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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Cost of the crown team

The royal clan: who’s who, what do they do and how much money do they get?

Members of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in 2012.
Members of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in 2012. Composite: Guardian Design/WireImage

They include England’s most senior freemason, who is estimated to have received the equivalent of £18m for his royal duties; a princess who is 56th in line to the throne and lives in 1.6 hectares of grounds in Richmond Park – and a grace-and-favour apartment 12 miles away in St James’s Palace; and a duchess who previously lived in a 21-room apartment in Kensington Palace but has been moved to a cottage.

Who are the UK’s working royals, where do they live, and what do they do, exactly? How much have they been paid for their participation in official royal engagements?

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