…to suggest that it’s time the Royal family stands on its own feet and stops taking money from the public purse?

[HappyGalentines]

The Royal family owns and has access to lots of money, land and property. So is it right that they should to take any more money away from us?

I actually think Wills and Kate are very positive role models

How? I mean if Kate had a career and did the Royal things she does as well then I'd say she was a positive role model. From what I can tell she attends a couple of things a week (or maybe not, I don't keep track) and that's it really.

William just seems quite blah and apart from the air ambulance, hasn't really ever worked a proper day in his life.

At best, they're the best of a very bad bunch.

I don’t dream of it. I don’t know many people who would want their life. They live in a gilded cage.

They do selfless acts like charity work apparently...must be bloody exhausting. I hope they have help...oh, wait a minute..

Me too.

Selfless acts? They are doing it because they’ve been booked in. They won’t remember anybody by the time they get home.

If I was in a hospital bed dying and one of those lot started advancing on me, I’d be telling them to fuck off and leave me in peace.

YABVVVU.

So how would it work?
Would they keep the profit earned through them - palace tours etc, but pay appropriate tax? So be self sufficient essentially and presumably charge for public appearances/interviews etc?

I wonder if the UK would be financially better off or not?

I would much rather pay for King Charles and the royal family than Kier Starmer and any other prime minister and definitely more than a president.

Whatever they have done in promoting our country through attracting tourism has been overshadowed by Andrew's behaviour.
Agree with PP who said that younger people really aren't interested (or people in their 50s like me!)

No one forces them to marry into the family.

most of them are born into it!

How original OP, that's only been done 1,000 timers in the past few days

YABU for not posting this interminable stuff on the RF board

Yes, I'd like to know. I also disagree that Kate is a positive role model for young women.

But we shouldn't have to pay for any of them. They're rich enough. Why should the poor fund the rich?

The Government expect them to take part, host events etc. Not sure they should do that for free

Soft diplomacy. We are lucky to have them tbh. Other royal family’s do the same not just ours. That itself pays for them.

I'm sure the huge tax breaks they benefit from should cover any work they do

Absolutely.

It is ridiculous that people who, through an accident of birth, have more than the vast majority of people will ever see or even dream of, should be taking even one penny from the poorest of us. Or any of us

Anyone who feels they are worth subsidising should feel free to set up a standing order to them and let the rest of us hang onto the little we have.

@TheGrimSmile

I read this a couple days ago which gets into the “they are a tourist attraction” a few scrolls in. The whole write up is a great read.

https://open.substack.com/pub/alternativeroyalreporter/p/hollow-royal-words-and-hollow-royalist?r=293y6x&utmmedium=ios

If we have to have them, then let them pay for themselves.

Other RF are a hell of a lot more modest and transparent around the money they take from the state, and their money generally. Ours need to completely open up their wills and accounts as a minimum starting point.

More satire? 😆

Who else is going to pay them? They are running the country. They are working. Would you rather a prime minister who also was a teacher or accountant on the side? Your way of thinking suggests that people should work for free when they have a certain amount in their bank account.

Who else is going to pay them? They are running the country. They are working

Has someone given Andrew back his phone?!

The royal family costs £1.29 per person per year. Is that really that bad?

They are running the country. They are working.

They are certainly not running the country!

They are “working” in a sense only. I doubt anyone would notice if they stopped doing the “jobs” they do. With the possible exception of Anne.