Month: July 2005

The Windsor family is resisting greater parliamentary scrutiny of its £21m annual income from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. Parliament’s public accounts committee wants the Treasury to review the workings of the duchies and for their accounts to be audited by the National Audit Office. The family’s head of finance, Michael Peat, said that…

Many of the 2000 inhabitants of the Scilly Isles are “in a state of rebellion” against the son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, according to the conservative Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The newspaper reported that the Scilly islanders are “appalled and disgusted” because the Duchy of Cornwall, which is Mr. Windsor’s main source of income,…