Buck House?

Question

Since I am more English than the royals why do i need to pay an entrance fee to go into the Palace, which i pay for; which is lived in by a load of German Greeks?...

Answer 1

It's simple if you don't want to pay the entrance fee, then don't go.  Since you don't seem to be an admirer of the royals, why would you want to go?  For myself, I would be delighted to have the opportunity and would gladly pay the fee.

Answer 2

Why do you want to go there in the first place ?

Answer 3

Since you are not in the direct line of succession to the throne,you have to pay to gain entrance. Don't feel bad,I would have to pay,too.

And, since the late Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Diana, Fergie, and Sophie all married into, the Royal Family, the lineage is more British than in the past!

Answer 4

Because, as ever, the Royals are far too mean to spend a tiny fraction of their vast worldwide fortune to do anything that they can have done by charging the little people.

Answer 5

Err, excuse me but that's half Scottish, a bit German and a bit Greek.

Why's it half Scottish? Well, I think there's an outstanding possibility the Queen Mother might have taken exception to being called English. Daughter of the Earl Of Strathmore, born at Glamis Castle, which unless my geography fails me is very much in Scotland.

Royalty across Europe is inter related and has been for hundreds of years. There's German blood in most of the Royal Families in Europe, as well as French, Spanish and Russian, due to the practice of marrying people from one Royal house to people from another one. The Royal Family is about as English as any other Royalty in the world.

And the reason you pay to get in it this.

It's not your house. Would you let people walk around your gaff just to take pictures of your nick nacks for free?

Answer 6

Danish Greeks, dumbell

Answer 7

The tour of Buckingham Palace was introduced to raise money to pay the £40 million bill to repair Windsor Castle after the fire in 1992.

According to Royal Household published accounts, the income from the tour has so far raised £27 million.

As for you being "more British than the Royals" it is true that th Duke of Edinburgh is Greek by birth - but the Queen is English, as were her parents and grandparents.

I guess from the aggressive tone of your question you are one of those people who would attack the Royal Family for expecting the state to pay the Windsor repair bill and attack them for raising the money from tour charges.

According to the Treasury in 2006 the Royal Estates paid £297 million in tax to the Government in exchange for payments from the Civil List totalling £7.9 million - making a net contribution from the Royal Estates to the UK Governmet of £289.1 million.

You might well consider yourself "more British" but you certainly don't pay as much tax or contribute as much to our national pride and way of life than the Royal Family.

Answer 8

Have you studied your geneaology. A lot of people in Westernized countries are mixed.

Answer 9

Prince Philip was not Greek although he was a Prince of Greece. His family are of Danish and German origin and his great-great-grandmother was Queen Victoria. While the British royal family are descended from the Hanoverians, they are also descended from  Henry VII through the sister of Henry VIII. The British royal family might have some German ancestors, they also have some French ancestors and Danish and Italian and Scandinavian and Spanish and probably Russian and Austrian. You name it, it's in there somewhere. Even so they are as British as any of their subjects.