King Charles III's time is up

[Sue]

'The British are really worried [about the current political/social crisis in France] because their king is expected in France in two days.'

 

[SpookyFrank]

French to treat him like royalty.

Just the traditional white flags then.

 

[Sue]

Just the traditional white flags then.

Eh?

 

[gentlegreen]

Just the traditional white flags then.

Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire.
Quand on est con, on est con!
Qu'on ait 20 ans, qu'on soit grand-père
Quand on est con, on est con!

It seems he has previous form

Search results for query: surrender

www.urban75.net

 

[Santino]

Me, watching tv news of French protesters bringing the whole machinery of the state to a grinding halt to prevent pension reforms: Those cowardly frogs.

 

[Raheem]

 

[gentlegreen]

'The British are really worried [about the current political/social crisis in France] because their king is expected in France in two days.'

Et encore ... qui sont ces "Britanniques" ?

 

[moochedit]

"Charles do you know the guilotine?"

Charles’s visit to France postponed as anti-Macron rioters scrawl ‘Death to the King’

‘Charles III do you know the guillotine’ daubed by Paris protesters

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Guess Chaz should stick to Canada (not Quebec).

 

[Wilf]

I very much support these strikes but hope that essential services will still be able to get through the streets. Fire service, ambulances, tumbrils...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Cannot tell if this proposal is an April fools or not

Free portraits of Charles III for all public bodies, but £8m cost branded ‘shameful’

Anti-monarchist claims the official portraits of the head of state are ‘scandalous’ at the time of spending cuts

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

I hear he was quite welcomed in Germany.

(Insert your own joke here.)

 

[gentlegreen]

What .. Karl Haus Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha was welcomed in Germany ?
Who knew ?

 

[MapWatcher]

I hear he was quite welcomed in Germany.

(Insert your own joke here.)

Well Michael Gove thinks he's German



(Apologies for posting something from The Daily Torygraph

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[magneze]

I'm surprised 'does too much' is an issue.

 

[danny la rouge]

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If the ring doesn’t fit, doesn’t that mean he isn’t the Rightful King?!

 

[Pickman's model]

If the ring doesn’t fit, doesn’t that mean he isn’t the Rightful King?!

He isn't the rightful king

 

[danny la rouge]

He isn't the rightful king

I know. There’s no such thing. But I mean, in the magical-mystical in-universe terms.

 

[Artaxerxes]

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Has he considered doing a Prince Albert?

 

[BoatieBird]

My MP is asking local residents to 'get creative for the king'
I'm really not that arty, but I'm tempted to have a go...

 

[danny la rouge]

My MP is asking local residents to 'get creative for the king'
I'm really not that arty, but I'm tempted to have a go...

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She’s practically begging for guillotine pics.

 

[Sue]

I know. There’s no such thing. But I mean, in the magical-mystical in-universe terms

The Ring on the Finger (apologies to TH White).

 

[Santino]

'That's much too swollen to fit in my ring' as the Archbishop said to the actress.

 

[Chilli.s]

Build a guillotine in the front garden

 

[Artaxerxes]

Reminder, whack an A4 blank paper in the window.

Monarchists hate white paper for some reason

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I'm surprised 'does too much' is an issue.

All relative isn't it. He tried to brush his own teeth once, took him three days to get over it.

 

[Chilli.s]

servants always made it look and feel so easy

 

[Dystopiary]

All their time should be up, the money-grabbing bastards.

King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth II have received payments equivalent to more than £1bn from two land and property estates that are at the centre of a centuries-old debate over whether their profits should be given to the public instead.

An investigation by the Guardian has established the full scale of income extracted by the royals from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, which run giant portfolios of land and property across England.

The duchies operate as professionally run real estate empires that manage swathes of farmland, hotels, medieval castles, offices, shops and some of London’s prime luxury real estate. They also have substantial investment portfolios, but pay no corporation tax or capital gains tax.

Duchy accounts, held in parliamentary and state archives, reveal how the queen and her first-born son, in his capacity as the Duke of Cornwall, benefited from a huge increase in their revenues from the duchies during her seven-decade reign.

(I added the bold for emphasis.)

The absolute cheek of these people. Lovely, benign, dutiful old lady with the country's best interest at heart (and yet somehow curiously apolitical at the same time) my arse.

Last year, their duchy income totalled £41.8m. Adjusting for inflation, the pair have received the equivalent of more than £1.2bn in total revenues from the two estates.

Profits from the Duchy of Lancaster, which consists of 18,481 hectares of rural land, primarily in the north of England and the Midlands, automatically pass to whoever is sitting on the throne. The estate itself is valued at £652m.

The Duchy of Cornwall, which encompasses 52,450 hectares, mostly in the south-west of England, is worth more than £1bn. The estate has not kept pace with legislation, passed in 2013, to bring gender equality into royal succession. Its profits still only go automatically to the male heir to the throne.[

Charles secretly lobbied John Major’s government to alter the Leasehold Reform Act so that residents of the Somerset village Newton St Loe would be prevented from buying their own properties from their royal landlord. Ministers backed down to “avoid a major row” with the prince.

Charles also, in effect, used his duchy to buy himself two residences, adding to the list of palaces and estates already available to him. In 2007, the duchy purchased a cottage near Llandovery, in Carmarthenshire, for £1.3m, so Charles and his wife, Camilla, could have a Welsh retreat.

And in 1980, the Duchy of Cornwall acquired Highgrove House and 140 hectares of surrounding land to serve as his country home.

William Windsor became one of the largest landowner's in Britain last year when the Duchy of Cornwall passed to him.

When Charles, 74, became king last year, the Duchy of Cornwall automatically passed to his son, Prince William, 40, transforming him, on paper, into a billionaire and one of the largest landowners in England. He can expect an annual payment of at least £20m.

But he has sympathetic smiles for the disadvantaged people he meets and he's voiced concerns about mental health, and his wife has nice hair and wears stylish clothes and isn't Meghan.

Revealed: royals took more than £1bn income from controversial estates

 

[gentlegreen]