Forbes wrote a lengthy piece regarding the cost of the Monarchy, it's a good read but people don't want facts, they just want to believe whatever fits their own agenda. Who is Forbes to claim this though when we have hundreds of experts on the Cafe?
I'm neither a lover nor a hater of the Royal Family to be completely honest, I haven't watched a second of it. The mind boggles why people would watch something just shake an angry fist at their TVs.
Are you talking about their Monarchy Plc article? Which just says that the royals are the face for a swath of companies that one guy estimates increases their sales by 10% simply for having the royal seal of approval on them - which, again, isn't evidence.
Their money also comes from real estate, most of it inherited. They have wealth and land not from doing anything other than inherited wealth and land. It's a very nifty trick they manage to pull to keep this "important to the economy" thing going. The truth is strip away their royal titles and the lands that come with said titles and you're left looking at a bunch of inbred twats who never have to work a day in their life because they get to live off of their popularity of simply being born into royalty.
As others have pointed out, former royal estates in France see infinitely more tourists coming to them than our own ones do - but supposedly having the Royals sit on their arses doing nothing but exist is the reason for why these brands and organisations make so much money. Again, it's not proven.
As for not understanding why some people want to fist shake. If you don't like it then don't respond. There's very few places for anyone to say anything remotely negative about the Royals, and every channel and website elsewhere is filled with sychophantic shite at the moment, so I'm happy that I can come here and vent, thanks. The country is absolutely fecked, protestors are being arrested for absolutely no reason, and today's meant to change all of that?!