Sometimes this thread reminds me of how we used to go round and round in William and Kate's Relationship Musings thread. I don't think we will know until we know....if that makes sense.
I love how the DM always pulls out the same chestnut that Charles is keen to reduce the size of the BRF without acknowledging (as we have here MANY MANY times) that the natural way of life will reduce the size of the British Royals and that there are MANY MANY organizations that benefit by royal patronage (including those the Kents and the Gloucesters serve).
I don't know about anyone else but lately I find myself just looking at the pics and doing a cursory glance at the article, I try (not hard enough it appears) not to read the comments because the ignorance just annoys the heck out of me! For example, according to some Edward does nothing, Peter and his new baby are a constant drain on the British taxpayer, etc. It just borders on ridiculous.
Either way we shall see. Either they will do a tandem of both: royal duties in conjunction with some sort of career/job. What I am pretty confident in is that they won't win with either situation. If they work, they will be accused of not getting the job on their merits, taking a job from someone else, they are most likely rich so why work, questioning why they get so much time off. If they do charity work it will be why don't they get a job, they are just spongers like their parents, they vacation too much, they party too much, etc.
So its a no win situation IMO.