In my opinion it would raise criticism if they officially accepted a public gift. Some people would think that they have already so much, and in this moment of recession, with many people out of work, and so on. Which is not completely wrong, after all. I think public subscriptions are something of the past, when people did not criticize the institution of the monarchy. When the Girls of Britain and Ireland gave the tiara to the future Queen Mary, just to mention one example.