Can someone explain to me....

....how he has a 'private income' of almost £17 million but still costs the tax payer £3 million a year?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8114523.stm

F.ck the expenses and BNP. We should get rid of these clowns first.

 

The Republic of England sounds good to me. If it was up to me we'd have got shut of them years ago

 

He generates much more than £3m for the country

Sell out your country and heritage...........

Yeh, let's see London and it's historical buildings fall to ruin, let's get rid of the biggest plaster England has. I wonder how many turists would come then! How many £m do turists spend in London/England a year? Look it up.

Look at the big picture!

 

Hear Hear

Compare his 'costs' to that shower of **** in Parliament.

 

And let's face it

Since France got rid of its royal families there's been no tourism and all their buildings have fallen down. They don't have any trade with anybody else either...

 

RE: And let's face it

Ha ! see The Republicans get pissy.

 

Your argument doesnt stack up.

He claimed £3m for expenses. He paid £3.4m in tax and his wealth rose 1% or £167k. So, he actually earnt this country money - Whereas your trying to dis-credit him.

Forget about the fact that he is the biggest charity funds raiser in the world and part of a family that generates millions upon millions from tourism for this country - aye Royal Family out.

 

Servile Royalist

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My question is where does the 'private income' come from?

 

Do tourists only come to the UK...

because we have an archaic relic of the past, sorry a Royal Family?

 

OR imagine how much more we could generate

if we could rid of em, didn't have to pay them and opened up all the palaces castle's etc to tourists. By getting rid of the royal family you aren't getting rid of the buildings or our heriatge. Your just moving society on from allowing people to live extravagant leaves purely becuase they were born it to it

 

He owns a hell of a lot of Cornwall and gets quite a bit from his tenents, he also has a farm that sells sausages (and that).</p>

I think he's got a paper round as well.
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Yes

... and long may it continue.

 

So where did he get the resources initally to purchase such real estate?

He looks like he had a heavy one as a kid.

 

Right...

I tink you are a little deluded there...

 

The Royals cheese me off

It riles me that any of my money will go towards supporting a family of inbreds. Plus the fact that the very idea of them doesn't sit with a modern democratic society. Prince Harry is a **** too, he had the best education money can buy, buggers it up and gets crap a levels, still gets in to sandhurst because he's a royal, dresses up as a nazi, then goes on some publicity stunt pretending he's a soldier in Afghanistan and everyone thinks he's great.

 

the private income is from the Duchy of Cornwall, since the Prince of Wales is also always the Duke of Cornwall.

as such the money he makes from this estate means he doesn't ordinarily require funding by the taxpayer. However, most of the £3 million is travel expenses from trips taken at the request of the democratically elected (sort of re. Gordon/Mandy but that's another issue) British Government.

plus although tourists would still visit Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle etc the fact they are part of an institution that is alive surely enhances their appeal.

 

Florence really struggles to attract tourists in fact so much

you only have to queue for two hours to see the Uffizi gallery.</p>

If there was noRoyal family then tourists would stillflock to see Nelson's column, St Pauls etc.</p>

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Why is that money going to him personally? If he's supported by the state then profits from such 'assets' should be re-distributed back to the tax paying public.

All land owned by the Saxe-Coburg family should be taken back and used for the benefit of the country, not that pointy nosed Greek/German.

 

RE: OR imagine how much more we could generate

Like the Kinnocks ?