Are you not forgetting that these people are appointed by God to reign over us?! By God no less!! Anyone with bizarre notions that a greater good could be served with this money is simply out of their minds - how can anything be more important than refurbishing one of the many palaces and castles intermittently inhabited by this sprawl of German / Greek Demi gods?!
I for one recognise my place and gratefully accept that every single one of the innumerable 'royals' are inherently our superiors and I get true joy from knowing that their lives are spared not one luxury and in some small way I contribute to this.
To all you traitorous - and most likely conspiratorial Trotskyist - doubters I say: the queen herself won the war by batting away the Luftwaffe from her balcony and had she not bothered you'd all be speaking German and probably have had to change your name to battenburg
Plus tourism - not one single tourist would visit Britain if the queen didn't live here and I have a friend who knows a royal courtier and they told me she meets them all individually at the airport, but doesn't make a fuss about it because she's dedicated to her 'duty'
To the Royals! And may they tread their jewel encrusted foot onto the face of the British people for evermore!