Yes we are very lucky to be supporting the world's richest woman & her extended family of spoilt hanger on's.
People are living on the streets & many living in poverty
At least you can vote your leader out but we are saddled with an expensive royal family to keep.
Not wishing to start an argument I usually ignore Republicans they after all are entitled to their opinion
which I support but now I am chilling out after working all day around the house and being a bit pedantic today
I would like to point out a couple of things
The Queen is a wealthy woman but is not the richest woman on the planet far from it she is not even in the top twenty of the worlds richest women list of the entire list of the worlds richest men and women she is number 331
The Queens personal wealth is mainly inherited plus she does have assets and investments is £420 million , she also earns about 10 million a year from her racing stud all running costs paid for by HRM
She like all the Monarchs before her is exempt from Income Tax , however over a decade ago she waived that inherited right and pays roughly 7 to 8 million a year tax last time I bothered to check
The Queen is given money by Parliament from the Sovereigns Grant used to be called the Civil List which goes back to Charles 11 when the Monarchy was restored , in exchange for him handing all power to Parliament not to interfere and stay out of Politics.
He also handed huge tracts of land etc which today is called Crown Estates which despite its name is not owned by the Royal Family run by an independent body, these estates generate roughly £ 330 million a year profit which goes direct to the treasury.
Out of that the Queen is given 15% of it which does not go into her purse or personal bank account she is not paid a salary, it is to pay for the upkeep of Buck House Windsor and other royals residences Staff wages ceremonies and duties she performs every year, only the Queen gets this not the rest of them
What she spends is monitored and audited every penny of it.
The cost to taxpayers if roughly £2 a year each the total cost to the taxpayer for the Royal family is about £65 million a year security etc.
For me that's a pretty good deal
