Heating at Buckingham Palace turned down to cut costs - see full breakdown of royal spending from latest accounts
Sir Michael Stevens, Keeper of the Privy Purse, said the past 12 months had been "a year of grief, change and celebration, the like of which our nation has not witnessed for seven decades".
The Sovereign Grant document reported on the royal household's sustainability efforts, highlighting a number of initiatives including: "A concerted effort to reduce occupied room set points to 19C during the winter, as well as educate staff to turn down the temperature in vacant rooms to 16C and be more aware of the potential for reducing heat loss."
"Or whether it's turning off the gas lamps where it's safe to do so, as a precursor to changing them over to electric operation, or indeed if it's the case of turning the heating off on the swimming pool - these are all areas which are about the steps that we can take to reduce our emissions."Here are some of the key figures from the royal accounts for 2022-2023.
£27.1 million - The wage bill for staff, up £3.4 million, or 14%, from £23.7 million the year before. £146,219 - Charter flights for the King and Queen's first official state visit, to Germany in March 2023.
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