[News] Prince Andrew interviewed about allegations

[crodonilson]

The Royal family cost each of us 77p per year. That is outstanding value for money for all the good they do.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

The Royal family cost each of us 77p per year. That is outstanding value for money for all the good they do.

Can I CANCEL my Prince Andrew bolt-on please?

 

[nicko31]

Exactly. The tourists show up at Buck House. They probably don't know how to tell if Brenda is at home and they aren't going to get a chat even if she is. The visitors to the Tower of London don't pay their admission to see Brenda. They show up to see the baubles and learn about the queens who had their heads lopped off.

It is a total fallacy to suggest that tourists only come to the UK because of the queen. It's the argument used by the ever diminishing number of royalists who have to have something to cling to in order to preserve this totally outdated system of "privilege by birth"

Buck House "Former Home of the British Royal Family", the tourists go to Varseilles and they will still come here.

 

[CheeseRolls]

The Royal family cost each of us 77p per year. That is outstanding value for money for all the good they do.

It is always easy to spend other people's money for them, so thank you for your outstanding contribution.

 

[clapham_gull]

Balance sheet wise, does the Queen bring in more to the treasury than she costs?

Those arguments are usually based around "tourism", but they have no basis in reality because they were created by a PR firm (not economists) self promoting itself.

The reality is that more tourists visit Versailles every year than the total amount visit any Royal Palace in the UK.

Whether we should have an unelected Head of State and how it is funded is a debate in itself.

Linking it to tourism is nonsense.

In any case, we will see huge changes with King Charles. The whole thing will be massively scaled back.

 

[Gazwag]

The Queen is in need of a dead cat bounce, taking off Boris' head would do her and our country the world of good

 

[dazzer6666]

Exactly. The tourists show up at Buck House. They probably don't know how to tell if Brenda is at home and they aren't going to get a chat even if she is. The visitors to the Tower of London don't pay their admission to see Brenda. They show up to see the baubles and learn about the queens who had their heads lopped off.

It is a total fallacy to suggest that tourists only come to the UK because of the queen. It's the argument used by the ever diminishing number of royalists who have to have something to cling to in order to preserve this totally outdated system of "privilege by birth"

If she wasn't actually living there loads of it could be opened up to visitors who would pay an arm and a leg to look round. Roll up, £50 for your photo on the throne etc etc. Maybe turn a wing into an exclusive hotel - could charge ridiculous money.

 

[Hugo Rune]

The Queen is in need of a dead cat bounce, taking off Boris' head would do her and our country the world of good

Agreed.

I wonder if we’ve got time to change her role to President and give her a 10 year term of whatever until we can get a system in place to replace her with someone who is not one of her awful siblings!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Buck House "Former Home of the British Royal Family", the tourists go to Varseilles and they will still come here.

Buckingham Palace doesn't belong to the Queen. It is owned by the State so if we had a president, they would live there.

She does own Sandringham, Windsor, and Balmoral.

 

[Creaky]

Balance sheet wise, does the Queen bring in more to the treasury than she costs?

Isn’t the pertinent question, does the Queen cost more than a President would? I suspect not.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Agreed.

I wonder if we’ve got time to change her role to President and give her a 10 year term of whatever until we can get a system in place to replace her with someone who is not one of her awful siblings!

The Queen's only sibling died quite a few years ago.

 

[Lenny Rider]

The Queen's only sibling died quite a few years ago.

In Feb 2002 , the day we lost at Oldham.

 

[kjgood]

If she wasn't actually living there loads of it could be opened up to visitors who would pay an arm and a leg to look round. Roll up, £50 for your photo on the throne etc etc. Maybe turn a wing into an exclusive hotel - could charge ridiculous money.

Ummm pre COVID it was?

 

[dazzer6666]

Ummm pre COVID it was?

Not much of it and not all year

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If she wasn't actually living there loads of it could be opened up to visitors who would pay an arm and a leg to look round. Roll up, £50 for your photo on the throne etc etc. Maybe turn a wing into an exclusive hotel - could charge ridiculous money.

Armed forces veterans get in free of charge with the Defence Discount card.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Those arguments are usually based around "tourism", but they have no basis in reality because they were created by a PR firm (not economists) self promoting itself.

The reality is that more tourists visit Versailles every year than the total amount visit any Royal Palace in the UK.

Whether we should have an unelected Head of State and how it is funded is a debate in itself.

Linking it to tourism is nonsense.

In any case, we will see huge changes with King Charles. The whole thing will be massively scaled back.

Well obviously, a King Charles won't take half the looking after that all that Royal Family do.



We'd probably save a few million on the food bill, chefs and waiting staff alone

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Buckingham Palace doesn't belong to the Queen. It is owned by the State so if we had a president, they would live there.

She does own Sandringham, Windsor, and Balmoral.

She's down to her last 3 castles

 

[Goldstone1976]

...In any case, we will see huge changes with King Charles.

Should he be enthroned, I'm not totally convinced he'll take that name. It wouldn't surprise me if he took "George".



Or Wayne, perhaps? Hopefully not Nigel though...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Should he be enthroned, I'm not totally convinced he'll take that name. It wouldn't surprise me if he took "George".



Or Wayne, perhaps? Hopefully not Nigel though...

I'm fairly sure he will be George VII. He has four names so can choose which one he wants, like his grandfather did. He was Bertie (Albert) but chose to be George VI.

 

[Clive Walker]

Isn’t the pertinent question, does the Queen cost more than a President would? I suspect not.

I doubt it. A president would be an individual. I can’t see us finding a presidents sons legal settlement from public funds. That probably a bad example but let’s face it a president would be strutised and held to account to the same rules as other public service figure.

Queenie and her hangers on are in their own league when it comes to what rules they need to follow. For example is the duchy of Cornwall/Lancaster a private or public owned entity. It’s private when they want it to be and public when they don’t want to pay tax on it’s income.