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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

You'd better tell that to the trustees including the pm and chancellor then as they think different

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513

Typical political gobblydigook. Why don't they just tell it how it is. 10% of Crown estate income will be spent on the refurbishment.

Even the BBC report is disingenuous.

A report by the Public Accounts Committee said the Royal Household was "not looking after nationally important heritage properties adequately", saying that in March 2012, 39% of the royal estate was "below what the household deemed to be an acceptable condition".

and the quite rightly

The occupied royal palaces are held in trust for the nation by the Queen but the cost of maintaining them falls on the government.