SO Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are said to be in danger of losing their home as they can't keep their spending under control.

They have a £2.3 million overdraft and interest repayments of £40,250 a month to Royal bankers Coutts, who should have warned them before things got so bad anyway.

In a similar situation, most people would rein in their spending, sell some assets, even get a job, maybe - but the Kents are not most people.

Instead of cutting down, how do these people react to the news that their home may be repossessed?

They dine at the Ritz with a Brazilian businessman, Naji Nahas, cashing in on the Windsor name to pull strings and get out of their mess the easy way.

If only we all had access to such affluent sugar daddies.

The colossal interest repayments the 'RentaKents' face are enough to give ordinary folk a seizure.

What is not in danger of a seizure, however, is the couple's property.

It is a palatial, eight bedroom, 16th century country seat worth £1.5 million, and sufficient security against going completely broke; their bank says repossession is not on the agenda.

So how did this Royal couple get into such hock?

It seems they suffered huge losses as members of Lloyds!

And the princess has lavished half-a-million quid on tarting up their home - bought just six years ago and now worth 15 times more than they paid for it.

How about the HRHs staging a car boot sale - just as you or I might - to raise some extra readies?

The prince, after all, has plenty of room in the boots of his luxury Bentley, Roller, and Aston Martin.

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