"they have not work a day in their lives and yet it us the tax payer that pays their wages great job sitting on you fat arse all day but mind you the queen is a very mean woman she hardly gives her staff good enough wages at all." - Arran

Ah Tom, you do spout a load of complete and utter crap at times, as pointed out in a couple of other threads the cost to the British Tax payer of the "Civil List" amounts to 62 pence per person per year. Because the Queen accepts the £37.2 million from the "Civil List" the UK Government pockets the entire income from the Crown Estates which amounts to £190 million. Don't know about you Tom but I make that a deal that is decidedly in favour of the UK Tax Payer.

As for "they have not work a day in their lives" you chum would not last a week if you tried to follow their working schedule.