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Old 28-06-2008, 08:44
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Cool Queen cannot afford to re-decorate

The roofs will need work, some rewiring is badly needed — and then there is the asbestos problem.
The Queen is facing a maintenance backlog which she can’t afford at a time when the cost of keeping the Royal Family rose by £2 million last year to a total of £40 million. A packed itinery of expensive foreign trips pushed travel costs alone beyond the £6.2 million mark, but Palace officials admit that the Queen still could not afford to redecorate.
Publishing the Royal Household’s annual financial report yesterday, Sir Alan Reid, Keeper of the Privy Purse, gave warning of a £32 million black hole in funding.
The budget for maintaining Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and other royal buildings has been frozen by the Treasury for the next three years, leaving officials unable to carry out asbestos removal, rewiring and reroofing work that they say is badly needed

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Maybe they'll get some lottery money.
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I would not be at all surprised.
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Na, that's all gone to those queens that want to run around in London a bit in 2012.
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Default Re: Queen cannot afford to re-decorate

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Na, that's all gone to those queens that want to run around in London a bit in 2012.
You may have the answer.
Madge does sponsored fun run, to raise cash for redecoration.
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Default Re: Queen cannot afford to re-decorate

I got a grant from hynburn homes.... maybe she will get one as well?

Or she can always apply for a community care grant/budgeting loan since she is unemployed and gets money from the government so is technically on benefits....
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Old 28-06-2008, 19:39
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Hey. It is owned by the country, the "Government" are the trustees and the Queen the tenant, Buck Palace is just an over size corpy house.
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Default Re: Queen cannot afford to re-decorate

exactly lol so she should get a decorating grant like i did

I'll post her some grant and loan forms on monday
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exactly lol so she should get a decorating grant like i did

I'll post her some grant and loan forms on monday
She does,, only hers is a few dozen million pounds more than yours lol.
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