Royals travel cost UK $A2.03m in 2014

Royals travel cost UK $A2.03m in 2014

Official trips by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla cost the British public almost STG1 million ($A2.03 million) last year.

But total net royal funding remained constant, official accounts have revealed.

Charles and his wife’s nine-day visit to Mexico and Colombia in October and November 2014 cost STG446,000, while his six-day visit to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi came in at STG262,000.

The couple’s four-day trip to the US in March this year, which took in a meeting with President Barack Obama, set back the public STG240,000.

By contrast, his son Prince Harry’s six-day trip to Brazil and Chile cost STG86,000.

In total, the royal household spent STG5.1 million on official travel, up STG900,000 on the previous year.

The figures are included in the annual report on the sovereign grant – the part of the public purse used to fund the official duties of the monarchy.

They showed the public cost of the British monarchy to be STG35.7 million, equivalent to 56 pence per person, and the same as last year.

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