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Having watched the series I wonder what exactly was the benefit of the £120000 a year the Fulfords paid for their children's education? Whilst having a certain charm they are ignorant and boorish in the extreme. Cannot help but feel the money was wasted!

The daughter seems lovely though

I still don't understand how they cry poverty and yet all four children boarded at public schools!

I've not watched the latest ep so maybe it's been discussed

I suspect that education was secondary to contacts tbh

I agree and I think they all have a certain charm but they are so ignorant. If I was their mother I would be furious they had left an expensive education with so little knowledge.

The headteachers of their schools must hate this show.

I have missed some of these, but defo remember the mum from the first show a few years ago, do we know where she is now?

I understand the mother is "visiting friends in London" doesn't want to be involved :)

I love this show!

I don't understand how Edmund presumably was allowed back into 6th Form if he has no GCSEs

(but I do have a very soft spot for him!)

What channel is this on? I must watch it!

because they're paying mumble?

Bugger, did I miss it this week .

I wonder how much they play up for the cameras, they must have learnt something at school .

Agree with Mumble - for lots of parents it's worth it to guarantee their kids rapid progression up the career ladder of the super-succesful and getting in on the old boys/girls network...... I've definitely seem this for myself several times.....

I know the school that Edmund went to. It's not known for successful exam results but does push out 'thoroughly nice chaps'

A private education doesn't translate into academic achievement. You can't turn someone into something they're not, no matter how much money you throw at it.

They send their children to a particular school often because it's where they went and generations before them. It's just what they do.

Yes but where do they get the money to pay for it all. They've been pleading poverty for years. The house is falling down around their ears but with his son and heir being primed to take over, he doesn't seem to worried about financing the whole thing

Yes but where do they get the money to pay for it all.

Didn't they sell some land at some point? Maybe there's money in a trust somewhere which can only be spend on school fees or another relative somewhere pays for it. In any case, the cost of a private education is small compared to the maintenance costs of a house like that.

I love the programme though. I haven't laughed like that for a long time. Very entertaining.

From what I have read, it seems that the father wasnt terribly well educated either. I would imagine that there is a certain amount of monetary value in being involved in the show and the resulting 'celebrity' status.

I thought Humphrey was very handsome. I could almost overlook the fact he was called Humphrey.

Oh shit now I'm watching it on iPlayer.

This is like Downton Abbey meets Honey Booboo!

I thought they said in one of the early episodes of this series that thanks to land prices the Fulford Estate was merrily in credit - income earnt by renting land and farming.

Also the mother/wife chose to not have any involvement in this show after the last one they were in.

They have 13 tenant farmers I think they said. That's very many hundreds of thousands in agri subsidies alone.

I have only ever known three people in my lifetime at public school (Marlborough) and they all had trust funds paying for their education. Presumably expired relatives leave education trust funds to the next generation of children.

Ah yes, I once read that Kate Middleton and her siblings' schooling was funded by a trust, set up for education only.

Well, I watched three episodes and then I got bored. They're quirky but not really all that interesting.