The royal visit.

So, we were blessed with the prescsnce of our reigning monarch today as she and her hubby visited our fair city. Everything was cleaned, painted, spruced up etc, etc.Also, half the town was closed, roads were blocked, cars were not allowed to park down side streets, police were everywhere in massive numbers (try to find one tomorrow and there wont be any available)All this will have cost money, now dont get me wrong, deep down I am a bit of a royalist. I actually think she does a good job creating interest and bringing in tourists, But until today I have always believed what we are told that the royal family actually create more wealth than they cost us.
I got to thinking, not just the money we pay them each year for them, their families,staff etc. There is also the cost of all the special arrangements and precautions taken every time she visits places, I would guess todays visit has cost the people of Hull at least a few hundred thousand pounds if not into the million pound bracket when you think of all the disruption plus the extra cost of policing and the like and the cost of the searches that have been going on for the last week or so down drains amongst other places, lets say she does 100 visits to cities and towns a year and multiply this money by that number and we start to see what an obscene amount of money is spent on one family.