Category: Republic
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New Zealand Republic OK Says Windsor
Charles Windsor, son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, is reported to have said that he would be happy for New Zealand to become a republic. He told conservationist Chris Laidlaw in a 1997 conversation in Christchurch, New Zealand that “to be frank, I think it would come as a great relief to all of…
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Windsors Accused of Fiddling
The National Audit Office and Parliament’s public accounts committee have asked the Windsor family to make public the financial records of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall. The property and investments managed by the duchies provide hereditary head of state Liz Windsor and her son Charles with total incomes of £20m a…
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Windsor Waste Continues
The National Audit Office has reported that Andrew Windsor, who is third in line to be Britain’s hereditary head of state, spent £2939 of taxpayers’ money flying from London to Oxford for lunch by helicopter instead of taking a train at a cost of under £100. Another time he chose to spend £4645 of other…