I'm not bothered about the cost to all of us so much as the principle of giving extremely wealthy people even more money. It isn't true that they operate under huge restraints. The Queen has several vast and luxurious residences. She travel in cosseted luxury, hang the expense. She owns vast estates on which privileged men can catch the finest salmon or shoot at silly birds that are kept on carefully-manicured land in order to make sure that there are enough of them there to get shot at, an environmental disaster. She doesn't have to worry about a thing, apart from her disreputable, spoiled and dysfunctional family, who, to a large extent, are the way they are because of the privilege that embraces them as well.