Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust  We are a little
put out by Mr George Osborne's plan for a 'Sovereign Grant' to
manage our upkeep     • The Observer,     • Jump to comments ()
Dear Dr Mander  We have always considered ourselves conservative
in most respects. It rather goes with the territory of being
Queen – and there is quite a lot of territory if you count the
Commonwealth and all of those little sunny islands of which we
are sovereign. We feel more comfortable when there is a Tory
government, but we do our best to be polite when the other lot
are in charge.  So we are a little put out by Mr George
Osborne's plan for a "Sovereign Grant" to manage our upkeep,
which appears to involve a cut to our income of 9% by 2015. We
have high overheads. Just last week, we sent William and
Catherine to Canada. Those trips don't pay for themselves.  And
what about inflation! We don't mind tightening the royal belt a
bit, but this feels like an ideological attack on our basic
terms and conditions. Mr Osborn