Diana's in her own words. Children 4

Slight change of subject but staying in the royals. Now that William is no longer a helicopter pilot (and they do try to pretend they are a normal family ha ha ha) I wonder how much may hours of eating, drinking, cutting ribbons and shaking hands royal duties he will perform in an average week? 37-40 I would hope so at least. Same goes for his good time boy brother. Don't even get me started on Andrews two. What are they actually for? Apart from holidaying that is.

Its no more than the queen does. Its a representative role. I wouldn't want it.

Well it's hardly work is it? And boy does it pay well.

William and Harry would never have to manage on a 'wage' !
Their mother left them a substantial amount of money making them extremely wealthy young men in their own right. The state does not support other members of the royal family other than the Queen and Prince Phillip, the P of W and his family are supported by the Duchy of Cornwall and not the state. As previously mentioned Prince Charles has done a lot of extremely good work with the Princes Trust, climate change and tremendous amount of other work. I believe that he is a good man, anxious and troubled maybe, but certainly not the wicked person some have portrayed him to be. Which one of us have lead blameless lives?!! He'll make a thoughtful, good king. I don't think William will be even remotely interested in modernising the royal family or being king, he certainly shows no sign of it!

Annebach "Diana wouldn't lie"...Hmm! We have no hard evidence for that either way really!!!

When do you ever see the Royal family wearing seat belts? They are chauffeured round and seat belts are too restrictive when you are waving to an adoring public. The crash was so horrific and the car so mangled she probably might not have survived anyway.

They do when they drive themselves, as demonstrated by Prince William after the birth of his children.
I agree, she most likely wouldn't have survived that crash with or without a seat belt, but had they stayed put knowing that the media were baying at the door, and not been driving like the bats out of hell with a drunk driver at the wheel, through an underpass quite unnecessarily, she wouldn't been in that situation any way! Why they chose to try and out run that particular gauntlet, only they know! To the rest of us it seems an insane thing to do!

charles bleats on about global warming I wonder how many gas guzzling 4x4's he owns or gets ferried around in? In fact I wonder how many cars are in the royal fleet ? Hypocrites all of them .

I agree with Ngglynellie

Charles wore cuffkinks given by camilla - truth, Diana said

Charles was having an affair right through his marriage , truth, Diana said so.

Charles wanted a mistress like previous PofW, truth, Diana Said so.

Never a witness to the allegations, but Charles lied and Diana told the truth.

FGS, we all, including Caroline Lucas drive cars, (a lot of them 4x4's), travel by air, bus, taxi trains, eat food delivered by air and lorries, receive deliveries by mostly diesel vehicles!, sometimes travelling miles. Most of us profess to care about climate change, so I would think Prince Charles is no more hypocritical than the rest of us probably far less so!

I think the band of hangers on is ever-shrinking not increasing as can be found out quite easily.

The increased amount of cash is to preserve a house which has been allowed to fall into disrepair and, as the 'office' of the Head of State used for greeting other Heads of State, would never be allowed in other countries.

Demanding an end to the monarchy is fair enough as people are entitled to their view, but the implications and ramifications of replacing the monarchy with a presidency would have repercussions around the world too as the Queen is Head of State of other countrues too and Head of the ever-increasing Commonwealth.

I don't think for one moment that a President of all that would cost less than the present system.

To make it clear - the offices of the Head of State would not be allowed to fall into such disrepair in other countries.
A stitch in time saves nine - which seems to have been forgotten.
Lack of planned maintenance over the years costs much more in the long-term.

Whispers......Is this a good time to mention Jeremy Corbyn's entry into Glastonbury in a convoy of 4x4s?

Surely not merlot, didn't he take his bicycle ?

William and Harry are soooo irritating, lazy and relying on the fact they can talk about their mother to get the aaaahs from the public.

I don't make it my business to talk about climate change and the environment though niggly I very rarely ( almost never) travel by air and my car is small and I do around 4000 ( necessary ) miles per year in it . Hardly a comparison .

I was talking about the population at large gillybob, not you individually! Even so I imagine you shop, have goods, even letters delivered, use gas/electricity and leave a carbon footprint however hard you try not to!

My carbon footprint will be minuscule compared with prince Charles and the rest of the royals for that matter . It is his hypocrisy I object to.

Then all of us who care and talk about climate change are equally hypocritical! because each and everyone of us contributes, most of us, big time , towards it!

Well, well, having looked back at this thread and seen that it has descended into the kind of flinging around of opinions and prejudice that dogs a site that could be so much better, I idly looked at another thread about our 'divided' society and lo and behold I see that someone here insisting that William and Harry are irritating and lazy and don't do enough work earns her income from rentals, (she's currently arguing on that thread that she gets money from her rentals but doesn't own them???) she admits she has 11 and is thinking of buying more. Wow, the hypocrisy is stunning. Maybe we all need to put our own houses in order before criticising those we hate for reasons more to do with our own psychology than fact.

Not me niggly I can assure you .

Well obviously I do contribute it's impossible not to . But certainly not "big time"

Blownupdolly I totally agree with you. My thoughts entirely.

Azie09 , may suggest you post the truth ? Telling pokies isn't nice