aides had held a secret peace summit, marking the first significant move towards resolving their rancorous family feud.

Sources said last week’s meeting was the initial step in a ‘rapprochement process’ to restore the broken relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family. Insiders described the talks, held at a London private members’ club, as the strongest sign yet of the determination on both sides to resolve the bitter House of Windsor feud.

Yet for William and Catherine, as they looked forward to the holidays with their children, news of the talks was something of a dark cloud in the otherwise blue summer skies.

For friends of the couple claim they had not been aware of the meeting, which was attended by the King’s communications secretary Tobyn Andreae and Meredith Maines, Harry and Meghan’s chief communications officer. The meeting took place at the Royal Over-Seas League, which is situated just a stone’s throw from Clarence House, the London residence of the King – the club’s patron. Also present was Liam Maguire, who runs the Sussexes’ public relations team in this country.

‘It’s no coincidence that William and Catherine did not have a representative at the Royal Over-Seas League,’ says one of their friends. ‘They were not asked to send anyone and will be treating the talks with extreme caution. The fact that it ended up in the newspapers tells you all you need to know.’

This refers to one of the biggest obstacles in the way of a ‘rapprochement process’ between the Sussexes and the Waleses: the complete loss of trust. Harry and Meghan’s decision to betray William and Catherine by disclosing private conversations and incidents not only in the duke’s memoir, Spare, but in numerous interviews and in their Netflix ‘docuseries’ has destroyed trust between them.

Trust and loyalty have always been the most important qualities that William expected from friends. For his brother and sister-in-law to betray that trust in the most public way is something that he will never forget, even if he does eventually forgive them. And forgiveness must, of course, be accompanied by repentance, of which there is little sign in Montecito, California.

The Sussexes have never apologised, privately or publicly, for the hurt they caused with their explosive claims in the Oprah interview or on several other occasions. There will be no ‘olive branches’ offered, or meetings at private members’ clubs between aides, until William and Catherine receive apologies from the Sussexes. Frankly, that’s the least they deserve.

[From The Daily Mail]

William and Kate are two of the most toxic people I’ve ever seen – using their office to brief racist lies about Meghan, Kate using her tacky family to put Meghan in her place, and William violently attacking Harry because Harry refused to divorce Meghan. And now they’re simpering in their own idiotic self-victimization, woe is me, Harry and Meghan need to apologize to US!

“It’s no coincidence that William and Catherine did not have a representative at the Royal Over-Seas League. They were not asked to send anyone…” From what I’ve seen of William’s rage-briefings, he can’t even keep his story straight about what he knew and when and whether his father even bothered to include him in any way. Panic at the palace! And gosh, I thought the Wales fam lived at Adelaide Cottage? Why were they being driven to Kensington Palace?

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