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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge during the official arrival at Norman Manley International Airport on March 22, 2022 in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Hilarious content by TheWorking Team.
The Sussex duo certainly has a nose for the gutter! Look at their body language! What were they expecting? The VIP theatres that host Wills & Kate? 😂
Were the VIPs assigned to the empty row with the water bottles? The Wife certainly is unhappy. 😂
Elasta Girl plays dress up to sit in a common movie theater!
Determined as ever to expose those spindly arms & linebacker shoulders.
Yet another indication that she needs intensive psychiatric treatment.
Poor MEgain! In her warped brain, she obviously sees a tall, svelte female, and replaces that woman's face with her own! She looks deformed.
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#jamaica#the definition of BASIC#Laughable 🍊 couple.#not royal#sussex#not wanted#megxit#The Meghans are frauds#world wide privacy tour#spare us
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A Royal Recycling (part 262)
Roksanda Ilinčić
#kate#kate middleton#catherine middleton#duchess of cambridge#a royal recycling#Royal Recycling#Roksanda Ilincic#roksanda#dress#midi dress#2022#platinum jubilee#royal tour#jamaica#kingston#airport#Prince William#uk#london#wimbledon#england#my edit#katepast#british royal family#Royal Fashion#royals#royal tour 2022
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Prince William and Catherine, The Duke and Princess of Cambridge attend the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean at the Jamaica Defence Force in Kingston, on day six of the Platinum Jubilee Royal Tour of the Caribbean. — 24 March 2022
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from The Beatles Book Monthly, No 23, June 1965.
JOHN: This month, Beatle People, I would like to give you an unbiased lecture about a truly sensational new book to be published, price ten and sixpence, on 24th June by Jonathan Cape, who are very good publishers as everybody knows.
PAUL: Hey! Wait a minute. He said an informal conversation not a flippin' commercial. We're both supposed to discuss things. Like the film frinstance.
JOHN: You discuss the film, frinstance, and I'll discuss this book. It's called "A Spaniard In The Works", folks, and it would be cheap at half the price.
PAUL: Don't you mean twice the price?
JOHN: You see, Beatle People, my learned colleague agrees that it's worth twice the price. Printed throughout in two glorious colours. Brown and green. Printed on real paper too, Beatle People. You can't lose, can you?
PAUL: Don't forget what John says. 24th June. Jonathan Cape. Ten and six-pence. "A Spaniel In The Circs.”
JOHN: "A Spaniard In The Works." Good grief, you'll have a Rolling Stone rushing out a book called "A Spaniel In The Circs" and all my good work will be undone. I say again, sir, undone with a capital UN.
PAUL: As I was about to say before I was Beatled, we've finished filming "Help!". Actually the last scenes were done at Twickenham a couple of weeks back but we've been called into the studios several times since for overdubbing. That means, well, you know when you see an outdoor scene in a film and the actors are miles away from the camera. Well, they can't use microphones or you'd notice them growing out of bushes or sticking round the corner of buildings. So if there is any dialogue in scenes like this they have to put it on the soundtrack afterwards. That's called overdubbing.
JOHN: There is no overdubbing in “A Spaniard In The Works" folks. No cheating and miming like that. A Spaniard If The Works" is live, LIVE, L-I-V-E. All Live. The book was written indoors using only close-range microphones, typewriters, ciggie-packets and green and brown ballpoint pens for the drawings. Remember, folks, only "A Spaniard In The Works" comes to you completely free from skin-irritating overdub.
PAUL: In Nassau we had to keep out of the sun because the scenes we did out there come at the very end of “Help!" and it would look funny if we were all brown and tanned in the snow sequence which you see earlier on and then pale and unhealthy in the Bahamas bit. All sorts of odd people that you'll know play parts in "Help!". Roy Kinnear, Frankie Howerd. The Queen Mother was nearly in one scene—but that was unintentional. She was driving by the film location in Nassau on her way to the airport after touring Jamaica.
JOHN: Pity she didn't stop and join us.
PAUL: We had a fabulous time down on Salisbury Plain a couple of weeks
back. We did four days of location filming there with tanks and troops which were on loan from the Army. Bit chilly after Nassau with lots of rain showers and a cold wind but, without giving away any production secrets, I think the Salisbury scene is one of the funniest of the lot!
JOHN: Fun, fun, fun, with them chasing us, and us chasing them, and me chasing you and where's the tea Mal.
PAUL: One of the greatest free evenings we had during the making of the film was at Obertauern in the Austrian Alps. There isn't a great deal of night life but we made some of our own. It was the assistant director's birthday and we were at the Marietta Hotel. Dick Lester found an old piano in the hotel and we all had this gear sing-along session.
