"Because he would allow you a pension out of the king's
privy purse, as soon as he becomes surintendant," said Aramis, preparing to leave as soon as he had dealt this last blow.
For more than a year I managed, unsuspected, to keep the
Privy Purse fairly supplied by the exercise of my caricaturing abilities.
Messieurs de Lenoncourt, de Navarreins, de Verneuil, de Fontaine, and La Billardiere, to whom he was known, he said, obtained for him, from the king's
privy purse, a pension of three hundred francs, and sent him, moreover, the cross of Saint- Louis.
There is the registrar below the judge, in wig and gown; and there are two or three maces, or petty- bags, or
privy purses, or whatever they may be, in legal court suits.
The Core Sovereign Grant which helps fund the work of the Queen and her household, and pays for other activities like official royal travel, increased by PS3.6m to PS49.3m Sir Michael Stevens, Keeper of the
Privy Purse, who is responsible for monarchy's accounts, said of Frogmore Cottage: "The property had not been the subject of work for some years and had already been earmarked for renovation in line with our responsibility to maintain the condition of the occupied royal palaces estate.
WHO is entitled to spend the money in the
privy purse? WHAT is the more common name for one species of the blister beetle family?
Sir Michael Stevens, the new keeper of the
Privy Purse, who oversee the Monarch's finances, said: "There are three generations of the Royal Family at work together in support of the Queen.
The royal family's own website highlights the three main sources of funding - the Sovereign Grant, the
Privy Purse and the Queen's personal wealth and income.
"About 1500 Christmas puddings paid for by The Queen (through the
Privy Purse) are distributed to staff throughout the Palaces, staff in the Court Post Office and Palace police," the website states.