If the King’s inheritance were solely for his personal pleasure, and if to pay tax would not lead to the break-up or selling off of estates, I might agree with Aditya Chakrabortty (It’s one law for King Charles the billionaire and another for his struggling subjects, 15 September). I regard the monarch as the curator of these palaces and castles, held in trust for the nation – a bit like the National Trust.
If money raised from inheritance tax from the monarch found its way directly into the pockets of the nation’s poor, it might be worth it. But having seen the chronic waste of public money by Boris Johnson’s government and the daily injustice of wealthy entrepreneurs avoiding taxation by clever accounting, I would say that there’s one law for the powerful moneyed classes and another for the rest of us.
Yvonne Williams
Ryde, Isle of Wight
