Note 13 — Chapter XXVI
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The writer in the Times gives this "royal" list:—
Per ann.
The Queen eats and drinks£63,000
Ditto pocket money60,000
Prince Albert38,000
Queen Dowager100,000
Natural children of William IV., about3,000
King of Hanover21,000
Leopold, King of the Belgians50,000
Prince of Mecklenburgh Strelitz2,000
His wife, the Duke of Cambridge's daughter, Augusta Caroline3,000
The Royal Dukes and Duchesses, about100,000
The following are a few miscellaneous items:
The repairs to the Pimlico Palace, estimated at150,000
The Royal Yacht20,000
Windsor Castle has cost within the present century3,000,000
The repairs to St. James' Palace were about30,000
Buckingham Palace, before the present repairs34,000
The Kitchen Garden at Frogmore23,000
George IVth's natural children have cost the country100,000