Denmark to stop paying salary to royal family grandchildren

'Simple mathematics dictate that there needs to be some sort of limit. Otherwise within a few generations there will be several hundred princes and princesses who need an annual salary,' says a ruling party spokesman

Danish politicians are planning to limit the number of the Queen's grandchildren who will receive an annual salary from the state.
Queen Margrethe II has eight grandchildren with politicians stating that "simple mathematics" would require them to look again who is eligible for funding.
There has been cross-party that Crown Prince Frederik's son, Prince Christian, will continue to receive the state-funded salary as he is second-in-line to the throne.

Prince Christian's three younger siblings and the four children of the Queen's second son, Prince Joachim, are thought to lose their eligibility.
A spokesman for the ruling Venstre party, Jakob Elleman-Jensen, told Politiken: "Simple mathematics dictate that there needs to be some sort of limit.
"Otherwise within a few generations there will be several hundred princes and princesses who need an annual salary."

Queen Margrethe (3rd L), Prince Henrik (5th L), Crown Prince Frederik (L) and Crown Princess Mary (6th R) and their children, Prince Christian (4th L), Princess Isabella (2nd L), Prince Vincent (6th L) and Princess Josephine (5th R). Also pictured: Princess Alexandra (4th R) of Berleburg and Count Jefferson (3rd R) with their children Countess Ingrid (Reuters)
Critics in the Folketing (Danish Parliament) have called for the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Frederik, to share his own salary with his children instead of the government paying them their own stipend.
Tax spokesman for the Liberal Alliance party, Ole Birk Olesen said: "I'd rather go back to the old system, so that only the Crown Prince Frederik's first-born, who are entitled to annuities.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-danish-royal-family-queen-margrethe-grandchildren-stop-paying-salary-a7056261.html



Sounds like a good plan to me.

Yes. A "salary" implies that someone actually does something to earn it.

Quite, and that shouldn't involve jetting off round the world and being waited on hand and foot.   Although that's not what the Danish royal family do, just ours.