Category: Republic

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee failed to bring Charles Windsor to account last week when they questioned his business managers about the exemption of the Duchy of Cornwall from corporation tax. The Duchy is a public body from which Windsor is allowed to take the income, amounting to about £19m last year. William Nye,…

Severance payments to BBC senior managers caused “shock and dismay” at the trust that oversees the state media giant according to its chairperson Chris Patten, giving evidence to MPs on the public accounts committee. The BBC, which which supports monarchy, paid £25m in severance to 250 managers in the three years to December 2012. In…

Monarchist Lie Allowed The High Court has given its backing to feudal privilege by ruling that evidence of Charles Windsor’s undermining of democratic rights should be kept secret. However, in doing so the judges confirmed that the British monarchy does interfere in government, contrary to the claims of its defenders. The court overruled an Information…

Financial Times Licks Windsor Arse The ability of Britain’s feudal monarchy to stop intelligent thought has been demonstrated again by the normally hard-headed Financial Times. In a report on the installation of screw water turbines in an energy scheme for the Windsor’ castle in Berkshire, reporter Pilita Clark gushed about the “frugality” of queen Windsor…

But Windsor Looting Set to Continue The financial privileges of the Windsor clan came under unusual attack this Monday in a Channel 4 Despatches report. The program focused on the tax-exempt status of the Duchy of Cornwall, which gives Charles Windsor around £12m in spending money every year. It also reported criticism of the Duchy…

Five Per Cent Increase While Public Pay Cut The day after the government declared that public sector pay should be reduced again, it increased the public handout to the Windsor clan by 5.2%. The pay rise followed a 5.2% increase in the profits of the “Crown Estate”, a vast public property holding. Since 2012 the…

The Financial Times has repeated its claim that the Crown Estate belongs to queen Liz Windsor, the hereditary head of state. In a report on a deal with a Canadian pension fund property correspondent Ed Hammond referred to the Estate as “the queen’s property company.” In fact the Crown Estate is effectively a government department…

A Spanish judge has asked for informtion from tax authorities as part of an enquiry into Cristina Federica de Borbón y Grecia and what the Financial Times described as “possible tax fraud and money laundering”. She is the youngest dauthter of the Spanish monarch and considered a “princess” by feudalists. This is the latest scandal…

Britons Paid For Windsor Jubilee The cost to Britain of the 2012 two-day celebration of Liz Windsor’s 60 years as head of state was between 0.3 and 0.4 per cent of GDP according to the Office of National Statistics. An extra public holiday was declared to allow monarchists to show their support for the feudal…

Windsor Prepare to Pass on Public Office The Windsor family is preparing for a new head of state for Britain according to news media reports. The current hereditary head of state, Liz Windsor, has started to hand over some of her limited workload to her son Charlie. However, the reports say that she intends to…