Those royals wasting money again

Firstly I don't think that is a UK website and those figures are hugely disputable B9exchange. Secondly as I have said lots of times before, the money they do generate is confined to a few spots within the areas they frequent (mainly London). They bring nothing at all to the NE economy .

home.bt.com/lifestyle/money/mortgages-bills/how-much-does-the-royal-family-cost-11363982445194

How much do the Royal Family really cost?

I met Prince Edward 9 years ago when my youngest DS received his Gold D of E award at St.James Palace.

He was extremely humble and friendly, very knowledgeable about each young persons journey through D of E and made a point of spending several minutes with each parent.

He cannot help being born into the RF. PE and his wife have kept their heads down and got on with Royal duties. They also keep their 2 Children out of the public eye.

As for the cost of his flight, as mentioned on the Wright Show this morning, the accounts vary from £5,000 up to £35.000, surely they cannot all be correct.

I suppose calling somebody a “complete waste of space” or “bl**dy hypocrites” seems quite nasty to me. I’m neutral about the RF by the way.

I won't take responsibility for the "waste of space" comment but stand by my comment that they are bl**dy hypocrites" which I don't think is nasty at all, just my opinion that people who tell others that they shouldn't do something and then go ahead and do it themselves are bl**dy hypocrites.

The alleged cost of the plane seemed to come from a republican group

Gilly I’m obviously far too sensitive!

I have tried to verify the facts about the claim of this thread.

The only article I can find is from Birmingham Live which contains one sentence saying: which would have
reportedly cost an astonishing £37, 000 one way trip.’

Perhaps we should query the accuracy of this claim before passing judgement

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-biggest-myth-about-the-queen-her-contribution-to-the-british-economy-10491277.html
An 'Independent' link from the UK if that helps.

Thanks B9, interesting but still not clear. On balance I’d rather the RF & the historical interest & ensuing tourism, than a President or Dictator

I rarely cast an opinion but I do have one with this. I think the Royal Family make us the nation who we are. They work very hard. Would you like the job of knowing your whole life was diaried for you? You have no true privacy, as everyone wants a bit of you?

I know I wouldn't want that job - so praise those who do it for us.

Oops! And would we like to know that terrorists could be waiting to take one of us out, even when we are doing good for our country?

Give praise where it is justified.

Well said DeeWBW?

Another query, should have struck me from the start, £37,000 for a helicopter trip. For that amount he should have been able to hire a fleet of helicopters to circumnavigate the world.

I wonder if it is a case of a slipped comma and it is really £3,700. That sounds much nearer the mark.

The DM have changed the amount in the story to £6,000 - wonder what the true cost was? For all we know he may have been loaned the plane. Those who are always so quick to condemn the DM seem to be accepting this story to be absolute fact.

Thank-you, Bridgeit.

gillybob I'm with you all the way. But I'm not adding anything. Everyone knows how I feel. People refuse to see. Mawbroon you do make me laugh. The thought of the Queen getting off the bus. hilarious ??

And such a long walk to the door! and searching in her shopping bag for the key. oh dear you've started my imagination lol.

Spinlady70 - I'm always slightly puzzled by this - "they create millions through tourism and trade, etc."

If that is the case, where are the published accounts of expenditure (e.g. cost of private jets), against income (trade contracts won, numbers of tourists visited per member of Royal Family)??

I have a - probably naive view - that tourists come to see the UK's heritage - be it country houses, castles, landscape and parks, and even museums and galleries.

Or do they just come to catch a fleeting glimpse of a member of the hereditary monarchy, and spend their tourist cash in a gift shop, cafe or pub?

Is there any evidence at all that the monarchy attracts foreign investment or trade in goods (excluding royal memorabilia) or services?

Never thought I would ever to a link to The Sun, but here it is: www.thesun.co.uk/news/4950897/queen-money-economy-monarchy-2017/

Mawbroon??!

gillybob how do you know he did not pay himself, does anyone here know? Why worry as long as you didn't have to pay? I would much rather have our royal family than a raving lunatic like the Americans have as President.

If you want to believe that he paid for the private jet that’s fine maddy629 but IF (and it’s a huge if) he did why not come out and say it ? I don’t worry about it btw it just pees me off that they openly waste money as they do, with no regard to their many “subjects” struggling to live and pay basic bills .

It was a private jet not a helicopter M0nica . So quite different .

The fact they can afford it, is depressing when most people earn less than £37k in a year and have to feed, house and clothe a family on it.

This isn't just a one-off is it. There are often reports of various members of the royal family commissioning trains, planes and ships for their sole use. I think some people, me included, feel that being so profligate, and disregarding the effect on the environment that they claim to cherish, doesn't reflect well on any of them.

Those who have no enthusiasm for the monarchy, with its implicit acceptance of the notion of inherited privilege and power, are in the minority. But it is a much larger, and growing minority than a few centuries ago when even those who suffered at the hands of their kings and queens - taxed to the hilt in order for their "betters" to be able to satisfy their every whim and to engage in stupid wars - would defend them to the death. Thankfully, we've moved on a bit from that but still people genuflect in their presence and treat them like some sort of deity. It's astonishing what a good PR machine and a supine media can achieve.