If the Queen can’t pay the bills, why not sell a palace or two?

‘Is the Queen so strapped for cash that she can’t afford the upkeep of her palaces? We now know, thanks to the publication of her official accounts, that Buckingham Palace – like that other palace across the park in Westminster – is crumbling, and as much as £150m will be needed from the public purse to repair its state rooms and install new wiring and plumbing.

To be fair to the Queen, she is hardly to blame that her official residence requires costly repairs. Buckingham Palace is over 300 years old, and the state rooms have not been decorated for more than half a century. The work has to be done – and, like the Palace of Westminster, the sooner it is started, the lower the cost. But if, as seems likely, she is forced to relocate to Windsor Castle while the builders are in, then maybe that would be the perfect time to consider more radical cost-cutting measures.’

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