The property empires that make Charles and William millions

[@patricksarsfield8857]

This is a fantastic piece of journalism 👏

[@Matt-YT]

Why are tax payers still giving them money?! Trickle-up economics?!

[@tonyburzio4107]

Because they are trapped working in a job you would never take in a million years, for an employer that is ungrateful as all get up?

[@Matt-YT]

@@tonyburzio4107 Happy to take their job anytime!

[@azizaibrahim1155]

@@Matt-YTDon’t be daft !!!!

[@ComedyJakob]

Because you live in their country

[@kemalistdevrimturkaydnlanm168]

@@tonyburzio4107poor Charles, he is a minor who can not be held accountable for his actions.

[@summer031977]

3000 properties and charging the NHS and the navy? It shows you who owns the UK.

[@AbiBrown-q9k]

I can't believe they get away by not disclosing their wealth. the late queen refused to pay for windsor castle when it went up in flames. since windsor was open to the public so they could get back the money they paid for renovations. current king decided to pay proper tax two years ago while the rest of mortals had no choice but to pay. I am surprised p. william did not want to disclose how much he had on his piggy bank. instead he donated some land (duchy of cornwall). I have huge problem with how greedy they truly are

[@raraavis7782]

Yeah. Considering all the problems the UK faces, I'm surprised they're still getting away with it. Not to mention the utter lack of true patriotism on their side. How selfish can you be? They had these unfathomable riches just handed to them, but do they use that to improve things for their country? Nope. I don't expect 'morally upstanding' behavior from big corporations. But royalty (as far as it's still allowed to exist) should show more gratitude towards the population that is the very foundation of their status and wealth.

[@Shawn-s3k]

Charities should not be paying high rent to anyone.

[@JohnBoyle-er2kk]

Crazy when pensioners freeze. In cold saf endightment off uk not very great britain

[@donrayjay]

Unbelievable. We need inheritance and capital gains tax on all this now or the madness will never end

[@ZannerBatman]

Why do the British people put up with this? No wonder the country's in the state it's in.

[@davorpirsic3234]

Because they are properly indoctrinated, that is probably main reason! And because submissive obedient mentality, at least amongst critical majority!

[@pamathisivakumaran4607]

It’s outrages. Needs to pay back. William didn’t want to disclose because of it

[@maneshipocrates2264]

Clarkson, Piers Morgan etc will blame Megan M. for this.

[@davorpirsic3234]

Ah yes, 'foreigner' and not quite white, perfect 'culprit'!

[@nw5alive-rn5sk]

We still have Meghan Markle apologists? Blimey , you have a lot to learn.

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

Indeed! They will blame her for everything won’t they? . And the media laps it up as it makes them money. 😖😖

[@frusia123]

Of course. It's their religion, no amount of evidence to the contrary will make them change their minds.

[@stevebartley8902]

Disgusting.

[@frusia123]

I've always felt that many charities in Britain were more like businesses. It turns out that those wealthy patrons are the biggest beneficiaries, both in terms of money and in terms of PR. They make it look like they're donating to noble causes but in fact that's just another way of extracting money from the poor.

[@davorpirsic3234]

Yes, I didn't even suspect otherwise.

[@jon9625]

Equality before the law 😅

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

Homelessness could be eradicated in Cornwall with just a small amount of that wealth

[@silverlineash]

Why is there so much fear on this reporting ?? Why this is not front page news?? Poor people and working class people have been taxed for everything!!! This should be in front panel discussion

[@davorpirsic3234]

Why? Because everything is in service of established oligarchy, nothing new here...

[@silverlineash]

@ so we can’t challenge one oligarch at a time ?? If my pocket is being picked - then why not? This country taxes the working class to the mound to allow these accidental birth humans some sort of privilege for something that happened 400 years ago?? You might want to pay them and keep them - so the royal commissioning should be on a gofundme page for collecting your pennies - not to rob mine

[@davorpirsic3234]

@@silverlineash Someone deleted my reply to You, in short I agree with You, it's about time to make some real changes, not just cosmetics and appearances, in which they are experts!

[@silverlineash]

@@davorpirsic3234 its obnoxious for the government to take 40% of taxes if you cross 50k annual income, but don’t tax these people just because they are “born”!! I am fuming. The bills are raising in every industry and not pay! Pensioners are affected by this recent benefit cuts - but even the labour won’t do anything about these day light robbers

[@davorpirsic3234]

​@@silverlineash Yes of course, it's a matter of common sense and cold head, it will be hard battle, because everything is working for them, which is no excuse for doing nothing, of course!

[@fru8365]

What a joke😒

[@davorpirsic3234]

No danger for them, we know that most Englishman has mentality of 'Mr. Hudson', so they are quite safe.

[@andrewoliver8930]

Friends of Sir Jimmy, Peter Ball and lovers of Uncle Louis.

