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To be sick of the royal propaganda the UK is fed?

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Ukisgaslit · 16/08/2025 10:06

I know most people don’t give a damn about the Windsors any more .

However , in a week when we learn about Philip’s affairs - notably with Sarah Ferguson’s mother ( all covered up of course like the rest of their debachery) we are now expected to swallow the line that William and Kate’s next mansion is ‘paid for by William and Kate themselves ‘

No . That’s not the complete truth .Every penny the Windsors have , they have taken from the people . We now know William and Charles make millions from public services like the NHS schools and charities . We only know about this as a result of dogged journalistic digging . And most of the mainstream media barely covered the scandal .

There are many threads here about how the UK is in steep decline and how people are suffering . Yet the royals are taking in half a billion a year and charging charities on top !

At least admit to us that all their money is stolen from us ?

Oh and if you haven’t heard the queen knew all about Andrew pocketing money via ‘pitch at the palace’

She was told repeatedly by officials . She did nothing
Can we have some facts please ?
The Windsors are a total facade - they are all like Andrew - he’s just the latest fall guy .

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Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 17/08/2025 18:07

doglover90 · 17/08/2025 14:55

There is wide speculation that she is using a hair piece to make it look so full. Nothing wrong with that but it explains why it's so thick and full. You can achieve a lot with the sort of money that she has! Look up pre engagement photos and you will see her 'natural' hair.

I don't know if she is using a hair piece but she does have her own private hairdresser and make-up artist that do her hair and make up almost every single day and sometimes several times a day if she is going to be public facing.
They were doing her hair and make up for her while she was in labour and then again after she had given birth.

Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 17/08/2025 18:03

have worked with most of the current royal family and very briefly with the late Queen and here are my observations

William - He is a very angry man. The pressure on him to maintain a constant public persona as the quiet, sensible one is immense and has resulted in him bottling things up since a young age, until they overflow and burst out of him like a volcano. This is usually directed at his friends and family (never Kate or the kids) but sometimes at member of the public or the press He's actually had quite a lot of therapy to try and sort this, mostly encouraged by Charles.
s for who he really is - he's not actually as quiet and sensible as you're lead to believe. He loves a joke, he's got a great sense of humour and he loved to party just as much as Harry in his younger years, don't be fooled.

Kate - She's kind to the staff and she loves children and is a very good mother. But she has massive internalised misogyny and basically hates all women. She sees them all as competition and threats. She's extremely close to her mother and is basically joined at the hip with her.

The King - He's extremely intelligent. Waaay more than he's given credit for. He's actually wasted as King IMO. He's also very soft, gentle and kind hearted. He feels everything very deeply. But the thing that really gets me is that he is so very clearly autistic and the press and wider world never seem to comment on it or notice it. His routines are set in stone down to the minute and he absolutely can not handle any little change. That temper tantrum over the pen wasn't just an entitled King throwing a strop. It was an autistic meltdown and everyone around him knew it. It baffles me how people can't take one look at him and see it.

Queen Camilla - She's basically Charles's carer. He requires a hell of a lot of help and support. He's unorganised and bumbling most of the time and he really needs her, he clings to her like a life raft. She loves him but not in a romantic way. She basically has quite a tough job and sees it as her right to claim the benefits of that job. She's alright to talk to but I'd say she's the most stand-offish of the lot of them and she drinks the most amount of coffee I have ever known anyone to drink.

Prince Andrew - Everything you would expect and more. Awful, horrible, nasty man. No good qualities whatsoever, except perhaps he does love his daughters. He treated Sarah like she should have kissed his feet every day in gratitude, when he bothered to pay her any attention at all (that last bit was before my time, but one hears things from people that know)

And now the ones that no one will believe me on:

