The King, The Prince and their secret millions

[Burba]

Not sure if this one has come up already, but surprised there’s no chat on this one??

Thoughts on those who have watched it…?

[sugerbear]

That the royals have a rather large side hustle so that when the day comes they will have a very large bank balance to fall back on.

But.. they brings in billions from tourists.. or something.

[Panamax]

sugerbear said:

they brings in billions from tourists.. or something.

So does Disneyland, without the need for a family of halfwits leaching off the state.

[Randy Winkman]

Panamax said:

sugerbear said:

they brings in billions from tourists.. or something.

So does Disneyland, without the need for a family of halfwits leaching off the state.

I'm with you. I didnt watch the programme because I thought it would annoy me too much.

[Chrisgr31]

There is a thread on it somewhere

[Cheib]

The fact the Royal Family have a large property portfolio and make a lot of money from it is not new news.

[Puzzles]

Cheib said:

The fact the Royal Family have a large property portfolio and make a lot of money from it is not new news.

That’s what I thought when I was it advertised

[Chrisgr31]

Cheib said:

The fact the Royal Family have a large property portfolio and make a lot of money from it is not new news.

Prince William doesnt get money from the public purse does he?

[The Mad Monk]

Chrisgr31 said:

Cheib said:

The fact the Royal Family have a large property portfolio and make a lot of money from it is not new news.

Prince William doesnt get money from the public purse does he?

Of course not.

Prince William has to get by on the pittance from The Duchy of Cornwall which he received as a result of his father becoming monarch and receiving funds from The Duchy of Lancaster.

Poor William only got £23,600,000.00 from The Duchy of Cornwall in the first year of taking over. Barely worth talking about or collecting really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Lancaster

Edit

Don't forget the Crown Estate, again, more trouble than it's worth, the monarch only got £53,112,000.00 from it last year. I wouldn't get out of bed for that sort of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

Edited by The Mad Monk on Thursday 7th November 07:27

[Voldemort]

Well yes, but do you know how much a good footman costs these days? And don't get me started on the price of truffles

[Antony Moxey]

The Mad Monk said:

Chrisgr31 said:

Cheib said:

The fact the Royal Family have a large property portfolio and make a lot of money from it is not new news.

Prince William doesnt get money from the public purse does he?

Of course not.

Prince William has to get by on the pittance from The Duchy of Cornwall which he received as a result of his father becoming monarch and receiving funds from The Duchy of Lancaster.

Poor William only got £23,600,000.00 from The Duchy of Cornwall in the first year of taking over. Barely worth talking about or collecting really.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Cornwall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Lancaster

Edit

Don't forget the Crown Estate, again, more trouble than it's worth, the monarch only got £53,112,000.00 from it last year. I wouldn't get out of bed for that sort of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

Edited by The Mad Monk on Thursday 7th November 07:27

Why have you written this in such a pissy manner? I don't think anyone, especially the Royals, are trying to make out they're on the breadline, so why've you written it as though they are?You could have simply stated 'it's not fair, they've got more than me' and saved yourself a bit of ire for something we didn't already know.

[Mr Whippy]

Lots of people have lots of money for generally doing not very much and at the ultimate cost of society overall.

Just look at that parasitic gambling shop/website owning lady.


I suppose then what is important is trying to measure the worth of the good they try do for society?

[The Mad Monk]

Antony Moxey said:

Why have you written this in such a pissy manner? I don't think anyone, especially the Royals, are trying to make out they're on the breadline, so why've you written it as though they are?You could have simply stated 'it's not fair, they've got more than me' and saved yourself a bit of ire for something we didn't already know.

Oh! I didn't realise that I had written in such a pissy manner, as you put it.

Life would be frightfully dull if we were all the same - don'cha think?

[Burrow01]

I don't think its a huge surprise that the Royal family, after a thousand years, have amassed a large amount of money.

Regarding their cost to the public purse, if we had a Republic, with a President, how much would that cost in accommodation, staff and security etc?

