According to the Royal accounts published this week, the royals spent a total of £2.7 million on travel by private jet, helicopters and rail last year. A single trip by the King and Queen to Australia and Samoa last October cost an astonishing £400,000.

The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. Buckingham Palace says King Charles III has accepted that it’s time to decommission the train, whose history dates back to

As the Royal Train nears the end of its service, with its costly maintenance contract due to expire in early 2027, Charles and other royals will increasingly rely on two new helic