I Hi UK ! Do you like the royalty? Why? They are necessary? I just wonder?

Question

All these money could be necessary to help poor people in UK?

Answer 1

If we didn't have a royal family, we would be spending a fortune on a president and his wife. As it is, the Blairs run up a huge bill for the taxpayer, thanks to their liking for using exclusive modes of transport, etc. and they give far less pleasure than the more decorative members of the royal family, who provide, between them, a large team of people who are available for gracing events with their presence: opening buildings, making speeches and all the other boring jobs which fall their way. In fact, only a few of them are on the civil list, i.e. cost anything at all to the taxpayer. They know how to conduct themselves and how to behave without attracting headlines in the newspapers by their indiscreet remarks (unlike Cherie Blair, for instance. Here are some figures of how much they cost in 2003:

The gross cost of the royal family was £41 million. This was made up of three parts:

£9 million was the Civil List. This is the money paid to the Queen in return for surrendering the Crown Estates (see below). Only Prince Philip receives money from the List; other royal family members get nothing.

£27 million is Grants-in-aid. Basically this is the cost of maintaining royal buildings, which would be maintained whether we had a monarchy or not.

£5 million was the Royal Flight and Royal Train, but the royal flight in particular is used more often by government ministers than by the Queen herself.

The Queen also gets income from the Privy Purse, which basically is income from her remaining lands, the Duchy of Lancaster. This costs the taxpayer nothing, but she pays tax on it (see below).

Revenue

A conservative estimate is £168 million, made up as follows:

Most royal revenue is income from the royal lands, the Crown Estates. This body owns nearly 300,000 acres of land. Sounds a lot, but it's equivalent to a square block of land 21.5 miles on the side. A small but important part, however, is in Central London, and thus worth a lot of dosh - 75% of CE revenue is generated by its urban holdings. Revenue from the Crown Estates this year was £163 million - a lot, compared to the £9 million the queen gets in return!

As well as the aforementioned tax from the Duchy of Lancaster (£2 million), the country also receives tax from Prince Charles' Duchy of Cornwall (£3 million). In spite of the name only about 5% of its landholdings are in the county of Cornwall, and even more annoyingly for the Cornish, 20% are in Devon.

There are, of course, unquantifiable gains in the form of business generated by royal trips abroad, and tourism.

End Figure

If we ignore the tourism and business gains, the net gain to the country from having a monarchy of £127 million a year - or approximately £2.18 per person per year.

Looked at it this way, they are an asset.

Answer 2

Firstly, we don't call ourselves a "TRUE democracy" - we are in fact a constitutional monarchy.

Unfortunately, press intrusion into the lives of the Royal Family concentrates solely on the sensational and, if possible, bad things they do. Rarely do we get news of the good work they are involved in.

If you look at the Court circular and see just how much work the Royals do you would be amazed. The Queen alone has so many engagements - and remember, she is 80 - that most 20-year-olds wouldn't be able to keep up.

I spoke once to the Captain of the Royal Yacht Britannia. He said that most of their work involved going to foreign countries and drumming up business for Britain. Put the Prime Minister (ANY PM) on board and some people would come to the Yacht. Substitute the PW with the Queen and it had so many on board it almost sank. In terms of getting business for the UK alone the Royals are worth the average 36p per person per year we spend on them.

It is sad that the "younger" generation - and by that I mean, generally, uner-45s - are so indifferent or anti the Royals. They have been brainwashed by the Press and those in education who are mainly left wing. It is difficult to understand how they can go along with a political process which produces the duplicitous ambitious elite and yet look with disdain on those who, born into privilege, are brought up with an ethos of public service and, in the vast majority of cases, do indeed serve. By this I also mean our hereditary peers.

Of course they are rich - of course they are not like us. But that is all they know, and in fact to a large extent it is a cross around their neck. How many lottery winners have found that wealth is not in fact the secret to happiness?

Don't be envious of the Royal Family's privileged position - thank your lucky stars that we don't have a Presidential system that produces the likes of shagger Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush x 2.

People should stop looking above them in the hierarcical tree and moaning about the "waste of money" and instead look at the legal aid and benefits system if they want to see where the problem lies. There they would REALLY find pople who contribute absolutely zip to the wealth of this wonderful country yet take so much from it.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

If you have ever visited the White house think grotty little shoe box! I mean this not to be rude but to point out how truly shockingly opulent Buckingham palace is inside! I was a Royalist before I saw it! But it shocked me into thinking of the injustice of so much for one family! When people are homeless, when we have hospitals screaming out for more cash etc.

As I walked around I gasped at the gold etc. I have visited the White house and many other 'palaces' and stately homes but nothing compares to Buckingham palace. I say this not because I am English but because its a FACT!

Sure, it impresses overseas Statesmen! Sure, the Queen works very hard for very little privacy! Sure the Queen has very little power but its still shocking!

Britain without the Royals? Not sure I am ready for that! I certainly would not like to be Royal! But it could be fun to have the chappie who tidys up and makes dinner around my house for a while!

Answer 5

They are part of what makes Britain great, no they are not necessary but we have had a Royal family for such a long time it would seem weird without one now, they do cost the tax payer an awful lot of money each year but I guess in return its good for the tourist industry for bringing royalist into the country, lots of pro's and con's about the Royal family I suppose.

Answer 6

they re part of our history and culture, but think they should be like Spain or Sweden and only trollied out on high days and holidays.. think the money would be better on the poor or hospitals or or or...

Answer 7

I don't mind them, but they should have absolutely no involvement in government and they should be cheaper. Otherwise we can't call ourselves a true democracy.

Answer 8

i only really liked diana and william, and harry and they do cost too much money i agree with that.i hate charles and camilla

Answer 9

Don't dislike them, but don't think that they are necessary either.

Answer 10

Waste of fooking money I think!