They are absolutely related topics, and especially in the context of a Royal Family whose head is literally also the head of state of the sprawling UK governmen

They are absolutely related topics, and especially in the context of a Royal Family whose head is literally also the head of state of the sprawling UK government and its otherwise non-monarchial bureaucracy. You claiming they're different things is very much off base. That aside, it's a very important related debate that gets less attention from activist media than it fairly deserves. Many organizations and reporters spend enormous effort focusing on billions concealed by wealthy individuals and families, while taking for granted that governments should spend literally many, many trillions annually with little regard fo whether they should have a right to such vast sums. The state is an abstraction in such a way that makes focusing dislike for it more difficult than against specific billionaire families jet setting around the world to move secret money, but the former causes far more waste, loss, theft and harm than these families do. It does this even while it often protects them and itself at the same time. The picture is complicated, but too often gets reduced to cliche emphasis on narratives of billionaires and Caribbean bank accounts. To put it another way, the average Briton is little affected by the Royal Family receiving some marginally miniscule percentage of that person's taxes for some special favor or another. This same average Briton is however annually and enormously affected by the 20% to 45% income tax rate they pay to the state as a whole. Much of this money pays for needed services, yes, but what government wastes in its self-justified spending and the associated social harm are still far larger than what any Royal ever takes from any private individual.