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Captain Mazda wrote:I'm amazed how Brits are ok with donating their taxes to keeping the frumpy queen and her inbred cousins living in luxury while every public sector of their country is collapsing.

And they still even like the old cunts.

Buckingham Palace said the Royal family now costs 62p for every citizen of the United Kingdom, up from 58p last year. A spokesman also said two thirds of the increase in the Queen’s income was being spent on reducing a huge backlog of repairs to royal palaces.

Returning to that official "56p per person", it's worth noting that it is based on total population, rather than those paying tax. Using that figure of 29.7 million,
it actually works out at £1.26 per taxpayer. Anti-monarchy group Republic have also raised the issue of costs that are unaccounted for in the official figure. Royal security, for example, costs £100m.

The Independent has worked out that the total bill is eight times the official number, amounting to a real fee of £11.24 per taxpayer.
This purpose of this annual topping up can, of course, be called into question when you consider the royal family's personal wealth already.
That figure does comes in at a surprisingly low £340 million, meaning Britain's queen is no millionaire. Indeed, the British royal family is not even the wealthiest in Europe.
Monaco's royals have a fortune of £650m, while Lichtenstein top the table with a whopping £4.9bn fortune, according to Forbes and the Sunday Times Rich List.
Which seems like rather a lot until you realise that the King of Thailand is worth a cool £20.8bn.

Is Elizabeth II earning her keep then? Royalists make that case, citing the massive tourism boost the likes of the Diamond Jubilee and the most recent royal wedding bring to English shores.
In 2015, Brand Value put the net value of the monarchy at £1.155 billion for the year. The methodology was all a little vague, however, with the "Kate Effect" ("an uplift to fashion and other brands worn, used or otherwise endorsed")
put at £152 million, the "Charlotte Effect" accounting for £101 million and the "George Effect" apparently earning £76 million. Oh, and £114 million was the "estimated value of PR".
Patricia Yates, VisitBritain's director of strategy and communications, told the Independent: "While having a royal family gets us an enormous amount of global coverage and free advertising
for Britain across the world - which is invaluable - it’s not something we can give give an exact economic figure for". Republic has put forward research showing the monarchy costs Britain £334 million a year.

Fittingly for the British royals, there's a lot of smoke and mirrors around these claims. What we do know is that it's an issue that stretches right across the Atlantic.
According to this study, every Canadian shelled out $1.63 in the year from 2011 to 2012 for the privilege of keeping QEII on their money.

And they don't even get the beautiful, historic palaces and castles to wander past.