The cost of kings? The announcement last week that the civil list of King Alexander I of Jugoslovia has just been raised to the equivalent of $1,000,000 per annum prompted intensive scanning of the civil lists of Europe's principal sovereigns:
George V (Great Britain) ...........$2,284,000
Alfonso XIII (Spain) ...........1,085,000
Wilhelmina (The Netherlands) .... 480,000
Vittorio Emanuele III (Italy) ...........365,625
Gustaf V (Sweden) ...........356,525
Christian X (Denmark) ...........265,000
Haakon VII (Norway) ...........154,000
Albert I (Belgium)........... 77,000
Ferdinand I (Rumania) ...........50,000
Boris III (Bulgaria) ...........25,000
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