Does any one know where the royal family of england got all there billions?

Question

royal family of england

Answer 1

i'm pretty sure they aren't worth billions. MILLIONS, i think.

they own a lot of land/assets. i don't think they have it in cash.

Answer 2

there billions? Their billions of what?

The Sovereign and Her children receive money from the Civil List as decreed by Parliament. The Sovereign in law is the inheritor of all unclaimed estates and historically The landowner of Her Realm. Other members of the Royal Family, if required by the Queen to perform public duties are paid by the Monarch personally.

Answer 3

I don't think the Royal family has billions.

Millions, yes. It you take the Palaces, the estates, the crown

jewels, clothing etc. then you may have a billion or so.......

Answer 4

Hmgbird, I'd hate to live in America with nutters like you walking free! We have POUNDS in the UK, not dollars. The taxpayer pays less than £1 a year to the civil list, from which only a handful of royals benefit, thus their money is not made up of 'taxpayers' money'. A huge majority of the royal wealth is made up of art which they have collected over centuries - the Queen owns something like 90% of all the original DaVinci sketches, for example. The Queen owns a huge amount of private property which, if sold, would make her extremely rich. However, in return for her civil list money, the nation also owns some houses and palaces.

Answer 5

You'll have to thank Queen Victoria for that. When she ascended the throne back in the 1830's the royal family was almost broke and was looked down upon by the aristocracy as almost a charity case.

But  Victoria carefully invested what little money the family had  and in more than 170 years,the investments have really grown. But due to national security reasons only the Inland Revenue Service and senior members of Parliament are allowed to see what those investments are.

Answer 6

rusmon t.,

            The taxpayers dollars!! England is one of thee highest tax paying countries in the WHOLE WORLD!!! The tax payers pay for their RICHES!!! If they have Royal Jewels and that,they bought them with tax payers dollars!! And passed them down to their children, and the next Generation and so forth. It's all the tax payers money!! Supporting the "Royals" and I suppose this is also why the Brittish people dont care much for the "Royal Family" its a bit sad, really when you think of it. They can't help History... The family who is in the Palace now. Apparently the last question I answered fell along these lines, and it was a question about Lady Di, why they didnt' have more memorabilia of her around, right? Well one gent said because they dont like the "Royal Family"... WOW!!! I felt as though Lady Di wasn't of the Royal Family at all.!!! She was so NOT anything like them, and tried to raise her boys as such as well. Sad, but true. It's all from the tax-Payers $$$.. Has been for many, many, many Generations now, too!!! They may pay out alot in Taxes, but they also have absolutely FREE Medical Dental, and all of that for FREE insurance out there in England as well so they shouldn't be to sad, about supporting the "Royals", now should they. They could be living in America!!! Smile!!! :)

Answer 7

QUEEN OF THE UK! WHY IS EVERYONE SO INSISTENT ON IGNORING SCOTLAND WALES AND N.I.?

Anyway, some of the millions (not billions) come from taxes and some come from private investments.

Answer 8

They dont have millions.  Also, many of their assets, such as most of their residences and the Queen's art collections are held in trust for the nation.  Much of their land and jewels are also held in trust.

I think that if they ever abdicated or left the throne, they would walk away with only a few million.

Answer 9

Taxes

Answer 10

You should research the Boxer Rebellion and a certain trade that took place using the route India/Hong Kong/England.

Answer 11

the lady is right they are one of the biggest land owners in the UK and ain't they on the money prob print it there self's in basement of buck palace

Answer 12

They are the biggest land owner in England.

Answer 13

not from the tax we pay  the government is s******g us all as usual, 58p we pay in tax what a vast amount, now how much does the queen give to us? nearly 4 times more than she gets from us, in 2002 we gave her (£35.3 million ) i will not go into details of how it was spent jobs, food, etc, it can all be checked on the civil list,

the queen gave all the income from the crown estates, this includes shops & office rents from regent street, millbank tower, &300,000 acres of farm land in 2002 this was £147.7 million to our glorious government.