Royal Wedding

[syebba]

The UK has the worst debt out of the G20 countries.
 
Why could\'nt the wedding have been held on a saturday or sunday or on an existing bank holiday to save some money?
 
Yes i know we\'d of had 1 less day off work if it had been!
 
Don\'t get me started on the greatest money pit, due 2012 in London.
 
Chill out,have a beer,the sun is still out!

[B.Martin]

Hey I moved to Cyprus in April... The sun is always out, has been a good discussion this though!

[Will66]

The Royal family cost the UK taxpayer £7.5 million a year, about the same as a decent secondary school.  The rest of their income comes from private sources. In the Queen\'s case it\'s the Duchy of Lancaster, which is essentially a large investment and property portfolio that provides her income.  In the Prince of Wales case it\'s the Duchy of Cornwall whose investment includes a lot of environmental energy companies and organic food concerns.  The rest of the Royals have jobs, well paid ones but similar to everyone else.

[jetpilot]

The Royal family cost the UK taxpayer £7.5 million a year, about the same as a decent secondary school.  The rest of their income comes from private sources. In the Queen\'s case it\'s the Duchy of Lancaster, which is essentially a large investment and property portfolio that provides her income.  In the Prince of Wales case it\'s the Duchy of Cornwall whose investment includes a lot of environmental energy companies and organic food concerns.  The rest of the Royals have jobs, well paid ones but similar to everyone else.

If i could be bothered i am sure it could be found out how much it costs each taxpayer a year, not a lot is my guess!

Probably a lot less than it costs us to pay for all the Mp\'s and what revenue do they generate us? LOL

[syebba]

The thread is about The Royal Wedding,not about the annual cost of The Royal Family exc weddings!
If you post figures/statistics,links to your source would be useful.

[Will66]

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_17_10.htm\\

It\'s £7.9 million, plus another £7 million for supporting the Queen in her duties as Monarch.  So £14.9 million a year.  More than I originally said however it\'s not enormous.  It costs a similar amount to keep a Frigate/Destroyer sized warship at sea for 12 months.  Considering the cost of the Millenium Dome, £750 million, they\'re a bargain!

[syebba]

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_17_10.htm\\
 
It\'s £7.9 million, plus another £7 million for supporting the Queen in her duties as Monarch. So £14.9 million a year. More than I originally said however it\'s not enormous. It costs a similar amount to keep a Frigate/Destroyer sized warship at sea for 12 months. Considering the cost of the Millenium Dome, £750 million, they\'re a bargain!

Cheers for the link Will,it does appear the royal family costs per annum are a bargain!
 
Though i can\'t determine whether security costs are inc,but i\'ll let that one go,as that\'s part of the territory of being a royal.
 
What the link you provided dose\'nt inc is the cost of the recent Royal Wedding,as my CBI link does,although it\'s only an estimate

[Nik da Greek]

Yes Nik it is and yes she is...

Dang    

[Ian65]

I couldn\'t care less what it cost, I thought it was great..... showing the rest of the world how it should be done....
There are bigger wastes of money going on in this country to get worked up about ....
welfare state, nhs waste, tax avoidance, scrapping the Ark Royal and building 2 new carriers that we can\'t afford, giving foreign aid to countrys more solvent than we are... etc etc....

and I\'d rather my money go to putting on a spectacle like this than it go in welfare payments to some dosser who\'s never contributed a penny.

[BlitzBoy]

At the end of the day I rather live in this perceived Royal land with a powerless Royal family that makes us a bit different to most countries, then out in the desert like some other kingdoms.

[B.Martin]

At the end of the day I rather live in this perceived Royal land with a powerless Royal family that makes us a bit different to most countries, then out in the desert like some other kingdoms.

I\'ll agree with that one chap!

[Mir]

Well living under royal family and keeping royal family means, none of us can call ourseleves, Citizens of the UK, rather we are classed as subjects of her majesty the Queen!! I don\'t care, we royal family do, but the right to self determination should not be lost and the Bill of Rights 1688-99 should prioritise!! I really wanna be classed as citizen of this country not subject... U might wonder wat is da difference between subject and citizen!! The difference is,I.e. Presence of royal family means, no one own any land in the UK, it all belongs to queen and if she wants she can take it away any time she wants!  (land property act 1925), the real question is y??? V are democratic, so wat is this dictatorship about???

Syed

[Will66]

Living as subjects of Her Majesty has its advantages, for instance, should the PM go mental and order Nuclear Strikes against other countries he can direct the Uniformed Military personnel to do so however, as a civilian we are not duty bound to follow his direction.  As head of the Armed Forces the Monarch could order us not to follow that direction and pull us back from the brink of global annihilation.  Conversely the Monarch could order the armed forces into war, however since War cannot be declared without legal and political machinations then the Monarch\'s order would be illegal and the Armed Forces would not have to follow it.  

Sounds a bit Catch 22 but it would mean that if David Cameron or Nick Clegg came over all "Push the Red button and send them all to hell" without an awesomely good reason then we\'d stand a chance of being able to prevent the end of the world.

[gsb876]

Yes Nik it is and yes she is...

I second that motion :Thumbsup!

[Will66]

There are a lot of hot posh totty around Royal Weddings, my friend Steve the Lothario was one of the RN Officers lining the route the procession took back.  He\'d have had to take a cold shower after seeing this lot.