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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a19830489/julie-montagu-advice-meghan-markle/[/quote]

That article comes at it from another angle. The only point I was hoping to make is that she might want to throw the public a bone now and then.

Kate has studied extensively bc she [b]had no choice,[/b] she has had to work endlessly at learning all of the aristo knowledge and history. She has [b]no choice, [/b]and this is as much her work as the public appearances. She has done a great job, weathered insane mockery and criticism, again not published, and still has a lot to do.

Comparatively speaking Meghan and Harry do have a choice and are pretty clear about that. They all know Meghan will never be accepted by the upper echelons, so why even bother? It makes sense.

The turnover of long term staff is problematic, bc they are losing the advice that keeps things roughly contained.  Worse yet, H & M are publicly publicly funded, so they risk a ton by playing too many games with the British public, she needs to acquiesce a little. [/quote]

I’d like to counter this. Kate (and likely her family) quite pointedly CHOSE this life, early on. She had more than 20 years in this game. She took a year off from working before their wedding to learn the game. She has less flexibility, I think, in what is tolerated from her, as she will be the queen consort one day.

[b]I’m also not getting into the “publicly funded” issue, as Kate and Wills are quite heavily funded,[/b] but no one seems to worry that Kate has yet to reallynpull her weight in that regard. Meghan doing public appearances a few weeks PP.[/quote]

There's also the fact that in addition to public funds, William's foundation is underwater by the tune of 1.5 million pounds. Guess who's going to bail him out?

Why people think this man is at all prepared to be King when he can't even steward a bunch of charities is beyond me.[/quote]

DP.  I'm also not getting the 'publicly funded' thing either.  It seems the Queen and Prince Charles get public funding from the Sovereign Grant but that it doesn't completely fully cover the cost of the official duties/travel of the royal family so they use some of their vast private fortune.  I understand that Prince Charles supplements the income of his sons, although they, too, have a lot of inherited private wealth.  From what I've read, the British economy benefits greatly from the royal family in the areas of tourism and business (think about the boost designers get when a royal wears their clothing).  I'm not seeing that the royals are all that much of a burden, if any, to the British public.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/09/pf/where-queens-money-comes-from-uk-royal-wedding/index.html[/quote]

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