Revelations that members of the royal family may have personally benefited from gifts made to them because of their official public roles raise some serious ethical issues.
The Guardian’s latest report shows that stamps that were given to the royal family as state gifts appear to have been subsumed into the “privately owned” royal philatelic collection, which is worth an estimated £100m. That certain items today in that collection were, in fact, the product of a “gift” from a former colonial administration less than a century ago, is most unseemly for a modern monarchy. Surely King Charles will want to put this right?
