In the spring, Prince William and Kate toured the Commonwealth of the Caribbean and spent a lot of money doing it. The annual, royal cash register provides information about the huge sums.
Prince William and Kate toured the beautiful Caribbean countries of Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas a few months ago. All part of the British Commonwealth. Together with the residents of the Caribbean islands, they wanted to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 70th jubilee. However, this tour cost the British Palace dearly.
The palace’s annual expense report was released last Wednesday and Kate and William’s trip was the most expensive item on the list of royal expenses. The whole trip cost just under a quarter of a million pounds, £226,383 to be precise. This included the flight on the RAF Voyager, an Airbus 330 used by royalty and government VIPs, as well as a separate staff travel plan that took place prior to the start of the tour.
Prince William traveled for a week and spent a quarter of a million pounds
In total, the Royals received £86m from the Sovereign Grant. The Sovereign Grant is a payment made annually by the government to the monarch to fund official royal duties.
Of the £86million, £4.5million came from travel, including the Caribbean tour and Prince Charles’ trip to Barbados in November when the country became a republic. However, that trip cost just £138,000 compared to Williams. The total annual cost also included 179 helicopter flights by members of the royal family and 24 additional charter flights.
But although the Royals’ Caribbean trip was very expensive, not everything went according to plan. A planned protest was the first sign that they might not get the welcome they had hoped for on their trip to the Caribbean. But it wasn’t until the pair met with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who announced the country was planning to remove the Queen as the country’s head of state, that it became clear just how badly the tour was going.
Nonetheless, the trip was valuable for Prince William and he said: “Our trip was an opportunity to reflect and we learned so much. Not only about the different issues that matter most to people in the region, but also how strongly the past still burdens the present.”
In an interview with British news portal Mirror, royal expert Ingrid Seward explained that William was frustrated privately because the travel planning had not taken local moods into account before they arrived. “He wants things to run smoothly,” said the royal expert.
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