威廉王子和凯特·剑桥（Kate Cambridge）的伯利兹（Belize）之旅，牙买加（Jamaica）和巴哈马（Bahamas）本来应该是“魅力攻势”，当英国皇家队出国出国并以巨大的微笑和良好的方式催眠人们时，该术语用于描述这些旅行。十多年来，这就是遗嘱和凯特的经历，这就是为什么他们认为自己在加勒比海出现了一周的赞美和赞美的原因。这甚至还没有真正发生的事情，而不是从跳跃中。

It started in Belize with a protest and a cancelled event. There followed more protests in Jamaica,an unfortunate photo opportunity,then the Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness telling Will to his face with his whole chest that the countrywould be breaking up with the crown, Will having to pivot and shoehorn remarks about slavery and colonialism into a speech, and yesterday, on their final day in Jamaica, this picture:

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean who have recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy’s Officer Training Programme at Jamaica Defence Force on March 24, 2022 in Kingston, Jamaica

The intention here was to pay tribute to the Queen when she first visited Jamaica in 1953:

但是，正如我们许多人现在所知道的那样，尤其是正如过去几年我们对隐性和公开偏见以及特权以及种族不平等的更深刻和不舒服的对话，意图和影响之间通常可能存在差距。在参加这次军事游行时，威尔和凯特的意图可能并不险恶。但是，这张照片的影响很好。但是，这张照片的影响与意图不一致。There are some who looked at the shot of Will and Kate standing on that Land Rover, in the context – I repeat, IN THE CONTEXT – of what’s happened over the last few days, and context is always critical, and once again saw not just a military parade but a colonial parade.

Again, William and Kate may have intended to honour military personnel and there were members of the Jamaican military who appreciated them being there but given the uproar of the last few days, with British colonialism and slavery dominating the headlines, the point is that this photo at this time did not land the way the Cambridges and their team would have expected it to when this tour was conceived. To go back to the “charm offensive”, they started this thing thinking they’d be serving all kinds of wonderful and delightful looks beamed around the world, resulting in global fawning. Not much fawning happening now, but definitely a lot of side-eye. So it wasn’t exactly a smooth exit out of Jamaica.

And now they’re in The Bahamas, no doubt white-knuckling it for the next two days until they can return home to England. So far, at least at the time of this writing, things have been relatively uncontroversial there, although word is protests have been planned. Even if the Bahamian leg of the tour goes relatively uneventfully though (which is what they want at this point!), it still won’t be enough to save the situation. Overall, this has been a bust. They do still have to stick the dismount, because they certainly don’t want things to get any worse, but there’s no turning this into a win, or even a break-even. Not when you consider that out of the three countries they’re visiting, one used Will and Kate’s visit as an opportunity to firmly declare to a global audience that they intent to quit the Queen. When you arrive with three and come home with only two? It’s a loss no matter how you spin it.

How, then, will the British royals handle this loss going forward? At this point, they better be setting up crisis meetings and strategy sessions as soon as William and Kate get back to London. The whole royal tour tradition has to be revisited. Their whole game plan will have to change. If what’s happened this week doesn’t result in a complete systems overhaul, the monarchy cannot survive.