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Taxed income does fund this - the sovereign grant payment is paid from government treasury, and is thus a cost to taxpayers.



The UK treasury is formally Her Majesty's Treasury, and the sovereign grant paid to her is actually a small portion of the money she puts in through the Crown Estate. So she is a net donor to the treasury, although she gets a major out in that the Crown Estate is not subject to inheritance tax.


The Queen does not "put in" the Crown Estate revenue, that revenue belongs to the government all along.

The law is quite clear on this.




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