Duchess Kate spent 174,170 of Charles money on clothing for 2016
Around this time every year, we get the year-end “numbers” for the “working royals,” meaning the royal family members who are considered full-time working royals, like the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Princess Royal, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. For six years, William and Kate have been the least-working members of the group, although Harry’s numbers are often pretty low too… but that’s because Harry doesn’t get to “count” the weeks he spends volunteering with charities, or organizing the Invictus Games and more. In the past six years, we’ve also had another set of numbers to judge Kate in particular: how much money she spends on clothes. Because of the peculiar nature of how the royal family is structured financially, the Prince of Wales pays for his daughter-in-law’s clothing budget for royal events. As the years go by, Kate spends more and more of Charles’ money on clothing, and yet the event-numbers still stay consistently low. TL:DR: Charles is spending more money on Kate’s clothing for her to do about the same small amount of work every year.
She’s often praised for her thriftiness, thanks to recycling outfits, digging out pieces she’s had in the wardrobe for the best part of a decade and favouring high street labels. But recently the Duchess of Cambridge has developed a taste for designer labels such as D&G and Preen, pushing up the cost of her 2016 wardrobe to a massive £174,170.
Research by MailOnline has found that by comparison the Duchess wore clothing worth just £43,260.99 in 2015. This year the value of her wardrobe for the official royal tour of India and Bhutan alone was more than £35,000. And even that was dwarfed by her £62,000 Canada wardrobe, including dresses by Jenny Packham, Preen and D&G.
The money spent on Kate’s wardrobe for the Canadian trip is particularly weird, especially considering that no one gave a sh-t about that tour at all. Even the royal reporters noted that there was barely any interest in William and Kate’s hyper-stage-managed tours at this point. I think the royal reporters revolted after repeated fiascos during the India-Bhutan tour earlier in the year. I should also note that for both of their major tours this year, Kate’s fashion choices were widely panned. She spends all of that money and the girl’s still got so little style. She thinks that if she spends thousands of dollars on a frock and gets it tailored to show off her legs, then suddenly everyone will think she’s fashionable. She is not. And I think Charles should cut these two off.
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