George’s education costs

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Who here would honestly happily contribute to George’s education costs?

Reported to be £68000 a year at Eton.

I don't think George will be King. A lot can happen in the intervening years.

Eton? It makes me heave.

I would normally have been a fan of the royal family. But thinking about the Andrew thing really just grates me.

Yes, and how much was known for so long. Andrew has apparently not paid back the £12 million he was loaned to give to Virginia Giuffre. They have also sat on the Epstein/Andrew emails for six years.

The continuing smokescreen, skeletons in the cupboard and continuing secrecy around the finances is what concerns me.

I still think George should get a good education and his parents are paying. The same way Phillip paid for Charles to go to Gordonstoun

I don't think so actually.

I think she intended to haul out the venom but misjudged in that George is still too little for decent people to begrudge him much.

I was thinking about the cover-up as well which made me question the whole thing.

I also have a 12 year old son and I find the whole thing of berating a child, especially from people who claim to be kind and left wing, extremely troubling. There are a lot of angry sad people around who have clearly not achieved much in life and are trying to find someone else to blame for their anger and failures. Rather than working positively on their own growth.

Also this whole booing and protesting malarkey in London, it has all gone too far. Do not be surprised if people take the piss en masse (both online and in person) and there are bad actors like the Russians/Iranians egging on idiots, if our own Government is eventually forced to curtail the right to protest.

Still questions too about who participated in what now transpires to have been a bit of a whip-round to raise the funds.

There’s more even than the Andrew cover up

Its all cover up after cover up

I haven’t caught up with the thread but I do find it ironic that a thread on ‘education’ is highlighting how , the less you know about how we are governed here in the uk,
the more likely you are to support the current corrupt system .

Can the dwindling band of royalists really just look at a gaudy golden coach or Disneyesque parades and not question what goes on behind the scenes?

( The so called ‘pomp’ is not ancient - it was invented to provide bread and circuses when the population was getting ideas from the French Revolution)

When you see a post stating ‘ I don’t want a trump president here’ you know you are dealing with a lack of information/ education .

Im not blaming those posters - you have to want to seek the truth here and it’s all made very difficult to unravel

Read Norman Baker or watch on YouTube

Andrew Lownie too .

I am not a royalist, but I can see the advantage of having a royal family and head of the Church of England. Especially in this day and age where tech giants are far more of a risk.
If anything, the royal family is another layer of protection just like the House of Lords against mass manipulated populism by tech giants trying to take over the world and minds of people lacking critical thinking. Which includes far left republicans.

Utter nonsense

You sound very triggered by a peaceful protest.
The Windsors knew the protesters would be there . They chose to parade the children - why?

Were you as angry about the Andrew /Epstein cover up ?

About the institution throwing their weight against Virginia Guifre and calling her a liar to try to shut her up when they had known for decades what Epstein and Andrew were doing ? Children were involved there . And much worse than a few boos

@bafta16
Eton? It makes me heave.

Just Eton or all private schools? There are public roads all through the school so you could go and do some booing there.

Is there a GoFundMe? I'll give the lad a fiver if he needs it.

I feel rather sorry for all 3 of them. Growing up in a gilded cage. And especially in George's case, completely unable to chose a life for himself. His whole existence was set up for him at conception. He's on a pre-set course, on which he has zero choice or input. For all the privilege and luxury, that must be a head-fuck once he's mature enough to realise it.
I hope he gets to properly enjoy his time at school and university (if he choses to go), because it'll be the last true opportunity he gets to do something just for himself.
Charlotte probably won't fare any better. She'll step in to a "Princess Anne role" of endless appearances and obligations.
Louis might possibly have more of a chance of normality. But still unlikely.

The real issue here is your
last sentence in your first paragraph.

I can't believe people here are happy to pay for the education of the "richest woman in the world" (as per Forbes magazine") grandchild.

The grooming is real.

Good thing nobody here will be paying then, isn't it?

I do see that argument for abolishing the monarchy - ie it’s a form of child abuse / golden cage .

But the thing is Harry has shown that it IS possible to leave.
They can leave and make their own way .
Yet they don’t .

@IcedPurple

Nope. Everything they have they took from us

The Duchy is not William’s - and even if you believe it is ( in defiance of the evidence ) he’s still charging public services and not paying his full tax - he excludes himself from laws including tax law .

I have some hope that the parliamentary investigation with result in reforms and put a stop to the rip off .

I think that he is in an otherwise difficult position .He always looks very serious and doesnt always seem comfortable .He will be King one day and needs to prepare with correct training .Its an expensive School ,but he could hardly go to the local indie or state school!

I can think of worse things than a role similar to Princess Anne's, she'll have to be well inducted as she's the 'Spare'. Louis might end up like Edward, helping out with stuff but finding his own employment too.

“Utter nonsense
You sound very triggered by a peaceful protest.
The Windsors knew the protesters would be there . They chose to parade the children - why?”

@Ukisgaslit - there is nothing “peaceful” about booing children. It is disgraceful behaviour.
And yes I feel for them because my 12 year old and his friends were recently aggressively accosted in Central London by animal rights activists for eating an icecream.
Nobody should be allowed to accost or boo any children. There should be laws against it, including taking children to protests in the first place.

People can have their angry opinions all they like, but children need protecting from it. And booing children is lowest of the lowest. There is NOTHING worthy in that, ever.

So whilst Starmer is busy banning under 16s from social media, maybe he needs to start with real life and protests. Including far left and far right ones that are plaguing are streets and have also led to some underage wayward youths ending up with a criminal record (whilst being incentivised to do stuff online).

And people accosting and booing children need to be warned too. And that includes all children, the royal ones as well.

I often wonder what would happen if one of the royal offspring turned out to be very bright and wanted to train as a doctor and go off to do a stint with Medecins Sans Frontieres, would they be allowed?

I also have a 12 year old, born two days before George.

george parents choose to parade him (quite literally) in public. He is used by them to ensure the continuation of the family’s position and privilege. He is is part of the ‘new/young’ royal set, part of the brand/marketing machine, offering cuteness, fresh hope, longevity, interest and intrigue. This is parental choice and the quid pro quo of living on the public dollar. Could they remove him from public life if they chose.
Yes, absolutely they could but they’d won’t as they know their future depends on it - not the country’s future, their own future.

People protest because they have a different view to you. They see privilege and injustice. You can’t just stop them protesting because they don’t agree with you!

there’s an irony in your comment about ‘not achieved much in life’ - you see this is the crux of the problem. Nor have the royal family. They have wealth and opportunity as a right of birth. What does Kate know about under five’s other than the knowledge any mother has? Did she earn her influence? No she did not; she married it. The bottom line for me is that the Royals offer zero inspiration to anyone. What’s my 12 year old going to do? Be reborn as a royal? The biggest irony is when they chip in about D&I. I don’t known how they do that with a straight face. I honestly have more respect for the Beckhams. At least they had talent that could be monetised before they pulled their kids into brand Beckham.