Johnny Novgorod said:
Nah, fucking leeches living off taxpayers. Can't believe the Brits are still putting up with them.
EDIT: For the record I hate royalty in general. Did any of you guys catch the news about that idiot Spanish king shooting endangered wildlife in Africa while Spain goes through the worst economic crisis the country has ever suffered, with an unemployment rate of over 20%? Fucking pests, all of them.
They actually bring in 100s of millions more in revenue for the country than they use, they also privately own a large amount of land which is their own income. This by and large creates huge sums of living money for them, however they are extremely good landlords to the tenants charging very fair rates and supporting said tenants regularly. There are some taxes that certain royal avoid, such as Prince Charles with corporation tax, although with the recent scandal with large companies saying they are Irish so pay no tax here the royals actually pay more than they could do.
Sadly the royals are an example of wealth since birth breeding generosity, we currently are considering paying our MPs more just to stop them becoming MORE corrupt. The royal family who are constantly filmed cannot have the luxury of being overtly corrupt and must remain generally good all the time to avoid public outbursts of hatred.
Having seen another post briefly concerning how the British Royals are the only royals and no one internationally bothering with say Spain's royals, this is partly due to the Queen being so popular on a world basis, having been there during WWII she helped many Brits and often says quite sensible and supportive things to do with the commonwealth. Sadly many royals in other countries are simply not nice at times, as pointed out about the Spanish king if that is true. Also the richest woman in Spain in a very strange member of their royalty who hordes her money with dodgy plasic surgery....The British royal fit the part best and act the part of fairly tale royals. This will diminish with the queens death sadly.