{"id":2182873,"date":"2025-12-01T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2182873"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:46:39","slug":"why-waleses-are-skipping-king-charles-christmas-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-waleses-are-skipping-king-charles-christmas-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Waleses Are Skipping King Charles\u2019 Christmas Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li data-node-id=\"0.0\">Prince William and Kate Middleton are allegedly skipping King Charles&#8217; annual Christmas lunch&#8230;again.<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.1\">The Waleses will allegedly snub the event due to &#8220;nonstop disagreements.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li data-node-id=\"0.2\">Wills and Kate also skipped Charles&#8217; lunch last year in what was described as a &#8220;coup.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"body-text css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Happy Holidays, someone get Netflix&#8217;s <em data-node-id=\"2.1\">The Crown <\/em>on the phone, because there&#8217;s even more drama than usual over in Buckingham Palace. And by that we mean Prince William is allegedly skipping King Charles&#8217; annual Christmas lunch. Again.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"body-text css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Rob Shuter&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/robshuter.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-prince-william-skips-king\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/robshuter.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-prince-william-skips-king\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"ShuterScoop\" data-node-id=\"3.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\">ShuterScoop<\/a> reports that between &#8220;nonstop disagreements&#8221; and &#8220;icy moments,&#8221; Prince William&#8217;s decided to spend the day with Kate Middleton&#8217;s family instead of the royals. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"body-text css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Per a source, &#8220;William and the family will dutifully go to church with big smiles plastered on, but they\u2019re not expected for lunch at the big house. It\u2019s been an extremely difficult year for William and Catherine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"recirculation\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-14\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<section data-embed=\"watch-next\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-15\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"embed\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"body-text css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">ShuterScoop also reports that King Charles plans to invite his disgraced brother to lunch\u2014a pretty shocking move, if true. (Reminder: the royals do Christmas in Sandringham, where Prince Andrew is soon to be exiled.)<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"body-text css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Last year, there were reports that William and Kate hosted their own &#8220;rival&#8221; and more &#8220;middle class&#8221; (um, kay) Christmas at their home in what was described as a &#8220;coup&#8221; against King Charles. Apparently, the couple were worried that certain royal traditions made them look &#8220;weird,&#8221; and a friend told the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/prince-william-and-kate-plot-middle-class-christmas-coup-on-king-charles\/\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/prince-william-and-kate-plot-middle-class-christmas-coup-on-king-charles\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Daily Beast\" data-node-id=\"8.1\" class=\"body-link css-103hk4r emevuu60\"><em data-node-id=\"8.1.0\">Daily Beast<\/em><\/a> that &#8220;there&#8217;s always been a slightly covert, rival Christmas party at [William and Kate&#8217;s] house, but it\u2019s going to be much more obvious this year. If they post pictures, it\u2019ll be an official coup attempt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">I mean&#8230;guess it wouldn&#8217;t be the holidays without some family drama?<\/p>\n<section data-embed=\"editorial-link\" data-lazy-id=\"P0-16\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"embed\">\n<aside class=\"css-xmoip0 e94w1mj9\">\n<h6 class=\"css-as8qcb e94w1mj7\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-before\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p0\"\/><span class=\"css-8lle59 e94w1mj5\">Related Story<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-theme-key=\"title-design-element-after\" class=\"css-0 eagam8p1\"\/><\/h6>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cosmopolitan.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince William and Kate Middleton are allegedly skipping King Charles&#8217; annual Christmas lunch&#8230;again. The Waleses will allegedly snub the event due to &#8220;nonstop disagreements.&#8221; Wills and Kate also skipped Charles&#8217; lunch last year in what was described as a &#8220;coup.&#8221; Happy Holidays, someone get Netflix&#8217;s The Crown on the phone, because there&#8217;s even more drama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2182874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[274717,420738,285977,285684,420737],"class_list":["post-2182873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-4a297868-f549-41e7-93cd-e83bc043dff3","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-why-waleses-are-skipping-king-charles-xmas-lunch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Why-Waleses-Are-Skipping-King-Charles-Christmas-Lunch.pjpeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182875,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182873\/revisions\/2182875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}