re: Royals and their MONEY:
It is FAR worse than I ever imagined:
“Windows are opening on the British royal family’s wealth”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/world/europe/15iht-royal.1.6661422.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
In most free countries it would be called theft.
I'm not sure what I would do with my share, which would probably amount to a few bricks in Buck palace.