Windsor Tax Break Cover Up

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Taxpayers are funding a staff of six for two grandsons of the hereditary head of state, it has been revealed. This is to allow William and Henry Windsor to carry out more duties on behalf of their mother, Elizabeth Windsor.

The money for the office is being taken from the Duchy of Windsor. The Duchy is public property but the eldest son of the head of state, currently Charles Windsor, is given the income. In 2008 that was £16m. The government has agreed to a request that Mr. Windsor should be exempt from tax on income used to finance the office for this sons.

The source of the revelation is a Treasury briefing note released following a Freedom of Information request. The note as published by the Treasury disclosed the tax break for Charles Windsor. But parts were blacked-out. One sentence the government believed should be withheld from the citizens it serves read “The princes will increasingly incur expenditure when undertaking engagements on behalf of” their grandmother. Another blacked-out section shows that the tax break was instigated by the Windsors, through Michael Peat, the private secretary of Charles Windsor.

The Sunday Mail says that this revelation gives weight to the belief that Elizabeth Windsor had decided that her grandson William should be Britain’s next head of state. Normally, Charles Windsor would inherit this public office However, the Windsors fear that this would put at risk the continuation of their feudal privileges as there is widespread contempt for Charles. The people of Britain have no say in who their country’s figurehead should be.

Evidence in support of the Mail’s claim is given by the planned visit of William Windsor to New Zealand for three days in January next year to officially open that country’s new Supreme Court building.

The New Zealand Monarchist League claims that the conduct of the ceremony by a representative of a foreign feudal family will be “a powerful symbol of the independence of the Courts.” This has been disputed by the New Zealand Republican Movement. It believes that it would be better for the head of the country’s judiciary or the governor-general to open the new building.

Mr. Windsor has recently been described as like “a redneck from the south” by American rock singer Pink after he dismissed her complaint about his support for fox hunting. Pink said she had expected him to be just a “stuffy, privileged asshole”.

Both of Elizabeth Windsor’s grandsons hold the status of “prince” under Britain’s feudal system.


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