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I used ailing to describe Charles and Catherine as in meaning not in good health. My husband battled stage 4 colon cancer for 7 years and I saw the horrendous side effects he suffered whilst enduring chemotherapy. He lost his balance easily from neuropathy and he lost feelings in his fingers and burning when they were cold. He got constant mouth ulcers and rashes. I was thinking that if they were going through half of what my husband did then they would not be feeling fully fit and well. Hence my use of the word ailing which I take to mean ‘not well’. I did not think it meant dying or at deaths door. I meant no insult or disrespect to either Catherine or Charles.
My point in making this post was to wonder if M and H were trying to set up an alternate royal court with visits overseas and what people’s views were. Just something to chat about.
I wanted different perspectives on it but the level of vitriol is horrible. I won’t post again as the distress the attacks on my post have had me in tears.
I think ailing has many meanings, all mean ill, but to me it means people having a succession of little ills, of the kind that can make many older people's lives very difficult.
Personally I think the idea that H&M are trying to set up any kind of rival court is far fetched. I suspect that that was their intention when they headed away to the USA permanently, but they wanted this rival court to be in Hollywood where they would mix on an equal level with all the great Show business personalities and be feted by the people who meant most to the Duchess.
They got off to a good start, but now their power is waning, they did the Oprah interview and Harry wrote his book, both of which antagonised many people and for all the great contracts they signed the first year with Netflix etc, they have signally failed to deliver and the contracts are all being scaled down and renegotiated..
I do not think the tour will be fully covered by the press. Press coverage is based on how much interest readers have in a subject. There is no point in the media going to great expense chasing these two around Nigeria, when interest back home, and I do not just mean the UK, is at best tepid and at times hostile. These two are a busted flush, like the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, they commanded the press for 5 or 6 years and then slipped into a well-deserved press back water. Leading aimless and pointless lives, always prepared to turn up for the opening of an envelope (if someone will pay them)
