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| William and Kate's Kensington Palace refit costs £1m | William and Kate's Kensington Palace refit costs £1m |
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| The public cost of refurbishing the Kensington Palace apartment that will be the new home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their baby is £1m, the Queen's accounts reveal. | The public cost of refurbishing the Kensington Palace apartment that will be the new home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their baby is £1m, the Queen's accounts reveal. |
| Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space. | Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space. |
| Much of the cost - £600,000 - is to remove asbestos. A further £400,000 has been spent on repairing and renewing the roof. | Much of the cost - £600,000 - is to remove asbestos. A further £400,000 has been spent on repairing and renewing the roof. |
| The "aunt heap", as the Duke of Windsor – formerly Edward VIII – referred to it in a nod to its reputation as the home for hard-up royal relations, became a palace when William of Orange bought it in 1689, and was improved and extended by Sir Christopher Wren. | The "aunt heap", as the Duke of Windsor – formerly Edward VIII – referred to it in a nod to its reputation as the home for hard-up royal relations, became a palace when William of Orange bought it in 1689, and was improved and extended by Sir Christopher Wren. |
| Apartment 1A needed some significant redecoration, the cost of which will be met privately. At one stage Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon jazzed it up with an of-its-time pink, turquoise and orange colour scheme. It has since been gutted and is being completely refitted. Its 21 rooms include a drawing room, staff quarters and a nursery. | Apartment 1A needed some significant redecoration, the cost of which will be met privately. At one stage Margaret and her husband Lord Snowdon jazzed it up with an of-its-time pink, turquoise and orange colour scheme. It has since been gutted and is being completely refitted. Its 21 rooms include a drawing room, staff quarters and a nursery. |
| Royal travel costs | Royal travel costs |
| The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's colourful Singapore and south Pacific tour set the taxpayer back £370,590 in travel costs, including the price of a reconnaissance trip by royal staff. | The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's colourful Singapore and south Pacific tour set the taxpayer back £370,590 in travel costs, including the price of a reconnaissance trip by royal staff. |
| Prince Charles racked up a £235,325 travel bill for charter flights on an eight-day Middle-East tour. He was also the highest spender on the royal train – notorious for being the most expensive form of royal travel per mile. A two-day trip from Ayr to Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Northampton and Peterborough cost £33,547, and another from Highgrove to Bishop Auckland, Alnmouth and Kings Lynn totalled £34,547. | Prince Charles racked up a £235,325 travel bill for charter flights on an eight-day Middle-East tour. He was also the highest spender on the royal train – notorious for being the most expensive form of royal travel per mile. A two-day trip from Ayr to Liverpool, Stoke-on-Trent, Northampton and Peterborough cost £33,547, and another from Highgrove to Bishop Auckland, Alnmouth and Kings Lynn totalled £34,547. |
| Princess Anne, regarded as the thriftiest royal, spent £42,176 on a return scheduled flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg for an official jubilee visit. Pressed on why, royal aides said that she, her husband Sir Tim Laurence, a private secretary and a lady-in-waiting had all travelled first class, while her dresser and a "web manager" were in business class. | Princess Anne, regarded as the thriftiest royal, spent £42,176 on a return scheduled flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg for an official jubilee visit. Pressed on why, royal aides said that she, her husband Sir Tim Laurence, a private secretary and a lady-in-waiting had all travelled first class, while her dresser and a "web manager" were in business class. |
| Prince Andrew flew on a charter to attend the funeral of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia at a cost of £86,092. It emerged that a government minister had hitched a lift but paid only the cost of a scheduled ticket. "It wasn't a case of saying: 'If you're coming, £43,000 is yours,'" joked an aide. | Prince Andrew flew on a charter to attend the funeral of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia at a cost of £86,092. It emerged that a government minister had hitched a lift but paid only the cost of a scheduled ticket. "It wasn't a case of saying: 'If you're coming, £43,000 is yours,'" joked an aide. |
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