...And What Do You Do?: What the royal family don't want you to know

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I had no idea how much the Royal family were costing us and was under the impression that they make us lots of money through tourism etc. Whatever the structure or shape of the publisher that you end up working with, the important thing to know is that you'll be working with experts in their field. is a provocative and hard-hitting analysis, exposing the royals extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among their number.

They are, to all intents and purposes, a very ordinary group of people privileged with outrageous wealth and entitlement. Loes Botman's colourful and detailed illustrations bring the different insects -- including a butterfly, ladybird, beetle, bee and dragonfly -- vivdly to life, and the simple concepts and words make these books perfect for exploring with young children. Combining Manni’s tender words with Reuben’s powerful illustrations, their story of hope and resilience questions how we care for those we love, and demands that, through troubled times, we learn how to take better care of each other. Harkness is first and foremost a historian and academic so her books are full of lovely historical references and anecdotes.

This book is a takedown of the Royal Household - mostly Prince Charles and the Queen, for not just getting the British taxpayer to pay for everything their British taxpayer funded top financial advisors can get for them, but also for ignoring laws and getting them changed in the interests of not being accountable and hiding their sources of income and details of their expenditure.

Graham Smith’s accumulated arguments for the abolition of the monarchy are probably the most convincing since the 2019 publication of Norman Baker’s book . The Royal Family's wealth has increased substantially over time and yet they have only recently deigned to some income taxes voluntarily.And they do all this with their hand out still, forever claiming poverty, and receiving hundreds of millions from the taxpayer, while benefiting as private individuals at the same time on land ownership and all of the other questionable dealings they have gotten themselves into. Baker offers no explanation, but I posit that it's the fairytale fantasy of their existence that continues to grip the imagination. However, probably one of the most unsettling things in terms of our governance, highlighted by Baker, is the Royal Consent.

Other issues discussed include the large number of crown properties that the public gets to pay for, the private planes the lower royals insist on using. We hear of the distinction between monarchy and state and learn of the blurred lines concerning the ownership and control of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. What can I say but more of the same only this time we travel back in time to Elizabethan England, France and Prague.I cannot understand why the country continues to allow it's taxpayers money to indulge every whim and fancy imaginable to these spoiled and presumptuous people who are living in an arcaic society. They have only been the Windsors since just before the outbreak of the First World War, when they conveniently changed their German name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

The only way he expressed himself was by writing poems or drawing felt-tip scenes from his favourite West End musicals and Hollywood films. They seemed to be more like a group of soap opera celebrities and as time has gone on with their seemingly petty squabbles, (the ones I am aware of that is,) making headline news, more so. Either way, the easiest way to think of any imprint is that it has a specific brand identity within the publishing world, in terms of the kinds of books they publish. Norman Baker's book should be a must-read for high school and university students, and for any one else already out in the world who thinks the royals are 'value for money'. Thoroughly, heartily recommend this book to anyone living in a nation with the Windsors as their head of state.Or Princess Margaret getting stoned as well as drunk on Mustique and at private parties in Chelsea, waking up in men's beds whose name she couldn't remember. In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused. Yet instead of leaning in to who we are, we fight it, listening too closely to what society tells us.