Yeah, I’m sure some kind of trust is involved. And her husband did just inherit a tax-exempt duchy worth over a billion pounds. Maybe Meghan will get a nice tea service or some hats.
Maybe she’ll get that elephant given to the queen by the president of Cameroon.
Right - Catherine being a future queen of England has nothing to do with that [/sarcasm]
Harry and Meghan chose to walk away from being active royals, this sort of thing is probably one of the consequences of doing that.
Eh? You’re saying she chose to incur a 40% tax?
Anyway, the jewelry. Probably some of it will, after a respectable number of years, will be auctioned off for charity, as Diana’s gowns were. As for the rest, if Kate owns it outright, she can do as she likes with it, including sharing it out among her in-laws. I can see her gathering all the women together: “All right! Bea, you get this; Gen, you get that; Camilla, you get this and this; Sophie, this is for you, and this is for Louise when she’s 16…Meghan who?”
Expecting, maybe yes. Realistically expecting, no. The number of occasions where a tiara is even appropriate is fast-dwindling, and Meghan by her own choice isn’t going to be attending many of them. (For the Brits, the State Opening of Parliament, state dinners, and the Diplomatic Reception [and probably the upcoming coronation] are basically the only occasions; the continental royals typically wear tiaras at weddings, but at British royal weddings the bride is normally the only one.)
(As a side note, it also occurs to me that if the Queen chose to skip Charles/Camilla, it would be to WILLIAM she’d leave the jewels, not Catherine, so that historic jewelry didn’t leave the family in the event of a divorce. That happened for example in Denmark: Queen Margrethe II gave her grandmother’s tiara to her daughter-in-law Alexandra, and eventually Alexandra divorced Prince Joachim and took the tiara with her.)
I really wish the press would stop referring to Catherine as Kate Middleton.
Wikipedia has an article on the queen’s jewelry, which is separate from the Crown Jewels, though some of this stuff might not be her personal property but instead owned by the Crown. I believe Balmoral, where she died, and Sandringham were owned by her (and didn’t she have a horse farm in Kentucky?). And I assume she also owned quite a bit of antiques, paintings and so forth aside from what the Crown owned.
I might be missing something - but neither the article linked to nor the radaronline article actually says anything definitive - there’s a lot of whispers about last-minute changes and “There’s a very good chance the Queen won’t leave either of them any jewels of value” and “If the Queen does indeed cut Meghan out,”. I’m not saying that Meghan wasn’t cut out - but no one in those articles is doing anything other than speculating.
Yes, it just sounds like trashy gossip.
A tiara is never inappropriate.
Even for a guillotining?
Especially for a guillotining, no matter which role.
In her honor, I ordered fish & chips for dinner tonight. (The other thing I was considering was chicken tikka masala.)
You should’ve ordered the chicken tikka masala and tried to pay in diamond.
It’s a public holiday so it’s effectively the same as a three day weekend.
Any shops that do stay open will operate shorter hours and have to pay their staff holiday rates if they want them to work. Supermarkets are usually still open on bank holidays but I’m betting many will close for this one. Public transport will still operate but at a Sunday service level.
Both are authentically British, so it’s good either way
Yeah, I’d want this information to come from someplace other than what seems to be a low-rent blog that makes checkout stand tabloids look respectable.
I think I know that one; kinda pale, was it?
Worse, it’s the sort of gossip that will probably never be proved or disproved. The contents of the Queen’s will are unlikely to be made public and we’re also unlikely ever to find out if it was changed recently. Also, even if the Princess of Wales suddenly starts wearing items formerly owned by the Queen, it wouldn’t be certain that she has actually inherited them, as she may only be borrowing them. Perhaps only if the Duchess of Sussex starts doing so would there be evidence one way or the other and that would be to disprove the story.