£102.4 million

Far too high a price to maintain an extensive family in their privileged entitlement. What really gets me is the hypocrisy of those preaching green policies to us mere mortals whilst jetting about in private fuel guzzling planes

The royals managed to spend more than a year’s salary on a trip to the cinema. This is scandalous. #AbolishTheMonarchy

Four royals were at the premiere, Charles, Camilla, William and Kate. In the lead up to that day William hadn't had an official engagement for five days (excluding meetings of their own charities, which they list to make them look busier, but which aren't official duties).

When questioned why the royals use so many charter flights and helicopters, a palace spokesperson said they only did so "as a last resort". So how do they explain Charles and Camilla using a charter flight from Scotland to London for a memorial service on 19 September last year?

Charles only had engagements on 14 days that month, and that list includes days when all he did was take a phone call or participate in a video call (he's not a busy man). It lists 23 engagements for the month, but 13 of them were at home and lasted less than an hour.

On 16th September Charles had a day trip to the Isle of Skye, to Dunvegan Castle. On the 17th he had a video call (unlikely to have lasted much more than 20 minutes. An hour at most). That's all he did that day.

On the 18th Charles did nothing. Yet apparently a return charter flight to London and back to Scotland for an event the next day was a 'last resort' option for him, costing the taxpayer £28,036.

Get the drift RF hardly 'work' at all and cost us a fortune

A president would be a parliamentary republic with limited powers and would be accountable.

The monarch is for government and the monarchy Not The People

Like Amelegra I think having a royal family encourages an outdated class system and social inequalities, and I totally agree with her that titles, including royal ones, should be completely abolished. It’s not really the money that bothers me, it’s the elevating of ordinary human beings, who are no different than you or I, to something that approaches God like status. The bowing and curtsying is unnecessary in this day and age. I’ve been told it’s simply a mark of respect, well I don’t bow or curtsy to any of my relatives or friends, nor did I bow or curtsy to my bosses or colleagues when I was working. I greeted my grandparents with a kiss, not a curtsy. I greeted my colleagues and boss with a ‘good morning’ not a bow when I was working. I neither bow nor curtsy to my doctor, my dentist, the employees in the bank I use, nor my friends. But I certainly respect them all.

I don't think Prince Charles has ever gone through Customs in his whole life . I like the monarchy, and so do my family . We love the pageantry and feel a surge of pride for our incredible armed forces particularly at the trooping of the colour. They're not perfect,(except the Queen!) what family is? but they care about this country and have its welfare at heart, and that's more than good enough for us.

I wondered about that Jaberwok. Do the royals actually have to go through customs? And security? Do they have to remove their shoes and walk though a scanner, and be patted down if they set the buzzer off?

No objections to Royal Family here, but, I just wish they would put their many assets to better use.
EG, After the fire at Windsor, the Queen opened Buckingham Palace to help raise funds to fix it. Very successful!
Why not do this more often and with many more Royal properties/gardens? No skin off their noses as they can't live in them all, (or even utilise the whole of them) all the time.
The money could boost charity funds - or why not support our NHS - also the envy of many countries - (and I don't mean treats/pay rises for the hard working staff, I mean state of the art equipment and/or re-opening local hospitals (so that staff and visitors don't have to travel for miles to treat/visit patients) and more medically supported care homes for the elderly (to free up beds in wards etc) The money could do so much good for this Country that the Royals serve ... but which also serves them.

They actually don’t cost as much as you’d think per head of population… so I don’t care! I’m a republican and wound never curtsy or bend the knee to anyone. They are an ‘anachronism of which we should be rid’ but it’s not the money thing…. for me it’s what they represent! ‘ Born into privelage’ upsets me , and they are head of that stuff and it’s self perpetrating nonsense. Meritocracy is the only way forward….they have no merit!

Does anyone remember what happened when Russia got rid of their Royalty? And now look at what they've got - an elected leader (dictator) with huge amount of money stashed away.

Maybe I will apply to be Head of State.

the amount spent does not really bother me as I get more upset by subsidised food and drink for MPs and the house of Lords, HS2 etc. At least the Royal Family attracts visitors that bring in revenue for hoteliers, restaurants and shops.

Why the obsession with bowing ? No one has to bow, it’s choice, some do some don’t.

£67.08 per person per year.
I wonder what the President of the USA costs per year.

