Here we have a rich family asking the state to cover some of their household repair expenses, rather than have to write the cheque themselves. Nothing new here and we shouldn´t fall for it.
Windsor Castle is their private home and they should pay for its upkeep.
They got away with this once before when there was a fire and, clearly, they did not have enough fire insurance to cover the cost. Now they want us to cover their repair bills.
What will be next, paying their pizza delivery bill?
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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ON a recent morning, royal courtiers, brows furrowed, escorted a reporter to the top of Buckingham Palace to point out some troubling disrepair: cracks scarring part of the palace’s yellow, chalky facade, where a shoebox-sized chunk of stone had toppled from the roof, narrowly missing Princess Anne’s car, and myriad tiles needing replacement. Alas, the House of Windsor, just like any other family down the street, is also struggling with a leaky roof.
At an earlier news conference, Queen Elizabeth II’s accountant, Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, pleaded with the British government for an extra £1 million a year, or about $2 million, to help fix the Windsors’ roof. “The annual cost per person in the country of funding the head of state amounts to 62 pence,” he said, somewhat apologetically. “There is good evidence that we continue to pursue value for money in running the royal household.”
In the modern pantheon of billion-dollar fortunes, the queen falls well behind modern Midases like Bill Gates. In Britain, members of an entrepreneurial elite like Richard Branson, J. K. Rowling and the steel magnate Lakshmi N. Mittal have all amassed purses weightier than hers.
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