At the risk...
...of coming across as a Royal apologist (I'm not), the Civil List actually turns a profit, meaning that they don't cost us anything.

I'd happily do away with their involvement in our political system though. And if I cared about religion I'd probably be cross about them being at the top of the C of E as well. But the money angle's a poor one, they actually do fairly well there.
(Sartori is moving to Canada, eh?, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:03, 1 reply)

Do go on.
How come they turn a profit?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:11, closed)

Tourism?
Just a thought.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:41, closed)

That's not the family
that's the buildings.

EG Versailles.

I don't see how the royals earn any money, other than from the land that they, er ... forcibly removed from commoners.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 14:48, closed)

There is a theory that they would generate more in tourism...
...if we shot the fuckers, stuffed them and put them on display in Madame Tussauds.

Viva la revolucion.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 16:26, closed)

I'd pay to see that.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 16:30, closed)

See - I was right.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 17:47, closed)