PRESLEY Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 It's a shame she has got to move out for six months, I'm going out of mind worrying about her, It's not fair that she has to rough it in Windsor Castle, St Jame's Palace or Sandringham, It's just not fair treating people like this, surely she has a case to put before the Human rights Comission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 (edited) To all the "off with her head" brigade you do realise that there is far far more to the Palace than just where Queenie lives. The Royal private apartments take up just a tiny part of the building. There are around 90 odd different offices in there, nearly 200 staff bedrooms, 52 guest bedrooms and 19 different state and ballrooms. Its used by hundreds of different official visitors throughout the year some of whom will be heads of state and will take over entire suites of rooms for themselves and their entourage. There will be all the official meetings, functions, dinners and opening the public galleries for 10 weeks of the year. Its reported that the place receives around 50k official visitors each year. Its a working building. The royal household has over 1200 staff employed by them. Can we stop talking like Liz's house is getting a refurb. Its a Crown Building owned by us the population. Lizzie cannot sell it, claim ownership over it close it down. Its a official headquarters for the Head of State. Just like the White House, Kremlin, Imperial Palace and Áras an Uachtaráin its not just a place where they live. It serves an operational purpose. Of course it needs to be maintained. It was built in 1703. Of course it would be much easier to flog it to some developer and turn it into flats. Maybe the Royal Operations and Head of State should work from some office park in Croydon eh? Im sure that would make the country look great. ---------- Post added 25-06-2015 at 02:19 ---------- It's not the Queens Palace, it's the Crowns. Which in effect means that it's the states palace. Spot on. That Crown Estate put around £250m profit to the Treasury pot last year and is reported to have a portfolio of around 8 Billion. That's not the queen's money. That's us. The state owns and reserves that. £150m to keep maintained a key public asset is nothing. Think of the government white elephants that have had bills for 5x that. Some still at the drawing board stage. Edited June 25, 2015 by ECCOnoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stpetre Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Only we can't sleep there so why should we pay for it? Some of Britain's prisons are Crown (State) property, you could ask if you could sleep there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 To all the "off with her head" brigade you do realise that there is far far more to the Palace than just where Queenie lives. The Royal private apartments take up just a tiny part of the building. There are around 90 odd different offices in there, nearly 200 staff bedrooms, 52 guest bedrooms and 19 different state and ballrooms. Its used by hundreds of different official visitors throughout the year some of whom will be heads of state and will take over entire suites of rooms for themselves and their entourage. There will be all the official meetings, functions, dinners and opening the public galleries for 10 weeks of the year. Its reported that the place receives around 50k official visitors each year. Its a working building. The royal household has over 1200 staff employed by them. Can we stop talking like Liz's house is getting a refurb. Its a Crown Building owned by us the population. Lizzie cannot sell it, claim ownership over it close it down. Its a official headquarters for the Head of State. Just like the White House, Kremlin, Imperial Palace and Áras an Uachtaráin its not just a place where they live. It serves an operational purpose. Of course it needs to be maintained. It was built in 1703. Of course it would be much easier to flog it to some developer and turn it into flats. Maybe the Royal Operations and Head of State should work from some office park in Croydon eh? Im sure that would make the country look great. ---------- Post added 25-06-2015 at 02:19 ---------- Spot on. That Crown Estate put around £250m profit to the Treasury pot last year and is reported to have a portfolio of around 8 Billion. That's not the queen's money. That's us. The state owns and reserves that. £150m to keep maintained a key public asset is nothing. Think of the government white elephants that have had bills for 5x that. Some still at the drawing board stage. The railways were much more valuable and useful national infrastructure but that didn't stop them getting sold off. Countless other examples too. Sometimes you'd think nothing is sacred, but then you realise that some things actually are.... And then you wonder exactly why..... In logical terms Buck House should be no different in terms of whether it could be sold off. There's plenty of other office space in London and loads of hotels. Plenty of other palaces too. And Buck House makes a vast tract of green space unusable by and off limits to the general public. It's a saleable state asset, just like any other state asset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perplexed Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Bit like Windsor Castle... The public couldn't go there at one time, t'was a 'private' residence. Then it burned down and needed millions in repair. All of a sudden it became 'the nations'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loraward Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 The railways were much more valuable and useful national infrastructure but that didn't stop them getting sold off. Countless other examples too. Sometimes you'd think nothing is sacred, but then you realise that some things actually are.... And then you wonder exactly why..... In logical terms Buck House should be no different in terms of whether it could be sold off. There's plenty of other office space in London and loads of hotels. Plenty of other palaces too. And Buck House makes a vast tract of green space unusable by and off limits to the general public. It's a saleable state asset, just like any other state asset But then you would be complaining that the shareholders are enjoying the profits generated by the estate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carosio Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 An interesting aside to the topic: "The Terem Palace and the Palace of Facets are linked by the Grand Kremlin Palace. This was commissioned by Nicholas I in 1838. The largest structure in the Kremlin, it cost an exorbitant sum of eleven million rubles to build and more than one billion dollars to renovate in the 1990s. It contains dazzling reception halls, a ceremonial red staircase, private apartments of the tsars, and the lower storey of the Resurrection of Lazarus church (1393), which is the oldest extant structure in the Kremlin and the whole of Moscow." Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuttsie Posted June 25, 2015 Author Share Posted June 25, 2015 An interesting aside to the topic: "The Terem Palace and the Palace of Facets are linked by the Grand Kremlin Palace. This was commissioned by Nicholas I in 1838. The largest structure in the Kremlin, it cost an exorbitant sum of eleven million rubles to build and more than one billion dollars to renovate in the 1990s. It contains dazzling reception halls, a ceremonial red staircase, private apartments of the tsars, and the lower storey of the Resurrection of Lazarus church (1393), which is the oldest extant structure in the Kremlin and the whole of Moscow." Wikipedia Was Nicholas related to our mob by any chance;) ---------- Post added 25-06-2015 at 12:34 ---------- The Crown Estates inc ,half of all office space in the West End of London,vast areas of British Countryside, 17 retail parks and the British seabed. So the taxes paid by people using these public space goes to refurbish one of the Queens eight Palaces or Castles. There are 78 bathrooms along with52 bedrooms in Buckingham Palace ,I wonder how she affords the bedroom tax and water rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 But then you would be complaining that the shareholders are enjoying the profits generated by the estate. No I wouldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigthumb Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 No other state building is occupied by a family that we haven't voted for. Apart from the army, navy, airforce, SAS, coast guard, quite a lot of police, prison officers, firemen, security guards etc etc wetc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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