A royal financial expert has asked for more transparency in the Queen’s finances and said that the “suspicion” is that money from the Duchy of Lancaster funds her children’s private lives.
The Duchy of Lancaster, an investment portfolio of land, property and financial investments has reported an income of 7.9%. The income from the Duchy funds the operating costs of some members of the Royal Family.
David McClure said that: “The Queen’s Lancaster hotpot has served up another rich dish but no one knows how much Duchy money goes to Her Majesty and how much to her hungry family.”
McClure highlighted the fact that Prince Charles shows where the income from the Duchy of Cornwall goes too.
Prince Charle’s gives an estimate of how much it costs to the fund the Cambridge’s and Prince Harry. The Queen does not do the same for members funded by the Duchy of Lancaster.
McClure asked why the Queen can’t do the same for her children as he said: “If Prince Charles can show in his annual review the amount of Duchy of Cornwall money going to his sons, then why can’t The Queen do the same for her children?”
McClure alleged that money from the Duchy of Lancaster could potentially be going to fund not only her children’s public duties but also their private lives.
“The suspicion is that some of that cash funds not just their public duties but also their private lives.”
He suggested that if the money from the Duchy was going to fund their public duties then the public should be made aware of how much they are being paid.
“If the Duchy money going to other royals is being used solely to fund their official public duties, then shouldn’t the public know how much they are being paid?”
Leave her in peace, she’s The Queen!
Her Majesty has been the best monarch we have ever had. She even pays her taxes. Leave her alone. She doesn’t HAVE. to do anything.
Leave her alone!!!
Time to face the music….
I agree wholeheartedly – leave her alone and quit making enduendoes and speculation. She lives a life above reproach and doesn’t need to be chastised for the sake of a “news report”. Who really cares how much she gives her children as it is money she earns for doing her duty to the Commonwealth.
Greetings,
This no doubt will set the cat amongst the pigeons – to a large extent I have few problems with Her Majesty’s books but the one that I take extreme exception to is the Duchy of Cornwall which funds the laziest pair of grifters on the planet being the Lamebridges. Prince Charles gets a tax deduction or an exemption when it comes to forking out hundreds of thousands of pounds for middleton to prance around in and will probably require a total wing of Kensington Palace to be upgraded so that her 10,000 dresses, coats, shoes, clutch bags and the like are kept in a controlled temperatured environment when they finally get of their butts and move to London. Along with Lamebridges exhorbitant shopping fixation, their Security bill would probably be higher than the Queen’s and these layabouts to the minimum amount of work.
So – those books would be worth seeing and how the great British public feel about how that money is wasted.
Do not even bother with the old BS about people going to the UK for the Royals (tourist dollars). I have been there six times and I have seen NO ROYALS anywhere. The tourist myth is just that a myth.
How about opening the Duchy of Cornwall books and let everyone see just how they get away with it.
Case in point 35,000 pounds spent on multiple variations of the outfits middleton has 20 already for 3 days in Poland and Germany.
A survey was done recently showing that middleton did in total about 5 hours “work” in a month…. (British Newspaper report) so that is something I would want an explanation for.
How about it?