And all of the so-called hard and fast rules are hypocritical anyway seeing as King Charles and William both run fully commercial enterprises, the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, which each make around £20 million a year. So if that’s not half in and half out, I don’t know what is, but the rule obviously doesn’t apply to them! And they have favourable tax arrangements remember! And it’s all shrouded in secrecy so we don’t know the details,
What is so different about King Charles flogging a range of Duchy organic biscuits to Meghan selling dresses?
For that matter, as this is the subject under discussion, the system of royal warrants mix commercialism and royalty quite well doesn’t it? Does anyone know if the RF pay full price for the Fortnum and Mason goods that are bought for the royal household at Christmas? Or if they have paid full price for their fleet of Range Rovers? Or have they made a deal with these companies mixing royalty with commerce? It would be interesting to know! Again, the finances of the RF aren’t exactly transparent.
I have absolutely no idea why it’s wrong for Meghan to sell clothes as part of her lifestyle brand? She wears nice clothes while cooking so why not market them too?
Lots of Instagram chefs get asked about the, aprons, and the equipment they use and they have an add-on Amazon shop, so Meghan selling clothes is similar to that. If she is interested in fashion, there’s nothing wrong with including it in her brand.
Personally, I think she is more entitled to hold her head up high than anyone who resides in a number of vast estates and has their lifestyle funded by the public purse.
H and M have left the royal family and are getting on with it, and people can’t stand it, that’s all, and are reacting like it’s some sort of personal betrayal when they are just following through with their plans like they said they would to have a family, make their own money and support the causes that are important to them. They are simply doing all three of those things like they said they would.
As for mixing commercial activities with charitable ones, philanthropy works very differently in the USA than it does in UK, and Meghan doesn’t care what people from the UK think about it, as we are not her main market.