Here'south where the majestic family gets their money

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she arrives in Scotland in 2015.
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Every year, the Queen gets a clamper of cash from taxpayers called the Sovereign Grant.

Queen Elizabeth II during a walkabout after a church service at St Peter and St Paul Westward Newton in Norfolk, every bit the Queen is to make history when she becomes the kickoff British monarch to attain their Sapphire Jubilee
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It comes from the treasury and it's funded by taxpayers, co-ordinate to the BBC.

The basic agreement is that the Queen gets the grant in commutation for surrendering all profits from the Crown Estate — the family'due south massive portfolio of properties — to the government. Every year, the Queen is given an amount of money equivalent to 25% of the Crown Manor's profits.

The Grant totaled $107.one million (£82.2 million) in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The Sovereign Grant pays for the family's travel, palace upkeep and utilities, and royal employee payroll, according to official majestic family financial reports. Only The Telegraph notes that the grant doesn't encompass costs of security and royal ceremonies — that money comes from a few other places.

The Queen'due south individual income is called the Privy Handbag.

London's Savoy Hotel sits atop country controlled by the Duchy of Lancaster.
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That money comes from the Duchy of Lancaster — a portfolio of state and other assets that's been in the royal family for hundreds of years. Information technology contains $715 one thousand thousand (£548.vi one thousand thousand) worth of cyberspace assets (including 18,433 hectares of land) and is made up of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties, Wall Street Periodical UK correspondent Max Colchester reported.

It brought in $27 million (£twenty.7 1000000) in 2019, co-ordinate to The Journal. Co-ordinate to the purple family unit website, this sum helps with costs non covered by the Sovereign Grant — namely, information technology's used to pay "expenses incurred past other members of the royal family."

The Queen also has other valuable assets that add to her cyberspace worth.

Balmoral Castle.
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The Queen also outright owns Balmoral and Sandringham Estates, an expansive art collection, and other valuable assets that accept been passed down from before monarchs, Wall Street Journal's Colchester said on a Jan 14 episode of The Journal's What's News podcast.

The unknown full value of Her Purple Highness' belongings makes it hard to judge her total net worth , co-ordinate to The Periodical. A purple finance proficient did tell The Journal that the royal family members are "millionaires, non billionaires."

In 2016, The Sun Times estimated the Queen's net worth to be $442.92 million (£340 million).

Prince Charles has a major income stream of his own.

Prince Charles of Wales.
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The Duchy of Cornwall — yet some other suite of properties owned past the royal family unit — covers the expenses of Prince Charles and his heirs. That means Harry and Meghan, William and Kate, and their children are all covered by the Duchy of Cornwall, too. Charles paid them a combined $6.5 million (£5 meg) in 2019, according to The Journal.

The Duchy paid Charles $28.1 million (£21.6 meg), The Periodical reported. Its total value is $1.2 billion (£923.8 meg).

The Queen and the Prince of Wales effectively control most of the imperial family'south fortune and divvy out payments to support other family members, The Periodical reported.

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