Here's how Prince William & Kate Middleton Are Actually Doing After Harry & Meghan's Big Decision

It can certainly termed to be 'old news' as soon as we would talk about the mega decision that Prince Harry & Meghan Markle took back on January 8th on deciding to be relieved of their royal duties.

Harry and Meghan's flowery way of saying they were over it was immediately followed by an emergency meeting convened by the queen with Prince William and Prince Charles, who has long envisioned a more streamlined way of doing royal business as the monarchy heads into the future, but who also still wanted Harry to be an active member of the Firm.

And with that, William and Kate Middleton were left to tote the weary load as the remaining full-time royals of their generation.

Not that you'd know from looking at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge that there's anything wearying about what they've been asked to do, which is work overtime—not only by putting in more hours, but also by jam-packing their existing schedule with extra significance to communicate to the People that all will be fine. That, in fact, everything is fine already! 

Body language experts had at it as Kate and William sat formally alongside Prince Charles, Duchess Camilla and the queen in the row ahead of Meghan and Harry and the Earl and Countess of Wessex. The seating arrangement was the same as last year's and mandated according to proximity to the throne, but any naked eye could see the Cambridges and the Sussexes talking to everyone else but each other.

"Possibly [Kate] was tired but she didn't look overjoyed," a source told Vanity Fair royal editor Katie Nicholl. "To be honest I think Kate has taken it all badly. She Harry and William were once such a happy trio, she thinks what has happened is all very sad."

"It's not been an easy few months for anybody," a royal source told People, meanwhile. But while moving forward into this next chapter is "bittersweet for Meghan and Harry," another source said, "Harry is looking straight ahead at his future with his family."

"He's not looking back," the source added.

Kate and William certainly haven't spoken publicly about the seismic shift in the royal family since they went back to work in 2020 after their holiday break, starting with a visit by both of them to Bradford Hall, in West Yorkshire, on Jan. 15.

So traditionalists can rest assured that at least one thing may go back to being exactly as it was before.