Civil List?

[mushroom25]

http://www.dailymail....r-Prince-Charles.html
So what's the best way to fund the royal family - civil list or crown estate profits?

Or is there a better way of funding the royal households - like forcing a sale of some of their assets?

[eyethenkyew]

This is bound to be a popular thread, innit? It's a bit like asking turkeys to vote for Chrimble!!!

[Bambiagain]

If the crown were funded from the profits of the crown estates, the Queen and those on the Civil List would be better off than they are now. What the Queen gives the government at the moment is more than she and the others on the list receive back. Prince Charles gets nothing from the Civil List as all his income comes from his estates as Duke of Cornwall - as if he were a private individual, albeit a very wealthy one. I don't think the country gets a raw deal out of th current arrangement.

[venator]

The obvious thing is to sell the Crown estates to some foreign investor, like we have done with most of our British treasures!

[bibblebub]

How much would people pay for a royal kidney? There are so many royals (new ones coming along all the time) that one or two could volunteer to donate organs, fresh ones, each month and put them up for auction.

[VHG]

>What the Queen gives the government at the moment is more than she and the others on the list receive back

Yes but where did the Queen and other members of the Royal Family GET the land and other things that "earn" them money.

As far as I know they dont "earn" a salary so how come the Royal Family in the past have been able to buy places like Balmoral and Sandringham.

I am not bothered about having a Royal Family, but I am against them being multi millionaires based on crimes and land grabs by their relatives in thye past.

An indepdent organization should look at all the assets of the Royal Family, and any obtained by an earlier monarch in a war or other skirmish should be taken away from them.

[mushroom25]

>>An indepdent organization should look at all the assets of the Royal Family, and any obtained by an earlier monarch in a war or other skirmish should be taken away from them<<

were this to take place, what would be the fairest way of apportioning the result?

[Prudie]

Thank goodness these wonderful heritage buildings are in in the possession of the royal family (however they came by them). I dread to think what would happen if they were put into the hands of people who had no care for their historical value.

[Prudie]

All countries have such pasts.

[DTCwordfan]

and there are a lot of families who have also prospered by plundering, corruption, favoritism, are we to remove their rights too......

Bring on bloody Communism or even better, lets just invite that nutter Kim Jong Il to become our President

Get real.

[venator]

Ok, but how far do you go back?

The Celts, Vikings, William the Conk, etc. all took the land from previous occupants.

Let's give Australia and USA to the original inhabitants.

Just about everything has been stolen from somebody if you go back.

Revolutionaries of whatever persuasion just want to carry on grabbing.

[DTCwordfan]

Maybe mushroom and steve are representative of a new type of revolutionary.

I wonder if MI5 and MI6 are following this site; I hope so.

[jake-the-peg]

Make them optional

You could sponsor a Royal

"If you could just spare £100 it would keep a royal family member in a polo match for 5 minutes. If you can't do it for your self think of Prince Charles' Aston Martin so badly in need of a service"

[jno]

who did the Celts dispossess?

[mushroom25]

For the record, I hold no particularly revolutionary or republican views - I posted the question because it was in the news yesterday, and is one of those subjects that polarises opinion on this site (smoking being another).

Dissolution of the royal households under the current monarch is unlikely. However when she dies, those remaining monarchist states such as Canada and Australia are likely to quickly take the republican route, and the royal establishment in this country will probably begin to wither as a result.

[DTCwordfan]

jno - Scotland was invaded by the Irish Celts (Picts) way back in the year zog - there's evdience in village and twon names like Pit.....as in Pitlochrie and Pittenweem. So I guess land seizure was common back then too.