[@johntuohy2407]

Lord Mountbottom 😉

[@evaliu7181]

Great! Some Prince said he wanted to help solve homelessness in the country? Yes, he has over 3,000 properties? 😊

[@tanyord3936]

Awful feeling, not paying any business taxes, how this happend ?

[@tonyburzio4107]

So they lay off the people who work on their estates, which they can't sell anyway. What now? Lots more unemployed people, and that's not even counting the people who make a living leeching off tourists.

[@user-BahHumbug]

All Pigs are Equal, but some are more Equal than others!!!!

[@glenbetton3146]

The real benefits are paying no IHT and no CGT. The CT on 27M+23M = 50M combined net income is only about 12.5M a year. That's the same amount of tax as would be generated on only one higher rate CGT chargeable transaction gain of about 50M at the new 24% rate. The duchies will be making many, many times more in capital gains per year than that. The market value of the assets would beggar belief and the IHT foregone from their exempt status equally so; although that being said, the duchies assets would probably be settled into trusts which would continue intact when the beneficiaries change through the laws of succession

[@a.hoctavius5848]

Not a secret. Not news.

[@JohnKirwan-zp5fl]

Didn't George 111 surrender the Crown Estate in lieu of an annual subsidy. I gather it was a good deal for the state. So I've read! With this new revelation amusing when you remember the late Duke of Edinburgh in early 1970s saying the Crown going into the red!!!! And looking for increased annual payment from state!!!! 100 million pounds from Dartmouth!!!! No wonder they live so well!

[@helenwalker2986]

There are 342 Heidelburg Quarries inthe UK... one of them was mentioned in this programme... imagine that level of destruction and damage x 342,, its unimaginable.. they will be expiosed as being far far more barbaic than any of their ancestors...

[@wendymoney2043]

I can’t believe there are only 740 views here to date… This is one of the most scandalous Royal Family thefts in my lifetime. Whom/when…is this going to be blown sky high worldwide…+ these egregious perpetrators held to account, prosecuted + ousted from our nation!?

[@ComedyJakob]

Even if you end the monarchy they'll still own the land. It's private property. Unless you want to go full communist.

[@kismit100]

Don’t be so bloody naive. Everyone has always know the monarchy is a landlord. Stop over sensationalising. This is not news GET A BRAIN 🧠

[@kismit100]

Nasty 🤮 move to a republic you pointless hater

[@davorpirsic3234]

@@ComedyJakob If they 'own' land, then they have nothing to fear, surely they have papers to show how and when they've payed for that land!

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

@@davorpirsic3234doubt it!😖😖

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

That is just the UK. What about abroad?

[@JohnKirwan-zp5fl]

11 million from NHS!!!!

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

Shocking. Does this happen anywhere else in Europe?

[@ComedyJakob]

No no, you don't just not know something, IT'S A SECRET

[@davorpirsic3234]

Not hour ago I've watched 'Shoulder to shoulder', about woman in England who were fighting for woman's rights, its about time for man to show some b*llz!

[@nigelmccomb8106]

Does Donald Trump know about this?

[@LowellBDennyIII]

The historians I've read explain this quite differently [best: read "The Crown & The Establishment" by Kingsley Martin]. The "government" didn't "take control" of the "Crown Estate." The lands that comprise what is now called the Crown Estate were part of an exchange between the king and his government during George III's reign. Up to the point of this arrangement, the monarch was in charge of ensuring the various parts of government, including the military, got paid, got financed, etc. The monarch drew from various treasuries to do this. The arrangement was for the government to take responsibility for these tasks, drawn from the profits of the newly minted Crown Estate, and pay the monarch a share of these profits - the CIVIL LIST. Since this is only a contract between reigning monarch and government, the agreement expires at the end of the reign. Up until Elizabeth II, the contract established the Civil List expenditures for the whole reign, so George III's, William IV's, Victoria's, Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, and George VI's had set Civil List allowances. Elizabeth's had to be amended several times and renamed. For the first time, we witnessed the formalizing of this contract when Charles III addressed the Accession Council, where he said he would continue the agreement. Legally speaking, a monarch could begin his/her reign and NOT agree. Like these duchies, the Crown Estate is the property of the monarch, not the government.

[@gaybriellookingland6756]

The English Royals Are The Best Rich People In The World. Their Constant Charity Work and the money they bring in through tourism ...

[@helenwalker2986]

A word to those sitting in secret chambers trying to figure a way to shine this particular flavour of vulgarity... don;t bother.. nothing you can do can stop any of what is hidden being made visible. We wont be entering into any new compromises with this level of criminal cartel.. that was never the deal.. they have moved themselves into a situation where they own us and everything we engage with.. And make no mistake.. the collapsing of social welfare and housing is UNLAWFUL SURVIELANCE.. Hosuing associations and councils need to get their faces out of the private and family lives of those they house.. Their job is to MANAGE PROPERTY not manage the people who live inthe property.. this is a human rights violation that is ONLY designed to enable the state to take elders, the infirm and children.. which is all done by the Crown.. ALL SOCIAL CARE CONTRACTS for housing need to END and the iNTEGRATED WORKING that allows for the crown to use agents to kidnap people.. Hosuing chiefs all are acting criminally right now.. all emplying EQUANS to rigg properties as death traps... and those who complain get taken...

