Prince Charles is but another fraud who jets around the world with his entourage, leaving a huge carbon footprint, while exhorting others to cut back.
Given the U.K’s financial problems, I question how much longer it can afford the useless royals. If you need someone to officiate at the opening of a new supermarket, use Miss England or one of the Page 3 girls. They’re far less expensive and far more presentable.
The Prince of Wales avoids 'jetting around the world with an entourage' whenever he can. You don't hear about that much though, because when it's done it's done in secret. But senior royals travel by regular passenger service far more often than most people realise (there have actually been articles about how new airport security rules are going to make this harder to do, just this past week in the newspapers). When he travels overseas on offical trips, for both diplomatic and security reasons, he does tend to travel by private jet. Like it or not, he is a target for terrorists and so are those accompanying him, and if he travelled openly on a commercial aircraft, all the other passengers would also be put at greater risk.
Given the U.K’s financial problems, I question how much longer it can afford the useless royals.
The Royal Family generates far more money for the British economy than it costs. If you include the Crown Estate in the equation, hundreds of millions of pounds a year more, but even without that, there's a surplus. And, far from being useless, they have an important constitutional role that can't just be eliminated. The British government could not function without the Royal Family without massive constitutional reform. It's not impossible to do it, but it wouldn't be cheap or simple.
“...or one of the Page 3 girls...”
If this thread were about Tiger I would suggest that he is already using the Page 3 girls.