It is reported that recently Prince William flew a Chinook helicopter to the Isle of Wight to attend his cousin's stag party, stopping off on the way to pick up his brother, Prince Harry.
The estimated cost for the trip, using the R.A.F.'s chopper, is £15,000.
This is at a time when it's also reported that our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are woefully underequipped, with only ten of these massive Chinook helicopters employed in those mentioned war zones.
Still, the boys must have made some of their older relatives proud, at least those of them who for years have enjoyed jetting here and there at the expense of the tax payer.
If only they were more like their Scandinavian royal cousins. At least all the tax payers of those countries has to fork out for is a royal bike.
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