[@kismit100]

Did anybody not know that the monarchy owns land and charges rent?

[@davorpirsic3234]

'Owns' 🤣🤣 You mean they have occupyed land, since they don't have one day work in history...

[@kismit100]

@@davorpirsic3234god you’re thick I’m surprised you can type

[@kismit100]

@@davorpirsic3234what have you done for your country? Apart from moaning

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

@@kismit100wait a minute, are you saying they are doing things for our country? What exactly? Their privileged lives on display for tourists and the public. Thousands of years taking from the plebs etc etc. And we are paying them for the privilege? You mean that? What have you done for your country? We have every right to moan you know, none of us are making millions of the back of our fellow man ( at least most of us) are we? I know it wasn’t a secret but the hypocrisy is beyond horrific.

[@judyadams5252]

You love going after the royal family. What about the Duke of Westminster?

[@davorpirsic3234]

They are all same package of oligarchs who's only purpose is parasitizing on so called commoners back, they are up, you are down, it's simple as that.

[@glynsmith4590]

But one needs a crust to accompany one's gruel!!!!

[@kriskhinson443]

You mean the Monarch is not among the richest in the world? That's not good. We need to manufacture more of what we consume, more factories, more jobs, reasonably low taxes but more funds for the taxman. Good economic policies, sensible immigration policies etc, etc.

[@davorpirsic3234]

You should get rid of the oligarchs, everything else is 'beating about the bush'!

[@KonyCurrentYear]

Shock news: King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

[@davorpirsic3234]

King's don't exist, only fools who believe in those fairy tails, ask French if You don't believe me...

[@Tony-c6f2j]

And owns big chunks of it. Not the best kept secret 😂

[@daniel643]

I would rather have a king paying billions in tax than a dictator paying nothing.

[@davorpirsic3234]

Ok Mr. Hudson, now get back to servant's hall, you have some boots to polish! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@richardmurphy4520]

Bow, curtsy, bootlick, bow, curtsy, bootlick ... you know the drill peasant.

[@Matt-YT]

@@daniel643 They pay very little taxes to appease the masses. I am sure you pay more taxes than them

[@davorpirsic3234]

@@Matt-YT He's not interested in that, he's satisfied with few meaningless frases, as Mr. Hudson is...

[@azizaibrahim1155]

@@davorpirsic3234🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@luminyam6145]

You fools, would you rather the Royal family were impoverished and begging you for money? My god, what idiocy.

[@davorpirsic3234]

Whatta usefull clown you are, oligarchs salute cheerfully to 'intelectuals' like you, now get back to polishing squire's silver! 🤣

[@luminyam6145]

@@davorpirsic3234 You don't understand evolution at all. Ok boomer.

[@kemalistdevrimturkaydnlanm168]

@@luminyam6145you are right about evolution but not aware that you have not benefited from.

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

Are you for real? Impoverished! Never in a million years my dear. What planet are you living on? They already beg us for money to the tune of £100 million. Any of us getting even a fraction of that? Geez!!

[@shanecagney7451]

Anything to look at anything other than the royals?

[@kismit100]

Leave the bloody monarchy alone for Gods sake

[@davorpirsic3234]

Tell me, what is your week's salary? 🤣

[@kismit100]

@@davorpirsic3234 I’m a heart surgeon so, I think annual salary, not weekly. What’s your question to do with anything? How much benefit do you draw from the government monthly?

[@davorpirsic3234]

@@kismit100 If you can't figure it out what's the point of my question and where's leading, I have to say, I have trouble to believe that you're heart surgeon, although I'm glad if you are and salute you for that! P.S. I'm not receiving any money from 'government', never was! And 'government' doesn't have any money, money is from people (tax payers)!

[@kismit100]

KING AND COUNTRY ❤ stop bloody complaining

[@davorpirsic3234]

So little is enough for you isn't it, you can't put that frase on bread! 🤣

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

We will stop complaining when they aren’t as hypocritical as they are. Getting rich of our backs and then telling our country how they are so environmentally aware and such 💩. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. So you think their privilege is warranted? Do they bring anything positive to your own life? Except ofcourse the pomp and circumstance? Yeah well we can do without that? How much has the Queens funeral and King Charles cost our Government again?? I guess we deserve all that don’t we??

[@kismit100]

@@davorpirsic3234 shame you are unable to spell

[@davorpirsic3234]

@@kismit100 Well, how many foreign languages do you spell perfectly?

[@kismit100]

@@davorpirsic3234 English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Swedish, French 🇫🇷, my Italian is passable, but my German is probably best.

[@nahlinbuckle1176]

The biggest benefit scrounges around, yet we absolutely need to take away benefits from the poor. Makes all the sense.