Please explain how the welfare recipients generate income.
1. They're a tremendous cash cow for the British tourism industry. Their very existence, and the system of historic houses, castles, and palaces that the royals and the traditional nobility of England support, bring in millions of tourists. Those tourists leave their dollars in the UK without requiring what other industries do, like roads, schools, social services, water and sewer infrastructure, etc. It's nothing but gravy for the British economy.
2. The royals, nobility, and landed gentry, and those close to them, support a vast economic network of provisioners. The small company that has held the royal warrant to make the upholstery for the royal coaches, the lady who hand-weaves the historic bed-hangings on display at Windsor castle, the farm that breeds and trains the Queen's team of Fells ponies and her household's Cleveland Bays--these people buy refrigerators and that keeps the appliance dealers in business so they pay their staff who buy new furniture and clothes, and the economy goes round and round. Believe me when I tell you that half the economy of England revolves around horses, hunting, and hounds, and supplying the transport, vet services, tack, feed, training, facilities, TV coverage, clothes, lessons, et cetera and endlessly cetera. You have no idea of how important it is over there. The whole lifestyle, from flower shows to the Horse of the Year show to beagling and minkhunting--it is entire national culture, based in ancient tradition. But if the royals and aristocrats stopped providing leadership, a lot of this activity would begin to peter out.
And if you've ever been to a communist country, you know that if government took over these institutions, it would be really crappy by comparison.
But really the most important contribution the royals make--at least, the well-liked ones like William, Harry, HRH Kate, Anne, and the Queen--is to give the British people a sense of continuity and tradition. They help the exhausted Brits, beseiged on all sides by out-of-control immigration, crime, regulation, and economic problems--a sense that English culture still exists, fundamentally unchanged through the centuries, and is something beautiful and important, something worth protecting.
Tear down the monarchy and nobility as the Commies would have them do, and then the British are no different or better than any wretched, degraded Eastern European country, forgetting the faded, tacky, slightly ridiculous history and people of the past. They have nothing to take pride in anymore, no unique Englishness. They have no one to love as a nation. So the Royal Family is a unifying force and helps the British preserve their history. Since the Queen herself--not the British taxpayer--foots the bill for all this stuff, the small outlay is worth it to Britain.