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The issue at hand in these cases is one of accounting. As regards publically funded Royal allowances, a monthly statement should be delivered to the Lower House detailing how this allowance has been utilized and disbursed, and made open for public scrutiny. What the Royals do with their private wealth is at their own discretion of course, save for matters such as Princess Christina's Channel Islands tax haven adventures (she is the one who really needs the additional resorts just for a spare address or two!). If the government better organizes and defines the distinctions and disbursements between public Royal income and private Royal wealth, these issues would certainly be clarified to a far greater degree.