THE COST OF THE ROYAL FAMILY.
The following is from Mayfiii'r -■;-±-" % : understand that the sura Ministers'will ask Parliameut for "as the marriage ■•■": allowance of the Duke of Connaugkt is £IO,OOO a year. . This is the,suro..voted . in 1874 foi the Duke/of EdiiiWrgh, and will be in'addition to the 15,000 »-year which his Royal Highness already draws from the State. The allowance to the Prince of Wales voted in 186iV on his marriage, was 40,000 a-year, in addition to which the Princess of Wales has £IO,OOO a-year. The Princess Royal draws £BOOO a year. The £10;000 voted to the Duke of Edinbiirgh„;;in 1874 was in addition to the "a year he has received since he .attained, his majority in 1,866 .The,,.princess , Alice draws £6OOO a.yeaiy the Princess Helena aud the : princess Louise the same sum.. Prince I'old, like his brothers, has £1S;000 a-year. The sum. paidby the uation as allowancel to the Queen's children amounts, to. £131.000a-year. Since their Royal came of age the nation has contributed upward of. a millioa.and a-half sterling' for their maiixteiaance."
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Kumara Times, Issue 617, 19 September 1878, Page 2
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