Come on, really? Doria arrived on Tax Payer funds? You’re picking a fight with Harry and Meghan over nothing. The ride to the location would have costed the same with or without an extra passenger. Should they have had her mother walk and they drive over there? Pay for an Uber? What did it really cost anyone? a few bucks? She wasn’t riding on a private plane with them.

duchessofostergotlands:

Are you kidding right now? It was probably like a two minute car ride! Should Doria have walked?

I can understand if they travelled a long distance, but that car drove like…500 yards… It’s not that deep.

It doesn’t matter if it’s one penny or one million pounds. You don’t get away with misusing public funds just because you could theoretically misuse them in a more serious way. If something’s wrong you don’t excuse it entirely just because the person could have done something more serious. If I stabbed someone and they didn’t die they don’t say “well you could have killed them and you didn’t so we’ll just let you go free with no consequences.” (Yes that is a wildly exaggerated analogy but it works). This is definitely not a big enough deal to overshadow the whole event and I have posted separately about how great I think it was and how much I like this project in general but given that it’s part of a wider pattern of misusing public funds then yes, I’m going to mention it. I mention it when other royals do it so I’m going to mention it now. There is a clear understanding between the British people and the monarchy about what perks they get and what they do in exchange for those perks and this is not sanctioned within that understanding. If you can’t do something without misusing public funds then don’t do it at all. If they were that close, why didn’t they all just walk and avoid this whole drama?