If it's true that we are paying the PoW 1.5 million a year rent for Dartmoor prison...

[CurlewKate]

...among many other things, do you think that's OK? If so, why?

I would say quite a few of them are exceptionally awful!

They actually love killing animals. Prince Philip was president of WWF even though he loved killing tigers. Charles and Camilla love watching foxes being torn to pieces. In my opinion, psychopathic tendencies . These people are cruel and greedy.

That's because the vast majority of them are conservation zones though. Many of them prevent them being brought up to standard.

I personally know of one Dutchy let farm with single glazed windows. the battle to get them re glazed with double glazed panes that look like single has been going on years. The Dutchy are ready to do the work but the national park won't allow it because it's not the original 🙄

It may be cheaper and have less of an impact to travel in a helicopter than via road or train where he’d need accompanying security, police escort etc.

Charles uses choppers like buses. Always has and yes, I can provide a recent example:

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/king-charles-helicopter-africa-centre-southwark-climate-change/

Hypocritical arse.

I suppose a £52k spend (don't ask me how) on a 500 mile train trip might be considered to mitigate that carbon footprint a bit in some quarters though.

https://www.newsweek.com/king-charles-train-royal-helicopter-costs-1929392

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Entirely agree.

Stalking and shooting deer as opposed to engaging a professional, respectful and humane culling service also springs to mind.

If so I grew up surrounded by psychopaths. In a rural farming community, attending the local comp, nothing posh. Just about everyone was pro fox hunting, a lot of my friends had ponies (it is fairly affordable in rural areas, especially the children of farmers) and hunted.

Personally I was anti, and was/am glad it was banned.

But no, it isn't a sign of psychopathic tendencies.

But no, it isn't a sign of psychopathic tendencies.

The pervasive royal fascination with killing and breeding to kill is still a bit weird and disturbing though. All the more in the face of changing public sensibilities.

It would be an awfully easy PR win to eschew it, yet they don't...

Well, breeding to kill sums up the meat industry, and the mass market section of the industry (the majority) has some fairly unpleasant practices.

That's why he's seen as promoting the green agenda and sustainability. Similar to Camilla championing antibullying. Lots of reports about her using her media contacts to bully Meghan as they bullied Diana.
William asking others to provide funds to end homelessness when most of the land belongs to him. Deflection.

Charles kept lobbying Prime Minister, Tony Blair to get the fox hunting ban overturned. He said that “fox hunting is romantic “ : what a weird thing to say. It didn’t put Mrs Parker Bowles off though; says a lot about her 😱.

TBF We don't tend to hear of representatives of the meat industry striding round the moors blasting away at anything that takes wing.

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It's interesting to see what a bit of media and public pressure can achieve. Just a shame they didn't do this off their own bat as it was clearly entirely possible

www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/07/06/prince-william-lifeboat-school-fields-village-halls/

You're bringing common sense into it again, EdithWeston, but as ever the devil will be in the detail - and one of them is to identify the exact status of the Duchy which seems to change according to what suits the owners

As usual, I suspect it'll be a case of a fuss being made, those making it being sbamboozled with yet another set of "legal complications" and then waiting for attention to move onto something else

I don't think waiving all of £10K a year is going to do much for his public image especially when he's still skimming tens of thousands from the government.

Very true, Cathy, but it enables a headline around "how generous William's being" , and that seems to be tthe real priority

Quite, Puzzled

Shades of C diverting those obscene wind farm profits to 'the wider public good' while still trousering an additional £45m himself but on a far smaller scale.

Yes, the windfarms were a classic, @CathyorClaire; yet another example of "look what they're giving us" when the details are rather more nuanced than that

It works for some though ...