[This Is Not Here]

Originally Posted by terriblecanyons

why don't they just use their own money? Do they really need to suck that cash out from the taxpayer's wallet?

For the most part it's the local councils (with my council tax) facilitating the royal family on visits on other occasions, which, ironically are supposed to benefit the local area - instead, as the data in my original post details, is always vastly expensive.