"A million Brits stood in the rain and wind. Fifty-nine million Brits did not."

Ah so you accept the same argument as being equally indicative with regard to the anti-war protesters do you Steve?

"Well, according to the ever-reliable wikipedia: "Only the Queen officially receives direct funding from the Civil List. The Queen's consort (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) receives £359,000 per year. The Queen, as head of state, receives £7,900,000 from the Civil List to defray some of the official expenditure of the monarchy."

Er, isn't this funded by the Treasury?"

It WAS funded by the Treasury - a Treasury that receives £242million from "The Crown Estate"; "The Duchy of Lancaster" & "The Duchy of Cornwall" now tell me how much you contributed through your taxes to the £7.9million??