Harry and Meghan - For the love of god, that woman can't do anything right in the eyes of the world, the public, the press or Harry's family. Kate didn't like her from the minute she heard she existed, William didn't like her from the moment he laid eyes on her. She, or any woman Harry married, was always going to be used as a scapegoat to take any negative attention off Camilla and Kate. Society loves to hate a woman and the people around the royals know this. They needed a woman to throw to the wolves to make Camilla and Kate look amazing by comparison and it was always going to be Harry's wife, no matter who she was.
But Harry, and it absolutely was Harry, not Meghan, who was the driving force between leaving the country and the family, made a huge mistake leaving and coming out with everything he has come out with because all that did was make everything worse for them. They made the Royal family look worse and so they had to make Meghan look worse in order to compensate for that. And it was always going to Meghan that took the hit because she's a woman and because they are still extremely old fashioned in their beliefs about pure bloodlines and looking perfect - they couldn't possibly slag off Harry as much as the evil dark-skinned American who corrupted our prince, yes, it must have been her.
I'm not saying she's perfect, she's not. But she's just an ordinary American woman quite honestly. She's an actress so she's confident, and she's got that loud, slightly over confident manner that a lot of Americans do have compared to the Brits, but she does have a good heart and she does love Harry and the kids (and yes, the kids are real) she'd have to, frankly, to stick around as long as she has with all the crap that's thrown at her daily.

So there you go - if you wanted to know that's them. They're imperfect people, they're a bit of a messy family, but they are pretty much the same as the rest of us with a lot of wealth, privilege and expectations put on them that no-one else in the entire country has.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 17:44

x2boys · 17/08/2025 17:43

Yeah she waa the first person to win the million on who wants to be a millionaire
Judith Kemple?

Kepple, I remember now. Alice Kepple.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 17:44

2dogsandabudgie · 17/08/2025 17:03

I think this is an unfair comment. She has had cancer and had chemotherapy. We don't know the type of cancer she had, but having been through that myself I know that afterwards I was emotionally and physically drained and it took a long time to get back to "normal". I still have longterm side effects which I will always have.

I absolutely would never kick somebody who is down. I guess what I would like to " kick" is the propaganda. I see a very very slim person,with a team of experts doing their best to make her look well and happy. We are being played.

I'm so sorry for any body who is ill.

x2boys · 17/08/2025 17:43

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 14:44

Isn't Cams related to a former Royal mistress? And the quiz lady? Judith somebody?

Yeah she waa the first person to win the million on who wants to be a millionaire
Judith Kemple?

2dogsandabudgie · 17/08/2025 17:09

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 17:00

She is a pretty woman and good luck to her. But she looks absolutely terrible sometimes. Of course we are not allowed to say that.

In which photos does she look terrible. She always looks immaculate to me.

bldy · 17/08/2025 17:04

Of course we are not allowed to say that.

Imo she dresses bad a lot of the time. I know they don't want her to be a clothes horse but if you even express the above people think it's blasphemy 😀

2dogsandabudgie · 17/08/2025 17:03

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 15:55

I'll get battered now but I think Catherine is horrible, horribly thin.

KC a grumpy old fool

The Coronation was positively embarassing to watch ( 2 minutes)

My favourite Royal moment was the peacher at the M and H wedding.

I think this is an unfair comment. She has had cancer and had chemotherapy. We don't know the type of cancer she had, but having been through that myself I know that afterwards I was emotionally and physically drained and it took a long time to get back to "normal". I still have longterm side effects which I will always have.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 17:00

Wasntmeanttobelikethis · 17/08/2025 16:47

She is a naturally pretty woman, but to achieve the stunning looks that she, arguably, now has has taken the very best products, procedures and assistance
And her nose has definitely changed
Not being nasty, just making observations

She is a pretty woman and good luck to her. But she looks absolutely terrible sometimes. Of course we are not allowed to say that.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 16:59

Futurehappiness · 17/08/2025 16:41

K&W have zero charisma between them I'm afraid to say, they may well be nice people irl but their public personas come across as really boring. Which really needn't matter - if it was clear that they were really working hard to use their positions to benefit their country - but it is so obvious that they are not and that they are just cruising on public goodwill. I don't think they agree that they are as popular as the royal media keep telling us they are; any more than we were a nation in grief and mourning at the time of QE2's death.

