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Francesca R said:
I'm gonna be mightily pissed off if it turns out that the Queen is rolling in money. I assumed she was on median wage with rent controls.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/08/queens-treasury-windfarm-bp-offshore-seabed-rights


The option fees to be paid by the winning windfarm developers will more than double the profits made by Queen and Treasury from the crown estate, which reported profits of £345m for the last financial year.
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Nice to have a little income in your old age.
 
George III surrendered control over the Estate's revenues to the Treasury. In return, he received an annual grant known as the Civil List.
From 1 April 2012 the Civil List was abolished and the monarch was provided with a stable source of revenue indexed to a percentage of the Crown Estate's annual net revenue.

What is being discussed here is her separate 'private' income. It is worth a lot more than her income from the Crown Estate which all goes on 'official' spending associated with her duties etc.
 
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Blue Bubble said:
I have ordered too. Thank you.
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I downloaded this to Kindle May last year. Not sure if I read it or not, although I recall I did but haven't left a review. What is amusing is the way the Queen 'makes an appearance' and all the protocols leading up to it. 'And what do you do?' is supposedly Prince Philip's stock opening remark on meeting anybody.

What is entertaining is Baker explaining how most of the 'royal traditions' have recently just been made up as they go along.
 
Vixen said:
What is entertaining is Baker explaining how most of the 'royal traditions' have recently just been made up as they go along.
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Exactly the same thing happened with America's constitution they've even fiddled with it in the last thirty years. Outrageous.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
^ Have a read of Norman Baker's ...And What Do You Do? (if you haven't already) for more dismantling of the "apolitical" monarchy myth.

The sooner we get shot of the inbred robber barons the better.
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Sounds interesting. I've just bought it on Kindle (Mr Baker owes you some thanks!)
 
Airfix said:
I'm all for a referendum on the monarchy, you ?
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If the referendum isn't clear on what should replace the monarchy then I'm not in favour of it. We would run the risk of voting to abolish the monarchy and then spend years failing to agree what, if anything, should replace it.

If the alternative to the monarchy is clearly stated in the referendum then I would be in favour of it.
 
Vixen said:
I downloaded this to Kindle May last year. Not sure if I read it or not, although I recall I did but haven't left a review. What is amusing is the way the Queen 'makes an appearance' and all the protocols leading up to it. 'And what do you do?' is supposedly Prince Philip's stock opening remark on meeting anybody.

What is entertaining is Baker explaining how most of the 'royal traditions' have recently just been made up as they go along.
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It is, I've met him - well I've stood next to a rather attractive female colleague that he made a beeline for, completely blanking me...
 
Darat said:
What would the question be?
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Do you want to get rid of the monarchy?

We don't know what to replace it with, but if you vote yes we'll spend the next 5 years arguing about how to do it, and then have a botched up last minute ballsup of a deal.

Pease tick Yes or No.
 
The Don said:
If the referendum isn't clear on what should replace the monarchy then I'm not in favour of it. We would run the risk of voting to abolish the monarchy and then spend years failing to agree what, if anything, should replace it.

If the alternative to the monarchy is clearly stated in the referendum then I would be in favour of it.
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Whatever it was would be designed to keep Boris in power.
 
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