#platinum jubilee

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….Harry and Meghan were sat across the aisle in the interior third row of Section B with sleeper agents positioned all around them……

This is still very funny to me. 

The Palace didn’t try to hide the agents. The minute H& M sat down, the internet as well as legacy media could pinpoint who was sitting around them and their job, and from there extrapolate why they were sitting next to the Sussexes. 

And that was on top of the world wide humiliation of being seated in 2nd row of the unimportant seats - the visual telegraphing of dropped status was chef’s kiss. 

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Ask from July 31st.

You misunderstood. I’m fully aware of the known agents, and Major Johnny, that were seated around them.  The sleeper agents I was referring to were the Yorkies, Sarah Chatto, and Peter and Zara.

The Yorkies were probably briefed not to let Harry and Meghan move their seats around to take the aisle because the Sussexes’ confronting them when they arrived looked particularly hostile (Harry was seen motioning like he wanted the Yorkies to move in so he and Meghan could take the aisle seats but the Yorkies and an aide seemed to reject that). 

Sarah Chatto was hot on the Sussexes’ heels through the whole procession out, and even seemed to be planted behind them while everyone was waiting outside the church for their cars to go.

And of course, Peter and Zara had been tasked with the babysitting duties of keeping the Sussexes busy until their car arrived so they didn’t “accidentally” follow William and Kate to their car. 

There were sleeper agents. They were just Harry’s own family. He and Meghan definitely didn’t expect to be managed by the family the way they were. It was wonderful to watch.

And it was just as wonderful to realize they didn’t get an invite to the guildhall reception afterwards when they disappeared from the livestream between William and Kate’s arrival and the motorcoach with all the minor royals.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend a special reception hosted by the Governor General of Belize in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on March 21, 2022 in Cahal Pech, Belize. 

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Duchess of Cambridge's Caribbean Tour Wardrobe

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge began their week-long visit to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas on March 19-26, 2022.

Officially, the trip was meant to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, celebrating 70 years on the throne.

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THE CANDY WARS

The Wales Cupcakes & The Annelets causing absolute chaos during the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in London | 5 JUNE 2022 | requested by - @foreverinthepagesofhistory

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We Won't Forget

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Queen Elizabeth II won TWO posthumous BAFTAs in 2023

Memorable Moment for her skit with Paddington, and

Live Event for The Queen and her Platinum Jubilee

[…] one of the BAFTA TV categories is “Memorable Moment,” which (unlike Reality & Constructed Factual) is exactly what it sounds like: The best general thing that happened on TV (or “the telly”) in the past year. It’s also the only award voted on by the public, which means it counts more than all of the other categories, and so it’s fitting that this year’s winner involved the one thing that can bring all citizens of the United Kingdom together. (AV Club)

Actually, Queen Elizabeth II ‘has already won a BAFTA; in 2013, she was presented with an Honorary BAFTA for her "tireless support" of the British film and television industry. "I am delighted that this evening has given us the opportunity to give something back. I have the great honour to announce that we are to present Her Majesty with an honorary BAFTA today, in recognition of her outstanding patronage of the film and television industries," BAFTA's chairman at the time, John Willis, said.’ (Town and Country Magazine)

Queen Elizabeth II receives an honorary BAFTA from actor Kenneth Branagh in 2013. WPA POOL//GETTY IMAGES

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Parallels - 2022 vs 1912

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The Princess of Wales’s hairstyles

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One more thing I forgot to post re: Eugenie vs the Sussexes.

During the Platinum Jubilee when the Sussexes were doing the most to try to get pictures with the other royals or even to get them to Frogmore for LilD’s birthday, Eugenie would have been their natural and easy target ally.

Instead the Sussexes made a very public play for the Philips/ Tindalls. All the cousins were in the same room at Horse Guards, but the Sussexes were photographed variously with the junior Philips/ Tindalls and The Duke of Kent. The few Long lens pics into the room showed that no one was talking to Meghan or Harold except for one pic of Harold with Kent.

Then the Sussexes leave Horse Guards presumably to return to Frogmore, and miss the flypast. Eugenie posts lots of pics from the flypast which show that Zara, Beatrice are with her on a rooftop at SJP.

Later that afternoon/ early evening Zara, Mike, Beatrice, Edo, Jack and Eugenie are papped coming out of a London restaurant following group lunch, which Mike later revealed involved all the royal cousins+ spouses who weren’t on the balcony. Only the Sussexes don’t attend because they’d gone back to Frogmore. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10896165/Mike-Tindall-reveals-outstanding-cousins-lunch-Harry-Meghan-didnt-attend.html

The next day the Sussexes put out PR about a birthday party for LilD which they claim was attended by the Philips/ Tindalls and their children, but the two families were very visibly at the races most of that day and the distance between locations to attend both events would have been impossible especially as the Philips/ Tindall families had booked London hotels for Jubilee weekend and centred all their activities in/ around London give or take afew miles outside it. 

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I do remember these well. 

I don’t think Harry and Meghan not being in Eugenie’s Trooping video (remember how pissed everyone got at her because Wolfie’s face was visible, when Beatrice and Edo hadn’t been showing his face? ah, good times) is because of the falling out. I think it was just the logistics the Queen/Charles had put in place for handling the Sussexes. It was implied that Harry and Meghan were only invited to the official ceremonial events, and once something ended, they were herded back to their car and sent home to FrogCott to wait for tomorrow’s event. So what happened at the service of thanksgiving (where they left in a car that took them to FrogCott while everyone else bussed over to the guildhall for the reception) is what happened after Trooping: everyone else was carriaged/bussed back to Buckingham while the Sussexes were sent home and then all the cousins decided to go out for lunch.

Supposedly that’s why they left early  - they were upset by how closely they were being controlled by palace handlers regarding the events, but knew they couldn’t complain (publicly at least) because they needed the optics of being with Lili for her first birthday so they could use the public spotlight to pressure the BRF into giving them the Lilibet Meets Lilibet photo.

Also it has been alleged that Anne was livid the Sussexes got the photo ops they did with her grandchildren. I have also heard that Autumn and Zara were upset too, which is allegedly why they bailed on the birthday party after promising to go (I’m not sure I believe this one because Zara absolutely would’ve already had plans with her family for the weekend). I think what really happened with the birthday party is Harry invited them, they said “we’ll let you know,” which the Sussexes interpreted as “yes” and thus all the PR.

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge on the second day of the Platinum Jubilee Royal Tour of the Caribbean on March 20, 2022 in Hopkins, Belize. 

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A Royal Recycling (part 128)

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Georgie is such a cup cake! 😍

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqCwEnCIKOr/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Aww what a cutie patootie 🥺🥺💖💖

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