OrphanPip Wrote:I remember reading that the Royals actually cost the average Canadian tax payer more than they do the UK taxpayer. Largely due to the cost of maintaining 10 quite large official residences, one in each provincial capital, plus Rideau Hall in Ottawa. To which is added all the support staff and the vice-regents themselves (there are 11 of them too).Yikes.:eek:
At least the Queen freaking pays taxes in the UK.
I hear we make quite a bit of money off them here in the UK.
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Okay, it was mainly this video, which i saw quite a while ago:
Is it true?
Maybe.
Still wish they we're stripped of the last of their political powers...as few as they may be.