the stuff in red is owned by the duchy of cornwall. mmm hmm. it s very hard to get hold of this information. did you ask them for maps? i did, but they re not subject to freedom of information requests, so they re under no obligation to give anything to me like that. i had to put this together, using all sorts of different information and it was a very painstaking process. i think that something that is so integral to the way in which the british state is run, as the crown, ought to be more transparent about how it uses land and what it s doing with it and whether it s serving the public interest. buckingham palace says: it says, as a private estate, the duchy is exempt from freedom of information rules, but it endeavours to answer: the monarchy has other exemptions, too. it s about the royals not playing by the rules,
decision wasn t his to make, he shouldn t take credit for it. what charles was doing was anticipating what s going to happen and making it look as though it was his decision. it would have come anyway. the royal trustees are now carrying out their regular five year review of the sovereign grant. but that s only part of the financial picture. the royals don tjust get funds from the crown estate. they have two private estates, dating back to medieval times. more than 175,000 acres of land, together worth £1.7 billion. the duchy of lancaster is the monarch s. the money it makes is used to fund the wider royal family. last year, the late queen received an income of £24 million. the other, the duchy
of cornwall, funds the public, private and charitable activities of the prince of wales. last year, it generated an income of £23 million. some believe these estates should belong to the nation. the duchy of cornwall and duchy of lancaster, in my view, are public assets and the money they raise, in terms of profits, should go to the taxpayer, to fund public services, but instead, they re diverted into royal coffers and that cannot be right. this is dartmoor. a third of it belongs to the duchy of cornwall. there s huge inequality of land ownership in england and in britain. the monarchy is part of that inequality. i m here with guy shrubsole, who s been investigating duchy land. he says it was hard to identify its full extent. this is a map i ve made of land owned by the crown and its different institutions.
dating back to medieval times. more than 175,000 acres of land, together worth £1.7 billion. the duchy of lancaster is the monarch s. the money it makes is used to fund the wider royal family. last year, the late queen received an income of £24 million. the other, the duchy of cornwall, funds the public, private and charitable activities of the prince of wales. last year, it generated an income of £23 million. some believe these estates should belong to the nation. the duchy of cornwall and duchy of lancaster, in my view, are public assets and the money they raise, in terms of profits, should go to the taxpayer, to fund public services, but instead, they re diverted into royal coffers and that cannot be right.
this is dartmoor. a third of it belongs to the duchy of cornwall. there s huge inequality of land ownership in england and in britain. the monarchy is part of that inequality. i m here with guy shrubsole, who s been investigating duchy land. he says it was hard to identify its full extent. this is a map i ve made of land owned by the crown and its different institutions. the stuff in red is owned by the duchy of cornwall. mmm hmm. it s very hard to get hold of this information. did you ask them for maps? i did, but they re not subject to freedom of information requests, so they re under no obligation to give anything to me like that. i had to put this together, using all sorts of different information and it was a very painstaking process. i think that something that is so integral to the way in which the british state is run, as the crown, ought to be more transparent about how it uses land and what it s doing with it and whether it s serving the public interest. buckingham palace say