The Royal family's total travel bill for official duties cost the taxpayer £4.5m in 2021-22, including £226,000 for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's flights for their controversial Caribbean tour.
William and Kate's trip in March to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas, during which the couple were heavily criticised for images that smacked of "colonialism", saw the pair travel by charter jet, and their staff by scheduled flights for a planning trip, was the most expensive official royal tour of 2021-22, accounts just released have shown.
The total travel bill, funded by the taxpayer through the Sovereign Grant, rose by £1.3 million - or around 41% - from the previous financial year as the Royals began to embark on overseas tours again once Covid restrictions were lifted
