| |
Per annum. |
| The Privy
Purse of the Queen is |
£60,000 |
| Revenues of the Duchy
of Cornwal |
l 88,000 |
| Revenues of the Duchy
of Lancaster |
12,000 |
| Neeld Legacy of 500,000 l. equivalent to Prince
Albert. |
25,000 |
| Parliamentary Annuity |
30,000 |
| Pay as Field-Marshal |
6,000 |
| Pay as Colonel of the Grenadier
Guards |
2,695 |
| Pay as Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle
Brigade |
238 |
| Grand Ranger of Windsor Great Park (amount of emoluments unknown)
say |
1,000 |
| Grand Ranger of Home Park (amount of emoluments unknown) say |
500 |
| Governor of Constable of Windsor
Castle |
1,120 |
| Total |
£176,553 |
This income is clear to the royal couple. Not one farthing is required
for household expenses, charity, horses, carriages, palaces, yachts,
&c., &c. – all which are plenteously provided for by parliament.
It might be supposed that out of this vast income the royal couple could
support and dower their own children. But, not so. Probably, next session
of parliament, the ministry will make a “provision” for
the Prince
of Wales, and his elder sister is already quartered upon the public
purse. Altogether, royalty costs the country, in round numbers, a million
annually. And there are many persons silly enough to wonder at the Americans
preferring republicanism, with its simplicity, economy, and efficiency,
to royalty, with its attendant gew-gaw glitter, corruptions, and costliness.
In the list of royal beggars whose names figure in the annual public
income and expenditure returns, I find the following: -
| The Duchess of Kent gets |
30,000 l; |
| The late Duchess of Gloucester, |
5,098 l; |
| Duchess of Cambridge, |
6,000 l; |
| Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, |
3,000 l; |
| Princess Mary of Cambridge, |
3,000 l; |
| Duke of Cambridge, (in addition to his pay as Commander-in-Chief,
as a General, as Colonel of the Fusilier
Guards); |
12,000 l. |
| The Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz condescends to pocket |
1,788 l; |
| The King
of the Belgians is down for |
50,000 l; |
The dowry of the Princess Royal comes in for 7,227 l.
9s. 9d.
The Duchess of Gloucester, although she left 100,000
l. to the Duke of Cambridge, was buried at the public expense,
her funeral costing 2,000 l.
It appears that there is no less than nine hundred and
ninety-five persons employed in the personal service of the Queen and
of Prince Albert! Many of these – and the highest salaried of them
– are members of the aristocracy, who literally do nothing to earn
the high emoluments they enjoy. Thus, for instance, we find the Duke of
St. Alban’s pocketing 1,200 l. yearly as Hereditary Grand
Falconer to the Queen, and all the time she does not possess a single
falcon! “The Northern Reform Record” truthfully remarks, “To
pay his grace such a sum, merely for bearing a nickname, is downright
robbery of the public.”
The aristocracy, in its political capacity, uphold every
extravagance of the Court. And why? ….
The l symbol used in this article represents the £
(pounds sterling) and comes from L which stands for the Latin "libre".
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