I don’t think this is lower than the royal pedophilia, to be fair
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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I'm still amazed by how swiftly that was swept under the carpet.
Has this writer missed the past thousand years of the British monarchy?
Yeah, that’s one egregious thing, but it’s one of many, many things. Why do they think most rebellions happened? Because the peasantry didn’t get prime parking?
I keep seeing articles about this like the monarchy just suddenly started leeching the people’s money and I’m dumbfounded.
If they just started doing bad things, they weren't doing them before. You don't count past sins in fake journalism. You see a hot story, copy, paste, then hope people forget.
But the problem it was being an European Union member, not the expensive useless monarchy
expensive useless government
FTFY
Even a king needs a hobby. Some people collect stamps. He collects immoral gains. Meh.
I'll have you know that Queen Elizabeth and her father were both stamp collectors! Really, there's really a royal stamp collection and its considered (likely) the best (the wisest in breath) in the world.
Always has been, lookup Leopold the 2nd of Belgium.
Greed has no limits by definition.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It is standard practice for the royals to seek to minimise their personal expenditure while maximising their income from other sources, normally the public purse.
Edward VIII found cash from those who died intestate in the boundaries of the duchy was sitting in an account in case claims arose against it.
George VI did very well out of the loyal servicemen who died serving their country in the second world war, who originated from within the confines of the duchy and had no will.
As disquiet about the practice of bona vacantia grew after the war, the royals announced that moneys collected would henceforth be given to charity – after processing costs had been deducted, of course.
Moneys we all thought were going to charity have instead been used to improve properties owned by the duchy, increasing the income stream that flows from them into Charles’s pockets.
Back in Queen Victoria’s reign, the government was told she was desperately short of cash to undertake her duties so a big uplift was provided.
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