Category: Republic

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,…

British taxpayers were obliged to pick up a £36.7m bill for the Windsor family in the 2004 – 2005 financial year according to newly published figures. This was in addition to the £13m annual income that Charles Windsor takes from the public property holdings known as the Duchy of Cornwall and the £8.3m (March 2004…

The BBC state broadcasting giant, which has styled itself “the greatest force for cultural good on the face of the earth”, is spending public money glorifying graffiti vandalism. Its Web site is publishing a cartoon called Taggerz (a reference to the vandal’s practice of spraying their personal “tag” on private and public property) about a…

Charles Windsor, heir to the position of head of state, has been borrowing money from the Duchy of Cornwall and failing to pay it back, according to a report in The Guardian. The newspaper reported that as much as £1.2m had probably been spent on renovations at one of Mr. Windsor’s houses, extra personal staff…

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…

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…