I view the money we pay the Danish royal family as the cost of not having a bloody revolution some 150-200 years ago. When you consider how many people and how

I view the money we pay the Danish royal family as the cost of not having a bloody revolution some 150-200 years ago. When you consider how many people and how much wealth was destroyed during/following revolutions like the French or Russian, and the compound interest of that wealth over 150 years, the pennies we pay to the royals todays is probably cheap. Just saying, if you went back in time and opted for a revolution instead of a constitutional monarchy, you'd probably be poorer today -- compound growth over 150 years is no joke.