Seems to me, Joe, that the argument that the royals are a big tourist draw pops up in most threads about them. It simply isn't true and I won't recycle the facts all over again here. Suffice to say that few if any of the top tourist attractions have any direct link with the royals ("league tables" are available), and the truly historical monuments such as the Tower of London and Hampton Court wouldn't suffer as tourist draws even if the royals were disbanded.