Remember how King Charles was making an attempt to avoid wasting cash with a “slimmed down monarchy”? And an enormous early show of that was going to be his scaled again coronation ceremony? Well, let’s simply say *scaled again* ain’t what it was!
Buckingham Palace doesn’t launch official figures, so the estimates of how a lot Saturday’s coronation ceremony will price the UK cowl a variety certainly. But even on the lowest, it’s a really costly day!
BBC studies the estimates, not from any official supply, are between £50 million and £100 million. In US {dollars} that’s someplace north of $63 mil — probably at the same time as a lot as $125 MILLION!
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Yeah. Even although we’re solely speaking a few one-hour ceremony, it’s 2,000 folks, a “King’s procession” via the streets, the A-list live performance that includes Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Take That. It all requires group, safety. It’s simply within the tens of tens of millions.
That price is coming from… you guessed it. The British taxpayer. While the Palace will choose up half of the invoice, the UK authorities is on the hook for many of it. Understandably, quite a lot of Brits aren’t blissful about it! According to a YouGov ballot, 51% of British taxpayers don’t suppose they need to need to pay for the ceremony. Makes sense contemplating the Royal household is so extremely wealthy, they’ll afford their very own events. We imply… it’s not just like the crowning itself is essential. Charles is already king — and has been formally since September. If he actually needed to slim down this ceremony, he may have simply not had it in any respect. Just a thought.
But hey, what would a monarch be in the event that they weren’t celebrating themselves, proper? What do YOU suppose, Perezcious readers? Should UK taxpayers be footing this invoice?
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