Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-30
WHAT IT COSTS TO BE A KING
Enormous Fortune Spent Every Year
to Keep Up Royal Establishment.

to Keep Up Royal Establishment.
the treasury for what is in euphemis-
tic official language termed IAN ad-
justment of the royal revenues" or, in
palmer language, an increased allow
ance from the nations purse. 1t would,
Of course be impossible, in the present
state Of political telling in England and
with an advanced radical at the head
of the treasury for his majesty to ap-
ply to parliament for an increased al
lowance, and even if this were done
the chances are that the application
would be refused.
But it is within the power of the
treasury to grant the sovereign an in
crease in certain allowances made for
special purposes. and this is what
King George and Queen Mary are now
hoping to get the treasury to do.
King George, in regard to the reve-
nues he receives from the state, is in
a rather peculiar position. In the late
reign the annual charges for what is
called the Royal Civil List, amounted
to $2,OO0,O0O, but special supplement
tary grants were made every year to
the sovereign to defray the expenses Of
entertaining royal foreign visitors, or
binary state entertainments, but not
private entertainments, such as shoot
ing parties at Sandrinkham, etc., and
lighting and laundry expenses.
King George on his accession agreed
to accept a special allowance Of $685.
900 per annum and discharge all these
extra expenses himself This sum was
arrived at by taking the annual aver
age allowance during the last three
years of King Edwards reign Of the
expenses it was supposed to cover and
it worked out as follows:
For entertaining royal visitors$ $4,000
For laundry ...... ........ 3O,OOO
For light ....... 2O,OOO
With regard to the expense in con-
nection with the entertainment Of for
eign royal visitors King George, by en-
tering into this arrangement, appar-
emily made an extraordinarily good
bargain, for since his accession until
the recent visit of the king Of Den
mark not a single crowned head had
been entertained at the English court
1t is true that the French president
was entertained by the king last year,
but the cost Of entertaining the presi-
dent of a republic is much less than
the expense involved by entertaining
a sovereign like the kaiser, who comes
accompanied by perfect army of
household officials and servants. For
instance, in the late reign the cost of
entertaining the kaiser at Windsor in
1906, was estimated at $4,000, while
the cost of entertaining NJ. Loubet, the
French president, three years later,
was estimated at $4,000.
In the late reign the expense of one
annual entertainment (the Windsor
garden party, which is reckoned rs
state function, was estimated regular
head the actual cost was more like
S4.25 a head, as Queen Mary discover
ed when their majesties were cOntem-
plating giving the garden party the
first year the court was out Of mourn
ing. In consequence the garden party
was not given and never has been in
the present reign.
There are the courts, the state balls,
the big state dinner parties and the
official entertainments at Windsor in
the autumn. One way and another, Gu;
the matter as finely as they can t!:'
king and queen cannot do the enter
tanning that is expected Of their ma
jesties at a cost much under 100000
per annum which is 100000 more
than they get for doing it.
Her majesty's suggestion is that the
'roGslry should treble the grant mad
in respect of the money for state en-
tcrtairments. which would mean rails
ing it to $500 coo per annum instead Of
500 900. but this the treasury is not
likely To do.
The treasury however. has offered
to double the allowance made for state
entertainments. and if the king cannot
get any further concession he will, OF
course accept this offer and by reduc-
ing as far as possible the cost Of all
royal entertaining will be able to avoid
actual loss and the necessity Of bring
ing the royal revenues under parlia-
mentary review-New York Press
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