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

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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?

Since 2010 Prince and Princess Michael have been paying the full commercial rent of £120,000 a year on their plush five-bedroom accommodation at Kensington Palace, which features a walled garden, roof garden and courtyard designed by Sir Christopher Wren

The Queen paid the rent on their behalf for seven years after a parliamentary row erupted in 2002 when it emerged they paid only a peppercorn rent, rumoured to be just £69 a week, for the apartment they have used for more than 30 years

I imagine she is now feeling the pinch. Poor love. Diddums

Imagine what she'd say if she had to downsize to, say, a 3 bedroom semi in Wolverhampton.

she should try getting on a council waiting list

silly bitch

Bless her heart my heart frigging bleeds for her

she should try getting on a council waiting list

I was just away to say this get bidding for a new place yer ladyship

she says wel if i am having a home dinner party i get in help

it is never good when you can sew better than the nanny is another peach

I could ignore a lot of her silliness but thinking Gove is wonderful is a step too far!

This board resonates with the advice:

Get a - cleaner/au pair/daily/gardner/nanny/doula and so forth - time and time again it is trotted out that paid domestic help is the great panacea. Even in my little world people have professional BBQs and hogs heads seem to be very common vogue now.

I love the droll Christmas threads 'how much shall I give the cleaner this year?'

So as much as you mock most of you pay someone in your life to do some domestic chore for you

Bohemian People are mocking her idea she's suffering under austerity and yet still paying for those services, not mocking her for paying for them in the first place.

I have no cleaner/au pair/daily/nanny/doula.

I do have a man who mows my lawn, but I wouldn't call him a gardener!

Can I mock her now? Is that okay with you Bohemian?

personally I hate leeches and users who live in palaces and do fuck all for their money.

she's a complete and utter dick head to talk about austerity and holidays in the same breath as getting outside help with a dinner party. get a fucking job like the rest of us.

Here's a radical idea - she could try a get a bloody job!

She has a book out. Her P.R must be thrilled at the headlines the interview's generated.

Isn't she the racist one? Racist incident in America calling a group of African Americans having dinner racist names because the group were talking loud and having a great time.

I have no idea how I will sleep tonight worrying about her...

I have never had a nanny aupair gardener or a lady who does for me , I will mock her cos she is a silly moo who has to get help in when she has a dinner party even though she is tightening her Royal -leachy-- belt

Where shall I send the cheque?

"We’ve cut back dramatically. I mean we never go out to dinner unless we go to somebody’s house. We never go to restaurants. That’s too extravagant

Bloody freeloader- getting someone else to feed you for free That is what the civil list is for

Yes, she's the racist one.

Something that has always annoyed me about her is that she calls herself by her husband's Christian name. She has a perfectly good name (some might say beautiful name: Marie Therese) yet she calls herself Princess Michael. Do her friends call her Mike? Or Mickey? taking the