At least we know our Royal family are not dipping into the till
not like some world leaders in the past/future.
The money brought in by tourists is way way above that figure and gives employment and profits to hundreds of employees and businesses.
It saddens me that people today just seem to want to forget and destroy the history of our nations.?

Janipans

The Royal family don’t own Windsor Castle.The only properties the Queen owns are Balmoral and Sandringham
and to the best of my knowledge has always used her own money to keep them in good order.
The rest of the properties are own by the state—-us

Well worth the money if only for the money tourist bring into the country. How boring it would be without these big events to look forward to .

It costs every person in the UK £1.29 a year. Hardly a fortune.

I am quite happy to have a RF. Plenty of other things I'm not keen on but hey, you can't please all of the people all of the time.

£67.08 per person per year.

No - £1.29!

The total Sovereign Grant of £86.3million is equivalent to a cost of £1.29 per person in the UK. Last year, the total Sovereign Grant stood at £85.9million.

However, work on Buckingham Palace, which is undergoing a 10-year refurbishment plan, drove up total spending for the year to £102.4m - an increase of 17% on the previous year.

Money from leftover Sovereign Grant funds from previous years was used to meet the shortfall.

BBC News June 2022

Very sorry I thought it was £1.29 a week.?

even more reason to keep them

grannie7

Very sorry I thought it was £1.29 a week.?

even more reason to keep them

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I was thinking that is quite an expensive cup of coffee!!
And you can't buy one for £1.29

grannie7

Janipans

The Royal family don’t own Windsor Castle.The only properties the Queen owns are Balmoral and Sandringham
and to the best of my knowledge has always used her own money to keep them in good order.
The rest of the properties are own by the state—-us

Oooh goody. I’ll book myself a little holiday staying in Windsor Castle then. That’ll be really nice. I wonder if I’ll get a butler in with the price?

Galaxy

Is Johnson the only option. No one told me that. Would you be happy with Andrew because it's an accident of birth that he wont be our next king.

Not the only accident. As has been commented before, from 1960 until 1982 we were one polo accident away from King Andrew.

Worth every penny! EU however is not.
www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1581125/brexit-news-bill-payments-uk-still-paying-eu-staff-pensions-betrayal-spt/amp

GrannyGravy13

The Royals cost us £1.29 pence each last year, less than a cup of tea in your favourite tea shop, less than 1 litre of milk…

Exactly this! Do you think OP that your council tax is worth every penny because I certainly don’t.

Counting the cost of the monarchy a finacial report.

For many years now, the Royal Household has tried to claim that the monarchy is good value for money. Each year they produce an of finacial report, setting out what they’ve spent of taxpayers’ money. Every year the report is couched in spin and misses signifcant costs such as security, money spent by local councils and lost revenue from the Duchy’s

The coverage of royal costs is also led astray by wild claims about the money the monarchy is supposed to bring back into the country through tourism and trade. The reality is that the cost to the taxpayer runs into the hundreds of millions every year, while the tourism and trade revenue is a gment of the spin doctor’s imagination.

The British Head of State is incredibly expensive, at around £345m a year. That’s public money we could be spending on teachers, police or health services. This report shows that per head royals are the most expensive public of cials, costing around £19.1m a year each.

Because the royals can spend money at will and without the likelihood of being directly challenged they continue to abuse the system – we ask in this report if this abuse amounts to corruption.

Royal family belongs in history. Also some of their weird traditions are crazy, nobody allowed to eat after queen has finished, people bowing and curtsey to another woman, granddaughters in law treated totally differently so unfair, grandsons treated differently too based on who was born first, etc etc. Harry and Megan had the right idea - move away as far as possible from these crazy power trip people. Just remember they don't possess magical powers so are just ordinary like us.

But look at all the great pictures you have.

The cost per head isn't the point. It's the way that public money is spent that is the real subject under discussion. Do we want to spend that amount on maintaining our head of state and their extended family? My feeling is that it would be perfectly possible to keep a democratically appointed head of state in a manner befitting the dignity of their office and at a fraction of the cost. One of the various royal homes would be sufficient for an official residence and they could have a salary on a par with the PM's salary. There would also be no need to provide for their adult children, grandchildren and sundry relatives.

However, I can't see that argument appealing to the present government, which managed to blow 37 billion pounds on a Test and Trace system that didn't work.