Yesterday Royal Dutch Shell paid out its Quarterly Dividend.

$0.47 a share is to be paid out.

$0.47 a share  = 37.12p

http://www.shell.com/investors/dividend-information/historical-dividend-payments/first-quarter-2017-interim-

Royal Dutch Shell plc’s capital consists of 4,476,695,491 A shares and 3,745,486,731 B shares, each with equal voting rights

https://irssl.euroinvestor.com/asp/ir/IRM_Shell/ssl2017/NewsRead.aspx?storyid=13615958&ishtml=1

Thus:-

4,476,695,491 A shares x 37.12p + 3,745,486,731 B shares x 37.12p = £3,052,074,040.81

That is £3 Billion.

Delicious.