{"id":205427,"date":"2025-06-22T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205427\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:33:11","slug":"team-william-brutally-mocks-charles-disney-royal-cosplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/205427\/","title":{"rendered":"Team William Brutally Mocks Charles\u2019 \u2018Disney\u2019 Royal Cosplay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tensions between King Charles and Prince William were given a rare public airing in the London Sunday Times<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

The British media does not frequently draw attention to the blindingly obvious froideur between father and son, but a lengthy, pro-William article<\/a>, featuring on-the-record interviews with some of his key lieutenants, lays bare William\u2019s disdain for his father\u2019s anachronistic and high-handed style of governing. The piece also mocks Charles\u2019s royal dress, casting William as a man of the people who hates wearing a \u201ctop hat\u201d as he was forced to at Royal Ascot this week (to be fair, William looked both uncomfortable and daft).<\/p>\n

\"PrinceA new expos\u00e9 reveals Prince William is no fan of his father’s anachronistic and high-handed style of governing. Chris Jackson\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The headline in itself is a provocation: \u201cHow Prince William will change the monarchy, by those close to him.\u201d \u201cCompassing\u201d the death of the monarch<\/a> used to be treasonable and is considered in especially bad taste by protective courtiers given the king\u2019s cancer battle. As Prince of Wales, Charles merrily bought into the play act that his mother would live forever. William, by contrast, we are told, is busily \u201cplanning for his role as monarch and shaping the institution he will one day lead.\u201d <\/p>\n

Indeed, one of his key advisers, Jason Knauf (the man who threw his former boss, Meghan Markle, to the wolves in the Daily Mail copyright case) is quoted as saying: \u201cHe has been thinking about the future for years \u2026 this thinking about the next [role] is how is this going to be reflective of him?\u201d<\/p>\n

There is also a suggestion in the piece that his father has been complacently reliant on his courtiers. William, a source says, plans to \u201ctake every stone and look underneath it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has reported this year that William dislikes the medieval costume element of monarchy that his father seems so keen on, and The Sunday Times goes all in here, with a source, described as one \u201cwho knows the Waleses well,\u201d mocking Charles\u2019 coronation garb, calling the Imperial State Crown that Charles wore on the day a \u201cridiculous thing that looks like it\u2019s out of Disney.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LONDON,Prince William is reportedly critical of King Charles’ style of dress. Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, when William had to get into silk and ermine for the Order of the Bath ceremony, one friend of the prince told the Daily Beast<\/a>, \u201cThis is exactly the kind of medieval cosplay William thinks is ridiculous. He understands and respects tradition, but this kind of event is hardly telegraphing a monarchy which is modern and relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast has also reported that Prince Edward and Sophie are likely to get a promotion under the new reign, which The Sunday Times confirms.<\/p>\n

This week, after Kate dramatically pulled out of the Royal Ascot carriage procession, The Daily Beast reported that<\/a> William and Kate weren\u2019t particularly interested in racing, and some suspected Kate might have pulled out all the stops and turned up for an event she was interested in (like the Wimbledon tennis championship). The Sunday Times says the same thing and suggests Princess Anne\u2019s horse-mad daughter Zara Tindall could be put in charge of horse racing diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Overall, while not exactly candid, there are enough hints in the new piece to suggest that the relationship between William and the king is more frayed than we are led to believe by the palace.<\/p>\n

Prince Harry\u2019s memoir Spare, of course, shed light on the strained dynamics between William and Charles. <\/p>\n

Harry recounted disagreements, emotional wounds, and incidents of broken trust that have marred William and Charles\u2019s relationship over the years.<\/p>\n

Harry revealed that Charles was \u201cjealous of the amount of public attention\u201d William and Kate got, writing: \u201cWilly did everything he (Charles) wanted, and sometimes he didn\u2019t want him to do much, because my dad and Camilla didn\u2019t like Willy and Kate getting too much publicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PrincePrince Harry is still feuding with his brother Prince William. DOMINIC LIPINSKI\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Charles\u2019s insecurity about being upstaged led to one specific case of micromanagement of William\u2019s public appearances, Harry said, providing an example where Charles\u2019s staff intervened to prevent Catherine from being photographed holding a tennis racket at an event, fearing \u201cthat kind of photo would have pushed Dad and Camilla off every front page,\u201d an outcome Charles was not prepared to contemplate.<\/p>\n

\"QueenWINDSOR, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 09: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall with Beth, her jack-russell terrier, unveiling a plaque as they visit the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to open the new kennels and thank the centre’s staff and supporters on December 9, 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. (Photo by Steve Parsons – WPA Pool\/Getty Images) Steve Parsons – WPA Pool\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Harry writes that William was deeply scarred by Charles\u2019s affair with Camilla, saying he was \u201ctormented<\/a>\u201d by, and has grappled, even in adulthood, with anger and guilt regarding the way he had to publicly go along with his father\u2019s betrayal of Princess Diana. When Charles said he wanted to marry Camilla, Harry recounts that they both \u201cbegged\u201d their father not to do so.<\/p>\n

Harry also claimed<\/a> that Camilla leaked details of her very first private conversation with Prince William to the press shortly after the meeting. According to Harry, as late as 2019, William was left \u201cseething\u201d after learning that Charles and Camilla\u2019s staff were caught planting negative stories about him, his wife, and their children to the tabloids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions between King Charles and Prince William were given a rare public airing in the London Sunday Times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,11571,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-205427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royalist","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114727748267213561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}