Kate Middleton, royal tour with controversy. But her lace suit is crazy
The palace made an unexpected decision that came like a bolt from the blue. After Kate Middleton and Prince William’s Royal Tour in the Caribbean, which created a real buzz between them protests and controversiesThat of Prince Edward and his wife Sophie von Wessex was also apparently postponed without explanation few hours before departure to Grenadathe first leg of the state trip of Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest son.
Because Edward and Sophie’s trip to Wessex has been cancelled
Like Kate Middleton alongside her beloved Prince William, they are this time Uncle Edoardo and Aunt Sophie, Earls of Wessexmust complete the organized institutional commitments Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee. And just in the last few hours they should have left for Grenada to start their tour in the Caribbean. What nobody expected is that this will be canceled suddenly first stage of the state tripapparently for no particular reason.
Buckingham Palace took care of that with one official notice To offer an explanation: “In consultation with the Government of Grenada and on the advice of the Governor General, the visit of the Earl and Countess of Wessex to Grenada has been postponed. The Count and Countess hope for a later visit“. Words that, in truth, do not remove the doubts about the cancellation of the trip, the reasons for which still remain a mystery.
The most accepted hypothesis is that the Caribbean nation was opposed to the arrival of Prince Edward and Sophie of Wessex for purely economic reasons. The counts’ stay would have been very short, too much for them justify the enormous expenditure and resources of taxpayers to bring into play. Not to mention that the Caribbean, like many other Commonwealth countries, is questioning its connection to the British monarchy.
Sophie of Wessex as Kate Middleton protests for the Royal Tour
As the UK pools all efforts and resources for Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee, there are those who turn their noses up at the idea of British royalty crossing their own borders. And getting the protests out was primarily that Prince William and Kate Middleton Royal Tourwhich preceded that of the Earls of Wessex by only a month.
On that occasion, the gorgeous Kate and her husband had also been forced to alter some stages of the state tour of the Caribbean, starting with the first she would have seen of the Dukes of Cambridge’s visit sustainable cocoa plantation at the foot of the Mayan mountains in the heart of Belize. Local people had not been officially notified of their arrival, which caused some dissatisfaction, but there was much more to the Indian Creek residents’ protest.
William and Kate would have landed on their land as representatives of the British monarchy What remains of colonialism that is now close to most of the 54 Commonwealth countries. Countries like Belize, Jamaica, Bahamas, which are clamoring for their right to independence and are no longer subjects of a queen who does not represent them. L’A more recent example is the state of Barbadoswhich became a republic in 2021 with Sandra Mason as President, effectively ending nearly 400 years of British rule.