Sussexes Pay Back Frogmore Debt...

[Mozz71]

I notice there's nothing about this as yet. I guess ABers only really care about negative stories about Harry and Meghan.

https://www.etonline.com/prince-harry-pays-back-31-million-spent-on-frogmore-cottage-renovations-152615

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz: "Prince Andrew would go down well with the general public. " - yeah no sweat!

[Ken4155]

Maybe they'll front a 'magazine' type show and become Netflix's Richard and Judy :-))))

[tiggerblue10]

Good for them.

[naomi24]

Great that they’ve paid their debt to the British taxpayer. Quite right too. I do, however, find it curious that within days of acquiring their lucrative contract with Netflix the couple have cancelled a massive fundraiser for Invictus Games, planned for next June and due to be broadcast by Netflix’s rival, Amazon - allegedly due to Coronavirus.

I too think they should abandon their titles. If they want to go it alone, no one is stopping them, but whilst they are attached to those titles they aren’t going it alone. They’re trading on their royal status.

[Mozz71]

Maybe the Queen has insisted the retain their titles. Her way of keeping the line of communication open and shpwing them they're still part of the family.

[naomi24]

Or maybe not...

[dannyk13]

Theyu could abandon the title of duke & duchess of Sussex but Harry was born a prince and will remain so.

[tamborine]

Why do they want Frogmore if theyve left the clan? Cornwall Duchy own the LA home. Harry & Meg have creamed off others so far, it seems.

[zebo]

The house still belongs to the Crown estates though, if I were to move into a house which my landlord upgraded would that be my financial responsibility? Not defending them, just curious.

[ummmm]

Zebo - the decor certainly would.

[lankeela]

"Prince Andrew would go down well" - so we are led to believe!

[dannyk13]

Which well would that be?

[Mozz71]

//Why do they want Frogmore if theyve left the clan? Cornwall Duchy own the LA home. Harry & Meg have creamed off others so far, it seems.//

They don't want it, that's the whole point. They've repaid the money given to them to decorate it. Probably would've been cheaper to go down B&Q.

[Mozz71]

//Or maybe not..//

Probably not in fact, but the point I'm making is that we have no idea what's gone on behind the scenes.

[naomi24]

Mozz, No you don't - so you're becoming creative.

Incidentally, I don't think B&Q sell that expensive vegan paint Harry & Meghan used.

[Peter Pedant]

they are paying rent for Frogmore
I suppose that is a back door - back

harry I am afraid is so like his dear gt uncle
the dook formerly known as Edward VIII

[Peter Pedant]

\\ Mozz, No you don't - so you're becoming creative.\\
no or yes ( to be clear)
I am like N and Mozz - i have no idea what is going on back stage and very little about front stage
age

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // I too think they should abandon their titles. If they want to go it alone, no one is stopping them, but whilst they are attached to those titles they aren’t going it alone. They’re trading on their royal status. //

Indeed they are - and I would suggest that without the currency, Netflix would be far less interested in them, and far less interested in bankrolling their future.

Netflix is banking on the couple as being seen as direct connections to the Royal Family - access they cannot even dream of under normal cirumstances, and that this will be enough to entice their subscribers to buy into whatever 'product' the couple produce.

An absence of those connections would make them far less 'valuable' to Netflix, so I see no chance of H & M renouncing those titles any time soon.

[naomi24]

^Precisely.

[andy-hughes]

// Netflix is banking on the couple as being seen as direct connections to the Royal Family - access they cannot even dream of under normal cirumstances, and that this will be enough to entice their subscribers to buy into whatever 'product' the couple produce. //

Further to my last point, I wonder if Netflix are taking a massive gamble that may well seriously backfire on them.

History shows that, even including the Queen, the Royal Family are not an especially engaging lot of individuals.

Few of them are remotely photogenic - Megan does score there - but we may find that the imagined 'gloss' that will cover them as presenters may be seriously misplaced.

Megan will have no problem, she is an experienced actress and perfectly able to present a piece to camera in aprofessional manner, but Harry? I doubt it very much indeed.

I suspect that the novelty of the 'Royal' couple will wear off very quickly indeed, when simple inadequacy as a presenter will expose Harry to hostile reviews.

Having presenter skills makes you a presenter, being royal does not.