Feeling any more sympathetic to Meghan Markal after Oprah interview?

That's between her and Harry.

I'll never understand why people think they can tell other people how they can/can't live. Are you one of those liberals who thinks they are the knower of all that is right and wrong?

 

You obviously do not understand how the British royal family works.

 

They chose to leave the royal family in order to have the freedom to live how they want.
Do you not think people should be allowed to choose freedom?

 

You might have heard this expression before: "The basis of liberty is responsibility"

There are different types of "freedom", and we have to be careful how we qualify that freedom. In traditional British society, in more aristocratic circles, there was a concept of social responsibility, duty, and obligation. That might seem like a completely foreign concept to you.
There were not laws in existence to try to force you to do certain things, but the higher levels of European aristocratic society were not seen (so much) as needing laws, that they had the capability of governing themselves. And that very much includes within families. Certainly the royal family more than any other.

 

You might read this essay:
Liberty and Responsibility: Inseparable Ideals - Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)

Understand that, and you may have a much better understanding of Conservatism.

 

No, it was his mother's money. She was only a royal by marriage and when she divorced her cheating husband she was no longer a member of the royal family.
What Harry decides to do with his mother's money is entirely up to him.
Also, how is buying a house blowing his money?
Property is one of the best investments you can make.

 

She received the money from the divorce from Charles. It was royal family money.

She should not have even gotten all that money. Divorces are really not something you're supposed to do in the royal family, and she caused it.

I think you can have some idea and see why the royal family has to be very selective about whom their children marry.

 

In my experience, conservatives are very clear about the right to keep and spend their own money.
Next you'll be suggesting that their money should be confiscated because they are not spending it on the right things.

 

When they actually earned it.

It's a very different situation when you're talking about the royal family.

 

Well, I suggest you contact Harry immediately and explain it to him. He's completely unaware that you are in charge of how he spends his money.

 

I'm sure the Queen or Charles has already had a private talk with him. And he probably didn't like what he was hearing and just wanted to "live his life" with his bride, free from duties, personal restrictions and special royal family obligations.

 

I'm guessing he's not a conservative. I've never met a conservative who wants to tell me how to spend my own money. Being a fiscal conservative myself, I would never proclaim such nonsense. Since I don't know Harry personally, I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm not qualified to tell him how to spend his money.

 

Yes, that's exactly what happened. LOL. He is no longer an official member of the royal family. He's a private citizen.

 

The right thing to do would be to be prudent with the money that he has - that he is entrusted with - which came from the royal family, and which he did not earn.
He has to think of his future children.

If he doesn't, if he just wants to blow it all, the right and proper thing to do would be to give the money back to Charles.

 

So now you don't think women are entitled to divorce settlements?
Even when their husbands are unfaithful.
Anyone else you want to deny their legally acquired money?

 

You're thinking like an entitled liberal again.
There is a difference between legally entitled and morally entitled.

What Diana did was in really bad taste. Especially since her husband was a member of the royal family, and that was really royal family money, which had been passed down to him from his family.

 

How is investing his money in a home, to raise his family in, blowing it?
Who do you think will inherit the home when he dies?

 

Diana admitted in interviews later in her life that she knew from day one that their marriage had "three people", that Charles was seeing another woman.

She didn't go into that marriage blindly.

 

What makes you think he's not spending it responsibly? Seriously, what a bizarre attitude. You've yet to tell me how I should be spending my inheritance.

 

A $14 million mansion, representing 35% of all the money he owns.

And him spending 35% of his money on a house isn't like a normal middle class person spending 35% of the money they have on a house, because when we are talking at those levels of money, he is not going to be able to replenish it once he spends it. (If Harry was a high level CEO earning $2 million each year, it would be a different story)

If you have a fixed amount of money that isn't going to increase, spending 35% of that on a mansion is a huge amount. There are property taxes every year and maintenance costs. And then transactional costs if you ever decide to sell it, which is not unlikely.

(Just because you have $14 million doesn't mean you can afford a $14 million mansion)

 

Well I'm not even a conservative but I have very strong opinions on who gets to choose what I do with my money.
Clue, it's not some envious, random person on an obscure internet forum.

 

You have some inside knowledge on the future value of the house he chose to invest his money in?
Maybe you have some opinion on the maximum size and value a person should be allowed in a house?
You sound like a communist.

 

I don't know anyone who believes they know better than me how to spend my money. It's not a political ideology I'm familiar with. Certainly not conservative.

 

It's not really "his" money, to do with however so he pleases. What part of that don't you get?
Legally he can, but he has an obligation. That money was pretty much stolen from the royal family.

I keep noticing a pattern with people like you. You think if you have money you should spend it.

 

He also has super secret insider knowledge on Harry and Meghan's income earning potential. Weird.