@RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 10 months agoRevealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizenswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1139cross-posted to: europe@feddit.deworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up1139external-linkRevealed: King Charles secretly profiting from the assets of dead citizenswww.theguardian.com@RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 10 months agomessage-square19fedilinkcross-posted to: europe@feddit.deworld@lemmy.world
minus-square@SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilink9•10 months agoThe Westminster system is supposed to separate government/crown/state funds from royal/privy purse funds. The royalty should not have the power to point at something and say ‘I declare that mine’.
minus-square@Womble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoIf you want to ignore almost a millennium of constitutional push and pull over the limits placed on a monarch, sure.
Isnt that like, the entire conceit of a king?
The Westminster system is supposed to separate government/crown/state funds from royal/privy purse funds.
The royalty should not have the power to point at something and say ‘I declare that mine’.
If you want to ignore almost a millennium of constitutional push and pull over the limits placed on a monarch, sure.
It’s good to be the king.