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66p? That’s too high a price for the Queen

Saving money is not the big reason why the British monarchy should be abolished. Read Mick Hume’s column in The Times.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Topics Politics

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Tuesday 1 July:

‘Her Majesty the Queen has let it be known that, as one headline put it “One is on one’s uppers”. Apparently the Queen cannot afford to get the decorators into Buckingham Palace without more government money…’

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