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Financial reports 2021-22. The Royal Household today published its annual financial statement, the Sovereign Grant Report, for the financial year 2021-22. The Sovereign Grant is the funding provided to support the official duties of The Queen and maintain the Occupied Royal Palaces.
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Financial reports 2020-21. Published. The Royal Household today published its annual financial statement, the Sovereign Grant Report, for the financial year 2020-21. The Sovereign Grant is the funding provided to support the official duties of The Queen and maintain the Occupied Royal Palaces.
Financial reports 2022-23. Published. The Royal Household today published its annual financial statement, the Sovereign Grant Report, for the financial year 2022-23. The Sovereign Grant is the funding provided to support the official duties of The Sovereign and maintain the Occupied Royal Palaces.
3 days ago · According to the most recent financial accounts, the Royal Family costs approximately 107.5 million pounds a year, with that figure increasing by almost 20 million pounds between 2017/18 and...
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This guide will help you to find records of and relating to the Royal Household which are now held at The National Archives. These records are a window on the life of the British and (formerly) English monarchy, and are particularly illuminating for studies of the medieval and early modern periods. The records provide insights into the administrati...
From the Anglo-Saxon period onwards, the monarch employed a variety of officials and other personnel to maintain the running of their household and tend to their person, possessions and affairs. Originally these would have been their kinsmen but gradually this collection of servants was divided into a more organised structure, consisting of a numbe...
Search for a Royal Household employee from 1526–1924 using the Royal Household establishment lists and Royal Household index sheets (charges apply) on findmypast.co.uk. Each record includes an image, or multiple images, of original documents held at the Royal Archives. There are over 386,000 records covering staff employed at Royal residences acros...
The surviving records of the Royal Wardrobe provide detailed material for studies of royal administration, expenditure, patronage and the life of the royal court in general. The Royal Wardrobe often drew funds from the Exchequer (E), the main financial department of the medieval and early modern English state, and this is reflected in the records h...
The records of the Lord Chamberlain’s department are held at The National Archives under department code LC.
Responsibilities of the Lord Steward’s department included: 1. the kitchen (divided into smaller sub-departments such as the buttery and the wine cellar) 2. counting house, wood and coal yards 3. gardens and stables 4. table deckers and other related positions, such as keeper and repairer of the buckets, keeper of ice and snow, trunkmaker, brewer, ...
7.1 Staff records
The following record series contain a variety of documents relating to staff, some of them easily searchable on our catalogue, others which require that you visit us before you can begin your search: 1. c.1154–c.1272 – ancient petitions in series SC 8– click on the series codes and search by name for household servants 2. c.1272–c.1625 – ancient correspondence in series SC 1– click on the series codes and search by name for household servants 3. 1201 onwards – the patent rolls in series C 66–...
7.2 Discipline of royal staff
The marshal of the household, who was in charge of discipline of the royal staff, had the right to try crimes which occurred within verge. The verge was the area stretching 12 miles around wherever the household happened to be and was subject to change. Records relating to the discipline of staff: 1. marshalsea inquisitions from the reign of Henry VI (1422–1461) in series E 35 2. up to 1623 – pleas of the hall, which the marshal heard, in series E 37 3. after 1623 – records relating to the di...
Contact the Royal Archivesfor records of Royal Household servants after 1854. The Royal Archives also hold a comprehensive card index of persons employed in the Lord Chamberlain’s and Lord Steward’s departments.
Books
Some of the publications below may be available to buy from The National Archives’ bookshop. Alternatively, search The National Archives’ library catalogueto see what is available to consult at our library and reading rooms in Kew. V Carr, ‘By Royal Appointment, Ancestors’, issue 45, May 2006, pp. 36–42 B F Byerly and C F Byerly (eds), ‘Records of the Wardrobe and Household for 1285–1286 and 1286–1289’, two volumes (HMSO, 1977, 1986) Court & City Register, 1742–1808 C J Given-Wilson, ‘The Roy...
Websites
The Database of Court Officers 1660–1837 (DCO), which goes further than the published work and contains the career histories of every person who served in the British royal household from the restoration of the Stuart monarchy to the death of Queen Victoria. The IHR publications site for provisional lists of office holders. These are, at present, largely confined to the post-medieval offices of the English central government.
Nov 27, 2023 · A research briefing on the Finances of the Monarchy, including the Sovereign Grant, Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall and tax arrangements for members of the Royal Family.
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The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal family who undertake public duties have separate households.
