The True Cost of the Royal Family Explained

look at that what a waste that Queen living it off the government in her castles with her corgis and Jin just how much does this cost to maintain 40 million that's about 65 P per person per year of tax money going to the royal family sure it's still 23 p short of a complete Shield but it might be more than you want to pay after all those are your coins why does the queen get to steal them well it's a little complicated the story starts with this guy King George III most well known as the

Monarch who lost the United States for the empire less wellknown but far more interesting is he likely suffered from a mental illness called pereria which has the unusual side effect of transforming your poop from its normal boring Brown into a delightful shade of purple but I digress back to the reason the Royals get tax money King George was having trouble paying his bills and he had racked up debt while he did own huge tracks of land the profit from their rental was too small to cover his expenses he offered Parliament a deal for the rest

of his life he would surrender the profits from the rents on his land in exchange for getting a fixed annual salary and having his debts removed took him up on the deal guessing that the profits from the rent would pay off long term just how well did parliament do from this back to the present day let's compare the profits and losses by using a tenor to represent 10 million the cost to maintain the royal family today is £40 million per year but the revenue paid to the UK from the Royal lands is200 million per year

200 million in Revenue subtract 40 million in salary costs equals 160 million in profit that's right the United Kingdom earns 160 million p in profit every year from the royal family doing the math for an individual £60 million divided by 62 million people is about £260 because of the royal family your taxes are actually £260 cheaper each year than they would otherwise be but perhaps that's not enough for you because you're a real greedy gezer why not kick the Royals out and keep 100% of the revenue because it's still their land King George the crazy

wasn't crazy enough to give up everything just the prophets but it wasn't only him every Monarch since King George I thir has voluntarily turned over the profits from their land to the United Kingdom if the government stopped paying the Royal Family's living and state expenses the Royals would be forced to take back the profits from their land and your taxes dear monarchy haters would go up not down plus 160 million is just the easily measurable money the United Kingdom makes from the royal family don't forget their huge indirect Golden Goose tourists annoying though they might

be to the locals by blocking the tube and refusing to stand on the right they dump buckets of money on the UK to see the sites travel ludicrously short distances by public transport and generally act silly A Long Way from Home sure not everything they come to see is Royal but the most expensive stuff is and who are the biggest Spenders the Yanks after they finished buying maple syrup and cheap Pharmaceuticals T1 and Professional Services and illegal Pharmaceuticals where do they go next the United Kingdom Americans fly across an ocean to see a land filled

with castles that are in plastic and why do the Americans think France's castles are so boring and stinky and the UK's castles are so awesome because real monarchs still use them the Tower of London is so stunning to visitors because the the Royal Crest on the yman wers uniform is real it's not a lame historical reenactment or a modern LARPing Quest it's the embodiment of the living breathing Queen everywhere you look she sprinkled fairy dust on Bal objects to make them magically attractive to tourists 12 million of whom visit every year spending 7,000 million pounds

which suddenly makes those direct profits look like rather small change but perhaps you don't care that the monarchs are a Perpetual gold mine for the United Kingdom you're a Republican and you dislike the royal family because of their political power after all the government derives its right to rule through the crown not the people and yes I'll grant you that back in the head choppy days of yor this was a legitimate concern but the modern Queen isn't a dangerous political line but a declawed kitten her powers are limited to a Kabuki theater Act of approving

what Parliament wants to do anyway remove the royal family from government and fundamentally nothing would be different except now you wouldn't live in a magical United Kingdom but a rather dull United Republic of England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland AKA or esy for short doesn't quite have the same ring to it but maybe I'm wrong perhaps the queen is a political ticking Time Bomb just waiting for her chance to declare random Wars and dissolve parliament for the ls but until that day comes God Save the Queen thank you very much for watching [Music]