No one said she was happy I said she was WILLING. We don't know exactly what she has agreed to other than they will be splitting their time between Canada and the U.K.
Whatever they end up doing, it will be an agreement within the family. We may like it or not. That's going to matter little. It's whatever they can work out amongst themselves.
LaRae
This issue had been discussed over and over again and we are running into cyclic arguments.
Nonetheless, it is important to stress that, although the Duchy of Cornwall surplus revenue is private income , it is not the personal income of Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor as an individual , but rather an income that is tied to a tittle ( or office) of Duke of Cornwall ( the eldest son of the monarch who is the heir apparent). Proof of that is that , when Charles becomes King and William becomes the heir ( and, automatically, the new Duke of Cornwall ) , the income goes 100 % to him and his immediate family and no longer to Charles. Likewise , Forbes magazine doesn’t count the revenues from the Duchy of Lancaster in HM The Queen’s net worth because, again, it is not her personal fortune like Balmoral or Sandrigham , even if irevenue therefrom can be used privately, but rather an ex-offficio income to maintain her and her family in their capacity as the British Royal Family.
In other words, there is a fine distinction between Charles funding H&M from his personal fortune ( which he can will,, sell and dispose of as he pleases ) and funding them with his private income as the heir. The latter can be perfectly used to fund the heir’s maintenance costs ( his “ toothpaste” as some posters here like to repeat ad nauseam) and even to maintain the heir’s family like his adult children. But the Queen in her statement made now a subtle, but in my opinion, clear distinction between “ her ( and by extension, Charles’s) family “ and “ Harry and Meghan’s family “ .
I fully accept and understand that it will be politically controversial for Charles to use the Duchy’s money ( I.e. the heir’s private income, not his personal money ). to pay for example for housing cost overseas ( in Canada) of Harry and Meghan’s family when that family is seen as a separate entity from the heir’s family or, more broadly, the British Royal Famiily.