Britain Royaql Costs

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Britain Royaql Costs
FILE - This is a Wednesday March 3, 2010. file photo of Britian's Queen Elizabeth II, left and Prince Phillip right, as they accompany the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, centre left and his wife Tobeka Madiba Zuma,centre right, to the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, in London, Like millions of her subjects, Queen Elizabeth II is going to have to make do and mend cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain's budget crisis. Accounts published Monday July 5, 2010 by Buckingham Palace reveal the total public cost of supporting the monarchy was 38.2 million pounds (US$57.8 million) in the year to March 31, the equivalent of 62 pence (94 cents) per person. The total is more than 3 million pounds less than in 2008-2009 .(AP Photo/ David Crump, Pool, File)