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[harry-sussex]

Just adding on. Even if they do turn on the filter I don't expect it to be perfect and catch everything (simply because technology is imperfect and this is a relative new thing for instagram) but I think it would could hopefully filter out most of the nasty things said on there.

Yes, I agree with you. The filter would have helped. It wouldn't have been perfect, but it would have helped. Maybe it would have helped everything else later on, who knows. I don't know if a filter would have even been possible. But I would've liked to see something that would have fixed the comment section. It was so awful for so long.

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[lovingtheroyals]

Hi Dina I was wondering if you could explain how engagements are counted. For example when William was in Jordan/Palestine/Israel does the whole days events count as one engagement? Or is it that each new place he goes to on that day count as an engagement? I hope I made this question as clear as possible

Of course!! So the Court Circular is where official engagements are logged. The Times is the official count but there is also one online on the royal family website. Any time there is a separate entry or a change in location, there is another engagement. So you’ll see CC entries for meetings and each new meeting with a different person or organization is another engagement. On tour, every new location or event is a new engagement. 

So for example, here are William’s entries into the CC on June 28th:

The Duke of Cambridge today carried out the following engagements in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

His Royal Highness this morning visited the Viewing Point at the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem.

The Duke of Cambridge afterwards visited the Church of St. Mary Magdalene near the Garden of Gethsemane, Jerusalem.

His Royal Highness later visited Haram al-Sharif, Old City of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

The Duke of Cambridge subsequently visited the Western Wall, Old City of Jerusalem.

His Royal Highness afterwards visited the Muristan, Muristan Street, next to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Old City of Jerusalem.

The Duke of Cambridge this afternoon visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, St. Helena Road, Christian Quarter, Old City of Jerusalem.

His Royal Highness this evening arrived at Royal Air Force Brize Norton from Israel.

Sir David Manning, Mr. Miguel Head and Mr. Jason Knauf were in attendance.

If we count that out, that’s 6 engagements. (i bolded each engagement for you)

Sometimes you’ll have two engagements in one entry. For example, here is an entry for Harry on June 23rd:

The Duke of Sussex, Patron, Sentebale, today visited Phelisanong Children's Centre and subsequently a project in Leribe, Lesotho.’

That counts as two different engagements because the location changed. 

About the meetings thing, if they’re hosting different meetings (i.e met person A then person B) it’s more than one engagement. But meeting more than one person at the same time is one engagement. For example, this entry for Harry from June 8th is one engagement because he met both people at the same time:

The Duke of Sussex, Captain General, Royal Marines, this afternoon received Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton upon relinquishing his appointment as Representative Colonel Commandant and Major General Jeffrey Mason upon assuming the appointment.

A tell tale sign of one entry being more than one engagement is the use of the word “subsequently”.

Does that make sense? I hope I explained it well!

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[duchessofostergotlands]

I hope this doesn’t come off as disrespectful or start a war in your ask box. But I’m actually very curious about this. How do you know that Doria travelled on tax payer money? What are the signs to look for to know this? Would the other times Doria flew in to visit Meghan be tax-payer funded as well?

Anon: how do you know doria was funded by tax? and what another thing that harry and meg missused tax?

It’s not disrespectful at all! Thank you for asking and for being so polite about it. Doria’s flights are probably paid for by her or Meghan at all times so she can fly in and out as much as she wants and I have no problem with that. It’s the car journey that they took to the site of the engagement. They travelled in official cars and we know from the Sovereign Grant Act of 2011 that official travel is paid for by the government in exchange for the royals doing public engagements. Royal funding is really confusing and a lot of people still don’t have a full grasp of it because they keep a ton of things hidden about it but basically when they’re doing official engagements things like travel and security would be taxpayer funded. Their accommodation is also rent free and Doria couldn’t live in it rent free because she doesn’t perform official engagements on our behalf. Things like clothing are paid for by Charles through his income which is legally considered private but is a bit dicey because it would be public money if the royal family didn’t exist. Hope that helps and if you want to ask questions at any time I’m more than happy to answer :) 

For the anon, the other two times I was thinking of were her using taxpayer funded security at Invictus when she was seated far away from Harry. She was a girlfriend of a royal and as such not entitled to taxpayer funded security (we know they were taxpayer funded as the security people are guys we see around Harry quite a lot so we know them). The other was when Harry had a taxpayer funded flight booked to the UK after his trip to the States and cancelled last minute to fly to Canada to see Meghan instead, meaning that the money spent on the first flight was at risk of being lost (I don’t know if it was but it should never be in question). The royals themselves released official guidelines on mixing personal and professional travel and Harry broke them. Now that I look back neither of those things happened after the engagement so they’re actually not on Meghan at all and just on Harry. I don’t expect private citizens to understand the intricacies of royal funding and if Harry or any other royal offers them something I don’t expect them to turn it down. I wouldn’t! But the royals should know better and the people around them should definitely know better than to enable this kind of behaviour. 

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[harry-sussex]

I agree with what you said but my understanding is that when people talk about KP filtering IG comments they mean using the comment control feature that's built in IG. The comment control feature allows the use to literally tap a button to hide offensive comments so it filters at that level. You can also manually put in words or phrases you don't want to show up in the comment section. I think the frustration is that it doesn't seem like they've done that when it's the very least they can do.

Oh that’s interesting. I didn’t know that was a feature.

It does seem like it should be something they should look into, I agree. There may be ramifications of which we may not be aware so I don’t know if a conversation has been had about it but it does seem like that could certainly better the situation.

I do believe that’s on the KP staff, though, which is an entity separate from William. Maybe they’ve talked about it and there are legal and ethical repercussions. Maybe they’re concerned about that *one* comment slipping through. I don’t know but you’re right, it does seem like it’s worth looking into at the very least.

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