Since the Danish public is denied any insight into the royal finances, we really do not know how rich or poor our royal family is.
Villemann, with all due respect: this has become an obsession of yours!
What makes you think that we have the right to insight into anyones
private financial affairs? I mean, would you like to tell us what your
proceeds are from the sale of "1015-K"? Or would you like to inform
us about your savings and whether you have invested in bonds and
shares, and how much? No?
So what exactly justifies your claim to insight? Is it the very fact
that the RF is living off civil list money? Do you suspect that part
of the apanage is being spent inappropriately on shares in
A.P. Møller? Do you think that the RF have fortunes stashed
away somewhere? I see that you mention Queen
Ingrid and her estate in a later post. 100 mill. kroner! You have
got to be kidding! If my memory serves me right: this amount
was speculated upon by Ekstra-Bladet shortly after her death,
which is why I refuse to take it seriously

!
I've read somewhere that "on advice, Queen Ingrid invested her
Swedish inheritance wisely", and there's good reason to believe
that she amassed a comfortable fortune in the lower two digit
end of the scale of million kroners. But whatever she left had
to be divived by at least three beneficiaries (her daughters).
(She would probably have forked out one way or the other, had she
lived to see the divorce!)
Back to the divorce settlement and the alimony: I would like to
believe that the legal/constitutional/financial experts of the
royal court were queueing up to inform HM and Prince Joachim
that they should try keeping the tax payer out of it if they
possibly could. These experts must have been able to foresee
the ramifications of getting Alexandra on the civil list! That's
what I would like to believe, but of course I could be delusional!
On the other hand, one could argue that just as the upkeep of
the Joachims was (partly) a public project, the alimony is (partly)
a public project.
Whatever: stop comparisons with the British RF. The
Prince of Wales is living off the income of the vast Duchy
of Cornwall estate. He isn't even on the civil list; it's a
completely different kettle of fish!
Viv