This is how our 21st-century peasants’ revolt took on the royals over rewilding – and won
Joel Scott-Halkes
When we started out, we didn’t dare dream it would lead to this: expanded rainforest, a beaver release, and rewilding at Balmoral, says the co-founder of Wild Card Joel Scott-Halkes
November 2023
Time to get rid of a British feudal system that allows royals to rob the dead
Letters: Readers react to a Guardian investigation into bona vacantia, whereby the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall can collect the estates of the deceased in certain circumstances
The Guardian view on King Charles and the Duchy of Lancaster: feudalism reigns in the north-west
Editorial: The secret exploitation of dead people’s assets to upgrade the monarch’s estate must come to an end
I thought I knew royal greed – but King Charles profiting from the assets of the dead is a disgusting new low
Norman Baker
For decades, parliament has been far too lenient about the royal family’s finances. This avaricious practice needs to end, says the former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker
May 2023
Cost of the crown
Cost of the crown: what we know so far about British royals’ wealth and finances
Read a summary of our findings about the personal enrichment of the royal family and origins of some of their wealth
April 2023
Cost of the crown
Revealed: King Charles’s private fortune estimated at £1.8bn
The Guardian view on royal finances: time to let the daylight in
Cost of the crown
Revealed: royals took more than £1bn income from controversial estates
Cost of the crown
Who owns and profits from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall? – timeline
January 2023
Cash and the crown estate: a look at the British monarchy’s funding deal
The taxpayer funded sovereign grant will not accrue extra money from the monarch’s £1bn-a-year offshore wind leases. But the crown still has revenue from oil and gas drilling rights and real estate
September 2022
Windfarm windfall set to spark debate about funding of UK monarchy
Demand for leases of land for renewable energy projects is set to generate hundreds of millions for the crown estate
The sovereign’s wealth: UK royal family’s finances – explained
The holdings of the crown estate, Duchy of Lancaster and Duchy of Cornwall, together worth £17bn
King Charles will not pay tax on inheritance from the Queen
Monarch is exempt under 1993 agreement but Charles will pay income tax as his mother did
June 2022
Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall snub tree campaigners
Rewilding advocates say decision by royal estates is ‘an appallingly undemocratic affront to our futures’
July 2018
Queen's private estate records £20m profit but could take Brexit hit
Duchy of Lancaster surplus rises 4.9% on last year but Brexit is seen as ‘strategic risk’
November 2017
Paradise Papers
Paradise Papers: The offshore Queen – video explainer
Paradise Papers
Revealed: Queen's private estate invested millions of pounds offshore
July 2015
Queen's income from royal estate rises to £16m
Accounts reveal 18% increase in best performing year for Duchy of Lancaster, which comprises 18,433 hectares worth £472m
July 2013
Queen's income from estate falls 2.8%
Duchy of Lancaster income drops to £12.5m as Prince Charles's Duchy of Cornwall gives him record £19m
July 2010
Are we suffering? Queen's duchy portfolio up in value to £348m
• Duchy of Lancaster holdings worth another £25m • Republican queries why monarch wanted more civil list cash
