He got the George Cross for overcoming a couple of fruit bearing fuzzy wuzzies during WWII. He was also awarded badges in Map Reading Skills, Camper Activity, Cycling Proficiency and Book Reading
The thing is though ST, would they flock in the current numbers if there were no royals, hence them no longer being royal residencies? You will always get some visitors due to the historic nature of the buildings, but i would imagine that if it were not for the royal connection's they would be vastly fewer in numbers. The Japs probably wouldn't bother coming to this great island at all if it were not for the quirkiness of our monarchy. And some of those Jap burds would be greatly missed, they are crazy in the sack.
It costs taxpayers approximately £40m a year to indulge the Monarchy. It is estimated that they bring in circa £200m a year through various avenues, to Great Britain.
London Philharmonic were fecking awesome. I stood to attention when they played God Save the Queen. Bloody marvellous.
It was a bit of a snoozefest. The bird wanted to watch it so I spent the afternoon lying on the sofa, the bird and the dog asleep on top of me, watching boat after boat after ****ing boat. 1.2 million turned up, not bad considering it was pissing down all day.
He served in the Royal Navy throughout WWII. Just like Prince Andrew fought in the Falklands, and Prince Harry in Afghan. They're not breeding pussies, the Royal family.
off topic slightly, but it said on the news that several people were treated for hypothermia. how ****ing cold was it and did these ****ing idiots go out in a vest?
To be fair to be fair Jakey makes a good point, let's cancel Christmas, Easter and, **** it, all annual leave. Our corporations will rake it in.
