It’s rip-off royals again, folks. A subject that keeps on giving, if you are not among the great brainwashed.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been banished by King Charles and Prince William, and is daily thrashed by the media. Andrew’s terrible behaviour has finally caught up with him. He is exiled along with his forever friend and ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. There must be much cheering in Highgrove and other grand houses of the working Windsors.
While the public is preoccupied by dissolute Andrew, the rest can carry on profligately and bask in unearned adulation, with subjects – many of them good, decent people – bowing and scraping before them. Centuries of programming make it hard for them to see that they are being played.
Fellow republican and former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker agrees that Andrew’s humiliation is “a desperate attempt to insulate the monarchy from the far bigger scandal everyone’s missed”: what a rip-off the royal family is.
We are bombarded with reports and comments on William and Catherine striving to deliver well-being to the nation, and the virtues of the King and Queen. Didn’t the King do well with Donald Trump? Isn’t Queen Camilla lovely, such an asset? Princess Kate is often praised for winning over foreign dignitaries, actors and hard-bitten journos too. The late Queen, she who “never put a foot wrong,” now becomes semi-divine. So too Prince Philip. God save them all.
But Baker’s new book, Royal Mint, National Debt: the Shocking Truth About The Royals’ Finances, is full of hitherto unknown facts that make my eyes bleed. While the UK is undergoing an economic cataclysm, the royals sacrifice nothing and are not expected to. The Sovereign Grant for 2025-26 is £132.1 million – up from £86.3 million in the previous year.
Baker has looked into the affairs of the Royal Collection Trust. It was established in 1993 by John Major’s Government after public outcry over his plans to use tax funds to pay for a big fire at Windsor Castle. The trust raised the cash by charging palace visitors. The target was reached, the damage repaired. But the trust carried on generating a vast income, which now goes to the monarch et al.
Who do the priceless paintings, jewels and treasures held by the trust belong to? They say they’re held for the nation, yet in 1995, a cabinet minister stated that selling items was entirely up to the Queen. Philip appeared to confirm that in 2000 by saying the Queen was “perfectly at liberty to sell them”.
When Baker tried to get a proper inventory of what belongs to us and them, he was told that it was not possible. The trust, in fact, told Baker that “objects from the Royal Collection cannot be sold as they are held in trust by the sovereign for his successors and the nation”.
Obfuscation and deceit. It’s how the British establishment operates. But what is obvious is that not separating the royals’ personal wealth – which, unjustifiably, is exempted from inheritance tax – from the nation’s assets is intolerable.
Baker’s revelations follow those broadcast by Channel 4 last November about the millions of pounds being made by the King and his heir through their Duchies. They were charging the NHS, the army and other public bodies substantial amounts of money. In just one example, the King’s Duchy estate was making £829,000 a year renting one warehouse to an NHS trust for housing ambulances.
The lack of transparency, the profiteering and the secretive tax affairs should have aroused the nation. But here we are, a year on, and the royals are still up there, riding high, their subjects looking up to them. I will never understand it.
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Ferguson is apparently being offered a huge fee to tell all on some US channels. She may well do it. After all, she has long been embedded in the family, which, according to the blurb on Baker’s tome, “is now one of the richest in the country… They lobby governments and the media to maximise their profits from the public purse… take advantage of a uniquely beneficial tax and legislative regime.”
And all the while, we are told how “frugal” the Queen was and her dynasty is.
Our Parliament, media, charities and other organisations fawn over them. The list of named republicans is long, but many stay in the shadows. They don’t want to appear radical. Three of them told me they were cautious because they are hoping to get honours. Nauseating, but pragmatic, I guess.
Monarchists claim we have “the best” constitution in the world. Some forcefully argue that the monarchical system protects us from a Trumpian-style government. What will they say if (or when) mini-Trump Nigel Farage walks into Downing Street?
Baker’s book is a must-read for real democrats. Your country needs you to undo your royalist shackles. Free your mind and join the republican movement.
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