The government spends a fortune keeping up her residences now. She did take a pay cut this year, but the heat subsidy should go to the poor as was intended.
I agree. I don't think she's really needed anymore is she? She/they don't really run the country anymore. Maybe she could get a job, her and her offspring and give all that money to the people.
Oh I disagree...the monarchy is a tradition in the UK. She does have a job representing the UK to the world. She does a lot of charity gigs and so does the rest of her family. The goverment have spent more on Iraq than the Queen and back in 2004 we weren't in a recession. (grins). I love how the papers have had to go searching back 6 years to get a darn newpaper story. Must be a slow day.
I'm a firm royalist. And I would be annoyed if someone sold my stuff which had been in my family for centuries.
Be off with thee knaves and leave the good Queen alone. The monarchy, warts and all, still represents all that was good and great about Britain and whilst there is a good case for some 'pruning' of some of the leeches, this particular knight remains a loyal royalist.
Indeed, many jurisdictions who have removed their monarchies only go and replace it with a 'symbolic' Presidential figure that ends up racking bills just as immense and wasteful as the worst royals. I consider the likes of my dear QE II, Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands and King Albert II of Belgium to be perfect role models.
Plus, let's all admit there still remains a romantic aura to the monarchy.
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - Korben Dallas, from The Fifth Element
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience?" - George Bernard Shaw
