Mouth open duchess

It requires a certain talent and business nous, which most of us don't have.
It does, yes, and I recognise my limitations

And I am thankful that my DD didn't marry into the RF too.

Michael and Carol Middleton didn't come from privileged backgrounds but they certainly gave their children quite a privileged upbringing. A beautiful house, expensive boarding schools, ready made jobs in the family business.
Yes they worked very hard for it and good for them, but Kate and her siblings did grow up with a lot of privileges due to their parents hard work.

And I don't agree that anyone with a bit of initiative and a good work ethic can build a successful business. Far more new start ups fáil than succeed every year. It requires a certain talent and business nous, which most of us don't have.

Hear hear, Dickens

You don't need to pay a childminder or nanny if you work from your kitchen table. It wouldn't be easy either.

Ah! I’ve remembered now, childcare was ridiculously expensive, we could only afford one car, I had no parental support as we lived hundreds of miles from family.

Ditto - and perhaps I should have done what Carole did!

Sago

Wealth is wealth it makes no difference how the Middletons made their money!

If being born into a family with two incomes, living in a nice house in the Home Counties and having a public school education isn’t privilege then what is?

If being born into a family with two incomes, living in a nice house in the Home Counties and having a public school education isn’t privilege then what is?

... being born into one of the stately homes of the British aristocracy whose wealth was sometimes gained, historically, through theft, violence and unrepentant greed?

If Mrs Middleton sat down at her kitchen table and started a successful business earning an income - husband Michael leaving his job as a flight despatcher to help out with the growing demand and the children pitching in - that's hardly in the same category of 'privilege' is it? They did what most people do, worked for a living, but set up their own company instead of working for someone else's.

I don't feel at all resentful of anyone who works hard and does well for themselves.
Good for them!

I'm not business-minded.

Carole and Michael Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge's parents, bought their first family home West View in Cock Lane in Berkshire for £34,700 in 1979.
About the same time we paid £40,000 for our second home in a leafy London suburb - normal prices for that time.
It was a small semi.

Callistemon21 I cannot think why I didn’t use my initiative and brains to set up a business when my children were young.

Ah! I’ve remembered now, childcare was ridiculously expensive, we could only afford one car, I had no parental support as we lived hundreds of miles from family.
We had no spare money to invest in any kind of business.

Our first home cost 17K in 1982 in the North of England, we were so proud, in 1986 we bought our second home for 28K, we we’re over the moon.

Carole and Michael Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge's parents, bought their first family home West View in Cock Lane in Berkshire for £34,700 in 1979.

I don’t think they were doing badly.

Prince William is patron of Welsh Rugby.

I can see a family feud in the offing - there'll be a right old scrum for possession. Who's going to score the first try?

Germanshepherdsmum

Makes a pleasant change from that wee witchy you have up there Alegrias.

Do you mean Princess Anne who is a patron of Scottish Rugby Union? I take it you are still referring to Catherine and her new patronage.

Sago

Wealth is wealth it makes no difference how the Middletons made their money!

If being born into a family with two incomes, living in a nice house in the Home Counties and having a public school education isn’t privilege then what is?

I don't think the family had all that when the children were small.

Anyone with a bit of ambition, initiative and brains could do it.

Wealth is wealth it makes no difference how the Middletons made their money!

If being born into a family with two incomes, living in a nice house in the Home Counties and having a public school education isn’t privilege then what is?

Callistemon21/GrannyLaine, thé Middletons certainly did what you say.
Out of touch? That means you only know things by hearsay-newspapers, media etc. So I’m out of touch with all bar 2 on GN.
No, I’m sure the posters criticising are intimate with the RF so their criticisisms are based on what they personally know and know exactly what the RF have to do.

Sorry *Callistemon, you beat me to it.

Sago

Alegrias1 I would say the D of C was born into a privileged family.
Her multi millionaire parents run a very successful business and paid for their 3 children to go to public school.

Privileged?

The Middletons were a pretty ordinary family who set up a small business and worked hard to get where they are now? It wasn't handed to them on a plate. How they chose to invest their income is their own business.

Sago

Alegrias1 I would say the D of C was born into a privileged family.
Her multi millionaire parents run a very successful business and paid for their 3 children to go to public school.

Her Mum started the business from her kitchen table.

It wasn't inherited wealth.

Anyone with a bit of intelligence, ambition and oomph could do the same.
(I don't have the oomph before you ask)

Josieann

Spelling mistake "expression" ... I was drinking a strong black before work.

It wasn't the spelling mistake that I was pointing out. Those happen to all of us, all the time.

It was the assertion that you think I'm a bit out of touch.

And it just occurred to me I meet even be teaching the future wife of George this morning!

True. Lucky them. But it’s not a crime.

Josieann

Spelling mistake "expression" ... I was drinking a strong black before work.

Sorry that was to Alegrias.

Must go, my charges are waiting.

Spelling mistake "expression" ... I was drinking a strong black before work.

Alegrias1 I would say the D of C was born into a privileged family.
Her multi millionaire parents run a very successful business and paid for their 3 children to go to public school.

Josieann

I might be many things but this is the first time I have been referred to as "rude".
Rudeness is not pointing out how you come across to me.

I realise you are a bit out of touch with my ways of espression,

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I might be many things but this is the first time I have been referred to as "rude".
Rudeness is not pointing out how you come across to me.

or how the little children love them
That I have witnessed first hand, (and told the story here before). A child's life changed and a legacy left.

Josieann

Alegrias1

Josieann

In terms of the timeless elements of human nature you are wrong Alegrias, from 1st century - 21st century. Dickens is not passé in that respect, nor is Shakespeare.

I am gladdened by the genuine smiles on the open mouthed faces of the people, mainly young people, she meets.

God bless us, everyone. So honoured, yer honour. Ever so humble.

Alegrias I realise you are a bit out of touch with my ways of espression, but this was a deliberate rhyming choice of language to Sago's, "I am saddened by comment" including the smiles to complete the picture of the rugby players' faces yeasterday. (But I can't be bothered to give 3 examples of their delight here).

How rude.

If you have to explain it then your use of assonance wasn't too successful.