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To think if Kate & Wills want to live at Middleton Manor...

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PeriodMath · 25/07/2013 14:06

They should foot the £6000 a day bill for security and the £900 an hour helicopter circling overhead?

Shouldn't they be staying in a royal palace - isn't that the point of them? Big safe estates away from prying eyes?

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fatfingers · 25/07/2013 14:08

Wouldn't they still have to have the security wherever they were staying?

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olidusUrsus · 25/07/2013 14:08

But... but... William has a job so he doesn't need taxpayers money! Right? RIGHT!?

Sentences like that have been featuring on a lot of the monarchy based threads floating around right now. YANBU.

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olidusUrsus · 25/07/2013 14:09

Wouldn't they still have to have the security wherever they were staying?

Good point, they should always pay for their security, wherever they are.

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Pootles2010 · 25/07/2013 14:10

Are we definitely paying it?

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olidusUrsus · 25/07/2013 14:14

Are we definitely paying it?

I don't even know if we can tell. They're exempt from the freedoms of information act, aren't they? I think they are, anyway.

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ReallyTired · 25/07/2013 14:14

I think its depressing the fact that there are people who want to kill a young mother, father and their newborn baby. I hope that any other newborn who is at risk of being murdered is protected by the tax payer as well. Sadly children like Victoria Climbe, Peter Conelley could have been saved for a fraction of the price.

I can't blame Kate for wanting a bit of "normality" and staying with her parents.

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KD0706 · 25/07/2013 14:17

I read somewhere (??) that the cost of protecting them is higher at the Middleton home because the royal palaces are geared up for security and Middleton house is t.

But I can see why Kate wants to be with her family. Difficult one

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EasterHoliday · 25/07/2013 14:19

I suspect that security is one of the main reasons the Middletons recently moved to this mega house and I'll wager that the cost of it was assisted by the royal family somehow (I still can't get my head around paper plates and streamers generating enough to buy a £4.5m house cash)

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IvanaCake · 25/07/2013 14:19

I think they should be allowed to stay wherever they want to. Nobody can blame Kate for wanting her parents support at the moment. And its not their fault there are evil people in the world who want to hurt them.

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FreedomOfTheTess · 25/07/2013 14:20

The royal palaces are ALREADY secure, but providing security at Bucklebury Palace (it's nickname in the media) is costing extra.

Given all the rooms at Kensington Palace, I'm sure Ma and Pa Middleton could go and stay there.

Surely the palace is MORE secure?!

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kim147 · 25/07/2013 14:20

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fishybits · 25/07/2013 14:20

Their apartment in Kensington Palace isn't ready because of the asbestos, the cottage they've been living in only has two bedrooms and she wants to be with her mum so where else exactly do you want them to go?

Home to her mum is the only sensible solution and yes there's additional security as there should be when two future Kings of England are under the same roof.

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FreedomOfTheTess · 25/07/2013 14:22

Never been a royalist, but at least Diana's family had the class not to court publicity, unlike the Middleton mob.

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lastnightidreamt · 25/07/2013 14:25

I would imagine that there are savings to be made by staying at the Middleton's........no food bills due to Mum's home-cooking, no staff etc Grin

Give them a break. Their lives our ours most of the time, I think she deserves a couple of weeks wherever she likes.

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PasswordProtected · 25/07/2013 14:27

I do not think where they are and what this entails for them is any of our business, even less a fitting subject for idle speculation and uninformed comment.

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lastnightidreamt · 25/07/2013 14:28

I disagree with you freedom - it's only Pippa who can't stay out of the papers - the rest are very discreet.

Imagine having to be careful of every single thing you say and do, just because of who your daughter chose to marry.

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twinklestar2 · 25/07/2013 14:28

fishybits - ooh that made me feel weird, thinking of two future kings under one roof. Imagine how her family must feel, to go from being normal to having two future kings stay with them.

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EasterHoliday · 25/07/2013 14:28

oh come on freedom are you forgetting Raine Spencer? and the brother's speech? you're also comparing apples / pears - landed gentry and a family who need to work for a living, and an era of daily newspapers vs the information superhighway and instant broadcast of every last move.

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PostBellumBugsy · 25/07/2013 14:33

You could ask the same question for all sorts of things. Who should foot the bill for policing at football matches? Who should foot the bill for police protection for Barak Obama and other high profile visitors to the UK? Who should foot the bill for police protection of high profile criminals as they journey between prison and court? Who should foot the bill for Tony Blair's ongoing police protection?

You could argue that police time gets deployed for lots of 'unworthy cases' - depending on which side of the fence you sit on!

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FreudiansSlipper · 25/07/2013 14:33

absolutely

but let is not forget what as close to normal lives they do live Hmm the royal pr machine constantly reminding us

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FreedomOfTheTess · 25/07/2013 14:33

Oh dear, how dare I speak out against Katie and her wonderful family, shame on me.

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EasterHoliday · 25/07/2013 14:35

football clubs pay the bill for policing football matches.
& freedom speak out all you like but make it accurate. Turning up at hospital to visit their daughter and first grandchild isn't exactly courting publicity.

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FreedomOfTheTess · 25/07/2013 14:37

Football clubs pay towards the cost of policing.

If I go to a football match, money from my ticket goes to the club, and so in some way covers the cost of policing.

I get something for my money there, I get to watch 90 minutes of sport.

What do any of us get for the money being paid towards this security?

Answer: diddly fucking squat!

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squoosh · 25/07/2013 14:38

EasterHoliday that's interesting about the parents' new house. I bet you're right that they've received 'assistance' in ensuring the new family pile is fit for two kings.

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themaltesefalcon · 25/07/2013 14:38

What fucked me off was seeing the Skycopter circling over the fucking maternity hospital. William must have been desperate to get into a fighter plane and shoot the fucker down.

I pity Catherine quite profoundly. If the post-partum choice is to stay with your party-planning parents or with Prince fucking Charles, I'd have to plump for the former. She must be desperate to be alone, poor woman.

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