£360k to Phillip!

[BarbieBunches]

He got paid £360k for wandering around the world being a racist!!! Fuck me they truly do milk the cow don’t they 😳.

Camilla is not going to be paid - how will she get by? 🙄

That wouldn't be fair - what about all the other UK taxpayers? You'd have to do the same for everyone (not, of course, that it should fall on you unless you are actually the ghost of his late Royal Highness 👻)

How ridiculous. Nobody is suggesting such a thing, but we only just found out he was receiving it! every single cost to the nation can be broken down per person and amount to very little, that's just a way to minimise and make it seem like less of a concern.

Perhaps because she loves Charles ?

She is being paid they have just streamlined it so she is paid not directly from the public but I believe from the business profits of the duchy. But I personally would be happy for her to be paid just as any other royal, I like her think she's good, a dv ambassador, lighthearted and a bit more normal.

And you cannot deny the soft power and tradition of the royals. It is odd but the older I get and the more I study international relations the more royalist I become. At 10 I was abolish the monarchy for definite, all about money etc but at 40 I see a lot of international benefits that you can't put a price on.

Late to this party and haven't RTFT but I noted on another thread that this allowance was apparently to cover 'official duties'.

Can any royalists explain why this amount was needed on top of the already very generous SG which is supposed to do just that?

And why it was still paid after the 'official duties' ended?

As I also noted elsewhere, no wonder they were determined to hush up his will until everyone interested has long gone.

They hush up all royal wills Cathy, but I thought the "allowances" were supposed to be funded out of the Civil List/SG rather than being paid as an extra IYSWIM?

Will have to check though, as I could easily be wrong ...

Will hushed up for 95 years.

It's ridiculous that they are allowed to do this. We know why. Bequeaths to those that will be of great interest to the public, massive wealth beyond anything we could dream of, clever tax avoidance etc.

Why should the royals hide their Wills when the population can't?

(Before anyone asks, it is a massive, hugely expensve and very lengthy process to seal a Will for an ordinary person. Very very rarely is it approved)

to fund official duties????? Do you mean to pay for all the private jets they used? Or did he get the money to buy brasso to polish his shiny sword? Was it an allowance for pay for the shotgun cartridges he used for slaughtering innocent wild life?
maybe it was used to pay hush money to the many female friends he had?
Like father like son!

They hush up all royal wills Cathy, but I thought the "allowances" were supposed to be funded out of the Civil List/SG rather than being paid as an extra IYSWIM?

V. true about the wills, Puzzled.

A convenient 'convention' that arose to hide royal shenanigans in the first place and is now exploited to hide the scale of the wealth they've accrued.

The excuse for sealing Philip's will was 'to protect the dignity of the queen' and it was all done and dusted behind closed doors. No reason then for it not to be made public now she's gone but as ever the underlying message is the public can whistle.

The allowance paid to Phil was a separate 'annuity' on top of the SG.

We're supposed to be impressed that Camilla is graciously foregoing it 🙄

Will hushed up for 95 years.
It's ridiculous that they are allowed to do this. We know why. Bequeaths to those that will be of great interest to the public, massive wealth beyond anything we could dream of, clever tax avoidance etc.

Exactly.

What a loophole.

The allowance paid to Phil was a separate 'annuity' on top of the SG

Ah, fair enough Cathy, then I'm mistaken; I honestly thought it came out of the funds already provided and really should have known better - as if they'd pass up a chance of a bit more from the trough

And yes, sealing Philip's will 'to protect the dignity of the queen' was amusing at best - almost as bad as the publication of Charles's letters to ministers being resisted "because if he forfeits his political neutrality it could be difficult to recover it as king"

Personally I've always thought the best way to avoid being seen as undignified/whatever is not to behave in that way rather than seek to cover it up, but of course that's for the little people and as we've seen so often the RF consider themselves exempt from normal morality

The man was still working into his fucking 90s!!! Let's see you do that...

The man was still working into his fucking 90s!!! Let's see you do that...

It's not work!!

I'm so cross with myself. When will I learn not to open threads about the royal family. I get myself so irritated every time I read people defending the useless wasters.

I don't call what he did 'work' at all.

When I was banging on about this allowance the other day, you now, why the f does he need this money, they already get so much he can ask for whatever he needs.... my Dh said, 'no, this is so he has money he can spend without anyone knowing what he spends it on'. I hadn't even thought about it like that.

Well it's not sitting by the fireplace in his slippers and smoking jacket drinking Complan either!!!

You don't understand the meaning of 'work' clearly...

Of course I do, I have worked real jobs since I was 16. Philip cut ribbons and shook hands. That's not work.

But did you set up an important youth scheme? Fight in the Second World War? Sit on endless committees? How will history judge you?

How will history judge you?

What?

I won't be remembered as a thieving racist. That's something.

A thieving racist?
This is how William and Harry remember him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56721559

Why is that relevant? history will, and currently does, judge him for being a racist

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/11/the-chequered-legacy-of-prince-philips-notorious-gaffes

My grandmother, born in 1904, was the kindest woman who everyone loved. She thought ‘Black Africans’ (her words) had tails. She was ignorant about people from different countries but happy to be corrected. She absolutely was a product of the times.
Language changes over time. Queer used to mean strange, then it was a slur against gay people, now it’s almost fashionable to call yourself queer!

Such as?