Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well she is well enough to go on a skiing vacation in the Alps. Hopefully she's well enough to meet with a few of her patronages for an hour!
She openly said she would be prioritizing her health and her family post-diagnosis. Taking a family vacation seems in line with that statement. And who knows how much skiing she did, not that it's any of our business.
Can I ask, honestly, why you like the monarchy of a foreign country? Enough to care whether or not it succeeds?
Yes, she definitely said this, and she also said that she'd only be doing things that bring her joy. The thing is, a lot of Brits (like my relatives there) don't think this is good enough, because she's living off the public purse to a greater or lesser extent depending on which lawyers you talk to. Certainly taxpayers pay for those multiple security guards who entered the Swiss restaurant with her. The royals have been busted using taxpayer-funded jets for private vacations and, even if William's duchy paid for it, some argue that the duchy income properly belongs to the state; at the very least, it should be taxed and because it's not taxed, that's millions in lost revenue. Not to mention the hypocrisy about flying a private jet for vacation when William is lecturing others about carbon loads. Given the multiple taxpayer-funded bennies they all receive (read "And What Do You Do" and you'll see many more than I've listed here), there's an expectation that, now that her children are all in school, she could turn up more than once a month to visit a patronage or something. If you read the Daily Mail's comment section you'll see that sentiment is starting to turn against William and Kate. If her next public appearance is all glammed up at the BAFTAs, the Mail's comment section is going to go berserk.