George’s education costs

@Peacewillcome

Not yet rioting in the street but eyes are opening.

When will there be rioting in the street?

Well Tatler says A B C. However, it’s irrelevant. He was never submitting an application for the job of King. And there-in lies the point. From every angle, moral, practical, if a system is hereditary it won’t get the best candidate as there is only one candidate. It is quite absurd. If the role were without personal gain, power and influence, fewer people would mind however what is steadily being revealed is the corruption and self serving nature of the royals and that is driving the trend away from supporting them. Not yet rioting in the street but eyes are opening.

Then why include the number? Of course it’s a boast. He’s not saying “ gosh, sorry, I only managed to shoot x insurgents.” He is saying “ hey guys, look at the notches on my smoking gun.”

ha ha yes! Reminds me of Radio 4s ‘Just a minute’. I would give A* on speaking without hesitation, but I’m afraid it’s a flunk on speaking without repetition or deviation from the subject.

the best he could muster was ABC. Yikes. So, yeah, thick as mince.
He got 2As and a C. Decent grades when he was 18. There wasn't an A star then.

The money spent on his education wouldn't even buy every child in the state school system a new pencil.

Who cares?! You’re running an argument based on one royal, William. However, you’re clearly dodging Andy, the other helicopter pilot.

William got, what, ABC at A Level? In a classroom ratio of maybe 1:5? No expenses spared on tutors etc, not needing to get a weekend job to pay for upcoming university like plenty of other kids and the best he could muster was ABC. Yikes. So, yeah, thick as mince.

@Peacewillcome was right to mention Wonderland yesterday. It has become very "cabbages and kings", I feel like I am an oyster:

"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.

I agree with all your proposals even though - on balance at the moment - I’d keep them.

If you knew your royals, it was Harry who dressed up as a Nazi. Not William. It is William who is the RAF pilot. Not Harry.
Are you aware that all service personnel can get school fees paid?

I can see a new pattern here and those pushing the royalist view.

They will often start a post by stating ‘ I’m not a royalist……and then go on to regurgitate all the disproven PR ( they bring in money / they work hard/ they are neutral / they don’t interfere - all demonstrably incorrect )

It is now rather shameful to continue to support the Windsors - now that some of their coverups are being revealed internationally .
So there’s that aspect - they need to distance yourself ( think on that maybe)

Along with this is an attempt to paint legitimate questions eg
‘William and Charles what did do you know and when ?’
as extremism .

Its wrong . Decent people will continue to press for answers , justice and reform re the Windsors .

@viques

You are repeating tabloid spin .
I’ve read Spare. He didn’t boast

Except when he boasted about how many people he had shot dead in Afghanistan . For someone who worries about his security he has little insight into what could trigger someone to look for payback, maybe he missed that lecture at Sandhurst.

“Just more average”…but the price of their education isn’t “average”.

GCSE History is neither here nor there when it comes to the obvious of not wearing a Nazi uniform complete with swastika when you’re TWENTY.

Harry is not thick, he did quite well, is just not overly academic. However he proved himself as an army officer.

It is one of the problems with our education system that GCSE history is seen as difficult and so a lot of kids drop it and take geography instead. So some kids drop history as early as year 8 and primary is all about maths and English with a cursory dive into 20 century in year 6 and then KS3 I think. My DC did more Greek, Romans and Egyptians before that. Then in year 7 British history, Tudors etc. I just looked up common entrance syllabus and also only takes you until 1914.

So there are loads of kids not studying the Second World War and Cold War at school in any depth at all. It sort of is visited in KS3 briefly. 35 per cent of kids then do GCSE history.

As far as I remember, Harry did manage to pass 11 GCSEs. That is a lot, more than most. Some of my brothers were doing exams at the same time as William and Harry so I remember. He then did less well at A level and lost focus/maybe started partying, don’t know. Some kids struggle with the transition to A level.
It is hardly “thick”, just more average.
And these days with the harder GCSEs failure rates for maths and English sit at a whopping third. So if Harry is supposedly thick what does that make all those youngsters.

Based on their GCSE and A level grades and cheating in Art exams etc, which is literally what those schools are preparing them for, absolutely.

£68k in today’s money to dress up in a Nazi uniform? Yup. Thick as mince.

I don’t think I need to point out the unbelievably dense lack of self awareness esteemed pilot Andrew picked up, do I?

Your average UK school kid being a pilot? Great! An RF member with all their immense privilege in life and hundred of thousands in education and the results that lot attained? Jeez.

If you don't like private schools, then simply dont pay for one.

Stop trying to rob other people of choices in how they spend their money. Maybe they just really love their kids and want them to have the best, even when it means going without other things.

Are you saying that RAF helicopter pilots are thick? Wow, you just insulted some very highly regarded people.
i would say anyone who came out with those statements does not have much brain matter and has very thick skin….

I mean, I just think it’s funny how much the Royal Family has paid out for private education and they are all, bar KM, thick as mince

Are you aware of how rich the Spencer family were/are?
Or are you not looking beyond the hate?

Confused.

Are you referring to W?

His inheritance from Diana derived from the divorce settlement funded by us C3

E2's dosh derived from the taxpayer.

Interestingly the 'penniless prince' she married amassed a fortune apparently too embarrassing to be disclosed to the peasants and sealed for 95 years.

How do you think that might have happened?

I think you need more red wine to soften you up a bit.

If there's any proven impropriety, why not?

You think they shouldn’t have any funds from the public purse so if as you say their private wealth derives from funds diverted from the public purse then presumably you see all their wealth as an impropriety.