Yeah I'm in the UK.
Someone else has already touched on it. They already bring in a lot of tourism and have other castles and grounds of theirs open for tourists. You also get a lot mega wealthy foreigners who love to rub shoulders with the Royals. Wealthy foreigner gets good PR and legitimacy in their native land and in turn they throw money into the UK. The ruler of Dubai india is a good example.
There are no exact figures, but it's likely that there is a net gain in keeping the Royal family around. The Queen is also generally well liked. It's the rest of them that Brits can't stand. It will be interesting to see what happens when she is gone.
To the bolded parts in order.....I didn't it was already on page 4, and I saw your post, and kinda remembered you being from there so I didn't read on. Sorry for the redundancy.
Maybe there is a net gain, but with all these fuckers lifestyles, expenditures, servants, maintenance workers and cleaners, and just general upkeep of the castle, I would think they'd have to be exceeding at least 2-5 billion in revenue/donations for a net gain to be feasible. I do admit that as a Def Leppard fan growing up (I know...lame, and I'm REALLY dating myself there) I actually did a book report assignment on Britain in like the 6th grade and think they will be last Royal family to ever be looked up to as in my generation at least they weren't ruthless rulers. I think Diana kept the mystique going, and it died when Charles cheated on her with that ugly red headed girl. He should've been disowned just like whatever his name is that married to Meghan for fucking up the bloodline. When she died, I don't think many in the U.S. cared much about news about them anymore. Now that we've heard the pedo allegations, most are disgusted by all of them.
Even us in the U.S. still have respect for the queen....she's like the foreign rich grandma that knows everyone, and has tons of cool stories that we either had/wished we had. Once she's gone though, then what? I don't think anyone here will care anymore, and one prince is disowned basically, and the potential king is a bald dork. Do you think the opinions of the citizens there will shift then, and tell them to GTFO? You kind of answered it, but what is your straight up opinion?
Thanks for the reply your sir!