Is this a classy way to behave?
By Fleur
@Fleura (30409)
United Kingdom
December 21, 2016 2:16pm CST
No doubt many people have received gifts from friends or relatives that they really don’t know what to do with, I know I have. So what do you do with them? Perhaps you could re-gift them to someone else who you believe will appreciate them more, donate them to a charity or even discreetly sell them – or you could splash the details all over social media and national newspapers, along with lots of photos and even the personal notes that came with them. This is what India Hicks, cousin and goddaughter of Prince Charles, has chosen to do.
In my opinion this just goes to show that money and social connections do not buy class. This is the sort of behaviour you might expect from some clueless teenager but this person is 49. If I was Prince Charles I wouldn’t have anything further to do with her. Do you think this is an acceptable way to treat someone who has sent you many expensive gifts over the years?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4053670/Not-saucer-Charles-years-potty-pottery-gifts-cousin-revealed-finally-unpacks-boxes-kept-cellar.html
All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2016.
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@rebelann (112874)
• El Paso, Texas
21 Dec 16
She certainly went about it the wrong way given her lineage which for all intents and purposes makes people like me feel they are supposed to be raised with more finesse than that displayed.
Now if only Prince Charles would do the same with the senseless gifts she most likely sent to him but then I doubt he'd stoop that low.
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@rebelann (112874)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 16
Since I'm not familiar with what nobility is supposed to represent @Fleura aren't they educated to be diplomatic? I got that notion from books I've read, here in the US we don't have nobility just rich people who didn't get a proper education before earning a lot of money.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16761)
• China
22 Dec 16
She went too far !Granted that she didn't like those gifts,but she shouldn't disgrace Prince Charles like that.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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22 Dec 16
She kept them, and now she's started using them. She's finally grown into them and I can imagine that she and Charles have had a laugh about this before she 'went public'. She doesn't sound too ungrateful to me; she was getting gifts you'd get your granny when she was eight years old! :-) {It's from the Daily Mail and it looks like they just hashed it together from her own social media account!}
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@Fleura (30409)
• United Kingdom
22 Dec 16
Yes I know they were rather too 'grown-up' and boring for an 8-year-old, but I guess it takes years to build up an entire dinner service : ) I hope they have had a laugh about it because if I was Charles and I didn't know and then I found she had been poking fun at my gifts and my notes for all the world to laugh at I wouldn't send her anything else again for sure!
@Traceyjayne (1784)
• United Kingdom
24 Dec 16
I would re gift .....or stick in the loft ... whichever was easier !
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@PinkZebra (17)
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21 Dec 16
I strongly believe there is a reason behind this act, a message she wanted to send.
And, yes, it wasn’t a nice way to do it, although we don’t know what inspired her. That’s why I had a discussion on that subject with my closest friends some time ago. Sharing all our experiences was hilarious. From that day on, we ask a person what they want, collect the money and buy that certain thing, or just deliver the money if that’s what someone chooses.
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