Meghan & Harry

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/01/08/meghan-markle-has-stolen-our-prince-says-caller/


Good, now piss off and don't come back, oh and btw how about repaying the the £2m + it cost to alter and renovate Frogmore Cottage !!!

 

I've never understood the concept of royalty. But, like people in the once United States make royalty out of silly actors and crooked political families, like the Kennedy family, I guess it's human nature to have others to worship.

Now I don't like Meghan and never did. But Henry seems to be a nice young man. He has a lot to give up by siding with her instead of family so, if she's that good in the sack, maybe it'll be worth it for him.

But, do they know how cold it gets in Canada?

 

I don't really seem to mind what they do. It's not really my business.

 

Meghan previously lived in Toronto, Canada, which seems a likely destination.

 

Good luck to them I say, totally understand Harry's frustration with the UK press and paparazzi especially after losing his mother at such a young age because of the hounding. I hope they find the life they desire.

 

I always romanticised about royalty and kings and queens and princesses and while I think it's cool a handful of countries still have them I think it's pretty posh and more of a media circus than anything else.

 

It's funny that they quit being royal family members in preference to try and get on with her family.

 

Well this is VERY unusual.
I actually agree with Vlads OP there.
These two, along with gobshite Pedophile Randy Air Miles Andy should just piss off into the sunset never to be seen again.
Just so long as Andy ends up in prison of course.

Those two and Andy have a lot of mileage to go yet, though I do find this all quite interesting.
All this is history in the making no matter what direction you come from.

 

The comments on their instagram post announcing this make you Brits look like a bunch of loons. People are really really upset about this lol

I think its admirable they want to step away from all that craziness and make an attempt for a normal life.

Harry is bae <3

 

Are Harry And Meghan Actually Going To Be ‘Financially Independent’?


So the bastards, despite their utterances of wanting to be free, will still apparently have their grubby mits in the public purse !!!

The sooner we get rid of the monarchy entirely and have a 'proper' democracy with an 'elected' head of state the better !!!

 

My issue with british royalty is nothing personal. For me its irrelevant wether I like a Harry or Meghan. So yes, I find this a respectable decision of them, but do they still get subsidized? If so, that's nasty.

It was better to be royal a while ago.

 

The article Vlad posted says they'll still be receiving security detail and their travel will be paid if they travel on official royal business.

Which is understandable. Especially the security detail, considering they're stepping away mostly because of how they're harassed by the press and because of how the press stalked Princess Di until they killed her. They'll still need security detail to protect them from that and to protect them from the loonies who think they have some sort of ownership over them just because they're famous

The article also points out the royal family brings more tax money in from tourism revenue than they actually use.

 

Do you have any idea how much money the royal family generate in the UK.?

As well as attracting thousands of tourists, hotel and businesses around the palaces and castles exist purely on them attracting the tourists. Windsor is a prime example.
The tax alone paid by staff running these businesses generates in excess of a billion pounds a year for the government.

Whenever the royals appear on television news, particularly weddings, viewing figures rocket. This generates more money from the advertisers that results in even more tax being paid.

Even with Frogmore cottage, firms, suppliers and workers involved in the renovation were all paying tax and VAT. Almost 50% of the cost went straight back to the government.

 

The security makes sense. The rest does not. They step out so what official royal business stuff should be paid for?
I agree with Vlad the gigantic costs for renovating a place is dubious, especially if you step out of your royal responsibilities later.

 

The article says if they travel on royal business. It's only speculation whether or not they'll still be conducting any royal business

 

For me its a principal matter that a royal family does not get funded by tax payer money. Even if they in some way bring in more money. After all, a significant amount of tax paying citizens doesn't want it. If that would be different i would be more ok with it.

If it was up to citizens like me they would be stripped from most of their royal privileges.

 

Yes, yes, yes, we've been hearing this bullshit for decades. Tourism doesn't rely on a bunch of overstuffed namby pambies and I refuse to doff my cap, or be servile to a person or persons who I have had no chance of voting for as a head of state. The French, the Russians, the Roumanians, the Italians, the Germans all profit immensely from tourism and the pageantry they provide, but yet none of these countries have a monarch anymore.

 

I would have agreed before I read they generate more revenue than they use. That changes my opinion

But either way I think it's a bit silly to criticize the two who are stepping away from all that craziness when the rest of the royal family will continue to live on the taxpayers dime.

 

Ahhh but this could be the 'thin edge of the wedge and perhaps the beginning of the end of the monarchy altogether !!!

 

I think the point is he and her wont be here any more, so when he walks out on the UK he does it on his own back, so its good bye to free loading off the UK tax payers, so he and her will have to work to make it pay, as they want to pay there own way then they do it on there own backs, no more freeloading on UK citizens.

I think you mean Harry as the only Henry was that comes to mind was Henry the 8th and his 6 wife's.