Royals attending high profile events - business as usual or tone deaf?

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Over the past week Charles has been at London Fashion Week, Kate at the rugby and her and William at the BAFTAS. They may have attended other things, I don't know.

These are all very high profile events. the sort of thing my late mum would've described as 'glitzy' so I suppose not the less glam outings, or charity events.
In light of the fact no official statement has gone out from the BP, do you think it's appropriate they're still attending this sort of thing, or it's a bit tone deaf considering the conversations happening about the future of the monarchy, how much Charles already knew about Andrew etc?

What would you have them wear - jeans and a sweatshirt? - to an event where even the least well-known actress will be wearing a statement dress which probably costs thousands of pounds?

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They are right to “business as usual” IMHO. It’s what else they do and say that’s important.

I’d be happy to see the monarchy abolished. But I think that given it does currently exist, the RF should continue with whatever engagements they have.

But there is a big difference between blaming other family members for AMW’s crimes and questioning their complicity in what even the most ardent monarchists must accept was a cover up. There appears to be a concerted attempt to conflate the two.

What was covered up? By whom?

KC and PW will have been advised to say nothing, the last thing anyone wants is that any Trial fails due to public comments made by either of them.

They will have to say nothing until any criminal investigation is concluded. The only thing they can do is advice their staff to fully comply with the investigation.

According to the BBC, the taxpayer picked up the tab for Andrews massages when on business. It's going to get worse.

The only thing I found really inappropriate was the airing of The Lady on tv last night which is a drama series about fergie and her dresser jane. The rest of the engagements should go ahead, why shouldn't they, let's not turn this into another rf bashing thread again.

No, there is a concerted effort on this site to say all family members were complicit in Andrew’s crimes because it suits a republican agenda, it’s clear as day on all the threads running, so called republicans salivating at what’s happening and taking deep pleasure in twisting a knife into other family members.

No, there is a concerted effort on this site to say all family members were complicit in Andrew’s crimes because it suits a republican agenda

And there’s a concerted effort to say nobody knew a thing. Is it because of a Royalist agenda?

The RF will become more important in the coming years, particularly if we do get the forecast big swing in politics. The RF have a lot of levers to keep government from completely deprioritising things such as sustainability, SEND, health. Let them keep the glitz. I'd probably go as far to say that Camilla could be doing far more on promoting her female causes and Kate needs to set out a stronger strategy for her causes, particularly as her children are getting older and her health improves. Visits by Royals still catalyse people coming together on issues.

No, it’s a fairness agenda, you may be happy blaming family members for another’s crime, I’m not.

well what else do you expect ? You are being ridiculous. Charles and co.have made their position clear on Andrew and cannot comment further even if they wanted to..

Business as usual. What do you expect them to do? They have every right to get on with their lives and they have jobs to do. Charles made a quite clear statement and I don't think anyone should expect anything else.

@Traceysgoingtobelivid are people blaming them for the crime or for being complicit? It’s two separate things. You may be happy looking the other way but not everyone is.

Of course, there is both and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. As ever.

Also the jewels and “palaces” (isn’t it singular) or any of the residences for the most part have been in the family for centuries. Even a lot of the jewels were gifts.

It’s how the rich stay rich. They don’t chuck everything away on a whim.
They buy once and keep it for ever.

They don’t buy cheap throw away fashion and chipboard furniture that falls apart before they do.

I think Natalie Dorman has backed out of any publicity for this show in light of the revelations about Sarah Ferguson.

How do you know they are “complicit” give me one example where Edward, Anne, William, Harry, have been complicit?

It is just a witch hunt now. Should every relative of anyone that is accused of a crime be held under house arrest, have their assets removed and be made to suffer ?

Another day, another thread knocking the Royals. What are you expecting - that they put their heads down and hide away? Then you can post a 'Why are the Royals hiding away - are they ashamed' thread. With people like you they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

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Andrew was working for the government in his Trade Envoy role, why would the Prince of Wales be in a position to intervene ? Evidence is now coming out that the relevant governments were being warned at a top level about AMW abusing the role and abusing tax payer money for years prior to that 2019 email to the Prince of Wales secretary.

David Cameron, the then Prime minister, even came out in support of Andrew claiming he was going a great job, a few short months before Andrew was forced to quit. Its clear government officials at a high level were repeatedly being made aware of AMW abuse of his government role, and did nothing.

No. And nobody is suggesting anything of the sort.