[Margaret Pilkington]

It doesn't matter what any of us who realise the value of the Royal family say, you will gainsay it by some meaningless comment.

You could put every penny into the NHS and it would still not be enough.....this is because it is being run as a business by bean counters and people who haven't a clue about how it should be run...how economies could be made without it affecting the patient care aspect.

I would prefer my tax to be spent on the upkeep of the royal family than those who are elected.....those who know nothing of the lives that you and I live, so can make no damn difference to how we live.....and anyway they don't care to make life beter for us..only to make it better and more comfortable for themselves.
The Queen is worth every penny she gets from the privy purse......now some of the minor royals are not...but that is another discussion.