The report shows all the payments that Spanish royalty made in 2023, including food, transportation and services they received in order to reign.
If you had the wealth of Spanish royalty, what would you spend that money on? Just like ordinary people have expenses for rent, food, and entertainment, members of the Royal family They also have to pay bills.
And every year, for the sake of transparency, the audit report of the annual figures spent at the Maison du Roi is published. That of 2023, prepared for the first time by the Court of Audit — was announced last Thursday, where the net worth amount stood at 9,038,384 euros at the end of the year.
These are the expenses incurred from the Palacio de la Zarzuela, the private residence of the Spanish royal family and the king’s house.
What the Spanish Royal Family Spends
The first expense recorded was a total of 4.1 million euros allocated to “personnel”: the royal family obtained 543,839 euros (about 540 million Chilean pesos) of this total, which corresponds to the salary of King Felipe VI (270,000 euros) and that of Queen Letizia (148,000 euros).
That’s to say, The king’s salary is around 267 million Chilean pesos and the queen’s is around 146 million.
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The rest was distributed by the Spanish royal workers – senior civil servants – who also have access to social security contributions and/or “staff training and development”.
On the other hand, according to the synthesis prepared by Infobae the list of The expenses of the Spanish royal family are divided into the following items:
- Telephone communications. More than 550,000 euros (around 545 million pesos).
- Protocol fees. 666,761 euros (approximately 661 million pesos).
- Independent Professional Services (technical advice and services). 567,131 euros (approximately 562 million pesos).
- Hardware. 215,973 euros (approximately 214 million pesos).
- Press, books and publications. 59,847 euros (approximately 59 million pesos).
- Diet. 34,995 euros (approximately 34 million pesos).
- Rental and maintenance of transport. 84,298 euros. (approximately 83 million pesos).
- Office supplies. 36,781 euros. (approximately 36 million pesos).
- Fuel . 9,364 euros. (approximately 9 million pesos).
- Locomotion (travel and accommodation for activities). 8,439 euros. (approximately 8 million pesos).
Source: Latercera
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