{"id":89900,"date":"2026-02-10T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=89900"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:27:31","slug":"the-royal-speciality-creating-pr-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/10\/the-royal-speciality-creating-pr-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal speciality: creating PR disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I should make it clear when posting <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepublicStaff\/status\/2020905308223107160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this copy of a Tweet<\/a> that I am a member of Republic, which posted it, but apart from paying a small subscription, I take no part in it. It does, though, make it clear why Republic capture the zeitgeist, why the royals' only special talent these days is in creating PR \u00a0disasters, and why we should all really want them gone:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14-550x571.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14-550x571.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14-768x797.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14-385x400.png 385w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-20.09.14.png 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prince William is, quite bizarrely, taking on the role of British trade envoy vacated by Andrew Mountnatten-Windsor, and his first visit is to people <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closely associated<\/a> with the killers of\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamal_Khashoggi\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>You literally could not make up a worse framing for the royal family than this right now. Do they have a self-destruct button? It would seem they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I should make it clear when posting this copy of a Tweet that I am a member of Republic, which posted it, but<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/10\/the-royal-speciality-creating-pr-disasters\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89909,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89900\/revisions\/89909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}