How exactly is this calculated?
And when it’s calculated, give it as a percentage of uk income . Oh, and don’t forget all the security and planning costs that aren’t factored in.
How can we know what is generated solely by the royal family, and what the loss would be if they didn’t exist ? Our history would still be there, as would the myriad of other reasons people come to this country. in any case, how does she generate income ? Is it tourism, hat sales, whisky exports, postcards, arms? What exactly ?
Regardless of what they may generate, does anyone measure, or even know, what effort they put in? I mean, what does Charles actually do ?? What does the queen actually do? With a total staff of 1200, I have to wonder who actually does the ‘work’? Or is it the case that the mere appearance and myth of the figurehead, with the history and the branding and the indoctrination, supports the notion that the family is a good thing . A quick online search says that in 2018 or thereabouts she had 341 engagements . Define ‘engagement’? Hop in a helicopter , snip the tape, wave and leave?
Entertain a few foreign bigwigs? She doesn’t have to get the shopping in, cook the meal and lay the table…. How do we define ‘work’?