COST OF ROYALTY

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19900, 1 June 1936, Page 2

COST OF ROYALTY

I THE CIVIL LIST. ; l I l DUKE or VORK’S ANNUITY. i LONDON, April 29. ! An annual saving on the Royal Civil l List of £155,900 is assured as longl as the King remains unmarried, ac—l cording to the report of the House of Commons which considered thel matter, says the Daily Mail. 1 This is partly because the King is retaining for his privy purse the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, and not drawing £70,000 provided for in the Civil List. The King also wishes to provide out of the Duchy revenues the extra £25,000 annuity recommended for the Duke of York in view of his heavier duties as heir presumptive. The total of the list is £410,000, compared with £470,000 proposed for King George in 1910. The allocations made by the committee are:— ‘ 1 , 1 , ‘ i

The committeee further recommends that, should the Duke of York die while heir presumptive, the £25,000 annuity should be continued in trust for the duchess and the surviving children as long as there is no heir apparent. Future Queen’s £40,000. It is proposed that, in the event of the King marrying, The future Queen shall be provided with £40,000 (£7,000 for her personal staff); If a Duke of Cornwall is born, £25,000 should be set aside out of the Duchy revenues for his maintenance and education and for the payment of an annual sum (not less than £10,000) to trustees to be accumulated to provide for his future wife. The committee mentions that the provision of £70,000 made for Queen Mary in 1910 to take effect on the death of King George now becomes operative. Socialist Proposal. Mr C. R. Attlee, one of the five Socialist members on the committee, proposed that, as the King, as Duke of Lancaster, received “a large and increasing annual payment” from the revenues of the Duchy, it was desirable that the principle already applied to the bulk of the Crown lands should now be extended to the Duchy of Lancaster and that its revenues should in future be surrendered to the Exchequer. In return for the‘ surrender he recommended that £BO,OOO should be added to the amount payable annually to the privy purse. The proposal was defeated by 13 votes to 5. '

Privy Purse 1910 £ 110,000 1936 £ 110,000 Household salaries and retired allowances 125,800 134,000 Household expens’s 193,000 152,800 Works 20,000 Abolished Royal bounty, alms, and special services 13,200 13,200 Unappropriated .. 8,000 Abolished £470,000 £410,000