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KATE TOPLESS PICS SHOCK
dailystar.co.uk ^ | 14th September 2012 | Peter Allen

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 ...


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To: gattaca
I didn’t know all that, I guess I always assumed they were supported by the taxpayers too. Thanks for enlightening me.

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.

21 posted on 09/14/2012 3:37:28 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

I’m an American but mostly of British Isles heritage. I’ve always been interested in all things UK!


22 posted on 09/14/2012 3:40:54 AM PDT by gattaca ("Great things can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit " Ronald Reagan)
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To: Rebelbase

Ha!


23 posted on 09/14/2012 3:46:01 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (Dave Mustaine for president.)
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To: naturalman1975

Thanks! That was most informative. It puts the royal family in a much different light. They’re a profit center rather than a sinkhole....


24 posted on 09/14/2012 3:52:45 AM PDT by DrC
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To: naturalman1975
Interesting. Also they bring Lot’s of tourism to the area.
25 posted on 09/14/2012 3:56:46 AM PDT by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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To: Bon mots

—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


26 posted on 09/14/2012 4:15:19 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

George Carlin incarnate ;D! There’s coffee all ova my screen dude!


27 posted on 09/14/2012 4:36:41 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism, in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: Bon mots

In any case, something like this will not happen again when they start wearing burkas.


28 posted on 09/14/2012 5:14:08 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Rebelbase

Post of the day.


29 posted on 09/14/2012 5:17:15 AM PDT by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


30 posted on 09/14/2012 5:21:34 AM PDT by MortMan (Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
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To: poobear
well its kind of funny to see these big wigs without clothes.. but many thanks for the link above... I remember reading and lol on funny love quotes when i read the story of kate and will
31 posted on 09/14/2012 5:42:21 AM PDT by freakngeek (kate)
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To: fso301
She disrobed in the presence of her wedded husband, not an "entourage."
32 posted on 09/14/2012 5:43:14 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


33 posted on 09/14/2012 5:53:15 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: GeronL
sicko’s should stop being supported by taxpayers and get jobs

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.

34 posted on 09/14/2012 5:53:36 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: HangnJudge

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.


35 posted on 09/14/2012 5:57:57 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

If they didn’t want topless pics of Kate, then she should have had more sense than to sunbathe topless.


36 posted on 09/14/2012 7:02:38 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Princess Blips.


37 posted on 09/14/2012 7:44:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Publishing the snaps is certain to cause outrage

You mean the Brits will storm the French Embassy?

38 posted on 09/14/2012 7:45:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Bon mots

Weren’t there other pics awhile back —


39 posted on 09/14/2012 8:16:07 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: patriot08

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?


40 posted on 09/14/2012 8:29:00 AM PDT by ladyjane
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