Ch4 Dispatches tonight about Royals making money

Ill gotten - illicit or *unfair"
Highly unlikely they will be prosecuted, they've pretty much got that covered as Andrew demonstrated.

Things they obtain in a dishonest or illegal way ? Do tell, when were they arrested ?

Redistribution of their ill gotten gains

Well, I know William regularly visits a homeless charity and pitches in to help.
He and his wife, before her illness, both were very involved in the Royal Foundation they set up and he with his Earthshot Prize. They gave a generous donation to a food bank after it was ransacked.

We do not hear about all the private charitable donations he and Charles make - because they are private as are anyone's.

Allira

^Setting up something like the invictus games^ ...

Like these, you mean?

The Prince’s Countryside Fund
The Prince’s Drawing School
Dumfries House
Patron and President
Organic Farming
Sustainable Gardening
The Prince’s Countryside Fund

And, of course The Prince’s Trust

The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales
The Earthshot Prize
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood

You mean like that kind of thing?
🤔

I do.
I wonder how involved they are with them they are?
Genuinely, because I don't know.

MissAdventure

The cutting down of their expenditure for a start.
Spending time with people who are less fortunate, instead of flying in, smiling and flying off again.

Getting truly involved with the causes their names are put to.
Spending a day in a food bank, or a hospital, or a refuge, or a day centre.

Setting up something like the invictus games...

Agreed.

All those listed plus others, and real work, not just swanning around smiling. Perhaps actually throw their vast fortunes against good works.

Oh, and, of course The Royal Foundation was set up with Harry and Meghan too, but they didn't last the course.

Setting up something like the invictus games ...

Like these, you mean?

The Prince’s Countryside Fund
The Prince’s Drawing School
Dumfries House
Patron and President
Organic Farming
Sustainable Gardening
The Prince’s Countryside Fund

And, of course The Prince’s Trust

The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales
The Earthshot Prize
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood

You mean like that kind of thing?
🤔

Jaberwok

You've clearly been asleep or perhaps not interested.

If people only want to see the negatives that is up to them but, as I said earlier, it's best not to have a closed mind.

Spending a day in a food bank, or a hospital, or a refuge, or a day centre.
✅✅✅✅

Perhaps they could spend a day visiting people living in the sub standard homes they are landlords to?
Being shown around and seeing the problems people are living with.

The cutting down of their expenditure for a start.
Spending time with people who are less fortunate, instead of flying in, smiling and flying off again.

Getting truly involved with the causes their names are put to.
Spending a day in a food bank, or a hospital, or a refuge, or a day centre.

Setting up something like the invictus games...

You've clearly been asleep or perhaps not interested.

MissAdventure what do you expect to see which would show
social conscience ?

I've seen nothing to indicate they have a social conscience.

Allira

I'm presuming either Charles, William or both have been informed of the content of the Dispatches programme and are at this time, instructing those who run the Duchies for them to investigate and provide full reports.

I would expect nothing less from two men who seem to have a social conscience.

We shall see.

The only affair the King had during his marriage was with the woman he subsequently married and whom he should have married in the first place except for circumstances and pressures from the queen mother and Diana's grandmotber. Diana however had many affairs, stalking one poor man, breaking up at least three marriages, and causing a lot of unhappiness. Charles has for the record been married happily for the last sic 19 years without a breath of scandal.

Anniebach

Quote Indigo8 Tue 05-Nov-24 13:47:03
He is a divorcee who committed adultery and is now married to one of the women he cheated with.

Who said anything about getting rid of any royals?

Sadly marriages end , in this marriage both had affairs.
I suggest you read the posts re getting rid of the royals

Sorry you misunderstood my post. What I meant was that I said nothing about getting rid of the royals. I am well aware that other posters would like them gone.

MaizieD

Norah

Anniebach

Another failed attempt at showing wit.

No, I wasn't attempting wit.

Number of "workers" could be trimmed to 2 -- quite easily I'd think.

Is that because you think that most of the 'work' the working royals do is unnecessary?

Or is it because you think there's not enough work for all of them?

Both.

With basically no work, 2 could easily do it all, as we see currently. The Queen kept a busy schedule, I see no problem with current lack of hours - just admit such and trim.

Norah

Anniebach

Another failed attempt at showing wit.

No, I wasn't attempting wit.

Number of "workers" could be trimmed to 2 -- quite easily I'd think.

Is that because you think that most of the 'work' the working royals do is unnecessary?

Or is it because you think there's not enough work for all of them?

Anniebach

Another failed attempt at showing wit.

No, I wasn't attempting wit.

Number of "workers" could be trimmed to 2 -- quite easily I'd think.

Another failed attempt at showing wit.

What - literally?

Anniebach

We now have a divorced, adulterous King (nothing new there). Couldn't they be trimmed down financially rather than beheaded? The sun has set on the British Empire.

7 working members of the family, should we get rid of
Anne, Edward and Sophie ?

Perhaps cut the "workers" to two? Charles and his son.

I'm presuming either Charles, William or both have been informed of the content of the Dispatches programme and are at this time, instructing those who run the Duchies for them to investigate and provide full reports.

I would expect nothing less from two men who seem to have a social conscience.