Would you willingly subscription for the Royal family?

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If people were given the choice to pay a small monthly subscription to royal family to do appearances, promote charities and live or rent out a few properties, would they do it?

The closest I’ll ever do is pay Netflix to watch The Crown. And only the Matt Smith ones, because he’s fab. The real life ones are already a waste of money. Bar Harry, I don’t care what anyone says, I’m enjoying his Villain Era as the Gen Zers would say.

Absolutely not. I’d rather sponsor a real life donkey than the RF who are minted already. The donkey would also be really fun to come and do charity appearances, promote charities etc.

I probably would pay for a tiara wearing subscription though 😳

No. They get money from the civil list for expenses to public property, pat taxes on their private income . Expenses are paid for their visits. What's your point!

😂 no.

I would however donate to a fund to have them abolished.

No. Way.

Suspect a journo.

Nope.

I wouldn’t pay a subscription for journalism either TBF!

But I mean the gift would have to be quite good. Quality linen tea towels in a nice William Morris print or similar would be one thing but not a crap little biro with Camilla's face on it.

Then the next question is how do they make it exciting enough to keep you subscribing? A Hunger Games scenario, though I'm not a violent person really, would possibly get my interest (children excluded, of course). But who honestly wouldn't watch Cam hidden in a tree waiting to throw poison darts at Prince Andrew in the dead of night? The York sisters, daggers drawn, sneaking up on Kate who is twiddling her hair and failing to maintain her perimeter?

Or if that is a little full on for some people it could just be mini games like baking competitions with celebrity judges "Well William I'm afraid your Victoria sponge is not of quite the quality we'd expect from a future king" you can imagine the dripping sarcasm Maggie Smith could put into this.

All in all it could work but you'd want to put a little thought into it.

No I would not.

I wonder if the OP’s point is to demonstrate that we are paying involuntary for that which we would not contribute voluntarily.

(Crown Estate, my arse, any other country would call it state property and the proceeds would go to government coffers and would contribute to government spending and figure in budget balancing and tax raising calculations.)

No,but I would pay towards getting rid of the lot of them.......parasites.

Not a single bloody chance 😂

Well apparently they bring in more than we pay out. I'm told this constantly.

So if I'm paying directly I should get the cash back directly too.

So if I get paid back more in return then yes I would.

Are you the poster from the other day who said people would rather have an absolute monarch than a parliament?

Not a single penny.

Hahaha no

Absolutely not. I already resent every penny of tax payers money spent on them

Yes as far as I'm aware the crown estates are owned by the reigning monarch. If we got rid of the monarchy I have no idea who would own them. I think the 1760 deal was that the sovereign would surrender all crown estate profits to the treasury in return for an allowance and getting to remain sovereign. From this I assume if the government removed the monarchy, the crown estate would therefore return to the current sovereign's private ownership as the bargain has been broken?

Don’t we do this already? They do their bit cutting ribbons, highlighting causes & throw in a bit of gossip & “we” ignore all the bad stuff.

Yes absolutely, I love them! They deserve every penny and more 😍

Only joking. A proper shower o' shites, the lot of them.

No way

Yes as far as I'm aware the crown estates are owned by the reigning monarch. If we got rid of the monarchy I have no idea who would own them. I think the 1760 deal was that the sovereign would surrender all crown estate profits to the treasury in return for an allowance and getting to remain sovereign. From this I assume if the government removed the monarchy, the crown estate would therefore return to the current sovereign's private ownership as the bargain has been broken?

No. Because they've never been under private ownership of the monarch. They belong to a legal entity known as 'The Crown' which the monarch only has access to as head of state.

Their original purpose was to fund the entire country (i.e. Parliament, Army, Legal not just the monarchy). That deal was renegotiated by George III who signed away his responsibility for that, along with the money, in exchange for the Sovereign grant.

If the monarch tried to assert control over the whole amount, that would have to go hand in hand with responsibility for all the other functions they cover.

I'm sure some campaign fronted by Olivia Coleman or Ewen McGregor sporting white t-shirts and talking earnestly to the camera might do the trick.

"This is William, he has to walk several meters from his four poster bed past various priceless Regency period pieces of artwork every morning just to get to his bathroom. For just £200 a month you can help William get to his bathroom by personalised golf buggy and spare him this epic journey by foot. TEXT PARASITE to 89899 now and help William and other royals having to walk too far"

I can't stand the royal family and I wish I didn't have to pay a single penny to them. They are despicable people. That suck-up John Major cut a deal with the Queen that meant her private estate (and future sovereign estates) were made exempt from inheritance tax. Obviously the Queen and Charles loved that idea. It shows their true characters. John Major presumably did it to ensure he was 'thanked' with his knighthood. Fair play to him but you would think he had better things to with his time than come up with ways to save the Royal Family money.

Why they need to hang on to so much of their massive wealth is beyond me. They are greedy selfish and awful.

Of course not.

Not bloomin' likely 😃