News from the Centre for Citizenship

Elizabeth Windsor has died, ending a life in which feudal privilege was of the essence and in which democratic decencies counted for nothing. Ms Windsor had the official title of “Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms…

In 2022 the Guardian reported that “royal” family members have for a hundred years been helped by judges to hide from the British people £187m of assets. The law usually requires that wills be published. But Windsor family wills have been sealed to keep the truth about the family’s wealth from the people of the…

The Guardian newspaper has revealed that British citizens cannot take racial or sex discrimination cases against the hereditary head of state. The police cannot enter his properties, including his commercial premises, to investigate crime without his permission. He is exempt from laws on the rights of workers, pensions and heath and safety at work. Windsor…

A member of Britain’s “royal” Windsor family has been booed at a soccer match, challenging the monarchist fiction that opposition to monarchy should be unthinkable. William Windsor, who is known as “Prince William” and “Duke of Cambridge”, is the 39-year-old son of Charles Windsor, who is in line to become the country’s unelected head of…

Queen Windsor once used an extraordinary provision in the unwritten constitution to keep her extraordinary wealth secret, according to a report in the Guardian. The newspaper reported that records in the National Archives show that in the 1970s Windsor sent her lawyers to put pressure on ministers to change a proposed law that would embarrass…

The Windsor clan stand to take an extra £2 billion from the British people over the next tens years if they are not stopped. This windfall would be the result of an auction of sites on the British seabed for wind farms that is expected to generate £9bn of income for the Crown Estate over…

A BBC TV report, Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret, about sexual abuse by a state church bishop has revealed how far the British “establishment” will go to defend its own and betray their victims.. The report was about Peter Ball, a Church of England bishop, and one-time monk. Ball was friends with prime minister Margaret…

According to the Big Issue magazine state church chief Justin Welby has “appeared to defend the Duke of York over the Epstein scandal . . . saying that ‘I think to ask that they be superhuman saints is not what we should do because nobody is like that’ “. Mr Welby refused to name a…

The supposed non-partisan role of Britain’s feudal head of state has again been put in doubt, this time by an admission by former prime minister David Cameron that he asked her to express opposition to independence for Scotland before the 2014 referendum. Subsequently Windsor asked Scots to “think very carefully about the future” before voting.…

The Crown Estate is about to start a new auction for the right to develop offshore wind farms in the waters around England and Wales, according to the Financial Times. Twenty-five percent of the Estate’s profits from this action will be paid to the Windsor family. The Crown Estate will receive whatever amount the successful…