Queen’s grandchildren told to stop taking money from UK taxpayers

British royal family has often been at the receiving end of criticism by anti-monarchists.

CEO of anti-monarchist organization Republic, Graham Smith, slammed Queen Elizabeth’s grandchildren as well as other members for taking money from the UK taxpayers.

As per Express, Smith said: "I think the only way you can solve the problem of the monarchy is to get rid of it. It is always a problem whether it is one person or fifteen people.”

"But while we have a monarchy what Republic has been proposing for some time is that we only pay for the head of state. It is there to give us one person which is the Queen as head of state,” he continued.

"We should therefore only pay for the Queen. The budget could be slashed from £345 million down to less than £10 million a year. The Queen should then be on a salary similar to the Prime Minister and we then fund an office to manage her engagement,” he said.

"The rest of them should go off and do their own thing, we do not owe them a living, we do not owe them any kind of position, title or status. It is time they were all told to go and earn their own way like the rest of us,” he added.