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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesROYALTYHer Majesty's Purse Strings
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- Hear ye! Hear ye! A life fit for a queen does not come
- cheap. The cost of running the British royal household this
- year will total 56 million pounds, or $109 million, according
- to an official report. The tab includes $139,000 for libations
- and $122,850 for laundry. Most of the funds go to maintain four
- palaces, three planes, two helicopters, a train and the yacht
- Britannia, while remunerations for members of the royal family
- total $20.3 million, including $15.4 million for the Queen.
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- Her Majesty is trying to tighten her purse strings. Since
- 1983, maintenance costs for the fleet of cars has dropped from
- $83,463 to $70,736, while the bill for flowers has grown by a
- scant $370, to $74,002. But despite a barely concealed disdain
- for the media at the palace, the cost of newspapers has almost
- doubled, to $26,036.
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