Who is going to pay for their office that would be required as a working royal? Their wardrobe? Charles doesn't want to pay for it considering he'll have to support his siblings as well once his mother is gone. How about after that? Should William support them as well? Then we are down the same path we had before in terms of the Kents and Gloucesters. Public doesn't want that many royals anymore. And royals don't retire at the same age as the rest of us. I don't think anyone can make them either.
And let's not put this entirely on Fergie. Andrew and his antics hasn't helped matters either.
I'm fairly certain that we won't see another HRH who is simply the grandchild of a monarch. Even though the LP allows all grandchildren of a monarch to have the title, I have this suspicion that from now on, it'll most likely go the way of Wessex children.
Pay for what?? They already do exactly what they would do as 'working royals'. Beatrice has 11 patronages, 12 if you include her work with pitch@palace. Beyond that she is a founder of Big Change, and works with We as well. Eugenie has 7 patronages. Both of them manage to do both without private secretaries and offices to do their schedules for them. Both do so without royal funding for their clothes.
The only change would be that they would get some recognition for their work. They would be on the CC. At the very most, perhaps they wouldn't pay rent on their apartments.
The reality is that in the next few years the Kents and Gloucesters will retire. And the queen and Prince Philip. The Cambridges will have the Cornwall money to fund them as Charles will have Lancaster.
Do people really think that the sovereign grant, the money given to pay for all the working royals, will shrink in size with less royals??? That less royals will mean less tax money? No. It will mean more money to pay for less royals. More money to pay for less engagements every year.
There may come a time when all the older have retired off, and Harry and William need some back up. Better not to push the Yorks totally out.
But what about Beatrice?
I know she travels a lot, but doesn't she still need a London base?
It's been reported that the York girls have vacated the apartment they once shared at SJP.
It was never confirmed. Just rumored Andrew wasn't planning on paying rent on the apartment in SJP for just Beatrice, when she is rarely there.
If true, then she may crash with her father when she is in London, or at Royal Lodge. She spends most of her time in NY.
I really don't see the public interest in Eugenie and Jack's wedding being anywhere near the interest in Harry and Meghan's at all. There's been discussions in a thread here on a title for Jack Brooksbank and the general opinion is that no, he will not receive or be offered a title upon marriage.
I personally think that Eugenie and Jack's wedding will be handled with perhaps some press interest similar to Pippa and James' wedding and we'll see arrivals and departures and perhaps a carriage ride but for the most part, the wedding ceremony is going to be a private wedding of two private citizens getting married in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. It just so happens though that the bride's grandmother is the Queen.
There wasn't as much interest in Edward/Sophie or Charles/Camilla but it was still televised.
Not saying there will be full coverage like Harry. But there likely will be some coverage of the wedding, more then Pippa. Its the first wedding of a royal princess since Anne's wedding to Mark.
Morning dress is pretty standard in the set in which both Jack and Eugenie move. Formal attire for weddings is standard and then, of course, there is Royal Ascot.
