Duchess of Cambridge

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Anyone else getting fed up of the constant headlines regarding Kate's 'recycled' outfits?

So, she's worn an outfit twice, big deal, maybe just like us, she has a favourite outfit she loves wearing. Surely she'd get flamed even more for wearing an outfit once.

Maybe she's just damed if she does and damned if she doesn't, but I say good for her!

You don't hear about Prince Harry being caught wearing the same outfit twice. Double standards.

Meghan picks up enough flack for the two of them.

Mind you, I have suggested in the past that Harry needs to have words with his tailor.......

I can't imagine the pressure of feeling as though you have to wear something different every day.
I wouldn't have the time, energy or money to contemplate it, so sort of glad it's not an issue for me.
Most people have their own style and just wear what feels right for them.

Was lucky enough to meet Kate and Wills through work a few months ago, they are both very tall and slender indeed but at the same time very healthy looking with it in real life. Kate's clothes were gorgeous too as was she 🙂

We (the taxpayer) only pick up the cost of their clothes on foreign tours. Charles picks up the normal cost. People do get carried away with this, without knowing their facts.

I mean, if you’re referring to the DM then YABU. They do this with every single woman ever, sometimes it’s kinda funny... ‘she was seen leaving her home with windswept golden blonde locks’ then will link you underneath to the hair dye they use .

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I have to look at the online and printed versions of a whole bunch of newspapers as part of my job! I certainly don’t look at the DM for fun.

We (the taxpayer) only pick up the cost of their clothes on foreign tours. Charles picks up the normal cost.

And where does he get his money from?

Why is there always comment along the lines "we, the tax-payers, pay for these clothes"? Don't we also pay the wages of e.g. the P.M. Members of Parliament, and anyone else on the public payroll - teachers in state schools, Civil Servants, NHS staffs.

Yes, but they actually do a job and work hard for their wages. The RF (except the Queen) mostly just spend half a day here and there doing the odd charity appearance or opening a building or occasionally they get to travel the world for free. Not quite the same as the NHS staff.

From the Duchy of Cornwall which is his inherited property (as PoW). He also pays tax from the Ducy.

Apparently it costs the tax-payers only 69p each to keep the Royal family- they do generate their own irevenue you know which covers much of their outgoings. I'd rather they spent it on them than all the other things the government wastes my money on that I don't agree with!

From the Duchy of Cornwall

Yes, but what does that actually mean?

The Duchy of Cornwall is a business which generates profit from various activities (farming, making biscuits for Waitrose etc!). Like any other business, the legitimate profits are under the control of the owner/shareholders. PoW is the guy who controls the Duchy of Cornwall, and is therefore entitled to take the profit he chooses, and upon which he pays tax. He uses some of this to buy lots of frocks for the women of the family.

Hope that explains what the Duchy of Cornwall 'means'!

We do pay for all their security as well, though.

I am Indian. We did away with royalty in the 1970s completely peacefully. The erstwhile royal families are still rich - they had inherited family wealth over several generations - and they were allowed to keep those monuments which they could prove were family as opposed to federal property. Most of these are now 5 star hotels. Royals make fantastic hoteliers as you can imagine . Some are politicians, so now have a legitimate democratic mandate to rule.

I find the servile attitude towards the UK royals baffling. They are superficially very nice but profoundly unimpressive (have met a few professionally and a family member was at school with one).

Good for her. Can't see anything wrong with it at all. She is thrifty ; this is a good thing!
I'm not a fan of the royals but she is doing her bit and just happens to like wearing the same outfits for her events/ work etc.
The press just like to criticise anyone in the public eye.

She doesn’t half look like her grandma.

The use of the word "recycling", to describe wearing an outfit more than once, is the problem.

Nobody talks about William's trousers do they

Not in that context anyway