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We could argue the toss about what expenses he pays, but as you've highlighted, there are so many other outrageous privileges that the Royalists enjoy that this Duchy expenses are totally irrelevant. Which is why NSC Royal Lickspittle in chief, Thunder Bolt, has gone so hilariously quiet on the...

But he's choosing to pay the "correct" amount, because he can afford to make that choice. I'd quite like that choice, actually. Wouldn't you?

The fact that this arrangement is voluntary means that as far as I'm concerned, he doesn't pay income tax. He is allowed to revoke that at any time, meaning in reality, he's acting little differently from a Victorian-era industrial philanthropist.

Good Lord. So NONE of the rest of us are allowed to complain that this tiresome interfering old toff gets away with not paying any income tax? Or that his favourable tax rules puts other British firms at a competitive disadvantage? Never mind how the royals got hold of this enormous piece of...

It's an excellent question. How on EARTH does he manage? I believe Rio Ferdinand gives lots money to charity too, by the way. Let's make him KING.

What about the fortune in security we'd save by having ONE head of state, rather than a royal family, complete with sponging hangers-on? Not to mention making the head of state ACCOUNTABLE and increasing tax revenue. (And they can start by paying back tax revenue they've diddled out of this...

:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: Sometimes your deliberate banality makes me smile. Have a comedy thumbsup from me.

What is your point?

You've got it all wrong. This one is going to make us all a FORTUNE. Think of all the American people who will want postcards of the new baby and before that, Kate's wonderful heavenly bump. :rolleyes: