Renovating an existing royal residence not building it. Frogmore Cottage was built in 1801 for Queen Charlotte.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-06-25/the-2-4-million-cost-of-harry-and-meghans-new-home/
The Civil List then became the Sovereign Purse. Only the Queen receives anything from the Sovereign Purse now Prince Philip has retired.
I agree it doesn't belong to one particular monarch and has to be kept for the next one, in much the same way the artefacts in the royal residences do. The...
Where does it say they want to renege on the deal (which has been in place since George III got into debt trying to keep America)?
It has been agreed that some of the residences need to be renovated so the Queen is getting 15% of her own income back now instead of 10%.
Yes, the Queen is the head of state of Australia which is why you have a Prime Minister and not a President. In fact she is the head to 53 countries in the Commonwealth, including the one below, and Queen of 16 countries.
As for European countries, there is a royal family in Spain...
It wasn't surprising when the French were starving to death and the Austrian Queen said let them eat cake. The closest we have to that ignorance now is Jacob Rees-Mogg and his sister.
Are you suggesting we guillotine them and seize the Rees-Mogg millions?
Actually, the richest person in...
Ok so you sack the royalty. That does not give the government carte blanche to rob them of their personal land and houses. Some of the estate belongs to the people ie Buckingham Palace but Windsor and Sandringham are privately owned. Windsor was built by William the Conquer.
How much do you...
How much do the Crown Estates give to the Treasury? That bit always gets left out for some reason.
£344million is how much.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/06/25/crown-estate-hands-treasury-344m-bumper-year/