I agree that Kate is unhealthily thin, we haven't learned a thing since Diana & her bulimia. And yes KC is grumpy; he had barely acceded to his throne and within days he had managed 2 tantrums about inkwells.

I am not saying that they are intrinsically horrible people; just that the monarchy is corrupt and that it is bad for anyone's character to live in a position of such unearned privilege and deference.

Exactly that. I am not a horrible person who like to have a go at people but the adulation and fawning is something else.

Like when the Q cut a cake and made some utterly tiresome and feeble "joke" everybody wetting themselves laughing.

W and K what do they actually do? I have no idea. They could do so much, other than wear clothes that cost thousands and thousands.They aren't the sharpest knives are they? Not is H.

2dogsandabudgie · 17/08/2025 16:57

Lampzade · 17/08/2025 14:18

The narrative has definitely changed concerning Kate . Before certain parts of the British media labelled her ‘Waity Katie’, Duchess Dolittle etc. Now those self same media behave as though she is the second coming ffs,
I don’t have anything against her. However, I think that she hasn’t fully embraced her role as a Royal and a future Queen and conveniently using her children as an excuse to do as little work as possible .
What has she achieved since becoming a royal? What has William achieved ?What will be his legacy ?
As others have said , Charles is a grafter and has projects which he is interested in .
William appears to only be interested in watching men’s football

Google the Prince's Foundation which both William and Kate are involved in and the work that the Foundation does.

Wasntmeanttobelikethis · 17/08/2025 16:47

doglover90 · 17/08/2025 14:55

There is wide speculation that she is using a hair piece to make it look so full. Nothing wrong with that but it explains why it's so thick and full. You can achieve a lot with the sort of money that she has! Look up pre engagement photos and you will see her 'natural' hair.

She is a naturally pretty woman, but to achieve the stunning looks that she, arguably, now has has taken the very best products, procedures and assistance
And her nose has definitely changed
Not being nasty, just making observations

Futurehappiness · 17/08/2025 16:41

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 15:55

I'll get battered now but I think Catherine is horrible, horribly thin.

KC a grumpy old fool

The Coronation was positively embarassing to watch ( 2 minutes)

My favourite Royal moment was the peacher at the M and H wedding.

K&W have zero charisma between them I'm afraid to say, they may well be nice people irl but their public personas come across as really boring. Which really needn't matter - if it was clear that they were really working hard to use their positions to benefit their country - but it is so obvious that they are not and that they are just cruising on public goodwill. I don't think they agree that they are as popular as the royal media keep telling us they are; any more than we were a nation in grief and mourning at the time of QE2's death.

I agree that Kate is unhealthily thin, we haven't learned a thing since Diana & her bulimia. And yes KC is grumpy; he had barely acceded to his throne and within days he had managed 2 tantrums about inkwells.

I am not saying that they are intrinsically horrible people; just that the monarchy is corrupt and that it is bad for anyone's character to live in a position of such unearned privilege and deference.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 15:55

I'll get battered now but I think Catherine is horrible, horribly thin.

KC a grumpy old fool

The Coronation was positively embarassing to watch ( 2 minutes)

My favourite Royal moment was the peacher at the M and H wedding.

Serpentstooth · 17/08/2025 15:22

Yes, 'my granny used to shag your grandad, shall we have a go?' Summary of the beginning of the romance between our King and his Queen. Don't have the exact reference to hand,

comeandhaveteawithme · 17/08/2025 14:56

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 14:44

Isn't Cams related to a former Royal mistress? And the quiz lady? Judith somebody?

Yes she's the great granddaughter of a mistress of Edward VII but tbf, Edward VII had so many mistresses we're probably all related to one of them

doglover90 · 17/08/2025 14:55

comeandhaveteawithme · 17/08/2025 14:37

Although having said all that, I really do have Kate hair envy. Her hair is just so beautiful. I'd give my spleen for her hair.

There is wide speculation that she is using a hair piece to make it look so full. Nothing wrong with that but it explains why it's so thick and full. You can achieve a lot with the sort of money that she has! Look up pre engagement photos and you will see her 'natural' hair.

cumbriaisbest · 17/08/2025 14:44

x2boys · 17/08/2025 10:03

Aren't the aristocracy all interbred anyway I think Camilla was Shand Kydd before she got married and there were some Shand Kydds in Diana,s extended family?

Isn't Cams related to a former Royal mistress? And the quiz lady? Judith somebody?

comeandhaveteawithme · 17/08/2025 14:37

Although having said all that, I really do have Kate hair envy. Her hair is just so beautiful. I'd give my spleen for her hair.

Futurehappiness · 17/08/2025 14:36

bldy · 17/08/2025 12:01

The final nail in the coffin - and there were already plenty of nails - should have been last year when it emerged that the Royal estates (which do not pay taxes on their profits) have received millions of pounds in rents from public bodies like the NHS, schools and the armed forces as well as from charities. Think about that - whilst doing performance charity work they are profiting from those very same charities on the sly. William & Charles are also effectively slum landlords.

I was shocked by this and more shocked by the fact not many seemed to care. People get more wound up about the fruit content in Meg's jam!

Everyone should be shocked. What it means is that every time the Royals promote those charities through their 'work' then they potentially profit from any resulting increased donations. The kindest way to describe that is as a 'conflict of interest'; something that professionals in most business areas are at pains to avoid. But different standards seem to apply to the RF and so they get away with this.

Americano75 · 17/08/2025 14:25

bldy · 17/08/2025 12:01

The final nail in the coffin - and there were already plenty of nails - should have been last year when it emerged that the Royal estates (which do not pay taxes on their profits) have received millions of pounds in rents from public bodies like the NHS, schools and the armed forces as well as from charities. Think about that - whilst doing performance charity work they are profiting from those very same charities on the sly. William & Charles are also effectively slum landlords.

I was shocked by this and more shocked by the fact not many seemed to care. People get more wound up about the fruit content in Meg's jam!

There are children living in poverty in this country and we're all supposed to give a shit about some woman's jam.

Americano75 · 17/08/2025 14:22

The whole 'they bring in x billions to the country' is a load of crap. If they weren't here tourism wouldn't die, look at France for God's sake, Versailles is the most visited palace in Europe.

I just can't wrap my head around the fact that in the 21st century we still have people who are regarded as our superiors, purely because of the vagina they came out of or the person they married. Absolute piece of bloody nonsense.

Lampzade · 17/08/2025 14:18

The narrative has definitely changed concerning Kate . Before certain parts of the British media labelled her ‘Waity Katie’, Duchess Dolittle etc. Now those self same media behave as though she is the second coming ffs,
I don’t have anything against her. However, I think that she hasn’t fully embraced her role as a Royal and a future Queen and conveniently using her children as an excuse to do as little work as possible .
What has she achieved since becoming a royal? What has William achieved ?What will be his legacy ?
As others have said , Charles is a grafter and has projects which he is interested in .
William appears to only be interested in watching men’s football

Pemba · 17/08/2025 14:08

Yes, well people are stupid.

comeandhaveteawithme · 17/08/2025 14:05

I get so much royal news come on on my social media feeds. I think because I am very interested in UK history, which inevitably includes a lot of stuff about Kings and Queens, I think the algorithm assumes I want to hear all about the current royal family.
What disgusts me is the constant bigging up of Kate. How wonderful she is, how perfect she is, how perfect their lovely little family is, how regal they are, what a perfect King and Queen they will make, how Kate walks like an angel, how she sits like a Queen, how she brushes her teeth with precision etc etc.
Contrasted with what an evil witch Meghan is, how she glanced the wrong way once or she smiled at a child she obviously wants to murder, how she holds the hand of her husband, how she invented the atomic bomb etc etc...
It's all just so incredibly obvious what they are trying to do and it worries and frustrates me how the public lap it up.