The parasitic practices of the royal family

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From taking money from the NHS, huge tax exemptions to living lavishly at our expense, the royal family are thieves by nature

Paedophile Prince Andrew has been protected by the royal family for decades. Now that public fury has caught up with Andrew, the royal grifters are desperately trying to throw him under the bus to avoid attention falling on their own shady doings.

It took the publication of secrets emails and the posthumous publication of Virginia Giuffre’s book to shine a spotlight on Andrew’s abuse of children and his tax-payer funded luxury lifestyle.

Andrew should be stripped of his title. He should be evicted from his 30-room mansion. And he should be facing jail.

But the rest of them are also parasites who live in luxury because of who their parents were.

King Charles is worth an estimated £640 million—with a few palaces, priceless art and one or two stud farms thrown in. Charlies is ranked as one of the thousand wealthiest people in the world according to the annual Sunday Times rich list. 

“Workshy William” likes to pretend his is a new broom, sweeping away the excesses of his debauched uncle. But William’s net worth is estimated at a whopping £100 million.

He inherited a vast fortune—and the royals are exempt from all inheritance taxes.

As the Duke of Cornwall, William grabs an annual income of £24 million a year from the private Duchy of Cornwall estate.

William loves to parade his concern for the homeless. But William currently has five residences. First is his the Kensington Palace, the official residence and primary “workspace” for the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Then he has his Adelaide Cottage on the Windsor Estate, the family’s home after they moved from Kensington Palace in 2022. Plus the Forest Lodge, the family’s new home in Windsor.

There’s Anmer Hall, a ten-bedroom Georgian house on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate that is used as a private retreat during school holidays. And then Tam-na-ghar, a “modest” cottage in Scotland gifted to Prince William by his great-grandmother, used to “create cherished memories”. 

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William’s patronage of homelessness charities is as tone deaf as Prince Andrew’s position with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and the late Duke of Edinburgh’s position as patron of the World Wildlife Fund.

We are paying for all this luxury.

The Sovereign Grant is paid by the government to the royal scroungers. It currently stands at £86.3 million a year. It is supposed to cover the cost of the servants and the upkeep of the royal palaces.

But the real costs to the public are much, much higher because the government also pays for security and ceremonial events. A report published last year showed that the royal family actually cost the public £510m a year nearly six times more than the sovereign grant.

The coronation of King Charles cost around £72 million and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth cost about £172 million. The government paid this, despite the queen’s personal wealth totalling some £450 million.

The royal family also snatches millions of pounds in rent from the NHS and schools.

Charles and William’s private estates charge public bodies and charities around £50 million a year. St Thomas’ Hospital in south London pay the royal scroungers £11.4 million to rent a warehouse for their ambulances.

None of these grifters and scroungers should be living in tax-free luxury at our expense.