Even the royal family are going broke.....

The Queen's Down to Her Last Million Pounds in Her Rainy Day Fund

Queen Elizabeth has roughly £1 million (about $1.6 million) left in a royal reserve fund for emergencies, according to a new report by British lawmakers on the state of the royal family's finances. To be clear, her financial portfolio holds a good deal more than that, but the dwindling reserves nonetheless have lawmakers fretting about the future of a royal estate that is aging and in disrepair. Here's the Associated Press with more on the rare royal rebuke offered by lawmakers in today's report:

Read more @ http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/01/28/queen_reserve_fund_british_lawmakers_warn_the_royal_family_need_to_budget.html



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