Excuse me, but don't you think that profit-making enterprises owned (equals usurped, of course) by the royals should pay tax on their profits like everyone else? Including those tax receipts in the calculation is mischievous. Tesco makes hundreds of millions per annum and pays tax on it, but we don't have a separate state fund which we use to keep the chairman and board of Tesco in massive palaces that we pay the upkeep for, and pay them all very handsome stipends to boot, do we now? Perhaps we should be grateful to these 'ere royals for having ancestors that robbed the nation blind then are so kind as to make profits on their ill-inherited gains? So grateful that we pay thirty-odd million a year into their expense accounts? Have you seen how some of them spend their time? (Why, probably not, as they do it behind closed doors, fenced-off country estates and security guards -- that we also pay for!)