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The Sandrinham Summit document was very clear. "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will become privately funded members of The Royal Family with permission to earn their own income and the ability to pursue their own private charitable interests."
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All of the proceeds from the various shops go to The Royal Collection Trust. It's used to preserve art, artifacts, and items of historical interest that are on display to the public in the UK at various museums, castles, etc. I have no idea what kind of ownership interest the King has in this priceless collection- my understanding is that it's all in a trust and can't be sold off for his personal profit, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong. |
The Highgrove shop profits are donated to charity (the King's Foundation). I think Zara can probably do what she want as she's not a working royal. |
Former MP and privy counselor Norman Baker has written two books about the royals' finances and suggests Charles pockets some of the proceeds from his gift shop sales. I have no idea who is right. |
Charles and Zara both actually serve and respect the people of England. |
Oh interesting. Yeah who knows. |
DP. You can look up the numbers yourself and see that William did substantially less work than his dad has while dealing with cancer and did less than 202 royal engagements in 2025. When you consider a countable thing is a zoom meeting with staff then that is basically nothing. I think that you can argue that the royal work they do is basically useless and stupid but if you accept the job then it’s lazy not to do the work. |
The era when engagements and ribbon cutting mattered has passed |
+1. When you’re earning £25m/year while a fifth of your country struggles with poverty (no kidding, look it up), you really need to do something. I guess constitutionally he can’t get involved with policy, so cutting ribbons it is. |
The Tindalls are private citizens... |
Zara is a private citizen. |
Maybe the government can do something about it like curbing rampant immigration. King Charles is king in name only. |
England imported a ton of poverty, culture clashes and dependency over the past decade. That is a political issue, not a royal family issue. |
And there it is. It's often said that the Venn diagram of MAGA and royalists/Sussex haters is a circle. |
Ugh, gross. Tell is without telling us that a lot of the anti-Meghan hate is race-based. But you're not even answering the question. If anything, an increasingly brown and black population is going to relate to the monarchy even less. |