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malificent7 · 2018-04-12T02:59:47+00:00

If the council in Windsor wanting to clear homeless out ? I mean why don't the royal couple open a shelter instead given they are 'humanitarian' ?

TeisanLap · 12/04/2018 12:18

To have lost interest in the royal wedding because...

Because for the first time in her life Meghan is being a good actress.

The80sweregreat · 12/04/2018 12:19

Harry chucking it all in for love skippy , never! they are born to wealth and a level of kudos that cant be comprehended by normal people and never will be.
No, she will have to toe the line i'm afraid. She might do this for a while, but soon grow bored i bet, i cant imagine a lot of it is very pleasant to be honest.

BalloonSlayer · 12/04/2018 12:20

I don't think Meghan has a clue what she is letting herself in for. In then end that's why he's had to go for someone who is not British - none of his British girlfriends were up for it because they understood fully what being married to him would entail.

Um, riches, celebrity, gravy train, freedom to pursue your charitable interests (which is a good thing of course but by heck I would love to be able to pick some charities dear to my heart and help them earn shitloads of money by turning up looking pretty) . . .?

Harry said he considered giving up his place in the line of succession but of course has not, citing "duty", Beatrice and Eugenie ought to get proper jobs but haven't, Princess Margaret was madly in love with Peter Townsend but didn't marry him in the end, would have lost her place in the line of succession I guess but also cited "duty," apparently Kate Middleton's parents planned and schemed (don't believe it myself but many do) to put her in William's orbit, Charles was seen as "the world's most eligible bachelor" [yes really!] back in the day, and over hundreds of years various families have given their innocent daughters to marry tyrants just to get them into the royal family . . .

I could go on. Yet now, just now after nearly a thousand years of monarchy, with people murdering each other in the past to get their hands on the crown, only now in 2018 is it all such a hard job, and we have to feel sorry for all the poor diddumses saddled with it.

LaurieMarlow · 12/04/2018 12:20

Though of course, I think he could step out of that role if he wanted - Prince Andrew and his offspring being the next set of spares.

Just when I though the situation couldn't get any worse

LifeBeginsAtGin · 12/04/2018 12:21

The Royals bring in millions to this country. I've no issues with my taxes are being used for security. People need to be kept safe.

EdithWeston · 12/04/2018 12:22

"And how is it a 'gain' if it is (de facto) state money to begin with"

Because it is surrendered to the exchequer, not placed in Crown Reserves as it used to be. The voluntary arrangement for passing it to government in return for a grant to cover costs of head of state has resulted in a profit for the government every year.

It's a good deal for the taxpayer, and I'm still not clear if you were suggesting it should be arranged otherwise.

pigsDOfly · 12/04/2018 12:23

I think I probably come into that older category The80s being nearly 70, and yes, I suppose with Charles and Diana it was pretty obvious that he wasn't going into it 'all hearts and flowers', but even so, no one knows how another person is going to behave inside a marriage.

With C & D it's possible another type of woman might have decided that she'd be willing to accept his affair because she liked her lifestyle.

The only people who know about a relationship are the people in it. Outsiders can have an opinion, but it's the certainty with which some posters on here state it that I find a bit daft. As if they have intimate knowledge of two complete strangers thoughts, lives and opinions.

ParisUSM · 12/04/2018 12:24

I'm suggesting the royals shouldn't get anything out of it and it should be used as any other sovereign wealth fund is. My original point was answering someone who asked what I'd suggest to replace the monarchy. They shouldn't be getting a penny.

findingmyfeet12 · 12/04/2018 12:24

Even if they do bring in millions, I'd rather give up that money than continue to perpetuate the belief that people are born "higher" or "better" than others.

I doubt the absence of a royal family would mean that visitor numbers to the UK would suffer anyway.

The80sweregreat · 12/04/2018 12:25

I dont feel sorry for them at all as they have a choice and can ' give it all up' if they wanted to. They have enough money to buy their own houses and lead a normal life. The Queen probably cant now , to be fair, but the others can do this and nobody would really care that much.
Prince Charles always strikes me as someone who would be far happier just being a duchy and doing his own thing anyway. I suppose none of them want to make that move or declaration for loads of different reasons and not all to do with money either.

frankchickens · 12/04/2018 12:29

YABU to have "lost interest" - there was never any reason to be interested in the first place.

frankchickens · 12/04/2018 12:30

would be far happier just being a duchy
Eh?

londonrach · 12/04/2018 12:33

I didnt have interest so cant lose interest. They just a rich couple getting married.

