This total guff about the royals bringing in tourist dough needs blowing out of the water once and for all. It is routinely parroted out as the received wisdom it truly is. It is so easy a thing to to say because it is entirely untestable, a bit like the existence of God. On the other hand, it isn't difficult to mutter fairly convincingly against it. For example, only one direct royal connection in the top 20 UK tourist attractions (Windsor Castle at a miserable no 17), and monarchless France pulling in almost three times as many tourists as the UK. If you really think tourists will stop coming if we did away with the royals, prove it!