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Not when the profit is ploughed back into the business. The income comes from the rents.

There was a documentary on ITV just before Christmas about the Duchy of Cornwall (which strangely includes part of Herefordshire). There are tenant farmers on a waiting list for farms and small holdings because it is so well looked after. Farms that are supported and making a profit, but people...

You’ve just described the Tory party to a T. I’d rather have the royal family than any of those crooks.

Yes. The European Royal families are related.

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There is still a small part of it which belongs to the family but it is open every day, weddings and a shop etc.

You're lucky you have a home expensive enough to pay inheritance tax on. Btw did you realise the French president lives in the Elyssee palace? How much do you think it is to refurbish Westminster palace (I'll give you a clue, it isn't a royal residence) and the Elizabeth Tower/Big Ben?

From the Crown Estates.

How do you figure the land belongs to us? The land wasn't stolen in some battle (it might have been in some cases) but acquired by marriages, and purchases. The Queen Mother, for instance, owned Glamis Castle, and when she died in 2004, she left it to the people, so she was way ahead of you...

That would make the country/us no better than thieves. I don't think you could even list which properties are privately owned by the family and which are held in trust for them by the state. Your argument seems to be get rid, and we can have it all. As someone else pointed out, our governments...

£100M from the £385M given to the Treasury from the Crown Estates. The £100M is for the upkeep of the royal residences (some of which like Buck House are owned by the state not HM) and payment of their staff.