Call me Mr Curmudgeon, but let's face it, the royals came upon their huge, obscene wealth over the centuries by bleeding the poor bloody peasantry dry. All their big palaces, stately homes and vast estates (including "duchies," the one which Prince Charlie owns yielding a cool £15m last year), not to speak of their jewel-encrusted tiaras, fleets of Bentleys and royal yachts and trains (just the thing for driving into a siding and purportedly shagging Camilla in on the night before you marry Diana!) are ill-gotten gains. My heart surely bleeds when I see them so "graciously" patronising various charities. So I have a better idea. They should give most of their wealth to their beloved charities. Failing that, we should bloody well take it off 'em and give it to the charities. Their idea of doing good work for charity is to get people who are far less well-off than they are to cough up. Hey, and a large proportion of the population actually swallow that! :-D