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Prince Albert's Financial Papers

Records relating to Prince Albert’s official and personal expenditure

Financial papers and abstracts of the Privy Purse

1 Jan 183831 Dec 1861

(whole object) | RA VIC/ADDO/59

Includes statements of income, receipt and expenditure, a note written by Liverpool [?Liverpool, Charles, 3rd Earl of], annual estimates, quarter and annual statements of expenditure, statement for the separate reserve fund, statement of expenditure for Queen Victoria's trip to Paris in 1855 and lists of annual pensioners. Also includes disbursements, lists of racing plates paid by the Privy Purse and expenses for tradesmen, jewellery and pictures.
  • (whole object)