Is the royal family value for money?

The �40 million is a total nonsense nobody knows the exact figure as it comes under the official secrets act. You can not keep a dozen or so palaces castles and other private residences and the scores of people employed to run these places, run the Queens fleet of aircraft [�6000 an hour when there in the air] and all the other hidden expenses ie. the royal train fleets of cars telephones travel security etc etc on �40 million a year. On a recent foreign jaunt the Queen travelled on British Airways the royal PR. machine said it was to save money what they forgot to tell us is that BA. ripped out the entire first cl section of the aircraft and replaced it with something more suitable for a monarch including a bed then sent the bill �165,000 to the government