ONE'S FAMILY OF SPENDTHRIFTS ; Frugal Queen dips into reserves to pay for crumbling palaces ... as Charles & Co. splurge even MORE on luxury travelThe Queen raids her piggy bank [Scot Region]
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THE Queen has been forced to raid her savings to shore up the crumbling royal palaces, it was revealed yesterday.
According to her annual accounts, she had to take an unprecedented Pounds 6.4million out of a special reserve fund to boost her Civil List earnings.See the full content of this document
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ONE'S FAMILY OF SPENDTHRIFTS ; Frugal Queen dips into reserves to pay for crumbling palaces ... as Charles & Co. splurge even MORE on luxury travelThe Queen raids her piggy bank [Scot Region]
But her reputation for frugality was dealt a severe blow by a record Pounds 6.5million bill for royal travel including private jets and helicopters.
This was largely thanks to Prince Charles, who spent a staggering Pounds 1,310,669 on tours to the Far East and South America.Aides spent a further Pounds 150,000 on first-class tickets and a private jet to fly the Duke of Gloucester to the South Pacific to attend the coronation of the King of Tonga.The raid on the reserve account was, for the most pa...See the full content of this document
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