General News for the Wales Family 2: March 2024-

[Blog Real]

The Prince of Wales will not attend the BAFTA awards ceremony on Sunday.

Prince William and Princess Kate to miss BAFTAs - reason revealed

The glittering awards ceremony takes place on 16 February

www.hellomagazine.com

 

[sophie25]

The Prince of Wales will not attend the BAFTA awards ceremony on Sunday.

Prince William and Princess Kate to miss BAFTAs - reason revealed

The glittering awards ceremony takes place on 16 February

www.hellomagazine.com

I wonder why he won't be there

 

[Hallo girl]

I wonder why he won't be there

It appears he normally attends every second year.

 

[tommy100]

School holidays start Friday.

 

[muriel]

I wonder why he won't be there

It will be the half term break, they are probably going away for a few days.

I wonder why he won't be there

The Prince does not always attend the BAFTA awards, though on average, I believe he attends more often that QE2 or Princess Anne did.

 

[sophie25]

Thought Anne went every year

 

[muriel]

Thought Anne went every year

I do not believe that is the case, but I do not have a year by year breakdown.

 

[An Ard Ri]

A former RAF colleague of the Prince of Wales has passed away aged 47 following a battle with multiple myeloma
Prince William's former RAF colleague dies aged 47

 

[iceflower]

The Prince and Princess of Wales marked Valentine’s Day with a lovely photo of last year's family video:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1890332147652624554

 

[hereditarytitles]

According to the DM the Wales family is vacationing on the isle of Mustique

Prince and Princess of Wales to skip BAFTAs to holiday with family

Prince William, Kate and their children flew to the privately owned island on Thursday, days after Kensington Palace announced that the couple would not be at the Royal Festival Hall ceremony.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Alison H]

And they all travelled on the same flight. I appreciate that there aren't too many flights to Mustique but if, heaven forbid, anything had happened to that plane, we'd have been looking at King Harry and King Archie.

 

[Durham]

And they all travelled on the same flight. I appreciate that there aren't too many flights to Mustique but if, heaven forbid, anything had happened to that plane, we'd have been looking at King Harry and King Archie.

Why is this being allowed?

It shouldn't be difficult to arrange for George to travel with his mother & the two youngest with their father.

 

[Blog Real]

I think it is very irresponsible for everyone to travel on the same plane.

 

[Prinsara]

Nerve-wracking, but I’m sure it will change as soon as George is 12. That’s the current protocol, isn’t it?

 

[Alisa]

Recent airplane disasters are a good reminder that anything can happen. Perhaps William was thinking of the carbon footprint of two sets of flights....Nevertheless It certainly is a terrible idea for William and his heir to travel together.

 

[Queen Claude]

I think it is very irresponsible for everyone to travel on the same plane.

Agree. I don't know why HLM and now KC3 permit this.

 

[TLLK]

Agree. I don't know why HLM and now KC3 permit this.

Likely it is because twelve was the age when Charles and William began to fly separately.
Does anyone know if HLM and Charles flew together before his 12 th birthday?

 

[Blog Real]

Likely it is because twelve was the age when Charles and William began to fly separately.
Does anyone know if HLM and Charles flew together before his 12 th birthday?

Prince George will be 12 this year, let's see if there are any changes later.

 

[Ghost]

I don’t think that this precaution (it’s not a rule nor protocol) is still necessary. Flights are way more safe than it used to be.

 

[Queen Claude]

Likely it is because twelve was the age when Charles and William began to fly separately.
Does anyone know if HLM and Charles flew together before his 12 th birthday?

Thanks for this, I recall the 12 year old rule but it still does not make sense to me that the heir and heir's heir travel together. Did Charles and William travel a lot together? Perhaps we know more about their private travel than we did when William was a child.

 

[TLLK]

Thanks for this, I recall the 12 year old rule but it still does not make sense to me that the heir and heir's heir travel together. Did Charles and William travel a lot together? Perhaps we know more about their private travel than we did when William was a child.

I recall seeing magazine photos of the then Wales family with Charles, Diana and their sons arriving at Aberdeen Airport for Balmoral summer holidays starting when William was a toddler until he was an older pre-teen.
Charles and William did appear to travel together until the latter was 12.

 

[Prinsara]

Does anyone know if HLM and Charles flew together before his 12 th birthday?

I think Charles was usually at home when his parents went anywhere by plane (Anne, too). Andrew and Edward seemed to have been taken more places at a younger age.

Flights are way more safe than it used to be.

Tell it to the Swedes. Or some others, additionally. It's true; car travel is far more dangerous. It's also true it only takes one incident.

But I'm pretty sure we will start seeing George solo after the summer (and 12 may have something to do the airlines' "unaccompanied minor" guidelines, though of course he wouldn't be unaccompanied). If not, something has changed.

 

[tommy100]

Personally I’m not convinced it will change when George turns 12. William tends to do things his own way. I agree that flying has gotten safer, but it still seems like a sensible precaution to me. But i’d be more worried about them flying in helicopters together which they seem to do quite frequently.

 

[Prinsara]

William tends to do things his own way.

I'm not sure William is so stubborn and idiosyncratic that he's going to insist on potentially putting his brother on the throne vs. having his nearly-teenage child ferried around by other people.

(He presumably knows why he is named William.)

 

[Blog Real]

Personally I’m not convinced it will change when George turns 12. William tends to do things his own way. I agree that flying has gotten safer, but it still seems like a sensible precaution to me. But i’d be more worried about them flying in helicopters together which they seem to do quite frequently.

I think William and George should stop traveling together at a certain point, and that will probably be when George turns 12. But it is very imprudent for the whole family to travel together by helicopter, this should not happen.

 

[Maryrose]

Are there commercial flights to Mustique? If its only private planes then I understand why you wouldn't use 2 private planes for environmental issues.

 

[Princess_Eleanor]

Are there commercial flights to Mustique? If its only private planes then I understand why you wouldn't use 2 private planes for environmental issues.

The article says they took a commercial flight from London to St Lucia and then a private plane to Mustique. No idea if there are commercial flights to Mustique, maybe not...

 

[Durham]

(He presumably knows why he is named William.)

Yes that's a very good point! What a terrible tragedy that was.

 

[Maryrose]

Do the royals pay for their vacations out of their own private accounts? I know they receive funds from their duchies for living expenses.Just wondering for security protection because more things need to be put in place and planned ahead.

 

[muriel]

Do the royals pay for their vacations out of their own private accounts? I know they receive funds from their duchies for living expenses.Just wondering for security protection because more things need to be put in place and planned ahead.

Members of royal families pay for their vacation through private funds. Their private funds do include monies received from the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall respectively for the King and the Prince of Wales.