(June 5, 2012 at 3:18 pm)Shell B Wrote: It certainly doesn't help that the fortune the Royal Family has was made of the backs of the English for centuries. It's not even their money.
How many fortunes were not made on the backs of somebody else?
I suppose you can think of the cost of Royal upkeep as being something equivalent to the cost of keeping up the national mall, washington monument, Lincoln and Jefferson memorials in Washington DC, except of course the Royal also provides an unending act in addition to a set of exhibits.
It's not how much the Royals cost, it's the fact they probably don't cost more compare to what people elsewhere pay for much the samething without a second thought.
