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Should the Royal Family pay extra for the Coronation Ceremony?

Should the Royal Family pay extra for the Coronation Ceremony?

  • yes

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  • no

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  • on the contrary - they should get payed extra for their extra work

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  • don't know

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Benjamin Müller

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Why? Lol. It's a once-in-a-life-time event. In short, no. That's the right of the monarch to be coronated at whatever tax-payer expense.


I'm not in England so I don't know what the economic concerns are regarding the cost of the coronation, but I don't think it would be appropriate for the monarch to have to take additional cost of the coronation--that's not to say some of the after party, but the coronation itself, no!


Now, I could see making the monarch pay for the birthday celebrations if that's not done already. Birthdays are egotistical and all the pagan kings kept their birthdays, so I could understand forgoing the Trooping of the Colour or making them pay for it if they want to throw a shin-dig for themselves.
 
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No. The coronation is a state event for the United Kingdom -- it's the grand inauguration of their new monarch's time in office. This isn't a private party that the king decided to have for his friends.

If the UK decides they don't want a monarchy any more, I won't argue with them. My country stopped having a monarchy a couple of centuries ago. But if the citizens of the UK want a monarchy as a national symbol of their unity and pride as a nation, then there's ceremony and pageantry that comes with that, and the citizens need to pay for it.
 
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I dont know. Maybe / maybe not !

Some have said, the existence of the Royal family alone, places a huge burden financially on the economy. There have been debates, here and there on whether, the British monarchy should be abolished or not.
 
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