News from the Centre for Citizenship
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Windsor Approves Laws for Others – But Impunity for Windsors
Queen Windsor and her husband have both been photographed while driving on public roads without wearing a seat belt. Although this is against the law neither has been ticketed. The revelation about Philip Windsor followed a crash involving a car he was driving. Two adults and a baby were in the other car and were…
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Feudal Status Won Millions of Taxpayers’ Money for Charlie Charity – No 10 Said Windsor Must Not Be Rebuffed
One of Charlie Windsor’s charities could have received up to £40m from taxpayers instead of the £6m intended because government ministers in 1988 were afraid of the embarrassment from their mistake, according to papers released by the National Archives. The then Employment Secretary thought he had agreed to give £6m of taxpayers’ money to the…
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Greedy Windsor Yearned for Yacht – Taxpayers Would Pay
Queen Windsor, who is idolised by monarchists as a model of selfless duty, has been shown up as a greedy money grabber. A note found in the National Archives by Philip Murphy of the University of London shows that she has yearned for a personal yacht provided at the expense of British taxpayers. The likely…
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Monarchist Civil Servant Shielded Tax-Exempt Windsor – Thought The People To Be Subjects
A civil servant persuaded former Prime Minister John Major not to refer to “the priceless contribution” of queen Windsor to “the life of our nation”. He thought that the word “priceless” might seem to be a reference to Windsor’s exemption from tax on her huge unearned wealth. This happened in 1992, the fortieth anniversary of…
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Podemos Call For Spanish Republic
Podemos General Secretary Pablo Iglesias has called for the Spanish people to free their country from monarchy. Podemos is the second largest political party in Spain. Mr Iglesias made his call for a republic in El País, the second most read newspaper in that country. In his opinion piece Iglesias comments that many who reisted…
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A Dad’s Army Head of State
A new book by journalist Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor, has revealed unexpected risks to national security posed by the British monarchy. Macintyre tells how a plan to rescue a British agent from danger in Russia was put at risk because of a domestic problem in queen Windsor’s Scottish castle. Charles Powell, an…
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State Church To Leech Off The Taxpayer
The state church is to continue to own shares in Amazon even though its chief bishop has accused the company of “leeching off the taxpayer”. Justin Welby made the statement in a speech to the Trades Union Congress. However, an official Church of England statement said that it would be keeping its shares. According to…
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Gallivanting Windsors Up Their Travel Take
In the 2017-18 year £4.7m of our money was spent on gallivanting by Windsor family members. This was a £200,000 increase on the previous year. Charlie Windsor cost us the most. He made 7 trips on the railway train provided exclusively for his family’s use at a cost of £20,000 a journey. On an overseas…
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Wilful Blindness To Sex Abuse By Friend – High Office Made Worthy of Trust
Charlie Windsor, who is due to become Britain’s next head of state, claimed that “monstrous wrongs” had been done to sexual abuser Peter Ball and that “I wish I could do more” to help him. The statement was made in a letter to Ball two years after he had been cautioned by the police for…
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Arrogant Charlie Allowed To Obstruct Sex Abuse Enquiry
Charlie Windsor has refused to make a formal witness statement to an inquiry into sexual abuse by one of his friends. The statement would have included what lawyers called “a formal statement of truth” like swearing an oath. The enquiry is into a former Anglican bishop Peter Ball. Ball has admitted abusing 18 teenagers and…