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Every day is a tourist peak in London.
Clearly the Queen's staff have been dipping in the cookie jar.
The Duchy of Lancaster lost money last year & now this.
The staff eats for free. When C&D lived in KP, the KP staff ate at BP and the food wasn't exactly standard fare but on the expensive side. The staff appears to eat better than the RF.
There are 188 staff bedrooms at BP. Do they need that many live-in staff?
Steps to reduce cost.
1. Decrease the number staff.
2. Reduce food budget.
3. Increase number of days BP is opened.
4. Offer tea in the BP gardens.
5. Grow more food at BP.
6. Roof top garden.
7. Roof top can be rented for parties.
8. Sell BP products, like the Duchy of Cornwall.
The Queen’s household finances were at a “historic low” with just £1 million left in reserve, MPs said on Monday
So this is a fund for the cost of living expenses and upkeep of the properties that the BRF live in? This is "historic low" is not Her Majesty's personal wealth?
...but as I understand it, the Queen has vast holdings of art which belong to her personally. I would assume that they are on the walls and pedestals of rooms which will never be seen publicly. Perhaps she could sell some of those things in order to finance repairs to BP and Windsor. It would be a graceful gesture on the part of HM. Ordinary people sell things when they need to raise money.
It is all nonsense. "The staff ate free", oh how shocking. People being fed that work for less than they would in the private sector. One of the complaints. Look The "Royal Family" want for nothing. They work at nothing of much importance, some do more than others. If those Palaces belong to the people they should have access to them. It is a give and take situation. She lives for free forever, basically so do her children and grandchildren, to some extent. She pay from her purse. Where did she get that purse? She inherited a great deal of it. No one is jealous. They look at the poor pensioner who worked his butt off and see people in palaces who need more.
The art in the royal collection is not owned by her majesty personally. It is owned by the state just like BP, Windsor and the Crown Jewels. The money from opening the palaces and the various palace gift stores goes into the maintenance of the royal collection.
The maintenance problems of the palace isn't unique to the BRF. The parliament building is London is in bad shape also. In the Us, the national park services has a several years of maintenance problems for its parks, monuments and memorials.
That art has gone unseen by the outside world for decades, perhaps centuries, and it might be a noble gesture on the part of the Queen to 'chip in' to pay for restoring BP and Windsor.
Question. Say you rent a house and one day you discover that there's a leak in the roof. This isn't because of anything you've done, but simply that the roof is old and needs to be replaced. Who's responsible for paying for the new roof, you or your landlord? The renter or the property owner?
The Queen and her family, for all intensive purposes, are the renters in this situation. Yes, they may be far wealthier than the average renter, and the financial situation may be somewhat different, but when it comes down to it places like BP are not owned by the BRF. So why should they be expected to spend their personal money on repairing these buildings that are owned by the state?
The buildings in which the BRF have been privileged to live in for centuries, are not, for all intents and purposes, rental properties. No other family will be permitted to live there. The BRF are stewards of these properties and it doesn't seem unreasonable for them to make a magnificent contribution toward their upkeep.
Exactly....An alternative would be for the BRF to keep the profits and they would have to pay for everything themselves. But I suppose the British government won’t like that either. They’ve gotten used to that nice little extra income.