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So what the fuck are Kate and Willy doing?

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RogueV · 17/04/2020 22:39

Isn’t there a princess in Europe that’s now working as a HCA?

A queen somewhere in Asia cooking for the poor?

Harry and Meghan delivering meals?

Bet if Diana was here she’d be out doing everything in her power to help the ordinary folk 💪

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Easilyanxious · 17/04/2020 23:08

Being heir to the throne means he will be limited S what he's allowed to do that's how it works
Maybe look up how much they actually bring to the country in tourism etc before spouting how much they cost the taxpayers .
We have a monarchy get over it

LolaSmiles · 17/04/2020 23:08

I'm no royalist but honestly I don't care what they're doing.
There's more pressing issues about our government's reaction to this crisis and the fact that for a few years bloody Branson has been trying to get his claws into the NHS whilst taking legal action against it (and now asking for state money to prop up one of his airlines) for me to be remotely bothered what some royals with inherited wealth are doing.

If they did something then it would be fawned over like Diana, or they'd be ripped apart for not doing enough, or they'd be labelled as showing off. If they don't to anything or keep it quiet then they're pulled apart for that too.
It's not a lifestyle I'd want.

DailyKegelReminder · 17/04/2020 23:09

Sod all. Which shows exactly why the family is useless and should be treated just like everyone else.

MiniCooperLover · 17/04/2020 23:10

You're being an idiot! They are doing their bit but also socially isolating and taking care of 3 children! Harry & Meghan are self serving, they know damn well they'll be recognised but L.A. is less of an issue than London I think (but not for long) and they may well take it home to their child! Well done them !! 🙄

Littlemeadow123 · 17/04/2020 23:10

William wants to go back to air ambulance, a fact you have ignored this entire time. Kate has three young children to homeschool.

You have two young children and say that they are peforming inadequately. So what have you been doing during this time OP? Have you single handedly found a cure?

EmeraldShamrock · 17/04/2020 23:11

Even in the midst of a global pandemic, the Sussexes are pretending to be just like you and I, taking a risk to deliver food parcels to people in their neighbourhood. All six households. And how fortunate that there were photographers there to capture the special moment
This. Desperately attention seeking it is cringeworthy.

MintyMabel · 17/04/2020 23:13

She looked like she’s had a facial And hairdresser

Are you kidding? She looked like she was knackered and her hair was definitely not done by a hairdresser. Unless we are looking at different videos.

OneandTwenty · 17/04/2020 23:13

Maybe look up how much they actually bring to the country in tourism etc before spouting how much they cost the taxpayers .

I am not sure why people keep banging on about tourism, do you honestly believe that?

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RogueV · 17/04/2020 23:13

@AvalancheKit

Eh? I’m not an nhs HCP because I’ve questioned what two royal figureheads are doing?

Right. Hmm

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MiniCooperLover · 17/04/2020 23:13

I'm curious OP, what have you done? If something amazing I'll be there to apologise. Have you stayed home to keep your children safe? Would you expect others to stay home to keep their children safe? Like, let's say, William & Kate?

Bunnyfuller · 17/04/2020 23:13

Don’t you know, they’re finding it tough on their MH.

The staff insist there’s only so many meal choices they can come up with

The nanny is all emosh without the respite pre-school provides.

And don’t even mention the cleaners.

Plus, they’re worried sick with how they can survive with not being able to work....oh....wait....

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RogueV · 17/04/2020 23:14

Yes because tourism is really helping us now 🧐

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Spacecudet · 17/04/2020 23:14

I'm sorry, I love the war veteran too, but no way would anyone sponsor Wills and Kate to do laps of their estate until they're 100! Love the captain, kind of love Wills and Kate too (watching The Windsors helps)

OneandTwenty · 17/04/2020 23:14

William wants to go back to air ambulance
He can... no one is stopping him.

twirlycat77 · 17/04/2020 23:14

Yanbu, they make me sick, .always trying to make out they’re just like us. Bone idle scroungers the lot of them. Why the hell do we give them so much, they do nothing to justify it.

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/04/2020 23:14

Im as repulican as they come, but do bugger off love.

And while you are buggering off, call in at the "common sense" shop, its open as an essential service.

Mistystar99 · 17/04/2020 23:14

Piss off
What, doing some PR stunt to look good like the ones you have mentioned??
Get a grip of yourself.

AvalancheKit · 17/04/2020 23:15

Didn’t Prince William love flying air ambulances until he was told to step down and make room for others.

What kind of privilege is that?

whywhywhy6 · 17/04/2020 23:15

I love Kate and Wills....

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 17/04/2020 23:16

What are you doing OP?

Bunnyfuller · 17/04/2020 23:16

Tourists come for the royal palaces. Not in the hope of a glimpse of the carefully rationed and planned royals.

The palaces have been there a fair bit longer than the current royals.

OneandTwenty · 17/04/2020 23:16

MiniCooperLover
At least half the country manages to work from home, whilst looking after children. Since when is it an excuse for Will and Kate to do nothing as usual?

No one is asking him to come up with a vaccine if he could that would be great but what is actually the point of the royals? None. No point at all.

OneandTwenty · 17/04/2020 23:17

Didn’t Prince William love flying air ambulances until he was told to step down and make room for others.

as he wasn't even working part-time then, why do you think that is true let alone remotely possible?

MrsMGE · 17/04/2020 23:17

Thing is, they are irrelevant and unnecessary. This pandemic only highlights this and makes it even more obvious. There is no place for the royals in modern world.

onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad · 17/04/2020 23:17

They are living their lives in the best way they can within the world that they exist in. Being judgemental about their world and their place within it is no different to making judgements about anyone's place in any world they have ended up in. And I am no royalist.