Totally Random: Monies for Royalty? (Late 18th, Early 19th Century Question)

Pardon the odd question, I'm just curious, especially in the early modern era (say, early 19th century), how exactly royal families functioned financially. I know in Britain they received parliamentary annuities, and in other countries as well as Britain possessed real estate, and most especially palaces, ect. They had art collections, were the holders of things such as forests because as the sovereign they were the state. Royal Princes in the Ancien Régime derived income from appanages, but how exactly did a royal make money? There are plenty of royals who were impoverished, often running up titantic debts because they couldn't afford to live the way they were supposed to be maintained. They couldn't really work like a typical person, and while they may serve in the army or something like that, the income wasn't sustainable. A lot of royals, especially poorer, relied upon grace-and-favor apartments for living (such as Louise of Hesse-Kassel's family).

Besides things like civil lists, how else might a royal support themselves? Besides income from civil lists, income as a rentier, were there any other ways they could make money? Could they improve upon the money they had through investing it in business ventures? Did royals get involved in business like stocks and other risky business ventures?

I'm mulling over ideas for my TL with Princess Charlotte, and the late Hannoverians were hated for their debts. It seems that besides the sovereign the minor royals were almost reliant upon their Parliamentary Annuities, and I'm wondering if Charlotte, now married, might see her grow through wise investments by her husband rather than it being wasted away through her (typical) Hannoverian taste for luxuries. I like the idea of her Prussian husband attempting to increase their money in some way rather than allowing them to rack up huge debts.
 
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Bump. Any ideas? I've done some google searches but I'm afraid it's not my forte. I know a little about the French appanages and the civil annuities of the British Princes, but I'd like a small crash course in general how 19th century royal finances might function.
 
Yeah, I don't really know all that much about this period. If it was two hundred years earlier, I could give you all kinds of info, but...

Damn Hanoverians, ruining everything. :D
 
Yeah, I don't really know all that much about this period. If it was two hundred years earlier, I could give you all kinds of info, but...

Damn Hanoverians, ruining everything. :D

Yeah... I know a little further back about it, but not much else in regards to the 19th century. If we were talking appanges the crown estates, I'd be good to go. I know all about the Privy Purse, incomes from Lancaster, and of course, the Parliamentary Annuities as well as the Civil List (this goes for Louis-Philippe's July Monarchy too). but I'm curious how the German states functioned, especially the tiny ones like say, Mecklenburg-Strelitz (say that five times fast). I know the German ruling houses weren't so bounded and so often had actual incomes, but I'm just wondering where they come from and if the state provided anything either.

I know the Grand Duke of MS (that is, Schwerin, not Strelitz :p) made headlines in the New York Times in 1907 because he was intent to grant the Grand Duchy a constitution, which along with it's tiny neighbor in Mecklenburg-Strelitz were the only two states in Europe still without a constitution (take that, Russia!). The nobles were greatly opposed to this, but quickly shut up when the Grand Duke injected $2.5 of his own money into the national treasury.

Also, funnily about the Hannoverians; things actually changed with William and Mary, were they received a fixed income for the royal household and funding the civil government. George III merely gave up the revenues from the crown estates for the civil list income. It benefited him as before that the crown still paid for good portions of the civil income, like ambassadors' incomes, pensions, and ect. Of course, as late as William IV, the monarch's civil list was still funding some portion of the civil government.
 
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