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Finance
Described under
the Civil List Acts, The Duke of Edinburgh receives
an annual parliamentary allowance, and this is so he
can carry out his public duties. From 1993, The Queen
has repaid to the Treasury the annual parliamentary
allowances received by other members of the Royal Family.
In 2000 the annual amounts payable
to members of the Royal Family that are set every ten
years, were reset at their 1990 levels for the next
ten years, until December 2010.
Apart from an increase of £45,000
on the occasion of The Earl of Wessex's marriage, these
amounts remain as follows:
Parliamentary annuity (not repaid by The Queen)
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh £359,000
Parliamentary annuities (repaid by The Queen)
HRH The Duke of York £249,000
HRH The Earl of Wessex £141,000
HRH The Princess Royal £228,000
HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester £87,000
TRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, TRH The Duke
and Duchess of Kent and HRH Princess Alexandra *£636,000
* Of the £636,000, £175,000
is provided by The Queen to The Duke and Duchess of
Gloucester, £236,000 to The Duke and Duchess of
Kent and £225,000 to Princess Alexandra.
As with the Civil List itself, most of these sums are
spent on staff that support public engagements and correspondence.
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