Poor baby - run home to mummy!

OK, I withdraw it.

Let me say this instead. Its very unpleasant when people think you are looking down your nose at others, when you, yourself, have had hardships of which they know nothing. I wish that didn't happen and that people were more circumspect before accusing others.

Algerrias1, you copied and pasted my post and gave your reply to it .

Please do not tell me ‘be careful’, it could be taken as a threat

Anniebach

I do not live in a semi in a run down estate , so many have the same ‘look down nose’ at the mention of council owned
accommodation.

My parents have lived in 2 houses during their married life. The first was a 2-roomed flat with no inside toilet that was officially designated a slum so the council eventually moved them out when I came along. They upgraded to a two-bedroom council flat in a block of 4, where they still are today.

It wasn't me who said that council estates aren't suitable for our pampered heir to the throne. Be careful who you suggest is looking down their nose at anybody.

Grany I have no desire to watch this stuff on YouTube, nor to correct your ideas on tenants’ rights or taxation. Why don’t you go and live in a commune in a communist country, sounds like it would be utopia for you.

I didn't say it wasn't palatial Alegrias I said it wasn't as palatial as I expected and was a bit grubby.

Germanshepherdsmum

Well said Annie. I believe Charles is a very genuine man who cares about many things and will be an interesting king. I haven’t been to any of the royal homes but from what I’ve read the maintenance and mod cons leave a bit to be desired.

He doesent care enough to let tennents buy land causing them hardship, even though other landlords by law now have to. It's always take take take. The Duchy roads are not maintained. He doesn't pay capital gains tax or corporation tax even though the Duchy is run like a business a big conglomerate giving him an unfair advantage. Watch The man who shouldn't be king, to find out more on Republic Campaign YouTube channel.

My post was in reply to Alegrias1

How silly , I fly the Welsh flag.

I do not live in a semi in a run down estate , so many have the same ‘look down nose’ at the mention of council owned
accommodation.

Charles doesn’t own Clarence House, really he like me lives in council property.

This is the best yet...

Its just like a semi in a run down estate, really. Except they don't usually have Royal Standards, obviously.

I think Charles is one of the better members of that family. He seems to be thoughtful and intelligent and have his own opinions.

Well said Annie. I believe Charles is a very genuine man who cares about many things and will be an interesting king. I haven’t been to any of the royal homes but from what I’ve read the maintenance and mod cons leave a bit to be desired.

Germanshepherdsmum

For heaven’s sake, do you expect him to live in a semi on a rough estate?

Oh is it either the large number of homes he has or a semi on a rough estate ?

Grany - why so obsessed? Your posts come across as very sour. If you don’t like the royal family why not just ignore them?

As for Andrew - innocent until proved guilty, like anybody else.

Charles doesn’t own Clarence House, really he like me lives in
council property.

He was left Birkhall by his grandmother .

So he stays at Sandringham, his mother’s country house which was left to her by her father, many people visit their parents home.

He bought Highgrove

He bought Llwynywernod, a small farmhouse, the first
Prince of Wales to have a home in Wales since Llewelyn ap
Gruffudd in 1282

Buckingham Palace isn't palatial?

Well I would have thought the clue was in the title.

Anyway, if he's not using all the many rooms in his 4 mansions, is he giving them over to Afghan refugees to use? Homeless ex-servicemen maybe? Families in need of accommodation?

Anniebach

*Germansheperdsmum*. You misunderstood my post .

I was referring to the posts which keep bringing the wealth of
the RF into discussions.

That shot straight over a few heads Anniebach! Shows how easily misunderstandings can occur when emotions run high.

Perhaps if the Socolla woman who killed Harry Dunn hadn’t been smuggled out of the U.K. by the USA authorities we might have more confidence in their justice system.

Do you really think that he makes use of every single room in his mansions Grany and how do you know they're palatial?
I was underwhelmed when I went to Buck House, it wasn't
anything like as palatial as I was expecting, looked rather tired and a bit grubby to me.

Just because by virtue of his birth and as the future king these properties are at his disposal, doesn't mean when he says he prefers a simpler life, that he's lying.

For heaven’s sake, do you expect him to live in a semi on a rough estate?

Four-home Prince Charles insists mansions 'are not grand' as he talks from 192-acre estate Charles has four main homes and the use of other royal residences including Sandringham but he has insisted he enjoys the simple life.

In a discussion to be aired on BBC Radio 4 tonight, the heir to the throne, who has a £20 million a year income from the Duchy of Cornwall, enthuses about his love of the countryside and maintains that none of his homes is palatial or grand.

Charles, 72, was interviewed by the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, for the last in the current series of his show The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed, in which he invites guests to join him in the shed where he writes to talk about poetry, creativity, music, art, and the countryside.

Flattered by the invitation, Charles invited Armitage, 58, to come and talk to him instead in his own version of a shed - a barn at Llwynywermod, a former three-bedroom farmhouse on a 192-acre estate in Carmarthenshire which the Duchy of Cornwall bought in 2006 and converted into a Welsh residence for the Prince of Wales and Camilla.

It is undoubtely smaller than Charles’s other homes: Clarence House, a four-storey Grade I-listed 19th century royal residence in London, his Gloucestershire country retreat Highgrove House, and Birkhall, his 14-bedroom Jacobean hunting lodge on the Balmoral estate in the Highlands. He also owns a guest house in Romania.

Asked if he relished going to Llwynywermod to enjoy the simple life, the Prince said: “Yes but the houses that I am in are not grand or palatial really at the moment.

#abolishthemonarchy

My homes aren’t grand, says Prince Charles. The heir to the throne discusses his love of the simple life, planting trees with his grandchildren, birds, poetry, childhood memories of gardening, and how the poet Ted Hughes taught him to remember plant names.

Birkhall, 53,000 acres of “not grand”. The man is completely unhinged.

Man detached from reality claims mansions aren’t grand. The environmental hypocrite runs these houses 24/7, each one requiring constant security, heating, lighting and staffing.

Not to mention the helicopter flights between them. That’s a huge carbon footprint for one man.

A witness to whose trial ?

He wouldn't have to be charged he could be called as a witness.

In order to stand up in court, Prince Andrew would first need to be charged. I don’t think he’s been charged with anything yet. I think he’s been sued for damages, please correct me if I’m wrong, and this action will take place in New York.
I’m not defending Prince Andrew, but simply saying he can’t stand up in court unless he’s been charged.

Anniebach

Has he been summoned to attend court ?

Sigh. No, but if he is then should he?

Exactly Annie. PA hasn't been charged. The American authorities aren't seeking extradition and being thwarted by the Queen, who is hiding her son away and insisting 'my baby stays with his mummy'.

If he's asked too he'll 'have to stand up in court', but he hasn't been asked too yet and let's face it, if he were "Jo Bloggs from Sink Estate" Petera we probably wouldn't know about it until he'd been charged, and I doubt there'd be any discussion about it here on GN, on a thread entitled "Poor baby - run home to mummy".