Morning Mail: royals’ wealth exposed, Inland Rail blowout, Putin’s paranoid lifestyle

The Guardian’s Cost of the crown series exposes the entrenched secrecy around the royal family’s money and wealth. Illustration: Doug Chayka/The Guardian

Good morning. A new Guardian investigation cuts through the entrenched secrecy around the British royal family’s money and wealth. The Inland Rail project is in strife, still. The dust is far from settled on the Trump arraignment. And traces of the last ice age have given us a “warning from the past”, scientists say.

Let’s get into this morning’s major stories.