Attached are some reflections, not just mine, on the benefits of royal support and patronage, which I have experienced not just at the Royal Academy, but, more recently, at the Royal Drawing School, which the Prince of Wales established in 2000 and has continued to support very actively (videlicet my recent post about the printmaking studio at Dumfries House):-

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/09/with-royal-approval-how-the-uks-art-organisation-benefitted-from-the-queens-patronage?s=09