Is that a threat?
Harry & Meghan step back from Royals - seeking financial independence
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
Is that a threat?
REVEALED: MUCKY MEGHAN'S SEX PIT
Olly 'steps back from kebab duties'
Already done.
The DUP have replaced Trump?
I totally agree.
So where are we thinking they'll be residing in North America? Canada or the States?
Good on them. Anything that pisses off royalists is fine with me.
This is what I want to know too.
Good on them. Never had much time for the Royal Family but can definitely respect them wanting to stand on their own two feet.
I predict William will be the last monarch anyway.
I predict William will be the last monarch anyway.
It seems the crux of it is that they want more control over their independence and privacy at the cost of giving up the tax payer funding of their lives. They want to keep their titles and will remain as ambassadors for the Royal family through charitable endeavours and so on but don't want to be beholden to Royal duties. It appears that they want to split their time half and half between Britain and North America.
Supposedly they do want to keep their English residence which belongs to the Queen privately. There's no way he is going to renounce all his worldly possessions and go and get a job in a factory somewhere. Being independent of the royal family he'll be able to monetise his name and status and earn vast sums quite easily. He gets about £2m a year from the tax payer plus massive expenses. I think he'll be able to match that earning easily. The big question is his security detail because he'd still be a prize scalp for Islamic terrorists and he needs the really elite level kind of security that the Royal family have. I'd be surprised if the tax payer doesn't continue to fund that, as an example.
If you were a cynic (I am) you'd see this as a power play to redefine their roles rather them 'leaving' the Royal family.
Because as a part of the Royal Family he has his whole life built around it, full of restrictions and pointless traditional stuff?
What I find it difficult to understand is why people give a single shit about stuff like this.
Looking at some comments made by those that are in anger, it's stuff like that they've just had a £2.4m refurbishment project at their home, paid for by the tax payer.
a mix plus some other travel - if they are sensible they will not spend long enough in any country to be considered resident for tax purposes.
Which is one of the only reasons I think it's a bit cheeky and annoying. Also the fact they claim to be eco warriors but will be splitting their time flying across the Atlantic half the year (plus any other things they do).
Otherwise I am all for it, especially as it pisses off the Royalists, DM, Sun and Piers Morgan
Yeah but that's just standard fare for the Royals and has been for centuries. I couldn't care less to be honest, the rich will always take the piss because they can.
As long as he gets zero tax payer's money and royal benefits then I guess that's fair enough but I very much doubt it.
Probably the first time a grandmother is pissed off that grandson moved out on his own with his wife.
It's their little country pad, on the Frogmore House estate.
I'd love to know how it cost 2.4m to refurbish that. You could build it new about 10 times over.
What you can't see is the underground dungeon structure that is more than 4 acres large full of splendid gold and silver chains.
It was evidently divided into 5 separate apartments, so there was a lot of building work to make it back into one house. I read an article about it when I found the pic - it had to be rewired, new heating system, beams replaced, that kind of thing.
Having said that, it seems ridiculously expensive even for a big structural refurb. Mind you, they won't be using Bob the builder, will they? It says the couple paid for their own interior design and furnishings, but who knows.
Let's face it, none of us know really what their lives and jobs entail as 'senior' members of the royal family. So what do they do? Get up at 6am or 11am? Go and wave at a few people in Australia, enjoy a safari in South Africa? Go to church on Christmas Day and hold a few babies.
So if the Queen tells them to they go and open a new B&Q, their lives must be so hard they need to 'step back'. Could they have been much more 'stepped back already'?
I don't have much sympathy for them but by all means tell me how tough it must all be.
So if the Queen tells them to they go and open a new B&Q, their lives must be so hard they need to 'step back'. Could they have been much more 'stepped back already'?
I don't have much sympathy for them but by all means tell me how tough it must all be.
Let me guess. Daily mail readers are more upset over this than Randy Andy the paedo?
i'm pretty sure they'll be fine. they could make enough to live off just by doing speaking engagements or whateva.
Daily Mail readers would be upset for the Queen. They're all raging Monarchists.
Guardian readers like myself just find it all so ridiculous, the whole lot of them should have been consigned to a landfill decades ago.
His main income is £2m a year from the taxpayer anyway. Copper baths are not cheap either.
I think they work pretty hard in fairness and it is a unique kind of pressure they're under.
Defintely, by several orders of magnitude. Randy Andy sex pest articles had very few comments when I looked at the time, the main article relating to this story had a 12000 when I scanned it yesterday.
If something can simultaneously piss off The Sun, the Mail and Piers Morgan it must be a good thing. As for the Royal Family as an institution while I quite like the constitutional monarchy we have as opposed to electing a head of state/ commander in chief-type, I'm dead against members of that family both ruling over and living off us purely by virtue of their birth.
Harry has been privileged since birth and handed an array of leg-ups and contacts so his stated aim to be 'financially independent' rings hollow to me, but equally he didn't ask to be born into this archaic circus and seems to be trying to make a break with the institution in the best way he can. Personally I could very much do without him, Meghan and his boy in public life and would perhaps have more respect for them if they'd decamped to a lumbering cabin in the Canadian wilderness never to be seen again but as a shot against an outmoded institution and the backward, jingoistic wankers in the tabloid press this is a decent move.
Harry has been privileged since birth and handed an array of leg-ups and contacts so his stated aim to be 'financially independent' rings hollow to me, but equally he didn't ask to be born into this archaic circus and seems to be trying to make a break with the institution in the best way he can. Personally I could very much do without him, Meghan and his boy in public life and would perhaps have more respect for them if they'd decamped to a lumbering cabin in the Canadian wilderness never to be seen again but as a shot against an outmoded institution and the backward, jingoistic wankers in the tabloid press this is a decent move.
Good for them. The British tabloid filth have been on her case ever since they announced they were getting married. Clearly didn't want a black member of the Royal Family. They'll have plenty of success, and will live a comfortable life away from the British gutter press.
It's certainly won't be a Pakistani terrorist. He's Diana's son, Princess Di is more adored by Pakistani's than even the Daily Express. They've even forgiven him his racism i bet.
It's certainly won't be a Pakistani terrorist. He's Diana's son, Princess Di is more adored by Pakistani's than even the Daily Express. They've even forgiven him his racism i bet.
Good for them. Who gives a feck? Newspapers predictably losing their shit over it like weirdos.
Canada mostly.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of the whole ordeal.
Piers Morgan's take on it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7868371/PIERS-MORGAN-Queen-FIRE-Royal-Hustlers.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7868371/PIERS-MORGAN-Queen-FIRE-Royal-Hustlers.html
I can see how she does not feel that she belongs.
Maybe, deep down, 'he doesn't' either.
Maybe, deep down, 'he doesn't' either.
Funny how it's taken until now, millions of pounds and lots of exposure later to realise.....
Can they keep all the free money they got so far? Sounds like an ideal job, waving at people for a few years then saying, feck it, I'm taking all my waving money, tata.
Not sure if it's the angle, or if that's the wrong building, but Google seems to think Frogmore Cottage is this big sprawling thing...
https://goo.gl/maps/7CxinzMV2AHb3uVN9
I don't think he's actually Charlie's son.