George's exams

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Kate is not going with william to Singapore as George has important exams. What exams would a 10 year old be sitting in November?
I know nothing about private school systems so hoping someone here does.

For those criticising Windsor Wine , did you also disapprove of Sussex Royal ?

Is that a coat that Meghan modelled? What colour is it?! Who for?

It's nitvthecdactvthat Zara is making money out of her status that is the isdue but the hypocrisy that they all do it- her brother isn't averse to making a Buck or two out of being a member of the RF, Mike Tindall has been busy name dropping again- but when Meghan and Harry do it, it's beyond the pale. The microscopic analysis of everything they do just to qhip up outrage makes people think they are merching more than they are. Meghan wears a coat in July. She must be advertising it. Meghan wears a magnetic patch. She must be selling them. They must be wearing mics for Netflix. None if these things happened at all.

It's Royal blue.

I don't quite get the parallel.

One is the entity set up by the Sussexes (5th in line, titled, formerly working royals) which was expected to have a role in the half in/half out model that was rejected. And who therefore were leaving the "royal" part, giving up various trappings and roles.

The other is the name of a colourway of some products by a long-established company, Musto, with which Zara (21st in line, no title, never a working royal) has had a 16 year association.

Lol - I hadn’t read the previous posts about Windsor Wine and assumed it was a new wine range that was being flogged by the Tindalls!

Of all the members of the RF to stick the boot into!!

Can we reference the lies about £100k for six gigs a year then?

Zara Tindall and Sarah Ferguson's lucrative 'secret deals' with Hong Kong tycoon - Mirror Online

No sure if it was the intention, but this summary makes the whole Sussex Royal thing sound far worse than Zara!

Sussex Royal and a lot of things the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have done since and using their connection to the RF, have been on a epic scale in comparison to Zara Tindall modelling a 200 quid coat or her brother organising a 4 week ice skating rink or doing an ad for a pint of milk in China.

They all use and benefit from their proximity to the RF to make money, the Sussex's are on a different level to anything seen before though.

Totally disagree with that. Have you actually seen the milk advert?

Footmen serving milk, the equivalent of Buckingham Palace in the background, it was absolutely shameless. I have not heard of any advert done by M&H showing royal palaces or anything similar.
Then of course there's the Hello deals Zara and Mike made money on... showing their firstborn.

And as for the picnic hampers for the Jubilee that Peter made hundreds of thousands on...

There is no comparison.

You are quite right - unlike his cousins, Harry and Meghan actually used footage taken from private areas of Buckingham Palace without permission, for their personal financial gain in the Netflix series. Far worse behaviour.

It's to point out the difference.

If you think it makes it sound worse, perhaps that's because it's how you see it? How would you summarise instead?

Zara, btw, isn't the only equestrian who contributes to design and is brand ambassador for Musto, who also have well-known sailors on the books. Windsor wine is a colour across their whole range, not Zara specific.

Musto also held royal warrants from the late Queen and Prince Phillip - they're a well established company .
The other colours this season are black (which Zara models on the website twice, compared to one pic in the wine colour), true red, navy, white, sai, astro dust, field green, canyon suns, dark cobalt and more. As well as giving names to some of their colours, they seem to go in for place names on garments too, names associated with riding or sailing.

Interesting post @CoughingMajoress , thank you.

Zara etc make money out of their Royal connections . Harry and Meghan wanted to do the same ( Sussex Royal) but continue to receive the perks such as paid for security plus “ collaborate” ( cringe) with HLMTQ etc to pick and choose which engagements to undertake.
For me , that’s a big difference.

Zara does not have the same half in half out . She isn’t funded by taxpayers , she doesn’t have paid for security unless she attends an official occasion . She doesn’t represent The King on official duties .

Zara and Mike live in a royal residence, so they are directly financially profiting from being royals.

Is this true? They can’t afford their own property?

I understood they lived in a house on Gatcombe Estate ? That belongs to Princess Anne .

Zara would have got the equestrian-based deals regardless, and Mike the rugby-based ones regardless - look at all the other world champions and national captains doing similar. I don't think they would have been exceptions to the general pattern.

Phillip's hospitality business is real, and has done other large events. He didn't spring from no-where to get the Jubilee contract. AFAIK none of the tendering has ever been made public, so we don't know how his company's bid compared to any others. All would have included profit for the firm.

Their security isn't paid for, so no idea why that is relevant.

It isn't.

Gatcombe Park is not part of the Crown Estate .

The fact she doesn't have a title and doesn't hold the official status of Working Royal is irrelevant, since the average person doesn't care or even know about that.

Don't they/we?
Who are these "average people" who don't "even know" that Zara doesn't have a title or isn't a working royal?
It's hardly a secret that she doesn't have a title and the idea of what a "working royal" is has been well publicised due to the H&M situation.
The average person most likely doesn't care, but lots of people have plenty of other things going on in their own lives to care about before they get to caring about Zara's position in the royal family.

They most definitely wanted it to be though, complained when it was withdrawn, and Harry is fighting the decision it about security in the UK in the courts, correct? That’s why it’s relevant.

Yes it was a wedding present to Anne and Mark.

Anne remained in the main house, and now lives there with Timothy. Mark moved to one of the estate farms for many years (but has since relocated completely to US). Peter, Zara&Mike and Autumn all live in estate properties at present.

If that was in response to me , I am well aware that H and M now ( grudgingly) pay for their own security however when they tried to impose their half in half out proposal , they had tax payer funded security and fully expected to keep that . Harry himself said that he never thought his Met security would be removed .

Didn't Harry describe in detail the floorplan of one of the palaces (or maybe Balmoral), for his multimillion dollar earning book. Harry and Meghan shared photos from both of their home's on the Windsor estate and Kensington (again for payment) same as the Tindalls did for Hello magazine, I assume.

If you find it distasteful to monetise RF connections, which I totally understand, I don't understand how the Sussexs' are exempt from that disdain, as their monetising of their connections is totally in the stratosphere of the making money out of your connections. The rest of the RFs' monetising is small fry in comparison.