JOHN: It's a new craze. Yes, folks, it's all the rage. Have your own read-along session at home! A complete do-it-yourself read-along kit comes free inside every brown and green copy of "A Spaniard In The Works"
PAUL: There's not much more I can say about the film without giving away very hush-hush secrets about the story. There's going to be a Royal Premiere in London on 29th July. At the Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus where "A Hard Day's Night" opened last summer. Then the film will start going the rounds in August and there's a New York premiere a week later. We do a European tour in June but we'll be back home long before the premiere. All I can say is I hope everyone enjoys the film. In a lot of ways we're all sorry the production is finished 'cos we had a great time making it.
JOHN: Is that all you've got to say?
PAUL: Yes, I think so.
JOHN: Well, if you've quite finished, perhaps you don't mind me having a quick word with Beatle People about this book.
PAUL: Which book is that, John? it says on this ciggie paper you've just handed me.
JOHN: I don't like talking about it really. People will think l'm plugging.
PAUL: Ah, go on, John, nobody'll think that.
JOHN: No, I can't. I'm bashful.
PAUL: Please…
JOHN: All right. Read all about "The National Health Cow" and "Cassandle" (on different pages). Read all about “Silly Norman" and "Benjamin Distasteful" (both
in glowing green and beatle brown). These and fourteen other unbelievable fables before your very mouth in "A Spaniard In The Works”
PAUL: Aren't there drawings too, John? you asked me to say when you stopped the tape recorder just now.
JOHN: Yes, yes. Well, sort of. One of them (in brown and green which are very artistic colours and especially cheap to print, you see) is a full-page drawing of a fat budgie.
Beatle People will be interested to know that I ate nothing but SWILL, the new deodorant bird seed, for six weeks in order to get into the right mood to draw this particular picture.
PAUL: What happened?
JOHN: I fell asleep on my perch but the picture came out O.K. I drew it in two minutes flat. Flat on my face at the foot of he perch.
PAUL: And what is the title of this new book of yours, John?
JOHN: Oh, I'm so sorry. Didn't I mention it?…
#Beatles Book Monthly#The Beatles#I cannot deal with Paul explaining what overdubbing is#but John can...Oh yes he can#Happy times#1965#john lennon#paul mccartney#interviews
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Scabies proudly boasted about the special reception the Harkles got from the Jamaica's PM but he doesn't want to talk about the special booing they got in Whistler? Twice? The same day? Oh and also someone said F you to them in Jamaica as well so...
It's because it doesn't fit the Sussex/Omid narrative that Meghan and Harry are much more beloved and popular worldwide than Catherine and William.
The Jamaica thing was ridiculous. They met the PM on the "red carpet" at a movie premiere for a set of photos. How can you even quantify a brief 5 minute interlude on a red carpet with a royal visit with multiple meetings and conversations.
Let's be honest, if H&M were still part of the monarchy and had been the ones to tour Jamaica for the Jubilee, they would have gotten the same treatment at W&C.
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In the summer of 2020, [...] Black Lives Matter protesters tore a statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston from its plinth in the centre of Bristol and rolled it into the harbour. [...] [C]ritics [...] argued that this type of direct action was “erasing history”. Britain’s prime minister at the time, Boris Johnson, claimed that to remove statues of figures like Colston from the public square was “to lie about our history”. Sir Trevor Phillips complained that Britain’s public history was being “erased entirely” [...]. Yet rather than lead us into an era of collective forgetting, the tearing down of Colston’s statue transported his name – and deeds – into the public consciousness.
This week, the renewed attention towards Colston bore fruit when the Guardian revealed that a historian, Brooke Newman, had unearthed a document showing that in 1689, Colston transferred £1,000 of shares in the Royal African Company (RAC) to none other than King William III. The exposure of the extent to which the monarch was financially intertwined with the slave trading company of which Colston was a director does not teach us less about history, it teaches us more.
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The activities of colonial companies like the RAC, which enjoyed a monopoly over the English trade in slaves from the west African coast, are often presented as distinct from the internal history of the British Isles.
Yes, there may have been the odd massacre performed in the service of British imperialism, but these were the actions of rogue merchants in distant tropical lands, operating far from the watchful eye of Westminster and the living embodiment of British sovereignty, the monarch. This makes it easy to delete the actions of the RAC from the national record: the 84,500 men, women and children who, during Colston’s time with the company, were taken by its ships from their homes in west Africa to suffer a life of slavery in the New World.
A quarter of them would not even survive the journey, so horrific were the conditions aboard Colston’s ships.
