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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Laura Elston

Calls for King and William’s duchies to be abolished to create ‘national estate’

The Prince of Wales with his father the King during the coronation ceremony in 2023 (Victoria Jones/PA) - (PA Archive)

Anti monarchy campaigners are calling on the King and the Prince of Wales’ duchies to be abolished and replaced with a new national estate to benefit the “common good”.

Charles receives an annual private income from the Duchy of Lancaster landed estate of £27 million, while William is entitled to more than £23 million a year from the Duchy of Cornwall.

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