[Livia]

The Royal Family are good value for money. The Queen pays tax, and draws only around £9million pa from the public purse - compare that some some of the other nonsense that is funded by the public. The Royal Household is also a major employer and much of the public money they bring in goes to pay staff wages. Also - forget tourists - the Royal family do a lot of diplomatic stuff that brings in trade and therefore revenue to this country. But the most important factor is that is it can only be a good thing to have a non-political head of state.