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Yet this separation between internal royal histories and external colonial histories has always been a [hidden] spot in our understanding of the past. Companies like the RAC needed to be granted a royal charter just to exist: they couldn’t be just registered and incorporated like companies today.
And furthermore, as the Guardian’s research has illustrated, there was often a cosy personal connection between the ruling kings and queens of this island and its slave-trading and colonial companies. This extended from James II acting as a governor of the Royal African Company to George II being a shareholder of the South Sea Company, which held the contract to supply enslaved Africans to the Spanish colonies in South America. [...]
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The new revelations arrive at a difficult time for the monarchy, with the coronation of a new king seeking to shore up the disruption caused by the passing of the long-reigning Elizabeth II. [...] Leading politicians in Australia and Jamaica, countries where the British monarchy traditionally enjoyed a great deal of public support, are now campaigning to follow in the footsteps of Barbados, [...] a step towards the Caribbean island “leaving our colonial past behind”. The rising unpopularity of the British monarchy in the once-reliable British West Indies was made evident by the protests that greeted [...] William and Kate, during their tour of the region last year. [...] The relationship between the British royal family and the former colonies isn’t just a question of symbolism or constitutional law. It is an entry point into a deep and bloody history [...]. It is a history that the lid has only just started to be lifted on.
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Text by: Kojo Koram. “Those who tore down Colston’s statue helped lead us to the truth about slavery and the monarchy.” The Guardian. 7 April 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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The Duchess of Cambridge attends an official dinner hosted by the Governor General of Jamaica at King’s House on Day 5 of the Caribbean Royal Tour | March 23 2022
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[Tbf, Charles and BP does this too, I just think they might be a little bit less obvious about it lol. One thing that bothers me the most about KP’s approach is how they’re very keen on telling us stuff instead of showing it. So they say William is a “great statesman” which he is, but then they don’t show it properly.]
I disagree completely. KC3 is rightly called a great statesman, not by his spokesman but by others and that’s how it makes it way into the media. He’s put in the work over decades, at home and in the Commonwealth. There’s a reason so many firsts were extended to him on his Germany state visit - from the ceremonial welcome to addressing the Bundestag in session.
It’s a function of relationships that he’s built, often with little coverage or appreciation. Today would have been his and Camilla’s wedding anniversary but he rescheduled it to attend the Pope’s funeral, because it was such an important diplomatic event. Like Arthur Edwards who follows the Royals says: he knows everybody in the world, every Prime Minister, every Head of State.
William has a very long way to go to become even close to a great statesman - his meeting with Jamaica’s PM and the ill advised damage control speech on the Caribbean tour - show that. If he’s intending to be the future Head of the Commonwealth, why have him and Catherine never visited Africa? Why didn’t his wife attend the Commonwealth Day reception? How many Commonwealth countries have they visited?
Why doesn’t William speak Welsh yet, or comfortably any other language that we know of? What big domestic initiative does William has that sees him engaging with political leadership at home to build relationships? It’s like he’s woken up and realized at 40 he’s far behind on diplomatic credibility and having Lee give briefings to People mag to call him a “global statesperson” will make him one. It won’t - he has to put in the work. 3 week holidays every two months don’t help 🤷🏻♀️
i have nothing to add to this except please drop your mic
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attending a state dinner at Kings House hosted by the Governor General in Kingston, Jamaica, March 23, 2022.
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Queen Elizabeth II in 1953
- - Queen Elizabeth II (“a little fagged after four days of royal touring,” as LIFE put it in its Dec. 7, 1953, issue) prepared to speak at University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1953 life.com
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A Royal Recycling (part 257)
Alexander McQueen
#kate#kate middleton#duchess of cambridge#catherine middleton#a royal recycling#Royal Recycling#Alexander McQueen#blazer#2022#platinum jubilee#royal tour#royal tour 2022#jamaica#kingston#uk#london#windrush day#my edit#katepast#british royal family#Royal Fashion#royals#england#birmingham#commonwealth games#princess charlotte#france#marseille#rugby#2023
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Royal blue
The Princess of Wales in an Alexander McQueen blazer and matching cigarette pants on a visit to HMP High Down, Surrey.
Winning white
The Princess of Wales put a sophisticated twist on England’s team colour as she cheered on players in their opening match at the Rugby World Cup.
Teal triumph
The Princess of Wales at her polished best in a custom teal Burberry suit and custom blouse by the designer for a reception with the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Norway at Windsor Castle.
Lady in red
Catherine makes a statement in scarlet Alexander McQueen for a ‘Shaping Us’ pre-launch event at the BAFTA headquarters, January 2023.
