News from the Centre for Citizenship

Crown Estate Grab Pays Off The Windsor clan is to get an extra £6m in spending money from the British people in 2013-14. This is the first payback from a long Windsor effort to win control of the Crown Estate, a vast public real estate holding. The Windsors claim that it belongs to them and…

Royal Interference in Irish Affair Donegal County Council in Ireland wants to build a sewage plant on the shore of Lough Foyle, which is located between the UK’s Northern Ireland to the east and south, and Ireland to the west and north. But it turns out that the foreshore of the Irish side of the…

Former banker Matt Ridley has become the newest member of Britain’s parliament in a bizarre and shameful process possible only in Britain’s feudal system. Mr Ridley was elected to fill a vacant seat by the Conservative caucus amongst the 92 hereditary legislators in the “upper” house of the country’s parliament. The people were shut out…

Beatrix Armgard has decided that the Netherlands should have a new head of state. It will be her son. The people of that country have no say in this. Armgard’s son will take her place after she has held the job for 33 years The people of the Netherlands pay £26m annually to support the…

A ten-year prison sentence imposed on a Thai journalist accused of insulting his country’s “royal” family is another demonstration of the viciousness of monarchy and a blow to the claim of monarchists that their feudal institution is compatible with democracy. Somyot Prucksakasemsuk’s “crime” is to have published magazine articles “defaming” Thailand’s “king”. The publication was…

Only one-third of New Zealanders want Charles Windsor to become their head of state on the death of his mother, according to an opinion poll in the Herald on Sunday. But under the feudal system New Zealand shares with Britain, they will be barred from all say in the matter. In the poll 43.3% of…

The number of Spaniards with good or very good opinion of their country’s “king”, Juan Carlos Bourbon, has fallen from 72% to 50% according to a poll by the El Mundo newspaper. The percentage wanting to abolish the feudal institution of monarchy was 41%, the highest ever. Pro-democracy sentiment was higher amongst younger Spanish people.…

The first part of the costs of Charles Windsor’s publicity tour of New Zealand has been released by the Department of Internal Affairs, showing $766,000 was spent on the 6 day tour by the department alone. “This does not include what the Defence Force, Police and local authorities spent” said Lewis Holden, chair of the…

Shortly after Starbucks offered to make voluntary tax payments to counter criticism of its low tax returns, Charles Windsor has repeated his claim that tax is voluntary for him because of the supposedly superior genes on which he bases his claim to be “royal”. Windsor is refusing to pay corporation tax on income from the…