BREAKING! Buckingham Palace faces ‘real hot potato’: ‘If we ever abolished the mo…
BREAKING! Buckingham Palace faces ‘real hot potato’: ‘If we ever abolished the monarchy’
In recent months, the issues surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have been bleeding into the way the public views the rest of the Firm, especially in regards to their use of royal homes.
In light of this, an expert like Mr Duncan Larcombe sat down with The Mirror and discussed how the Wales’ are changing course.
He started by saying, “it’s no surprise that William and Kate are paying a rent of over £300,000 a year for their property.” Especially with the way the Sussexes were forced to pay back their renovation costs for Frogmore, they used for barely one year.
According to Mr Larcombe, “it was one of the first major times Harry and Meghan had been criticised. That resentment set a precedent for the rest of the royal addresses.” Whats also pertinent to mention is that “it has since been compounded by Prince Andrew and the peppercorn rent disclosures, which have turned into a genuine, ongoing scandal.”
Near the end he also highlighted the growing dissatisfaction with his peppercorn rent situation and added, “arch-royalists will say, ‘No, they deserve it for the sacrifices and the duty that they engage in’. People that aren’t so fond of the Royal Family are going to say: ‘Well, they should pay rent like anyone else’. That’s the dividing line. I’m not sure where I sit on it. I think if we are going to expect them to do public service for their whole lives, then the least the public can do is allow them to avoid huge bills for the homes they live in.”
Before concluding Mr Larcombe admitted, “I remember having this debate when I was at Buckingham Palace when would through the annual accounts. The age-old debate really is that if we didn’t have the Royal Family all those properties and all that land including which belonged to the Crown Estate, massive billions of pounds worth of property and land, would belong to the Exchequer and to the taxpayer.”
“So the issue of how these properties are financed is a real hot potato. In reality if we ever abolished the monarchy, if the republican movement became substantial all of that would be publicly owned. It’s all public land. It doesn’t belong to the family, it belongs to the public. And the Royal Family derived their income from it, and their wealth from it
