Oh yes Beatrice is an embarrassment. Doesn't she know a royal must live like a senior citizen? She should only be seen for royal duties, and hide away drinking tea and counting her pearls, when not on duty ?
We all know she is a shameless hussy. I mean can we imagine Harry or Will doing this? I mean going out to a bar with friends? Oh the horror. I mean they would never drink or go out dancing. I mean can you imagine Will showing off his daddy dance moves or Harry naked pool......oh wait
Royals are not meant to be paragons of absolute virtue. She is not going out to clubs being dragged out drunk at night. She went out for dinner for her mother. Many of her 'nights out' are actually charity events she is attending.
As for Charles and his streamlining, we will see how well that goes down. People are excited now as they seem to think less royals will mean less money. In reality it will mean less work, less representation and the same money or more money. The sovereign's grant is not going to decrease based on the amount of royals who are working. In fact it goes up every year. When people realize the sovereign's grant is going to fund less and less work, people will start wondering what exactly they are paying for.
The reality is that being royals is about 'public perception'. William and Harry and Kate are already considered lazy. They don't do enough duties. The public doesn't get the 'they do all this work behind the scenes'. Well what work? What hours? They attend parties, what are they doing for those parties? People believe what they can see. When the senior royals are doing less then 200 events a year, people wonder what they are doing the rest of the year. This isn't going to change when the senior royals retire off, the scrutiny is only going to build.
Conservation and mental health are great causes, but what else? What about all the other issues like education, arts, history and so on that the senior royals cover now? Are they no longer going to have any representation?
Paying for Bea and Eugenie to have security WHEN they do royal duties (along the lines of Edward), would be minimal cost at all. And certainly could help public perception. When the senior royals retire off, Bee and Eugenie could fill many holes in areas the Cambridges and Harry show little interest in. The reality is there are 16 senior royals on the pay roll right now, when the Gloucesters, Kents, Alexandra, the queen and Philip retire or are gone, that will already streamline the royal family a huge amount. No need to simply eliminate everyone else.
Beatrice is going to continue to do charity work. She has made that clear. And has accepted numerous patronages, I believe she is or close to a dozen now. The royals are fools not to take credit for it, and put their royal stamp, show that they are continuing to work hard for the public.
Makes perfect sense to me.
