I've been around The Tower of London. Never bothered walking around Buckingham Palace.
Coronation thread
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I'm sure they're in some book of records for it!
It's had 23 million visits since it opened in 2000, not every year though.
Very glad I didn't go over for the flypast, it was announced too late for me to book flights and hotel etc. Would have been a brilliant flypast if weather was good, but with only the helicopters and the Red Arrows (Who I have seen well over 100 times) it would have been disappointing.
A Book? Back in my day it was a tv show.
I'm heading to Sandringham.
I'm not arguing with World Travel Awards, those people are scary.
Surprised they weren't arrested!
Thanks.
Surely you mean the Crown Estate - there are a number of Royal Estates such as Sandringham or Balmoral which combined are over 60,000 acres of land and we're not privy to the earnings in any case if there indeed are any keeping them self sufficient. There are another 18 estates, palaces or residences from Buckingham Palace to Highgrove, in Gloucestershire or Hillsborough Castle to Clarence House. Some have limited areas open to the public for a small portion of the year but don't add up to a big hill of beans which could match the income earned by the Civil Service on behalf of the people keeping 75% of the income and awarding 25% to the King which last year was about £65mn. The Crown Estate comprises rental property, the odd Shopping Mall but mostly the coast and seabed around the UK. Awarded to the Royal Family by their ancestors but given over to the Treasury to run by George III. It's one of the largest Property Management organisations in the UK.
So, businesses run by not royals that benefit royals but should belong to the people, I mean, what individual around the World owns their country's seabed?
I was informed that the security for todays fun was to cost £100mn, the whole affair nearer £250mn. So the King is given £86mn a year stipend, he can count on maybe another £60mn earned for him by the people again this year. In total £146mn maybe apart from what at the residences, estates and two duchy's make, Lancaster and Cornwall which we are never privy to he could maybe have had a bit of change over if he'd pay just the security element.
The Royal Family don't pay for themselves, the Treasury mostly does with the property that the royal family inherited and was taken by their ancestors and the people's taxes.
They need to accept is isn't going to happen
Who will now be jack?
Why do they need to accept that?
Because them openly opposing their English rulers hurts our feelings.
Because it's not going to happen. Because the Scottish people don't want it Source
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So they should stop fighting for something because only 42% of them want it? For that matter, the graph at the top there shows that you don't have to go further back than December before you reach 50% who said they supported it. Also, that poll clearly shows that young people do support it, so how does it make sense to expect them to "accept that it's not going to happen"?
This fecking site man
38% of them voted for Brexit, they got that.
Brexit was a UK referendum, was it not?
Honestly feck off
no. i’m with @Widow. how can you not watch that display of power, of wanton wealth and privilege, and not realise that, that must be a country going places. if it can afford to throw money at stuff like that, i’d imagine their potholes and filled in with gold.
Do you find the site always disagreeing with you or is it the posters?
Blame the poster, not the website man.
Don't tell me what to doHonestly feck off
If you have been tracking this it's clear I'm no Royalist, as stated a few times.
Nope, just the odd/strange few that really want a squabble. I argue for a living I really don't want it when I'm on here. I know that's strange but looking back at my chat history, I seldom engage as It generally leads to contretemps.
Liverpool fans singing over the national anthem. Great to hear.
He's got to be on a wind up.Honestly feck off
I wasn't looking for a squabble, I was genuinely interested in why you thought they should just "accept" it. Your response was then to link to a poll that showed that fully 42% of respondents supported that same position.
But if that was really the reason, you could have just not replied at all. You instead decided to go with a condescending non-reply.
Charles doesn't want Scotland to be independent and join the EU as he'd have to be fingerprinted and only be able to stay at Balmoral for 90 days every 6 months.
Look at my lawyer dawg...
Strange as this is my reading into your reply. You're right on one thing, I should not have replied.
But when you signed up you paid for the £5 Argument.
I'm afraid it is a bit of a paradigm on here that if someone thinks what you said is disagreeable then you have to expect that they will let you know and secondly they'll tell you why.
I think someone once said that it's human nature. Damn Human behaviour! Perhaps you need one of those Reddit sites for Awesome Dogs and Cats for the weekends, you can't blame RedCafe for the posters understanding that this site is going to give you back the argument you presented.
Why not? You seem hell bent on telling others what to do.Don't tell me what to do
Goes without saying that if you argue for a living then, based on your record on this site, you must be really shite at your job.
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He's waited all his life to be able to wear that crown? Aw go on, let him have his own sandpit too.