{"id":2476060,"date":"2026-06-25T23:38:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2476060"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:38:49","slug":"uks-king-charles-breaks-tradition-to-reveal-us17-million-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/uks-king-charles-breaks-tradition-to-reveal-us17-million-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s King Charles breaks tradition to reveal US$17 million tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">King Charles will not live at Buckingham \u2060Palace after its 10-year refurbishment finishes next year, royal officials said on Thursday, ending nearly two centuries of the central London landmark serving as the British monarch\u2019s primary residence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officials at the same time disclosed the king paid \u00a312.9 million (US$17.04 million) in tax in 2024\/25 \u2013 the first time the figure has been made public \u2013 placing him among Britain\u2019s \u200ctop 100 taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Members of the royal family have promised greater transparency about their finances amid growing criticism following the death of Queen Elizabeth in 2022.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Charles decided to continue living at Clarence House, his long-standing London home nearby, when the \u00a3369 million refurbishment of Buckingham Palace concludes next year. The project includes replacing ageing electrical wiring, pipes and heating.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When work started in 2017, officials had expected the palace to remain the monarch\u2019s primary London residence as it had been since Queen Victoria became sovereign in 1837.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Buckingham Palace is seen in London in February. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">James \u2060Chalmers, the king\u2019s treasurer and keeper of the privy purse, said it would remain the primary venue for ceremonial and official functions including \u200creceiving foreign dignitaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles will not live at Buckingham \u2060Palace after its 10-year refurbishment finishes next year, royal officials said on Thursday, ending nearly two centuries of the central London landmark serving as the British monarch\u2019s primary residence. Officials at the same time disclosed the king paid \u00a312.9 million (US$17.04 million) in tax in 2024\/25 \u2013 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[373172,26597,369327,368145,403173,487289,25741,23068,24084,396640,349904,31622],"class_list":["post-2476060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-monarch","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-charles","tag-clarence-house","tag-duchy-of-lancaster","tag-james-chalmers","tag-london","tag-prince-william","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queen-victoria","tag-sovereign-grant","tag-tax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/UKs-King-Charles-breaks-tradition-to-reveal-US17-million-tax.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476062,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476060\/revisions\/2476062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}