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New Fri 18 Nov 16 16:39 
 One's home needs refurbishment - The Melting Snowman
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513

Maybe the Duke of Edinburgh has inspected the electrics.
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 18:58 
 One's home needs refurbishment - CGNorwich
I guess that whoever lives there the work needs to be done. The cost is peanuts compared with that for the Houses of Parliament rebuild which is currently estimated ar around £5 billion pounds.

Costs likely to soar for both projects if we send all the Polish builders home :-)


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New Fri 18 Nov 16 19:06 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Dutchie
The contractors will be milking these projects for all it's worth.Government (Our) money,>:)

Can't get my head around this.Watching the news, little kids in total despair in Syria.What a weird world we live in.
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 19:14 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Falkirk Bairn
Get the BBC DIYSOS crowd - re-wiring/re-plumbing might take more than the usual week or two!
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 21:10 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Fullchat
So who does the Palace belong to??
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 21:43 
 One's home needs refurbishment - CGNorwich
>> So who does the Palace belong to??
>>
The Crown Estate. It's neither owned by the govemment nor is it the personal estate of the Crown. The Queen has the right to reside there but could not for example sell it.
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 23:49 
 One's home needs refurbishment - CGNorwich
Some interesting info from the Crown Estate website.

www.thecrownestate.co.uk/our-business/faqs/#royalfamilyinvolved

The Crown Estate contributed over £300 million to the treasury last year.
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 21:19 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Ian (Cape Town)
Interesting.
was watching The Crown the other day, and there was one scene where the cooks were preparing the King's (George VI) breakfast in a decrepit kitchen, with mice in evidence.
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New Fri 18 Nov 16 21:38 
 One's home needs refurbishment - legacylad
Don't suppose that was The Old Crown down Ivegate in Bradford? The strippers I saw there scared off all the mice.
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 16:16 
 One's home needs refurbishment - VxFan
I can't see why it can't be opened all year round as a tourist attraction instead of the 6 or 7 weeks of the year that it's currently opened.

Surely the extra revenue raised would go some way toward the refurbishment costs?
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 17:50 
 One's home needs refurbishment - CGNorwich
Because it's the Queen's private residence?
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 18:04 
 One's home needs refurbishment - VxFan
Yes, one of many.

Plus it's not as if the whole of Buck House is open to the public when the tours are actually available. Surely she can go hide oneself in one of the areas not open to the public?

Or go on another jolly abroad somewhere at the tax payers expense, as she does now.
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 18:12 
 One's home needs refurbishment - The Melting Snowman
The cost of the refurbishments amount to the equivalent of about two days' interest on the UK deficit. Sort of puts things into perspective.
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New Sat 19 Nov 16 22:17 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Roger.
Yeah - the size of our deficit - that DOES need putting into perspective.
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New Mon 21 Nov 16 17:35 
 One's home needs refurbishment - Cliff Pope
>> I can't see why it can't be opened all year round as a tourist attraction
>> instead of the 6 or 7 weeks of the year that it's currently opened.
>

Perhaps half the attraction is because the queen lives there?

If she moved into a suburban semi and the palace was converted into affordable workers' flats, may be no one would want to go and see it?
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