Buckingham Palace In Need Of Investment

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33250274

worthwhile expenditure in times of austerity?

or time to convert it into luxury apartments for sale to the highest bidders?

[mikey4444]

Just ask Betty to sell one of her Tintoretto's...that should about cover it.

And its not as if she is short of somewhere to live while she has the builders in, is it ?

[Gromit]

They need to spend £millions of tax-payers money on it so that it can be sold for a fraction of the refurb cost to a foreign hotel group in 10 years time.

[Gromit]

^ ^
I thought I was just being my usual cynical grump then I found this...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052681/Buckingham-Palace-turned-hotel-Prince-Charles-King.html

[jourdain2]

It's not a necessary building is it? Windsor isn't very far from London and the royals could probably keep a suite of rooms in Buckingham palace - with access to the balcony for when it is needed. The rest could be sold off.

[Baldric]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1428114.html