Purple reign
The Princess of Wales is radiant in Roland Mouret for a reception at Windsor Castle, January 2023.
Sugar plum princess
Another outing for the Roland Mouret suit, this time during William and Catherine's royal tour of Boston, December 2022.
High flyer
A navy Alexander McQueen number is the perfect choice for the princess’s arrival in Boston, December 2022.
In the navy
The same suit was last seen on the Princess of Wales for one of her first engagements in her new position: a reception for some of the Royal Navy Ship’s Company of HMS Glasgow, November 2022.
Cream of the crop
Cheering on swimmers in Alexander McQueen at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, August 2022.
Monochrome mastery
Head-to-toe white Alexander McQueen was a chic choice for an outing to mark Windrush Day in London, June 2022.
Pink perfection
Another Alexander McQueen suit, this time in a soft shade of rose, for a meeting with early childhood experts in London, June 2022.
A royal tour triumph
An orange Ridley London blouse brought a splash of colour to her white Alexander McQueen suit for an engagement in Jamaica, March 2022.
Magenta magic
Catherine ensured she stood out from the crowd in this Emilia Wickstead ensemble for a visit to Ulster University, September 2021.
Queen of green
An emerald green Massimo Dutti ensemble blended into the park setting on a visit to Edinburgh, May 2021.
HRH High Street
The Princess of Wales donned a pink M&S suit for a visit to the London Ambulance Centre in Croydon, March 2020.
Green Dream
The Princess donned a faithful Burberry number for a visit to a textile factory in Leeds in September 2023.
Recycled Red
The Princess Of Wales on her way to an event for her 'Shaping Us' Campaign On Early Childhood in September 2023, in one of her favourite red Zara blazers.
Magenta Masterpiece
The Princess of Wales was a tailored masterpiece in Emilia Wickstead for the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum, even accessorising with Princess Diana’s sapphire and diamond drop earrings.
#Princess of Wales#Catherine Princess of Wales#Catherine Middleton#Kate Middleton#British Royal Family#fashion#style#blazers#pants#suit#Alexander McQueen#Burberry#Roland Mouret#Emilia Wickstead#Massimo Dutti#M&S#Zara#fashion brands
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Not them getting ready to go and do a pseudo royal tour next week as well 🙈🙈
Jamaica was bad but I have a feeling this one is going to be worse. Especially if Meghan thinks she can get something out of it.
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22 February 2023
Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex visited the 54th Annual Cayman Islands Agricultural Show this morning with the Honourable Premier, Wayne Panton, ringing the cowbell three times to officially declare the opening of the event. Great it has returned after a three year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Countess greeted visiting dignitaries from the British Virgin Islands, Turks & Caicos, Jamaica, and St Kitts and Nevis, who had travelled to Cayman for the Agricultural Show.
A delegation compromising the Premier, Members of Cabinet, as well as other official dignitaries and representatives from the Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Society accompanied the Countess during her tour of the livestock, displays, and district stalls under the Main Pavilion where Her Royal Highness also took the opportunity to speak to local farmers and vendors to learn more about Cayman’s efforts to reduce our reliance on imported goods.
The Agriculture Show is a wonderful and much-loved event in our community. Great to be able to showcase how much Cayman has to offer to Her Royal Highness.
— HE The Governor - Cayman Islands
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HRH the Princess of Wales in 2022 ♛
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The queen of my heart, love of my life and light of my world has actually had her best royal year yet. Catherine became the Princess of Wales shortly after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and also completed the most engagements she has ever completed within one year. Her early years work continued, with a visit to Denmark, engagements in Boston, numerous meetings and a roundtable convened to discuss the findings of the Centre for Early Childhood. In a similar vein, Catherine became Patron of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance and, for the first time, had a joint engagement with the Princess Royal. She became Patron of both the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football League, watching a Six Nations match and a World Cup match in her new role. Towards the end of the year, Catherine hosted her 'Together at Christmas' carol concert once again. Alongside her husband, the then-Duchess of Cambridge undertook a tour of the Caribbean for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, visiting Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas, where she met with a wide range of people. She was also a regular presence at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, joining her children and stepmother-in-law in a carriage for Trooping the Colour, visiting Wales with her eldest children, and sitting next to little Louis during the Jubilee Pageant. This year, Catherine turned 40 and, in honour of this, released three official photographs of herself in Princess Mode. Later in the year, an official portrait of William and Catherine was unveiled in Cambridge. Sadly, we have had no further updates on Catherine’s love of textiles, although she did have a phone call with Jennifer Urquhart of Johnstons of Elgin for some mysterious reason...
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