LaurieMarlow · 12/04/2018 12:41

Because it is surrendered to the exchequer, not placed in Crown Reserves as it used to be. The voluntary arrangement for passing it to government in return for a grant to cover costs of head of state has resulted in a profit for the government every year.

And a more cost effective head of state would result in a greater profit.

As the money belongs to the institution of 'The Crown', the royal family are irrelevant to how profitable it is anyway. They don't manage it, they have no rights over it as individuals, it's just how they're funded.

LaurieMarlow · 12/04/2018 12:43

would be far happier just being a duchy

Pretty much nothing he's ever done would suggest that to be true.

I'd believe that of the Queen much more quickly than him. He can't bloody wait to be King.

BertrandRussell · 12/04/2018 12:46

Prince Charles always strikes me as someone who would be far happier just being a duchy and doing his own thing anyway.“

Nothing he has ever said or done suggests this. But if it’s true there has been nothing stopping him.

Fintress · 12/04/2018 12:47

I'm going on holiday specifically to avoid the wedding.

If you are flying just make sure the wedding isn't shown on a loop on the inflight entertainment on the way as happened to us in the past. Never heard a thing about it the whole time we were away until we got on the flight home.

I have no interest in it at all, or any royal events if I'm honest. My husband says they bring a lot to the country in tourism but still I could not care less. I didn't know about the stance on homeless people in Windsor, quite shocking. I thought it was bad enough when they rounded up all the stray dogs in Athens for the Olympics but it's a whole new level to target people who are homeless.

findingmyfeet12 · 12/04/2018 12:49

Prince Charles certainly uses his privilege to its full advantage when writing to ministers and lobbying on behalf of his personal interests. I can't imagine him being willing to be an ordinary person.

LillianGish · 12/04/2018 12:52

what she is letting herself in for constant scrutiny on your ever word, gesture, action and that of anyone close to you. Giving up all the pleasure and anonymity of everyday life that you probably don't even realise you have until it's gone. Meghan is an actress and no doubt thinks she's up to the role - what she may not have appreciated is that she will now being playing that role for the rest of her life. I don't feel sorry for her - as others have said she's a 37-year-old woman - but I think as an American she is in for a shock.

LaurieMarlow · 12/04/2018 12:56

I'm never sure why people think she isn't prepared because she's American. I doubt anyone who didn't grow up inside or very close to the institution has the slightest clue what's it's like to lead a royal life.
Nationality is neither here nor there.

findingmyfeet12 · 12/04/2018 12:58

They can always give up the trappings and live relatively normal lives.

They'll never have totally normal lives but many other celebrities have the same issues.

meditrina · 12/04/2018 13:09

"And a more cost effective head of state would result in a greater profit."

True, as would having a more 'cost effective' anything - I assume you mean "cheaper"

We could gor example mimic the French, who spend significantly more on theirs.

Or if you'd rather look at Europeans monarchs, and do it relative to population of that country, only Spain in cheaper (Norway is most expensive, followed by Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, then UK, then Spain) Source, analysis from that notorious pro-monarch newspaper The Independent. Liechtenstein and Monaco royals don't feature in the cost per taxpayer list, but were noted in a separate list as being wealthier as royal families than the British.

So I think it's wrong to see monarchy as being inherently more expensive than a president, or dictator-for-life, or whatever other arrangement someone comes up with, because it isn't. Nor to see the British monarchy as expensive among monarchies, as it isn't.

BalloonSlayer · 12/04/2018 13:12

Giving up all the pleasure and anonymity of everyday life that you probably don't even realise you have until it's gone.

Yeah not like she ever dreamed of being a famous movie star like the rest of us when WE were little, she just wanted an ordinary life!

Izzy24 · 12/04/2018 13:16

I’m as interested as I am about all the other people getting married on the same day.

LillianGish · 12/04/2018 13:16

I think Americans don't understand what it is to be British in the same way Brits don't really understand what it is to be American. Because we speak (almost) the same language many people are fooled into believing we have a lot in common. I believe Harry's two previous girlfriends didn't want to marry him because they knew only too well what they could expect and even though they loved him thought that was too high a price to pay. I don't think the penny's dropped yet for Meghan.