Duchy of Cornwall

Could mean anything, yeah.

And is sort of the update to when he was running the Duchy of Cornwall and had Annabel on that payroll.

Side note, William removed her from that payroll when he took over.

And this made me remember that when we were talking about Charles' old place in Wales, the house that shall not, not actually be mentioned 'cause I butcher the pronunciation.

The owners who fare best will plan their position deliberately rather than react to each budget rumor.

The King's and the Prince of Wales' estates, the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, have avoided tax on more than seventy million pounds of profits from property deals since twenty twenty, according to an Observer investigation, since the Duchies are not liable for corporation or capital gains tax.

The story lands amid a widening debate over who pays what on property as the budget nears.

For owners weighing their own exposure, it is a pointed reminder that structure and status shape tax outcomes as much as the headline rate ever does.

Tom Sykes reported that Camilla's sister, Annabel Elliot, is now being paid by the king's charitable foundation for branding consultancy.

After William pointedly removed her from the Duchy of Cornwall payroll, the king, Sykes wrote, operating on his lifelong principle of doing what he likes and treating inconvenient safeguards as impertinences.

Which brings us inevitably to Christmas, the next line to be fought over.

Heat reported William's position had hardened into an ultimatum.

In "The Royalist", Tom Sykes took a shot at His Majesty writing, "Annabel Elliot, Queen Camilla's youngest sister, is reportedly being paid by the King's Foundation, His Majesty's flagship charity, for branding and retail consultancy according to British newspaper the Sunday Times.

The exact amount is unknown, but the role has come about after Prince William, upon taking over the Duchy of Cornwall on his father's accession, promptly removed Elliot from its payroll, where she had collected hundreds of thousands of pounds over two decades advising Charles on interiors.

The issue isn't Elliot's ability, but the arrogance of how King Charles appears to have disregarded ethical norms in getting his sister-in-law remunerated by a charity without any apparent oversight.

The King's operating principle has always been do what you like, ignore advice, and treat inconvenient safeguards as impertinences.

Yeah, I mean, the

Duchy of Cornwall generates significant income from the king.

And, you know, the issues remain, right? Because I think that, you know, many of our viewers will actually even disagree about the bodyguards having guns.

And I understand why, because their argument will be, well, the rules are the rules.

So it's kind of a mutual agreement or a mutual friendship.

And then, yeah, speaking with the councils, obviously the islands were all owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.

So you've got to get permissions from the Dutchie, English Heritage, all of those things.

And I was lucky that I had people that were pointing me in the right direction.

Yeah, yeah, I would definitely, especially that first year, I would say everyone was a runner and they'd all done, you know, you speak to them, they've all done some, you know, good races, nearly all have done ultra races.

You know, it's just, it's that 7.30 per kilometre or 12-minute mile cut-off pace that catches everyone out because for the first, you know, doing 10k in 75 minutes, you're like... you know that's bloody easy even if it is trail but doing that you know four or five islands in oh hang on a minute i'm a bit dehydrated i'm a little bit seasick you know my legs are tired this isn't as easy as i thought it was going to be um which is yeah the the beauty of it really

And so after that first year then, firstly, you mentioned you were speaking to the landowners, to the Duchy of Cornwall.

Who owns the islands? Is it chunks of houses and plots linked to those houses? Or is there actually a kind of overarching ownership of areas that then houses exist within? Yeah.

King Charles' charity quietly adds Queen's sister to the payroll.

Subhead, interior designer Annabelle Elliott, Camilla's younger sibling, had advised the Duchy of Cornwall until Prince William stopped her retainer, which...

Baller move.

We got to cut the fat around here.

maybe Annabelle Elliott had a hand in that once upon a time, is what we're saying.

So what's interesting about this, and just to kind of summarize what it says in here, is that...

Yes, she was removed from the paywall of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Savage, savage move by Prince William.

Every year was different.

So I was very lucky that the Duchy of Cornwall, back then the Prince, now the King, wanted to give a farming family an opportunity to farm who wasn't going to inherit a farm.

So obviously from my background of non-farming family, forged a career in farming of my own back.

We were very fortunate to tender for the farm.