@SW-User I bet they bring in more money than they take out - plus, without them... who else is going to foot the bill for the maintenance and repairs to the castles that they vacate??? 🤷♀️
@Harriet03 I doubt that would be enough to maintain and insure them at their current levels, much less play Whack-a-mole when stuff starts to happen.
Look at the carry on over the fire at Windsor. Nobody wanted to pay towards repairs then - and left totally empty and unguarded overnight, they'll look attractive to burglars and homeless people alike.
@Harriet03 Someone has to own the castles so tourists can visit them, I doubt if the National Trust or English Heritage etc could afford the billions that those properties would no doubt cost, given their significance.
@BeerMonster See, that's what I've been trying to say. Without the monarch and the security details in place - you might as well publish a floor plan in the newspaper and put an X on the spot.
Tourism alone isn't going to foot the bill for those places and will most likely sink some of the other stately homes protected by charities.
They can't even open the door during lockdown, so they are just money pits right now... all of them, from Buckingham Palace down.
@HootyTheNightOwl Exactly. The monarchy, however outdated and uninteresting they might be to most UK citizens, are more important to the nation than most people could imagine.
@BeerMonster Balmoral and Sandringham are the two privately owned by the monarch... technically, the tax payer should have paid at least part towards the repairs to Windsor instead of turning their back on the responsibility that we have for its upkeep.
