Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1891 — Wale’s Budget. [ARTICLE]

Wale’s Budget.

The Prince of Wales’ budget consists of £IOO,OOO a year from the government civil list and the revenue of the duchy of Cornwall, amounting to from £38,000 to £40,000 a year. The Princess on her marriage received a very small dowery from her father, the poor King of Denmark, and she would have been positively poor in her own right had Parliament not voted her £30,000 a year. Each of her children, and there are five of them, receives from the country an annual income of £6,000. Multiplying these sums by five to get them into dollars, we find that the revenue of the family is just about $1,000,000 a year. This ought to keep even a Prince, but it doesn’t. Every few years Wales’ debts must be paid off by the government or by his mother —usually by the former. He keeps up three residences—Marlborougn House in London, Sandringham in Norfolk county, and Abergelde in Scotland. These three residences entail the presence of an army of retainers — caretakers, coachmen and grooms, keepers,- beaters, - gillies, gardeners and hangers-on. Independently of these, the household of the Prince consists necessarily of a great number of functionaries and officials with whom he is bound to surround himself. He has a comptroller, a treasurer, three chamberlains, four equerries in chief and six others who are supplementary, a private secretary, a librarian, a superintendent of the household with three assistants, a house and two honorary chaplains, three house and five honorary doctors, three surgeons and a substitute, and a dentist with a yearly appointment. “In point of fact,” says the London correspondent of the *New York Sun, “the household of the Prince of Wales is on the same footing as that of a sovereign, with the difference that his civil fist is inferior to every reigning monarch with the exception of the King of Greece.” - •