Quote from: Limetless on June 05, 2012, 07:19 pmYeah I mean if you balance 75p per person and then compare it to the amount of jobs they create and the amount of funds they do raise for charity through organisations like the Prince's Trust and other things like that it easily balances out. Also Prince Andrew does a lot for business relations in other countries by repping U.K companies and things like that.Well said Lim, you took the words out of my mouth.Prince Andrew has benefited us enormously in negotiating with countried like Saudi Arabia and Qatar specifically because he is a Royal and members of the Nobility there prefer to deal with him than some nobody pen pusher (sorry Foreign Office).I have yet to see any guarantee that going down the Republic route is a guarantee of liberty and democracy - China, North Korea, Cuba and Russia are all Republics and are Dictatorships. Spain, the Netherlands, Britain and Norway are all monarchies and yet come in the top 10 on the Human Rights index.V.