To think Prince William and his wife are lacking appreciation of their position

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and good fortune?

He just seems a bit of an over-privileged posh boy?

I know everyone says he has lovely manners, but we can expect a bit more than that, surely?

They have just hired a 'forrin' nanny a) after making an enormous PR fuss about not having one b) at a time of high UK unemployment.

The list of god-parents for their baby was a bit multi-barrelled and No foreign royals, as is traditional, but Not the slightest whiff of any demographic diversity either.

There seem to be a LOT of luxury holidays going on with these two.

The uni course he is doing has been especially designed for him and seems designed to prepare him for inheriting the enormous (private) Duchy of Cornwall. Not exactly public-spirited?

In the much-hyped first post-baby interview, he was keen to promote a charity saving Kenyan Rhinos. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that, but the line between animals he shoots for fun and animals he wants to save is unclear and anyhow a charity for under-privileged (UK?) children would have been the nice, publicity-shrewd thing to do, maybe?

For a couple with a great deal of expensive PR expertise at their disposal they seem to be slightly missing the mark a bit too often.

I love that image of the caravan holiday in Minehead. I bet that felt good, OMG :)

Those cars are luxury, I tell you. DS said to me the other day, 'please can I sit in the Postman Pat car - I will pretend you have put money in there and that it does things?' Tight, me.

Great post OhMahGerd. Sums it up perfectly.

Laughing so hard at some of the pro royalty comments on here that I fell off my broom.

grin @ antibiaz

I did have some respect for William when he was working on Search and Rescue. But not so since that was shelved. The "course" he was doing at Cambridge seems to have been created for him and I can't see what contribution he or Kate are actually making at the moment.

for godness sake, many people need to grow up.

Define normal?

They are rich and always will be. Perhaps those that think the taxpayer bank rolls them, needs to look a bit harder into there finances. It is shocking that people belive these myths about the Royals. Do any of you really think if we did pay for everything that the Mps would allow it? you do not think that it would help the Mps out a lot by stopping that?

Face it they have there own wealth and can do what they like with it. So what that they go on holiday, every few weeks they are millionaires.

As for someone saying how about they start or help charities in this country. How about The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. Or Centrepoint or The Child Bereavement Charity or The English Schools’ Swimming Association (ESSA) to name a few.

They have money, what is so hard to get over. It seems people are right when they say the Brits hate the rich. It seems to be true.

adam are you suggesting the royal family isn't funded by the taxpayer
is your definition of growing up being pleased that millionaires can go on holidays

No we contribute to there lifestyle. We pay for there protection and there ceremony stuff. As of last year the taxpayer, did not pay for there offical duites or costs, via the civil list. So we did not pay for travel to official duties. We did not pay towards the upkeep of the palaces (which are used for state purposes as well as private homes and offices) and we did not pay for the PR or the staff (which is around 450 people Royal household and amounts to over half of the civil list payments). We do not fund them full, they have there own wealth. That said they benefit a lot from what we do and did pay for.

Yes that is what I mean by growing up, so they have money and go on hoilday, big whoop. Does it effect you ... no. So why moan.

Affects us because we contribute to their lifestyle I suppose?
Don't see that either viewpoint is 'grown up/ not grown up', not that it's a term I'd use.
We are stuck with the monarchy at the moment. Given the economic situation, with people having to use food banks and high rates of child poverty and so on, people might feel slightly aggrieved to look at the younger members of the monarchy behaving so insensitively with non stop holidays.

If they were actually paid what they're worth this weekend Kate'd be lugging her bottle warmer down to a self catering cabin at Minehead where they'd be enjoying an out of season weekend so George can get his first glimpse of the sea and have 50p ride in a postman pat car outside the arcade

^ this^

The reason Diana is/was so revered is that she actually dared to break royal protocol and be a bit controversial every now and then to speak up about something she believed in. Even her harshest critics can't deny she was interesting.

Kate & Wills, and probably the whole royal family for generations to come, will never be as interesting. They've seen the whole Diana saga as a "lesson" and completely turned their back on that sort of revolutionary behaviour in order to be less risky. And as a result, I think more of the public will despise them in the future, which is a shame. They really will appear to be less and less useful.

Ohmahgerd.........great post, the bit about Kate lugging her bottle warmer down to a self catering cabin at Minehead.......brilliant!!!!

which would in a republic go on an elected head of state whether you voted them in or not.

food banks etc not there fault, nor does it only exists in this country.

You want people to stop living because some people get hurt feeling when they see some else having a good time and they are not? and you say you would not use the words grow up. Really

hardly Kate is worth millions in here own right.

Kate isn't worth millions in her own right. Although she may well inherit millions when her parents die.

Not our society , many others have done and still do.

The media do not do that at all, there are many stories about them, both good and bad.

As for there wealth, you might not do, but others certainly do, otherwise why moan about the fact they went on holiday? It is a bit sad really.

As for where they got their wealth from, looking at history not the people, especial in the last 400 years. Looking at the sources of wealth and not the myth and lies that have been produced by films, media and republicans. If you want to look at that perhaps a look at how this country or any other were made. Do not judge the past based on modern views. Besides that money is there anyway. If you are going to suggest they stole it, then perhaps evidence would help, saying who did they take land from, still ends with the same answer no the people, as the people never existed as an entity back then, and it was taken from nobles people still lived and worked the lands.

adamb123 - I honestly never pick people on grammar or spelling. But please can you learn the difference between their and there. And breathe.

Millions in her own right? Really? A woman who has never held a full time job? Or a business? Who hasn't (yet) received an inheritance of note? Whose parents owned her 'bachelor' flat?

Where did she acquire these alleged millions then?

"They've seen the whole Diana saga as a "lesson" and completely turned their back on that sort of revolutionary behaviour in order to be less risky. And as a result, I think more of the public will despise them in the future, which is a shame. They really will appear to be less and less useful." - Prince Harry and William have not, specially Harry look what he does for charity. They might not be as revolutionary because there is less to be revolutionary about and when they do speak out the critics come out in force and moan and moan and twists everything. Those people will despise them no matter what and you know that as much as I do, No matter who has wealth and status people despise it, whether they want to admit the reason for that is another debate. Appear too may be, to be less useful in years and years to come but at the moment…. no and the for see able future…no. Those that see passed there own issues will see the good they do and there uses. I think as the decades go on and on, people will slowly not care about the wealth and would not care if they have it in a republic. But would just want to step away from monarchy. This could take 50 years it could take 500 but it will happen, monarchy will split into the background. Or it could be around as long as England is, Scotland etc. Who knows.

her parents, you do not think they give her money? You do not think she has bank accounts that produce interest rates? You do not think she would have some investment someone?