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Labour peer says royals do no 'real work' as £100m funding questioned

The Independent reports the peer's challenge to the monarchy's public funding, set at a hundred million pounds; the Crown, as ever, is at a ribbon cutting.

On air: Gloria Vance and Dale Bearman on The Midday Show
Published 12:26 PM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

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First reported by The Independent: “Labour peer claims royal family not doing ‘real work’ as £100m funding questioned”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 12:26 PM ET on The Midday Show, by Gloria Vance and Dale Bearman; aired 2 times.

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The IndependentLabour peer claims royal family not doing ‘real work’ as £100m funding questioned

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Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA Labour peer is claiming the royal family does not do real work, and The Independent says that is putting a hundred million pounds of funding under the microscope.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNot real work? They wave from a balcony in a hat, Gloria. That's cardio.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have stood in that palace. Briefly, and then I was escorted out, but I saw the carpets, and nobody was vacuuming them with a ribbon.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEscorted out of the palace. Brilliant.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPolitely. Two men in very tall hats, and I have never been so well supervised.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the only person who got properly shown the door at that job was you. I'll give the Crown a performance review, then.
Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDale, you would fail it yourself. And I have already been escorted out of one.

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