“Duchess of Cambridge ‘wants to visit New Zealand’
Why not? Since she’s now part of the richest welfare recipients in the world—you can spend other people’s money and not impact you fiscally—live it up.
How do you figure that?
I was listening to a radio program the other day and one of the people commented that the royal family owns large chunks of land throughout Britain and in London. This land generates a large amount of revenue which they apparently donate entirely to the government. In return, the gov't provides the royal family with an allowance. I think that was the gist of it; but the point was that they weren't just freeloaders.
You are correct.
The only money that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge receive from the British taxpayer is the Duke of Cambridge's salary as a serving officer of the Royal Air Force. He is not, in any way, a welfare recipient.
He is a wealthy man - he inherited half of his mother's personal wealth which she left to him in her will. Her money came from her divorce settlement with the Prince of Wales - and his money is income from businesses that he owns, not from the British government.
The Royal Family, in general, cannot be described as welfare recipients in any sense. Most of them receive no money at all from the British government. The only exceptions are the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - and the money they receive is less than one tenth of the money that the Royal Family gives the British taxpayer each year - since the time of George III, the Royal Family has voluntarily ceded the income from the Crown Estate (currently about £200 million a year generated by over £6 billion pounds worth of property belonging to the Crown) to the British treasury. In exchange for this, the Treasury agrees to fund the official activities of the Royal Family which amounts to about £8 million a year. They hand over £200 million and get back about £8 million. That's not welfare.