Posted on 09/14/2012 12:49:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A FRENCH magazine claims it will today publish topless photos of Princess Kate on holiday.
The tasteless sneak pictures were taken as she and Prince William relaxed by the swimming pool of a chateau.
Publishing the snaps is certain to cause outrage - and huge embarrassment for the Royal couple.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
Yes, a lot of people assume that - and it gets said enough that it's not surprising. But what needs to be borne in mind is that the Royal Family, is not surprisingly, very rich - over centuries as the most powerful family in Britain, they acquired a lot of wealth - some of it in ways we no longer approve of, but quite a lot of it is 'normal' - they own an awful lot of real estate, for example.
The Crown Estate is the Royal Family's property portfolio and it's currently worth about £7 billion. But for more than two hundred years, it's been agreed that all revenues of the Crown Estate should go to the Treasury. In exchange for this, the Treasury agreed to fund the expenses of the Monarch.
Currently the revenues of the Crown Estate are about £240 million a year. Funding the Royal Family costs about £30 million (mostly paying for things like the upkeep on the Palaces, security, etc). That's a net gain of over £200 million a year to the taxpayer.
It wasn't always this way - at the time George III agreed to this deal, the Crown Estate produced about £11,000 a year, and he got £800,000 back - but a carefully managed property portfolio in the hands of people who knew what they were doing for 250 years... it has grown dramatically.
I’m an American but mostly of British Isles heritage. I’ve always been interested in all things UK!
Ha!
Thanks! That was most informative. It puts the royal family in a much different light. They’re a profit center rather than a sinkhole....
—Big deal!
—Why are people so freaked out about breasts?
They are just males
Visual presentations of female surface anatomy
elicits an endorphin response, in males,
that is not suppressible.
They go into a narcotic high
Visual presentations of male surface anatomy
do not do this in females
Much of society is driven by this simple observation
Men are obsessing over female surface anatomy
Women are obsessing over their own surface anatomy
Get over it
George Carlin incarnate ;D! There’s coffee all ova my screen dude!
In any case, something like this will not happen again when they start wearing burkas.
Post of the day.
Based on what I have read that they were on a private chateau, the photog may find himself in hot water. Their privacy laws are a bit different in France.
Europe is turning into one big receptacle for trailer park trash. I don’t mean this as criticism of her but a criticism of the people who earn their living by publishing these pictures.
What she does in private should remain there.
They do have jobs. Most of them put in more than a forty-hour workweek. They add an enormous amount of money to the state exchequeur, because their lifestyle, houses, presence, and activities bring in billions of pounds sterling in tourist spending, and cycle money through the economy in a classic Reaganesque manner. It's capitalism, baby! Believe me, they add a lot more than they consume in tax money, and the ones who don't, like Eugenie, don't get funded from the government. You can't have any idea how much money Zara Phillips and Princess Anne send through the economy on their own (and that's something I know a bit about). Kate Middleton and her husband pull money into the economy of the UK. If it weren't so, the government would have pulled all funding a long time ago, but paying for some aspects of the Royal Family is cost-efficient for the UK.
Funny how we have created this obsession over breasts by covering them up. In primitive cultures, even those with very strict sexual behavior, they aren’t covered up—they just flop around in the open—and no one is obsessed with them. But presumably everyone enjoys sex just as much without the obsession.
If they didn’t want topless pics of Kate, then she should have had more sense than to sunbathe topless.
Princess Blips.
You mean the Brits will storm the French Embassy?
Weren’t there other pics awhile back —
You don’t think people have the right to sunbathe topless on their own property when they are in a remote area that is assumed to be private and not able to be viewed by others?
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