Government payments to the royal family for official duties (2025 prices)

Stacked bar chart outlining how the government payments to the royal family have changed from 1992 to 2024. From 2017 the additional money for reservicing Buckingham Palace has increased the government payments.
Source: Source: Institute for Government analysis of Royal Trustees' Office, Report of the Royal Trustees, 4 July 2000; Royal Trustees' Office, Report of the Royal Trustees, 22 June 2010; The Royal Household, The Sovereign Grant and Sovereign Grant Reserve Annual Report and Accounts, 2015/26 to 2023/24. Notes: Data for financial year end. Does not include parliamentary annuities that were paid to royal family members other than the Queen (£359,000 annually to the Duke of Edinburgh and £643,000 annually to the Queen Mother, until their respective deaths). The reservicing portion of the sovereign grant is a 10% top up to fund the reservicing of Buckingham Palace over 10 years from 2017/18. Get the data Embed Download image
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