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Does British tourism really need the royal family?

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par Ross Bennett-Cook, Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster

Love them or loathe them, the royal family are up there with red telephone boxes and scones when it comes to images of Britishness. Souvenir shops are full of their faces, newspapers across the world discuss them, and television dramas based on their lives have never been more popular.

Whenever people are critical of the royal family, the oft-repeated retort is “but think of the tourism!”. This has been particularly common rhetoric recently,…

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