‘Obscene’: Anger after cost of King Charles’s coronation revealed
The coronation of King Charles in May 2023 cost taxpayers at least £72m, official figures have revealed.
The cost of policing the ceremony was £21.7m, with a further £50.3m in costs racked up by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
About 20 million people in Britain watched Charles crowned at Westminster Abbey on TV, substantially fewer than the 29 million Britons who had watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. […]
Republic, which campaigns to replace the monarchy with an elected head of state and more democratic political system, described the coronation as an “obscene” waste of taxpayers’ money.
“I would be very surprised if £72m was the whole cost,” the Republic CEO, Graham Smith, told the Guardian.
As well as the Home Office policing and DCMS costs included in the figures, he said the Ministry of Defence, Transport for London, fire brigades and local councils also incurred costs related to the coronation, with other estimates putting the total spend at between £100m and £250m.
Yeah. I have no idea what the actual amount would be, but if they’re admitting to 72 million quid (about $140m Australian at the current rate on Oanda) then I wouldn’t be surprised to find it was a lot more. Hope taxpayers feel they got their money’s worth, given that more of them were interested in Chuckles’ mum’s funeral than his crowning…
