William and Kate’s Caribbean tour flights cost taxpayer more than £226,000

The full journey invoice for the Royal Household final 12 months got here to £4.5 million (Image: Reuters)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s controversial Caribbean tour price the taxpayer greater than £226,000 for his or her flights.

The royal accounts for 2021 to 2022 have been launched and their whole journey invoice got here to £4.5 million.

That is funded by way of the taxpayer by way of the Sovereign Grant, and has elevated by £1.3 million from the earlier 12 months largely because of the lifting of coronavirus lockdowns.

Prince William and Kate had been closely criticised for ‘failing to learn the room’ throughout their journey to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas, the place they rode behind an open-top Land Rover and posed for photos which individuals stated ‘smacked of colonialism’.

It was the costliest official royal tour of the 12 months, costing £226,383 for his or her constitution jet and their employees’s scheduled flights for a planning journey.

Prince Charles travelled to Barbados to mark the nation’s transfer to turning into a republic, which price £138,000 for his constitution flight and his employees’s journey.

Regardless of these bills, aides stated the Prince of Wales was personally campaigning for royal flights to change to sustainable aviation gas.

Sir Clive Alderton, his principal non-public secretary, stated: ‘The prince has personally pushed the transfer to using sustainable aviation gas, which is now used for all official journey wherever attainable.’

Prince William and Kate Middleton had been closely criticised for ‘failing to learn the room’ after they posed for photos which individuals stated ‘smacked of colonialism’ (Image: Rex / Shutterstock)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pictured as they departed from the Norman Manley Worldwide Airport as a part of the Royal tour of the Caribbean in March (Image: WireImage)

Protesters campaigned in opposition to British colonialism throughout their go to (Image: AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

The ministerial RAF Voyager jet, which is utilized by the Royal Household and the Authorities, is now run on sustainable aviation gas.

A royal supply stated: ‘The RAF have been sensible companions… the Royal Household needs to point out a lead right here, the Prince of Wales needs to point out a lead.’

They added Charles makes an attempt to keep away from travelling by helicopter because it conflicts along with his position as an environmental champion.

‘There's this rigorous course of that you simply solely get to top-end journey choices if each different choice fails,’ the supply stated.

‘If the advice goes to the Prince of Wales, he'll increase an eyebrow and say “undergo this once more”.

‘And it received’t take very lengthy for us to verify what the rationale was that he needed to be in a single place at one time, there at one other time, and subsequently it was the one choice.

‘The Prince of Wales is fairly allergic to utilizing helicopters.’

Regardless of this he used helicopters 3 times within the final 12 months for official journeys – to Northern Eire, Wales and Brize Norton – with prices coming to greater than £150,000 together with constitution flights.

The Royal Household made 179 official helicopter journeys final 12 months, costing lower than £15,000 every however reaching a complete of £906,000.

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