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| Subject: Useless, insipid 'Queen' to get a 5% pay rise to almost £38 million Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:40 am | |
| The Queen is to receive an inflation-busting 5 per cent ‘pay rise’ next year, giving her an annual income of £37.9million.
Palace officials admit that the timing of the announcement, which coincides with yet another round of Government belt-tightening, is ‘not ideal’.
But they insist that the country still boasts a ‘value for money monarchy’ that costs each person in the country just 52.5p per year.
According to detailed annual royal accounts released yesterday, the Queen was given £900,000 extra from the public purse in 2012/13, a 2.6 per cent increase.
That enabled her annual spending to rise from £32.4million to £33.3million.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2349433/Queen-5-pay-rise-Monarchs-income-hit-38-million-year.html#ixzz2XUieTdf0 |
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