Correcto-mundo.
His uncle, Prince Andrew saw combat too -- Falklands. I think the 2nd sons are relatively expendable. I think the closest thing the future king of England came was being a SAR pilot for the coast guard.
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Correcto-mundo.
His uncle, Prince Andrew saw combat too -- Falklands. I think the 2nd sons are relatively expendable. I think the closest thing the future king of England came was being a SAR pilot for the coast guard.
I think Harry is a very cool guy. Served two tours in Afghanistan and not as someone far away from the action. He was an Apache Gunship pilot and according to his superiors, was a very good one. He killed Taliban fighters in action and in general wanted to be and was treated as a normal soldier. This is a great article about his military life.
Plus Harry is a big animal conservation patron in Africa.
The Trump will probably tell that they live in a super modern very exclusive home. A chick magnet.
Not like that old rundown family home Harry has. Plus 'we are super rich and our dad is the President.'
Stop being a hard-ass -- weddings are nice. Its a celebration of love you old codger!
You may even have shed a tear or two if you had seen it.
My wife and daughter got up at 3:45AM out here to have a tea party, strawberries and cream, and watch the wedding. My brilliant wife used it as an opportunity to celebrate love, strong women, and aspirational life. The brilliant words of the pastor from NC who helped officiate the wedding were an awesome part of that...and the reactions of the British to a fiery African-American preacher were a lovely bonus. :>)
And all the while, my son and I got to sleep in and hear the play-by-play from my daughter later.
“They’re just a welfare family!” “No shit!” “Rich ass welfare family too.”
I heard this from people at the bar about the time I sat down in my favorite wings joint and sports bar about 20 minutes ago. I had no idea what they were talking about until I looked up and saw that they were looking at clips from the royal wedding.
Means nothing, but I thought it was interesting that they thought of British royalty as a “welfare family.” I guess they have a bit of a point - though the royal family has a history of doing things like serving in the military.
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In real life, the government helps pay for official duties of the royal family, but their maintenance is paid for by "private" trusts, i.e., the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. I put "private" in quotation marks, because the structure is still heavily regulated by law, and they are nothing like trusts held by private citizens, but ultimately the royal family's private income does come from specific private holdings, and the taxpayer only foots the bill for that portion of their existence that relates to a public function.
Consider that they used to own the country, I am not convinced its a great deal. Small price to pay for being a constitutional monarchy.
Well, they do technically still own the Isle of Man and...Guernsey and Alderney. So, they have that.
Oh, and Sark. Man, I love the story of Sark. Not many people know that feudalism in Europe technically only ended in 2008. Fascinating story.
I never made it up to the Isle of Man. I would love to go to the Isle of Man TT.
Beautiful neck of the woods.
I've never crossed a border, so I can't say much about it, but I'd love to visit Mann or one of those Channel Islands some day.
Its interesting that you have a cosmo perspective considering the circumstances. Well done. Parochialism is the biggest hurdle.
I did spend a week -- school trip on the Isle of Skye. Its next to Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre, though I am not sure he still owns it after Linda passed on.
Gorgeous glacial shaped landscape and quaint old pubs.
Also, the British Royal Family owns enormous amounts of real estate. It was "theirs" throughout history and still is in many cases. I have a good friend from London whose office is in the City of London area of London (the area with skyscrapers if you're not familiar with the layout of London) and their hedge fund wrote their rent check directly to the Duke of (something. I can't remember). Also, when you look at the real estate listings in real estate offices there, many of them aren't "freehold", they're 99 year "leasehold". So, you're basically buying it for your lifetime, but you don't actually have it forever. It's probably owned by someone in the royal family who's getting the rent until it's passed down to the next royal person.
My friend also said the queen also still owns the majority of farms from centuries ago. I never even thought of all that until he told me. Here are a couple of articles I found:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tes-wedding-meghan-markle-queen-a8352401.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...UK&IR=T#kate-middleton-duchess-of-cambridge-1
My friend also said the queen also still owns the majority of farms from centuries ago. I never even thought of all that until he told me. Here are a couple of articles I found:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tes-wedding-meghan-markle-queen-a8352401.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-...UK&IR=T#kate-middleton-duchess-of-cambridge-1
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The rich relative of the Queen is the Duke of Westminster. He is much richer than the Queen and her holdings.
He owns half of central London. I think after the Queen's cousin died the inheriting son became the richest teenager in the world or something like that.
But not all the cousins are that super rich. The Duke of Devonshire who was like the honorary head of my school's board has a castle (Chatsworth House) but he leases part of it out to the National Trust to subsidise his operating costs. He also lets us plebs visit his place annually for tea to rub things in.
Maybe this is how the term of 'poor distant cousins' come from, though most of us wouldn't mind being that poor.
https://www.chatsworth.org
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Nice casa! I think it WAS the Duke of Westminster who they wrote their check to. That sounds right.
There was a girl I knew pretty well at IU who is now Viscountess Hinchingbrooke and the future Countess of Sandwich (yes her husband is the future Earl...relative to the guy who invented the Sandwich). She is a SUPER nice person. Very funny. She was married to someone she dated at IU and they lived across the street from me for a while when she lived in Chicago. They got divorced, and she moved to London where she met Luke Montagu. Same story as the Duke of Devonshire. They have a big house, but not much money. Here’s an article about them:
http://www.dorsetmagazine.co.uk/peo...uo-taking-up-the-reins-at-mapperton-1-5110701
There was a girl I knew pretty well at IU who is now Viscountess Hinchingbrooke and the future Countess of Sandwich (yes her husband is the future Earl...relative to the guy who invented the Sandwich). She is a SUPER nice person. Very funny. She was married to someone she dated at IU and they lived across the street from me for a while when she lived in Chicago. They got divorced, and she moved to London where she met Luke Montagu. Same story as the Duke of Devonshire. They have a big house, but not much money. Here’s an article about them:
http://www.dorsetmagazine.co.uk/peo...uo-taking-up-the-reins-at-mapperton-1-5110701
The rich relative of the Queen is the Duke of Westminster. He is much richer than the Queen and her holdings.
He owns half of central London. I think after the Queen's cousin died the inheriting son became the richest teenager in the world or something like that.
But not all the cousins are that super rich. The Duke of Devonshire who was like the honorary head of my school's board has a castle (Chatsworth House) but he leases part of it out to the National Trust to subsidise his operating costs. He also lets us plebs visit his place annually for tea to rub things in.
Maybe this is how the term of 'poor distant cousins' come from, though most of us wouldn't mind being that poor.
https://www.chatsworth.org
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