That’s not quite accurate is it though?
Zara doesn’t receive funding from the Sovereign Grant and as such isn’t considered a working royal and yet she is present at Ascot and at Buckingham Palace garden parties.
Ascot isn’t just a family event; you can tell that by the guests lists and who is sat in the carriages each day which regularly include prominent businessmen, entrepreneurs, and industrial leaders and heads of the armed forces.
And we know that community, voluntary sector and charity workers, public sector and government representatives, members of the armed forces and police, diplomats, and church and faith leaders and people nominated for local activism are invited to the BP garden parties so they are very much working events.
And Zara , leaving aside the equestrian related ones, is patron of several medical and child welfare charities.
And yet she and Mike are totally financially independent and Zara is a highly sought-after brand ambassador, maintaining long-term partnerships with luxury brands eg Rolex, Land Rover, Musto, and the Magic Millions racing organisation.
So they are examples of RF members who earn their own money and still do charity work and participate in official royal events.
And of course Prince Andrew did HIHO it for years.
Sophie and Edward being working royals are not meant to profit from their royal status and yet they rent out a converted stable block a short distance from their 120-room mansion, for £130,000 pounds a year.
So actually the rules are all a bit blurred aren’t they?
And that’s leaving aside the financial smoke and mirrors surrounding the Duchies and their privileged tax status when they profit from renting land to national institutions like the NHS and the British army.
Half-in, half-out, should really be renamed half-sin, half-snout 🤨