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Princess Michael of Kent affected by austerity - she can't dine out as much and takes budget carriers to the South of France

45 replies

OrlandoWoolf · 12/12/2013 14:40

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/im-experiencing-austerity-as-well-says-princess-michael-of-kent-8993437.html

AIBU to think she does not know the meaning of the word?

OP posts:
nicename · 12/12/2013 14:44

my heart bleeds!

MrsSippy · 12/12/2013 14:45

silly woman!

I'm far more concerned about her feelings towards Gove, just shows her frail grasp on reality!!

GodRestTEEMerryGenTEEmen · 12/12/2013 14:48

Seriously? What an idiot.

daisychain01 · 12/12/2013 14:49

Isshe called Princess Pushy, Orlando? Either way, YADDNBU, grabby old bag.

Diddums, shall we pass round the hat and make a Christmas collection for her?

I'm happy to start the ball rolling, with a half-chewed moldy old sweet in its wrapper from my duffle-coat pocket and a broken button or two

Millenniumbug1 · 12/12/2013 14:50

Aw bless, shall we have a wip round?

MrsTerrysChocolateOrange · 12/12/2013 14:50

It's all very Ab Fab.

MrsKwazii · 12/12/2013 14:52

Oh dear, bet her diamond shoes are too tight as well Xmas Grin

JinglingRexManningDay · 12/12/2013 14:53

Yes I'm sure she is on par with those who have to choose between heat or a meal. Or if a child needs shoes it can send the household budget tits up.

VerucaInTheNutRoom · 12/12/2013 14:55

She has always been a bit of a loon, IMO.

CalamitouslyWrong · 12/12/2013 14:57

Ha ha.

Clearly she wouldn't consider a trip to nandos 'eating out'. I bet she could manage to do that whenever she liked once a month or so, if she budgeted carefully. Wink This is my favourite bit: "We invite people here [Kensington Palace]. I cook. Well, if I’m giving a dinner party I get in help."

Arf.

There's nothing like showing how precarious your grasp on reality is, is there?

MurderOfGoths · 12/12/2013 14:58

She's actually branching out into comedy and this is a sketch routine she's testing out.

I hope.

WillieWagglingRoundTheXmasTree · 12/12/2013 15:01

i think the queen used to pay their rent for them but now they have to, so i guess there might have needed to be a bit of belt-tightening Wink

CrispyHedgehogHoHoHoFucker · 12/12/2013 15:02

Bless her heart :o

BringBackBod · 12/12/2013 15:03

Poor Princess Michael of Kent Sad

LastOneDancing · 12/12/2013 15:03

I look forward to seeing the appeal advert for the 'Princess Michael of Kent Charity' showing a misty black & white montage of her sad-face watching people cook in her palace and squeezing into her economy class airline seat to Biarritz. Maybe looking longingly at the 12-course tasting menu for Le Gavroche and laying it sadly aside...

'If you don't help Princess Michael of Kent... Who will?'

Hmm
Longdistance · 12/12/2013 15:04

Boo fucking hoo!!

pixiepotter · 12/12/2013 16:08

yeah right!

SuperScrimper · 12/12/2013 16:12

If we had a Republic you and I wouldn't be paying to keep poor, pitiful Princesses in this sub standard life.

We could spend the money on things like schools and hospitals.

SuperScrimper · 12/12/2013 16:13

If we had a Republic you and I wouldn't be paying to keep poor, pitiful Princesses in this sub standard life.

We could spend the money on things like schools and hospitals.

ActionA · 12/12/2013 16:14

Amen to that, SuperScrimper.

BlousyMumsyTwat · 12/12/2013 16:16

This is the same woman who claimed in the 80's "I don't know how anyone survives on less than 50k a year". Nor do I dear, nor do I.

Bubblegoose · 12/12/2013 16:21

But HAVE any of you ever taken out the insides of a stag?

thebody · 12/12/2013 16:21

silly stupid crap bag of a woman.

and she admires the equally twattish Gove so almost certifiable.

thebody · 12/12/2013 16:22

bubble of course, I always gutting stags. also I can see better than nanny! WTAF Grin

thebody · 12/12/2013 16:22

sew not see!!!