*** Public funding for the Royal Household has TRIPLED in real terms since 2012.
*** In 2025-26, the Sovereign Grant (taxpayers money) increased to £132.1m per year.
*** That included £51.8 million for the Sovereign Grant and £34.5 million towards the modernisation of Buckingham Palace.
*** The Crown Estate had assets worth £15 BILLION in 2023-24, with billions of pounds worth of properties in London, including Regent Street, as well as nearly half the land along the coast of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
*** The King also receives money from a private estate called the Duchy of Lancaster. It covers more than 18,000 hectares of land in areas such as Lancashire and Yorkshire, as well as property in central London.
*** At the end of March 2025, it was worth £679m and had made £24.4m in annual profits.
*** The title of Duke of Cornwall (currently the Prince of Wales) benefits from the Duchy of Cornwall. It covers land in south-west England. In the year to the end of March 2025 it had assets worth £1.1 BILLION and had made annual profits of £22.9m.
** The monarch also owns the royal palaces and part of the Royal Collection of art. The King also privately owns properties such as Balmoral and Sandringham.
*** In addition, some Royal Family members have private art, jewellery and stamp collections which they can sell or use to generate income as they wish.
*** The late queen's funeral in 2022 cost the taxpayer an estimated £162 milliom.
*** The Coronation of the King cost taxpayers £72m, including £22m for policing.
Republic, a group campaigning for an elected head of state, claims that the total cost of the monarchy to the British taxpayer is about £510 million per year.
Re: Quids in!
Posted by Ed on November 1, 2025, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Quids in!"
Disgusting...and they get away pretending to care about about the homeless and poor."I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
Why an elected head of state?
Posted by Keith-264 on November 1, 2025, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Quids in!"
Abolish the lot.The last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
Abolish the lot....My dad had a better solution...nm
nmThe last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
Re: Did he know Lloyd George?....he did know mine and collapse...nm
on November 1, 2025, 5:58 pm