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 I almost put this into the Believe It or Not forum! Taking from the poor to enrich the already super-rich seems to have caught on in Merry Olde England...again. Poor pitiful Queen Elizabeth is having trouble heating her palaces, according to one of her royal aides. !  Report: Queen made bid for poverty grantLONDON — Critics slammed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II after a report revealed that a senior aide asked the government if the monarch would be eligible for an anti-poverty grant to heat her palaces, Sky News reported on Friday.
"It's appalling, it's the most crass thing I have ever heard in my life," Sky quoted Graham Smith, a spokesman for Republic, a campaign group calling for the monarchy to be scrapped, as saying. "The anti-poverty grant is meant to go to needy people — and the idea that the palace can take money from the poor to bankroll the rich is  ing." 
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