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Tina Brown: While the Monarchy Will Not End, It Will Shrink Nevertheless

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

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The Financial Structure of the Royal Family

Tina Fey: The frustration for everyone who isn't the heir to the throne in the family is that they are kept on a very tight string. If they perform royal services, they get a stipend from the sovereign grant which helps pay their staffs and so on. They do get free housing, yes, in very beautiful places. But, you know, it's frustrating for them. It's infantilizing for them. She says she thinks Meghan was "extremely hasty about it" when she decided to marry Prince Harry.

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