18th April 2011, 2:00 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:It's a monarchy, and if anything all of England should be embarrassed this is still going on. Just turn the palace into a museum and kick the queen out. She's just sucking up tax money as it is.
Seems most people in England like having a constitutional monarchy, who are you to say they shouldn't?
By the way:
Quote:Until 1760 the monarch met all official expenses from hereditary revenues, which included the profits of the Crown Estate (the royal property portfolio). King George III agreed to surrender the hereditary revenues of the Crown in return for the Civil List, and this arrangement persists. In modern times, the profits surrendered from the Crown Estate have by far exceeded the Civil List and Grants-in-Aid provided to the monarch. For example, the Crown Estate produced £200 million for the Treasury in the financial year 2007–8, whereas parliamentary funding for the monarch was £40 million during the same period.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.