Hello everyone!
I had a big move, and kind of took a break from posting / online. I’ve missed you guys, and have stayed informed. I’ll have more to say, certainly just to catch up.
When I last was here, W&K were about to move into Forest Lodge, Andrew hadn’t been arrested, and Charles hadn’t been to America to not see his family. Most juicy though, the media hadn’t unveiled a plan by Rose Hanbury to launch steamy saunas and copper bathtubs in nature to “reset” right on the property line with W&K.
Kate has obviously, recently, pushed for ‘natural’ initiatives, using a lot of language about ‘unplugging’ and to put down screens; celebrating her own love of unplugging from her privilege into forests and mud. Speaking about the powers of healing nature, promoting artistic videos of each season and the changes in nature.
So it goes without saying, when I saw Rose’s business plan for Wyld Cabins — 50 acres of private cabins, tubs, and saunas to ‘reset’ — down to the name + folksy old English-style “Y” in Wyld, I literally thought ‘this is right up Kate’s alley, she will hate it.’
The hippie-dippie, pretend-concern for ‘well-being’ and focusing on the natural environment because us heathens spend too much time on phones, not enough money on private forest baths; usually Kate’s thing. (Also, as a woman, I can’t imagine having a “panoramic view” of my husband’s mistress testing out copper tubs, or encouraging others to do so in my backyard.) It genuinely feels pointed, but it tickles me more to realize it may not be pointed at all — that Rose is just *like* this, kind of this crunchy, carefree, untamed retired model who wants to open communal bathtubs to relax in Kate’s favourite forest scenes and family backyard.
(Obviously, it’d be ridiculous and below any normal maturity level to start a whole business to show someone up or be snarky, but the effort, branding and language used about the cabins is something I’ve noted because it could easily have been a W&K initiative in an alternate world, if it weren’t the Cholmondeleys. Neighbor Rose is about to have 45 cabins built over a 50 acre stretch, essentially an outdoor motel of naked, drunk aristos and festival couples. It does seem like Will had to have at least been consulted here, hahaha. I almost wonder if it was too late for RF to step in on any of the matters/size of this endeavor, and now William and Kate are acting indifferent to seem in-step — like ‘there’s nothing to see here and we are above the gossip we love’.)
More later, but what do we think Kate thinks about this one? And William?
What do we think?