Also all the publicly owned royal buildings would still need maintaining - I cannot see that a planning application to knock Buckingham Palace down to build council houses would get very far.

In the modern world, will the same process pan out with the offspring of todays billionaires - I cannot see the family's of Jeff Bozos, Mark Zuckerberg etc going short, and they will have done nothing to earn any of their inherited wealth.

[The Mad Monk]

Burrow01 said:

I don't think its a huge surprise that the Royal family, after a thousand years, have amassed a large amount of money.

Regarding their cost to the public purse, if we had a Republic, with a President, how much would that cost in accommodation, staff and security etc?

Also all the publicly owned royal buildings would still need maintaining - I cannot see that a planning application to knock Buckingham Palace down to build council houses would get very far.

In the modern world, will the same process pan out with the offspring of todays billionaires - I cannot see the family's of Jeff Bozos, Mark Zuckerberg etc going short, and they will have done nothing to earn any of their inherited wealth.

But, instead of a Republic with a President - suppose we had a Confederation - like the Swiss?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland

[Sporky]

Burrow01 said:

Also all the publicly owned royal buildings would still need maintaining - I cannot see that a planning application to knock Buckingham Palace down to build council houses would get very far.

Versailles seems to be doing OK without a royal family.

[gotoPzero]

To your average person they are incredibly wealthy.

But all you have to do is look at the net worth of some of the Facebook CEOs. Plenty with TNW >$20Bn.
And these are guys in their 30-40s who are 20 years into this. And thats just one company.

Honestly the Royal family are a drop in the ocean when you look at how long they have been around and how much land they own.

Everyone likes to get their nickers in a twist, but compared to the Waltons, Mittals, Slims, Kochs, Knights etc etc as a family they are just weekend stock car racers compared to F1 drivers.

[Sporky]

gotoPzero said:

But all you have to do is look at the net worth of some of the Facebook CEOs. Plenty with TNW >$20Bn

I'm not sure any of them are able to directly manipulate our laws, or got to their positions purely by accident of birth?

[sugerbear]

Mr Whippy said:

Lots of people have lots of money for generally doing not very much and at the ultimate cost of society overall.

Just look at that parasitic gambling shop/website owning lady.

I suppose then what is important is trying to measure the worth of the good they try do for society?

exactly, without the Royals who would open the various, leisure centres, sports facilities, shopping centres, charity events around the country? They would all be stuck in a total state of limbo unable to operate without the royal seal of approval.

And dont get me started on homelessness. if it wasn't for Prince William (telling us we need to end it) it would just carry on as normal, there would be rough sleepers in every doorway and homeless veterans with begging bowls outside shops up and down the country.

Plus, who would everyone in the army, navy,air force ultimately swear to defend if they were not around? It would be chaos and the French would just roll in and take over like they did back in the tenth century if the Royals were not in charge of the armed forcess. It would be 1066 all over again!

Plus.. and this is big one, tourists come over to see Charlie and Camilla in their millions, not the houses/castles and other historic stuff, they come over specifically for the chance (hope) that they will get a glimpse of the ever fragrant Camilla's ankle, blow dried 80's style locks or the sausage like fingers of Charles.

And that'd only the top four, I could write an essay on the all the good the other ones do, Andrew. Andrew's wannable celeb children, the one that couldn't manage more than a week in the Army, his wife, their kids.. The list goes on (I would mention Princess Micheal of Kent and her efforts with the various minority groups but running out of space).

Gawd bless 'em.

[Burrow01]

Sporky said:

gotoPzero said:

But all you have to do is look at the net worth of some of the Facebook CEOs. Plenty with TNW >$20Bn

I'm not sure any of them are able to directly manipulate our laws, or got to their positions purely by accident of birth?

If you look at Musks cosying up to Donald Trump you can see that money can buy you influence (and closer to home, Lord Ali's "gifts" to Keir Starmer

The offspring of todays billionaires get their position / money purely be being born to the right parents