New Photo Of Princess Charlotte

[Ric.ror]

Which is very nice but the amount I'm paying I'd expect one a month really

[Baldric]

Got a link please?

[Islay]

How much do you pay?
Everyone else pays 69p a year!

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39769990

[Mamyalynne]

I'll send your share in - she's a sweetheart isn't she?

[Baldric]

Thank you mamya, but the OPer should have provided one, especially as its (for some reason) posted in News. Looks like Maddie to me.

[rockyracoon]

I think she's gorgeous. Isn't she the image of her brother?

[Islay]

She is mamya

[mushroom25]

//Everyone else pays 69p a year! //

not for charlotte, or George, or indeed their parents, whose income is allotted them from the estate of the duchy of cornwall.

[Islay]

You are quite right Mushroom, but each tax payer pays 69p towards the Royal Family.
Personally I think its a bargain.

[anneasquith]

Could you imagine what save the children charity could do with that contribution from every person in Britain ?

[Samuraisan]

Probably pay their directers etc. more Anne

[Islay]

Sorry annea but I would prefer to pay it to the Royal Family than to a charity that pays their directors and senior management so much money.

[-Talbot-]

Islay
You are quite right Mushroom, but each tax payer pays 69p towards the Royal Family.
Personally I think its a bargain.


Quite right. I think we should consider doubling it and have another Royal Family and have twice the fun and double the bargain.

[DTCwordfan]

I had potatoes Charlotte tonight in honour of her.......she looks like ER.

[jourdain2]

She looks like her gt-grandma to me. All toddlers look sweet - this one is quite plain at the moment. Doubtless she will grow to be a beauty like her mum.

[Old_Geezer]

Anyone who feels that's a bargain are given my permission to have a second one, by getting everyone to send me 69p annually also. I'm just happy to help give folk the opportunity.

[Jackdaw33]

Had the Queen not fiddled with the rules laid down by her grandfather she wouldn't even be a princess at all, merely Lady Charlotte Cambridge.

[bhg481]

I remember a few years ago the Nationwide Building Society claimed it only cost members about £1 per year each for them to sponsor the Football League; I'm not a great royalist but I know which cause I'd rather my money went to. In any case, as others have said, iit costs us nothing and gives us something to talk about.

[mushroom25]

every sovereign state with an effective government has a ceremonial head of state, whether he or she arrives at that role by hereditary means, by democratic election or by just taking it for themselves; in this country it's hereditary and has been for centuries. any head of state has to be afforded the position to ceremonially represent the state. this doesn't mean entertaining fellow heads of state or leaders of foreign governments in a council owned semi in Slough, or a 3rd floor Park Hill flat in Sheffield; whoever is the UK's head of state has to be properly funded.

at this time, no mainstream party is campaigning on a republican platform, and no party with more than half a chance of getting mps elected to parliament is suggesting abolition of the UK's hereditary head of state system. any such change will require much constitutional upheaval and however much those with a republican bent on this forum might like the idea, they won't live to see an elected head of state in the UK, and their offspring may not either.

oh, and any claim that abolition of the monarchy in favour of an elected head of state would save shedloads of cash for the NHS is as empty as painted words on the side of a Brexit bus.

[Old_Geezer]

We already have a PM running the country. Abolition of an outdated and unnecessary part of a system, is pure gain.