Uk: No Public Funding For New Royal Yacht

By GREGORY KATZ and DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 9:43am

LONDON (AP) -- What do you get for a monarch who has almost everything? Not, apparently, a new yacht, at least not one paid for with taxpayer funds....

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