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Revealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead Brits
The Guardian ^ | Nov 23 | Maeve McClenaghan, Rob Evans and Henry Dyer

Posted on 11/24/2023 7:50:20 AM PST by RandFan

The king is profiting from the deaths of thousands of people in the north-west of England whose assets are secretly being used to upgrade a commercial property empire managed by his hereditary estate, the Guardian can reveal.

The Duchy of Lancaster, a controversial land and property estate that generates huge profits for King Charles III, has collected tens of millions of pounds in recent years under an antiquated system that dates back to feudal times.

Financial assets known as bona vacantia, owned by people who died without a will or known next of kin, are collected by the duchy. Over the last 10 years, it has collected more than £60m ($75 million) in the funds. It has long claimed that, after deducting costs, bona vacantia revenues are donated to charities.

However, only a small percentage of these revenues is being given to charity. Internal duchy documents seen by the Guardian reveal how funds are secretly being used to finance the renovation of properties that are owned by the king and rented out for profit.

The duchy essentially inherits bona vacantia funds from people whose last known address was in a territory that in the middle ages was known as Lancashire county palatine and ruled by a duke. Today, the area comprises Lancashire and parts of Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Cumbria.

A leaked internal duchy policy from 2020 gave officials at the king’s estate licence to use bona vacantia funds on a broad array of its profit-generating portfolio. Codenamed “SA9”, the policy acknowledges spending the money in this way could result in an “incidental” benefit to the privy purse, the king’s personal income.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: charlesiii; houseofwindsor; unitedkingdom
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To: sauropod

You’re welcome. We have a trust and an advantage is there is no probate or estate tax when a member of the trust passes away.


21 posted on 11/24/2023 8:19:20 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: 1malumprohibitum

Exactly.


22 posted on 11/24/2023 8:19:45 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: dfwgator

king charles the turd


23 posted on 11/24/2023 8:20:35 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: RandFan

Yes, this guy is the lefty you probably think he is. Surprise...instead of being generous with out peoples money, this one is actually TAKING the money the is for charity and using it to enrich himself.

He is an arrogant king and a shadow of his mother.


24 posted on 11/24/2023 8:26:31 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RandFan
I had no idea they had this arrangement where they assume assets of those who die without a will or next of kin.

In the good ol' USA, if you die without a will (intestate) and no easily located next of kin, your property goes to (escheats) to the state.

25 posted on 11/24/2023 8:26:46 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: RandFan

If Charles is doing it, the Queen did it.

If I went on state health care, the state would assume on my assets when I die.

Same difference.

Governments gather gold, that’s what they do.


26 posted on 11/24/2023 8:27:30 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

We don’t know if Queen Elizabeth had the same arrangements.
A government with a still active monarchy will seek methods to quietly and graciously fleece the economy so as to maintain this monarchy at royally high standards of living.


27 posted on 11/24/2023 8:28:05 AM PST by lee martell
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To: RandFan

Journo riff raff muckraking for a living


28 posted on 11/24/2023 8:28:18 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: tomkat

“...A leaked internal duchy policy from 2020 gave officials...”


Doesn’t this mean the money was going to her, since she was quite alive in 2020?


29 posted on 11/24/2023 8:31:08 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Pete Dovgan

“I don’t see a problem with this.”

I would not have a problem if the royal family were hung in the town square—but to each his own....

;-)


30 posted on 11/24/2023 8:36:32 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: lee martell
Yes we do - QEII had the exact same arrangement - so did George VI - and V - and Edward VII - and Victoria - and so on. Escheat goes back to the early Common Law, and wrt the Duchy to the 14th century. As the direct holder of the duchy, the property of intestates w/ no heirs reverts to the original holder, the monarch.

The exact same thing is the law in almost every state of the USA. Don't know about Louisiana because their law is weird, but unless escheat has been abolished in the state constitution, it's still the law. Usually here there's a "grace period" to reclaim the property if an heir shows up.

31 posted on 11/24/2023 8:42:58 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: sauropod

IF there is NO WILL-THERE IS ZERO TO PROBATE.

I have tried for years to get people I know to write even a simple will...but for a variety of reasons-—I cannot make headway.

My “MOTHER” left a will, but it was so vague that my brother who was named Executor scooped up most of it all for himself.

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE HIM


32 posted on 11/24/2023 8:43:15 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: nutmeg

bookmark


33 posted on 11/24/2023 8:43:35 AM PST by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: MeganC

IF you actually write a will—you do NOT have to have ‘heirs”.

Many single people with NO kids can leave their assets to WHOMEVER they please.

BUT they have to put it in writing. Should also name an executor.


34 posted on 11/24/2023 8:44:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: RandFan

By not having a will or a trust, you’re inviting the State into your financial and family business. We set up in our will that if anything were to happen to my wife and I, our estate and kids would go to my sister and BIL. Since they both are professionals, the likelihood of the State deciding different is minimized. Without the will, the State would decide what’s “best” for our assets and kids.


35 posted on 11/24/2023 8:45:09 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: AnAmericanMother

FUNNY HOW THE WORD CHEAT is inside the other word-——


36 posted on 11/24/2023 8:46:24 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Pete Dovgan

I think the problem is that the monies (after costs) was supposedly going to charities but instead is used to make more profit for Charles.


37 posted on 11/24/2023 8:47:46 AM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: RandFan

I wonder if most people know what happens to money in abandoned accounts in the US?

It’s held by the state. Until someone comes for it.


38 posted on 11/24/2023 8:51:30 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: RandFan

Not all of it but I know where 10% of it goes to.


39 posted on 11/24/2023 8:59:46 AM PST by BipolarBob (I never grew up, I just learned how to act around grownups.)
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To: RandFan

IMO there’s a big difference between abandoned assets confiscated by local/state elected governments and a monarchy.
Thank God for the American revolution.


40 posted on 11/24/2023 9:00:32 AM PST by Varda
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