You know how the Cambridges like to play-act their super-normal middle class lifestyle? It’s true. They think normal, middle class families have palaces refurbished by the taxpayers and country homes refurbished (at a cost of $3 million-plus) by daddy. They think normal, middle class families have extensive taxpayer-funded security guarding their estates and their non-royal in-laws. And I guess they think that normal, middle class families get no-fly zones over their country homes so no one will take photos of their £60,000 tennis court renovations.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been given permission to enforce a no-fly zone over their new country mansion in a bid to stop photographs being taken of the distinctive red-brick house. All aircraft – including drones – are to be banned from flying within 1.5 miles of Anmer Hall, situated on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate near King’s Lynn in Norfolk, from next month.

The Department for Transport, which has agreed to the request, said it was required ‘in view of the need for security for the Royal Family’. Similar regulations are to come into force for Sandringham House from 1 December to 1 March each year. The three-month restriction covers the Christmas period, when the Queen and other members of the Royal Family are in residence.

Regulations issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) state no aircraft is to fly below 2,000ft (610m) within the restricted airspace. It does not apply to emergency services aircraft, including Prince William’s employer, the East Anglian Air Ambulance, and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The Queen’s helicopter and any aircraft flown by a member of the Royal family are also exempt, as are aircraft flown by ‘guests of Sandringham House or Anmer Hall, who have permission to land there’.

William and Kate now spend the majority of their time at Anmer Hall, which was gifted to them by the Queen in addition to their official 21-room apartment at Kensington Palace. They have spent several million pounds of their private fortunate turning the ten bedroom Georgian mansion – an historically photographed local landmark – into a ‘dream’ family home for their children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. The house boasts its own tennis court and swimming pool, as well as a new glazed garden room which allows them to dine under the stars.

Earlier this year the couple complained about paparazzi photographic intrusion into their ‘family life’.

[From The Daily Mail]

Yes, just after Charlotte was born, the Cambridges’ press office handed out “rules” that the press would have to follow about how they (the press) were not going to be allowed anywhere near Anmer Hall or the Middletons’ Berkshire home. They were already complaining about “intrusions” back then. I’m not saying that it’s cool to fly drones around Sandringham, I’m just saying that the Cambridges want it both ways. They want their press machine to tell the world that they are so normal and down-to-earth and just-like-you whilst simultaneously enjoying the extreme kind of taxpayer-funded privileges that can only be maintained, long-term, through the public’s goodwill.

Oh, and the Daily Mail has a really idiotic story about how William and Kate “built a successful marriage.” Who is buying what that writer is selling?

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