I was wondering how she would cope in these austere times.


Queen's income set to rise for second year running

The Queen will receive a 5% rise in her income after the Crown Estate, from which she is paid, reported an increase in its profits.
The Sovereign Grant, which funds the Queen's spending as Head of State, will rise in 2014 from £36.1m to £37.89m.
The grant is calculated as a percentage of profits from the Crown Estate, which includes properties such as Windsor Park and covers most UK coastline.

It announced on Thursday its profits had risen 5% to £252.6m.
Aside from the Queen's income, the profit goes to the Treasury to help with the nation's finances.
The value of Crown Estate's property portfolio is now £8.1bn, exceeding £8bn for the first time.

Not private

Chairman Sir Stuart Hampson said the record performance would "again make a strong contribution to the nation's finances."

While Crown Estate runs the properties owned by the Crown, it does not own the private property of the Queen.

An analogy often used is that the Crown Estate is the property version of the Crown Jewels - held by the Queen as sovereign, but not for her personal use.

Alison Nimmo, chief executive of the Crown Estate, said: "[Thursday's] results are a ringing endorsement of the quality of our portfolio, our active asset management and our highly skilled team.

"Despite challenging market conditions, we are well placed as a business with a clear vision and investment strategy, great partners and a strong balance sheet."

The Crown Estate's urban portfolio, which includes large parts of London's West End, brought in a total return of 10.6% on assets that are now worth £5.9bn.

Outside of London, the Crown Estate owns 15 retail parks in various cities, including Liverpool, Swansea, Slough and Nottingham.

It also owns shopping centres in Worcester, Oxford and Exeter as well as offices in Birmingham, Manchester and Cambridge.

Its properties outside London are now worth £1.6bn.

The value of the Crown Estate's energy and infrastructure portfolio rose by 8.2% in 2012/13, reaching £564 million, and delivered a total return of 10.6%.
Alternative energy

Because it owns and manages the seabed around the UK out to the 12-mile limit, the Crown Estate is heavily involved in offshore wind farms, where it saw an extra 1GW of power come on stream, with around 300 new turbines erected offshore.

The Crown Estate also made £13.1m from cables and pipelines that cross its land.

As part of its overall property portfolio, it also owns the foreshore of almost half of the UK's coastline, although much of it is leased out to third parties.

It holds around 144,000 hectares (356,000 acres) of the country's agricultural land and forests, as well as residential and commercial property outside urban areas.

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not only but also ...

Spending on monarchy up by £900,000 to £33.3m

Government spending on the monarchy rose by almost £1m to £33.3m in the last financial year, Buckingham Palace accounts have revealed.
The Queen's official expenditure increased by £900,000 in 2012/13, compared to the previous 12 months.

Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, said the figure was a "real terms reduction" in spending.
The grant paid to the monarchy is calculated as 15% of money paid by the Crown Estate to the government.
The estate, which includes property across the UK, increased its profits by 5% to £252.6m in 2012/13.

The Queen's official expenditure excludes the costs of police and army security and armed services ceremonies.

Sir Alan said: "The royal household has continued to reduce its expenditure funded by the taxpayer in successive years since 2008-9, achieving a real terms reduction of 24% over the last five years."

Public money used to fund the Royal Family, known as the Sovereign Grant, is expected to rise to £36.1m in the current financial year and £38m in 2014/15.

Sir Alan said a "significant part" of the increase for the current year will be used to "tackle a backlog in essential property maintenance at the working royal palaces".

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That's utterly obscene when you look at how the poor are being squeezed! Greedy old bastard.

I know the solution...

Since they are "good for tourism" why don't we just pay them a percentage of the takings from useless tat that is sold to tourists, it could be the royalty royalty.

oioioi wrote:
Because it is capitalism for the poor. Socialism for the rich.

See Me after school.

Or pay them parity with the meeter and greeter staff at Disney stores.
Same gig really eh?

Charles even has the ears for it.

Does this strike you as a pro-royalty thread my little fasces fiefdom dwelling friend?

oioioi wrote:
For the record i never said anyone at sanctum zone was pro royalty...

The first step in Anarchy is getting the UK to be Sceptre free...

Which makes me sanctum zones # 1 Anarchist...

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Yep, there's a hierarchy type chart within anarchism

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Fine. I'll take your previous position.

Yeah but Nigeria and Survival of the Fittest and greed is natural and thoroughbreds and this bent Pastor said it and he was black and Fleetwood Mac says it all.

On second thoughts, that is just being a dick. You can have it back.

oioioi wrote:
No wonder i have been suspended and threatened to be banned multiple times...

You just couldn't stand the fact that you were the #2 anarchist here oioioi so you tried to silence me under the guise of facilitation.

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So what conclusion of shite will you come to the nextime around, when I do it?

feather wrote:
Relevant bit in bold there.

psketti wrote:
Probably Fleetwood Mac discrimination...

Noted.

feather wrote: If we're going to have a monarchy, purely for functional reasons related to the political process, then I think they should be paid appropriately.

They should get the single room LHA rate for the SW1A area that Buckingham Palace resides in, which is £255.50 per week. I'm sure they'd be able to get decent bedsits for that.

All of the palaces could be opened up for public consumption and operate as genuine tourist attractions, or else all of their ill-gotten gains could be sold off and distributed among the general public evenly. Perhaps it might be a good idea to compensate some of the nations that they've raped and pillaged as well.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
Imagine that...

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