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Doc Sportello

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8. Uh, no, not even close
Tue May 10, 2022, 05:03 PM
May 2022

Estimates for the royal family as a whole bringing in tourist money is L550M.

Cost to Britain's taxpayers to keep the royals in crowns and estates is estimated to be L345M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_royal_family#:~:text=The%20campaign%20group%20Republic%20assert,forces%2C%20and%20lost%20tax%20revenue.

So nice try but not close. I always wonder why Americans are so fascinated with those "royals" and try to justify their existence. We fought a war to end monarchies.

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