The Monarchy

Watch the guards? That’ll be £10

The Queen may charge visitors £10 to watch the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace as she ponders emergency measures to meet her repair bills.

The ceremony, whose origins date back to the Restoration in 1660, is one of the capital’s most famous free attractions, drawing 4,000 onlookers on a typical summer’s day.

The plan has been drawn up by senior royal aides after the government refused a request for an extra £1m a year to help fund urgent repairs to the crumbling palaces.

Brenda should pay out of her own goddamn pockets, can't believe she expects us the taxpayers to foot the bills for repairing Buckingham Palace. Its a sorry state of affairs that in the 21st century we still have an anachronistic thing like the monarchy, once upon a time there was a need for it, today its redundant its time has passed.

And can I just say, I don't care about Princess Diana's Death anniversary or the concert or her sons.