Buckingham Palace maintenance to cost £150 million - DISGUSTING

During a time of austerity and massive cuts to public services, particularly welfare, the British public are being asked to help with the multi million pound bill. This comes against the backdroup of the increasing annual expenditure from Buckingham Palace which has risen 11% in five years.

A Buckingham Palace source said that the building might have to be vacated for maintenance work.

“One option is for the palace to be vacated. The initial estimate for the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace looks like £150m…that depends on how you go about refurbishment, whether you do it in parts or the whole thing at once,” British media reported the unnamed source as saying.