Thanks to Stuart Rust and Patrick O’Hagan and BBC News for the Headline
The cost of three State visits were paid for by Windsor and Maidenhead Council in 2025 and none of that money has been reimbursed to them.
Quite rightly, the local council for the area has said that they will no longer cough up any more dosh after the £350,000 they spent on three high profile visits with celebrities’ attending banquets at Windsor Castle were not reimbursed.
The the up and coming visit of the President of Nigeria would have to be funded from elsewhere. No garden parties for the local councillors this year, then ,to thank them for their efforts . King Charles will have to find someone else to pay for the party.
Funny enough, the Council would rather use the funds they are responsible for, for local services for the people who vote for them. It’s even been raised by the local MP in parliament that the money should be reimbursed, and in true Civil Service fashion , the practical monetary elements have been shoved aside and it’s been said the whole thing is under review and that a number of government bodies should contribute and they would continue playing ping pong with the idea until everyone forgot who was owed what. (they didn’t say that but that is what they mean)
Still surprisingly despite the likes of Celebrities likes of Sir Elton John, Dame Kirstin Scott and Mick Jagger attending for free, well maybe they as well as the King are short of the readies just like us. We are all commoners basically. Still someone has to pay and pay their taxes and council tax too. We all need a break don’t we?
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